FloatAway is home to many cool small businesses, and one of the

most fascinating is Extra’s Casting, located at 1123 Zonolite, Suite 7a. As the name implies, Extra’s Cast-ing is in the business of, well, casting extras for films and TV shows.

“Football scenes are the craziest” says owner Patrick Ingram, “You have to cast extras to fill the stadium, to act as cheerleaders, to play in the band, to be referees, to sell peanuts, you name it.” He also says that cast-ing for period pieces can be intense, because even the extras have to go through wardrobe, hair and makeup.

Even for a relatively low-budget film like A Joyful Noise (the Extra’s crew is pictured above on the set of this film, which stars Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah), can require hundreds of extras.

Extra’s Casting recruits background actors of all ages, races, shapes and sizes. The best way to learn about opportunities for work as an extra is to follow Extra’s Casting on social media at facebook.com/ExtrasCast-ingAtlanta and twitter.com/ex-trascasting. You can also learn more at their website: extrascastingatlanta.com.

In This Issue:• Extra’s Casting................1• Zonolite Intersection.......1• Strippaggio....................2• K&Co Design...................2• Holiday Wreath

Contest.........................3• Boi Tips.........................4• New Bridge in the Park.....4

Winter, 2012Volume 6, Issue 4

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InTERSECTIONJeff Rader, Dekalb County District 2 Commissioner, has been presented with a plan to redesign the Briarcliff Road/Clifton Road intersec-tion. We do not believe the redesign includes improve-ments for the Johnson/Zono-lite/Briarcliff intersection. We encourage you to contact Jeff Rader and let him know you’d like our troublesome intersection addressed when funds become available for a Clifton/Briarcliff redesign: jrader@dekalbcountyga.gov.

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Celia Tully, partner at Natural Body, has opened up a brand new artisan food market near the

Emory campus. Called Strippaggio for the Italian term used to describe the slurping employed by an olive oil taster, Celia’s new shop features premium quality single varietal and blended extra virgin olive oils, nut oils, vinegars, gourmet salts, spices and culinary serving accessories.

The majority of Strippaggio’s oils are sourced from award winning small producers in the United States but they also offer varieties from some of Europe’s finest producers as well. The staff prides itself on un-derstanding and sharing the alchemy that is created when matching the perfect ingredients, whether oils, vinegars, sea salts or spices.

Find Strippaggio online at strippaggioevoo.com, on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Mention this article for 15% your first purchase!

EVOO LoVERS REJOICE: INTRODUCING STRIPPAGGIOSlurping is all the rage at Celia Tully’s new gourmet olive oil and artisan food boutique, located in the new Emory Point mixed-use community off Briarcliff Road and Clifton, across from the CDC

K&CO: THE MOST AWESOME FLOWERS EVERWe asked Kirk Whitfield of K&Co Design to describe her flower arrangements, and she replied, “Well...they’re awesome.” As the beneficiary of a few Kirk Whitfield designs, we wholeheartedly agree.

Kirk Whitfield of K&Co. Design (1123 Zonolite #8) brings a creative eye, a laid-back attitude

and many years of experience to the business of flo-ral design. She says the three secrets to an amazing flower arrangement are: a great container, a mix-ture of greens (nix the leather leaf), and the freshest flowers available. “It doesn’t hurt to have a great eye either,” she adds, winking, “You’re welcome.”

Kirk has vowed to rid the world of dyed-blue carna-tions, which she calls “the worst flowers, ever.” Place an order for Valentine’s Day flowers by February 1st and Kirk will give you 10% off your arrangement, which will be dyed-flower free and guaranteed fantastic. Find K&Co on facebook (KCo-floral-design), online at kirkfloral.com and at 678.523.6747.

First Prize went to Solarius (1075 #3).Their wreath was accompanied by a note, which explained how they were paying it forward by giving all the toys on the wreath to a young man they had mentored, who was now trying to be a role model to others.

Floyd County Productions, home of Archer, took second place with their “It’s a Handi-cap Parking-filled Holiday,” which we’re pretty sure is a critique on our parking lot... Very funny, guys!

Douglas & Co. took third prize with their “barbie, beauty & baubles” wreath, which was like an avalanche of barbies and beauty product all wired up to one wreath. Love it!

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WREATH-MANIA TRUMPS WREATH-MAGEDDONAs Donna, Jan, Gerlinda and Karen of TuckerMott Companies walked through the 1145 Zonolite corridors to judge this year’s holiday wreaths, nary a bauble or paste-up could be found. Did this mean the end was near?

(Gerlinda here, writing on Armageddon, December 21, 2012.)

The ladies of TuckerMott Companies (property managers for the FloatAway Community) wor-

ried that maybe the apocalypse had come early when they embarked on this year’s wreath judging. Not a single wreath had been decorated at 1145 Zonolite! (Lauren of Brandshake Creative tried to do a bit of last-minute decorating by sticking her head through her bare wreath, but she was dis-qualified.)

They soon discovered, however, that wreath-mania at 1123 and 1075 trumped wreath-mageddon at 1145. It was as difficult as ever to choose the winning wreaths. Did we go for the beautiful ones? The creative ones? The ones that serve a greater purpose? As usual, the winning wreaths exempli-fied all three of these qualities. View the whole gal-lery of wreaths on our Facebook page at:facebook.com/floatawaycommunity.

to repurpose in the new year to heat and cool the common area restrooms.

We’re also planning to remove the large glass table from the common hallway at 1123 and replace it with some seating from Kolo Colleciton, one of our ten-

ants at Westside Provisions Dis-trict. Pictured above is an instal-lation of Brown Jordan furniture that Kolo did for another of its clients. They’re still designing our space, and we’re not sure yet exactly what kind of furniture we’ll choose, but it will be exciting to have a comfortable lounge area!

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Derek Griffin from Speartek has been hopin’ and wishin’

and thinkin’ and prayin’ for HVAC in the common area restrooms at 1123 Zonolite for many years now, and he’s not the only one! Finally, and don’t hold me to this ‘cause it’s not a done deal yet, I think we may be able to accomo-date the request. We’ve come into possession of a used HVAC system that we are hoping we will be able

BOi TIPSWit and wisdom by property manager Jan McCurry’s emotionally evolved alter ego “Boi.”

It’s A Bridge!South Fork Conservancy volunteers have installed a bridge in Zonolite Park

You may have noticed a mulch trail travers-ing the meadow behind 1145 Zonolite

Road. As the trail enters the woods, it crosses FloatAway Creek. Here, volunteers have installed a sturdy, beautiful footbridge. SFC has applied for a state grant they hope will fund the completion of trails, trailheads and wayfinding signage in Zonolite Park. Visit facebook.com/nickelbottom to learn more. Also, email ggrimes@tuckermott.com if you’d like to sign up to water the baby trees that volunteers have recently planted in the park.