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godzilla-reads · 2 years
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🦕 Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time by James Gurney
“Breathe deep. Seek peace.”
This book is amazing. James Gurney writes and illustrates it in its whole 160-pages of glory. The story of a man and his son who get shipwrecked on an island known as Dinotopia, where dinosaurs and humans live peacefully and respectfully together.
Not only is James Gurney one of my FAVORITE artists, but the first Dinotopia book is filled with so much curiosity, love, and search for peace. Of course my favorite character was Bix, the ambassador/translator Protoceratops. She was so fun and knowledgeable, the perfect guide for Arthur and Will.
Full of wisdom, breathtaking art, and an adventurous story, Dinotopia is one of my new comfort books.
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tintededges · 1 year
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Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
Illustrated fantasy book about a society with sentient dinosaurs I absolutely love graphic novels and illustrated stories, but somehow I missed this book which came out when I was a young kid. I picked up a copy from the Lifeline Bookfair quite some time ago, and everyone I have mentioned it to has been full of happy nostalgia. When I was picking out books for last year’s Short Stack Reading…
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irradiate-space · 1 year
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Disney's Atlantis (2001) will have no more sequels, and Intellectual Property is why.
In short: IP law. But not the "make money by writing it off" thingy.
Epistemic status: a memory of a Q&A panel from 2002.
At length:
Atlantis was released in 2001. It had a giant mechanical lobster,
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and some neat steampunk submarines,
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These submarines go on a neat adventure through underwater passages past shipwrecks of ages past, break through a big door, and arrive at an underground cavern filled with forgotten machines, which power up when you insert glowing crystals in them.
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And that's the whole problem with Walt Disney Animated Series film 41: Atlantis: The Lost Empire, its sequel, and really the entire story and concept.
In 1992, renowned painter James Gurney released the picture-book Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, which featured a neat little steampunk submarine, the front one in this series of maquettes by Glenn Ludgate:
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In 1995, Gurney published a sequel, Dinotopia: The World Beneath, where a group of intrepid explorers use a steampunk submarine to go on an underwater excursion through the remains of wrecked ships of ages past, through a door, to a cavern full of forgotten machines which power up when you insert glowing crystals in them. Including an evil lobster.
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In 1999, Gurney published the prequel, Dinotopia: First Flight, which told the story of where those sunstone-powered mechanical marvels came from: the drowned city of Poseidos. The story included a chase sequence with sunstone-powered flying trilobites.
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There are, shall we say, certain parallels.
In June 2001, Disney released Atlantis: The Lost Empire. The film allegedly underperformed at the box office, taking in $186.1 million against a budget of $90-120 million. In 2003, Disney released the direct-to-video sequel Atlantis: Milo's Return, which collected content previously intended for a canceled TV series. It competed with Shrek.
During his April-September 2002 exhibition at the Smithsonian National Museum of National History, an audience member asked Gurney about the parallels between the recently-released Atlantis and Gurney's designs for Dinotopia. Gurney replied that he couldn't comment, but that his lawyers had reached an agreeable settlement with Disney.
Because the lawsuit was settled out of court — if it in fact existed, which is what I here allege — it left no records. I have found nothing by search; if you find any documentation of this, you're welcome to publish it. Disney acknowledges that Atlantis drew from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. For other plagiarism allegations, you will find much more documentation of alleged parallels between Atlantis and Nadia: Secret of Blue Water and Laputa: Castle in the Sky.
In May 2002, Hallmark Entertainment and Walt Disney TV released a three-episode, four-hour Dinotopia miniseries. A sequel series of 13 episodes was released beginning in November 2002, produced by ABC and Hallmark Entertainment. An animated film was released in 2005 by Hallmark Entertainment. There were also a series of Dinotopia video games for PC/MAC GBA, and GC/Xbox in 2002 and 2003. It's this really-tight cluster of activity, right after Atlantis came out.
In 2007, Gurney published the fourth and latest Dinotopia book, Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. It's very beautiful.
In 2013, Disney remastered and rereleased the Atlantis films in 2013.
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These Atlantis gifs are hand-cut with ffmpeg in 720p 15fps, straight from the movie, and the Dinotopia images are sourced from James Gurney's blog, "Gurney Journey" which I highly recommend as a source of traditional-media painting advice as well as general art advice. The Dinotopia books are a joy to read, and if you want, there is a YA novel series as well as a pair of novels by Alan Dean Foster. Gurney also wrote several guides to illustration and painting, and in general is a nice old man.
Don't blame James Gurney for stealing Atlantis. Blame Disney for stealing Dinotopia.
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Reading Comprehension Questions:
What parallels does OP see between Atlantis and Dinotopia?
