In this episode, Jessie and Chris met with Bixby Piccolo Hill to discuss his work on Milkshake Kiss, the premier film project for PMA Studios. PMA Studios is a new collaboration of students, faculty, staff and guest artists to write, produce and direct professional movies.
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00:00 Music.
Chris Christensen 00:11
Hello and welcome to episode 69 of the PMA podcast. In this episode, we met with Bixby Piccolo Hill to discuss his work on Milkshake Kiss, the premier film project for PMA Studios. PMA Studios is a new collaboration of students, faculty, staff and guest artists to write, produce and direct professional movies. All right. Well, Bixby, welcome to the PMA podcast.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 00:37
Thank you. It's great to be here.
Chris Christensen 00:38
Yeah. Indeed. Jesse, nice to see you this morning.
Jessie Jia 00:42
Yeah.
Chris Christensen 00:42
How are you doing?
Jessie Jia 00:43
Pretty good.
Chris Christensen 00:44
So Bixby, tell us a little bit about yourself.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 00:47
Hi. I'm a second semester sophomore school of Arts and sciences. I'm a double major in psychology and PMA. I'm from Westchester, New York. Born and raised. Grew up there my whole life. I have one older sister and two younger brothers. My sister's two years older than me. She actually also goes to Cornell.
Chris Christensen 01:04
Oh, didn't know that.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 01:06
Yeah, she's an English and Italian double major. In, I think Italian literature and English literature concentration. And, right now, she's, like, incredibly busy because I think her thesis is actually due today.
Chris Christensen 01:22
Oh, gosh.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 01:23
So she's she's, down to the wire, sort of finally finishing up final revisions for that. And that's something she's been stressed about for a while. But but I think she's gonna, she’s gonna get it in and be fine.
Chris Christensen 01:37
Well, best of luck there.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 01:39
Yeah. My younger brothers, one of them is two years younger than me. He's, choosing which college to go to right now. And my youngest brother is actually heading into high school next year.
Chris Christensen 01:54
Okay.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 01:54
So we've got him graduating middle, middle school. My other younger brother graduating high school and Parker graduating Cornell at the same time.
Chris Christensen 02:03
A lot going on there. What made you decide on Cornell coming up to, Central New York?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 02:11
There were a couple factors at play. I think part of it was definitely just because my sister, decided to go to Cornell. A large part of my college admissions process started when she started looking at colleges. I sort of tagged along with her. Watched her process, looked at the colleges she looked at, and I saw Cornell and I thought, wow, that's a really impressive school, especially. It’s, it's beautiful. Location wise, the nature here is amazing. It's an awesome town. I really like Ithaca. I really like the, space and the people here. And then also the PMA department was a large part of why I decided to come here.
Chris Christensen 02:50
Okay.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 02:50
Because in high school, I didn't really, know that acting and directing in any anything in that sort of field would be a possibility for my future. But when I started actually looking into Cornell for myself, I saw the PMA department, and I saw that, I saw the sort of the wide variety of options it offers you while also letting you study something else in the School of Arts and Sciences. And that was a great opportunity for me. And I think that's what cemented my decision to come to Cornell. And that's what really sold it for me.
Chris Christensen 03:29
All right.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 03:30
Yeah.
Jessie Jia 03:31
Yeah. That's awesome. So you're recently the main protagonist of the short film Milkshake Kiss. So can you tell us more about it? What are the themes? And maybe, like, a spoiler free synopsis?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 1 03:44
Yeah. So the Milkshake kiss I play Charlie and Charlie is this. Well he's having a rough time at work let's just say. And to sort of cope with that, he he he's sort of he walks out of work and it's pouring and he just walks and walks for a while until he stumbles across this diner. And that's where the film opens. It opens with Charlie entering this dining. And I won't go too much into detail about the diner, but I'll just let you know that, like, one of the pretty heavy themes is interior of diner versus exterior. And, who's staying? Who's leaving? Will he stay, will he go? And the power of the diner to sort of draw you in and and keep you there. So it's a little bit of a struggle of Charlie to leave this diner once he starts to become entrapped.
