Hello netters According to SOTSK twitter, Isabel and some others from the team will arrive at Tanzania tommorow. They will start the journay on the 7th of January. They have also released a training video of Isabel and the others which is really fun to watch!

Stay tuned for information, coverege and more from the climb at Isabel Lucas inspired the next days! You can also visit SOTSC’s website here.

Hello dears I want to wish you all a happy new year from myself and Ida! Hopefully you are all having an amazing new year eve, with your friends and families. We hope to have a few surprises up by today/tomorow to celebrate the start of a new year, wich is going to be a huge year for Isabel!

2009 has been a very good year for both the site and Isabel. She debuted on the big screen, has covered many magazines ( VOUGE being one of them! ), got tons of new fans and also 4 amazing new fansites ( isabellucasfan.com , isabellucasweb.com, isabellucasfan.org & isabel-lucas.org ) and she has recived tons of upcomming film projects! As for the site, our galleries has grown with about 20 000 photos, we finally reached our icon archive goal on 1 000 icons, we have a gorgeous new layout, the site has been converted into wordpress and we have had quite a lot of section openings and closings. I, aswell as many of you I bet, is looking forward to see what the next year brings for both Izzy and Isabel Lucas inspired! In March we will celebrate 5 years online, so expect a big celebration then!

AND REMEMBER THE BIRTHDAY PROJECT GUYS! There is only a few days left now, and we really need many more submissions. Its so easy to enter, you dont need to do anything but to fill in a form – a quick 2-3 sentence messege is really enough  This is an amazing change for you to contact Isabel without actually needing to do anything else then to post something here. Lets make Isabels birthday special – you all know she deserves it Click here for more information, and to join!

Hello again dears! Im running very late for a appointment I have, so I wont be able to make this post very neat – Ill edit it when I get back later today  But I have added quite a lot of HQ event pictures from past events Izzy has made! You can view them all here.

I’ll edit this post with some previews and album folders etc later today hopefully. Have a nice day everyone, and enjoy whats left of 2009!

Hello netters I hope you are all enjoying the last wednesday of 2009! I dont have a very big update right now ( a HQ appearance update is comming in a few seconds tough ), but I still think it is pretty awsome: Our icon archive has finally reached 1 000 icons! It has been updated with almost 200 icons the last past days. Thank you so much to everyone who have donated lately, its been crazy how many donations we have got the last few days. I would give a special thank you to the ones at starszz I will post a few previews on some of my many favourites that have been donated or created by the staff – but there are tons more in the archive! Enjoy <3

Yes I am a fan of the over-textured look on icons hehe :p But for those who prefer them a bit more “calm”, theres tons for you in there aswell! Enjoy all the Izzy goodies, and stay tuned for an image update asap. You can view our icon archive here!

Hello netters Only a very short update right now. A new clip from Isabels upcomming film “Daybreakers” has been released! No Isabel in it unfortunately, but it’s still exiting to see.

“Daybreakers” unleashes the monster in new clip. When a mysterious plague has swept over the earth in year 2019, majority of world’s population have turned into vampires. These blood-sucking creatures are hunting the humans which are now endangered species.

Humans are forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction. It’s all up to Edward Dalton, a vampire researcher who refuses to feed on human blood, to perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans.

But time and hope are running out – until Ed meets Audrey, a human survivor who leads him to a startling medical breakthrough. Armed with knowledge that both humans and vampires will kill for, Ed must battle his own kind in a deadly struggle that will decide the fate of the human race.

Starring Ethan Hawke as Edward, Is as Alison and Willem Dafoe as Elvis, “Daybreakers” will be released in theaters across U.S. on January 8.

One campaign takes the high road, which will lead a team of celebs, do-gooders and hypoxia enthusiasts to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, to raise awareness of the global clean-water crisis. The other takes the low road, descending to the lowest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench, near Guam, and then sinks even lower in a cheesy attempt to sell cars.

Yet both promotional efforts suggest a trend in what might be called expedition marketing. This is the era of Discovery Channel-style, extreme adventure entertainment — Bear Grylls living off spiders in the Kalahari, Matt Watson jumping from a helicopter onto a sailfish, great races hither and yon. And causes and companies seem to be ever more willing to go to the ends of the Earth to get attention back home.

