Had to be up by 9am today to meet Barbara and Jean-Pierre to go on more prop/set work adventures. We found this really cool junk shop near Coustellet. They had everything you could ever imagine. Anything we didn't know what it did - we just asked Jean-Pierre and he of course knew. I really hope I'm a vast wealth of knowledge when I get to be his age. For those of you who don't know, Jean-Pierre Soalhat makes mosaics, mostly mosaic tables, but he is commisioned quite a lot to do other things around the villages of France. He's sold to quite a lot of celebrities, including U2. He just said today a woman bought one of his tables to be used in a Bruce Willis period comedy. This stuff really excites me considering it's what I want to do as a profession, so it really wasn;t a bad day to be up at 9. So today we found:
* Two huge wooden crates - really old and cool looking to use as Madeline's tomb.
* A bunch of pieces of slate-ish stone things to use as old nametag signs.
* A really cool rusted iron jail door to use int he "prison area."
* A whole bunch of old rope to use in the Charenton set.
* More tin boxes for the severed limbs of the Marquis de Sade.
The best part is we got it all for 45 euros!! Then we had to go to the French equivalent of Wal Mart, E. Leclerc, and buy a bunch of torches. They're wood colored but we're going to spray paint them black and wrap them in diamond wire mesh stuff to make 'em look more gothic and insane asylum-ish! We get a private tour of the Marquis' chateau on Wednesday. It's sweet ass because we get to go down into the cellars and all that fun stuff - I can't wait.
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