Chris Christensen 04:45
Okay, what would you say the genre of the film is?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 04:50
Um. That's an interesting question. So there are some fantastical elements. There's also, some historical elements with some of the characters and their dress, because the diner picks up characters, odd characters, from different parts of American history. And I think another pretty interesting part of this film is the aesthetic, especially with the costumes regarding the Americana culture that we have shown throughout.
Chris Christensen 05:22
Okay.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 05:22
I think that, Sarah Bernstein did an incredible job. Sarah and Lisa, they did an incredible job with the costumes for this film and picking them out and styling each character to showcase, like, a different era of American history and different aspects and different people who would be in a diner and, what diner culture was like. And I think that's a that's a really cool thing that you should watch out for, when you're seeing this film, the people's costumes.
Chris Christensen 05:50
Okay. Yeah. You and I were talking before we got started. Just seeing the set. Did you, did you get a chance to see the set? Yeah. You worked on the set, right? Jessie Jia 05:57 Yeah, I was in camera. Yeah.
Chris Christensen 05:58
Yeah. Oh, okay. Just the for me it had such a deep feeling of nostalgia. I just so appreciated it. And I just, I know everything's impermanent in terms of all these things, but just knowing that it's going to come down is really hard for me. Like, I keep stepping in and checking it out and I haven't gone back in in a while because I don't I don't want to step in and see it gone.
Jessie Jia 06:19
The faculty have lunch in the diner.
Chris Christensen 06:22
We, you know, we haven't gone in yet to do that. And I thought about it and I thought, you know what? That's just going to make me feel that much more connected to it. It really is a beautiful set.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 06:33
I know actually one of my friends in Film One filmed one of the scenes of his, his movie in there, which was interesting to see. It got a little bit more use.
Chris Christensen 06:42
Yeah. Excellent. How does this, how does this film, in your experience and it differ from other student film projects that you've worked on?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 06:55
Well, prior to this film, I'd only worked on one student film. It was a Film One film that I had done, last spring, actually.
Chris Christensen 07:02
Okay.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 07:04
It was Duncan McDonald, I believe. And he had managed to get a fast food truck to close shop for the day and let us, let us film in their location. And that was really fun.
Chris Christensen 07:17
Was that right here in Ithaca?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 07:18
It is. It's, I think down over by where the Kitchen Theater is.
Chris Christensen 07:23
okay.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 07:23
If you cross the river, that little right there, right by that, that old, that old train.
Chris Christensen 07:29
Oh, okay.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 07:30
That's where they are. We were in that little lot to the right once you pass the bridge.
Chris Christensen 07:34
Sure.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 07:34
And, I think it was on the street. Pita. Pita?
Chris Christensen 07:39
Okay.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 07:39
That let us use their truck. It was the orange one. So if you're in the area and you want to check out a fast food truck, definitely go there. I heavily endorse them.
Chris Christensen 07:46
Nice.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 07:48
But it was it was super fun. We ended up filming there a little bit and also in the, subbasement film room to do an interrogation scene. And we had those, those two, settings, intermingling with each other. But I'd say it was definitely a lower budget process, with a lot less, work put in on the front end before we even got to recording because, we sort of got the, the script two days before shooting. He was looking for actors very last minute because the people he asked bailed out on him. So I stepped up, and I don't even know if I auditioned or not. I think he just was like, okay, fantastic. Yes. You're a person. You can stand in front of a camera. This is great. Okay. Come on, we're going. So that was pretty different because this is a, a process that has sort of been in the works for since last September, even. That's when I think the calls first started going out for scripts for that contest. I know myself and a bunch of other people submitted scripts for that. And then auditions happened and it was a very, a pretty, pretty intensive process on that side.
Chris Christensen 09:05
Okay.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 09:06
I'd say more intensive than a, than a film one would have been, I'd say also getting to work with and listen to all the speakers that came in, whether that's faculty and staff here at the PMA or that's the people who were invited getting to work with Ellie Foumbi, for one. It was incredible because, we got to, to watch, some of her films ahead of time. I watched Our Father the Devil, which was incredible. Incredibly directed and getting to sit there and work with her, personally and, have Justin work with her as he directed me. Was, definitely very nerve wracking as an actor because, you know, this is somebody who's been professionally successful, won many awards for, her film and sort of made it big a little bit already in the world of directing, which is somewhere I hope to be someday. But getting to work with her and getting to, meet all these people who were brought in, who have connections with the faculty and the staff. It's been an incredible process. And just getting to to witness all that and work with these people has been really, really an amazing experience.
