Jolly Old London

The London shoot for The Year Without a Summer wrapped this morning, to the relief of a lot of sleepy people.  Overall it was a fantastic success…with practically no rough patches.  Arriving in London, the weather is so refreshing that it completely outweighs any negative effects sleep deprivation might have.  I’m basking in it while I can.  Our hotel is situated right next to the Thames, across from Parliament (Thanks Theresa M.) and the walk is beautiful…even when it’s raining on you.

Here’s some photos of the area around the hotel:

Rainbow over London after the rain

Parliament

The Garden History Museum across the street from the hotel

Connections

Sorry I haven’t blogged. Filming this project has required all our total concentration and focus every day and night, with little energy leftover to do anything except go to sleep immediately in our hotel at night. Today we filmed 9.5 hours. Yesterday we filmed 14 hours. You get the picture.

I make no apologies for awful transitions, so speaking of pictures… here are a few.

Preparation

Tomorrow, we leave our small world in Austin, Texas, and fly to Brussels, Belgium to take the first baby steps in the life of a new film project.  We don’t know exactly what to expect, but it’ll definitely be interesting and enlightening. Keep us in your thoughts as we cross the Atlantic. In a few days, other members of the team will be flying to London, for another film project. We’ll all try to post something a lot more substantial after we arrive and get the lay of the land. In the meantime, I’m discouraged by the fact that I took an ambien pill 20 minutes ago with no effect whatsoever. I even cut off the caffeine intake early today. Ahh, well, I’ve got a few books I could re-read. Yeah, that will really help me sleep.