Tuesday, 29 May 2002 New York City, New York
Crew camping out in the condo

Start shooting at the condo, a white whale of a building. In the foyer is an automatic video rental machine dispensing such must-see titles as Anal Palace. But most of the residents seem too old for such spicy fare. They live in apartments off long bleak corridors in dreary tones. The smell - cooking or just stale funk - goes with the bland décor. Just walking down one of these corridors makes you think twice about your life. The apartment we are shooting in is all the way at the end on the 15th floor. We will be here for the next eight days. By the end it feels like eighty. It feels like going on a camping holiday with your entire family in a tiny caravan.