The Daily Delaney

From Day 2 of shooting...  Kaylee's mom flipping her between shots! Death takes a nap... gotta love the trailer! Sunset over Lake Washington after a long, rewarding day. Three days left to the ILD fundraiser!

  Everybody loves Death! (thanks, Evan!) http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1657155360/i-love-death-its-a-film-not-fetish

Here's Andy rehearsing the great "Flying Toupee" bit. Behind him is Jen looking impish after yanking his hairpiece off. We had a great day shooting the wedding scene down in Burien.

Okay... so now we're close to our first official shooting date for "I Love Death". You don't often get to rehearse in film ( I imagine that usually comes down to time and money, but there's also the consideration of usually not having the location or the props for the scene until the very last minute so what are you going to do that you won't have to do over later?, but we carved out a couple of evenings for it. I'm glad we did... "Death" is going to be a short film, but it's going to be full of little moments. So it's important that we fill them up and make the most of them. Naturally, we're starting by shooting the climax of the film first. It takes place outdoors... at the wedding (oops... did I give something away?)... so we had to find someplace to rehearse outdoors this evening. Here we are at Bellevue Downtown Park...   Here we have, l. to r., Andrew Tribolini- our First A.D. and one hell of a funny actor, Travis Sterner-...

Some days it seems like you've got nothing going on and never will... and then there are days like this. I've been teaching my stage combat kids again, and teaching another group of kids art, I just had a pretty decent weekend at the Anacortes Arts Festival and I'm working a couple of banquet gigs and now, after a year of waiting and hoping, I'm making movies! First up... I Love Death... a tender love story about The Grim Reaper... actually a nice guy named Ben falling in love with a woman on his "list". It's sweet, it's funny and, if we can pull it off, it will break your heart and make you howl with laughter at the same time. I've been involved with this project for a year or so, ever since we did a reading at ACT last birthday (!). We have a great cast and a really solid crew... we knocked both these promos out in an hour-forty-five last week. I love working on films. Something I learned a couple of years back on "Curtains" is t...

Tonight I finally got some birdbaths and planters up in the Webstore ... You would not believe some of the things that have found their way into my studio. A few weeks ago, I decided to start putting them together into new structures and forms. Check'em out!   The Big Kahuna   Olivia   La La Land Editor in Chief It's been a very busy couple of weeks. More to come later...

One of my new birdbaths... more to come....