On Jan. 7, an expedition sponsoredby Hewlett-Packard will set out for the icy caldera atop Kilimanjaro, at 19,340 feet the highest point in Africa. The Summit on the Summit project was the idea of Ethiopian-born American musician Kenna, whose father had suffered from water-borne illness as a child. Joining Kenna on the mountain will be 14 other team members, including certified A-lister Jessica Biel, hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco, actor Isabel Lucas, clean-water activist Alexandra Cousteau (granddaughter of Jacques) and Kick Kennedy (daughter of environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.).

Mountaineering enthusiasts will recognize the name Jimmy Chin, legendary alpine adventure photographer, for whom the slog up Kilimanjaro will feel like a speed bump.

In support of the event, HP is running 30- and 60-second commercials to drive viewers to the project’s Web portal (www.summitonthesummit.com). There, users can learn more about the water crisis, donate to the cause, sponsor a foot of the climb, tweet the climbers and buy some of the affiliate sponsors’ gear (First Ascent by Eddie Bauer, PUR water filters). The website also includes a graphical altitude scale on which users can click to get updates from the teams, including tweets, blogs and video clips.

HP will equip climbers with its Light and Thin notebook computers to handle the social media tasks, while the base camp will be fitted with high-power HP desktops and media servers.

This is by no means the first time a tech company has sponsored a climb. Dell, Apple and Microsoft have all been to the top of Everest, along with a lot of other Fortune 500 brand names. But with its constant, boots-on-the-ground updating, this might be the most socially mediated climb ever attempted. As such, it’s brilliant positioning for HP and Windows,which are waging a war of cultural attrition against the presumably hipper, younger, more social Mac.

Also feeling a cool breeze at its back is First Ascent by Eddie Bauer, which is a new line of expedition gear to compete with the likes of Patagonia, North Face and Marmot. Eddie Bauer — long consigned to mall-bought, flannel shirt ignominy — suddenly seems a lot more relevant in the outerwear category.

The Summit on the Summit effort is a beautifully constructed piece of cause-related marketing, not least because of its exotic venue. The glacier on Kilimanjaro has shrunk dramatically in the last century and, while there’s debate about the proximate cause (climate change vs. declining humidity due to surrounding deforestation), there’s little doubt about other glaciers’ around the world disappearing and taking the local melt-water hydrology with them. The mountain is an icon of the larger cause, and HP does well to be a part of it.

Meanwhile, some 55,541 feet below the summit of Kilimanjaro, there rests another monument to marketing adventure, sort of.

At some point in the last year — the timing isn’t exactly clear, though the video was posted Dec. 22 — Alfa Romeo of Belgium supposedly lowered a large steel-and-plastic billboard to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, at a depth of more than 36,000 feet, the lowest point on Earth. The effort, called Alfa Romeo Expedition 147, was intended to dramatize the lowest possible prices on the Alfa 147. The sign reads: “We can’t go any lower.” Too true.

The project, the work of agency Duval Guillaume, is semi-seriously documented in a six-minute, viral-only video posted on YouTube, which lauds the work of a “unique team of explorers.”

“We needed a campaign that really pushed the limits; so if this is the lowest price possible for an Alfa Romeo, then maybe we should place the poster at the lowest place possible,” says Geoffrey Hantson, creative director at Duval Guillaume.

It’s not particularly important to determine whether the video is a hoax or not. Whether Alfa Romeo Belgium did or didn’t throw this monstrous piece of trash into the ocean, it has trivialized the problem of ocean pollution.

What’s interesting is the use of the Mariana as a geologic prop, and it’s hard not to see the symbolism of these global extremes, the most inaccessible places on the planet, gradually succumbing to the predations of advertising and marketing.

Perhaps apropos of its global footprint, Coca-Cola has set out to make the whole world its expedition. On Jan. 1, in Madrid, three young people — “happiness ambassadors” — will embark on Coca-Cola’s yearlong Expedition 206, visiting all 206 countries in the world where Coke is sold in an effort to find what makes people happy (wanna bet it’s Coke?).

