A little movie nostlgia about Rocketman.

I thought it would be fun to post a lot of images of how a Rocketman might be depicted. A lof of different artists and film makers have had takes on the original flying suit man from the old Republic Serials.

In 1949 there was a serial released named "King of the Rocketmen." A scientist named Jeff King, and played by the actor Tristram Coffin, strapped on a very light looking rocket suit that was powered by attomic energy and had a very aerodynamic shaped helmet. He also had a ray gun.

 King of the Rocketmen was released by Republic Studios in 1949 and ran for a stunning 14 chapters, using stunts and more stunts, and lots of found footage to give it a larger scope and feel.

Not unlike what our less expensive films of today utilize in order to keep costs down and profits high.

While not from the movies or serials, I thought it appropriate to include this song from Sir Elton John. An aptly titled song, "Rocketman."

Rocketman (click on this link to listen to the song and view some pictures of Elton John.)

And of course no Rocketman blog would be complete without real Rocketmen daring the atmosphere with bombs attached to their backs and a cute child dressed up to fly away in his rocket suit.

The next major attempt at telling stories of men in flying suits was Rocketeer which started as a comic book and then was launched into a full blown movie that never quite got off the ground, even though it had all the right elements.

Drawing of Rocketman as portrayed by Tristam Coffin

The pose that, on the ground at least, the jet flying man will be remembered for. "Don't move or I'll blast you!"

Well, time for a plug.

You can buy my version of Rocketman for 99 cents at Smashwords now. It's a great read and I loved every minute of writing it. It takes Rocketman in a totally new direction.

To purchase the first exciting story about Rocketman, just click on.Rocketman.

LInks to some cool stuff and new artwork

Check out my pinterest site for some funny and exciting Rocketman images.

Check out my author site as well. I just updated a lot of things.

Some fun things I created.

Added another free book, more Holmes images and some more Conan

Is this really a portrait of Mrs. Hudson in her younger days? Was she really the favorite lady of Lord Bromwaller, the infamous blaggart who sent his minions through London on errands of thievery and mischief?

Or is this an imposter. A fraud. Someone trying to ride the good graces of the kind Mrs. Hudson?

Added more images and about five animations to my art site.

Go to John Pirillo's Golden Realms of Art to take a look at what's new.

Sigh! Getting smarter, or just one more step down to dumb!

My art site is up and running

Okay. Enough already. I will never finish the site I'm now posting, so I thought I should post it so you can watch it as it grows. I am quite prolific as an artist, as well as a writer and I thought it would be fun to put this out now, rather than wait for it to be perfect.

I realized it can't be, because I am always adding more and changing things.

So enjoy and visit my new art site by clicking on the link below. 

John Pirillo's Golden Realms of Art

The Case of the Vanishing Website has been solved!

Original illustration by Sydney Paget for the Sherlock Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"It would seem Sherlock that we  have finally caught the culprit who was sabotaging Mister Pirillo's author site."

"I heartily agree, dear Watson. A most scandroulus situation has been nipped in the bud."

"What do you suggest we do about it? Doctor Watson asked.

"Why not give them the link so they can see all the dastardly things that Mr. Pirillo has been doing in his spare time."

Doctor Watson chuckles. "What spare time?"

"Why, his play time, his sleeping time and his lunch time, of course.

"But how could you possibly know that, Sherlock?" Doctor Watson gasped in surprise.

"Elementary, really. Were he an ordinary human being he would be sleeping a full eight to ten hours every night. He would be stuffing his face with scones...."

"Wait!" Watson interrupted. "That's what I do!"

"Quite right, dear fellow, and you would do well to stop that, or you'll get fat!"

"Uh, huh, I see." Doctor Watson said in a grumbly voice. "So what else clued you in to this man's tireless behavior?"

"The fact that he has been up for several hours already typing this little story before he even thinks of going downstairs to make his morning meal."

Sherlock turned around and looked up at Watson, then took a quick puff on his pipe. "I suggest we get properly dressed, because he's about to put us through some horrible conditions in our next story, " The Case of the Vanishing Hero."

