Michelle Buswell, Fernanda Tavares, Isabeli Fontana, Raquel Zimmermann, Eugenia Volodina, Caroline Trentini, Elise Crombez, Hana Soukupova, Mariacarla Boscono, Caroline Winberg, Lisa Cant, Michael Gandolfi, Mike Guenther, Jon Kortajarena y Tyson Ballou ~ Foto: Steven Meisel
I’m itching to hear this piece live again. I saw the premiere in 2015 before a performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony and completely fell in love with it. I was able to download the audio from an online recording and two years later still can’t stop listening to it. I wish they had a full video recording of the performance.
I just got a notif for the casting call for Nicolas and I screamed lol. Do you have any favs/people that come to mind?
Anon’s right, Nicolas casting topic went out yesterday:
I had answered a Nicolas casting question a year ago and now I felt like doing it fresh, see if my answers change… I looked through some of the suggestions on the OVCFB page but I couldn’t make it through ALL of the comments and I really liked this comment, let’s choose an unknown actor!:
Anyway. Keep in mind beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so I saw quite a wide variety on the OVCFB page due to that. My own opinions reflect my own idea of beauty so yours may vary.
BUT FIRST, a brand-new misspelling of his name by a POTP bc reasons:
Nocholos…… Buenos Nocholos….. *eyeroll*
So in no special order (except I think Ezra Miller is my fave rn)
^Ezra Miller: Looks great in period costume, has perfect hair, has so much sass. I saw him in We Need to Talk About Kevin, I just think he is captivating, and cruel, and humorous, all the ingredients for a Nicolas de Lenfent <3
^Ben Barnes is not currently my FAVE appearance-wise, I feel like he’s too… soft?…. but his acting boosts him up. He seems to be the front running POTP fave so I am betting AR will follow up with him.
^Benedict Samuel: I’ve only seen him recently in The Walking Dead, and you have to see him in that, bc he’s as sweet and tender and intense and depressive as Nicolas needs to be. Physically, these full lips and dark brooding eyes, the wide smile that’s almost manic and the frown that speaks to a deeper well of misery that no one can hope to touch. Am I praising him too much? PROBABLY BUT I DO WHAT I WANT. [I wax on poetic about him a little more here]
^Reeve Carney seems to be a HUGE POTP favorite. I hate his hair. HATE. THE MIDDLE. PART. AND. SO. FLAT. If they can give him a wig, then we might be in business.
^Alexander Vlahos well bc Versailles. He was mentioned a few times on the OVCFB so we may see some followup with him.
^Louis Garrel has been a Louis RPer’s face claim and he’s a Nicolas face claim currently for @bloodstrung. I see Garrel as more of a Louis, but I’d screentest him as Nicolas.
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^Jonas Kesseler is a model so idk if he’s too old now or if he can act, but visually, he is pretty close to my headcanon.
^I used to really love Gaspard Ulliel as Lestat but not so much anymore… also, the POTP have made me consider him for Nicolas and I think it could work! I like that he has the scar, too, and that could be explained in the show in some fun way like it was in Hannibal Rising.
^David Garrett, I feel like he’s too masculine, too mature of feature, but he is amazing on the violin so that could outweigh his physical appearance for me. @darknessmolten used him as a face claim.
^Landon Liboiron was a POTP suggestion, I am kinda digging him for reasons I can’t explain.
^Nicolas RPer @a-misunderstanding-my-love used model Michael Gandolfi, and idk if he still looks like this or if he can act, but I think he has some of the cruelty that you need for a good Nicolas.
Photograph by PAULUS MAXIMUS Once a year in May, the Garden of Cosmic Speculation by Charles Jencks is open to the public. The garden is located on a private residence known as the Po…
Please look at the cool pictures in the above article!
Located at their private residence, Portrack House, near Dumfries, Scotland, the Garden's design is guided by the fundamentals of modern physics and, according to Jencks, brings out the basic elements that underlie the cosmos. From 1989 until Maggie Keswick's death in 1995, she, an expert on Chinese gardens, and her husband Jencks met with horticulturists and scientists in order to design a landscape that would bridge the worlds of art, nature and science.
Perhaps viewed as an unconventional approach to landscaping, the garden features a dizzying display of geometric fractals that illuminate - or at least are inspired by - concepts of black holes, string theory, and the "Big Bang." The garden features five major areas connected by a number of man-made lakes, bridges and other architectural works, including large white staircases and terraces that zigzag down a green hillside, representing the story of the creation of the universe. (x)
I am quite excited that a kind person at work gave me free tickets to the symphony next weekend to hear Michael Gandolfi’s orchestral work inspired by the Garden. I had tickets to hear this piece 2 years ago, but that performance ended up being canceled by an ice storm.
It is intended that any arrangement of movements, in any order, may be selected for a given performance.
It’s this bit of indeterminism that attracts me to the piece. Plus: music + physics + gardens!
