2001 Exhibit News |
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Volume 2 |
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Feb 20, 2002 |
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Issue 55 |
Feb. 20, 2002:
Greetings from Dennis Gonzales
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Its 02/20/02 today. We'll we see some profound event today? Will the Monolith be discovered on Mars?
This week’s newsletter is very short because I am now upgrading the site for I.E. 5 and Netscape 6 and as always, I’m swamp with work this week. The 2001 projects are going great. A "2001" fan sent me two tapes of every commercial, television show or film influenced by "2001" or "2010" which Mark Watson and I watched while shooting the HAL brain room. As you can imagine, we were very sick of "2001".
We were very successful with the HAL 9000 brain room project and plan to photo shoot the Discovery 8-Screen room the first week of March. All pictures will be on-line in March.
I just received the Glenn Ludgate’s AE-35 Unit dish and mount from down under. It’s a really great effort and very large diorama (Takes up my whole worktable). I plan to own this model but Mark and I plan to add more to the diorama for a photo shoot in March. This model was created many years ago and I am privileged to have it as it is one of the first models that went the extra mile for accuracy long before a lot of "2001" model makers did today.
This week, Mark and I enter the website for the 2001 Webby Awards. As you know, the Webby Awards is about recognizing websites with good content in a category. Our category is Film. Since we are non-profit, the fee is 95.00 to enter the event and we are asking 5.00 per mailing list member to send to us to cover costs if they want to. We’ve been given an extension to apply but the organizers have given the "2001" Exhibit.Org a place for the awards without fee for the time being. For details about the awards, visit http://www.webbyawards.com
My address is, Dennis Gonzales, 82 N. Ellsworth Ave. #B, San Mateo CA 94401. Donors will be noted on the special page or anonymously.
You you have a "2001" or "3001" news to report to the World Tonight, please send them to me.
See you next Wednesday (Frank).
Major Tom re-visit us:
I guess that many people know about that story, but I think that many others don’t, so I consider to pass this to establish that "2001: A Space Odyssey" has given a profound impact in areas such as rock music. Most of us have seen the video clip "Believe" by Lenny Kravitz which is a real tribute to "2001", but even before, in the 60´s, another rock star has been influenced.
Originally, the second album of David Jones (a.k.a. David Bowie) was meant to call "Man Of Words, Man Of Music", but as Bowie told in a BBC series "Dancing In The Streets, circa 1995-, "2001: A Space Odyssey had a tremendous impact in his life and in his art, so he changed the name of the album and renamed "Space Oddity", which by course is the first number 1 song of Bowie.
As an epilogue, in the series quoted before, the interview with Bowie occurs in a hotel room that resembles the same appeared in "2001", with the music of Gyorgy Ligeti´s "Requiem" and a clip of the sequence "Jupiter And Beyond The Infinite" when the camera goes upper Jupiter and the light show begins.
I hope I have accomplished my point.
Posted by, Francisco Matos, frankblackhal@yahoo.com
Posted by:
Dennis Gonzales
2001: Exhibit