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The Lost Files- Tyrell Corp. props January 13, 2010After some hassles and issues with mail service, today is a great day. Received a big box with two Tyrell pyramid parts inside. They was casted from originals molds, as the companion letter saids. The pieces measures 130×368 mm and 60×155 mm. Color match the movie and the details are awesome! Letter follows: To Whom It May [...] […]
- Timeline November 27, 2009Well, working again in the book… at last… Now, making order in my mind and ideas, i’m taking notes from the very first second of the movie to the end…. and annotating the appearance of each prop scene by scene. From the beginning to Pris scene, I have 80 props identified, more or [...] […]
- Props in a book – Briefing November 8, 2009As a guide for the TOC of the book, this is a briefing about the props that will be presented in the book, as a little description of each one and their location in the movie. Comments are welcome, as ever! Order is not relevant. Info will be updated as time goes. My apologies for any [...] […]
- BookSmart 2.0 July 18, 2009Photo by gfootsBlurb.com has released the 2.0 version of BookSmart, the software used to create this book and many others… The main upgrade is the freedom of layout, at last. Now, you can edit any page, arranging pictures and text box with no limits. Also, if you are a experienced InDesign user, you may use your [...] […]
- Writing! July 7, 2009Yeah, I write, write, write… Drafts are coming fast these days… Any prop, any info, I write down… Then, the revision process could let me exhaust but… now is the funny part! Write! Write!! Escribiendo…. Estos días escribo sin parar… revisiones, notas, materiales… todo lo que puedo. Luego vendrá la dura tarea de revisar. Pero mientras tanto, [...] […]
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Feb
10
Secrets revealed: Origami means… and more!!!
February 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment // Deja un Comentario
The past weekend was a nice one. The Basauri Con 1.0 (near Bilbao, Spain) about Battlestar Galactica was fun and interesting. With Mary McDonnell and Edward J Olmos, two stars so charming I never will forget!
The complete comment about this Con is in the Spanish site: http://www.blade-runner.es and you may translate with the page tools (Global Translator option in the rightside bar). But now I wanna share one of the videos I’ve made. It’s the answer to one of the more controversial questions about this movie: ¿what means the unicorn? Let’s see Mr. Olmos explaining it… And, finally, the complete transcription in text (for all we don’t have such good English).
Secretos revelados: el significado de las figuras de origami…. ¡¡¡y mucho más!!!
Durante el pasado fin de semana asistí a la primera Basauri Con 1.0 (cerca de Bilbao), acerca de Battlestar Galáctica. Interesante y divertida. Con Mary MdDonnell y Edward J Olmos, ¡dos estrellas tan sumamente cercanas que no las olvidaré!
La crónica completa la encontrarás en http://www.blade-runner.es pero lo que quiero compartir aquí es el vídeo en el cual Edward J Olmos responde a una de las más controvertidas cuestiones sobre esta película. El significado del unicornio. ¡Y mucho más! En inglés, eso sí. Y seguidamente la transcripción completa de su narración, para los que como yo no tenemos tanta facilidad para el inglés oral.
Transcription made by Neil Hardwick (Gaff87):
Transcripción por Neil Hardwick (Gaff87):
“It’s ok……umm……the question is…….you know there’s been all the,you had a lot of influence in the directors….everybody does influence on a piece.
What was your intention when you made and left the unicorn in Blade Runner?
Well…(Spanish)….this is a problem for me to really, really talk about …umm….When I made the chicken..Ok..that was the very first..um…origami that I made, and I put it down in the scene because I couldn’t figure out exactly what to do when Ridley said “You walk in and then you go sit down over there at the back”..And I said…oh my god…why not just bring him in and then turn around and leave. Why do you need another person in the room?
When Harrison’s character..You know, Deckard is talking to the chief?..(Spanish?) why do I, why should I stay in here? And I said this is really difficult because.. like, if I’m sitting here like this…and the scene’s say around over there, where these people are located, and I’m sitting here like this and the cameras on….and can see me in the background..and I don’t move…I draw a hell-of alot attention…you might say “Well, no, I mean..” Uh uh…that isn’t how it works because when you don’t move it’s very very much a false note…something incredibly difficult. People don’t just sit there…like a tree… …you see what happens. “What the hell’s that guy doing? Why is he, why is he just sitting there?
