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Author Topic: HBO's Game of Thrones Season 1  (Read 396031 times)

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #840 on: February 23, 2011, 03:52:00 PM »
Thanks for the explanation, lighty.  That is a classic Bean profile. 

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #841 on: February 23, 2011, 04:12:59 PM »
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I was just being silly with patch (I didn't do well at getting my 'humour' across, unfortunately!)


You can be as silly as you want with me Lighty.It was just very early in the morning and my humour radar wasn't working yet.I thought I had done something wrong.

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #842 on: February 23, 2011, 05:55:23 PM »
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I was just being silly with patch (I didn't do well at getting my 'humour' across, unfortunately!)


You can be as silly as you want with me Lighty.It was just very early in the morning and my humour radar wasn't working yet.I thought I had done something wrong.

Thanks, patch . . . I certainly understand faulty humour radar - mine is often completely out of whack.  For more than just a morning!

And you're welcome, MF - it is pretty to look at, isn't it . . . oooh, speaking of which - there is a screencap HERE from that trailer showing the major players on the Iron Throne.  A super close up pic of Sean, looking all grim and stuff . . . gorgeous.  It makes (as I discovered) a perfect desktop background.  I don't usually use pictures, but I may keep this one for a few days, just because his mouth is so perfect.  (well, it is!)
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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #843 on: February 23, 2011, 10:19:25 PM »
I get Access Forbidden (403 Error) when I click on the link to see the screencap.  I'd love to see that perfect mouth.

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« Last Edit: February 23, 2011, 10:25:29 PM by Sable899 »

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #845 on: February 23, 2011, 10:40:00 PM »
I agree,that's a great  picture.




And talking about Bean profile,I love this one.



http://www.facebook.com/GameOfThrones?v=photos&so=0#!/GameOfThrones?v=photos&so=15
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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #846 on: February 24, 2011, 12:41:33 AM »
Oh lordy...I think we'd better send the paramedics round to Lighty's house with some oxygen.
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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #847 on: February 24, 2011, 11:07:28 AM »
Actually, I think it's too late - but the aggravation of not being able to properly link anything anymore has restored my blood pressure.

Slain by the Bean images, restored by html errors.  That pretty much sums up my life these days!

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #848 on: February 24, 2011, 01:09:36 PM »
I got the same error message from your link, Sable, plus this text:

"Here be Dragons
... and they just ate this page
or maybe the Others got it ...

This directory does not allow its contents to be listed; most likely its a graphics directory, or a directory containing top-secret information which could cause a major international incident if it got out. ;)"

There is a link to go to the GoT page, where you can then see a gallery with many pages of pictures.  I looked through several pages, and I'll go back and look through the rest.  But I'm very glad that you posted the closeup photo, patch.  I agree that it is compelling, sexy and all around great!


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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #850 on: February 24, 2011, 02:31:28 PM »
Try this link:

http://www.westeros.org/GoT/Graphics/Gallery/Previews/GameOfThrones_Teaser04_Screencap_22.jpg

This link is working fine for me.
Mine work fine for me - probably because we have the site in cache - but they've put some heavy-duty hot-linking controls on the Westeros site. 

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #851 on: February 24, 2011, 04:52:40 PM »
Thanks ! I didn't saw all the pics ... sometimes it works sometimes not  :censored:

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #852 on: February 25, 2011, 01:49:10 AM »
The Social Media
http://grrm.livejournal.com/197075.html

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So here's what I've done. I've given my friend Elio... better known to the denizens of Westeros as Ran... permission to syndicate my posts and comments on both Facebook and Twitter.



http://twitter.com/westerosorg

http://www.facebook.com/Westeros


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HBO has launched a creative marketing campaign for Game of Thrones dubbed The Maester’s Path. The first step of this campaign is a box mailed to select critics and bloggers filled with vials, scrolls and a map of the Seven Kingdoms.

http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/02/the-maesters-path-begins/#more-5722



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0XhgHjUsRA&feature=youtu.be



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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #853 on: February 25, 2011, 12:21:57 PM »
The Social Media
http://grrm.livejournal.com/197075.html

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So here's what I've done. I've given my friend Elio... better known to the denizens of Westeros as Ran... permission to syndicate my posts and comments on both Facebook and Twitter.



http://twitter.com/westerosorg

http://www.facebook.com/Westeros


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HBO has launched a creative marketing campaign for Game of Thrones dubbed The Maester’s Path. The first step of this campaign is a box mailed to select critics and bloggers filled with vials, scrolls and a map of the Seven Kingdoms.

http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/02/the-maesters-path-begins/#more-5722




The box of stuff sounds fun.  Reminds me of a project I was involved with some time ago.

