DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum --Temporary Exhibit: The Barmecide Feast (2001: A Space Odyssey room) (in Gallery 104):
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Description of Pictures: 2001: A Space Odyssey Immersive Art Exhibit
April 8, 2018 – May 28, 2018
Immerse yourself in “The Barmecide Feast,” a fully realized, full-scale reflection of the iconic, neo-classical hotel room from the penultimate scene of Stanley Kubrick’s and Arthur C. Clarke’s landmark film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
This temporary exhibit is the centerpiece of the Museum's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Access to the installation is free, but timed tickets are required.
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SI2001_180403_097.JPG: Curator for the exhibit
SI2001_180408_005.JPG: 2001 -- A Space Odyssey
Screenplay
by
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke
July 6, 1965
SI2001_180408_061.JPG: Stanley Kubrick ordered the film's sets destroyed after production in 1967.
SI2001_180408_076.JPG: Astronaut Tom Jones took a copy of the book, a childhood inspiration, into space.
SI2001_180408_087.JPG: HAL stands for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer
SI2001_180408_090.JPG: "I am afraid I can't do that, Dave."
-- Hal 9000
SI2001_180408_097.JPG: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke wrote the film's screenplay together.
SI2001_180408_103.JPG: Arthur C. Clarke published his novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" after the film debut.
SI2001_180408_108.JPG: Robert McCall created several paintings that were used to promote the film.
SI2001_180408_128.JPG: The film premiered in Washington DC, on April 2, 1968 at the Uptown Theater.
SI2001_180408_137.JPG: The world premier of the movie was here in Washington DC at the Uptown Theatre.
SI2001_180408_213.JPG: The Barmecide Feast
(The Inner Cave)
Simon Birch
SI2001_180428_042.JPG: The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is home to a collection of papers by notable science fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke. Pictured here are pages of 2001: A Space Odyssey the novel and screenplay, as well as his reflections on working with the movie's director Stanley Kubrick.
SI2001_180428_045.JPG: Did you know? 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered in Washington, DC at the Uptown Theater. Though the response to the film was mixed, it is regarded as highly influential and worthy of preservation by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry.
SI2001_180428_047.JPG: In February of 2001, NASA astronaut Tom Jones flew aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis with two special items: a copy of 2001: A Space Odyssey and a carving stone to represent the book and film's iconic and mysterious monolith. Jones donated these items to the Smithsonian.
SI2001_180428_049.JPG: A Space Odyssey
Concept art
by Robert McCall
Space Station V serves as a waystation between Earth and the Moon. Dr. Heywood Floyd, director of the agency that oversees all American spaceflight operations, stops there on his way to investigate a mysterious artifact buried under the Moon's surface at Clavius Base.
SI2001_180428_054.JPG: Lunar Base Clavius
Concept art
by Robert McCall
In Kubrick and Clarke's year of 2001, humans live and work on the Moon. Travel to and from the Moon is so routine that work continues as a spaceship lands in the background.
SI2001_180428_062.JPG: Inside the Discovery
Concept art
by Robert McCall
The inside of the spaceship Discovery One spins to create artificial gravity for the crew, creating a comforting living and working space during their mission to Jupiter. Astronaut Frank Poole is depicted here in his spacesuit that you may recognize as similar to those worn on Clavius Base.
SI2001_180428_079.JPG: Space Pod and Discovery
Concept art
by Robert McCall
At the advice of Discovery One's computer HAL, astronauts David Bowman and Frank Poole fly out to check on the spaceship. Not finding anything wrong leads Bowman and Poole to begin questioning whether or not they can trust the self-proclaimed infallible HAL.
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2018 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Greenville, NC, Newport News, VA, and my farewell event with them in Chicago, IL (via sites in Louisville, KY, St. Louis, MO, and Toledo, OH),
three trips to New York City (including New York Comic-Con), and
my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles).
Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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