#david's contact lenses

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Michael: There are what people like to call Easter Eggs hidden around in most scenes.

David: Yes.

Michael: And one of the things that I take a lot of enjoyment out of is seeing if David can pick up on what they are in any particular given scene. And I'll say to him, 'So in this café, there is a very obvious reference to... whatever.'

David: You should remember I have contact lenses and sunglasses on, I can't... I see very little.

[operafantomet]

Phantoms wearing “damaged eye” contact lense

ROW 1: Michael Crawford, West End (and briefly Broadway)

ROW 2: Timothy Nolen, Broadway (possibly only promo photos)

ROW 3: Jonathan Roxmouth, World Tour (old and new look)

ROW 4: David Shannon, West End (though only randomly), and Masachika Ichimura, Tokyo (as Mr. Y in “Love Never Dies”)

ROW 5: Kalle Sepp and Koit Toome, Estonia (non-replica)

ROW 6: Stephen Brandt Hansen, Estonia (non-replica), and Joel Zerpe in Sweden (non-replica)

ROW 7: Ramin Karimloo, Italy and Monaco (non-replica)

[hannibal-or-maybe-just-rex]

[noodles-07]

the things I would do to see the good omens blooper reel

[fellshish]

I can’t stop thinking about this tiktok i saw of a girl who was an extra in the good omens s2 bar scene and at one point david tennant just SMASHED into a wall and she was like omg are you alright and he said yeah he could just barely see with the snake eye contact lenses and the sunglasses and now i think about it every time i rewatch the confession scene like man walked off turned back around and pin-the-tail-on-the-donkeyed michael sheen’s pursed lips

[neil-gaiman]

Hi Neil,

I dont know if anyones asked yet, but in GO season 1 was Crowleys snake eyes CGI or contacts?

Ive been wondering for a while, and this picture i stumbled across only makes me wonder further. These are clearly selfies, and it just makes me wonder if he had to send off that picture so somebody could edit his eyes, which is rather silly.

Also, if they are contacts, did David have trouble seeing?

They were contact lenses, in Season 1 and Season 2.

[killrisma]

why does he have the blue eyed stare in this picture

Day #825 of David Tennant as a Fennec Fox 🦊 @neil-gaiman

[azirafuck]

angel crowley wasn't that happy actually. that's just david tennant enjoying not having to wear contact lenses

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

From the DVD commentary, episode 1:

Neil: We had to do a certain amount of [CGI] work on his eyes, because this was more than any other scene the one where his eyes kept twisting, or one of his eyes

Douglas: You mean the contact lenses?

Neil: The contact lenses, yes.

Douglas: Yeah, we had that as a problem because generally David actually wears contact lenses for real but what we had was it a smaller contact lense than our kind of stunt contact lense. And they would float around on occasion.

Neil: Yeah. I mean, it's weighted, so it's always meant to go down. But sometimes it didn't. And on this scene, it didn't. So we had to sort of nip in with CGI and make the eyes work .

Douglas: Which we probably should never tell David Tennant about. Because if there was a chance to do CGI on all his eyes, he would grab it.

Neil: He would.

[operafantomet]

Hello OperaFanToMet

Do you have any photos of David Shannon as the phantom.

But not the Catherine Ashmore ones?

Just of him in costume?

Many thanks

I don't know when I became OperaFanToMet (my nick means "The Phantom of the Opera" in Norwegian), but I'll take it...

There aren't a whole lot of non-stage photos of David Shannon as the Phantom. He was beautifully photographed by Catherine Ashmore, but he played the role for one short year and not a lot of backstage photos surfaced. Partly because it was in the infant years of social media, partly because they were still a bit reluctant to share backstage stuff in 2009.

So what I have is him and Gina Beck goofing around:

Post-performance photo with Gina Beck and Simon Bailey:

Curtain call with Rachel Barrell:

And him documenting the use of contact lense:

That's about it.

[arrowfleur]

Redacted Head canons ੈ✩‧₊˚

✧.* Freelancer is such a loser but they’re so unaware of how loser-y they are that they’ve gone full circle and are cool as shit

✧.* Sam is tatted as shit but none of them show since he’s always in a long sleeve flannel. Whenever people see the tattoos it comes as quite a shock but he suits them so well.

✧.* Morgan barely ever reads the news but he always picks up a paper because he loves the puzzles and crosswords

✧.* Angel has so so many accessories for their outfits and after they moved in with David he built them a personalised hidden cupboard to store them in for an anniversary present

✧.* Gavin has a pierced tail and horns with little heart jewellery in them. He just walked past a piercing shop one day and was intrigued since they don’t do that in Aria

✧.* Sweetheart is so good at style. They love going thrifting and finding pieces for all of their friends, especially waistcoats and jewellery.

✧.* Baby hates wearing chunky bracelets/necklaces now, they don’t like the feeling of the weight but can’t pin-point why

✧.* Asher went to a class to learn how to braid babes hair for them. Babe dyes his for him, no lessons just winging it but it turns out 10/10.

✧.* Lovely wears contact lenses a lot as part of their style, they have contacts of their original eye colour but haven’t been able to bring themselves to put them in.

✧.* Morgan has a ‘Sam’s flannel’ sized collection of plaid pj pants. He was wearing them when his listener turned up to his house.

✧.* William has never moved on from the partner he had before he was turned. He’s forgotten what they sound like.

[hikarry]

Hm, guys. Quick update

Remember my Crowley tattoo?

So, I've been holding myself against dyeing my hair red, cause I knew I would lose my mind, but turns out...

