Nexium

Sometimes there is a giant purple pill dancing around. And sometimes some random guido types join in to make it that much weirder. This was for a training video for drug reps. How this is supposed to help people do their jobs better I have no idea.

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This is your life.

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Boredom

There is something about a green screen set that just screams boredom.

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Viking Party

I took these pictures at a recent Comedy Central job. It was a promo for T Mobile I think. This viking guy shows up at a party with a rotisserie chicken. Then he gets crazy with some dance moves. I just like these pictures because it just looks funny to see a viking guy in this suburban house.

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Actually the house is kind of interesting. It's called the Johnson House. It is pretty much only for shooting. Everything is fake and moveable. It has been around for years and there are lots of photo albums around with pictures from different shoots over the years.

I will be back there soon enough and will take some more pictures of the place and maybe talk to someone who works there.

a couple more from Demitri Martin

I found a couple more pictures from working on the Demitri Martin show. This first one is of John Gardner. He is an awesome guy. He is dressed up here to be an extra in the "Moderate Games" sketch

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Next is the nest I made filled with the eggs that hatch chicken nuggets for the "Bird Pranks" sketch

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It looks sorta real I guess.

Important Things With Demitri MArtin

I worked on this show "Important Things With Demitri Martin" I did a bunch of the props on it. Here are some pictures of stuff I made.

From Sets and Props by Brandon Cheek

From the "Bird Pranks" sketch. A bird walks under this and someone pulls the string and the bucket tips over and pours water on the bird.

From Sets and Props by Brandon Cheek

Renaissance era rollerblades

From Sets and Props by Brandon Cheek

They kinda worked

From Sets and Props by Brandon Cheek

Medieval Sex ed handbook.

My Studio

I am really excited to have, for the first time in I can't even remember how long, a space to paint and work on projects. Here. Come see.

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From studio visit

From studio visit

Work in progress

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From studio visit

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From studio visit

From studio visit

From studio visit

Junkets...It's the new cool thing

So I recently worked on two press junkets. The first one was for the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic.It was at the Ritz Carlton and was for international press.It was somewhere in between a photo shoot and a film shoot. By that I mean it had all the small spaces crammed with lights and cables and cameras, and all the obnoxious attitude and good food of a print shoot.Allin all it was a good job. The days were reasonable. 9-6 or so, both days. On the shoot day the food was catered by the hotel and super good, especially the desserts.

My job was pretty much all about getting some shopping bags from some high end department stores and arrange them on a table. I tried the direct approach of going into these stores in my boots and Carhartt hat and asking some foofy Louis Vuitton sales dude for some bags. That didn't work at all. Lucky for me my sister in law Molly is in PR and had a list of marketing contacts for me. That was beyond helpful. My only other idea was to hang around these places and wait till they opened up their loading bays and sneak into their dumpsters and grab some thrown out bags.

Here are some pictures of that job.

From junkets

From junkets

You have to love NY in February. It's like a postcard for staying inside. This is the view of Central Park South from the 12th floor of the Ritz.

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From junkets

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From junkets

Major Baggage.

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From junkets

Glamorous behind the scenes shots

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Featuring Director PJ Hogan, Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Main leading guy Hugh Dancy, Lead Actress and Borats wife Isla Fisher, and Fashion Icon Patricia Field and a bunch of foreign journalists who all flew over and for the most part gaot massively delayed due to snow in the UK, just to ask pretty much identical, pointless questions like, "This movie is about a woman who can't stop shopping...Is it a good movie?"

The Australian version of Ryan Seacrest was recognized by Isla Fisher. She was trying to get him to remember the night the two of them got super wasted somewhere. He didn't remember a thing but he sure looked like he wished he did.

The other funny story she told was about her and hubby Sasha Cohen traveling somewhere in a super crappy beat up old van and coming upon a vintage car rally and him insisting on having his van entered in the competition. "It's a fucking classic. Look at it. It has original mileage."

I love it. I can't wait for his Bruno Movie.

From junkets

From junkets

From junkets

Just Desserts

Ok More to come on the next junket which actually happens tomorrow for "I love you man" Paul Rudd and Jason something. He was in the Sara Marshall movie that I haven't seen.

Cat Scratch Fever

This is a job i did at MTV a while ago. It was a fake music video about a weird euro rocker guy, and his cat. He discovers his cat cheating on him with another cat and is his heart is broken. He expresses his anguish through the majesty of song. Here are some pictures.

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Stanblani in his scratching post world.

From Sets and Props by Brandon Cheek

This set was based on an old Sting video with lots and lots of candles.

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Stanblani finds this celebrity cat tabloid on a newsstand with news of his cats affair splashed across the headlines.

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My wife Rebecca helped me make this awesome oversized cat toy. That's our cat in the picture.