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# I wish I was a film extra
I'm busy watching some muppets in
puffa jackets filming outside my office
and the extras are really milking it. They're all
dressed in '30s suits and hats
and are supposed to be commuters
walking to work, but some are really walking slowly
so that they are in shot more.

We're watching from the curtains - as I type we just got shouted at
and told to stay back from the windows - wondering what
we can stick in the window.

Candidates so far:
1) green plastic M&M dispenser
2) Bayern Munich supporters jacket
3) Comedy halloween mask & axe.

The floor is open
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 4:35, archived)
# big colour printout
of the b3ta frog
(I helped save b3ta! AndyK, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 4:37, archived)
# great Idea
with the URL on it somewhere, hows that for advertising.
(Sul, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 4:48, archived)
# Christ - Product Placement
They should be paying us.

I'll see what I can do. Currently our window is miles from the camera so it'd be too small to read, but tonight they are filming in our hallway.

Pity they haven't got any wartime posters up - period is a bit early for that
or I could have substituted one of the B3ta land girls.
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 4:52, archived)
# Put it up anyway
What' the difference in a decade or so anyway...
(I helped save b3ta! Wifey, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:05, archived)
# you could hold a big magnet out the window
so the sound messes up.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 4:53, archived)
# keep blowing on a dog whistle
so that when it gets played at the cinema, dogs savage the audience.
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:00, archived)
# drop cheap
casio digital watches and other inexpensive modernity out of the window so that it ruins the 30s feel
(Esteban, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:06, archived)
# find a big
picture of michael winner and stick it up there. He will make sure the shoot goes well and bring fame and fortune to all those involved.
(Esteban, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 4:55, archived)
# white guys with handles for ears
a large dummy of a cyberman from Dr Who will add to that 30's feel.
(james, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:01, archived)
# Where is your office
Can we all come and play?
(I helped save b3ta! Wifey, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:11, archived)
# Fitzroy Square
(North end of Tottenham Court Road)

Big scary bouncer types keeping people off set though :)
(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:28, archived)
# Shame
Too far from here...
(I helped save b3ta! Wifey, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:52, archived)
# you could
lean out of the window with a head made out of a balloon which you blow up to bursting point when the window opens so it looks like your office is a space station, the film is set on mars and 30s hats are NASA future designs. Thus the head blowing up would be very Total Recall.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:14, archived)
# Laminate flooring and decking
Will drag it into the twenty first century. Whip up a quick balcony.
(I helped save b3ta! nicey, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 5:36, archived)
# You could
just urinate out of the window onto everyone below, thus causing them to stink of piss all day, like most people from 1930 do these days.
(Sul, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 6:07, archived)
# get
one of those remote controlled helium ballon/airship/ufos, and make it fly into shot then back into the air again, with a banner with the b3ta url trailing after it.
(Zannusi-Beatz, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 6:09, archived)
# I've got one of those somewhere
it was the most fantastic toy. must dig it out again one day.
(I helped save b3ta! crab_bloke), Mon 29 Oct 2001, 11:02, archived)
# Small Boys
What about leaving a small boy slightly hidden by a curtain...preferably the ghost of one who died whilst the building was being built in an horrific freak accident.
(troutman, Mon 29 Oct 2001, 9:26, archived)