What sources does OP cite for the core allegations in this essay?
What is OP's stance towards Disney? Towards James Gurney?
Who does OP blame for Atlantis being dead IP?
How would your personal stance on copyright law affect the outcome of a lawsuit between James Gurney and Disney over stolen intellectual property?
Fanfic prompt: The Atlantis expedition wash up on the shore of Dinotopia. The expedition arrives a few years after the Dennisons do, with Will and Sylvia off on their new career, and Arthur having a bit of an empty-nest syndrome. No one knows where Lee Crabb is.
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james gurney: Stairway to the door beneath the One-Earth Globe in Waterfall City, which houses the helicoid geochronograph. from Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time, linked in bio.
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kattheerat · 1 year
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I’m so happy‼️
Someone got me Dinotopia (Land Apart from Time), and two more James Gurney books (Color and Light, and Imaginative Realism)
I’ve never read anything from gurney, not even dinotopia, even though i’ve been in love with the idea since i heard of it as a kid. And now i finally get to read it! Today is so good and i am so happy
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paragonrobits · 10 months
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open invitation to speculate about me: a massive formative influence in my life was the book Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time
guess what its influences upon me are, go on I DARE YOU
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kurtis09t · 2 years
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DIN♡S @galeriechloesalgado Hugo Avigo, Camille Benarab-Lopez, Côme Clérino, Aurore Le Duc, Lulù Nuti, Julian Simon Paris Dinosaurs often evoke a certain nostalgia associated with childhood. This feeling is probably shared by many millennials who grew up in the 1980s or 1990s, the media golden age of these « terrible lizards ». In a scientific study published in November 2007, researchers at Yale University characterized the interest of some children for these prehistoric animals as an « Extremely Intense Interest » (EII). The rise of these creatures in pop culture in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s was probably a major factor. Indeed, Denver, the Last Dinosaur (Peter Keefe, 1988), The Land Before Time (Don Bluth, 1988), Dinotopia, A Land Apart from Time (James Gurney, 1992), and above all, the famous novels Jurassic Park (Michel Crichton, 1990) and The Lost World (Michel Crichton, 1995), which were adapted for the cinema by Steven Spielberg (1993, 1997), popularized these creatures and shaped the representation that we have of them today. Numerous objects, by-products and theme parks have also been created, playing on the growing interest of young people in the Jurassic and in science, but also on the spectacular aspect of this universe, this « sense of wonder », which in the realm of Science Fiction designates this sensation of vertigo in the face of an immensity that we cannot fully apprehend as human beings. These literary and cinematographic works, and other factitious memories of a time we have not lived, have not ceased to feed our fascination for them, to nourish our imagination, and consequently to inspire us in our creativity. Another scientific study, published on 23 February this year, revealed that the meteorite that ended the Cretaceous era and caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs, crashed into the Earth 66 million years ago, in the spring. Therefore, in this newfound spring, we, the gallery, Hugo Avigo, Camille Benarab-Lopez, Côme Clérino, Aurore Le Duc, Lulù Nuti et Julian Simon, have decided to pay them a tribute. Welcome to DIN♡S. #galeriechloesalgado #dinos #paris #contemporaryart (en GALERIE CHLOE SALGADO) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfRmGrkIf3F/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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dinodorks · 6 years
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Dinosaur Boulevard from Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time by James Gurney.
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godzilla-reads · 2 years
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Top 3 Books of August 2022
🚝 Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka (trans. Sam Malissa)
🦖 Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time by James Gurney
🐇 The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris
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manyworldspress · 3 years
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James Gurney, Ring Riders, 1992. Oil on panel, 29 x 45 inches. Illustration for Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (Turner Publishing, 1992).
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mcad-library · 3 years
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The Lost Field Notes of Hester Bird Lowell
A Library Gallery exhibition by Kate Gunther
Exhibition: Monday, August 23–Monday, September 13 Library Gallery
The Lost Field Notes of Hester Bird Lowell, And the Collected Curiosities of Her Disappearance, is a 32 page children’s book, written and illustrated by current MCAD MFA candidate Kate Gunther during her first year in the program. It tells the fictional story of a renowned female paleontologist, her discovery of living Dire Wolves, and her choice to disappear in order to protect the wolves and their natural habitat. Grounded in science and environmental protection, the story unfolds in the pages of a long lost scientific journal, inviting the reader to join Hester in her discovery. The gallery installation showcases the final printed version of the book and the original artwork, in addition to resources and information regarding the process that went into its creation.
