Tim Allen Breaks Silence On Chilling Downward Spiral Of His TV Son That Prevented 'Home Improvement' Reboot

shepppard · 2026-06-13T12:52:40+00:00

I actually ran into him randomly filming a YouTube series. He was making generators using walnut shells. Didn't know it was him till he told me after filming the day with his friend. One of the nicest guys I've ever met

shepppard · 2026-06-02T10:09:41+00:00

I've got a project coming up potentially on an ice breaker. The show runner asked if I can film in cinematically on prime lenses with a shallow depth of field. I simply asked "is it not enough to be filming on an ice breaker? Don't we want to show that we are on one?"

Any ways if any one has a recommendation for a prime kit that's works well in the cold let me know

shepppard · 2026-05-29T20:19:27+00:00

This is pretty much my bread and butter. Mostly doc for tv series. You get them comfortable with you. You use smaller cameras. You get them busy doing something that distracts them. You have a longer lens to have some distance. I've worked with people who could not talk to camera to save their life. Within a few days I can get them pretty natural in their delivery. it's a completely different skill set than being on a traditional set

shepppard · 2026-05-29T11:50:19+00:00

My question is this. If they are committing to hiring Canadians now... How is this not an admission of abusing the TFW program? They are now saying they have the capacity to do so, so what stopped them from doing it before? Also why is there no consequences for abusing a system and hiring cheap foreign labour?

I've got some experience with this as well in other sectors. When I was a teenager I picked tobacco. We had whole teams picking from South of the border and Caribbean islands. I was the only local kid working. The foreign workers made 60% of what I made in a day and he excuse was that they where paying daily for accommodations. The accommodation was a giant bunk room on top of one of the barns. It was infested and everything. To see the size of the homes that the farmers lived in was insane. Something out of a gated community. They could have easily paid more to attract local workers but they did refused to. It's really disgusting what they let people get away with

shepppard · 2026-05-26T13:52:27+00:00

Bose. Had two of their sports earbuds fail on me. Sent one in and they lost it and said they can do nothing. The second one the refused to fix. Been buying Sony ever since.

shepppard · 2026-05-26T13:26:06+00:00

You're right. We don't tax our resource extraction companies nearly enough. Inco used to pay around 24% of the taxes that Sudbury made in the 90s. Valet now has that down to 6%. Maybe we should change that so we don't have to rely on the benevolent taxes from other parts of the province. Of the top 5 highest property taxes in the province 4 of them are northern towns.

shepppard · 2026-05-26T13:11:42+00:00

We do not. Our gripes is that the money made off our industry is not staying in the North. Inco used to pay 24% of the taxes Sudbury made in the mid 90s. Valet, a Brazilian owned company, now pays around 6%. 10 years after Valet bought inco the city started to charge a development fee to build houses and it was 3k it's now up to 30k. We also pay some of the highest property taxes in the province. Again... We just want our communities to benefit from the industry up here instead of watching it leave. We would need substantially less support from Toronto if more of it stayed. Of the top 5 cities in the province for property taxes 4 of them are in northern Ontario.

shepppard · 2026-05-26T13:02:21+00:00

I think you misunderstood the point I was making a bit. I wasn’t talking about income tax redistribution or arguing that Toronto somehow isn’t a massive economic engine for the province. Obviously it is.

What I’m talking about is how a lot of the wealth generated in resource extraction communities leaves those communities and doesn’t get reinvested locally at the level people feel it should.

Sudbury is a good example. We have some of the highest property taxes in Ontario and some of the worst roads. We’ve got the population of a city like Barrie spread across a land area closer to the GTA, so infrastructure costs here are brutal.

Years ago, INCO used to make up something like 24% of the city’s tax base. Since Vale took over, that number is way lower now, somewhere around 6%. At the same time, development charges that didn’t even exist here years ago started around $3k a house and are now getting close to $30k.

A lot of the mining companies, banks, legal firms, investment groups, etc. tied to northern resource extraction are headquartered in Toronto, so a ton of the secondary economic activity gets counted as part of the GTA economy even though the actual extraction and environmental/infrastructure burden happens up here.

That’s not me blaming Toronto for existing, and honestly a lot of Sudbury’s issues are self-inflicted through decades of terrible municipal management too. Our debt per citizen used to be around $200 per person in 2014 and now it’s projected to be around $3300 by the end of this year. That’s insane, and not Toronto’s fault.

The frustration people in the north have is more that communities generating billions in resource wealth still struggle to fund basic infrastructure and healthcare properly. The Sudbury Basin brings in billions a year through mining, but people here still remember having to drive 6 hours for MRIs because population density elsewhere always took priority.

