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It is Saturday, 2 Birthdays today Theo van de Sande (D.O.P.) and Wilfred van der Kluft (Best friend) Happy Birthday to you both. (picture left Theo and Jean right)

It’s Friday today, Yesterday was out last day at the airport. Beautiful weather, clear sky. From today there will be a night-shoot again, which means from 17:30 till 5 in the morning. Meanwhile, I got a lot of emails from friends who where wondering about the robbery. Again do not worry the sun shines and…

Sorry for the mess guys, Dutch news is talking about a robbery of some kind on white light. For all family and friends. THIS IS NOT TRUE. Holland is small, and it is “komkommertijd” so they have to make their own news.! So everything is fine here in SA!

Hi everybody, Yep it is Sunday again, it’s a bit slow here, 1st Unit is a bit more exiting than 2nd Unit but film making is waiting and I hate waiting with a passion. Anyway I survive the last week was DC3 week, lot of stuff happened, from explosions to take offs and stunts with…

Sorry guys, My camera failed has to go to mr. repair,hard work no photo’s. Just one from Jan from the Lab.I try to get inspired to write something tomorrow.

So we worked Friday and Saturday on the DC3 shoot. Incredible sky perfect weather. It was my first day on first unit as an VFX assistant, well it was tough for me. All the old geezers know all the slang and have enough on a single gesture. I have to ask 5 times what the…

Some nice action this morning. A DC3 landed on the very small airstrip in PSJ, 2nd Unit was ready for this. Suddenly we where hearing a noise, the plain was 40 minutes early. It did a, fly over. It came to us the second time and landed, we saw that he shifted suddenly it looked…

Did some shopping for post production. A 8 core 2.8 4Tb HD sweet monster system with 2×23″ screens, in the mean while I use it to practice Shake and FCP. Weather is still bad here so I hugg the 2 screens and see a nice movie. 🙂 ps sorry for the bad pic

It is Sunday now, yesterday we had a great evening. Thea cooked Oxtail for us and asked me to invite some people because she had enough food. I invited Esna van Zyl from accounts and she asked if she could invite the 2 Kates, Kate Higgs & Kate Tee. Esna was in the kitchen before…

Sorry to see this morning, VooDoo died last night that he may rest in peace. when I was here he want to drive the car. Always farting at Richards feet. Then you wake up in the middle of the night “I was not snoring it was voodoo”