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That Big Thing Back There 5
Scanned from one of my “Space Books.” (Click for much larger images.) Two by Angus McKee (top). (See Octopunk’s TBTBT2 post for two more by the same artist.) Sometimes That Big Thing Back There is...
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ConEd is not screwing around
Current view out my living room window. Consolidated Edison is, like, really getting down into my street. They make a lot of noise. (Click to see larger version, for whatever un-Godly reason)...
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That Big Thing Back There 6
J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie gets its own TBTBT post for honoring this fundamental sci-fi schtick so marvelously. Here’s 23rd-Century Iowa, still clean and untouched, with enormous arcologies on the...
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Jordan’s modern “2001: A Space Odyssey” trailer
Exactly in line with Handsome Stan’s comments about old trailers, here’s my modern trailer for Stanley Kubrick’ 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. I did this a couple of years ago and added it to...
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Undercover Boss
Any other H’thonners into this show? I never watch reality television but I’ve eagerly devoured all eight episodes of this excellent, Dickensian CBS series. It’s uplifting and troubling at the same...
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Hey, JPX, how are you liking “Space: 1999″?
Recently JPX mentioned that he’d rented the first DVD of the 1975 British sci-fi television series Space: 1999, starring Martin Landau and Angelina Jolie, which is one of my favorite television shows...
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Okay, okay…
No, it’s not actually Angelina Jolie starring in Space: 1999 as Dr. Helena Russell (below); it’s the one and only Barbara Bain, Martin Landau’s then-wife, whom I described in my “Bringers of Wonder”...
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Barbara Bain as Dr. Helena Russell: Her debut scene
I’m working at cross-purposes to myself here, because I love Space: 1999 and I want everyone to watch it (Look at that incredible production design!), but I also dislike nepotism and I kind of wish a...
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That Big Thing Back There 7
“Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due” DEPT: That Big Thing Back There, courtesy of James Cameron, who displays a triumphant mastery of the concept in the above images from Avatar. (Click for larger...
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