Mystery Pic

[mrv3000]

Actually, this is really for emry but we figured more people would see this on my journal. We've got a mystery pic. Unfortunately, it's a B&W hard copy that was scanned, so it's quite hard to make out. It looks like it was originally from some promo shot, but we have no idea where, why, how, etc. There's always a chance this was someone's photo manipulation.

Does anyone have any info on this pic?

Thanks muchly!

Comments

[icepixie]

I have extremely vague memories of AT in that pose but alone (couldn't link you anywhere), so I think it's probably a photomanip. Then again, I could be totally wrong.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yeah, could *easily* be a photomanip. Easily.

Hmm. The mystery continues. :)

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

If it is, it's an excellent one -- the light angles match dead-on. Certainly possible tho, especially with all that black -- would make it easy to get her hand and chin on his shoulder like that.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It always amazes me just how much you can manipulate with photos.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I turned a duck into a purple dragon once. :-D He looks pretty cartoony, but I'm still rather pleased with it.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Very cool!

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

TYK! Jack had found the pic, and knew he wanted to "cast" Kirsten Dunst as that particular NPC. It ended up being a much much harder way to do it, but he liked the picture in general too, and it worked out.

We cracked up when we saw...oh, damn, blanking on the name. Political black comedy with Dustin Hoffman as a Hollywood producer hired to invent a war to get a President reelected. They fake up a sequence with this girl running through a completely digital village-being-bombed, and somebody gets the idea in the middle of the shoot to have her holding a cat, but of course it's too late to get a cat, so they have her holding a bag of chips.

The girl? Kirsten Dunst.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh right right right!

Wag the Dog! (I think.)

How funny! :D

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Wag the Dog! (I think.)

Yup, that's it.

Of course, I also giggle at that scene (a) because it's so much more labor-intensive than that, even with still photos, and you sure don't do it on-the-fly during principal photography!! {chortle}, and (b) because the tech guy is doing it with the keyboard. {snarfle} I swear most of Hollywood has yet to discover this thing called a mouse...

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Of course, I also giggle at that scene (a) because it's so much more labor-intensive than that, even with still photos, and you sure don't do it on-the-fly during principal photography!! {chortle},

Oh, I'm sure!

and (b) because the tech guy is doing it with the keyboard. {snarfle} I swear most of Hollywood has yet to discover this thing called a mouse...

But typing = ACTION! :D

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

No clue, but it's really damn cute.

< Hair!Dating >

Both faces have that not-quite-right look of a picture that's been flipped, which means her part is actually on her left. That, length and fluffiness, and his grey/brown ratio...middling to late season 2 would be my guess. Maybe early 3.

< /Hair!Dating >

And yes, it looks very promo-shot-like, and out of character but in wardrobe.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

No clue, but it's really damn cute.

Isn't it though? :)

< Hair!Dating >

HA!

Both faces have that not-quite-right look of a picture that's been flipped, which means her part is actually on her left. That, length and fluffiness, and his grey/brown ratio...middling to late season 2 would be my guess. Maybe early 3.

Am in awe of your hair recognition abilities. *g*

And yes, it looks very promo-shot-like, and out of character but in wardrobe.

Yeah. Hmm.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Am in awe of your hair recognition abilities.

Well, except for the part where I was wrong. {wry g} Had my part sequence confused. And "Urgo" is later in 3, and I think Stef is right that it's at least the same session. Mid-3 was my first instinct; shoulda gone with it. Too much rationalizing. ;-)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

D'oh!

Gotta trust your instincts!

[stef94.livejournal.com]

Looks like you were spot on with the Hair!Dating thing there, Val!
I'm in awe! :-D

[stef94.livejournal.com]

It looks a lot like this promo pic from Urgo, where everyone poses with Dom DeLuise.

I'm thinking it's either a different photo from the same shoot (the angle on this mystery pic is different from the angle of the promo pic), or a manip of a different photo from the same shoot, and someone pasted RDA in Dom DeLuise's place.

Or I could be halucinating ;-)

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking it's either a different photo from the same shoot

{nods} This gets my vote.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Wow! Great eye!!

No, it does look like the same style of hair, etc. It can't be exactly this pic because they're not looking at the camera, but I bet you're right! From the same shoot. :)

[emry.livejournal.com]

That was my thought too. I'm thinking I got it from the Showtime(?) site when it was up. But you can't get pics there anymore.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Shoot. Have you checked out the other haunts? rdanderson (http://www.rdanderson.com/)? amandatapping (http://www.amandatapping.com/)?

[emry.livejournal.com]

Those were the first two sites I went to. Followed by about fifty other sites that included photo's as part of the site. It's possible I also got it from this site: http://www.geocities.com/sjcentre/ but unfortunately that site is no longer complete and you can't get to each section like you could when I first came into the fandom.

*sigh*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Shoot!

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does look very much like that Urgo pic...but either one, NICE pic!

[mebfeather.livejournal.com]

I agree - looks *very* much like it's from that particular shoot.

So sweet!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Very! I can see why Emry wants to find the original. :)

[mebfeather.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. If you find it - post the URL!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Looks like they figured it out on samandjack.

Original pic was this (http://members.iinet.net.au/~codename/urgo2.jpg) and Sadie made a new manip (http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/stargazerangel01/images/urgo.jpg). :)

[mebfeather.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Thanks!

That's what I thought it was, but someone said it wasn't cause of the shadows or something (it was late) and so I took their word for it. Ooops. :)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Isn't it a sweet pic? :)

[suzvoy.livejournal.com]

Adorable!

[nhawk.livejournal.com]

You might have seen this already but someone on the samandjack list worked it out - It's a photo manip of this promo pic: http://members.iinet.net.au/~codename/urgo2.jpg

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! That's totally it! Just move Sam & Jack around and you've got it! :) Thanks!