SHAUDAWN

I guess some would call me a 'newbie'. I guess they might be right. But my heart is in the right place...well, maybe it ain't, but that's just the way it is. So, here's a bottle to break over my head. [i]I christen thee, I christen thee, I chresten thee.[/i] -Shaudawn (a.k.a. Donovan)

FOFFILMS

Today was quite a dreary day... Okay... Backup a sec... I live in San Francisco, and my day job takes me out to Alcatraz Island daily. And if you think it sounds kinda cool, your kinda right. I get to go to a very notorious place every day, I have full run of the island, and it's a great work environment. Except... It's not. It's a former prison. It's dreary, it's bleak and when you are isolated on an island 8-10 hours a day you start to go a little nuts. (I can only imagine what Capone, The Birdman and the likes felt...) Anyway... I did a little re-write on the Firefly: Orpheus pilot again today. Trying to solidify a few relationships and punch up the action. Say what you will about FOX for canceling a slam bang show, but the truth of the matter is - you need a little action. I'm not saying that Firefly didn;t have enough action, in fact I found the balance of character development, dialogue and action to be near perfect. But I can see why the "suits" thought action was an important selling tool. As I re-read my pilot script I realize more and more how I need to rearrange, punch up the action and balance it out with how I develop the relationships between the characters. So I leave you with this tidbit. "Firefly: Orpheus" will follow the crew of the Firefly vessel Orpheus. They are led by a con man, hustler and gambler named Jonah Boone. And as for the name, as I've had a few comments not sure about the sound of "Orpheus", I struggled, worried it would bring Keanu Reeves in leather to mind - but decided that because of the theme of the show "Orpheus" was exactly what I wanted to convey. First person to post the theme and it's relationship to the name "Orpheus" gets a cookie. And bonus cookies for those who post the relationship to the Joss' established verse that "Orpheus" has. More to come... Now I'm home, I'm tired, I played a little party poker while I wait for a new animation test to finish rendering, but I thought I'd post an image of the new textures on the Orpheus. Once again, props to fireflyfan.net user Biotech for the suberb model.

HAKEN

[i]GONG XI FA CAI![/i] Here's an interesting bit of Chinese New Year news out of Paris. [quote] PARIS, Jan. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- More than 7,500 performers, 54 decorated vehicles and 12 giant totems will bring a Chinese traditional parade on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in the heart of Paris on January 24 to mark the Chinese New Year, the Paris City Hall announced Thursday. It is the first time that Paris opens one of its most famous landmark places -- the 1,200-meter long Champs-Elysees Avenue fromthe Arc of Triumph to the Round Point -- to a parade dedicated to a foreign culture. The event is to mark the opening of the festival of Paris-Beijing Week, which comes in the framework of the Year of Chinese Culture in France inaugurated in October. Some 1,000 artists from China will join the three-hour parade with various performances, including dragon and lion dance, red fan dance, drum music, Beijing opera, bicycle acrobatic show, martial arts and puppet show. Groups of vehicles will be sumptuously decorated and a group ofartists will march in the opposite direction, dancing with kites, balloons and a 50-meter long dragon. And 12 totems symbolizing the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac will also decorate the Champs-Elysees Avenue. "The decorated vehicles have been transported into Paris for assemblage and the performers are doing their final repetitions," Li Jicheng, chief organizer in charge of the parade from the municipality of Beijing, told Xinhua. Some 45 Chinese associations in Paris, which has a Chinese community of about 40,000, contributed to this exceptional parade,with an estimated costs of about 480,000 euros (about 650,000 dollars). "We are glad to host the event, which will help the Parisians to discover the richness of the Chinese culture and highlight the identity of the Chinese in Paris," said the Paris City Hall in a statement. The city authorities pays about half of the cost. On the Chinese New Year day, the Effel Tower will also be illuminated in red to pay tribute to the Chinese culture.[/quote]

NESS

So I was watching a Tru Calling episode I had taped (yes, I watch Tru Calling :wink:). Where I live, there's this TV station sorta out in the boonies that also shows it, but an hour earlier. So all the commericals and news updates are all for the stuff in the area. I prefer taping Tru Calling at this time since it is an hour earlier and I avoid watching it on Fox. So here I am, fast forwarding through the boring commericals and suddenly an ad for Firefly goes flashing by. Naturally, I start freaking out and I stop the tape and rewind it back. Turns out it wasn't an ad for Firely, just a brief preview of a report from the news about TV shows ending up on DVDs. I was happy to see that Firefly had made the news report, then the guy goes and says, "Even shows you've never even heard about." Excuse me?! :bash: Plenty of people have heard about Firefly. Want evidence? How about this site? Okay, so maybe the guy was referring to shows that air on American channels, like HBO, that aren't common channels in every Canadian household. But Firefly is getting Canadian air play in reruns and while it had been on the air, a national TV station had shown it. So I don't know what this guy was talking about and I'll never know since the news report aired on Thursday. Too bad I can't pull a "Tru" and go back to that day. :biggrin: Grr...

TEELABROWN

I have misplaced my DVDs! WAAH! Well, there in my house, so I'll just keep looking...AHHH!! WHERE ARE MY DVDS?!?! Okay, I'll just find them... Keep flyin'!