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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 8, 2014 6:31:07 GMT -5
I would have agreed with you but for the fact that Ian not only posted where the photo was taken (circa) but the year that it was taken 1979, which means his mother does what any loving mother does and dates the photos, which means Ian would know his age at the time since he was born on December 8th, 1978, which means the photo was taken in August the following year. Also it is not unheard of for babies to look older or bigger in photos, my niece who turned 1 in February in her baby book has got her sonogram photos, a photo of her from birth, three months, six months, nine months and now 12 months and in all of them she looks bigger then she actually was in reality. She was also walking by the time she was 8 months old as charted in her baby book, my nephew even earlier, plus she is almost as tall as her two year old cousin. And Ian having a full head of hair doesn't help.
Had he not put the year, I too would have though it was a typo and he missed off the 1, but he also included the year. Mothers tend to put the dates on their childrens photos, therefore, for it to be a typo error, Ian would have put Circa, June 1980, that would make him 18 months old.
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 8, 2014 14:02:58 GMT -5
Ahhhhh, big sister Robyn posted this photo of her baby brother Robyn Somerhalder@robynsome·Mar 6 @_IanSmolderFan It's really him. He was probably around 3-4 years old here.
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 8, 2014 14:14:28 GMT -5
Everyone is loving Ian's baby photos they are trying to get Robyn to post more.
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 8, 2014 16:10:55 GMT -5
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Post by Doppelgänger on Mar 12, 2014 8:50:52 GMT -5
Catching up on recent events. Ian was at Mardi Paws this past weekend!
Cute pic!
And I love how he looks right into their eyes...I would faint I think!
Can I get my necklace from him like this, too? (From Mardi Gras the weekend before last...)
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 12, 2014 12:14:41 GMT -5
Ian Somerhalder Jennifer Goddard Huete
YOUNG BLOOD The Vampire Diaries’ bad boy Ian Somerhalder returns to his New York modeling roots in spring’s sharpest looks PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALICE + CHRIS STYLING BY CHRISTOPHER
For a man who spends most of his time thinking about conservation, Ian Somerhalder expends an awful lot of energy. Like, nuclear amounts of it. It’s as impossible to ignore as his eyes, the most striking blues this side of Sinatra. He radiates passion and infectious positivity, and before I know it, a cynical writer is confessing long-forgotten passion and positivity to one of The CW’s hottest young stars over a bottle of Barolo at Gemma restaurant in The Bowery, Manhattan’s last remaining nabe where Ian Somerhalder exists in the wild. “I never go above 14th Street,” he confesses, smoldering with that knowing look that the incomparable Damon Salvatore, vampire extraordinaire, also flashes, charming millions of Vampire Diaries viewers over the past five seasons. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear I, too, was being compelled. Fresh from a shoot in trendy Noho for Watch!, Somerhalder looks the part in his downtown uniform: black leather jacket, skinny jeans and his trademark hat, tilted at an effortlessly cool angle. The jacket comes complete with a bullet pocketed during a recent retreat to 1,000 acres he keeps in rural Georgia, where the cozy confines of an Airstream trailer offer respite from a hectic filming schedule in nearby Covington. The bullet has followed him all the way to Gemma, where it’s discovered in a room illuminated by candlelight and mirrors—the perfect setting for “Smoldy,” as Nina Dobrev, his Vampire Diaries co-star, calls him.
On the cusp of turning 35, the actor doesn’t look a day beyond the 23-year-old he plays on the show. His vampire persona and ageless energy are partly thanks to a strict regimen of healthy food, boxes of vitamins and supplements, meditation and a medical spa he recently built in the 1,900-square-foot townhouse he shares in Atlanta with six dogs and two cats. And, he keeps the 1987 vampire flick The Lost Boys on repeat. “I feel like I’ve lived 100 lives. I am a vampire,” the Louisiana native says between bites, thinking back to his boyhood growing up on the swampy shores of Lake Pontchartrain. “When you look out over the lake, you can see the city twinkling in the distance. I would think, ‘I’m safe ’cause I know that they’re over there.’ I associated New Orleans with vampires, always. My mom was a huge fan of Anne Rice and I knew all about the whole folklore with Marie Laveau, voodoo and vampires.” In this latest lifetime, Somerhalder plays bad boy bloodsucker Damon Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries, a role he seems preternaturally suited for. And yet, his résumé (and Twitter feed) reads more like a Boy Scout’s Eagle Award project than a model-turned-actor starring on a hit show that recently taped its 100th episode. No stranger to the city’s hungry streets, Somerhalder savors another sip before recalling how he first came to New York a quarter-century ago.
