“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Today I helped with the set crew for a couple of hours. The set takes place in South Africa in a small, run-down town. The buildings are meant to look dirty, aged, and worn. It is so interesting to see how many techniques a person can come up with to make a building look old. Today, I got to rub vinegar on sheet metal, which takes away the shine of the metal. Then "rust" was added to the building with a reddish-brown paint, and then I went back and added "dirt" to the building, which was a dark brown paint. After we "treat" all the buildings in this manner- we will have achieved an old, run-down, poor town.

Pictures soon to come!!