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First you need a shadow box frame - long and skinny is ideal, but not completely necessary. I've found that the cheapest ones are those that already have something in them. Some (especially the dollar store ones) are glued together making it difficult to take out the old stuff and replace it with your stuff. No worries. Heat the stuck areas with a heat gun as the glue is usually of the hot variety. The glue will soften so you can pry things apart. Read on
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
DIY Project: Break Glass in cas of vampire attack
The Vampire industrial complex and Justin Cronin
Many parents will, at some time, have played the game with their children of making up a story together. Usually, this exercise in dreaming up a plot and characters is a ploy to improve youngsters’ reading and writing skills, or just to encourage them to complete their homework. But for American academic, Justin Cronin, it has turned him into the most talked-about writer of the summer.
He was talking plot lines with his eight-year-old daughter, Iris, while he pounded the streets of their native Houston, Texas, in his running shoes and she cycled alongside him on her bicycle, little knowing that the pair had come up with the template for his novel The Passage, for which he would receive an advance of £2.5 million. This chilling and compelling post-apocalyptic tale of science gone wrong, killer vampires and the beleaguered remnants of humanity struggling to survive is now a bestseller in the US, with the film option sold to Ridley Scott for a reported £1.2 million. It is now out here to catch the poolside reading market.
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Vampires take a bite out of pop culture
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Pre-teens, teens, and adults into their 40’s are sinking their teeth into anything and everything Twilight - and fans in Austin are going beyond Hollywood to feed their insatiable needs.
Twilight-inspired cooking lessons and party planning are just a few of the activities by members of the group, Austin Twilighters, a fan meet-up for Twilight fanatics.
Along with Austin Twilighters , four other meet-up groups are also active.
One of them, Camarilla , is a more expansive social gathering, incorporating vampires and werewolves with role-playing video games or RPG, or "role-playing games."
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Tom Cruise to kill vampires in ‘Van Helsing’
t turns out Universal might be making another go-round with its “Van Helsing” movie franchise. This time Cruise is allegedly involved per Vulture.
He will produce and star as the vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing.
Previously, Guillermo del Toro was attached to direct the film, but is busying himself with “At The Mountains Of Madness” for Universal instead.
Van Helsing is known from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” In 2004, Universal made “Van Helsing” directed by Stephen Sommers (“The Mummy”) and starring Jackman in the title role. The film was slotted as an event film to kick off the summer season.
It did fine at the time, making $120 million at the domestic B.O. and another $180 million abroad.
Apparently the Cruise version of “Van Helsing” is unrelated to Sommers’ film.
True Blood Fairies: Let's talk about the Vampires that sparkle , Claudine, Tinkerbell , "stealing your light" and the fairy pond in the cemetery scene !
I won't say much because I want to hear your opinions..
The one thing I will say is that SOOKIE IS NOT PSYCHIC and does NOT have the power of precognition!
The scene where she a Claudine read each others minds is fine but the " I knew you'd say that " is off the rails as to what Sookie's powers are ( at least as we know them in the book ) So according to Ball, Sookie is not longer just a telepath, she is now also a psychic.
Great email from AHott in California
I have a theory...just wanted to share with you. I do read the books but I am reading them "one step ahead of the series," I'm just now reading Book Four. This may have already been shared and if so, please excuse me. I may just be stating the obvious to both viewers and Bookies.
I think Alan Ball is suggesting that Sookie's blood (her "light" if you will) when ingested by vampires in large amounts, allows them to walk in the daylight. That is why Bill didn't die when kicked into the sunlight as he had just practically drained her. This is also why Claudine fears that Sookie would give Bill her "light." It would make the vampires so much more powerful if they knew of it. It's also why she doesn't have a bloodtype. The other clue I picked up is when Sookie picked up that crystal glass at her bedside and Claudine told her it was "empty" and she needed to refill it. Bill had just drained her of her blood and her "light" and she needed to refill it at the pond.What do you guys think ???????
