LOST auction and exhibit August 21-22, 2010 in Santa Monica

Locke's wheelchair from LOST up for auction

Bid on Locke's wheelchair

There are a lot of props from the show up for auction. There are items you can hold in your hand, such as an Apollo candy bar, young Ben Linus’ glasses, and Walt’s Spanish comic book, and there are items you can climb into, such as Locke’s wheelchair, the Dharma van, and Hurley’s Camaro.

Take a look at the auction preview. There’s an amazing amount of items for sale — it looks as if it might be almost every significant prop in the show.

You can bid online, by phone, or in person. Tickets for the in-person event, which is going to be in a hangar at the Santa Monica airport, go on sale on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. You can order a catalog by mail or look at it free online. More information.

Editing to add: Watch the auction live!

LOST-related Events at San Diego Comic-Con 2010

Daniel Dae Kim from photo shoot

Daniel Dae Kim will be starring in the reimagined version of Hawaii Five-0

Comic-Con 2010 is this week. While there won’t be the kind of LOST panel that we’ve seen in the past, there will be plenty of events featuring LOST actors, writers, and fans.

Here’s the schedule. Twitter will be a good bet for live coverage.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

4:30-5:30 LOST’s composing genius Michael Giacchino will be a member of the panel in Behind the Music with CW3PR: Composing for Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy Film & TV.

Friday, July 23, 2010

10:15-11:15 Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) will be on the panel Aloha, Earth! discussing the remake of Hawaii Five-0. Kim was the first actor cast for the show (he will play Detective Chin Ho Kelly), which also stars Alex O’Loughlin (Moonlight), Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica), and Jean Smart (Martha Logan on 24). The show will start in the fall on CBS.

7:30-8:30 30 Days of Night: Dark Days This panel is for a movie based on a graphic novel, starring Kiele Sanchez, who played the ill-fated Nikki Fernandez (as in, Nikki and Paulo) in LOST’s most hated sub-plot. Wishing her better luck in her new role.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

1:00-2:00 The Write Stuff: Creating Genre Television. Among the 11 writers on the panel are two from LOST — Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Jesse Alexander. This looks like a very interesting event. As does the next one:

1:00-2:00 The Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack. Here’s the official description: “Father and son team Jay and Jack Glatfelter have one of the oldest and biggest podcasts dedicated to ABC’S Lost. Discuss the stirring series finale, and learn about the huge dedicated online community for TV’s most mind-twisting drama. Join Jay and Jack for this special interview and Q&A session!”

2:30-3:15 V Screening and Q&A with, of course, Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet). V will be coming back in the middle of the fall season.

4:15-5:00 The Vampire Diaries Screening and Q&A with Ian Somerhalder (Boone). Vampire Diaries will be back in the fall.

This one may be the most LOST-centric event of all:

6:00-7:00 Lost But Not Forgotten Official description: “Lost Encyclopedia authors Tara Bennett and Paul Terry, along with other special Lost guests, discuss this seminal show’s legacy, their thoughts on the finale, and the creation of the forthcoming Lost Encyclopedia.”

Sunday, July 25, 2010

11:15-12:15 Cartoon Network: Tower Prep with Firebreather Sneak Paul Dini, the creator of this new live-action mystery show, was a writer and story editor on LOST.

Editing to add: I just noticed that JOpinionated has a list that includes these events I missed: Sterling Beaumon (Young Ben) and Andrea Gabriel (Nadia) signing autographs; a Friday night casual get-together with Jay & Jack; executive producers/writers Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis on a panel on Thursday 11:15 to 12:45; Michelle Rodriguez (Ana Lucia) on a panel Thursday 1 to 2; J.J. Abrams on a panel Thursday 3:30 to 4:30; Elizabeth Mitchell on two more panels in addition to the V panel listed above (Friday 4-5 and 6:30-7:30); and Lance Reddick, who played my favorite non-starring character (Matthew Abaddon), in a Fringe panel on Saturday 3:15 to 4:15 .

Photo of Daniel Dae Kim is from his official website.

Someone in a polar bear costume, wearing a Dharma Initiative jumpsuit, playing an accordion, on Hollywood Boulevard

The LOST spirit lives on, in a strange kind of way:

Via reddit.

Vilcek Foundation LOST Exhibit catalogue now online

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Front room of the Vilcek exhibit

The Vilcek Foundation just announced that they have posted on their website the exhibit catalog and exhibit book, along with fan photos, comments, and drawings, from the LOST exhibit in New York that closed on June 5.

The catalog has descriptions of all the props that were shown in the exhibit, including who made them, what they were made of, descriptions of what they meant in the show, memorable moments where they were used, and sometimes notes about odd facts or mistakes, such as Jack Shephard’s name being misspelled on the envelope of Locke’s suicide note.

The book has interesting interviews with some of the members of the cast and crew.

I’ll be posting the rest of my photographs from the exhibit here on the blog when I finish fiddling around with them.

Pictures from the Vilcek Foundation LOST show

I went to the Vilcek Foundation exhibit on closing day, Saturday, June 5, 2010. It was in a small-ish gallery — two rooms, connected by a hallway — that was nice and cool on a hot, muggy day.

Photos on the wall celebrated the multi-cultural backrounds of the LOST crew and cast. The rest of the space was filled with props from the show, including Sawyer’s letter, Charlie’s heroin-filled statues, the Dharma bus, Hurley’s winning lottery ticket, costumes, hieroglypics from the Temple walls, Jughead the bomb, and the frozen donkey wheel.

Here are the first few pictures. I’ve got a lot more, which I’ll be posting later.

Outside the building:

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Entrance to the Vilcek LOST Exhibit

A friendly policeman stood right next to the door. I couldn’t figure out why the show needed police protection. Were they expecting a riot, with fans who liked the ending brawling with fans who didn’t? Just kidding. Maybe some celebrities were expected to come by later. Or maybe it was because the props are valuable and they were guarding against theft. In any case, he seemed to be having an easy day:

A friendly policeman guards the exhibit

A large mural filled a wall in the entryway:

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Mural in entryway

The first thing you see when you enter the gallery is Mr. Cluck’s chicken, Dogen’s costume, and a Dharma bus — a shiny Dharma-vintage one, not the crumbling old one that Hurley drove in the meadow:

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Mr. Cluck, Dogen's costume, and a shiny blue Dharma bus


More pictures later.

Vilcek Foundation LOST exhibit in NYC closes on Saturday, June 5, 2010

An organization called the Vilcek Foundation, which honors foreign-born artists and scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the United States, has been running an exhibit of LOST props and images, with a unique focus on immigrant and first-generation contributors to the show.

The exhibit opened on May 20, and will have its last day this Saturday, June 5. I’m going to try to go before it closes, since I’m in New York now.

For photographs of the exhibit and visitor comments, see the Foundation’s Facebook page.

Here’s a video made on opening night, when Jorge Garcia, Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse, and Zuleikha Robinson showed up:

It looks like they have a lot of cool stuff there. I’ll try to take some of my usual out-of-focus pictures.

Location and hours:

Vilcek Foundation
167 East 73rd Street (between Lexington and 3rd)
New York, NY

12 pm to 6 pm, Friday 6/4 and Saturday 6/5
Admission is free

The rerun of the finale is the “enhanced” version

Just a heads up, that tonight’s (Saturday, May 29, 2010) rebroadcast of the LOST finale (6×17-18 “The End”), which just started a few minutes ago on the East Coast, is one of those “enhanced” episodes with the pop-up hints.

5/31 Editing to add: The enhanced version of “The End” is available on Hulu (scroll down — it’s underneath “Episodes” and “Clips”).

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