Your Last Minute Weekend Plans: Tour The Incredible Valencia Movie Palace This Saturday!!

Your Last Minute Weekend Plans: Tour The Incredible Valencia Movie Palace This Saturday!!

I know this is super last minute, but the Tabernacle of Prayer church will be offering a tour of the unbelievable Valencia movie palace (read my full post here) THIS SATURDAY, July 18 at 11am! Tours are by appointment only! Contact Sister Forbes at 718-657-4210 ext. 20 to sign up. The tour is free, but…

See Scout At The San Diego Comic-Con This Thursday!

See Scout At The San Diego Comic-Con This Thursday!

Hey everyone – Just reminder that I’ll be speaking this Thursday in the Hollywood Location Scouts panel at Comic-Con! From the program: Working closely with the director and production designer, location scouts are the artists who translate the script into reality by exploring the world to figure out exactly where the movies and TV shows…

Scouting NY at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con!

Scouting NY at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con!

Hey guys – Thrilled to announce that I’ll be participating in the Hollywood Location Scouts panel at this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego! Organized in association with the Location Managers Guild of America, also appearing will be fellow scouts/managers… Scott Trimble (Terminator: Genisys, Jurassic World) Stephenson Crossley (Fear the Walking Dead, Transformers: Revenge of the…

Visiting A Bit Of The Continental USA You Can Only Get To By Going Through Canada
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Visiting A Bit Of The Continental USA You Can Only Get To By Going Through Canada

This past weekend, my wife and I headed up north to visit her family, who live way (way!) upstate. As we were driving along, I found myself playing around with the GPS map, and happened to notice something unusual: if you zoom-in on the northwestern tip of Vermont… …you’ll find an insanely small bit of…

The Sightseer’s Guide to Being Stuck in Traffic on I-87
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The Sightseer’s Guide to Being Stuck in Traffic on I-87

Over the past week, I’ve been taking I-87 North to scout in Rockland County… …which means I’ve spent about an hour each day stuck in this: As anyone who travels it regularly knows, I-87 can be a hellhole of traffic due to the unholy convergence of multiple interstates and local bridges in the most inopportune…

Scars In Limestone: Finding Traces of the 1920 Wall Street Bombing
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Scars In Limestone: Finding Traces of the 1920 Wall Street Bombing

As I was scouting around Wall Street this past weekend, I noticed a number of tourists taking pictures of the usual sights: the New York Stock Exchange, Federal Hall… However, no one seemed to be paying any attention to one of the more interesting historical remnants, found at 23 Wall Street. Swing around to the…