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Mooseheart

HuronBob — Fri, 17 May 2013 21:43:35 -0800

Mooseheart Orphanage, 1948 A haunting image of children's faces from the Mooseheart Orphanage, 1948. The photo was taken by Stanley Kubrick for the June 8th, 1948 edition of Look.

45 years ago, the future visited us...

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:57:23 -0800

The stewardess who retrieved a sleeping passenger's floating pen. The man in the ape suit who howled at the monolith. Arthur C. Clarke, recalling how he thought Stanley Kubrick was wrong, back in the day, about HAL being able to read lips, but later, aware that computers were developing such ability, admitting that he had been wrong. This and much more in The Making of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Meanwhile, from Douglas Trumbull, here's Creating Special Effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey. And here, full to bursting with interesting info, is the IMDb trivia page for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Why all this? Well, it's in honor of the 45th anniversary of the film's world premiere. Thank you for the masterpiece, Mr. Kubrick.

Kubrick's condensed NYC

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:53:02 -0800

Follow Tom Cruise as he navigates his way around Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut Greenwich Village set [via]

Note: CRM-114 is a Kubrick trademark

griphus — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:29:21 -0800

A scene-by-scene breakdown of Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Minifig, I can walk!

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:39:46 -0800

Stop-motion Lego Dr. Strangelove (part I | II) [Lego kubricks via]

Vanishing point

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:13:48 -0800

Kubrick - One-Point Perspective (vimeo) Sounds of Aronofsky (vimeo) Tarantino - From Below (vimeo) Wes Anderson - From Above (vimeo) Breaking Bad - POV (vimeo) Previous 1, 2

How “2001″ Became the Space Odyssey We Know

SpacemanStix — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 11:54:53 -0800

"James Cameron narrates this documentary on the classic film 2001. It includes archival footage of the late Arthur C. Clarke in the 1960s touring spacecraft manufacturing facilities, footage of designers putting together models, snippets of archival footage of Kubrick, interviews with various luminaries, and various other amazing stuff I’ve never seen. It also features interviews with Doug Trumbull and others who did special effects for the film. If you’re a 2001 fan, this is 43 minutes of candy. Skip to 7:00 to find out how they did the floating-pen trick — including an interview with the actress who played the “Space Hostess” who grabbed the pen seemingly from midair. Skip to around 11:00 to meet the guys who played the apes ... . Around 13:45, Clarke explains how the monolith originally was to have a movie screen on it ... ."

Why wouldn't Blind Joe Death be in the shot?

OmieWise — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:50:27 -0800

Alex in the Chelsea Drug Store. A frame-by-frame archeology of the records and magazines in the Chelsea Drug Store scene of A Clockwork Orange. [NSFW]

Every Hollywood Movie Is A Children's Film

The Whelk — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:54:37 -0800

Essayist and cartoonist Tim Kreider is no stranger to film criticism ( previously) but his thoughtful, surprising, detailed analysis of Lynch's The Straight Story and Spielberg/Kubrick's AI deserve special attention.

Shooting 2001

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:33:36 -0800

Shooting 2001 A collection of black and white production stills from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey [via]

Kubrick In The 60s

The Whelk — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:57:21 -0800

Stanley Kubrick didn’t like giving long interviews, but he loved playing chess. So when the physicist and writer Jeremy Bernstein paid him a visit to gather material for a piece for The New Yorker about a new film project he was writing with Arthur C. Clarke, Kubrick was intrigued to learn that Bernstein was a fairly serious chess player. The result was an unusually long and candid recorded interview for the New Yorker. (77 min)

Kubrick Cats

timsneezed — Fri, 04 May 2012 13:15:13 -0800

Despite his austere public image, director Stanley Kubrick was an avid lover of cats. He owned many cats and often brought them on set or into the editing room, where they were fed Evian water in Spode china bowls. Treating his pets with the same attention to detail that was his trademark as a director, Kubrick once handed his family 15 pages of instructions on how to care for his cats while he was away. In an interview about the making of the Shining, Kubrick speculated that his cat Polly might be psychic:

In addition to the great variety of unexplainable psychic experiences we can all probably recount, I think I can see behaviour in animals which strongly suggests something like ESP. I have a long-haired cat, named Polly, who regularly gets knots in her coat which I have to comb or scissor out. She hates this, and on dozens of occasions while I have been stroking her and thinking that the knots have got bad enough to do something about them, she has suddenly dived under the bed before I have made the slightest move to get a comb or scissors. I have obviously considered the possibility that she can tell when I plan to use the comb because of some special way I feel the knots when I have decided to comb them, but I'm quite sure that isn't how she does it. She almost always has knots, and I stroke her innumerable times every day, but it's only when I have actually decided to do something about them that she ever runs away and hides. Ever since I have become aware of this possibility, I am particularly careful not to feel the knots any differently whether or not I think they need combing. But most of the time she still seems to know the difference.