Reading List:
Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery and Adventure, compiled by Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
Motel of the Mysteries, by David Macaulay
The Wretched Stone, by Chris Van Allsburg
Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time, by James Gurney
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World, by Shelley Emling
The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of Dinosaurs and Their Extinction, by Robert T. Bakker
Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, by Zoe Lescaze
Above the Timberline, by Gregory Manchess
www.kateguntherart.com @kateguntherart
*Due to COVID-19 campus access will be limited to students, faculty, and staff. **Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.
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blankdblank · 3 years
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Hobbit Soulmate Pt 28
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“Hey Richy Rich,” you said with your phone on the bed on speaker as you stood one legged hunched over removing your shoes.
In a chuckle he asked, “Juggling with your shoes again,”
“This zipper, hates me.” Even Lee chuckled while easing his tie looser and you asked, “How is England? Perfectly misty?”
“Yes, you are missing the morning moors, my Love. So, tell me how the film went. And I will be expecting reactions from Lee as well.” Stirring a smirk onto his face being included.
All through the film was shared as you changed into sweats and a sweater with thick fuzzy socks added while Lee had sweats and a t shirt ending up sitting beside you flipping through the muted tv channels for something to fall asleep to. “So what are the plans after this?”
“Well I was heading back to the apartment for some more lounging time but Lee keeps trying to goad me to Canada to try out for a spot on his show starting in January.”
Richard, “Ooh, where does that film?”
Lee smirked answering, “By Niagara Falls.”
Richard, “My film is shooting near there, and a bit farther north, but you should give it a go we could get a place by his. Scope it out.”
Rolling your eyes to Lee’s beaming grin you said, “I’m counting this as a coup.”
Richard chuckled, “You know you’d end up at one of our sets either way, if they are needing actors best get paid for your time anyways.”
“Fine, I will try out for the girl who talks to inanimate objects.”
Lee, “You will love the show. It’s more than just that.”
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From cuddled up in your own beds to the credits when Richard had long since hung up sleep was hoarded as long as possible until Lee grumbled through picking up the wake up call and warning they would call the taxi for you. Smiling at his hitting the button in your Polaroid to capture your mess of arms and curls right before the struggle to get up out of bed would ensue.
Airport breakfast came with his frozen grin locked your way making you say, “I said I’d audition, don’t you go getting excited like I already got the part.”
“Well, when we land I’ll give them a call see when the next open audition is and we can head up for you to see my place.”
“How is it?”
“It is a palace compared to my place in New York.” Making you giggle, “Two bedrooms with a bath and kitchen, separate, with hot water and a few closets.”
“Look at you all fancy.” Making him chuckle again.
“Still only has an inflatable mattress but I could spring for some lawn chairs for company.”
“How little we actually need when we are just starting out.”
“No doubt with Richard you could afford something much bigger.”
“We don’t need bigger. I have bigger.”
That had him laugh and you giggle as he said, “You have a bed and a half.”
“And a bath and a half, plus closet and sitting room with living and seating room. Little mansion of my own. See, bigger. When would I ever find another like it. You buy a penthouse you got to clean a penthouse.”
“Ugh, just keeping the mildew off the tiles in my kitchen shower is hard enough.”
“Have you tried that mint soap I told you about?”
“Couldn’t find it.”
“Mmm, I’ll show you when we get back.”
Waves from a few of the workers in the diner you’d chosen had you grinning in one of the young ladies timid trot over holding the same magazine you’d posed in the last time you came to California. “Could you sign this?” Just about turned to tears at her lack of a pen until you shook your head reaching into your carry on bag bringing one out that you almost giggled through the half paragraph of a message she wanted. Back again she hurried squealing to her excited friends showing it off as you finished up eating through Lee’s hushed chuckles and muttered comments. Once on your feet to throw trash away turning for the doorway however found a few more workers on their breaks with scattered bits of paper and old newspapers for you to sign for them as well along with Lee. Who after a confirmation of his drop in on Law and Order took turns with your pen as well bashfully scribbling his name for the small crowd that scattered as fast as it had gathered freeing you back to your gate.
Loudly a shriek had you gripping Lee’s arm and a woman hurried over, “Milla Jovovich!”
Once at your side she shoved a magazine in your palms you looked to then up again, “No-,”
“Oh my gosh I can’t wait until all my friends hear I ran into you!!”
Instantly her phone was on and she was calling some woman named Timberlie and you glanced up at Lee asking softly, “How do you spell that name?”
Lee shrugged and you rolled your eyes marking an M followed by a squiggle and the same after what could either be a J or a Y to be safe. Timidly onto the half wall behind her on her pacing around the gate you left the magazine and marker and backed away creeping to the check in gate leaving her to her fantasy encounter. With a grin you reached into your bag to hand over your boarding passes to the just about giggling woman behind the counter who read your name and you asked, “Do I look like Milla Jovovich?”
