Oh my. Here I am, thankful that one or more of my fingers was not COMPLETELY chopped off...
Earlier today I was driving by a construction site and noticed a gigantic, full dumpster. Like most guerilla filmmakers, I always keep an eye out on other peoples garbage for materials that could be turned into props or set pieces or a multitude of other things. Well, on top of this specific dumpster was a GIGANTIC piece of PVC pipe (two feet in diameter... 7 or 8 feet long) I decided that I could find some sort of use for this magnificent pipe. In order to get it down off of the dumpster, I thought I would roll it off the edge using the sidewalls as rails. However, I did not roll it in a straight line and the pipe slipped off one of the edges and fell into the dumpster while my hand was inside the pipe rolling it. I instantly jerked my hand out, but I was just a little too late, and my finger was CRUSHED/CHOPPED betwwen the dumpster wall and the inside edge of this massive pipe.
Mmm...ouch. Oh well I am all sewed and reattached now and hopefully the healing process will be smooth.
Kind of interesting that a year ago I was on set for another film and almost sliced my finger completely off with a knife while acting. Hahaha. It was gushing a fountain of blood all over the place, but I was still directing and yelling "We need to get this last shot!" ( I only had a limited time with the actors) So I was running around trying to set up the camera and lighting while I was getting pale-white and passing out.
Hopefully I will not be required to sacrifice any more body parts for film?
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"Important dialog is only in Hollywood films" - Kyle Phillip Johnson
Posts: 1255 | Location: Indiana | Registered: May 23, 2004
Well that's a rather gross picture, but inspiring if nothing else. All in the name of filmmaking. Damn good show, I'd say. Did you get the PVC? Haha, hope it heals up well.
-Kegan
EDIT: I guess since it went in the dumpster, you never bother to get it out huh?
Originally posted by Kegan: I guess since it went in the dumpster, you never bother to get it out huh?
I didnt even think about going back and getting it! Now that you mention it I may see if I can go and fish it out. Then again now that I think about it I have NO idea what I wouldve done with it anyway...haha.
"Important dialog is only in Hollywood films" - Kyle Phillip Johnson
Posts: 1255 | Location: Indiana | Registered: May 23, 2004
Ouch! Dude! That's scary. Best of luck w/ healing and not damaging any more appendages.
You will always want that pipe. Trust me. It's like the time I left a six-pack of cherry vanilla soda in a hotel fridge on Cape Cod five years ago. That haunts me to this day.
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Posts: 5197 | Location: Tisch at New York University | Registered: June 03, 2003
Kind of interesting that a year ago I was on set for another film and almost sliced my finger completely off with a knife while acting. Hahaha. It was gushing a fountain of blood all over the place, but I was still directing and yelling "We need to get this last shot!" ( I only had a limited time with the actors) So I was running around trying to set up the camera and lighting while I was getting pale-white and passing out.
ah! ive cut my fingers the last 2 weeks. one was actually for a film, involved my friend's cat getting out of his aparment and running down into the creek, so i hopped the fence, but then it ran back up from the hill into the parking lot, so i jumped at it and cut my hand on a chunk of concrete. no pictures cause i know you're all squimish girls like me. i bandaged it with duct tape off my friend's car window. it was a deep cut in my palm, cleared up in a few days tho! Amazing what this machine can do!
Posts: 3919 | Location: Sacramento, CA | Registered: July 21, 2003
Spilling blood for the cause can only be a good thing. TB however, very bad, so I won't tell you what they often use PVC pipe for and why they would throw it away.
My friend was literally about to call action on the first scene of his school directing project, when the DP noticed a small piece of the set backing poppoing up through a window. My buddy ran over all hyped up and decided to just take a swipe at the wood and sliced his hand right open super deep and had to be taken to the hospital. We had to let the actors walk us through the scene because they were the only ones who knew what the scene was! It was bannanas.
It's amazing just how dangerous a set can be. C-stands alone are probably the most dangerous thing ever inventoed there are literally like a dozen ways to get clobbered by one.
Every pair of pants I own has a giant gash in it from 8' segments of dolly track. Those things are lethal when they're being moved around by grips in the dark. Or when you're sitting on a giant pile of them in the back of a large windowless van, hopelessly lost in New Jersey.
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