From Nov 2020 thru April 2021, I had the good fortune to have a Key 2nd AD job on a network show with a truly fun and gracious crew. We were on the CBS Radford lot, and I had an office in the main production office building. My office was a large room with four desks, to serve my entire department. But I was the only one there during the course of the shooting day; most of my department was on set from call to wrap and only used the office at wrap. So I had a generous amount of room. My job as the information collector for the day's filming plan, known as the callsheet, meant I had find all sources I could. One of my techniques is to always have a puzzle in the works in my office. Folks would come in for a few minutes at a time, to find a few pieces as a break, and I would get to talk with them, picking their brain for info on their manpower for the next day.
There were a few specific key players in my office that liked to puzzle as much as I do - John, the APOC, Michaela, the Office PA, and Bryan, the Base Camp AD. Between the four of us we finished at least six large scale puzzles over the season.
This Pomegranate 1000 piece is one of the most colorful puzzles I've ever worked. The micro detail made it possible for there to be many elements to the design, and made it extremely difficult to solve. The back of the puzzle box talks about artist Rosalind Wise's work: "The composition of the painting is based on a large elliptical spiral along which twines a garland of garden flowers and wildflowers. The earliest of blooms, the snowdrop, appears at the center, around which circle spring and summer blossoms....in the order in which they flower." This was a fun puzzle to complete because I got it secondhand. Happily, it was complete.
The finished size of 25x20 inches required a custom frame which was costly. I ordered the white wood finish from ArtToFrame.Com and waited several weeks for the order to be filled.
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