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  2. Posted · Edited by trekmachine

    January 5, 2008 - 3:41 AM

    Photography and working on Star Trek XI have kept Leonard Nimoy busy recently.

     

    As reported at CBS 2, photography has been almost a lifetime hobby for Leonard Nimoy. "When I was about thirteen, a neighborhood kid showed me that you could develop a roll of film in the bathroom," he explained. "That's how I learned to do it. I fell in love with photography. And I've been doing it ever since." Nimoy now develops his own photos, using a darkroom located in his own house.

     

    Nimoy still owns his first camera, an old Kodak. His first photograph, taken in the early 1940s, was of his grandfather, who emigrated from Russia first, later sending money back for the rest of his family to join him in America.

     

    "It takes fierce concentration from me," said Nimoy, referring to his photography. "...the nature of the work demands very specific attention to what you're doing to get it right."

     

    Recently, Nimoy's new book of photographs, The Full Body Project, Photographs by Leonard Nimoy was released recently as reported in this article.. He used plus-sized women for the shoot. Nimoy explained that beauty wasn't confined to one type of woman. "Beauty is culture driven," he said. "Our culture tells us, has been telling us for some years now, skinny is beautiful. But beauty is a big word. It shouldn't be limited to just skinny."

     

    Besides photography, Nimoy is acting again, reprising his role of Spock for Star Trek XI. He explained how he approached playing the popular character. "I was able to identify with the inner life of that character and I think that's the most important thing that I could bring to it," he said. Nimoy also dropped a tantalizing hint about Spock in Star Trek XI. "There are a total of the three Spocks in the movie, that's all I'm going to say about it."

     

     

    http://www.trektoday.com/news/050108_01.shtml

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    December 31, 2007 - 3:07 AM

    Playing James T. Kirk brings a big responsibility, acknowledges Chris Pine.

     

    As reported at Hollywood Today, Pine's portrayal of Kirk will be one that will put him under a microscope. "It's not your standard tentpole movie," said Pine. "It has a 40-year history attached to it. These are iconic roles that have been done, and done well."

     

    Working on the film is less daunting than it could be, due to the direction of J.J. Abrams. "J.J. is able to make such a big experience seem small," said Pine of Abrams. "You never get the sense that you are working on this grand event, you just focus on that scene."

     

    While Pine was careful not to give too many details, explaining that "I’ll be arrested and strung up by Paramount security," he did explain the film in more general terms. "It's a 'Batman Begins'," he said. "You get the birth, the childhood and beginning of the main characters before the five-year mission. That's what is going to be great. You get a sense of where they came from and how they began. Plus anyone who is a lover of big action films is going to love this."

     

    "What I will say is that I really think fans will enjoy this new installment," Pine continued. "It's not like anything they've ever seen before: the humor, production, effects and action blend into a great package. There's enough humor and drama and action to satisfy everyone. This is a movie for fans and non-fans alike, it's going to create a new generation of fans who have never been exposed to it before – for my generation and younger."

     

     

     

    http://www.trektoday.com/news/311207_01.shtml

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    In the last year, you've heard about some other legends on tour like the Police, Van Halen, and maybe even Led Zeppelin, but now comes the announcement of an event that will truly rock every Trek fan's world: Get set to book your tickets for STAR TREK THE TOUR !

    This historic happening touches down on January 18 for a limited engagement at the legendary Queen Mary Dome in Long Beach, Calif., the beginning of a multiple-city tour across the United States over the next few years. Described as an interactive, action-packed experience, STAR TREK THE TOUR will feature exhibits from all five TV shows and each of the 10 movies.

     

    THE TOUR will provide a unique opportunity to experience Star Trek up close and personal with sets, props and models, motion-simulator rides, merchandise and more all under one very large roof. One of the items that has us particularly excited is the chance to sit in Captain Kirk's chair from the Original Series, set on the Enterprise bridge. But that's just the beginning. Captain Picard's quarters are also on hand for you to see and experience, as well as the Enterprise-D bridge, and Dr. Crusher's sickbay.

     

    STAR TREK THE TOUR has a pedigree of expertise as production designer Herman Zimmerman, costume designer Robert Blackman, make-up supervisor Michael Westmore and visual effects producer Dan Curry have all contributed to the production. Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry will also provide narration for a tribute to his father.

