Posts with the tag of Shoots

Gadget’s New World

January 5, 2009 – 5:36 pm

Over the holidays, the “Revenge” team spent time filming with Greg “Gadget”  Abbott as he moved into a cavernous new warehouse space in downtown LA.
Gadget runs an electric car conversion company called Left Coast Electric.   He’s also the star of the TV shows “Smash Lab” and “Monster House”- where he’s shown millions of viewers [...]

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Filming Tesla (2 of 2)

December 12, 2008 – 2:28 pm

Our co-producer continues her account of shooting behind the scenes at Tesla.
As we captured key meetings with department heads,  Elon stressed his commitment to ramping Tesla up – and the fact that his role was hands-on. He reminded person after person that no problem or detail was too small. The buck stopped with Elon.
We [...]

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Filming Tesla (1 of 2)

December 10, 2008 – 4:20 pm

Let me just give it away now….the first day we filmed this fall at Tesla, we got to see not one, not two, not three, but, and I counted—over 40 production Roadsters in the Menlo Park buildings. There is something about the sight of more than four million dollars of incredibly sleek, fast (they do [...]

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Postcard from Iceland (2 of 2)

November 4, 2008 – 12:06 am

It’s really hard to beat a week in Iceland.  With the conference over, we went on a tour tracking down electric cars and the clean electricity to power them.
Highlights the second half included an unlikely interview in the spectacular black lava “Blue Lagoon” hot springs. This is the place where tourists sometimes ask “…why did [...]

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Postcard From Iceland (1 of 2)

October 10, 2008 – 3:31 pm

The rumors are true. Iceland is beautiful. Sitting on the continental plates between Europe and North America, this volcanic island is home to a mere 300,000 people.
I came as a guest for Driving Sustainability, Iceland’s conference for the future of cars. They lined up an international and terrific schedule. Yet-Ming Chiang from A123 [...]

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GM Detroit Shoot (1 of 2)

October 4, 2008 – 1:35 am

General Motors invited me to Detroit to speak on a panel at its 100th anniversary along with a small group of other “outside voices”.  Since GM’s Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz planned to unveil the Chevy Volt production prototype, we decided to take our film crew.  We knew we were being pulled into GM’s PR [...]

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