“I mean, I guess, if you kinda close your eyes a bit. Ignore the hair and the eyes, and I think she’s taller. And not so, curvy.”
“Thought so.”
Lee, “Was she the one in that space film with Bruce Willis?”
“I think that was her name.”
Lee looked you over and said, “They got the Russian part right. Hmm, fun times.”
“Not for her when she finds out.”
Making the woman chuckle and pass your tickets back, “I don’t think that matters, Honey. Just made her year it seems. Either way should be boarding soon. She’s up in first class so she won’t bother you.”
“Thank you.”
“Anytime, honey.”
Once in the seats you sighed and looked to Lee asking, “I’m guessing you have your script with you?”
His smile split wider and in the tucking of your legs onto the seat with knees laid across his leg closest to yours. Scoring closer he passed you the script saying, “Just the one for the pilot, but it’s so good. Just ignore the post its.”
Into your palms the script for Wonderfalls settled and you cracked the cover page hearing the woman squealing to her friend that you were reading a script making the woman behind the counter wonder who you might actually be as she didn’t recognize your name or face exactly. “I work in the gift shop, nice. Tons of retail background.” Making Lee chuckle as you turned from the first page, commenting on first how you got he powers and smiling as oh smirked at the actions the little figurine told you to take to ‘save the day’ as others would in various situations throughout the show.
A call to board had you holding a finger in the script page folded around it as Lee grabbed both your carry on bags following you back to the desk once pretty much everyone else was boarded. Letting you take up your seat in the back of the plane so very far from the woman up front no doubt having expected to have been seated near you. Five hours two bags of pretzels and tiny cans of v8 later and you sighed relenting to Lee after he’d shared from his post it packed notebook on all he’d studied up on the subject his character had his degree in centered around religions of the world that comes into question when he learns about what gift his sister now has. To his puppy dog stare you sighed out, “It does sound like it’d be fun. Doubt I’d have to do much romancing in it.”
“Oh you’ll have a crush, I think, at best a date. No throwing down in this show from what we were told except for my character and Tracy.”
“Wow,” Making him chuckle bashfully.
“Just a shirtless post tryst scene. She agreed to bra and quick pop into jeans after. I will be wearing pants. Just a few make out scenes after so many episodes of rivaling banter.”
“I do love a good enemies to lovers tale.” Making him smile again, “So, who am I crushing on? How does he look? Am I going for muscle head or average joe with a heart of gold or do I have to gag through the falling for the bad boy cliche?”
“I think, joe? He’s not too muscular. Tyron Leitso, he kind of looks a bit like me, blue eyes though. Ooh, he was in Dinotopia, the one breaking all the rules.”
“Ok, haven’t seen that one yet.” you said with a nod. “But I can always pester him with my Dino knowledge, good.” Making him chuckle again.
“Yes we can see that when we get back, I have a copy of the tapes, and our sister is blonde,”
“Bit of a mish mash family picture we have.”
“Yes, she doesn’t like either of us very much but likes me more for having accomplished something.”
“Nice,” you replied through a giggle.
“Apparently also secretly gay.”
“Ooh,” Making him chuckle again, “That should be an interesting twist. Hope we bond over the fact I’m not going to be a dick bout that.”
“Not sure yet. There is some bonding. Mostly you’ll be working with me, which was why it was so stunning the other actress dropped out, sort of leaves me hanging.”
“Must be a very tall tree,” you teased making him smirk again in easing his tray table up while you slid your bag back under your seat readying for the landing he took your hand for.
“Ha ha.”
Outside the gate you exited through following the crowd to the packed halls back out to the familiar luggage claim you kept to his side hoping that lady wouldn’t follow trying to ask you more about a woman you could barely recall the face of in your mind outside of her makeup covered self.
Just the eyes stuck, yet with bags on your backs to the shuttle you went passing the flashes of cameras that went off in your exit you and Lee gave quick grins to and continued along. Apparently one of those friends had called the press and after your semi known self was photographed by a couple of the cameramen the others waited murmuring about the better known actress they didn’t realize was coming to New York. You would have giggled if you hadn’t known that a few of those guys lived off those paydays and missing out could be bad for them if they didn’t make it up somehow with another find.
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With burgers and fries across a towel laid out on your bed you watched the films on your vhs player refusing to move the tv to the sitting room only to have to move it back later. “He did not just quote Queen,” Lee chuckled around his mouthful and you groaned, “Ugh, and she bought it.”
A bit later you grinned at the ping pong scene, “Aww, Zippo. Now I’m going to have dreams about Dinos for weeks. Cyrus and the Lord Mayor, have to add them to my dream costar list.”
“I think Capt Oonu should narrate books. Such a great voice.” You giggled as he said, “I would listen to whatever he narrated.”
