Monstrous

Awesome to see these familiar, yet alien, artifacts on our travels…

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Cinema Fist writes in their latest entry about the visionary ideas that both Stanley Kubrick and Auther C. Clarke had in both their film and writings, specifically around 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Amazing foresight is seen in the technology that was thought up, especially when it comes to the idea of the iPad.

quote from Clarke’s version of 2001:
“When he tired of official reports and memoranda and minutes, he would plug his foolscap-sized Newspad into the ship’s information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one he would conjure up the world’s major electronic papers … Switching to the display unit’s short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him. … the postage-stamp-sized rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination. “

more of the writing can be found on the Cinema Fist website

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Thinking about visiting the Guggenheim Museum soon? You should! Every Friday at the Sackler Center’s New Media they show interesting film screenings, which are free with museum admission Coming up:

Nonobjective Films, 1920s-1960s
A program of artists supported by Hilla Rebay
Organized by the Center for Visual Music
11 am
May 7 and 21

quote:

In the 1940s, curator and founding director Hilla Rebay planned to establish a film center at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, which later became the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, to collect and promote nonobjective films. She awarded grants to artists and presented programs of short experimental films. With the help of Oskar Fischinger, an elaborate film center was planned to include studios and planetarium-style projection capability. Although unrealized, Rebay’s support enabled many filmmakers to continue their work in abstract film. This program presents short films by filmmakers whose work was screened and/or supported by Rebay, including Mary Ellen Bute, Charles Dockum, Oskar Fischinger, Norman McLaren, and Hans Richter, among others. Having experimented with nonobjectivity, many of these artists were familiar with the work of Vasily Kandinsky, one of its most famous practitioners, having seen his paintings at the Museum of Non-Objective Painting.

Read more about what is being show by clicking here!

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
New York, NY 10128-0173

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