30 S#!tty Rigs Only a Mother Could Love

Posted on: Jan 08, 2021

Film crew in India shooting a project on top of a car.Photo courtesy of BigDane / Shutterstock.com

By Staff Me Up

We rounded up 30 examples that illustrate why camera and art department are separate departments. But as we all know, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to make it work on set. That made us think of all the inspirational quotes that might have been running through the minds of these craftsmen of “make-it-happen.” Big shout-out here to one of our favorite blogs to visit, Shitty Rigs, where you can see these and many more beauties like them. So be sure to pop over there and take a look at even more handmade masterpieces. And without further adiu..


 

1. No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. 
– Robin Williams

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2. I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. 
– Jimmy Dean

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3. Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. 
– Francis of Assisi

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4. When we clear the physical clutter from our lives,
we make way for inspiration to enter.
– Julia Cameron

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5. Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence. 
– Vince Lombardi

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6. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale

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7. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. 
– Milton Berle

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8. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. 
– Aristotle Onassis

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9. Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or user storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 
– Rabindranath Tagore

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10. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. 
– Joseph Campbell

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11. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
– Edith Wharton

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12. When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
– Wilma Rudolph

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13. If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victor is high but so are the rewards. 
– Paul Bryant

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14. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
– Vince Lombardi

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15. The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
– Vince Lombardi

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16. Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. 
– Warren Buffet

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17. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
– Joseph Campbell

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18. With self-discipline most anything is possible.
– Theodore Roosevelt

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19. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.
– Steve Jobs

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20. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
– Robert H. Schuller

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21. Out of difficulties grow miracles.
– Jean de la Bruyere

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22. Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
– Joseph Campbell

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23. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost

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24. If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. 
– Thomas A Edison

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25. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
– Lao Tzu

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26. Without craftsmanship, inspiration a mere reed shaken in the wind.
– Johannes Brahms

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27. It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
– Amelia Barr

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28. Create each day anew.
– Morihei Ueshiba

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29. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. 
– e. e. cummings

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30. I dwell in possibility.
– Emily Dickinson

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