More coverage, this time with a glimpse of the crowd in the rather cattle-car waiting area they kept us standing in for a couple of hours. They could have just opened the doors and let us sit down, but that didn’t happen. That was just about the only part of the event I found less than entertaining, everything else about the event was excellent.
A picture of Bessie from the event, Pertwee’s car from when the Doctor was stranded on Earth, and a cute video from Katrina Hossenlopp. She obviously had way too much fun trying to make sure she never used the same text effect twice.
Doctor Who’s Day Of The Doctor got an official Guinness World Record for being simulcast in the most number of countries of any TV show ever, a total of 94 of them. You can almost see me and my friend in the shot where they are facing the audience, but then Steven Moffat raises his hand and blocks your view of us and the 50 or so people immediately around us.
I am back, and I survived the Doctor Who 50th Celebration, which was amazing, no to mention huge. I could make every post to the end of the year about this, and still have material left over to take me into the next. I am not going to do that, but it is amazing that I could if I wanted to. The panels were epic, each with an excellent assortment of people, each different from the others. The displays and exhibits were likewise world class, not to mention the dealer area, with the high points being Big Audio Finish, Forbidden Planet, and the BBC themselves. The line to get into that last area went around the entire display area, because they were set up with a green-screen processing function that everyone wanted to be a part of.
What you can’t really tell from that photo is that the hall keeps going back, and is just as packed the whole way. The friend I attended it with has several much better cameras than I have, perhaps she will have a better version of that image for me to upload.
The same thing again some more; taking black and white photographs from some VERY early Doctor Who stories, convert them, colorize them, and create my own version of the colorize portraits. This time around it it the 2nd Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and a companion or two of his.
I continue to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, and wanted to create my own images to use as wallpaper, icons, buttons, and other applications. For this set, my inspiration was an art form developed somewhere between 1880 and WWII, where they only had the chemical set to capture black and white photographs. They would print them out at the highest resolution they could manage, which usually made the grain of the film stock on the negatives obvious (kind of the 1930s version of pixelation), and then hand paint the prints to create their own version of classic portrait paintings. The results were often quite attractive, in a paint-outside-the-lines kind of way, and it was interesting to see which areas they decided to color and what they left black and white, showing what they thought was important within the image. So here are a few pictures I created in that style celebrating the first Doctor, and I will probably share a few more over the next week or two that celebrate other Doctors.