“Rosemary, I’ve seen her in something. The face isn’t clicking but I’ve heard her voice before. And it’s just picking at me.”
“Same as Zippo, I’ve heard that voice.”
Hours you watched the films then to the sunrise you caught his eye and he asked, “Did you want to go pick up our tickets?”
That had you giggling, “You want to leave today?” He blinked at you and you sighed, “Just a day trip or should I bring a bag?”
“Just a day trip.”
You shook your head and sighed, “You could have said something at the airport.”
“But I had to get my package from the desk.” That had you giggle and say, “Alright, let me at least change my shirt.” You said heading to the closet tugging the t shirt off to pull on a clean spaghetti strap tank top you put on under a nicer t shirt not coated in sun stains, though both kept inching up over your middle causing you to grab a baggy flannel and your jacket. Hastily you brushed your teeth as he did the same using his kit from his bag you dropped at his place on the way down along with his package from his grandma out in Oklahoma he would unwrap later. Grabbing a book to go through you added to your bag along with a spare resume and headshot you shouldered. The apartment was locked up and down you went to meet him in the lobby where he hung up from his call to the office for the show he confirmed an open audition was going to be started by the time you got there.
“Will they be open at least or will we be absurdly early?”
“They are open, bit curious why I called about it, they did ask if I’d be up to being there for some run throughs last week. Said I was on my way up.”
“Nice,” you teased through his chuckle on your joint way out of the building back into the chilly air bound for chillier weather off to the airport again. Widely you grinned to the man behind the counter you had waved to on his way in as you were on the way out with narrowed eyes trying to figure out on his own why you were back so soon. “Got ambushed with a request to go to Canada.”
“Is that so,” he said flatly shifting his hands to type up the flights off to Canada. “We have one in thirty minutes.”
“Perfect.” He looked you over accepting your cash and ID for the ticket and you giggled saying, “Don’t worry, this is my second to last flight today.”
“You want a round trip then?”
“Um, I’m not entirely sure when I’ll be coming back tonight, or how long this audition will take. So no thank you, I’ll just have to pester them to fly me back at their desk.”
That had him chortle and roll his eyes, “I swear, you are here more than me sometimes.”
“Just wait till December, no doubt they’ll hang up my picture, number one customer right here.” You giggled out taking the ticket and cards he passed you back guiding you along to the security desk where the guard outside gave you the same giggle inducing once over.
“Don’t you have a home?” He teased taking your bag for the box to scan as you undid your belt to add to the box along with the odd combination of coins and a weird bottle cap you found earlier.
Lee chuckled and said, “My fault, she’s helping me on a show I’m filming with in January. Last minute drop out we need a new female lead.”
The guard said after you passed through the metal detector, “Two kids your age should not be flying this much. I couldn’t afford baseball tickets when I was your age.”
“Ooh, but my Grandpa got me this credit card, I get miles now.”
“Miles,” the other guard chuckled out shaking his head helping Lee through the detector.
The excited smile on your face had him shaking his head and you giggling, “Don’t miss your flight. And hurry back to get some sleep.”
“I’m on vacation till December after this, tons of time to sleep.”
“And I best not see either of you till then.” He called back as you both filled your pockets and hurried off with bags in hand to your gate in time to check in and file in for a mid plane seat this time.
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One hour didn’t seem very long at all as once the wheels came up your head tapped his arm and you were blinking awake at his gentle nudge awake when the call for landing was given. The time skip showing how tired you didn’t realize you were. Still a ruffle of your loose curls you twisted up into an unrestrained ponytail you let go of for a moment of cool air on your neck and up you stood joining everyone else for the file out of the plane following Lee who had commandeered your bag as if to force a hostage situation.
Just a simple call warning he was coming and outside the airport was a driver who was on the phone, apparently passing on the news Lee was here shockingly with a guest. A bit confused he opened the door for Lee, who let you in first to follow after leaving the driver muttering about what you looked like. Softly you asked, “You did tell them I was coming, right?”
“Nope,” he said with a smile making you scoff and shake your head turning it to look up the window as the driver hopped in and hung up.
“Off to the studio we go!” He said cheerfully but stole yet another glance at you in the mirror.
Breaking the silence Lee said, “Tracy is gonna flip seeing you again.” Drawing your eyes to him with brow arched up. “Oh don’t, I told people I knew you when you won the Tony and were all over the press and I got so many stares like I was lying.”
“So you just show up with me?” You giggled out earning a nod from him in return before his huff and slide closer to let you lean against his chest through a peck on your forehead. “Incorrigible.”
“Always.” He said settling his cheek on top of your head settling in for the forty minute drive.