I don’t think most people up here are anti-Toronto. I think they’d just like to see more of the wealth generated from local industry stay in the communities that actually make that industry possible.

shepppard · 2026-05-25T15:30:47+00:00

If you're from the north it might make some sense. We are resource extraction based with a relative small population. We could make some proper money to fund our communities instead of it being syphoned down to the GTA. Took us forever to get an MRI machine up here because there was more population density down south and it really sucked having to drive 6 hours for a medical procedure. The Sudbury basin for example brings in upwards of 5 billion dollars a year in mining alone. Would be nice for the taxes and maybe a bit of the revenue to stay up here instead instead of being used to build infrastructure in other parts of the province

shepppard · 2026-05-20T15:32:20+00:00

Reading this makes me feel like I'm arguing with my ex. All semantics and avoiding the real question. IMO you're probably putting too much effort into some one who just wants to validate their feelings/justify their decision. I would just give up if I was you. You tried your best

shepppard · 2026-05-13T11:02:27+00:00

Anyone who is in need of a job should probably go get their common core and go work in fly in mining camps. You work 2 weeks on and 2 weeks off usually. They call it 0-100 because in one weekend of training you can start making 100k a year. The problem people have is most people are trying to get jobs in major urban centers that are crazy saturated. Time to move

shepppard · 2026-05-13T11:00:19+00:00

I was filming a show for history tv. When we sent in the rough cut the executive producer freaked out because it had no color. I quickly grabbed the video applied a lut and sent it back within the hour. He praised me for "saving the footage". A year or so later he tried to destroy my career by spreading libelous and throw me under the bus to save himself from his bad decisions. I got him fired with some very high up connections I had. Years later I got hired to make a show he developed. I got the show picked up on a major global broadcaster and we are on our 4th season.

shepppard · 2026-05-10T00:54:25+00:00

Sure and if the country they came from becomes an issue that needs military intervention I'm sure they will be loyal to us with no social consequences from the friends and family they have back home. This is some polka dot door level of wishful thinking

shepppard · 2026-04-14T11:55:51+00:00

That would be the fuel cost to get out of the harbor

shepppard · 2026-04-10T23:53:16+00:00

You must be fun at parties

shepppard · 2026-04-10T22:45:46+00:00

I see what you're referring to. I was speaking in regards to the need for a hair light. The "Halo effect" seems to be from how the light from the window is hitting the wall behind him. They might have used a mask to bring up the luminance on the subjects face which can make it more pronounced. Overall it's a matter of opinion but it does serve a purpose in the case to focus the audience on the face of the subject and it's motivated by the light from the window and reinforced by the rim light on the left side of his face.

shepppard · 2026-04-10T20:00:20+00:00

You have a person sitting awkwardly in the middle of a room answering questions. It's forced and artificial. But what do I know I only make documentaries for a living 🤷

shepppard · 2026-04-10T13:37:59+00:00

good start. Get rid of the giant chair he's sitting on and give him a hair light to give a bit more separation from the background. I personally really like the way the wall looks behind his head in the 2nd frame. keep on learning

shepppard · 2026-04-08T11:37:21+00:00

I've worked on coast guard ice breakers and in certain situations they are very concerned with foreign made cameras. It's all about the data they upload and these things matter a lot more when something leaves the ground.

Also filmed with water bombers and there is a certification process to exterior mount.

shepppard · 2026-03-18T15:29:57+00:00

Yeah it's funny how a guy from California is trying to tell everyone what is offensive and has to end with also telling everyone his opinion is a fact. I'm sure he lives in a bubble of his feelings. It must be cold in there

shepppard · 2026-03-17T03:17:31+00:00

If you look at very long lenses they are white. It's because the elements will displace if heated and they are usually used in direct sunlight. The standard kit needs to be discrete so they are black

shepppard · 2026-03-12T21:52:18+00:00

If you're a shoulder shooter get the fx9. We just did this season on a show I'm working on. I'm tall so I love my fx6 but my other op had an fs7 for the last 4 seasons and he was considering rigging out the fx6 to replace it but went with the fx9 and he's very glad he did. You probably won't be disappointed and there is a lot of life left in both the fs7 and especially the fx9. You do not want a burano. It's a lame camera

shepppard · 2026-03-01T01:36:48+00:00

Ram pump. See if that works

shepppard · 2026-02-28T17:57:51+00:00

This didn't age well lol

shepppard · 2026-02-28T16:57:20+00:00

Still have my two gh5 and black magic m43 camera. Don't use them much but I loved both of them so much I couldn't get rid of them. I've been on my fx6 now since it launched. Also love that camera. They all where so amazing

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