Then compound (?) that by having me move…now I’m upstaging….I’m pulling attention. So, either way you’re stuck inside (?) how to sit in a room without bringing attention to yourself when you know that the scene has to hold it and you can’t really pull away from there. Knowing full well that if you just move a little bit you’re gonna be drawing attention and if you don’t move you’re gonna be drawing attention so what do you do?
So I sat down I thought “Man, this is like the worst possible when you’re standing and I got, there was a little piece of paper…gum wrapper….juicy fruit gum, kind of …you know it’s got…a…a..cellophane(?)…I mean, it’s got white paper one side and it’s got like a, what do you call that kinda paper?….foil, foil on the other side, so it looks like a piece of metal…and…And….it’s sitting there like that. I reached over and I got it and I started…NOW I had something that I was doing that was broad but now I was doing something..Okay…you know it’s just a….So if you see the movie and you’ll see him back there and he’s doing something but…it’s not big so it doesn’t really pull you away and, but, he’s doing something so he’s taking care of himself…okay, so you think he’s doing something….
Back to the movie. And so you’re inside of the scene and you’re watching. At the end of the scene, of course, Deckard says “I’m not gonna do this, I don’t wanna do this, I’ve retired, it’s over, forget it” you know “find somebody else” and I put the little..And I was messing around with the thing and it started to look like a…a chicken and I’m saying..”huh”…and this is perfect for this scene, my god. It was finished, the scene was finished I put it down…(Chicken noise)
Ridley “Huh….uh…..Edward….What was……bring the camera please” And they took a picture of the chicken..and shot it..(camera noise)
OK, that’s two.
I’m with Deckard now, again, we’re inside looking at a…what’s the names..Ah…um…um….James…um…oh god….I’m gonna remember..Um…Lee…uh Leonard…Leon, thank you, Leon. We’re in his room and he’s like going around, he’s in….. and I, of course, I’m just his driver…I’m just suppose to be driving the guy…looking very weird…and acting very weird and..and I’m standing there and he’s walking around, looking for every clues and all this stuff, and so I found a match-stick and I grabbed the matchstick and I opened it and I started playing with it while he’s doing….again, didn’t wanna upstage him, didn’t wanna do anything, just leave him alone, let him do his thing.
What was I suppose to be doing? Looking for the…you know…replicant’s..oohh..No, I’m suppose to be taking care of him and nobody knows why, but I’m just there, you know…so, I don’t do any…and, so, of course the memorable moment comes when I put the..the stickman down…and the stickman of course has a little hard on…(gesture)…(¡pepito!)….and he has a hard on for Leon….Urrghhh….you know, This’ll remind him (?)…so I put the little stickman down and that was it, and of course Ridley..bing!..
So, cut to…I finished my part, I finished my thing…and….the show, I got to see the movie…and….I’m watching the movie, I’m watching the movie. I’m watching the movie and all of a sudden we get to the end…Bingo…there’s the unicorn made of origami I said “Wow, I was there”….I wasn’t but my character obviously had been ’cause I made the origamis and there’s an origami of…the….you know…unicorn. And of course if you saw the scene you realize that the unicorn was, and is, and understanding of his reoccurring dream…I knew his reoccurring dream therefore it placed him in the position that he hated, Harrison Ford hated the fact that he was a replicant. That’s what it meant.
It meant that he was a replicant also…and he didn’t even know himself. So that was really, I mean, Harrison said “I never played any” ’cause you’re not suppose to…you’re not supposed to know…okay….and so that one became the big thing…and years later…it only came out in the last 25 years, 25 years after the fact, this one….people really started to get into it and now on the 30th anniversary, this year it’s the 30th anniversary but, 25…you know… At the 25th anniversary it became a real important understanding….when people would finally have huge battles…”No he wasn’t a replicant” “No way. Deckard’s not areplicant man”…he was. He is. And then finally, uh last….in the final edition, when they released it I think that Ridley Scott comes out and says it…he says “Yeah,he was a replicant” So..yes, you’re right….I did have an incredible influence on…..and even though I didn’t make that, I didn’t make the origami…(?)…but thank you for asking.
Yes, go ahead.
-Neil Hardwick-
Jan
19
Cosmetics
January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment // Deja un Comentario
Some little changes in the page. The “Pages” section has been moved up in the right sidebar, and now includes a new topic: Galleries, with some pages plenty of pictures. News pages uses internal galleries with a trick, the Lightbox feature, making possible to navigate thru images with cursor keys or mouse. Enjoy them!