"What manner of clothing?" Watson insisted on knowing.

Sherlock rose from his comfortable position and stretched. "That, my dear Watson, is for the author to tell. Now let us prepare!"

"Very well." Watson replied, grabbing a scone from the plate Mrs. Hudson had left for him, and hoping Sherlock hadn't seen him pocket several more. "I will post the link here right away!"

"Great, Watson. Now let us hurry: 'The Game's Afoot.'"

www.johnpirillo.com

my author site is fi finally working!

www.johnpirillo.com is now working!

Log on to check out the goodies!

Yay!

Journey to the Center of the Earth trailer with original artwork from the manuscript by Jules Verne

Original artwork for Center of the Earth and other juicy things.

all images on this post are courtesy of: wikipedia

Above image is the 1878 edition cover of Jules Verne's classic. 

Below is an Amazing Stories cover for it.

Below is the actual mountain that Jules Verne used as the place of descent into the center of the earth in his classic.

 

Journey to the Center of the Earth novel is finished!

Over the weekend I was one busy little beaver.

I finished the final edit of my Journey to the Center of the Earth novel. I will post the cover in the next day or so.

I hope to publish that to a tradebook version as well. I'll keep you posted as to the progress of that as I am able.

Meanwhile, the first novel is a greatly expanded version of the first eight stories I told about the Journey and more connected. I had a lot of fun expanding the characters and giving them more cool things to do as they go deeper beneath our planet.

Hopefully, their journey will ask questions in your mind about many things that we take for granted, but perhaps won't afterwards.

I had a lot of fun expanding and joining everything and I think it's a great read at over three hundred and fifty pages!

 

Above is an image of what international satellites spied floating just above the moon's surface before the first Hollow Earth Special Forces team descended into the depths.

Below is an image of what some scientists believe to be the shape of our inner earth.

 

And below this line is a fantasy perception of what the center of the earth looks like.

The above illustration was taken from one of the original publications of Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Captain Nemo's Nautilus artwork posted

I have just finished the cover to my new novel about Moriarity and hope to have the final editing done before the end of the week. I should have the digital version published on Amazon and Smashwords by Friday.

I'll post the new cover when I get time.

Meanwhile, above is an illustration I made of Captain Nemo's Nautilus, which is used in my Moriarity novel. I think it's really sleek looking and fits the style of the alternate world of Moriarity.

Reverting my pro site back to Weebly's free site until pro site fixed

Hey Everyone.

Still having trouble getting Yahoo and Weebly to agree with each other on what's wrong with my johnpirillo.com site so I've reverted the site back to Weebly's free site, which is more limited, but still allows me to post and for you to see it.

Until I can get the problems worked out with Weebly and Yahoo I have reverted my pro site back to the following: Golden Realm Stories

Sorry for the delays!

John 

The Scorpion King

For all you folks who enjoy Mister Johnson, here's another photo.

Well, he looked pretty good and offered a new hero to the masses in the Scorpion King. Little did they know their villain would turn out to become a good guy later on. Dwayne Johnson rules in the muscleman roles these days.

Looking forward to his next G.I. Joe movie.

Silly Disney Hercules

More Hercules for all of you who like looking at muscle men and men of legend!

Kevin Sorbo...nice TV version of Hercules

The original Hercules Steve Reeves, who starred in Hercules and Hercules Unchained and a bunch of other sword and sandal movies there were hot for their time and fun to watch.

The newest Hercules and best so far.

Where would we be without marvel to take it to the next level!

 Hercules comic book!

Hercules! Yay!

Saw the Dwayne Johnson version of Hercules tonight and loved it. It's got a lot of heart! If you haven't seen it, give it a shot.

Mr. Johnson is getting better and better as an actor.

Stargate

New Stargate movies are coming! Yay!

Cartoon

Ever feel like you're having one of those days?

More photos in Conan story

Added more photos of old London for your viewing pleasure of old London and its more foggy times in the Conan story.