Oh how desperately I wish this book was real. Check out the other covers at the artist’s site.
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a belated birthday present from and . Thanks guys — I’ve wanted lunar Tintin dolls for the longest time!
canberra weekend
Spent the weekend freezing my toes off in Canberra — almost literally! Took a couple of hours to get circulation back in the little buggers after leaving Donna’s place this morning. Donna’s house is warm and toasty on the inside but her front yard is practically Antarctic! Anyway, we went down yesterday for a birthday lunch with Kaaron and her family, then off to a gorgeous boutique bookshop in Manuka called Paperchain for the launch of Nicole Murphy’s debut novel Secret Ones.Nicole Murphy, Donna Hanson & Maxine MacarthurCSFG members whose names I really ought to know by nowKaaron Warren & Matthew FarrerThen we went back to Nicole’s place to eat stuff and gossipMatt, Donna & JamesGillian Pollack, listening to Rob’s stories with great suspicionI saw something in Paperchain that afternoon that was so utterly awesome, my heart almost stopped beating. I couldn’t stop thinking about it all night so the…
so excited!
So this guy, Jamie Bell, is playing Tintin in the Spielberg movie. He looks so right for the part, I can’t believe he wasn’t the first choice!"Shooting on the first movie, ‘The Secret of the Unicorn’, has been completed. Spielberg and crew just wrapped an under-the-radar 32-day run of performance capture sessions with the principal cast, which includes Jamie Bell as our plucky, bequiffed hero and Daniel Craig as his nemesis Red Rackham. Rounding out the cast are motion capture stalwart Andy Serkis as seafaring boozehound Captain Haddock, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as the bumbling Thompson twins and the ubiquitous Mackenzie Crook as an unnamed, but surely villainous sidekick type character. There’s no word yet on how much of the actors’ physical performances will remain in the finished film: Pegg and Frost, for example, are playing identical twins, which is going to require a fair amount of digital trickery."the…
Tintin in space
Tintin vs Alien
I have no idea who is responsible for this picture but I love it so much I’m going to blog it uncredited.Thanks Bill!