LEGO Science Fiction

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:38:12 -0800

LEGO Science Fiction - with bonus build plans for the 2001 Discovery and other scifi-inspired creations

Secret uses of Uranus

jadayne — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:20:08 -0800

From one of Stanley Kubrick's notebooks comes a list of potential titles for the 1964 movie that was eventually named, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Interestingly, that particular title doesn't feature on this page.

How to make sense of Conspiracy Theories

McLir — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:22:44 -0800

"How to make sense of Conspiracy Theories" [Part 1 of 9 from YouTube] Rob Ager is best known for his very thoughtful analyses of films such as The Shining [see also this analysis of the Overlook's geometry, previously], A Clockwork Orange [and supplement], Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Aliens, Taxi Driver and others. He has recently completed an analysis of the subject of conspiracy theories. "All of us, from time to time, will believe that two or more people in a particular context have conspired to achieve a mutual aim – be it cheating in a card game or engineering an international war. It isn’t by definition a lapse in logic to believe that a conspiracy has or is going to occur in a given situation. Conspiracies do happen and it is a natural facet of healthy thinking and self-preservation to seek out awareness of conspiracies that may affect our lives." [Text version, Ager's Collative Learning site]

A selection of Kubrick's photojournalism

Blazecock Pileon — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:35:30 -0800

Stanley Kubrick's New York and Chicago [ via ]

Lost: Wired's Guide to Pop Culture's Buried Treasure

reenum — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:58:23 -0800

Wired takes a look at some pop culture legends that elude fans and collectors.

beanplating spatial geometry in The Shining

juv3nal — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:35:48 -0800

It was like I’d been here before. I mean we’ve all had feelings of déjà vu but this was ridiculous. It’s almost like I knew what was going to be around every corner.

I Have Seen The Future, And The Future Is Jar-Jar

bardic — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:53:11 -0800

Many would agree that the advent of CGI has made movies worse, not better. Blogger Gin and Tacos makes the argument eloquently: "The fundamental problem is that CGI, rather that being a tool that allows directors to explore new creative possibilities, just enables laziness."

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wcfields — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:43:53 -0800

/ / R | | P \ \ for the recently departed John McCracken (1934 – 2011), a West Coast artist who brought a New Age openness to Minimalist sculpture, along with a vocabulary of bright, sleek slabs, blocks and columns that balanced teasingly between painting and sculpture. McCracken differed from the Minimalists — and from the Los Angeles “light and space” and “finish fetish” artists with whom his work was also affiliated — in his belief in U.F.O.s, extra-terrestrials and time-travel. In interviews that gave his work a distinct frame of reference, he frequently likened his art to something that an alien visitor might leave behind on earth. McCracken was bedeviled by Stanley Kubrick's famously obscure science-fiction epic, "2001: A Space Odyssey," with its iconic image of an ancient monolith floating in outer space. The 1968 blockbuster was released two years after the artist made his first plank. "At the time, some people thought I had designed the monolith or that it had been derived from my work," he told art critic Frances Colpitt of the coincidence in a 1998 interview. [Post paraphrased from several linked obituaries: LA Times, NY Times]

Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago, 1949

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:28:27 -0800

Stanley Kubrick’s Chicago, 1949 [ via ] “Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist. In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called “Chicago City of Contrasts.”''

Stanley Kubrick Video Tribute

kmz — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:17:46 -0800

A Stanley Kubrick Odyssey - A Video Tribute (NSFW) (If you want to bypass the Youtube adult content screen, the embedded version here should work, as well as possibly the inline Metafilter player.) Bonus Kubrick: Day of the Fight, his first film, a 1951 short documentary.

Stanley Kubrick's cardboard box

Joe Beese — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:46:28 -0800

Stanley Kubrick liked things just so. Including cardboard boxes. (2:05 .wmv)

1000 1/2

thescientificmethhead — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 12:20:17 -0800

Short clips from classic movies "TRON-itized": Sherlock Jr, Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, The Big Lebowski, Hard Target, Modern Times, Hard Luck, and Aliens. (via AICN) Background on the contest.

give me your answer, do

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:21:01 -0800

You know which song the very first singing computer sang, right? Yup, just like you saw in the movies, only this one didn't slow down when he offered up his electronic rendition of the tune that was toppermost of the poppermost on both sides of the Atlantic back in 1892.