     

    Other great opportunities include the ability to star alongside your heroes in an episode of your choice, and then take home the DVD to show your friends! STAR TREK THE TOUR comprises 50,000 square feet of exhibition space that allows you to leave reality behind and enter the Star Trek universe. This event is like nothing else ever attempted in the United States and provides literally tons of entertainment for adults as well as children, so bring the entire family! For more information, ticket prices, dates, location and more, please visit our STAR TREK THE TOUR mini-site for more!

     

    Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 7 for American Express cardholders, and December 15 for the general public.

     

     

    http://www.startrek.com/custom/include/com.../article/1.html

  19. Posted

    11.14.2007

    Kirk's Father, New Villain Cast

     

     

    Variety.com is reporting two more confirmed cast members of J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" movie. Australian actor Chris Hemsworth will play James T. Kirk's father, George Kirk. At 24, Hemsworth is three years younger than Chris Pine, who is set to play Jim Kirk, so the father role is likely to be portrayed in flashback.

    In addition, a Latino actor who has played several vicious parts — including a gangbanger in "187," a hitman in "Traffic" and real-life killer Perry Smith in "Capote" — will join the Trek universe in the villain's camp. Clifton Collins Jr. will be "Ayel," the cohort and general to Nero, played by Eric Bana. Collins, 37, has a lengthy resume that includes a recurring role on Abrams' Alias.

     

    Filming on the eleventh "Star Trek" film began last Wednesday, and will continue through March.

     

    According to Variety, Hemsworth just wrapped the independent feature film "The Cache," opposite Sean Bean. Collins' credits include the upcoming indie features "The Perfect Game," "Horsemen," "Sunshine Cleaning" and "Still Waters." He just booked a supporting role in "Brothers" opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire.

     

     

    http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/seri...le/2312973.html

  20. Posted

    Nov. 13, 2007 -- In the Harry Potter stories, Ron Weasley's family of pureblood wizards has a magic clock with hands assigned to each family member, indicating their location.

     

    Now a prototype device from Microsoft Research Cambridge does a similar thing. The Whereabouts Clock allows family members to see where others are in four broad categories -- "home," "work," "school" and "elsewhere."

     

    Creators hope the general nature of the clock's locations overcomes some of the privacy problems that the researchers think have impeded other location-based services from becoming more prevalent in the marketplace. For example, Sprint's Family Locator shows precise position on a Google Map.

     

    "You can buy a service on your phone to keep track of your kids. There is even talk about putting electronic chips into kids, which is not what we want to do at all," said Abigail Sellen, senior researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge.

     

    "We wanted to build a device that was not too intrusive into people's lives, but at the same time recognized the importance of reassurance in a family."

     

    Having that reassurance, said Sellen, does not necessarily require precise location information. Knowing that the children are at school or that mom is on her way home from work is enough and can be done with a relatively crude level of location information.

     

    The Whereabouts Clock is a modified tablet PC that uses signal information from mobile phones and the network to locate family members. To use it, family members download a software application to their mobile phone.

     

    After the software is installed, the first time a person arrives at work, home, or school, she presses the button in the application corresponding to those locations. That tells the software program to lock in on the signal from the nearest mobile phone tower and stores its ID.

     

     

    Each time the family member's phone comes into range of one of the towers labeled "work," "home" or "school," the software sends a signal through the network back to the Whereabouts Clock at home. The clock interprets the signal and uses it to move an image of the person's head into the appropriate area. The image moves into "elsewhere " when the person's mobile phone is in an undesignated area.

     

    "This tracking system isn't about communicating what people don't know. It's about telling families about things they already know. It's about reassurance and families really like that," said Sellen.

     

    Her team tested the device with a handful of families to get specific feedback.

     

    Should a person's face move from one area to another, say from "home" to "school," the clock will bong a notification. Family members away from home can also send a text message to the clock that people at home can read. So if mom is going to be home late from work, she can send a note saying as much.

     

    "One of the things that's praiseworthy is the way that it accommodates people's privacy," said Bill Gaver, professor of design at Goldsmiths College at the University of London in England.

     

    But even with such an ambiguous system, people still might not have as much privacy as they think, said Gaver.

     

    For example, if someone's image is in the "elsewhere" region for an extended amount of time, it could raise suspicion.

     

    What's surprising, said Sellen, is that none of the test families had issues with privacy. "They explained to us that knowing the whereabouts of family members is about family life. Even teens didn't have a problem," she said.

     

    Sellen said that although the researchers were impressed with family testing results and think that there is potential for a product, Microsoft has no immediate plans to create one. For now at least, the magic clock is relegated to the world of fiction -- and magic.

     

     

    http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/13/w...outs-clock.html