Cosmética
Pequeños cambios en la página. La sección “Pages” ha sido movida a la parte superior de la barra de menús derecha, y ahora incluye un nuevo tema: Galerías, con algunas páginas llenas de imágenes. Estas páginas incluyen galerías internas con un pequeño cambio, la función Lightbox que permite navegar entre las imágenes con las flechas del cursor o con el ratón. ¡Disfrútalas!
Jan
9
Tyrell pyramid
January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment // Deja un Comentario
After some hassles and issues with mail service, today is a great day. Received a big box with two Tyrell pyramid parts inside. They was casted from originals molds, as the companion letter saids. The pieces measures 130×368 mm and 60×155 mm. Color match the movie and the details are awesome!
Letter follows:
To Whom It May Concern:
This letter is to state some background information on the Blade Runner Tyrell building castings. The molds for both of these pieces came from Mr. Eric Stohl who had worked on films such as Armageddon, Broken Arrow, Total Recall, The Hudsucker Proxy, among other films. Mr. Stohl had worked with Mark Stetson at Stetson Visual Services p.n. a number of films and it was from Mark Stetson (Blade Runner 1982 Chief Model Maker) that Mr. Stohl had acquired these molds. Extra Blade Runner castings were also used by the effects crew to decorate many of the Mars buildings in the film Total Recall.
I personally worked with Mr. Stohl at mattel inc. between the years of 2000-2003. He had at the time brought into Mattel all of his castings and molds from his time with Mark Stetson. The 2 Blade Runner pieces you have purchased came from Eric Stohl’s personal collection. We had intended on building a replica of the Tyrell Building with Spinner models and these parts were never used. They were painted and weathered very accurately to the real Tyrell miniature model made for the film Blade Runner.
Best regards,
Dave Martis
Senior Hot Wheels Designer, Mattel Inc.
1999-2004
(signature)
Pirámide Tyrell
Tras algunos problemillas con el servicio postal, hoy es un gan día. Recbo una caja grande con dos piezas de la pirámide Tyrell en su interior. Han sido hechas a partir de los moldes originales usados en la producción de la película, tal como dice la carta adjunta. Las piezas miden 130×368 mm y 60×155 mm. El color coincide con la película ¡y es realmente extraordinario!
No he traducido la carta, pero se entiende bien, ¿no? 
Jan
5
Saving stuff: Clay pipes
January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment // Deja un Comentario
These nice clay pipes are very very fragile, so, I’ve stored for months in a sturdy cardboard box plenty of foam bubbles and so on. Till now. I’ve found this neat wood box (thank you Carles!) and size are perfect to place some pipes inside. Using a balistic simil foam inside, I’ve put four pipes in with no hassles. The result is a almost proof protected environment for the pipes, and a good showcase, IMHO.
Protegiendo objetos: Pipas de arcilla
Estas bonitas pipas de arcilla son muy pero que muy frágiles, así que se han pasado meses metidas en una caja de cartón rígido rellena de bolitas de porex. Hasta hoy. Encontré esta bonita caja de madera (¡gracias Carles!) cuyo tamaño es perfecto para colocar varias pipas en su interior. Utilizando una espuma similar al tipo balístico dentro de la misma, he colocado cuatro pipas en ella sin ningún problema. El resultado es un entorno prácticamente a prueba de todo y un buen método para mostrarlas al mundo.
Sep
13
The Blade Hunter
September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments // Comentarios
A new figure from China, the Blade Hunter. A new Deckard at 1/16″ escale. Well done, except, IMHO, in the shoes. Two heads included, one with some blood. Two extra hands, a wrist clock, unicorn and wallet. But… where is the blaster? A missing here boys… The box is a sturdy cardboard one, perfect to protect the figure. Now, is time to launch Google and search for a blaster… one more time! XD
El Blade Hunter
Una nueva figura desde China, el Blade Hunter. Un nuevo Deckard en escala 1/16″. Bien hecho, excepto, para mí, en los zapatos. Se incluyen dos cabezas, una de ella con marcas de sangre. Dos manos extras. Un reloj de pulsera, un unicornio, la cartera…. pero ¿dónde está la blaster? Un descuido chicos… La caja es de cartón rígido ideal para proteger bien la figura. Ahora sólo falta lanzar el Google y buscar, una vez más, otra blaster…
Aug
6
At last, the #1 issue of this comic serie has arrived. Three different covers, the 4th was not available (yet) at Fordibben Planet Comics. No matter. This edition is awesome. Paper quality, size, print, colors… a nice graphic adaptation of the Dick’s novel. Finally, all the author ideas are not adapted, translated to paper step by step. A great news for fans!
¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas? Edición comic
Finalmente llega el número 1 de la serie en comic. Con tres portadas diferentes de las cuatro existentes (la cuarta todavía no disponible en Forbidden Planet Comics). Sin problema. Esta edición es impresionante. La calidad del papel, tamaño, color, impresión…. es una bonita adaptación de la novela de Dick. Por fin todas las ideas del autor han sido, no adaptadas, si no traducidas al papel paso a paso. ¡Una buena noticia para los fans!
Jul
9
Los Angeles 2019 CD
July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments // Comentarios
This bootleg contains an interesting track list.
- Los Angeles – November 2019 0′30
- Third Sector – China Town 4′43
- Fourth Sector – downTown3′58
- Nineteenth Sector – Police Headquarters 2′43
- Twenty-Fifth Sector – Tyrell Corporation 6′27
- Seventh Sector – Apartment 9732 12′12
- Ninth Sector – Urban Blues 12′02
- Fifth Sector – Animoid Row 7′15
- Second Sector – DNA Row 4′59
- Seventh Sector – Apartment 9732 (reprise) 7′06
- Eighth Sector – Nocturnal Rain 3′45
- Tenth Sector – The Bradbury Building 13′03
Los Angeles 2019 en CD
Un interesante bootleg con los sonidos ambientales de la película.
Jul
8
Braun clocks
July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment // Deja un Comentario
A complete set | Un juego completo
Jul
7
Argyle chair
July 7, 2009 | 4 Comments // Comentarios
Mini Argyle chair replica and postcard. This nite creation by Rennie Mackintosh appears clearly in the movie. The original one replicas 1:1 scale are available, but pricey! So… this is an alternate way to have it. One for a doll house, and one to put in a file archive or to send a friend. Cheap ones!
Silla Argyle
Miniatura de la silla Argyle y tarjeta postal. Esta bonita creación de Rennie Mackintosh aparece claramente en la película. Las réplicas de la silla original a tamaño real están disponibles, pero realmente caras. Así que… esta es una alternativa para tenerla. Una para la casita de muñecas, y otra para archivarla, o enviársela a un amigo. ¡Barato!
Jul
7
Pulp Fiction
July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments // Comentarios
Not Tarantino one. Real pulp fiction magazines and books are in my focus these days. Philip K Dick, like many many other authors of Sci-fi novels and short stories, published a bunch of works in those cheap publications. From 50’s to 60’s (for now), I’d located several of them, in great titles like Galaxy, If, Wonder Stories, Amazing Stories, and many more.
These little books are old, very old, cheap paper with rusty and hard smell… Old paper, humidity, bacteries…. All of this will be removed, with luck, when I receive a little ozonizer!!! Will post the results… Meanwhile, I love to collect these little jewels of the past. Inside, aside of PKD stories, are plenty of other interesting authors too: Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, no name a few.
Pulp Fiction
No hablo de Tarantino. Llevo unos días fijándome en los libros y revistas catalogados como “pulp” (hechos con papel barato, igual que las historietas del oeste de Marcial Lafuente Estafanía que corrían por aquí años atrás) en USA. Philip K Dick, como muchos otros autores de ciencia ficción, publicó un montón de sus relatos y algunas novelas en estas publicaciones baratas. Desde los 50 a los 60 (por el momento) he ido localizando varios de ellos, en títulos con renombre tales como Galaxy, If, WOnder Stories, Amazing Stories y muchas más.
Estos libritos son viejos, muy viejos, papel barato con decoloración y un fuerte olor…. El papel viejo, la humedad, las bacetrias… Todo eso será eliminado, con suerte, ¡¡¡cuando reciba un pequeño ozonizador!!! Ya pondré los resultados… Mientras tanto, me gusta coleccionar estas pequeñas joyitas del pasado. En su interior, aparte de las historias dePKD, está lleno de otros autores interesantes tales como Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert Bloch, para nombras sólo algunos.
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