TJ Fry – on Ad Agencies

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“Mitsubishi contacts an ad agency about making a commercial. A budget is established. Then, depending on the budget, the agency assigns a number of people to the job. They contact production companies who bid on the job. They select a company who spends the money to hire the crew that stands around all day and complains about their overtime rate and meal penalties while they eat sushi from the catered lunch, all the while sitting next to me, making $200 a day before taxes on a flat rate whether I work 10 hours or 20 hours that day. Fuck em! Fuck the whole system and everyone in it. It’s outdated, unnecessary, and needs to be fixed.

No one wants to fix it though because they all make their living doing this shit. They all bring home the bread from this bullshit and piss on the little guys like me who work the hardest out of anyone there because we are expendable. But that shit is going to come to an end. My goal is to come up with a new process to get it done with all 3 of the options that you can supposedly only have 2 of. We are going to get it done fast, cheap, and with quality. Digital allows us to do that but the unions and the people stuck in their ways don’t allow that to happen. Let’s eliminate the ad agencies. fuck em. Cinematographer? How about he runs the camera because it’s digital and easy to work with. One guy who does lighting. One who directs. And one who helps with camera, lighting, and rigging. There it is 4-5 guys shooting a commercial. Suddenly 20 grand doesn’t sound so bad. Or fuck. Even do it for HALF price and do $100,000! There you go! Now we’re talking. Hire pro talent, rent pro equipment, have sushi for lunch, and do crack out of strippers titties when we go home to our fucking mansions. Let’s change film forever. I’m deadly serious.”

Reading Warren Miller

WarrenMillerI have recently been infatuated with the life of Warren Miller.

After reading his personal information on Facebook I somehow feel like there is a direct connection between his and my own viewpoints on life.

Even though a 55 year gap rests between our youth phases – the more I read into it, the more similarities I can find.

Inspiring WM articles:
Warren’s Bio
Red Velvet Start
WM Freedom Foundation
Wikipedia

Relevance articles:
1953 – John Jay on LA

Mesquite – Day 1

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Mesquite Regional Park

Drove to Mesquite, NV with the girlfriend today to check out some golfing potentials.

My initial findings about this place are two fold based off of which exit off I-15 you take to enter the town of Mesquite coming from Denver.

1. If you take the SECOND exit… and go right. You will LOVE this place.
2. If you take the FIRST exit… and go left. You will HATE this place.

Can’t wait for more findings tomorrow.