Chris Christensen 10:17
That's great to hear.
Jessie Jia 10:19
Yeah. I'm curious to learn. How did you first landed, like the role of Charlie? Did you feel like some sort of connection to the character?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 10:26
Yeah, well, it's funny because when we auditioned, the role was a little bit different then what the final product ended up being. I don't know how much I'm allowed to speak on this topic, but it was more of the genre of like a rom-com mixed with a Twilight Zone episode. And that's what I originally auditioned with, and that's how I originally secured the role. And then, a lot of revisions went into the process, the script was changed a lot, I think, several characters were added at the behest of the staff here at Cornell because more people wanted to be involved in the project. And then, so our writer, added a lot of stuff in, over winter break, working with Austin Bunn and I think also having frequent meetings with the staff and- yeah. So it changed a little bit. I think it's, it's still had some of the. Sorry, I thought I heard something ringing. It still had some of the-
Chris Christensen 11:39
Sorry, I thought I heard something ringing. It still had some of the weird going on in the podcast studio today.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 11:40
There's a ghost-
Chris Christensen 11:42
Is it the door, or the ringing?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 11:43
Milkshake ghost. Yeah, but there were still some sort of strands from that original character that stayed there. Some of the romantic elements of of Charlie. Definitely still exist in, some of the interactions he has in the film. But yeah, some of that stuff is is completely new.
Chris Christensen 12:06
Okay. I'm curious, when you mentioned Twilight Zone, is there a particular episode of The Twilight Zone that pops into your mind or that's related, as you mentioned, that, or just in terms of, just the feel of it?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 12:19
I'd say it's it's it's more in terms of the feel of a world that is, you know, slightly different, a liminal space.
Chris Christensen 12:26
Yeah.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 12:26
One might say, I think the diners definitely a liminal space. And I think it's interesting because liminal spaces have become such like a, a trend in fiction nowadays. People love them, people really dig liminal spaces. And I think it's exciting to get to work on a project where we've, we've got one of those. It was definitely a lot of fun.
Chris Christensen 12:45
Okay. Yeah. When you mentioned as soon as you mentioned the character, not maybe not being able to leave or being pulled to leave or being pulled to stay. I thought of a Twilight Zone episode that had William Shatner where he ends up in a diner, and it's one of these, I don't know, it's sort of like a fortune teller, vending machine. And every time he gets a fortune, it kind of makes him feel like he can't leave because something bad's going to happen, and he keeps asking it questions. And so he's just sort of stuck in the diner. But, yeah, that's what popped in my head when you mentioned him.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 13:16
Interesting. That is pretty similar. Different in let's say it's, it’s not- well? In a way. It's about the fear of leaving. I'd say it's a little bit more about the comfort of staying, for Charlie.
Chris Christensen 13:31
I like that. Nice. So who's the director of the film?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 13:38
Justin Lee. He's he's the director. And, yeah, I, I'm excited that I got to work with him on this, project because I really hadn't gotten to work closely with Justin before this. This project was a chance for me to get to work with several people who I really hadn't, had the opportunity to work with in the past. And I'm excited to hopefully work more with them in the future because Justin is a junior this year. And, I'm a sophomore, so moving forward, I'm hoping to to continue working with him on projects next year.
Chris Christensen 14:14
So what's that like? Working with a peer as your director?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 14:20
I'd say it's definitely interesting because there were some parts of the process where he doesn't have as much creative control as typically a director would , being a student. There are some choices that he doesn't get to make. And those are, you know, directly relegated to the teachers and the professors in charge of the project. But I think that artistically, there's no real difference. I think that, you know, you defer to him just as you would a professional director, Or a professor who's directing you. I do think that there is, a little bit more of a level of comfortability there, where you can sort of talk like a, like you would with a friend about the production rather than it being you know, solely business. And you, like, ask a professor a question, about how you should do something. You can give suggestions. You can be like, hey, what if we tried this? What if we try this? Here's an idea. You can throw things out there and he can take them. He can reject them. And, you know, either way, you put it out there.
