A nice relaxing day. I got up and went to have my haircut, then went grocery shopping with Rob and Wayne. Boy, are we showing him the highlights of ReykjavÃk or what? Oh! And I’m now going to write a sentence that I never thought I’d write. Rob bought wine in a box. That’s right. […]
We got a care package from Hawaii this week. Yay, Pat and Glenn! Besides yummy treats like macademia nuts, this box included a Norwegian hand-knitted sweater that a cousin from Norway made for Glenn in 1962. Rob is wearing it to work today. He should be the envy of our colleagues.
This afternoon our friend, Wayne, arrived from the U.S. The puppeteers had wrapped early so I was able to pick him up and bring him to work. He got to see a little bit of Stefán working in the lair. Rob had to work until seven tonight, so after showing Wayne around the building, he
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Yay! All-Star Stories just released the cover art for the Twenty Epics anthology. This is the first time that one of my stories has appeared in a book, so I’m fairly excited. I’ve been trying to figure out which character on the cover is related to my story, “Bound Man”
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Not much excitement today, initially. I helped Julie roll into a shot because her rollie cart kept getting stuck on the dugar. Speaking of dugur…The ground at work is called dugar. It’s this vinyl stuff that they roll out onto the floor to create the look of the ground. I’ve been working on this show
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Tonight we all went to see A Prairie Home Companion: Iceland from American Public Media at the National Theater. I so love this show. While it is definitely a radio show–there are no “extras” for the live audience–seeing it with a live audience brings an extra joy to the show. Listen to the show this
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Today was fairly low-key. We had a couple of shots this morning and were finished with puppet stuff by two o’clock. Emily and I left the building and headed out to do errands. While I love living in ReykjavÃk the fact that everything closes at five or six is very challenging when trying to deal
I’ve been having all kinds of trouble with downtime at my old hosting provider so I’ve switched to a new company. It will take 24-48 hours for the nameservers to proprogater through the internet, which means that my website will come back online at different times for different people. If you wouldn’t mind, would you
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In one of those moments that seizes one in Iceland, I agreed to go snorkeling in Þingvatn. Sarah had gone scuba diving last month and had come back raving about how beautiful the lake was. A group of us opted for the lower skill snorkeling package. Nothing in the literature, or in Sarah’s account mentions
A very happy Mother’s day to both our mothers. I’ll have to admit that, being in Iceland, this day snuck up on me because they don’t celebrate it on the same day. We were leaving to go snorkeling and one of the American’s said, “Happy Mother’s Day!” to her mom. My heart sank. Rob and
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Good heavens. Someone has spotted my journal on posted the link on a fansite. Hello to the visiting Livejournalers. I just want you guys to know that I can’t answer questions about upcoming episodes. Sorry.
Today was a busy day and although the massage felt good, I had to do the same pose for two different shots right after that so my neck still hurts. Someday for fun, try catching a styrafoam apple, in fleece gloves, while lying facedown on someone’s chest–without looking.
Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steven Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have created Elemental. They solicited SF and fantasy stories, all new and never published elsewhere, from many of
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Today we did this shot where one of the characters had fallen. For a variety of reasons, we had to shoot this on the ground, instead of an elevated set. It’s always difficult with live hands to be on the ground. The only position in which I could do everything I needed to do was
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We only worked until two o’clock today and then we got to flee the studio. Sarah, Emily and I went downtown and sat outside at a cafe. We enjoyed frosty adult beverages and then walked by the lake, did some shopping and headed back to my house for dinner. I made bulgur with chiles and