What was the “Oxbow Art Camp workshop”?
We’re just now celebrating our first-year anniversary and we wanted to do something really special for the community. So we agreed to host a one-day workshop on filmmaking with Oxbow Art Summer Camp. In the summer, 50 high school kids came to Kerner Optical and we actually made a movie in one day. Our crew volunteered their time to act as instructors: from script and storyboards to building a set, lighting it, dressing it and shooting digital stills to composite into the final scene. The kids were amazing. I heard one kid at the end of the day say to his friend, “This place is sooooooo cool—I’m so excited I actually feel like I might explode!” Well, making things explode is what you do. With a job that revolves so much around blowing things up—are you on good terms with the San Rafael Fire Department? Even though we love having fun, we take the pyro aspect very seriously. Our relationship with the local fire department and our community is important. In order to execute pyro events, yo
