2001 Exhibit News |
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March 7, 2002 |
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Issue 56 |
March 7, 2002:
Greetings from Dennis Gonzales
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The past week and a half, we’ve updated and upgraded the website and we
still continue to make progress.
I’ve also been very busy with my day job but we’ve managed to work odd hours to get the website up to speed for the Webby Awards.I like to thank local "2001" fan Terry Boblet and from England Nick Day for helping us in the editing department. We also like to thank Brian Shook from Bethlehem, PA USA, for donating his hard earned cash for our entry into the Webby Awards and the lovely letter of inspiration. Photographer/Model Maker, Mark Watson and I ask you now to send us money orders if possible, otherwise, we can accept checks. We will add a sponsor page next week from our donors. For details about why we are in the Webby Awards, please read our last newsletter at http://www.2001exhibit.org/press/2002news_feb.html
We should have more QuickTime movies from our Tech Museum "2001" exhibit held last year next week. Stay tune!
Fan Request:
Shannon asks, "I was hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction, I am an artist who has been also seduced by 2001: A Space Odyssey, and am looking for some info on the room during the infinite scenes- I was wondering if you had ever run across dimensions and or plans for that set, including color of the walls and moldings used. I am interested in recreating a sampling of the room and want to do it right- also do you know what the paintings are from? I do not recognize them but I might be able to reproduce them."
You can contact Shannon at dehmons@pacbell.net
The Learning Channel "2001" Special Update:
We have completed filming and are now in the editing phase. We expect to complete the program in late May; the Learning Channel has not yet told us when the show will be broadcast, but we are guessing sometime this summer. Our interviews included: Sir Arthur C. Clarke; Frederick Ordway; Neil McAleer; Vincent LoBrutto; Rodney Brooks (MIT); Anne Foerst (computer theologian); Guy Gardner (Space Adventures); Joe Allen (former astronaut); Rita Kempley (film critic); Steven Wise (animal rights
activist, who talks about the idea of giving legal rights to highly intelligent robots); Francis Slakey (astrophysicist and space policy expert); Raymond Kurzweil (inventor); and the NARHAMS model rocket club in Washington DC. We have received lots of help and support from such people as Dennis Gonzalez, Dennis Gilliam, Scott Alexander, Alan Nadel, Robin Mortarotti, and Mark Watson.
- From Alan Butler, WardTV.
Website Update:
Visit the press section for the months of January and February from our newsletter, the World Tonight –
http://www.2001exhibit.org/press/2002.html
http://www.2001exhibit.org/press/2002news_jan.html
http://www.2001exhibit.org/press/2002news_feb.html
"I sense something strange about him…" – Frank Poole freaking out on
HAL.
"2001" fan Robert Carey reports to us something strange about the 2001 DVD box set:
"I'd put off getting one of those DVD boxes until last week, even though they'd first been released last summer. The box set comes with a 70mm film frame and print of the docking sequence, along with a small booklet and a remastered version of the soundtrack. The DVD was made using the newly restored master print of the film we'd seen playing at various Cinerama houses this past year. Dvdplanet.com still has some priced at about $44 and that's a bargain!
Anyhow, the strange thing that I noticed hit me *right* away when I popped the plastic and opened the box. On top of all of the other contents in the box, there was a printed flyer announcing new DVD box sets for two more of Kubrick's films, "A Clockwork Orange" and "Full Metal Jacket."
What was odd about this particular flyer was that it very clearly stated, in large text no less, that the two new box sets would be
"Available September 11, 2001"
Before 1968, most people didn't really think about the year 2001. But once Kubrick's film came out you couldn't help but associate that number and that year 2001 with his movie. Of course that all changed last fall.
From now on people will remember the year 2001 because of September 11.
Well, this little coincidence managed to give _me_ the creeps!"
==8-o
- Robert Carey, hari@second-foundation.org
You have a "2001/2010" news to report to the World Tonight, please send them to me.
See you next Wednesday (Frank).
Ebay Alert to all HAL fans:
Got some spare cash?
