2001: A Space Odyssey

Is it wrong that I want to see someone do a trailer like this for Lawrence of Arabia, Out of Africa, and Malcolm X?

Well, I think it was a pretty good trailer... if the movie was recut to match. I'm not a fan of the "mill" made trailers of today, but I'm not a fan of this movie either, too long and too bleak, and I can't tell whether the ending is suppose to be utopian or dystopian, but I vote for dystopian.

Re: Frau and Miss Cellania, sadly posts on the Septych had no clear and measurable jump. It aired here shortly after posted, but also appeared on several D.A. groups at the same time so sources are hard to gauge. The picture performed about about as well as my better drawings usually do, not half as well as some of my older ones. Had it jumped up to several hundred views at once I'd have been out checking, but even disregarding other promotions it's been under 10 a day. Maybe 100 additional views.

I've had two such experiences recently in which mega-epic scale blogs (Neatorama and Bits & Pieces) have posted my artwork or other works without any measurable effect on page views. I don't know if that's typical or if I'm the problem, or if it's some double fluke of the blogging world, which is certainly heavy with incomprehensible oddities of traffic flow and viral goings on.

It's irrelevant here though. I'm honestly thrilled to have been on Neatorama! I wish I'd known it at the time (I still have no idea how I missed it, I remember seeing the posts before and after it), it's a true honor and the closest I've had to my 15 seconds. It may have BEEN my 15 seconds... Certainly the biggest blog, the biggest following on or off the net to date to take notice of my work.

I'm sorry again if I tainted it, and sorry if I've been for a moment anything less than extremely grateful to Miss Cellania and others here. But please don't let that or the apparent slimness of results lessen my gratitude for having it here. "Results" couldn't be anything anyway compared to the experience of having my work on one of my favorite blogs.

Miscellania beat me to it.
@Delta-did you not wonder why there was a jump in comments on the septych?
I check my DA works on a monthly basis. When I see a sudden burst in comments or if there is a sudden number of likes on a work - I know that it has been posted somewhere on the Internet. And begin looking for it.

observer: I'm not at all upset.

Delta: No worries, I just wish Neatorama had helped as much as you expected.

I wasn't much older than 10 when I first saw it at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, and it was the most astonishing thing I'd ever seen. Never bored, my jaw was hanging open most of the time and I only blinked about once a minute.

To those who "weren't impressed": For the sake of comparison, go watch the movie "Marooned", with Gregory Peck & Gene Hackman, which won the Visual Effects Oscar™ the year after "2001". Great story and acting (think "Apollo 13"), but the cinematography and special effects were just awful. Then rewatch "2001", and see if you appreciate it any better.
You're welcome.

I was thrilled with it in 1968 (though somewhat befuddled by the "trippy" sequences - it was a few years before I discovered drugs) I was blown away by the "real" look of the spaceships and space scenes. Not like anything I had ever seen before. I saw it in glorious 70mm from the front balcony (loge) seats in the Uptown Cinema in Washington DC - a wonderful theater at that time.

I figured she must have been pretty young at the time. I wasn't impressed with it when I first saw it as a kid (not in 1968), and I still find it pretty dull now.

I agree that all people want is more of the same crap with different people, but all people on the Internet want is mashups and those awful recuts where different people from different movies say the same phrase or do the same thing. At least 2001 had a point.

Then you should have stated you were 10yrs old. Don't get upset, explain yourself fully and this sort of thing won't happen.

I did miss that and so I must apologize profusely. I follow this blog very closely and have no clue how I could have missed my own work on it. Had I seen it I'd have sent as many thank yous as I did supplicant letters in the past.

I did beg for you to show my Tarot deck when it came out, for my webcomic when it came out, for my novel when that came out. A couple letters each, with another one just sent for that drawing only yesterday (So the evidence I missed it should be in your mailbox, or at least spam filter). All as polite as I knew how to write and often endowed with what humor I thought you'd enjoy. I admit I got more sparse and simple as time went on. I figured I was wasting your time in the end and hoped brevity might work.

But until that link I thought you'd never read a single note I'd sent, or read them and ignored them. So now I have to beg some serious forgiveness for such a snide remark when you had actually done all I hoped.

I hope you can forgive the bitterness of someone who thought he'd been rejected without a word. Or if not forgive, at least understand. And if not that, I really have no right to ask anything. You never owed me squat and as it turns out, you gave me exactly what I wished.

So I apologize again, truly, for whatever its worth to you. And because I missed it at the proper time, I hope you'll at least accept my gratitude. Thank you very much for posting it. You remain the only one who cared to. I'm so sorry the first thing you heard from me after was irrelevant bile instead of the kind words I'd waited to long, on so many fonts, to send.

Thank you.

Delta, did you miss this?

http://www.neatorama.com/2012/07/18/the-orpheus-septych/

I don't recall you begging, however.

observer, I said "I wasn’t that impressed with it in 1968." I was ten years old. Seeing it a few years later, I appreciated it more.

Observer- What attitude will? I've tried quiet, laid back, polite, calm, supplicant, a whole lot of others and nobody ever clicked my name then, why shouldn't I try angry and frustrated? It worked for Allen Ginsberg and I have nothing to lose but obscurity.

NOT IMPRESSED WITH THE ORIGINAL MOVIE????? Wow, I am deeply disappointed in you for that comment. Compared to some of the Science Fiction movies around that time, this was a work of art. If you watched 2001 with the original soundtrack the producers actually wanted him to use, then I could understand. But his version was the greatest. Wow. I can't believe that. As for Delta...people want to see the same thing over and over again, just with different people. Sad. But take a pill, because with an attitude like yours no one will want to see anything you do. Sorry, but calm down. By the way, this was a terrible trailer and NO it did not make me want to see it again.

Dang it Alice I want MY blankie...

Will someone get Delta a cup of cocoa and a blankie?

It's a dull recut regardless but the internet is full of those.

What pisses me off is that after 20 years of creating original material, artwork, animation, film, a novel, a comic and much much more: After begging Neatorama to show my work over and over again and give me a foothold, a slim chance of getting it seen by someone outside of my own family- They post some idiot's poorly constructed edit of shots from 2001 to music.

If anyone reading this has ever wondered why Hollywood seems out of ideas, if anyone hates the heap of remakes and idiotic repetitious bull that constitutes art and entertainment these days, the above is your answer. My life's work is online for you to see. But you won't see it. I'll likely dwell in obscurity for life. All because your god damn aggregator sites would rather show you crap with no original content whatsoever beyond the unaesthetic conglomeration of things you've seen before. I could make films that would blow your minds. I never will, because this worthless drivel is all that gets seen and all that gets funded.

You people deserve the mindless remakes you've condemned yourselves to.

I saw this movie when I was in my early 20s and just didn't get it. Watched it again 20 years later and was really wowed. And no, I wasn't drugged up at the time. ;-)

A funny item about this great movie is that it was almost pulled from theatres from lack of sales until the drug scene happened upon it and it gained interest.