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estoreal estoreal made up words that seem like they ought to mean something thursday december 27 2012 mr thunderbird i couldn t quite bring myself to become immersed in childhood memories by watching old tv episodes this evening so i spent an hour watching this excellent documentary from 2000 i d never seen before and it cheered me up immensely they ve left quite a few things out for time reasons and some of the omissions leave a false impression about the sequence of events if you re a hardcore fan and already know the chronology but this really conveys the spirit of the shows and how popular they were it may help explain how some people think of gerry anderson the way people of other generations might think of walt disney or george lucas all four parts embedded below for your viewing convenience enjoy if you know anything at all about me you know this statement is the equivalent of a fish saying i didn t especially feel like getting wet tonight at 2 23 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 26 2012 gerry anderson stingray and thunderbirds were my first favorite things and gerry anderson was my first favorite creator those shows did so much to shape my earliest feelings of adventure and imagination and heroism i know he was in a bad way for a while and i m glad he s at peace now but a world that never had gerry anderson in it isn t a world i would recognize at 1 49 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday december 22 2012 submarines of your dreams i have to admit i had my qualms about the world ending but now that it s done a huge weight has been lifted off all our shoulders whew all the pressure is off here s the song that best expresses my sense of relief at 1 37 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday december 20 2012 one for the retrofuturists in 1957 a russian director named pavel klushantsev made a science fiction film called doroga k zvezdam or road to the stars it s amazing as far as i can tell from my position of not speaking russian the film was a kind of fictionalized documentary about the future of human space exploration much like the 1955 film man and the moon directed by ward kimball for walt disney yet klushantsev went far beyond any other filmmaker of the time in the cinematic ambition and scientific accuracy of his predictions all the clips from this film on youtube are worth watching but this particular segment includes some of the most striking no way was this made a decade before 2001 a space odyssey moments bear in mind this film was made even before the launch of sputnik i definitely see a lot of stuff in these clips using the same visual motifs and techniques and special effects methods used in 2001 and a few things the later film didn t even try to do the blatant visual similarities have made some people suspect stanley kubrick must have seen road to the stars while doing research for his film but it could also be a case of convergent evolution more details and links about road to the stars here and a tip of the hat to john sisson at dreams of space for posting about a czech children s book on space travel which seems to have been inspired by klushantsev s visionary film at 2 29 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday november 26 2012 out of the silent planet my guest post for the how would you fix blog devoted to fan created tweaks and revisions to mangled or ill considered comics continuity proposes a startling connection between the android vision of the avengers and the seemingly unrelated golden age character the vision created by joe simon and jack kirby for marvel mystery comics in 1940 this piece is definitely me working through some long standing childhood passions as noted in the introduction my first issue of the avengers was 55 the comic that introduced an evil robot named ultron back in 1968 a vague memory suggests that because my parents were devoted viewers of the avengers at the time i may have chosen this comic based on the title alone under the impression it was a comic about john steed and emma peel it wasn t but i liked it even better when ultron returned just two issues later to send his android slave the vision against the team i already considered myself a hardcore fan of the comic the vision never became a star outside of comic books but with his brooding introspective angst he went on to be one of the most archetypal of marvel characters come to think of it maybe that s why the vision never achieved crossover appeal the character is simply too much of the comics medium and perhaps can t work quite as well in any other format i m extremely pleased with how this piece turned out but fair warning it gets deep into the weeds of obscure marvel comics lore the vision has had a convoluted history and even though i ignore the most recent stuff i don t untangle those knots in his history but pull them even tighter my synopsis also pays deliberate homage to a couple of science fiction classics which i felt was only appropriate given the predilection of both roy thomas and jack kirby to borrow liberally from that wellspring anyway if you enjoy the continuity manipulations of steve englehart or kurt busiek this might just be your cup of tea the origin of the vision this time for sure many thanks to nathan adler for his encouragement and his patience at 8 33 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 22 2012 the strange world of my dreams on the friday night of nycc 2012 i had a dream that steve ditko showed up at the convention if you know anything at all about ditko you will know this is highly unlikely but in the dream he arrived at the convention and made his way to the kirby museum table in the small press area of the show floor i was alone at the table when ditko arrived none of the other museum crew were there so i did my best to explain to him the goals of the jack kirby museum and ditko was not happy about it at all he was very much annoyed not because we were proposing a museum devoted to jack kirby that wasn t it at all ditko laid out his objections in great detail first of all we were simply asking people to donate money with nothing of equivalent value offered in return so the transaction was inequitable moreover we were collecting this money based on work which we had no hand in producing or causing to be produced taking advantage of someone else s labor rather than creating value by creating and presenting something material of our own worst of all we were proposing to take this work which we had not created and turn it to a purpose for which it had never been intended the pages of a comic book were drawn solely to be reproduced and published for a mass audience dream ditko said once they had served that purpose these pages were without intrinsic value to elevate these pages to the status of art objects divorced from the context in which they were created was an absurdity the creator of the comic book page did not intend for that page to be viewed as a separate object in its own right so there could be no possibility of artistic intent carried out in its display i tried to cut in at that point pointing out that not all work by mr kirby and believe you me i was careful to call him mr kirby in the presence of mr ditko never kirby or jack had been created for commercial purposes for example the psychedelic flyers prints we were offering as a thank you gift for museum donations my favorite items on the table they weren t designs for characters these pieces were intended to be viewed for their own sake as art besides i suggested even if a page of comic book art isn t intended to be displayed as a work of art in its own right at the very least it has historical value as an artifact representing a critical stage in the process by which a comic book is created i can still remember the first time i saw original art from a comic book in an exhibit at the brooklyn museum that included pages from books by jack kirby and neal adams to see those pages from comics i d loved made comic book creating and publishing seem that much more real to me surely galleries devoted to comic book pages could be another vehicle for making it all more real to people who might not think in terms of comic books having creators at all i was hoping that if i talked quickly and matched him for earnestness ditko would be more willing to accept what i was saying then i pushed it too far i started to tell ditko that the people i knew who most admired jack kirby were also tremendous admirers of his own work and wanted to see him get the credit he deserved and that did it ditko decided i was trying to butter him up and he had no patience at all with appeals to his vanity i d blown it he went away mad and then i woke up yeah my dreams are like that sometimes especially when i m wired after having to be on for two days soliciting donations for the kirby museum at a comics convention with two more days to go after that but dammit even after i d worked out exactly what to say to him ditko never showed up at 1 41 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 26 2012 this just in i know i haven t posted anything here in ages but if you re still reading this blog for some reason and if you re also attending the new york comic con on october 11 through 14 at the jacob javits center just two weeks from now i ll be there with all the folks behind the jack kirby museum and research center at booth 2378 you ll find us right between comics artist and historian and friend of the museum arlen schumer at booth 2376 and comixtribe at booth 2380 here s an interactive map of the show floor where you can zoom in and find the kirby museum just to the right of the area marked as construction zone though personally i like to think of it as the wild area and all the other myriad attractions the exhibitor floor has to offer i expect to be at the kirby museum table for virtually all of the convention except for meals and bathroom breaks if i even get those that s pretty much how it worked out last year and this year it s bound to be even more crowded if you re there it d be awesome if you stop by and say hello at 8 18 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me richard i am a bipedal mammal native to cold climes and my tolerance for high temperatures is exceedingly low i require water several times a day do not ingest before operating heavy machinery in case of sudden dizziness please remain seated consult your physician before ceasing to take the recommended daily dosage wear your mittens view my complete profile blog archive 2012 15 december 4 mr thunderbird gerry anderson submarines of 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