Finally, the day arrived... I've been waiting for several weeks for the people from the hit HGTV Show "That's Clever" t
o come and shoot an episode in my home studio in Derby, CT. I was going to create my "Mythological Kitty" which is a large ghostly winged cat with gleaming eyes that look Right through you! It was my most intricate piece to date. I had to change the way I usually construct my bricks in the interest of good television. Posing in unusual positions so that they can get a clear camera angle and hamming it up while working with heavy hamme
rs and razor sharp chisels is not my idea of fun. I almost ripped my hand in half on camera while carving the subject's wooden wings with a angled wood chisel in one scene. It was quite an interesting experience. They made me take everything that was not created by me off the walls of my studio and covered anything that resembled a brand name with stickers and black tape. The small studio was filled with two camera men a sound man and a segment producer who viewed everything on a monitor. Everything went surprisingly smooth. We shot several hours of footage for a ten minute spot on the show. The only scene that we had to re shoot was the opening scene when my cat, Shadow decided to use the tripod as a backscratcher and bumped it during the filming. I was quite nervous working on a piece with two camera men breathing over your shoulder and a voice from beyond giving me directions and lines that would make the show more interesting. "Tell us why you like to use acrylic paint?" Tell us why you chisel bricks?" I never thought about it before ...There is no real answer...I basically do what I do" which is not what they wanted to hear...That's when they would feed me their set up lines.
Hey it was O.K by me ...that's their job to produce the most interesting segment that they could. The whole shoot took a little more than six hours and upon completion I was relieved that it was over, sorry that it was over as well as excited and mentally exhausted all at the same time. Now looking back at this it was quite an honor to be among the select few to be honored to appear on a national television program.
o come and shoot an episode in my home studio in Derby, CT. I was going to create my "Mythological Kitty" which is a large ghostly winged cat with gleaming eyes that look Right through you! It was my most intricate piece to date. I had to change the way I usually construct my bricks in the interest of good television. Posing in unusual positions so that they can get a clear camera angle and hamming it up while working with heavy hamme
rs and razor sharp chisels is not my idea of fun. I almost ripped my hand in half on camera while carving the subject's wooden wings with a angled wood chisel in one scene. It was quite an interesting experience. They made me take everything that was not created by me off the walls of my studio and covered anything that resembled a brand name with stickers and black tape. The small studio was filled with two camera men a sound man and a segment producer who viewed everything on a monitor. Everything went surprisingly smooth. We shot several hours of footage for a ten minute spot on the show. The only scene that we had to re shoot was the opening scene when my cat, Shadow decided to use the tripod as a backscratcher and bumped it during the filming. I was quite nervous working on a piece with two camera men breathing over your shoulder and a voice from beyond giving me directions and lines that would make the show more interesting. "Tell us why you like to use acrylic paint?" Tell us why you chisel bricks?" I never thought about it before ...There is no real answer...I basically do what I do" which is not what they wanted to hear...That's when they would feed me their set up lines.Hey it was O.K by me ...that's their job to produce the most interesting segment that they could. The whole shoot took a little more than six hours and upon completion I was relieved that it was over, sorry that it was over as well as excited and mentally exhausted all at the same time. Now looking back at this it was quite an honor to be among the select few to be honored to appear on a national television program.
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