Chris Christensen 15:21
Okay. Are you finding yourselves as you're working together on on this, other ideas coming to mind? You said you want you're looking forward to working with him in the future as well. Any collaborations that have started to sort of, I don't know, blossom a little bit in the midst of all of this or too busy working on, on this project right now to be thinking about the future.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 15:43
I think this semester there are a lot of projects ongoing for myself and also for Justin. He's, in True West right now, which is, directed by Emily Pugh. And, who is a current Cornell alumni. And her show is actually happening later this month. Okay. And she's got Justin and also Jack McManus in that Jack is also acting in a play that I am co-directing- With Giacomo Cuomo that's happening on the second and 3rd of May.
Chris Christensen 16:13
And what's that play?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 16:14
A Streetcar Named Desire.
Chris Christensen 16:15
Okay. And is that where was that going to be taking place?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 16:18
That's going to be taking place in the Black Box theater.
Chris Christensen 16:20
Oh, okay,
Bixby Piccolo Hill 16:20
Yeah, right in the basement.
Chris Christensen 16:21
Very good, very good. Nice. Kind of shifting gears and going off a little bit, on a on a separate topic here, but, do you find yourself, connected at all with Risley and what's taking place over there? Bixby Piccolo Hill 16:35 Yeah, yeah. So Cog Dog has. I'm the president of the Cog Dog Theater Troupe, by the way, for those who don't know.
Chris Christensen 16:42
Okay, tell us a little bit about that.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 16:44
Yeah. So, Cog Dog Theatre Troupe, we’re a student run, student managed, completely student operated organization that does, independent theater here at Cornell. We've been sort of on a slow recovery and build since Covid because that was that was like a big hit for theater troupes, obviously. And we've gotten to the point where not only do we do two shows every semester, we've also been branching out from just operating in Risley. This semester we had the chance to do two shows in the Black Box Theatre here at the Schwartz. One of those, which is actually opening tonight. Rumors is is directed by Additya, Additya Bahl and, a bunch of my really good friends are acting in that, it's going to be tonight at seven. And then tomorrow at two, at two and seven. Typically we work in the Risley Theater. There's nothing wrong with Risley. It's a great theater. It's a great space. It's- I'm really grateful that we've gotten to put on shows in there, but it's also a great opportunity to be able to branch out and to have more, to not be totally reliant on one space to to put on, to put on theater.
Chris Christensen 17:56
Okay. Wow. You're a very busy human being. Bixby Piccolo Hill 17:59 Yeah. Thank you.
Chris Christensen 18:00
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jessie, bring us back to Milkshake Kiss.
Jessie Jia 18:04
Back to Milkshake Kiss? Okay. Can you share a memorable moment? For behind the scenes?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 18:09
Yeah. So many, so many. I think one of the one of my favorite parts about being on set for the first weekend was whenever Sarah Bernstein would come over with her spray gun, because I would. I had to be drenched for many of the shots. So for last looks, they would come over and just- psh psh psh psh. Just like completely go out it with the spray gun. And I would just have to sit there like I was awaiting execution as they as they marched on over with the bucket and the the spray gun. Yeah. That was, that was fun.
Jessie Jia 18:50
There's also another funny one that I remember our DP, Seamus and Katherine, they wanted like a match cut. So they had you sit like, exactly at the same position. And Seamus was taping the monitor so that they could get Bixby’s face at exactly the right place.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 19:06
Yeah. I remember they had me sit there and they were like, okay, now two inches left and I would shift okay up a little bit, okay, now take it back like half an inch and down. Okay. Stop. Okay. Over a little bit in this direction. And and they moved me like a robot. And then they wanted. And they just had me hold there for a little bit in that costume. And then, they had me do another take where I looked. I followed another character with my eyes out the door, and then I turned back and it turned into the match cut. And apparently I matched it precisely with that movement, which was really exciting.
Chris Christensen 19:47
Nice.
Jessie Jia 19:47
Yeah, that's awesome.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 19:49
On the first try. Actually.
Chris Christensen 19:51
Wow. You gotta love that.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 19:52
Yeah, I was, I was as astounded as everybody else.
Chris Christensen 19:55
Nice. So you are part of the first group to work with PMA Studios. This is the first year. Yes?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 20:05
Yes.