I have the jeans

I have the boots

I have the shirt

I will have the sunglasses on Tuesday

I will have the red hair on Wednesday

I will have the vest on Friday

I will get the yellow snake contact lenses the week after

...I guess Crowley season is officially open

After Friday, you can officially picture the person behind the screen as a wish version of Fyre Type David Tennant Pokemon

[pizza-with-death-blog]

Finding out that DT struggled to see out of Crowleys contact lenses is hilarious to me because he's wearing them CONSTANTLY so one of the stars of the show just. Didn't see any of the scenes.

Was Michael Sheen mouthing his lines along with him? No idea

Was Neil Gaiman in the background moving things around? Clueless

Was John Hamm naked from the waist down for every scene? Who knows, not David Tennant that's for sure.

[rachelcommitscrimes]

Random physical traits i think the DRDT cast has (headcanons)

TW for S/H

Hu- somewhat traditional chinese makeup (idk what its called), muffin top/pudgy stomach, stretch marks, fangs (trust me on this one guys)

Teruko- A LOT of scars/scratches, leg/arm hair (doesn’t shave much bc she’s scared she’ll get cut)

David- Self harm scars on forearm (faded), light makeup/contouring (he dislikes his face)

Levi- Stubble, silver tooth at the back

Ace- Crooked/abnormal teeth, short nails from biting, thinning hair

Charles- BRACES!!!

Xander- Light facial hair, bruises, scratches

Nico- Self harm scars, animal bites/scratches

Arturo- Braces, long fingers, manicured nails

Whit- several ear piercings, colored contact lenses

J- Freckles, gap tooth, snake bites

Arei- Contact lenses, faded wounds from bullying

Rose- Dark circles, eyebags, messy hands

Eden- Dimples, gap tooth

Veronika- she at least has a little chub trust me guys, sh scars on thigh, fake fangs, occasional elaborate makeup, eyebrow piercing

Min- HEAVY eyebags, dark circles, underweight

[fellshish]

‘David tennant was acting basically blind because of the snake contact lenses’ is the good omens fandom’s ‘viggo mortensen broke his toe’

[thequeenofthedisneyverse]

Technology from 1870-1899 (For Encanto fic writers)

So, A mutual of mine @miracles-and-butterfliess pointed out that everyone (including me) tends to forget that Encanto was literally made when the triplets were born. Which is literally 1900 or 1901. Regardless, it was the very beginning of the 19th century so let me tell you about the technology/things they would/wouldn’t have. (And please keep in mind that most of these may or may not have been imported into Colombia yet.) 

1870 - 1879

1872—A.M. Ward creates the first mail-order catalog. NO

1873—Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire. NO

1876—Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone. NO

1876—Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine. NO

1876—Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper. NO?

1878—Thomas Edison invents the cylinder phonograph (known then as the tin foil phonograph). MAYBE

1878—Eadweard Muybridge invents moving pictures. NO?

1878—Sir Joseph Wilson Swan invents the prototype for a practical electric lightbulb. YES? 

1879—Thomas Edison invented the first commercially viable incandescent electric light bulb. NO?

1880 - 1889

1880—The British Perforated Paper Company debuts toilet paper. YES

1880—English inventor John Milne creates the modern seismograph. NO

1881—David Houston patents camera film in roll format. NO?

1884—Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen. YES

1884—L. A. Thompson built and opened the first roller coaster in the United States at a site on Coney Island, New York. NO

1884—James Ritty invents a functional mechanical cash register. YES?

1884—Charles Parson patents the steam turbine. NO

1885—Karl Benz invented the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. NO (even before Encanto, Alma’s town looked rural so I doubt the automobile reached them yet.)

1885—Gottlieb Daimler invented the first gas-engine motorcycle. NO

1886—John Pemberton introduces Coca-Cola. NO

1886—Gottlieb Daimler designs and builds the world's first four-wheeled automobile. NO

1887—Heinrich Hertz invents radar. NO

1887—Emile Berliner invented the gramophone. YES

1887—F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invented the first wearable contact lenses. NO

1888—Nikola Tesla invents the alternating current motor and transformer. NO

1890 - 1899

1891—Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator. NO

1892—Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine, which he patents six years later. NO

1892—Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar vacuum flask. NO

1893—W.L. Judson invents the zipper. NO (zippers didn’t become popular globally until a little bit later; buttons, ribbons/laces and whatever else were still the norm/in fashion for fastening and tying (which is still the case in some places today)

1895—Brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière invent a portable motion-picture camera that doubles as a film-processing unit and projector. The invention is called the Cinematographe and using it, the Lumières project the motion picture for an audience. NO?

1899—J.S. Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner. NO (if you're running from being killed, the last thing you're going to bring is a vacuum cleaner) 

I remember a post listing the sort of jobs there would be in Encanto but I forgot so I’ll just list the ones I know (let me know if I need to add anything.): 

Seamstress/tailor

Embellisher

Field worker 

Teacher (of any kind; music, dance, art, etc)

Woodworker - wood carver

Toy maker

Construction worker

Joining a Local band/ Orchestra - being apart of a choir 

Carpenter 

Metal worker 

Jeweler (though I’m not sure if Jewelery of the diamond/gem kind is common in Encanto)

bladesmith/ knifemaker 

Inventor? (Inventors should exist in Encanto by now…just one other genius besides Mirabel?)

I know some of these are very obvious but I’m just giving people options okay? 

@miracles-and-butterflies you seem to know a lot more about this kind of stuff so if you have anything to add/take away or me to fix please let me know. I tried to search up “When was X invention imported into Colombia” and literally nothing of use comes up.