A number of years ago, I was hired by some guy with money to burn (an attorney out of LA) to research a project he was contemplating with a friend/partner/whatever.
They wanted to make 'magic boxes' - boxes filled with the sort of props and tools that 16th/17th century street magicians would have used - hand-kerchiefs; coin purses; various rings and metal objects . . . all sorts of stuff.

Once I had done the historical research on both the magicians and their equipment (including what a 16/17th box looks like), they set me to finding out where they could source the material - they wanted each piece in the box, and the box itself, to be as authentic as possible - right down to using old wood to make the boxes. 

That part was a challenge; easy enough to find metal-smiths who could do the metal objects, including the hinges and the locks on the boxes; and a company in the UK that sold old wood reclaimed from buildings (the price of 17th century oak is not as high as you might think!); and a carpenter who had the capacity to make many boxes, in the prescribed fashion, using only the tools available in the period; tanners who could provide leather made the old-fashioned way; craftspeople who could make the coin purses and do the embroidery  . . .
the hardest was finding someone who could weave the cloth to make the hand-kerchiefs, using the proper materials and proper weave.  I finally found someone in Canada.

It took me almost a year to research and source everything.
Then they decided not to do it; probably figured out it would cost more than they could make back or something.  Who knows.
At least they paid me - but I was pretty disappointed that it never came together.

I love that sort of creative stuff - glad to see HBO using 'props' to encourage interest in the programme!

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #854 on: February 25, 2011, 01:52:17 PM »
You really went to a lot of work and devoted a lot of time to your project, lighty!  You must have been very passionate about it. I don't believe I would have had the desire to do all that work, even if I was being paid for it.  Reseach can be fun and interesting and I often enjoy it, but I don't have the discipline or drive to accomplish what you did.   I hope that guy let you know how much he appreciated your work.

I still get the error message on that particular Westeros page.  Maybe it's something freaky with my computer.

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #855 on: February 25, 2011, 03:55:11 PM »
You really went to a lot of work and devoted a lot of time to your project, lighty!  You must have been very passionate about it. I don't believe I would have had the desire to do all that work, even if I was being paid for it.  Reseach can be fun and interesting and I often enjoy it, but I don't have the discipline or drive to accomplish what you did.   I hope that guy let you know how much he appreciated your work.

I still get the error message on that particular Westeros page.  Maybe it's something freaky with my computer.

I'm an historian by trade, MF - and fall under the 'digger' category, as opposed to the synthesisers who prefer to interpret the 'raw' material that other people dig up.  Me?  I love to dig it up!
And he paid me very well . . . :)

Have you tried typing in the main url for the website?  "www.westeros.org"
You should be able to maneuver to the page with the images from there - assuming you can get there!

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #856 on: February 26, 2011, 01:36:31 AM »
Scents of Westeros Land on Real-World Doorsteps

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Some lucky Game of Thrones fans around the world are cracking open their Westerosi alchemy kits, each of which contains a collection of scent vials tied to various locations in the GOT world




http://www.makinggameofthrones.com/production-diary/2011/2/25/scents-of-westeros-land-on-real-world-doorsteps.html


And much more here   http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/Entry/Maesters_Path_Experience_from_HBO/

  Mysteries of the Maester’s Path  http://www.westeros.org/GoT/News/




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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #857 on: February 26, 2011, 10:35:30 AM »
Fun stuff!

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #858 on: February 26, 2011, 12:07:18 PM »

The Maester’s Path: Secrets of the box?

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First off, this post by Making Game of Thrones where they have quotes from both Elio of Westeros and myself made me suspicious that maybe there was something more to this box than meets the eye. It could be nothing, but it seems like HBO is trying to lead us to something. But what?


http://winter-is-coming.net/2011/02/the-maesters-path-secrets-of-the-box/#more-5775

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Re: HBO's Game of Thrones
« Reply #859 on: February 26, 2011, 04:11:35 PM »
Those scent boxes sound very interesting!