Costumes & Casting in Berlin
| Posted January 21, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala 2 Thumb-ups |
The third and last part of our trip to Germany took us back to Berlin, which for some of us meant sitting in an endless stream of meetings about the budget, the details of props and costumes, the CGI and so forth - both in Berlin and in Potsdam. There was also a preliminary costume fitting for the main characters, as well as casting some roles that hadn't been filled yet.
Read all about it on our blog: http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/01/19/energia-goes-germany-costumes-casting/
Iron Sky marketing mistaken for news. Moon Nazis become a frightening reality.
| Posted January 18, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala 5 Thumb-ups |
The Truth Today got mistaken for real news on a conspiracy site. A six-page discussion on the existance of a secret Nazi Moonbase ensued, even though many tried to point out it's all just marketing for Iron Sky. We're quite flattered.
Read all about it on our blog: http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/01/18/iron-sky-marketing-mistaken-for-news-moon-nazis-become-a-frightening-reality/
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Shadowrun was an interesting role play game. A combination of future tech with orcs goblins elves and trolls... like the fantasy films of the 70's.
No man, I was referring to the Earthdawn interpretation of the myth.
http://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/shadowrun-earthdawn-prehistory/ (and this is actually a fan-interpretation...)
Not to pee on anyone's parade, or "belief", that Atlantis existed.
However...
*** Please note: Plato's students didn't believe Atlantis existed.
Plato's Atlantis was destroyed 12,000 years ago.
Plato's Atlantis was founded by Poseidon, and the God handed down a set of laws that the Atlanteans followed. When the Atlanteans started to worship false Gods, Poseidon sunk the continent.
FYI Atlantis was supposed to be larger than Libya and Asia put together, and filled with all the wonders that Plato could think of. Thera was a member of a group of islands known as the Cyclades, and they occupy 73 km2, which is hardly continental.
Plato's location of Atlantis was past the Pillars of Hercules (the Straits of Gibraltar).
There are suggestions that Atlantis was located in the Bahamas, the Azores, Crete, or your suggestion close to Santorini.
The only place where a continent, the size Plato outlined, would fit is the Azores, and there's nothing there.
Plato was known to put a moral point into his stories, and with the story of Atlantis it warns of turning your back on the Gods.
You could use the argument that Troy was thought to be a myth only 100 years ago, however the story of Atlantis differs from that of Troy in a very significant way. Atlantis was not part of any ancient oral tradition. It was not a legend passed down, by word of mouth, from generation to generation, over the centuries. It was the work of one man, Plato.
In a way I'm very happy that there's no credible evidence that Atlantis existed. It has allowed all sorts of excellent movies, TV series and plot devices for movies and TV series.
I think a film about Atlantis based on Plato's work would be very entertaining indeed.
Atlantis did exist! However it wasn't in the atlantic, but in the mediterranean.
And it did not sink into the ocean, but was built on a 'dormant' volcano that blew it's top off. The island's remains sit off the coast of Greece, and are known as Santorini.
Back, about 6000 yers ago it was known as Thera. The Theran Empire was the thaumaturgical capital of the world. They erected three huge orichalcum pillars in order to stop the fall of mana, but after the mana had ebbed away it all ended abruptly on August 12, 3113 BC when the volcano erupted, and plunged the world into primal chaos.
Or something like that.
what? No Atlantis?
Oh that is a classic, these are the same people that would think Atlantis existed :-D
For a moment it made me think of Orson Welles and his radio play War of the Worlds :D
Very cool!
Brilliant... absolutely brilliant... XD
Location Reconnaissance in Frankfurt
| Posted January 18, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala 3 Thumb-ups |
As the previous blog post revealed to you, the Energia team is currently in Germany to meet the local (wo)manpower and handle various things having to do with the movie project. After checking up on the art department we headed off to Frankfurt to spend the next few days checking out the future shooting locations.
Read all about it on our blog: http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/01/17/energia-goes-germany-location-reconnaissance-in-frankfurt/
Visiting the Art Department
| Posted January 15, 2010 by Jarmo Puskala 4 Thumb-ups |
This week big part of the Iron Sky crew went to Germany to see what the local art department had come up with set- and locationwise, to check out some filming locations and to see some of the actors try on their costumes for the first time.
Read the whole story on the blog: http://blog.starwreck.com/2010/01/14/energia-goes-germany-visiting-the-art-department/
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Woohoo! Look! It's Pirk taking over the movie world!
Looks great!
Great idea to post a link here as well. Had already read the article, but I won't miss a chance to look at those faaaabulous photos once more. :)
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(is that a uniball pen i see?)
uh-ho:
theeeeey're smaaart!
True, triangular wallets will be a huge fashion trend in 2011. It's something new, but still familiar;-) And makes going through security at airports even more exciting...
agreed.
the bag is deceptive...
surely a nice touch, i mean, that will surely raise the likely hood of friendly firing among the moonazis! is what i mean of course of course.
er...
triangular wallets seem like a plausible future fashion statement as well
:)
Nice bag.
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