Monday, August 2, 2010
True Blood's Joe "Alcide" Manganiello On Wendy Williams today! Video
LOVE-- LOVE that Wendy read from the book!!!!
It's great to hear Joe talk and realize how differently he speaks for Alcide and I don't mean the accent I mean the little growl he does with his voice as Alcide .
Do you guys know what I mean ???
Am I crazy ???
Go Ask Dallas : Please tell us more about the wolves ( real ones used in the show!)
On the web page you can see a number of candid shots with Thunder, the wolf that plays Alcide
I think that may be Thunder in the middle ( right) but there are other photos of him on the web page.
You can also see Cody and Shadow who star is True Blood . Best article about the wolves here Wall Street Journal from June.
Here are some quotes from various article about Joe and Thunder: Below is Thunder/Alcide as he appears to Tara in the woods.
When asked about the wolf playing his alter ego, Joe sounded like a kid. It’s a live wolf named Thunder, a giant North American timber wolf with yellow eyes. According to Joe, he’s beautiful. ”We both play the same character – I turn into him and he turns into me.”
Explaining that certain protocol has to be followed in order to get near real wolves, Joe said he did visit their ranch. With supervision, he was allowed to take Thunder for a 45-minute romp. The wolf responded to his name and allowed Joe to pet him. Having gone through the acclimation period, it appears Joe met with Thunder’s approval.
"True Blood" star Joe Manganiello has bonded with the wolf that plays the canine side of his character — so much so that he recently began taking his co-star on walks.
The actor plays werewolf Alcide on the series. A North American Timber Wolf named Thunder is his canine counterpart.
Manganiello says Thunder is on a giant chain while they walk to ensure that the animal doesn't get spooked and run away.
Unlike his character, Manganiello admits to getting hit with "an amount of fear" when working with the undomesticated animals. Handlers have advised him not to have meat around Thunder or make any sudden movements.
He says the wolves are "suprisingly gigantic" with "wild-looking, piercing yellow eyes."
True Blood Ep 7 "Hitting the Ground " Music
- The Benders - "Mountain Radio"
- Stone Temple Pilots - "Can't Drive Me Away
- Jason Charles Miller - "You Get What You Pay For"
- Zebra Junction - "Small H2O Blues"
- PJ Harvey - "Hitting the Ground"
True Blood's Vamps Wear Footwear From Neiman Marcus . . . and Goodwill
True Blood fans know that the style is succulent — especially The Queen's — and the footwear is no exception. Costume designer Audrey Fisher goes through great trouble hunting down those hot heels featured in the show. "I shop everywhere for our show, from Goodwill to Neiman Marcus," she said. So how much power do those vampire shoes have? "I became so obsessed with getting Pam the perfect hot shoe for her [ladylike] and vampy costumes that they started putting her fabulous footwear into the script, and her shoes started getting cameos."
Other favorite brands of Fisher's are Giuseppe Zanotti, Aldo, Bebe, Steve Madden, Pour La Victoire, Jeffrey Campbell, John Varvatos, and Target.
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Great article about Pam's pumps from Season 2 here
These were Betsy Johnson shoes
True Blood: "Hitting The Ground" With Gordon Gano & PJ Harvey
When things have already gone too far, the only choice is to go much, much further.
Through the course of this episode, Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Tara (Rutina Wesley) escape from vampires and werewolves by brutally murdering their captors, rescue Vampire Bill (Stephen Moyer) and drive off triumphantly into the sunrise to a brave and happy new world where there is no language but love and no farts, only daffodils.
Or maybe everyone is beaten and covered in blood, thoroughly traumatized by the associated rapes, tortures and betrayal they've gone through in the last 24 hours. Maybe the tearful reunion between Bill and Sookie turns into a feeding frenzy when he awakens with her locked in the back of a moving truck and his more monstrous instincts take over in an attempt to heal the injuries he has sustained.read on
True Blood : Pams's torture earings from Tiffanys
The Magister's minions shop at Tiffanys for items to torture Pam with? ? So now I suppose you want a pair ?
I think these are the ones ...
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