“My mom used every dollar we had to send me to acting and modeling classes when I was 10. And then we would come live here for the summers. It was incredible, man.” Working two to three jobs a day for the likes of Ralph Lauren, The Gap, Calvin Klein, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Versace and Guess (which he served as the face of for two fall seasons), it wasn’t long before the 16-year-old model was living on his own uptown, traveling the world for jobs in Paris, Milan, London, Madrid and Barcelona. He also quickly realized that being in front of the camera was a means to a much bigger end. “In the fashion business, if you’re a creative director or you’re a designer, it’s a very creative business and you can drive it,” Somerhalder explains. “As talent in the fashion world, it’s significantly more vapid.” At 19, he quit modeling and turned his attention to acting classes, earning roles in 2002’s The Rules of Attraction alongside Jessica Biel and Kate Bosworth, and later as Boone Carlyle on Lost (2004) until ultimately landing his current spot on The Vampire Diaries in 2009. Meanwhile, he earned a self-guided degree in humanity. “You don’t have to be in an institution to study. The world has been a really cool classroom that we’re all in together, sort of bouncing around, learning, failing often, and passing sometimes. And just like in school, the kids who are nice make the experience a lot better. The kids who are bullies and assholes make the experience not as wonderful. The thing we’re lacking the most in the world, and yet what everyone wishes for, is compassion. My mom, Edna, is the one who instilled all of this in me at a young age.”
Once instilled, British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010 was the catalyst for unleashing it. “I just felt so helpless, so angry. When you’re from southeast Louisiana where everything is a microcosm that’s only indicative of that one place in the world—the biodiversity, and the interconnectivity between humanity and the environment is so closed-looped, it’s scary. Both of my parents made me understand that the balance is what you have to protect your whole life.” In December 2010, he created the Ian Somerhalder Foundation (ISF), a nonprofit that brings about change by empowering the next generation to solve global problems. Ever since, the actor has been a constant presence on the green carpet as a tireless advocate for everything from conservation, habitat preservation and green energy to animal sanctuaries, youth development, charter schools and the eradication of poverty. As head of the ISF and founder of five other companies, including Go Green Mobile Power and Ryot.org, he spends the few moments between film and sleep building for-profit entities “that will feed the necessary nonprofit initiatives in ISF, which is my most favorite baby.” Like I said, nuclear amounts of energy. So how does a man focused on such a profound, bigger picture reconcile with the day-to-day of playing a vampire for tweens and their moms on TV? “Hollywood gives me access to 200 million people who can read these messages [on ISF’s site] and be inspired. Here’s the deal with me getting to interact with millions of girls who really wouldn’t otherwise care about what I’m saying: The fact that they actually go and they look at it and read it, they’re still getting the information. If that’s the conduit, so be it. As long as they see it.”
Teen girls aren’t the only ones paying attention to his message. In the summer of 2012, Somerhalder was invited to breakfast in Los Angeles with other members of young Hollywood for a talk with President Obama. Somerhalder quickly pulls up a photo on his iPhone of him speaking with the president next to an American flag. “He said, ‘What is it that you know that I don’t know?’ And he genuinely wanted to know. He said because of the access that I have to people, I have a pulse to what’s going on in the world. How awesome is that?” His work as an actor/advocate also earned him a spot as a correspondent on this spring’s seven-part documentary, Years of Living Dangerously, premiering Sunday, April 13, at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime. “Hands down it’s the most important thing I’ve ever worked on in my life,” he says, beaming. James Cameron and producer Jerry Weintraub send him and familiar faces such as Jessica Alba, Matt Damon, America Ferrera, Harrison Ford, Olivia Munn and Lesley Stahl to cover the most pressing environmental stories facing us today. “It’s basically 60 Minutes meets Homeland, but it’s true,” Somerhalder explains. And if that weren’t enough, Somerhalder also serves as a designated goodwill ambassador to the United Nations’ environmental program alongside one of his Dangerously co-stars, Don Cheadle. “That’s pretty badass,” he laughs. As the interview draws to a close, I notice a small tattoo on his right forearm. “It’s ‘here and now’ in Latin,” he explains, which comes as no surprise from someone doing so much right here, right now. And yet, it’s the future that keeps Somerhalder most inspired. “Create the future, ’cause you’re going to spend the rest of your life there,” he shares, leaning away from his now-empty glass and reflecting for a moment before dashing off into the cold night to join the city’s other vampires.
