I am officially old, for I have become ... an actorspotter ( Read more... )

It's Kitten Picture Wednesday with the emphasis on - The Pictures. With Xena off planet conducting delicate First Contact negotiations with the woolly aliens, Kai decides he wants to be a movie star. First up we have stills from his screen test for the new Hollywood Horror blockbuster: The Creature From A Very Small Box.

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Jose at Meme Therapy interviewed me the other day. He asked me and a number of other authors three questions.

What is the job of contemporary SF? Does it have a job?

In which I was concise and reasonably sensible (except for the picture:)

Is there a conspiracy?

In which I was loosening up.

And finally:

The forces of Fate have decided that ( Read more... )

Yes, for the first time on Kitten Picture Wednesday we have video. It's only a small one - a few seconds of the kittens playing - and it's not a big file (a 530kb QuickTime movie with 320x240 frame size) but it's a movie and it's got kittens in it ( Read more... )

Well it's the weekend and after a hard morning ear-tagging lambs (I hate it, the sheep hate it but bureaucrats will chase after you with thumbscrews if you don't) I thought I'd write an informative post for all the new readers ( Read more... )

Maybe it was luck, maybe it was my manic breast beating but I was selected as one of six extras to be called back the next day for a close-up. They needed a block of 6 extras (two rows of three with me front and centre) to fill the foreground in front of the Duke of Bedford and a histrionic French princess ( Read more... )

(to recap: I'd been a French knight at the Dauphin's coronation, I'd worn full armour ... now Luc wants me to play an English noble at the burning of Joan of Arc ( Read more... )

The year's 1998 and Luc Besson's in town looking for peasants for his film, Joan of Arc. Naturally I apply. I already have the clothes. So, off I rush to the photo booth in town, concentrate hard on not blinking, think myself into the role of peasant number eleven ... and send the resulting picture off to the film company ( Read more... )