"Start The New Year Voting For Lost"

On the back of the current issue of Lost magazine is an ad for the Total Sci-Fi Awards, which I don't believe I've ever heard of before. Nevertheless, here we can vote for Lost in any category that it applies in the awards (TV show, director, etc.). If nothing else, it's another way that we can thank TPTB of Lost for their amazing efforts in giving us quality TV entertainment and hiatus fun, giving them the recognition that they deserve. Perhaps in these types of awards we can honor their creativity in the ways that the Emmy committee refuses to, *ahem*. There are other categories and genres to vote for there as well, if you're so inclined. Voting ends on January 4th, so get your ballots in while you finish up the leftover holiday champagne with a sparkling mimosa. :-)

Vote here: http://totalscifionline.com/features/4348-vote-in-the-total-sci-fi-awards

Happy New Year everyone, cheers and God bless! :-D

"Not To Nitpick But..."

The recent issue of Lost magazine contains a nice article on some of the sets and props of 1970s DI-ville, in which the items above are labeled as belonging to the DI. If I'm not mistaken, isn't this actually one of the tents that the Islanders were living in when Daniel found them in the woods? The two critters on the campfire spit rod show an error in the picture's caption, IMO.

"Merry Christmas"

Have a good Holiday Season and New Year friends. Best wishes and God's blessings to everyone, especially remembering and helping those who might be really lost in the world. Mele Kalikimaka!

"Project Memento Mori"

During the wait for the poster #16 release over at LostARGs, we talked about creating a legend for the Memento Mori painting of "Mr. Black", in the fashion of the "Linder Gallery" painting that Thorsten, et.al., have shared with us. So I numbered the objects (all of them, even MIB himself and his belt -- you never know, he might use it to strangle someone). Let me know if I missed anything. Just about the only things I didn't label were the table, wall, and the wooden looking form in the back shadow by the tapestry:

This might need to be labeled, I don't know. Could it be the door of the cabin? I raised the brightness and contrast to highlight it, but it just looks like a door or panel. Update~ thanks to all the help, here is how we've labeled the objects thus far:

1) Smokey

2) Charlie

3) Bird killed by Walt

4) White tennis shoe

5) Tapestry yarn/Locke's hatch cables

6) Jacob's tapestry

7) MIB

8) Hurley's paintbox

9) Toy airliner

10) Tree limb

11) Faraday

12) MacCutcheon Whisky

13) Gas mask

14) Four-toes

15) Coconuts

16) Cabin chair?

17) Hurley's drawing

18) Locke

19) Danielle

20) Wooden dolls

21) Mary statue

22) Eko's stick

23) Backgammon pieces

24) Compass

25) Sawyer's letter/Locke's Smokey or BDM sketch

26) Flies

27) Urchins

28) Papayas

29) Polar bear skull

30) Eko and Yemi photo

31) Swan timer/counter

32) Danielle's map

33) Knife -- that killed Jacob?

34) Dynamite

35) DI beer

36) Charlie's bag of heroin

37) Watership Down

38) Charlie's ring

39) MIB's belt/rope

40) Sand/Ash

41) Yemi's cross

42) Unknown cloth

43) Hurley's Lotto Ticket

44) Locke's note to Jack

45) Charlie's greatest hits list

Now that they are mostly all labeled it doesn't seem so mysterious, but it's good to know anyway, I suppose. Thanks for any help! The original can be seen here at the gallery blog for the Lost art project: http://lostundergroundartshow.blogspot.com/

"Happy Hanukkah Lost Friends"

Since all the ancient Eastern and Mediterranean religious symbols have been turning up on the island, I for one have been looking forward to the inclusion of some early Hebrew artifacts for us to study. I don't know much at all about Jewish history, but for what I learned in Sunday school in the Old Testament that always fascinated me. So I made up my own bit of artifact for the island, above. And in light of the recent reveal (show-canon or not, we don't know yet) of a new part of (or whole) tapestry included in the special DHARMA version of the Season 5 DVD, I looked for a tapestry of Jewish history for the season as well. It's not specifically for Hanukkah, but it looks very interesting.

Also found online was a nice piece of historical artifact from the Holy Land that would look good accompanying the other religious accouterments in the island temple area. Happy Hanukkah everyone. :-)