Doctor Manhattan, The Duke and the Moon

"All we ever see of stars are their old photographs." Doctor Manhattan, WATCHMEN

Wow, I guess there's water on the moon after all - we've been getting lots of rain since this morning's Moon Bombing!

And speaking of our moon...

This is the Duke family. The father, Charles Moss Duke, Jr. born October 3, 1935. The mom, Dorothy Meade Claiborne. The two sons, Charles and Thomas. They are probably in their garden, sitting on a bench. They look so happy.

And they should be, because Charles Moss Duke was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972. He landed with mission commander John W. Young at the Descartes Highlands, which is what makes this photo so special: It's still there, untouched, unperturbed, exactly in the same position as he left it before taking this snapshot with his Hasselblad 70mm film camera.

Read the rest of this great post from the smart folks over at Gizmodo: This Is Not Your Ordinary Family Photo.

When I first saw this shot I immediately thought of Watchmen - how cool is this?


Have a great weekend!

That's Right,

HMK

Watchmen Sneak Preview Tonight!

Flashback: Vancouver October 2, 2007.

This serendipitously poignant sign just so happens to be outside and 17 floors down in front of Jackie's swanky digs, (The View) in Yaletown, British Columbia.

I shot this one on a cold and drizzly October afternoon after having a nice birthday lunch on one of the nearby islands. My wife and I we're getting rock star treatment hanging out with Jackie and his lovely wife Amelia along with my Boston art school bud Mike (Mr. X) MacKenzie during some down-time off of the set of Watchmen.

Thanks to Jackie and Amelia my wife and I will be attending the sneak preview of Watchmen tonight at the Santikos Palladium here in San Antonio!

So Stoked! Go JEH!

That's Right!

HMK

ATT: San Antonio Magazine - this photo is NOT Free Stock Photography! Thank you in advance for not printing this without permission.

The End Is Neigh!

C'est la Fin de "La Marie du Port" de Marcel Carné ... 1949

Ok, start the HMK Wake Slideshow!

Man I love flickr!

Now that that's finally out of the way I can focus on the soundtrack...

That's Right,

HMK

Thanks to BlueSuddenSubway for the great FIN image!

Perpetuating The Watchmen Buzz

The always energetic and creative genius that is Zack Snyder, director of next year's highly anticipated big screen version of Alan Moore's Watchmen has announced a really a cool idea.

Working with YouTube, Zack and team have created an enticing opportunity for fans to create fake advertising that if awesome enough, might actually be used somewhere in the background of the film.

Smart and interesting approach to including user-generated content while keeping the fanboy buzz churning as the film's production continues.

Ok, where's my camera?

Details over at: The Watchmen Movie.

That's Right,

HMK

The Watchmen, Weird Shit

Ok, so by now we all know that Jackie Earle Haley has been cast to star as Rorschach in Zack Snyder's big screen version of the epic graphic novel The Watchmen from writer Alan Moore with artist Dave Gibbons.

In regard to how the talented Mr. Haley landed the roll of Walter Kovacs, AKA: Rorschach, a role that, as I understand it, Tom Cruise really wanted... - I think David Thomas puts it best in his overview from his site:

"...Here’s where Zack Snyder maintains and increases his 300 cred. No one would think of Jackie Earle Haley for Rorschach off the top of their heads, but when you hear it, it just clicks somehow. There’s a tortured intensity to Rorschach that Haley can play the shit out of. An unbelievably difficult casting choice, and Snyder nails it."

Exactly.

Especially considering that Jackie's first "comeback" role before his Oscar nomination was playing Sugar Boy, the badass, almost silent bodyguard in Steve Zaillian's All the King's Men.

Throughout the movie, when he's not cleaning his gun or driving like Steve McQueen, Mr. Haley can be seen eating sugarcubes, hence, Sugar Boy.

I'm thinking the Sugar Boy role had more to do with Zack's selection decision than anything else as Jackie was practically the only actor in All The King's Men to not get trashed by the critics.

Or was it something else?

Check this out - I'm almost finished reading Watchmen for the first time (Fantastic by the way...) and I just had to smile at the cool premonition of this panel:



Trippy... just in time for Halloween.

That's Right, weird shit indeed.

HMK