One of the fictitious faux pars, or errors, that could be attributed to former US President George W Bush is the Presidential order issued in 2001: A Space Odyssey that ultimately brought about HAL’s malfunction (and the resulting mayhem), during USS Discovery’s doomed voyage to Jupiter.
The discovery of the monolith on the Moon, and the [...]
HAL’s malfunction: by way of a Bush Presidential order?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 3 April, 2009 to the movies subset
Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, fiction, HAL, HAL 9000, Presidential order, science fiction, USS Discovery
Stanley Kubrick aboard the USS Discovery
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 26 November, 2008 to the photography subset
From the Google repository of Life Magazine photos, a shot from the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey with Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, and Stanley Kubrick taken on board USS Discovery.
If you ask me, Keir Dullea (as astronaut David Bowman) looks slightly surprised to see Kubrick, as in, “I didn’t know you were travelling to [...]
From the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 15 July, 2008 to the movies subset
For 2001: A Space Odyssey fans, a photo that apparently has not been previously published, featuring Stanley Kubrick, Keir Dullea, and Gary Lockwood on one of the USS Discovery sets.
Via Coudal Partners.
USS Discovery: a LEGO Odyssey
Posted by John Lampard on Sunday, 16 March, 2008 to the design and art subset
USS Discovery: a LEGO Odyssey
Awesome LEGO model of the USS Discovery One, which was the ship that travelled to Jupiter in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
As seen in the motion pictures 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact, the Discovery is one of my favourite science fiction vessels. This [...]
