Stanley Kubrick
The greatest film maker.
-
The Ultimate Trip
I was around 10 years old when I first saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on my local PBS station, KCET Los Angeles. I was flipping through the channels when I stumbled upon the sight of a giant room awash in red light within which, moving along to the sound of classical music, a round vehicle…
-
A Space Odyssey
Part Two of Debunking Stupidity: ‘2001’ set the standard for motion picture special effects, a standard that few films today meet. Kubrick, as we know, was a multitalented auteur; a man of many arts who could achieve nearly anything he set his mind to. The visuals of ‘2001’ were concocted by a team of new…
-
Serious Moonlight: Debunking Stupidity
“Yes, there is a conspiracy, indeed there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up… the main thing that I learned about conspiracy theories is that conspiracy theorists actually believe in the conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is chaotic. The truth is, that…
-
Discovery 2
For anyone who has read Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey series of books, you would know that the Americans were building a second spacecraft to rendezvous with the original Discovery 1, only to book passage with the Russians when they found out that the Discovery 1 would plow right into Io. In this drawing I am imagining…
The Numinous Cosmos 