The only surviving HAL 9000 from 2001 A Space Odyssey, $300,000:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1519915501
HAL 9000 from the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey". This is the real HAL 9000. HAL 9000 is the Cinerama 160 degree Fairchild-Curtis lens used to film actual scenes from HAL's point of view for "2001". It also doubled as the prop, the eye of HAL 9000. Hal is the only artifact left from the movie "2001". All other models and sets were destroyed according to American Cinematographer Magazine, 1985. The lens is currently in a housing similar to the original. Also included is an original "2001" movie program, AND two issues of American Cinematographer Magazines, 1968, on the production of "2001" and "2010" in 1985.
Documentation provided to serious buyer. Video tape shows how HAL originated and was used by Stanley Kubrick. Send any serious questions or inquiries to kwvista@bellsouth.net. Payment accepted by certified check or bank draft. Buyer pays Shipping, handling and insurance.
Posted by, Mike Feeney, mfeeney@yahoo.com
Will HAL ever be off the brain? This from Popular Science...
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,198188,00.html
I, PC
Shrinking chips and other new technologies are spreading computer power all over the body and then out to the network.
by Christina Wood
Consider HAL. The artificially intelligent computer in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey knew where every crew member was on the spaceship Discovery, what he was doing, and even how he was feeling. From a distance, HAL's ubiquitous red eye, attached to a mainframe network, watched its subjects with curiosity, empathy, and eventually disdain.
Now forget that once-believable vision of the future, says Steven Schwartz, a research scientist in the Human Design Group at MIT's Media Lab, who, among other things, has designed augmented reality systems for the International Space Station and the first primitive wearable computers by Xybernaut (see "Quain Tries the Gear," link in the right column). The coming generation of PCs, Schwartz says, will know everything HAL knew, but they won't be remote from us. Instead of residing in a box or being tethered to the wiring of a ship, they'll be intimately laced into the fabric of our bodies and day-to-day lives.
"I don't think about my shoelaces all day long," says Schwartz. "Neither should I have to think about my computer. It will become a part of me."
If that's the next wave of computing, clearly little that's come before fully prepares us for it -- a time when it will be impossible to distinguish where the PC ends and the person begins. We'll wear networks and technology the way we wear clothing; we'll have personal software agents that will do our bidding even while we sleep, exploring both the Web and real-world venues for things we need to know, and keeping us prepared for even the most unlikely incidents. Our skin may be a constant swirl of invisible data and computing activity; our vital functions will be tracked continually, both by implantable health monitors and devices woven into our shirts; and purchasing items in a supermarket may become as simple as putting them in a bag and walking out the door as they're automatically scanned and debited from the personal ID system in the computer lodged in our sleeve. We already hang cellphones, PDAs, MP3 players, wristwatch messaging systems, and heart monitors all over our bodies. But as technology inexorably becomes smaller and more powerful, these devices will shrink so as to be indiscernible. In the 1960s, enormous computers were kept in clean rooms behind glass. Today they're tiny enough to drop in a pocket. "By 2010 we'll routinely wear PCs that are so small that we won't be able to see them," predicts Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence and a leading PC-is-the-person proponent.
This article goes on for several pages http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,198188,00.html
Posted by,
Mike Jackson
Mental Pictures Photography & Graphic Design
http://guide.net/~mental/
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2001 Concert for local fans!
The San Francisco symphony performs Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra on March 21st at the Flint Center, Cupertino California and Mar 22nd & 23rd is at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco.
Elgar's concerto, from 1920, is a somberly gorgeous farewell to a way of life that had passed. Zarathustra is a great work of late Romanticism, beginning with the most famous opening in music.
Hugh Wolff, Conductor
Michael Grebanier, Cello
Sebastian Currier Microsymph
Elgar Cello Concerto
For more information and to hear the music, go to
http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/bydate.asp?nodeid=94
Posted by, Terry Boblet tboblet@onebox.com
Posted by:
Dennis Gonzales
2001: Exhibit