Category Archives: arts

customs of the Eldar

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 February 10 by Anton

What Tolkien Officially Said About Elf Sex

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what’s in the jar?

Posted on Sunday, 2004 February 08 by Anton

Pickled dragon mystery (from SciTech Daily)

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the effects team got a new toy

Posted on Saturday, 2004 February 07 by Anton

Continuing to catch up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I noticed in season 3 several morphing shots (transformation between vampire and human face) much smoother than I’ve seen before. Such changes, I think, never happened in close-up in previous seasons.

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looks deceive

Posted on Monday, 2004 February 02 by Anton

Today a stranger asked “Don’t I know you?”, which happens all the time; I must have a generic face — but it seemed especially funny after watching a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in which anyone with a speaking … Continue reading →

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bang for the what?

Posted on Saturday, 2004 January 24 by Anton

A curiosity in “Whatever Happened to George Foster?”, an episode of Danger Man: Drake fans a handful of US currency, showing several tens and twenties and one single. The single (alone) is obviously fake: the cartouche in the visible corner … Continue reading →

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fantasy astronomy

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 January 20 by Anton

Funny blunder in Buffy, episode “What’s My Line” (2:9-10). Drusilla’s ritual needs to be at new moon; but as the sun is setting, she says, “The moon is rising.” (The new moon rises and sets with the sun.) [Later: In … Continue reading →