cbswatchmagazine.com/blog/2014/03/11/ian-somerhalder/#
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 12, 2014 13:12:39 GMT -5
Ian Somerhalder helps draw record crowd to Mandeville pooch parade
Sunday's Mardi Paws parade in Mandeville, which featured "Vampire Diaries" star Ian Somerhalder, countless wildly-dressed pooches and a pleasant break from the doggone cold and wet weather, is being hailed as the biggest in the 20-year history of the event. Police estimate that more than 22,000 spectators turned out along the lakefront for the walking parade, many drawn by the opportunity to get a close up look at Somerhalder, a St. Tammany native and graduate of St. Paul's School.
Despite the large crowd, police said there were no significant problems reported along the route, other than parking and traffic issues that typically come with big events.
"Everything was under control, except for screaming teenagers and some screaming adults," Mandeville Police Chief Rick Richard said, referring to the crowd reaction to Somerholder, who walked the one-mile route handing out beads, throwing cups and posing for pictures with spectators.
Richard said the crowd appeared to be twice as a large as some for previous Mardi Paws parades. Vehicles were parked north of Monroe Street, which is about six blocks from the parade route along Lake Pontchartrain.
Mardi Paws organizer Denise Gutnisky said she met people from as far away as Houston who came in just to see the parade and its celebrity grand monarch Somerhalder, whose almost 10 million Facebook followers are a testament to his popularity. Sunday marked the first time that Mardi Paws featured such a celebrity.
Gutnisky said Somerhalder was a great complement to the parade, which included over 400 costumed dogs exhibiting various levels of enthusiasm. The event benefits local charities, including the St. Tammany Spay and Neuter Group. The actor heads a non-profit called Ian Somerhalder Foundation, which raises money and generates awareness for issues related to animal cruelty. "Ian was genially nice and stopped a lot to engage with the crowd," Gutnisky said. "He was very gracious." Ian Somerhalder throws cups to the crowd at the Mardi Paws parade in Mandeville Sunday.Darryl Lodato
On his Facebook page, Somerhalder posted a note Monday afternoon thanking the parade organizers and his "home city of Mandeville Louisiana for having this parade and the Mandeville Police Department for taking such great care of me, my family and our beautiful city. This is why I love being a Louisiana boy; we know how to have a good time... Wow. So grateful for the experience."
Somerhalder, who also rode with the Krewe of Endymion on March 1, made a special effort to return to his native St. Tammany for the pooch parade. He arrived from the airport Sunday from Austin, Texas, where he was involved in the South-by-Southwest music and film festival. He had to catch a 5 p.m. flight to get back to work.
Before the parade, Somerhalder was able to spend time with his family at McClain's Pizza near the parade route. Gutnisky said a large number of fans - many of them teen-aged girls - gathered at the eatery after the parade hoping that he would return, but the blue-eyed star was whisked away to catch his flight.
Gutnisky said the size of the crowd was so large that the concession stands sold out of goods. Local restaurants near the route were also packed with patrons, she said.
The only glitch with Somerhalder's reign as celebrity monarch of the parade occurred when it became evident that he had forgotten to bring sunscreen. Gutnisky said the star's contract prohibits him from getting too much sun, because vampires are supposed to have pale complexions.
"There was a last-minute scramble for suncreeen," she said.
Once the SPF 30 and a black hat were located, the parade went off without a hitch.
www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/03/ian_somerhalder_helps_draw_rec.html
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 12, 2014 13:18:06 GMT -5
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Post by Doppelgänger on Mar 12, 2014 18:26:10 GMT -5
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Post by Doppelgänger on Mar 15, 2014 0:05:31 GMT -5
Love this....wish I could have been there
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 15, 2014 16:54:11 GMT -5
Look what was trending worldwide today
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 15, 2014 16:55:37 GMT -5
ian somerhalder@iansomerhalder·2 hrs Beware the Ides of March...
Ian taking us back in history
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 15, 2014 16:58:53 GMT -5
Ian and Darren Criss
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Post by beangelic1000 on Mar 15, 2014 17:10:40 GMT -5
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Post by Doppelgänger on Mar 16, 2014 1:05:05 GMT -5
ian somerhalder@iansomerhalder·2 hrs Beware the Ides of March... Ian taking us back in history Hmmm...interesting quote. I wonder what he meant by that because to me it has a pretty negative meaning as in, beware of backstabbers, sort of thing.
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