Slippers, More Slippers!

This past weekend, Anna visited (and surprised Meredith!).  On Sunday, we got pizza from one of their neighborhood favorites, Sal's. Apparently they are very serious about their pizza there and once got angry at Anna for repackaging her takeout slice!

Amaro and John Speed also visited New York the same weekend. They went to the Maker's Faire, basically a convention about all types of interesting inventions and objects.  I thought the 3D printers sounded very interesting- basically, they can print three dimensional objects, instead of just two dimensional pieces of paper.

On Sunday afternoon, I showed Amaro around the Upper West Side a bit.  We went to the amazing cream puff place, where he got a green tea cream puff (super delicious!).

Back to work on Monday! While running some stuff to Early Halloween, I saw this window display...

Hmmm, very interesting.

That same day, I got to do some shopping for the production!  This time, it was not rentals (like I did for the hats from Early Halloween) or simply for props (like my Salvation Army shopping spree), but shopping for real costumes!  Technically, only union workers are supposed to be allowed to shop, but I guess they needed the help.  I was assigned to purchase 20 pairs of slippers in an assortment of sizes for men and women.  Shopping is quite fun on someone else's plastic. Hehe.

I bought the slippers, and took the train to set which was in Manhattan.  I organized and labeled all of the slippers to prepare for the big day on Tuesday. They had 175 extras coming on Tuesday, who all needed to be dressed!

On Tuesday, I went straight to set with Amela and Jess in the morning. We drove to Brooklyn and immediately got to work.  It was a bit chaotic- there were so many people crammed into the basement of a building.  Above is a shot of the hair and makeup crew prepping extras.
 
Below is a cute 20s style girl...wearing another hat I picked out from Early Halloween! And pretty much anyone you see in bedroom slippers, you can bet that I shopped for them.  All of the background actors are in the underworld- they are "recently dead" being processed in Hades' palace.  You will see the set below...

The area where all of the extras hang out and wait is called "holding."

Hades' Palace, which I think I overheard is actually part of where the Brooklyn Flea is held. I'll have to go check that out this weekend.


 

A huge line of extras waiting to get dressed and approved by the designer.

More action shots of getting all of the extras "established."  The racks on the left are clothes that the designer and asst. designer shopped for in preparation for this day.

The designer is the blond woman on the left, and the asst. designer is the woman in green and navy on the right.

The set costumer pins something onto this 50s era background actor.

Here is the set.  It is incredible how little of the space they actually use to film...because there is so much equipment everywhere else!
 
In the middle of the day, Jess (the production assistant) and I were sent to go buy more slippers- all of the ones I bought on Monday had been given out to background actors! We went to Target and Daffy's and bought them out.  We came back to set with 50 or so pairs of bedroom slippers. It is really nuts how much money films must pour into local economies.

I took a walk in Central Park after work (and after my interview at Bloomingdale's!).  I guess this is the reservoir?  It was beautiful, and the openness was sort of a shocking change from the lack of expanse in the past 12 hours on set.  Refreshing, isn't it?