Chris Christensen 20:08
Yup. And it sounds like it's been a really positive experience. Is there advice that you would give to future students who are going to be part of PMA Studios, from what you've learned this year?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 20:17
Yeah, I mean, I think that in the beginning of the year, the class was a little bit slow. It was mostly speakers. And you would you'd be sitting down a lot of the time listening to people talk. And I mean, they're giving you a lot of valuable experience. But I would have loved a little bit more time up on my feet working with the other actors. I think for the acting class, a lot of it was pretty lonely work because, acting for film, the preparatory experience is a lot different from theater, because with theater you're always acting with other people. For film, it was a lot of solo work and a lot of working on your own and character work and getting ready for your role. I think once we were really getting into the, the pre-production, getting ready to, to go to shoot, things picked up a lot, but, I think I would have loved, more working with other actors and exercises before then.
Chris Christensen 21:13
I like the fact that you use the, well I don’t know if I like the fact, that you use the word lonely. Is there something you learned in that feeling of loneliness that you were able to take from there, when you finally were connecting with the other students? Is there anything you learned about yourself in those moments?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 21:29
Yeah. I think I learned a little bit about, you know, what, what drives a person to act and what how you really create a character. Because I think a part of a part of how I was feeling there was also a little bit of me getting into character, because, some of the things that were also going into for a bit were addiction and, that was a pretty strong one that we were working with. And I think, working on that, it's hard to, you know, separate yourself completely from the character once you, once you get out of it. But I think once once we got into the process where I was, you know, con- frequently running lines with other people, working through scenes with them, I think it it sort of came together and I found my stride. And I think everybody else did too.
Jessie Jia 22:25
Yeah. So going out of this Milkshake role a little bit, again, it's you mentioned that you are doing a bunch of acting but also directing. So how was this experience kind of influence your career aspirations?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 22:39
Yeah. I mean, I think that working on a set of this caliber, one of the things that I really loved about working on the set of the Milkshake Kiss was that people like in different teams because, you know, the work was split up, in this way that it was, people had ideas, in like cinematography and in composition of shots and in, blocking us actors that I did not know of before I got to set. And then they explained the shot to me and I was like, oh my God, that's genius. That's amazing. I love that. I'm so excited to do that. Like, the transitions between the scenes were so seamless that I'm, I’m so excited to see the final product because because it's going to be really cool. And getting to see that is going to be very, very exciting. I think as, as a director, I think I was I was excited to see sort of the tools that are, going to be at my disposal working on films in the future and getting inspiration from that and sort of. Just like, I don't know, there's a there's a very special film, feeling that like I found being on the set of the film that I've also found working on the sets for film one that I've worked on this semester. I've worked as a first AD, and I've worked as a director and also an actor for a little bit. It's more of a cameo role than anything, but but yeah, I did act a little bit as a gas station clerk. And I think, I think there's a certain, there's a feeling that you're working towards, like a larger product and everybody else is working in tandem, and everybody's doing their roles and functioning, and everything's coming together. That I think is so special that you get from from being on a film set. And it's it's hard to capture anywhere else.
Chris Christensen 24:41
I really enjoy hearing your enthusiasm from your experience. That's great. It's great to hear the PMA studios has had such an effect.
Jessie Jia 24:49
Yeah. That's awesome. Do we want to go back to Milkshake Kiss or any other questions?
Chris Christensen 24:57
Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm really curious what you what you hope the audience takes away after viewing Milkshake Kiss, what are some of the takeaways? What do you...
Bixby Piccolo Hill 25:09
I think that the Milkshake Kiss will be an incredibly visually stunning film, I think, with really clever cinematography. And I think that the actors that I've worked with put in, an incredible amount of work, beforehand to really cement their characters and get those down. So I hope that everything reads when they're watching the final film. I hope that the the editing process is smooth and that everything, works out so that everybody's work shines appropriately for the amount of effort that they put in.
Chris Christensen 25:35
Okay. I know I had another question. Jessie, do you have anything?
Jessie Jia 25:40
You can go.
Chris Christensen 25:41
I mean, I can't think of it, that's the problem.
Jessie Jia 25:43
Oh, okay.
Chris Christensen 25:43
It was there and it's gone.
