Commercial: "Yoga"

Friday March 14, 2014
Colliding calls
My calling service contacted me with information for the next day, a Saturday shoot for the feature film Lost in Austin. At the same time, another call started to come in, demanding my attention. Thankfully I quickly got the recorded call number, and was able to accept the incoming call... which turned out to be someone else at my calling service.
"Oh yes," I said. "I just got the info for tomorrow's Lost in Austin..."
I was told that this call was for information for a Monday gig for a Bridgestone commercial through Alice Ellis, that I'd be getting an email with the information.

Saturday March 15, 2014
Arrangements
Checking my mail while in holding during my day working on Lost in Austin, I came across Alice's email, which to my startled surprised, conveyed the location being in Malibu.
While I knew there was one bus to Malibu, I was worried about how close it would get. Thankfully according to my route planner, it was only a mile walk, and despite an 8am call, the bus could get me there by 7:30am, and a twenty minute hike was nothing.
When I got home after midnight from the shoot, I send my Confirmation Reply, assuring her I'd be there by 7:50am for the 8am calltime.
To her credit, Alice set out to see about getting me a ride, which she did, with the pleasant April Baker, who lived close enough to me that retrieving me was little to no issue.

Monday March 24, 2014
Shoot
After Alice introduced us by email, April and I been in text contact, and she arrived a bit after 6:30am, and we scooted out via the 101 to Malibu, arriving at the crew parking by 7:45am (via my phone GPS). We were shuttled to the location at whch we got breakfast, or sorts. The catering first served me their idea of scrambled eggs without warning me (or clarifying), there'd be all sorts of foreign bits of Stuff contained in it, as though I'd wanted an omelette. I had to wonder whether some of the small, darker bits were what I suspected, reminded of Donald Sutherland's dispute with a snooty restaurant manager in the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers as to whether the object in question was "a kipper." Later I returned and requested a Just-Eggs Scrambled Eggs, which seemed to puzzle the cook, who claimed there "wasn't" anything else in the scrambled eggs, making me really worry about the previous "serving." (At lunch, I neglected to expect how they'd serve the ordered food, so when I ordered the brisket and mashed potatoes, they lumped the meat the sauce atop the potatoes...)
I'd brought my own lab coat as Alice had indicated such would be provided, so I figured bringing mine would help, but didn't realize their lab coats all had the truncated Bridgestone logo, which certainly made sense.
The spot's main principal was tennis legend John McEnroe.
As with most commercials, the production company was extremely efficient, and the background for this spot was done and signed out by 1:19pm at which time lunch was called (we were invited to have the lunch before we departed). It was the end of the day for us; production had a full on move to shoot more elsewhere. This was the seventh of eight days shooting a campaign of different spots.
I'll keep an eye out for when the spot hits the air waves, as well as online, which pretty much is becoming standard practice.

Wednesday August 20, 2014
Found it
After several weeks, then months, of checking and not finding it, for "no good reason" early this date, I took another look, and found the spot, which hit YouTube in mid-July, April and my not being visible in it notwithstanding.