2001: A Design Something Every Day Odyssey

I am a big fan of film­maker Stan­ley Kubrick (1928–1999), so you can imag­ine my excite­ment when I saw this post of great pro­mo­tional pic­tures from 2001: A Space Odyssey on the blog Stan­ley Kubrick — Deserv­ing of Wor­ship. A nice sen­ti­ment for one of the great­est film mak­ers we’ve ever seen.

Kubrick was great film­maker and a real artist. His films have been com­pletely digested by the cul­ture and have become a sort of visual short hand.. the mono­lith, Dr. Strangelove, Alex & his droogs… These arche­typal images have burned them selves in or col­lec­tive con­scious­ness like ghosted images on an old CRT mon­i­tor. The great Mar­garet Cho is aware of Kubrick’s iconic power (see here). His last­ing influ­ence  is the true mark of a genius and con­sum­mate craftsman.

In that  vein I designed this desk­top wall paper for my com­puter as apart of my Design Some­thing Every Day Project.

Here’s a few great Kubrick links and resources:

Stan­ley Kubrick: Inter­views (Con­ver­sa­tions With Film­mak­ers Series)
Ed. By Gene D. Phillips

This book includes the amaz­ing inter­view with Eric Nordern orig­i­nally pub­lished in Play­boy (Sep­tem­ber 1968). It has one of my all time favorite quotes, some­thing of a mantra for me:

The most ter­ri­fy­ing fact about the uni­verse is not that it is hos­tile but that it is indif­fer­ent; but if we can come to terms with this indif­fer­ence and accept the chal­lenges of life within the bound­aries of death — how­ever muta­ble man may be able to make them — our exis­tence as a species can have gen­uine mean­ing and ful­fill­ment. How­ever vast the dark­ness, we must sup­ply our own light.” — Stan­ley Kubrick

Some good Kubrick resources:

• The Kubrick Site — an Amaz­ing col­lec­tion for all things Kubrick
• The Offi­cial Warner Broth­ers Site for his films.
• Kubricks IMDB Site

Finally the trailer to 2001: A Space Odyssey, what inspired this post to begin with.

Related posts:

1. Amaz­ing Short Ani­ma­tion of Stanely Kubrick Films