#author guy

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Director: You get those monsters rendered?

CG artist: Sure did boss, real fat asses just like you asked.

Director: what

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Not to victim-blame or say Author Guy deserved to get eaten by a monster, but he did use Internet Explorer.

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Happy August 8th Ghost Stories Day, everyone!

Due to the terrible Faustian deal he made, Author Guy’s spooky tales have rocketed to the top of the book charts. This is of course great for him, but has led to some tulpa problems for a few unlucky folk.

The incredibly perfectly flawlessly accurate machine translation app on my phone informs me that to reach the number one spot, his books have beaten out such illustrious titles as Ghost Containment System, Gym Retirement Master, Kill God, Reborn America, Oriental Nine Records, Hundred Ghosts and the Charm, Stealth Rabbit Doctor, Post Gaze, Kill the Meat, Demon, Infinite Tender Psychic, Yun Yelian’s Reasoning, Infinite Channeling, Super Soul Hunter, Space Designer, and Stun Thursday.

Tag yourself; I’m Stealth Rabbit Doctor. Also, machine translation is no substitute for actual human knowledge, and translators deserve a fair wage and union representation.

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I’ve talked about Author Guy’s house before, but his main greenhouse room definitely deserves a second look in HD.

Of note:

Rainbow glass bowl. I keep coming back to how much I love that bowl on the coffee table, but it’s really pretty! Here’s a (semi-)close-up:

Spy Valley pinot noir. Spy Valley wines are Australian, and apparently their 2017 Handpicked Single Estate Pinot Noir was pretty good, if you like a sustainably crafted red with hints of vanilla and spice.

All the glass. It’s beautiful, if slightly baffling -- the yellow-accented glass of the side doors doesn’t match the X’s on the doors, or the spideweb on the far window, or the wrought-iron behind the greenhouse domes. I’m not going to put that incongruity on the Guardian production people, though; this show does not remotely have enough money to build a place like this only to use it for a mere fraction of a single episode.

Familiar items on the bookshelf. That white tree-like shape also shows up on the other side of the wall. The tiny skull and tiny radio are both in Shen Wei’s apartment (as is that bead-fringed lamp). The black half-face bust and the faceted crystal spheres are upstairs at SID HQ. And the molecular model is from Lin Jing’s desk (except for when he sneakily puts it on Chu Shuzhi’s).

The floating patch of wallpaper. Look at the shot below, right above Da Qing’s head. There’s a rectangle right where the two bookcases touch, but it’s the wallpaper pattern, like the books aren’t even there. I’m sure it has to do with creating the fake wall visible over the bookshelves, but it’s a very strange error.

The fake secret passageway. Disappointing.

I do wonder what this place actually is. Like all the other rich people places, it seems like a real-life, not-made-for-TV location -- especially once you take into account that it doesn’t actually have a hidden-door bookcase wall. Something about the fancy dark woodwork (to say nothing of where else those bookshelves can be found) makes me wonder if this isn’t another part of the Moller Villa replica. Regardless, it’s gorgeous, and a better writing setup than this yutz deserves.

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I spent way too long thinking that these two rooms were actually connected, that the production had somehow managed to luck upon a cool ready-made room with a hidden-room bookcase. What luck they had! I thought, as I pondered what kind of real-life location would have a setup like this ... and why, for that matter, its bookshelves would need to be filled with fake books. I mean, if you actually had an actual place with actual bookshelves like that, wouldn’t you already have the actual bookshelves filled with actual books?

And then I took a closer look.

This is not a real secret passageway. If it were, only one of the sides would swing inward. No, what it seems that what the production did was, they took two different rooms, lined one wall of each of them with bookshelves, and put the one hinged bookshelf right where the door is. They even added extra panels between each of the bookcases, just so there’d be enough room between them to swing one on a hinge.

I also think they may have added extra fake-wall paneling above the bookshelves in the main room, where it weirdly truncates that wooden arch of windows you can see above it in the fourth shot there. In the study, it looks more like that “wall” was CG’d in place instead, as the tops of the bookcases are real fuzzy, and the pointy-topped window over to the side isn’t a consistent size or shape.

For context, these are the same bookshelves in the DCU dean’s office and classroom, and behind the desk in Shen Wei’s apartment -- and likely a couple other places I haven’t noticed. They’re a cute design, and they don’t hold that many books, which is actually a selling point when you have to fill all that shelf space. And when you put them all together, it surely does make a convincing bookcase wall!

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It’s finally time for one of my absolute favorite parts about Guardian: the books. Everybody’s home and office libraries contain collections of books that were clearly never meant to be seen by a native English-speaker. These are from the house of Author Guy.

Visible titles include:

Arletta

Cine -- noi?

City

Cinderella

Home

Space

Madame

Trainspotting

Logic

The Most Excellent

Furniture Design Idea Book

Too Good to be True

Kelly Hoppen Home

Beautiful Youth

Michael Jackson

Marilyn Monroe

The Hotel Book

The Speed Issue

Luxury Hotels

How Ireland Voted 1989

Al Pacino Scarface

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The follow-up to https://dragoncityinteriordesign.tumblr.com/post/683707069382230016/its-finally-time-for-one-of-my-absolute-favorite , now with HD assist!

Visible titles I couldn’t see (or couldn’t see all of) last time include:

Fancy Nancy

Unicist Organizational Cybernetics

The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

BROOKLYN'S FINEST

Space: International Review of Interior Design

Luxury Hotels

Guinness

Kelly Hoppen Style

GUCCI

Interior Review

Living

CHAMPION

Dentro di te

OFFICIAL

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