See The Sun

I think my more or less quiet days of caring for sites about rather ‘unknown’ artists may somewhat be over… At least for the time being. Being away only 6 days I had rather urgent updates to do on all my sites. Time for the planned extensive ‘background work’ will be short.

Marion Cotillard: She’s certainly having her international ’break-through’ right now. Everybody loves her in La Vie en Rose. I can understand that of course! She’ll be awarded Breakthrough Actress of the Year at the Hollywood Film Festival later this year. I’m proud to say I started the site before the hype started - and have decided to turn it into a ‘complete’ website now. I’ve bought a domain name and am currently working on a new gallery.

Sophia Myles: When I met her last week we both were unaware that she’d be in the news by now. She’s been cast on very short notice as the female lead in CBS new show ‘Moonlight’. This will certainly bring activity to the site as she’ll be getting exposure. My only fear: comments and reviews on the pilot presentation aren’t that good. Well, that was before they had Sophia, so it can only get better. But still, she’s always been rather unfortunate as to how her projects were received critically.

Matthew Macfadyen: He’s starring in a play in London - lots to do to keep up with reviews etc - and had finished Incendiary just before that and will go on to a part in Frost/Nixon - a project with many stellar names attached to it. And there’s Death at a Funeral awaiting theatrical release in many countries. But, I do have a talented co-webbie now, yay! We’re working on a new gallery and server move right now. But then there’ll still be lots of things to do: create a Video Archive, write many, many, many information pages….

Catalina Sandino Moreno: Not that much going on really, but The Hottest State is about to be released. So I need to keep up with things happening.

What I really want to do as well: Turn the Emily Mortimer and Anna Paquin small tribute pages into proper little sites. Give them the air of being complete, even though they will only focus on news & pictures/screencaps. I also have an idea what I want to do with See The Sun. It still doesn’t feel right and I want to have a new design/template and re-structure…

I’m back from my trip to England. I’ve enjoyed it very much! I spent the first day in London. In some ways it really was the highlight! I got to see Matthew Macfadyen perform live for the first time - in ‘The Pain and the Itch’ (not only is he great in it but also the play is excellent), I got to meet Sophia Myles and while getting drinks in the theater’s bar I stood next to Matthew Macfadyen himself! Though I did not speak to him, ask for an autograph or the like it was certainly a surreal experience… Walking by huge posters for ‘La Vie en Rose’ starring Marion Cotillard certainly was a pleasure as well.

I also enjoyed meeting old friends and having a great time in general. My plan was to not spend too much money. And I’m proud to say that I only bought something for myself when I was at the airport shopping in the duty-free area while waiting for my plane to arrive… Bleak House DVD set… not the cheapest thing, really.

It is online! I absolutely adore Mycah’s layout and am quite pleased with how I was able to use Wordpress to present almost the whole site (information) content dynamically.

I still can’t quite believe I’m leaving for London (&England) in 2 weeks!!! Only for 6 days, but still. It’s been a very long time since I’ve last travelled abroad on my own. Also I have HUGE and exciting plans for the first day when I’ll be in the city itself…. Everything’s been falling into place so nicely I don’t want anything to come along and spoil it, do you hear?!

I feel like I have finally begun to grasp Wordpress. And yet I’ve realized how I could go on and on learning about it and still find out more…. It is really amazing!! But also complex. Switching the news script on ‘Stellar Matthew Macfadyen‘ has certainly given me more practice, :uff: I’m anxious to see how it works when I’ll have a complete website working with Wordpress - the information part, that is.