Member pages updated
Posted by Dave Lennie in Announcements on February 8th, 2010
All the member pages are now updated. If you’re not on there anymore, it means you didn’t renew for this year! Contact Jill or any officer to make arrangements. Otherwise, find your page and take a look. If possible, I’d like to get photos in the rest of the member pages in the coming months. If the box to the left of your Jeep specs is empty, visit our photo archive and send a link to one you like, or send me one of your own. You can also send me any missing specs or information about your Jeep. Take a look at Jon’s page or Matt’s page to see what a fairly complete page should look like.
No other events are scheduled for the month, so keep the heat on in the garage and get ready for inspections on March 6th at Jill’s house. For a list of what we’re inspecting for, there’s a pdf download on the Info page. And of course, keep tuning in right here every Sunday night for more entries in the 2009 MIJC video production log!
2009 Production Log Entry 4: Location Scouting
Posted by Dave Lennie in Production Log on February 7th, 2010
This is the fourth in a series of entries on how we made the 2009 MIJC video, The Blues Brothers. For more of an explanation, see this post.
June 27, 2009 (10 hours)
After some online research into shooting locations, Jon and I made an exploratory trip to Joliet to see if shooting at any of the original locations would be possible. The prison from the beginning of the movie (Joliet Correctional Center, which was an active prison in 1980) was decommissioned in 2002 but is still standing. We found great locations to shoot exteriors that would be nearly identical to the movie, and we also plan on reusing a few of the establishing shots from the original movie that would be too difficult to get now, such as the crane shots of prisoners marching through the yard and aerials of smokestacks in Joliet. Read the rest of this entry »
New Page: MIJC History
Posted by Dave Lennie in Announcements on February 6th, 2010
OK, maybe we don’t go as far back as the 1940 Willys Quad photo at the left suggests, but we’ve been around for about 12 years now. That’s long enough to see the birth and demise of the Jeep TJ. MIJC Founding Father John Bruder has written a great article on how the Jeep Junkies became the Mid-Illini Jeep Club. It’s under the Info tab above, or you can just click here. Thanks John!
Meeting this Saturday
Posted by Dave Lennie in Announcements on February 1st, 2010
Come to the meeting this Saturday, 12pm at Goodfellas in Pekin. On the docket is a discussion about inspections, which is our event and meeting for next month. Jill and her family have graciously offered up the Stearnes Estate for a location, but we will likely not all be able to fit all the Jeeps in the barn at the same time. This isn’t ideal but it’s not the end of the world either. If anyone has a better idea or location, bring your idea to the meeting or contact an officer.
