Pictures from today's Q&A at Ringling College

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there was a professional photographer somewhere on the premises.... Click through to make them not quite so squished. (Can anybody tell me how to make them not automatically squish up like this? How to just post them at the size they are? I am tech-stupid about these things.)

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Consensus seems to be that it was awesome. *sigh*

Comments

[ambree40.livejournal.com]

Great. I just retweeted a few tweets with pics attached. I don't know yet how to post them to this site. Also one very amusing tweet from: keewybananaKeely Carney
"Today I talked ego with Elijah Wood. Mine's bigger."
That's our guy!!

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

I saw that one after you RT'd it and, wow, it warmed my heart so much! What a beautiful thing to say about someone, and such a clever (and probably self-deprecating) way to do it.

[elijahs-mumble.livejournal.com]

Thanks a lot for these pics!

[mumis.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the pictures!:)

[creekside12.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pics. I love how the stage lighting brings out his gorgeous natural hair color. Such a tiny guy with such a large 'presence'; he commands that stage. Reminds me a bit of the "Elijah's busy week" video (also filmed in Florida). Brilliant.

[bellewood.livejournal.com]

It must be a pretty big place if he needs to wear a microphone. Thank you so much for these. It must have been wonderful to be there.

He did a lot of Q&A stage work a few years ago at Cons. I was lucky enough to see him on a stage very similar a few years ago at LFCC. He's funny and eloquent, thoughtful and polite. Added to that is the ever present light that seems to shine from him. And yes, he is even lovelier in person. No picture will ever do him complete justice.

If you post pictures using a site like Photobucket then you should be able to post them at their original size.. although, it's recommended not to make them too big here as it makes it difficult for some to view them. Karin or Patrick should be able to give you more info.

[bellewood.livejournal.com]

"I don't know yet how to post them to this site."

If you save the pictures to your hard drive then you can post them here the same way you post to your own journal.

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Belle. I'm thinking LJ's photo gallery automatically compresses photos into a preset size, and maybe there's a way to bypass that... but it might entail needing to know how big I DO want the picture to be, and then I start getting confused. :-p

You're so lucky to have gotten to see Elijah at LFCC! I would love to hear him speak in person. He's so good at talking about what he does and how he does it; I think I would never get tired of listening to him. But I might need him to just stand there for a few minutes before he started to talk, you know, until my brain could unfreeze from the paralysis induced by his absolute physical perfection.

I can't tell how big the venue is. You're right, the microphone suggests it's a big room. The way the students seem to be in a half-round around him suggests "lecture hall" to me, which could be a really high-ceilinged room with lots of tiers of seats. My lecturing-professor instinct tells me it's not big enough to hold 500+ people, though... but yeah, that's just instinct talking.

[bellewood.livejournal.com]

"But I might need him to just stand there for a few minutes before he started to talk, you know, until my brain could unfreeze from the paralysis induced by his absolute physical perfection."

I know exactly what you mean. Every time i've been lucky enough to be in his presence my brain completely freezes over and speech is totally impossible ;)

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking LJ's photo gallery automatically compresses photos into a preset size, and maybe there's a way to bypass that... but it might entail needing to know how big I DO want the picture to be, and then I start getting confused. :-p

I don't use the LJ gallery for that reason. If you save photos at Photobucket, you can check the box under the photo, go to the bottom of the page and choose "Generate link codes", choose the code for LJ (it's the top code), and then you have a clickable thumbnail. It's what I always do for really large photos. This isn't an Elijah pic, just the first large one I could think of.


(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/magicdancer/aabIO2cs.jpg)

[oxer12.livejournal.com]

I tried to talk my Mom into going, since she lives in Sarasota and I don't, but she wasn't up for it. Geez, Mom, why can't you just take on my obsessions in absentia? ;)

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's really helpful, yeuxdebleu, thank you! I'll try that next time!

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

SADNESS. She could have surreptitiously videotaped it for us. *sob*

[yeuxdebleu.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. I love Photobucket. It's very versatile and IMO by far the best image server. I don't even save many photos on my computer anymore. I just save them in albums, sub-albums and even sub-sub-albums at Photobucket.

[creekside12.livejournal.com]

More to come! According to the 'invite/flyer', the "Evening with Elijah Wood" is Tuesday Jan. 24th.
So, I guess today was a little meet&greet, Q&A thing.

[newleaf31.livejournal.com]

Something I saw -- on Twitter, maybe? I can't remember -- said today's was a "private screening" but tomorrow evening's event was... not. Which doesn't make sense, since tomorrow's also requires a ticket. So I don't know what the difference is between them. But yeah, more tomorrow! Yay!

[janejanejane.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the pics, Elijah is such a sweetheart :-)