Dallas AFI International Film Festival

Buena Vista Studios Steak-bed film truck

Some of the film companies trailers parked in Deep Ellum.
Michael, you have come a long ways from the old painted  bus: California or Bust.

Star Trailers



The Dallas AFI Film Festival is scheduled to begin April 4 and run through the 14th. It's always fun to have the excitement of seeing film crews in town filming and all the theatre venues filled with patrons screening many,many films in those 10 days.

 

So be on the look-out for the film crews filming on the streets and off and be sure to get your tickets early for the films that you want to review. And the parties will be mostly closed but you can still see some of the starts in town if your lucky.

Have fun and enjoy the shows.

 





The First True Sign of Spring

The first true signs of Spring

The basket is about 80 feet in the air

The renewal of life in a trees bloom.

The flowering trees are beginning to bloom. I saw several that were fully in bloom and then I came across this stand that is just now in the initial stages of budding. All in all it just felt good to have the warmth of the sum on my light jacket and to see the opening buds nearly a month early. The other shot is of two men replacing the lights in a medium rise office building's sign on the side of the building. One guy was on the roof handing the front facings to the guy in the basket that had to screw them into the side panels that seemed to have gaskets to keep out the elements.I'm not so sure how that works in Texas Heat, especially when the sun beats down on the metal all day as the sign faces West.The gaskets or caulking has to be able to withstand that heat! The basket was about 80 feet in the air.