This expedition too will be wired, with constant updating on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and the event’s portal ( www.expedition206.com). And considering some of the places Coke is sold — Yemen, Rwanda, Myanmar come to mind — the ambassadors should have a fairly exciting trip.

Stay tuned. Coca-Cola is betting you will.

Hello sweeties Only a very short and not so special update right now! I have added 7 gorgeous outakes from the Instyle magazine photoshoot Isabel did back in 2008. We already have the magazine version of these, aswell as the whole shoot tagged, but these are unmarked shoot versions. Enjoy!

- 7x Instyle magazine outakes untagged

Thank you to Christina for these!

Hello netters
As promised, here is a content update for you lot! Mostly, its only small updates, but I hope you will enjoy them nevertheless. First up, I have added a Shop for Isabel page to the Isabel section ( which is far from done ), where you can find links to places where you can buy Izzy posters, DVD’s, clothes and more! Second, I’ve added a Makeup page, where you can take a look at some of the different make up styles Izzy has had. The page with guides on how to copy her make up will be up soon! Next up, I have a new game for you lot :p I called it Guess the interview, and its a simple game which tests your knowledge on Izzy quotes from miscellanous interviews.  I have also updated the Votes and Polls page with some new votes, aswell as deleting the old ones. The icon archive has also got about 30 new icons!

More Fashion and interact will be added sometime later this week, aswell as more Home and away captures!

And now over to the big update: I finally created a press archive for our site! So far, I have put up a layout, aswell as added all our past articles and interviews. Tons more articles, transcripts, reviews and more will be added in the next few days! Theres already a lot of nice reading in it, so make sure you drop by. Most of the things are really old, but its fun to read what Isabel tought about her future back then You can visit our press archive here. I didn’t feel that our online magazine “Latest Lucas” fitted in the press archive anymore ( Especially since its been ages since the last issue! ), so I put up a page for it at the fanzone, calles Latest Lucas.

There has been released a review of the Red dawn script by the way, which you can read in our press archive. An outake:

So I got ahold of the script for the upcoming Red Dawn remake from MGM, and thought I’d try to give you a scoop on as much as I can without spoiling the whole movie. Generally speaking, the story isn’t bad, but the dialog is a cliché-ridden mess, and a lot of the action sequences are only half written or fuzzy from a physics standpoint. It’s hard to imagine how they’d shoot a lot of them unless they use that “cause-blur-effect” style shaky-cam editing, but considering the director did stunts on Bourne and was the second-unit director on Quantum of Solace, that’s probably exactly what they’ll do.

Enjoy all the small updates, while you are waiting for the bigger ones

Hello again dears Yes, its another Home and away update! I have had a lot of request for new screencaps lately, and I have answeared to everyone that there would highly likely not be any new caps added to Isabel Lucas inspired on a while. The reason for this is that I no longer have any uncapped taped episodes on my computer, and the site I got episodes from online closed their episode section. But today I actually found a new place where I can get episodes! So hopefully I will be able to regulary add captures of Tasha to our galleries again. First out is episode 3565, 3845, 4023 and 4037! Isabel looks awsome in these, especially in 3845 – which is in a really good quality!

 
- Home and away episode 3565:  98 screencaps
- Home and away episode 3845: 315 screencaps
- Home and away episode 4023: 25 screencaps
- Home and away episode 4037: 299 screencaps

Next up is a new content update – Keep checking back, it will be online very soon

Hello netters! Gorgeous and good-quality screencaptures of Isabel at the 470th episode of Filmink has been added to Isabel Lucas inspired’s galleries! If they look familar to you, its because Isabel did an interview with 20 minutes online which looked a lot alike earlier this year. But these are in a better quality, and Isabel has some utterly cute face expressions in this one! She also told the interviewer that she had to learn Russian for her role in Kin - and blushed when she found out that he spoke Russian himself and wanted to have a conversation with her lol. But she actually said some of her lines from Kin on russian and looked amazing in it, so I hope to have the interview up in the video archive for you sometime soon! While you are waiting, enjoy the screencaptures ^^

>> Gallery link: Isabel at the 470th episode of Filmink x90 files