So today, after a discussion with my partner, we decided that there was some concern about our scenic artist getting everything painted given the limited hours she could work on this project... The solution is naturally to get another scenic... How utterly simple right?... So it would seem...
So call one went out to one of my regular scenics, and my prefered choice for reliability reasons... Things seemed fine, untill I got a call back that her car was semi-dead... Well that got resolved an hour or two later, and she started on her way to my place... Call two was to inform me she had blown a tire, and was taking that as a sign she shouldn't come here in the bad weather... I agreed, and she headed home...
Call goes out to scenic choice 2... She's swampped... No chance...
3... Busy untill Friday, massively overpriced day rate, and slow performance, so I passed...
4... No answer, no voice mail, email bounced back, I'm wondering if he's ok now...
5... Busy, terribly sorry as she'd rather come work for us since we pay more, but she was committed...
6... Never talked to this one before, got the name and number from a friend of a friend... He came down a couple hours later, and worked out perfectly... He'll be back tommorow... He's moving way up in the phone call priority list now...
In the last couple years, there has been something of an exodus of scenic artists from this area for some reason... I know parts of why, I don't know all of the whys though... I've got people driving 70 miles in some cases to paint for me... There used to be 5 artists I knew in the town I live in... What a pain...
Moral?... it always pays to have as much backup as possible... and when you run out of that... find more...
Posted by Backstage at January 27, 2004 05:03 PM