2001: A Space Odyssey

Other pictures show it's sheet metal held together with pop-rivets, not a solid block.

(Although I guess aliens could've also developed pop-rivets)

It's the next evolutionary stage of a Toynbee tile.

Conspiracy dingbats already co-opted the story ffs.

https://www.disclose.tv/t/what-is-this-thing-why-is-it-being-covered-up/8896?fbclid=IwAR0zC7KBNvdHubOZ0DnFJ0YsI1pkRp-e1zbYyv97W4COXH5InQxqk1zJ6Cc

ARG game for the next Boards Of Canada album.

I thought exactly the same thing

?fbclid=IwAR0zC7KBNvdHubOZ0DnFJ0YsI1pkRp-e1zbYyv97W4COXH5InQxqk1zJ6Cc

You forgot the "?"

less than two days for youtube clout chasers to sit on top of it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U63zicCAQIk

Not gonna give them the click, but that sucks. The Utah parks people said don’t do that, the area is remote and isolated, etc.

they flew in on a helicopter as that's their thing.
btw
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/arts/design/john-mccracken-utah-monolith.html

they released the mccracken.

but what about the alien mindbenders?

Impressive reference.

omg it's actually on Steam

and discounted at 60% off. so under a couple of quid

Someone has now removed it

“Someone”

?

Whichever federal agency manages that land sure as shit needed to remove it, especially after those helicopter cowboys showed up on that youtube that forks linked, above.

The agency says they didn’t. Maybe they’re lying, but they’re the ones who announced its existence to the public in the first place.

http://i.imgur.com/9pYVabH.png

Simplest explanation is that the aforementioned cowboys, or others like them, made off with it.

good riddance

this was cool as an idea but the internet kinda ruins everything.

Simplest explanation is that the aforementioned space cowboys, or others like them, made off with it.

The fuck’s your problem?

huh?

Space cowboys? More like some JOKERS.

Oh, I get it. Apologies I flew off the handle, should have read more carefully.

gangsters of love iirc

of what do you speak?

The pompatus of love?

or perhaps Maurice

A (shoddy-looking) copycat effort has surfaced in Romania.

Angry mob of locals

https://boingboing.net/2020/11/30/utah-monolith-was-removed-and-broken-down-by-annoyed-locals.html

(After trying so smash it with bone, obv)

it was probably an alien disc that had many cures for many diseases n we DISTROYED IT?

"This is why you don't leave trash in the desert" and "Leave no trace" otm

Maybe they really loved some peaches?

Can anyone identify this painting from the beyond the infinite hotel room?

https://ro.nu/2001/d.html

https://ro.nu/2001/d1.png

and this one:

https://ro.nu/2001/c1.png

Oh, I'm sure I've seen something or read about these, let me look through my books.

I seem to recall that they were recycled (Barry L possibly) but I could be wrong.

As always with Kubrick, nothing is straightforward.

https://idyllopuspress.com/idyllopus/film/2001_boucher.htm

https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/igrfi5/can_someone_identify_this_painting_from_2001_its/

yes that's definitely the same one in 'the man who knew too much', not that that makes it easier to identify! the fact that two of the paintings have been identified suggests that, even if they were painted for the studio, they were copies of genuine works rather than complete pastiches.

feel like he missed a trick here: itt: paintings that are plot-points in movies and TV that are terrible paintings (or excellent ones if there are any)

https://live.staticflickr.com/4480/24097904808_9ab1284082_b.jpg

Assumed the revive was for 2001 winning the Sight and Sound poll.

Tangentially related — Idyllopus Press’s cluster of analyses around the painting in Lolita are, as usual for that site, an absolute tour de force. (I read the middle one recently)