You brought it on yourself

ishyko doesn't update very often but when she does, it's usually a giggle-inducing tale of pop-culture childrearing or modern marriage. Today's topic: Klingons Tried to Destoy Our Marriage!

Oh, yeah. And how Revelations is an example of Baltimore's thriving independent movie scene, quote courtesy of "Top 10 American Cities to be a Moviemaker" in the current MovieMaker magazine. Go Team Panic!

(Last year's Top 10 is a bit sad to read -- New Orleans broke in on the list at #4.)

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Homegrown Star Wars, with big-screen magic intact

God, I'm still not recovered from the whole premiere bit and I've been working late (9 pm-ish) every night since so I can barely put two sentences together. But it was so damn amazing. Someday, when I recover, I'll post more.

Quickly -- jenwrites, I know exactly what you mean about the story's deficiencies. ishyko and I literally had to abandon it at a certain point -- long before it was ready -- to turn to costuming, logistics, actually running the production, etc. If we'd had our way, the thing would have been workshopped, the actors would have had a lot more rehearsal and input into their characters, we would have made certain conflicts explicit instead of implied -- oh, so much we would have done if we were only the writers and not doing a million and one other things all at the same time. And most of all, we would have made sure there was a lot more time for pre-production -- we were still working on the script when the camera rolled at the first shoot!

Ah, the lessons learned....

And speaking of "Revelations", the final, official poster has been revealed. Created by noted science fiction and fantasy artist Sonia R. Hillios, it's just stunning. If Sonia's art seems familiar, it's probably because you've seen one of her incredible paintings on an officially licenced Star Wars or Star Trek product -- posters, book covers, collectable plates, and more. Sonia has graciously agreed to attend the premiere and will be signing autographs to benefit the Mid-Atlantic Make-A-Wish Foundation.