Monthly Archives: April 2011

Puff the Magic Dragon Had No Parallax View

Dragons are our friends. No, I never used to think that, at least when I was young. I only knew that Dragons roared and fire came out from their mouths. Very big and scary. Monster movie scary. And I think … Continue reading

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“truly stakhanovite proportions” or how I learned to stop worrying and loved Sputnik

  If you listened to Pravda (Truth) in the old days, you may have heard of Stakhanov One thing that is generally true about Americans is that they pay attention to things. Yes, you heard right. Only their range of … Continue reading

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Roughness…more, please.

Backyard from Desperate Housewives Tom Walsh invited me to make a backing for his show Desperate Housewives. I used as much top light as I could to break the light across the surface of the leaves to maximize texture. I … Continue reading

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The Black Swan, but not the movie kind.

  I am sure that many of you have seen the Black Swan with Natalie Portman and have a lot to say about it. But I begin today with the other Black Swan and where it has led me. And maybe … Continue reading

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Midwesternism Defined and Some Other Stuff

Just to bring something completely different to help explain the Half Coastal name I use for this blog: the name came to me in a blinding flash of something, maybe creativity, maybe just too much cilantro in the salsa…who knows? … Continue reading

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The Night Everything Changed

  One local evening shoot for Beat Frutiger on Live Free or Die Hard changed everything. Goodbye film. Hello digital. Just another picture story from Richard Lund, translite photographer. I make translites. Have for 31 years this month. I spent … Continue reading

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Shoot Interrupted by Muammar Qaddaffi

Richard Sylbert invited me to help him make movies ten times in my life. I think he may have been the one for whom I have made translite backgrounds the most to date in my career. Certainly Ruby Cairo was … Continue reading

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Malibu for Ironman’s Tony Stark House Set

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Malibu daytime translite view from Point Dume For the first Ironman feature, Michael Riva, production designer, and his supervising art director, David Klassen, brought Richard Lund to the Point Dume vantage point in Malibu where the house was to be … Continue reading

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