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“You did not bring Jaqi Pear!” The voice was loud and clear from Tracy who was walking out of the studio office. Lee was blocking the view of his guest for the curious secretary peering through the window on the door behind Tracy who was tasked with finding out who Lee had brought and if they were meant to entertain them or not.
Once out Lee smiled saying, “Hey Tracy, look who I brought.”
Stepping aside for you to hop out making her let out an excited squeal of a sound closing the distance for a hug luring another face possibly of a producer to watch the scene playing on whose mouth dropped recognizing you from the premier Lee was photographed at they learned of the night prior. “Girl! I have not seen you since you graduated early abandoning us all for Broadway!” She pulled back at your soft giggle smiling as she said, “Now you have to tell me how you buy a sweater and end up with nine jobs!”
You giggled again saying, “It wasn’t nine, felt like it, but most of them were small. Extra blips.”
“I saw About a Boy, you were no blip.”
“I didn’t know it was that big! I was love interest number four! When do any of Hugh’s flings in his films get more than a blip when they’re not big names?”
She chuckled and Lee said in a nod of his head to the door, “I think we should go inside,”
Tracy said poking him in the side, “You! They were on their heads for a while wondering who you brought out here with you, please tell me you’re auditioning.” Smiling was her answer at the anxious vanishing act of your voice and she let out another giddy squeal guiding you to the door, “Oh this is going to be perfect. You have no idea, just no idea, two girls so far, a Barbie doll and an amazon woman built more for the Terminator than an adorable quirky show about a girl who talks to inanimate objects. Neither of which stayed for the full interview when they asked if there was a nude scene like they had been told.”
“Wow,”
“Well there’s three in the list for their first interview then they take turns with me, now Lee too, for the second.”
Once through the door the secretary smiled hurrying back to her desk after the producer had turned pretending to fix a clock mounted to the wall he couldn’t manage to hang again he hid behind a potted plant in the corner to follow your group to the desk where Tracy said in a point to you, “She’s auditioning.”
The secretary nodded and passed you the clipboard as you turned saying, “Oh go on, you two have work to do. I know this part so stop hovering you’ve caused enough drama Lee.”
Tracy smiled and turned seeing the producer taking wider side steps to catch up to the pair and ask about your wanting to try out for the part. Into an empty chair you sat crossing your legs for a desk to fill out the papers you turned in with the headshot and resume she paper clipped together and hurried in to the next room to the next stunned producer who showed it to the director as the girl in front of them took a breath readying for her scene. Through the wall you could hear loud awkward readings of the lines timed like a metronome in a flat tone possibly signaling she was throwing this audition or simply this was her first time. Looking to your book unlike the other girls watching the beaming girl strut her way out past who you would assume to be her gawking mother you bit back your smirk propping an arm up on the arm of your chair soon covered with your loose curls that had the other straight haired girls stealing lingering stares your way wondering why you and your apparently grungy self had come to try for this part to be lead in this show. They got called back however and both came out to be called in to the second reads while you finished off another chapter in The Way We Live Now, still stuck in your classic mood for novels to just wallow in missing your cuddle happy Richard so far from you.
“Miss Pear?” Closing the book you grinned at the friendly producer’s aid calling you back watching you add the book to your bag you brought with you into the first office you could just imagine Lee and Tracy pinning their ears to the wall between that and the second they were in to hear how this would go.
The bag was left on the seat and you looked over the sheet the producer handed you and to the camera the aid was manning you read off the snarky monologue you recognized from the script you borrowed from Lee all about the perils of working retail in the Niagara  Falls gift shop. By the third line the Producer had his eyes fixed on you and missed his line the aid read for him making him stutter glance her way only to have you pick up again for a rude interaction with a guy who refuses to buy anything after asking you a bunch of questions about a video playing in the shop.
Smiling again from the scoffing shake of your head to the imaginary back of the fleeing customer as you leaned into the chair standing in for the counter they had asked you to use. The page was handed back and moving your bag at his throat clearing in his hand gesture to sit you did settling on one of your bent legs to not be too terribly short across from the pair. “Do you have experience in retail? That seems, very authentic.”
Mid giggle you replied, “Yes, years of it, waitressing to working in shops to get through school to pay what was left on my tuition after scholarships.”
“Yes,” he said looking to your resume, “This says you went to Oxford and Julliard?”
“Yes, I got accepted into Oxford first, mainly for science, my dad said I had to have a backup plan, then my audition, word got back to me I was approved for Julliard too. Bit unusual but I mastered in both Drama, Arts and Science for my degrees.”
After a moment he wet his lips and asked, “How did you hear about this part?”
