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STAR TREK VOYAGER | SEASON 7
Filming the Bridge scenes for Voyager’s finale episode Endgame
Have this behind the scenes photo..
Mick O'Dea at Molesworth
Last night, I attended the very popular opening of Mick O'Dea's exhibition 'What Is The Stars?' at the Molesworth Gallery, 16 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2. Mick's paintings were a nice size; not too large or small. There was a lovely sense of light and shadow in their compositions.
Each painting protrayed actors preparing to go on stage or undertaking dress rehearsals. The plays in question were Sean O'Casey's trilogy, 'The Plough and the Stars', The Shadow of a Gunman' and 'Juno and the Paycock' all performed at the Druid Theatre.
My favourite painting was called 'Direction' which featured a pub scene. It was full of life and drama that centered around a barman behind a counter. Mick's exhibition will run until 15th May 2024.
Eyeballs 👀
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I was watching some of the storyboards for The Gaslight District by Sketchrobin on YouTube, and found something interesting.
Link to the video: https://youtu.be/jNDmEhalXWA?si=Mrj44RKTto6XLHiA
What do you mean by “before the fridge was full of litterbugs”? Were the beta models originally meant to show that the Gaslight District practiced cannibalism before being changed to litterbugs? Or were they just placeholders for until the litterbug models were made?
I’m thinking it’s most likely the latter idea (placeholder models).
Hi! I'm Manda. I'm a visual artist. I'm working on creating a photography portfolio here. Would love to connect with other photographers, so feel free to message me~
Yesterday my partner and I did a shoot in a really cool patch of wild wisteria, so please stay tuned for those pics :0
I creative produced a music video last year. For my friend's band. I've worked in film for years now, and music videos are still my favorite thing to shoot. Very happy to have crossed "make a music video" off my bucket list. I've worked on videos for different companies, but this was different--this one was all me & my friends. We shot the video in 12 hours and it turned out great!
I wore a lot of hats for it, and designed a lot of sets (many that got scrapped from the video, but hey thats how it go sometimes). It's a 6 minute long instrumental so we got a lot of footage!
I love these pics cos that's the director, Jae holding that light. On small indie shoots like this everyone wears multiple hats! This scene was shot in our friend's barn :)
I'm leaving a link to the finished video here, plz check it out and lemme kno what you think!
Ian Holm, being a trooper.
If there's any prop from this movie I'd love to hear still exists, it would be the model of his head with that incredible smug grin after they unplug him.
Alien
this is interesting and funny lol and yeah she does @sad-yearning-bisexual
i think about this video a lot
Wil always knows how to strike the best pose
Some of my favourite behind the scenes photos from the making of the prequel trilogy.
BONUS:
Behind the scenes pics are the cinema equivalent of final bows in theatre as both say "hey, it’s okay, all of this was made up, we all are actually alive, healthy, happy, we all are friends & had a lot of fun, it’s so cool that you like us"
Behind the scenes...
The Paint Incident in Fortune's Rule II-XV was inspired by two separate incidents from my childhood.
Kids painting all over themselves comes from one time when I was two or three and drawing with markers. Was happily drawing with markers on paper, as intended. Mom turned her back for a couple minutes. When she turned back, I had somehow managed to cover most of my epidermis in purple and black scribbles. Fortunately, that was just washable marker. Of course, the Chaos Twins needed to take things up a couple notches, so for the Paint Incident, the paint became much more permanent. (Note: For years after the marker incident, I thought she was really mad about the incident, but then at some point in my teens, I found out that she actually found it funny.)
And the cadaver conversation, when Luke thinks it would be cool to see a body without skin in order to find out how muscles work? That was inspired by this one time when my brother and I were at Red Lobster with our mom, grandparents, uncle, aunt, and cousin. Our aunt ordered crab, and we somehow got ahold of one of the smaller claws. It still had short tendons connected to the base of it, so we were pulling on the tendons to explore how they controlled the opening and closing. It was super cool! So, I figure, the chaos twins might be fascinated and not super grossed out by the concept of a cadaver.
The crab claw exploration also totally grossed out our aunt, which was just an added plus. So, her reactions somewhat inspired Padmé's reaction when Luke wants to see a corpse.