Christopher Mark Fowler: Actor, assistant director and camera operator in Sellersburg, Indiana.

Try the ImdB Pro new casting service. You can do a search by region, city etc. Good luck!

Thanks Linda. Don't know why I didn't think of that.

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Will do. I'll call you tomorrow. Just to let you know, I listed the address wrong. It is 200 SW 1st Ave in Ft. Lauderdale.

I was wondering about that. I was trying to remember what the area looks like. You didn't give a suite number and I think that is a really huge building. I could be confusing it with the place across from the Art Gallery. I'm here all day. If I don't answer, it's because I am doing a READING. Yes. I am your Psychic best friend.LOL

I can use all the psychics I can get. I actually have one that is in my up-line, but it never hurts to have more around. :) I'll be calling you this afternoon with more details on the shoot.

Well, the materials are not always the dominating factor in style. Most of the time styles are driven by certain trends in society. As one example, if you look at Henry VII, the style of clothing that nobility wore during his reign was driven by the styles that were popular amongst the nobility. Henry's particular style was influenced by commoners who were the German Landsknecht mercenaries that he had hired. During Elizabeth's (his daughter) reign, the style was also driven by the nobility. the high collars were designed with the idea of covering diseases that showed up through sores on the neck and wrists. Fashion trends moved pretty slowly until communications and travel technology was able to gt information and cultural trends out to people faster. During the 20th century, in the 30's and the "roaring 20's" styles were driven by America and our trend toward more freedom, shorter, tighter dresses/skirts and more skin showing. And let's not forget the bikini, which came about during atomic bomb testing in the 50's. So you can see that it is less about the materials used than the social influences of the day. There is an interesting book showing the clothing trends around the world from ancient Greece to about the mid-20th century, called "What They Wore". It is pretty interesting for getting costuming ideas and to see how things have been trending in the world.

Thanks a bunch for your thoughts guys. If you can think of any references, costume analysis, design inspiration, interviews with the designers...anything on costume in sci-fi i would really appreciate a link.x

Science fiction is one of the areas where a costume designer can, pretty much, completely let go, with certain reasonable limitations. With much of modern SF, we find that there are costuming needs for characters with complete cultures and species of alien origin. A good example would be Star Trek: Next Generation, where not only have they created entire cultures around the alien species, for the benefit of the show, but each one leans toward a unique and yet still familiar "feel" to them. A good example in that is the Ferengi; a species who's entire culture is built around business (the Rules of Acquisition), so their clothes have that "suit and tie"/business look and feel to them, then the Klingons with their warrior culture, so their costuming has that same look of the warrior, with armour, protruding weapons and such and the Bajorans, a religion-dominated culture with flowing robes and accoutrements for their clerics and a more agrarian culture feel to the general population's clothing. Three completely different species with three very different cultures. When designing a costume for any culture, in SF, you should consider the culture, the role of the character (are they a warrior, a scholar, a male, a female, hermaphrodite, their species has no gender at all, etc.), and their place within the culture (rich, poor, merchant, etc.). Costuming should always reflect the culture of the character in SF if you want to create the realism that makes the actor playing that character seem as though they actually ARE from that species/culture. For humans in SF, you can pretty much recycle styles, with modification for changes in society and materials and our own cultural trends.