“Lee, um, I got two roles in two different horror films and my Mate hates to watch horror films in the theater so I asked Lee to go with me instead. He asked if I’d come to check out his apartment out here for the show and the role came up. It’s really a unique idea for a show, had to at least give it an audition.”
“You know Lee well?”
“He’s my best friend, he started at Julliard in my second year,” you answered with a grin making his split wider, “And I believe Tracy was in my year. I kept my head down for most of my first year, I was under five feet still and just didn’t have he energy for comments on that between classes.”
“And, there are, some interesting roles on here. Since your lead role on Broadway you’ve been mainly extras?”
“Yes, I, see I have a habit of being a last minute addition.” Causing his brow to tick up, “For Chicago on Broadway it was a couple weeks before the show was to go on that my teacher, who was choreographing it, tipped my name to the Director and head producers that I could fill in. I got back from Christmas holiday break in England to New York where they had a bunch of films recasting their extras so I got a stack of auditions. The Lord of the Rings was really the only one I got auditioning the old fashioned way and I got that for stunt and body doubling work under pounds of prosthetics. Other than my last film which I got for my ballet and musical training.”
“You’re not limiting yourself to simply musical or dance based roles then?”
“No,” you said with a shake of your head, “No Chicago was just one of my two musical ones with this last film I did.”
“And you feel you could hold the lead role in a tv show? I see this would be your first one.”
“I would be lying if I said I couldn’t hold the weight of it. I give all my projects my all and I don’t imagine filming a tv show would be any less work than for a film, I might not have been your first choice but I won’t let the Producers or Director down.”
“I don’t doubt that, Tony award, plus our other Producer saw your spot in Enough. Went on about how the purple eyed girl could have been given a larger spot to fit the talent.” Holding back your smirk you nodded as he asked, “Why do you think Lee would have thought you perfect for this?”
“We get on amazingly, so it wouldn’t be hard to melt into a good chemistry for scenes, including any sort of familiarity in moving around one another like siblings would depending on how small the sets are made for their childhood household. I suppose also for the retail bit he knows I’d be able to have experience no doubt on unruly customers or how people tend to distract themselves while alone working in a store.”
“Really,” he said with a grin, “How did you entertain yourself working alone?”
“Until Lee got there I would recite from books I’d read a million times until the store emptied then I had audio books I put into the boom box at the store until the guy filling paper goods shouted for some music or he’d fall asleep. Then of course I’d blast opera or the classic musical tapes I had.” Making him chuckle at your smirk, “Then Lee started there and I had someone to rehearse with or just chat on in circles through the night to keep him awake while he got used to working nights and going to school.”
“How do you think Lee or Tracy would take it if we were to choose against you?”
“They’ll survive.” You giggled out, “Honestly it wouldn’t really change anything my Mate has a film he’ll be working on in Canada while you are filming out here so I could still spend time with them and hear how everything is going.”
“Oh,” his brows inched up, “So you already plan on being out here at that time frame.”
You nodded, “I have two premiers in December, some press for a film late January, and another film out in mid to late January. Until September, I have a few things that have been lined up, but it’s all pretty flexible.”
“Well we don’t have much to film for winter scenes,” he muttered on his way to the door causing you to turn and stand at his opening the door, “If you’d give us a few moments we’ll call you back for the second round.” With a nod you went back to your former seat in the waiting room a bit confused if you’d given a good impression or not and with camera in hand he led his aid into the second office where you saw Lee and Tracy off in a third side office reading scripts no doubt until the pair entered the office next to theirs. The door shut and shaking your head you went for your book again and for what seemed to be far longer than you had seen the other girls wait you read until the door opened to the office after you heard a muffled shriek that made you flinch followed by a few loud thuds.
“Miss Pear?” Closing your book your face must have been priceless because she let out a bashful chuckle saying, “There was a bug, it fell on me.”
“Ah, ya, hate that.”
You said crossing to the doorway where you found Lee tying his boot back on letting out a weak chuckle, “You missed it, huge centipede.”
“Glad about that,” you said eyeing Tracy shivering off her crawling skin from seeing the bug just scooped away into the trash.
The second Producer asked, “You’re already planning on being out here in early January?”
“My Mate is filming here, well, in Canada, he hasn’t shared where exactly. Also said we could look into apartments near the one Lee rented. So it must be relatively close for him. I do have to be through Europe though near the end of the month.”
The Director shook his head, “No, no, only two episodes I believe heavy for winter months. We don’t have lengthy film windows for that, and even then we could touch up again in February if we would have missed something. Will you be here then?”
“Yes, one of my extra spots is being reshot in England, but it only should take a couple weeks. I’m just an extra blip in the film for some humor. Then I can just pop right back.”
The Director chuckled, “You really do bounce back and forth around the globe don’t you?”
