Wednesday, May 28, 2008

News & Notes



Quantum Mechanix have some great new merchandise available, some awesome posters of Six and Starbuck.

Edward James Olmos, Aaron Douglas, Alessandro Julani and Rekha Sharma attended London Expo and airings and firstlady1408 have reports and photos. There's some brief video of Edward James Olmos at the con here and here.

Sczep84 also has video of a Mary McDonnell interview outside of the Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center for Media.)

YouTube user llredline has an interesting series of videos featuring Edward James Olmos lecturing at Stanford University's Cesar Chavez Commemoration 2008.

Stimcat reports that "Avan Jogia was cast in the role of Ben Stark in Caprica. Born 1992 in Vancouver, Jogia is a Canadian of Hispanic, Middle Eastern and South Asian ancestry. His credits include appearances in "Aliens in America" and a few telemovies."

The Ottawa Citizen reports on Galactica's quest for closure.

BuddyTV talked to Rekha Sharma about how much she enjoys being a Cylon.

Wired reports on a YouTube video:

The video -- a one-man a cappella "re-imagining" of Galactica's stirring theme song -- was made by a 19-year-old who goes by the name Hug Hurd.
If you need to cleanse your palate after that, might I suggest this excellent music vid by KDLSProJectS. Or check out this cool Razor vid by Buffyfan357 found via Tweyelite.

Lastly, BSG visual effects artist Mojo has a great post on his blog about the Phantom re-edits of The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. Mojo shows a scene from the re-edit of Attack of the Clones by editor Mike J. Nichols, that really shows you how something can be vastly improved by some judicious editing.

1 comment:

radii said...

Mary McDonnell interview is great. For once an actor really gives personal, thoughtful answers about the craft and character work. Very candid, and if you love Mary already, you'll love her more after watching the clip.