Life In The Office

This is a sad, sad day for me. John The Prop Guy has decided to step away from The Office to return to his previous work. He said that it was hard for him, but the money was about double and it gives him more time with his family.

As of the first of the year, I quit my job at, “The Office,” to return to my previous position set decorating for commercials. When I took the job on the show, I was going through a drastic change in my contacts in commercials, and had to move on to television in order to keep my finances steady. This required starting at the bottom of the TV prop world for about a year. I quickly worked my way through a number of canceled series and gained a great reputation around town up to the point where I was offered an assistant job on, “The Office”, so I took it. During the break, I went back into commercials and found I could re-enter that world back at my previous status and pay rate (which is roughly double) so I had to leave the show based on the fact that the money was better

Oh man, I am going to miss those blogs. I feel like we should have a funeral in a parking lot somewhere.

Link: Bigger And Better Things

I have been prepping all of The Office episodes for the iPod contest in the forums. As I’ve been watching all the old episodes, I’ve noticed that I still quote the early episodes much more often than I do any of the recent episodes. I’m not sure why this is but I have a couple ideas.

1) Michael is so much different now than he was suring the first season and a half. At first, when the show was more in line with the British version, he was just insensitive and a little rude. Now, he is mostly portrayed as ignorant. I think this has kind of taken away from his one line zingers.

2) The Office is much more about relationships and oddities now. In the beginning it really was about every day life in an office. I think this is actually a natural transition since this is supposed to be a documentary. Every documentary or reality television show starts off in a more observant view point. Then, by the end of the season it is all about who slept/lied/cheated/punched/loved/dated/ with who.

This isn’t a knock on The Office. You know I love the show. I just think that the writing and stories are different. There aren’t as many quotable quotes that work their way into my vocabulary. I use mostly just quotes from early episodes that we talked about before.

Am I alone in this?

I may be late with this one, but NBC is offering a few desktop images and icons for download. They are basically the promotional images that we have all seen so many times before, but at least they’re trying. They get paid the big bucks for TV Shows, not desktops.

Link: Desktop Images And Buddy Icons For The Office