That had you giggle, “You have no idea. But I’m used to it. Through school summer to fall in Julliard and Holiday break in Oxford then back again until summer for my semester back at Oxford. And New Zealand and Canada seem lovely alternatives for the ocean hopping paths too.”
Smoothing his hands down the sides of his jeans the first Producer watched the second pass you a page you looked over, “If you wouldn’t mind, Lee and Tracy have read up on the scene we’d like you to run through.”
You nodded and they set up some chairs and the spare table along the wall on your right for a mock set. Out of your jacket you shrugged leaving it by your bag along the wall stepping into place for what had the others smirking to themselves at how the three of you clearly had chemistry and a great flow already even just dropped into a scene. A few adjustments were made for the next few times you went through the scene and the second behind that one to ensure you might fit the mold they were looking for.
Facing them again you grinned holding a hand over Lee’s eyes giggling out, “Just ignore his face,” That had you giggle at his bump to your back and hug of your arm now being pinned to his chest so he could inspect the group that had just broken from their hushed conversation.
The Director was the one to say, “Well you certainly mesh well personality wise.”
At the glances from the Producers you knew it was something about how you looked, and the Second Producer asked, “Do you perm your hair?”
“No,” you shook your head, “And if you need it straightened or shorter or even dyed I’m good with that. I asked Lee about that earlier, he said the sister, other sister, is blonde.”
“That’s good,” the Director nodded, “Very good, I think blonde might be a bit too drastic a change, our original thought was for a brunette actress.”
You nodded and said, “Sure, about how long? Mine is to the middle of my back, but it can reach my waist if I straighten it.”
Tracy said, “Original girl’s was here,” she said on your upper bicep about to the level of your bust.
“Oh that’s no problem. I have some friends who have been dying to play with my hair.” That had brows rising on the Producers, “They’re licensed beauticians, work with pageants mainly a few films they’d give me a good deal since I have so much hair and they’d have to straighten it then cut it then dye it and straighten again. Giving them tons of time to play with it.” After a moment you said, “Plus Lee’s brows are kind of similar to mine, I have some colored contacts if you want me to wear those too.”
The Director said, “I think the purple should be fine. From a distance they kind of look blue, besides, the purple is sort of your charm. Can’t hide that.”
Lee’s hands shifted a bit more comfortably around your arm he lowered to rest across his belly thrilled to have had this go so well. “How are you with swim suit shots? We have a scene for a hot summer day with an actor being shirtless and in the script we would have you possibly in a bikini top and shorts sunbathing.”
“As long as it’s a sensible top that should be fine,” you giggled out, “We won’t be filming that in January, will we?”
“No,” the trio chuckled, the first Producer saying, “In Spring when we pick up filming again.”
The Director nodded and offered his hand yours was released for, “Welcome aboard then. We’ll send the contracts to your lawyer along with a firm timeline for filming so you can plan accordingly. Thank you, truly for coming along. We will let you know about the table read dates coming up through the next few months.”
Pt 29
Hobbit – Soulmate - @evyiione​​, @deepestfirefun​, @rhaenaatargaryen, @anastasialovers
X all Rich. A - @abiwim​, @deepestfirefun, @thestorybookmistress
X Lee P - @tigereyesf​
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@himoverflowers​​, @theincaprincess​​, @aspiringtranslator​​, @thegreyberet​​, @patanghill17​​, @jesgisborne​​, @curvestrology​​, @alishlieb​​, @jogregor​​, @armitageadoration​​, @fizzyxcustard​​, @lilith15000​​, @marvels-ghost​​, @catthefearless​​, @imjusthereforthereads​​, @c-s-stars​​, @otakumultimuse-hiddlewhore​​, @mariannetora​​, @shes-a-killer-kween​, @ggbbhehe4455
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raypunkzero · 4 years
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James Gurney Dinotopia: A land Apart from Time... ...A Time in which the Unhampered and Multifarious Anthroplodocus Thrives https://ift.tt/38ibczC January 18, 2020 at 06:22PM +visit our fellow Goethepunk art page
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What was one of your favorite books growing up?
“Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time” by James Gurney. To be entirely honest I super struggled with some of the typefaces (still do, but as a child it was even harder) but even that wasn’t enough to stop my adoration of this book. It bridged the gap between my love of facts and fiction perfectly, and the illustrations absolutely blew my tiny artist self away. My original copy was destroyed many, many, many years ago, but around three years ago I stumbled upon a copy at my local op-shop and I snatched it up immediately for AU$4 without shame. My only regret is that the book itself is far too big to sit in the pride of place on my bookshelf as it deserves, so it lies on the bottom of a pile of equally awkwardly sized graphic novels. 
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