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July 16th, 2009: In which The Littlest Edward reveals his sparkle and I nearly go insane trying to capture it on camera.

 

 

"Okay, we're going to need to renegotiate this kissing thing--"

 

"FIVE MINUTES AGO I WAS 'YOU FREAK'!"

 

"Well, you're not now," she purred--he faltered--

 

"No! No! Everything about me is designed to lure you in! I am the Venus Fly Trap of vampires! I am a pitcher plant of love. You must run, you must hide, you must save yourself!"

 

"As if she could run from you, Edward," I said, because somebody had to.

 

 

 


 

 

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  • You too can sparkle just like The Littlest Edward: after a number of failed, ill-advised attempts of me making it harder than it needed to be, the simplest, most accurate effect was a sample of Aromaleigh's Twilight-inspired Dazzle powder. At first I mixed in their Lustre and Sparkle--actually, at first I mixed in cornstarch as well, because I'm a moron who thought that'd make it hold together better, and that was a hideous idea. But even without the cornstarch, the three-powder blend looked weird and alien-like on the plastic figure--more of an opaque shimmer than a sparkle. (Also, I had slathered it on as a pretty thick water-based paste, so don't take that as a criticism of the product itself.) 

 

I wanted to do a permanent sparkle (geekgirldiva at Entertainment Earth donated us a Regular Edward double) with a craft-safe matte varnish/sealant (as recommended by toy expert annlarimer on LJ), but couldn't get hold of one in a timely fashion. So--to hell with it, I thought; I'll do what Aromaleigh recommends for using the powder yourself, which is (Ann is going to kill me) to apply lotion first. So... yes, TLE has a very thin coating of Lubriderm's Seriously Sensitive (he is very sensitive, really) Lotion (no lanolin! no fragrance! no dye!) then wiped off, because the powder wouldn't stick on smooth plastic; all I wanted to do was give it a little traction, a little texture to stick to. So when you look at the pictures and TLE looks wet, or like it's Vaseline? That's just the stupid way the stupid powder looks on stupid camera. You are not seeing any kind of actual moisture at all, and it doesn't look wet in person.

 

The Dazzle powder, in person, actually looks a lot like the CGI effect in the movie, but is nearly impossible to capture on camera (or my camera, at least). (In fact, if the look is that similar, it may not be a coincidence that it looks "wet"--the biggest complaint about the movie effect was that it looked "sweaty.") Poor Littlest Edward is now twinkling away in cheerful perfection on my desk shelf, and NO ONE ELSE CAN SEE IT.

 

  • The entry was ready to go on Monday--hell, I'd had it written weeks in advance--but I hadn't gotten the sparkle pictures yet. And then? We got a whole week of rain. Finally Thursday rolled around and I was like, look, this is ridiculous, we have got to post this shit or we are NEVER going to get around to [Long-Awaited Development, which even then would still be weeks away]. So the story was changed from sparkling in my front-door windows to sparkling under the full spectrum lamp. You can read the original version here.

 

  • "Terrible, rabid agony": Kristen Stewart says on the Twilight commentary that she wanted her Bella-dying-of-venom seizure to look and sound "rabid." 

 

  • "As if she could run from you, Edward": The actual lines from the movie are, "As if you could outrun me. As if you could fight me off. I'm designed to kill."

 

  • "This is the skin of a killer" is an actual line from the movie (but not the book), which people who had not seen the movie when I first posted Twilight in Fifteen Minutes thought I'd made up. As I've said before, Twilight means never having to say you're kidding.

 

  • "I thought I heard an echo of windchimes": Go listen to this scene in the movie. I'm serious. 

 

 

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