Jessie Jia 25:45
Yeah. I'm just curious. Have you seen the post-processing at all?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 25:48
I have not, I've been very busy with other stuff. Now that that's, now that the Milkshake Kiss is over, some of my time freed up and with me being- immediately snatched by other classes and moving into tech week and hell week for A Streetcar Named Desire and the film editing process. So, yeah, not a lot of free time, but, you know, one of my friends, actually, I was working here in the Schwartz. I'm, work on theater electrics and tech, and I was working in the Schwartz, and I got a text from my friend, and it was a picture of the display case in the front, the front hall of the Schwartz with a poster up. And he was he just said, congrats, kid. And I was like, oh my God, where is that? I ran out of the shop, ran into the front hall, and I just stared at it for a second. And it was it was such an exciting experience to see myself up in that display case with all my actors, all my fellow actors behind me. It was it was so exciting to see.
Chris Christensen 26:46
It's a great poster.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 26:48
It really is.
Chris Christensen 26:48
And you're right there in front.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 26:50
It's funny. It's funny because, my roommate texted me a screenshot, of of that poster and then a picture of the Five Nights at Freddy's poster. And they have a lot of similarities. They have a lot of similarities. It was it was it was actually impressively similar.
Jessie Jia 27:11
Wow. Did you get a copy of the poster?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 27:12
I, I have gotten a copy of the poster. Very excited. I'm probably going to get everybody to sign it, because that's what I like to do with posters.
Chris Christensen 27:19
That's a great idea. The screening happens when?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 27:24
It happens May 2nd, it's going to be 5 to 7 p.m. and I'm going to be hustling out of there at the end because the doors to my show open at 7 p.m.
Jessie Jia 27:33
I love that- well it's in the same building.
Chris Christensen 27:39
Oh that's true. Good point.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 27:41
So it's not like I have to run across campus, but I do have to run down one flight of stairs
Chris Christensen 27:49
Any family going to be able to make it to that?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 27:51
Yeah, actually, my, my, close family is coming up. I think my grandfather will be there. Yeah. Mom, dad. Two brothers coming up. My sister's here at Cornell, so I'd hope she'd make it. But, yeah, yeah, they're going to be there. One thing I'm excited for is hearing everybody talk. Because I feel like everybody's got something to say about the process. That's that's different, than anyone else, because there were a lot of, like, strange little roles that had to be filled on set, like we had to have somebody function as the doorstop to keep the door open for one of the shots. Because, we couldn't for one of the shots, we did a, one- oner, which is where the whole scene is basically captured in one consistent camera, camera take basically. And we had to have, my character Charlie, open the door and go out. And because the camera was in front of me for that, I couldn't open the door because the camera was obviously between me and the door. So we had to have somebody hide there with a little plank and push the door open, which was my friend Annette. And that was, that was a fun little, little, Easter egg that you might notice when you're watching the film.
Chris Christensen 29:10
Okay. We'll have to watch for that. Yeah. Any plans for movie work over the summer?
Bixby Piccolo Hill 29:17
I mean, I'm meeting with Alexa to ask if she knows anybody in the city who might, you know, want a little bit of help on set. And I, I love if there were any opportunities there to, to work with people to get, you know, some time as a PA or any role that they need on a professional set, that'd be really exciting to do. Especially because I'm pretty close to the city, so it wouldn't be difficult to just take the train up for a couple of days a week. Some people are doing some projects here. In Ithaca, and I might come up and stay with a friend who's got their apartment all summer and, do some work there. Yeah. So there's there's some stuff starting to come together, you know, as people solidify their projects, figure out who they need, what they need them for. Yeah.
Chris Christensen 30:11
Yeah, definitely sounds like you've found a niche in a way, in terms of your your acting and working in production end of things, and also working, I don't know, doing set building in those sort of things, working on the technical end of things as well.
Jessie Jia 30:26
Yeah. I think that's pretty much it.
Chris Christensen 30:31
Yeah. Is there anything we didn't ask you today that you would really love to talk about or-
Bixby Piccolo Hill 30:37
I don't think so. That that covered a lot of lot of ground.
Chris Christensen 30:40
All right. Well, Bixby, thanks so much for joining us this morning. It's been really great chatting with you.
Bixby Piccolo Hill 30:44
Thank you. Thank you for having me.
Chris Christensen 30:46
Indeed.
Jessie Jia 30:46
Yeah, thank you.
