Tuesday, May 11, 2010

How I spent my "today"

Today I spent a good six hours on a TV shoot for a show that will most likely never be shown here in the states, but will draw a few million people on BBC1.

I'm not sure how much I should talk about, only that it's Wallace and Grommet's new show "Wallace and Grommet's World of Inventions", where the claymation pair feature interesting inventions by interesting inventors from around the world.
The segment that was filmed today focused on a local inventor from the turn of the century, Nathan B Stubblefield, who came up with a primitive form of wireless telephony in the 1890s.

The host for today's segment and some other "on location" shots is this guy, who is pretty awesome and very humble. In fact, all the crew was very nice. They could have easily done this in a field in England, but came to western Kentucky to film a bunch of locals putting copper rods in the ground. It was a great way to spend the day, and I feel that Ruger will be featured pretty heavily in the episode.

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