2001: A Space Odyssey Moon-Watcher and Bone Replica!

[@CaptainBobRockets]

Steve Neill is a wonder. His crafting ability covers such a wide spectrum. His lovely wife, Mary, is quite the artist as well. They were both so kind to give me a personal tour of their workshop and interview me on their podcast.

[@Rockhopper1]

Steve is such a nice guy and a very good friend. I watched him online build this for you, and it was amazing to see it grow.

[@semidemiurge]

link?

[@iamflipachip]

@@semidemiurge kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6WofZWOe5umsNU

[@tested]

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[@ivanheffner2587]

Anatomy: radius/ulna would be a forelimb, the fused bones in the analogue of a human lower arm that allows your hand to pronate. The hindlimb analogue would be fibula/tibia. - _That Guy_

[@paulfox3532]

As an X-Ray tech, that bugged me too....also that guy, lol

[@lauraodonoghue1348]

As A medic, me too, do I get to be an honorary “that guy”?

[@specificorb3]

@Corat thats not funny man, thats racist. nobody likes a racist.

[@specificorb3]

@Corat it's the internet suck it up, somebody was gonna call you out on your racism eventually. Snowflake.

[@valorreplicas]

Thanks Adam. A real treat to see you enjoying this. Also, lessoned learned, a large slab of resin might just warp in shipment :)

[@vaultglorious]

Awww man -- I was just about to comment that it looks intentional. Just enough curve that the knobs on the lower half of the bone clear the surface but not so much that it registers as curved on a casual glance. Plus it also presents the bone forward a bit for the viewer.

[@valorreplicas]

@@vaultglorious Yes. Let's go with that. Totally intentional :)

[@valorreplicas]

A little behind the scenes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZKuYaV9f9SbgZY

[@vaultglorious]

@@valorreplicas Bob Ross it, man. It's a happy little accident. :)

[@AmjidMajeed]

2001: A Space Odyssey still remains all-time favourite Sci-Fi film. Many have come close over the years to knock it off the No1 spot, but have failed. I suspect none will ever take it's place for quite some time. If you haven't seen this wondrous and epic piece of cinematic history, go watch it now. You will not be disappointed.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Agree, not just for its staggering level of technical achievement (it all looks completely real and believable, 52 years later) but the ideas at the heart of it. It is not the first, or the only, thinking person's science fiction movie, but I think it's the best by far.

[@hannaheggert8269]

What a beautiful replica of an equine bone! Just a polite note, the bone is a radius/ulna, but that comes from the front leg of a horse, not the back leg.

[@Case16710]

Demerit badges: When you superglue your fingers together. When you try to fix something but make another part of it a little worse in the process. Stitches.

[@averyshaw2142]

I love how consistent you are with content! Thank you so much for all you do

[@alekmoth]

One of my favorite in my collection. I challenge anyone to find Adam talk about anything and he isn't describing it as his favorite or one of his favorites..

[@hawsroy]

i often say 2001 is my favorite movie but never knew the ape was called the moon-watcher... either way this is super super cool!

[@loosh5101]

The book fills in a bunch of that sort of detail, from Moon-Watcher and friends to the inner workings of Discovery to what HAL was really thinking. I find myself hoping to find all four novels in one volume.

[@hawsroy]

@@loosh5101 i will have to make time to read the book this winter. sounds wonderful. even if i prefer the film adaptation it would be cool to get some more info. the second movie isn’t my favorite but still is fun i thought.

[@peterkelley6344]

Ditto here too. Did not know it had a name!

[@SOFFtv]

Moon-watcher holding the bone over his head is the favourite part of my 2001 sleeve tattoo 🔥🔥🔥

[@mikeupton5406]

That 2001 stuff is EXCELLENT!! Hmmm I think we all know where Monolith in the desert came from, and where it went to..... Love your KZbin videos.

[@Notfast86]

I’ve never seen that movie but now I really want to, these pieces seem so strange and random but I’m sure it will make sense once I watch it!

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

It's great but slow paced. But it's pleasant to watch all special effects back than and it's Kubrick!

[@lanfeustdaytona4483]

I miss your VR content so much, it should be so cool to see it again in my QUEST 2.

[@tested]

We're releasing new VR content TOMORROW, in fact! Stay tuned!

[@pdtraill]

Demerit badge idea- when you manage to glue your model kit to the workbench, and now can't get it off with out either breaking the (expensive) model or the bench

[@journeyofawesome8473]

Adam: "...because I have castings of my head." me: As you do.

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

Too cool! Would love more 2001 related content!

[@TheSteveAS]

Doesn’t Adam have a 2001 space suit? I’d love to see that. The helmet is one of my favorite designs of all time.

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

@@TheSteveAS yes he done a video with astronaut Chris Hadfield and they both wear them to comic con. I watched it the other day on this channel.

[@TheSteveAS]

@@letsplayclassicgames5024 Perfect! Just watched it. Walking the floor in that suit with a real Astronaut - doesn’t get much better! Thanks for the tip!!

[@letsplayclassicgames5024]

@@TheSteveAS yes! Must have been a great experience for adam, I know I would have loved to! And anytime!

[@SlipperyDad]

Just watched it for the first time yesterday, great film.

[@davidhenning6179]

Demerit badge idea: Am I missing an eyebrow?

[@Dreddy72]

followed the pattern: for successfully building it perfectly, without noticing that the scale was a bit off. possibly depicting an oversized or undersized shirt on something

[@thork6974]

Here's what you do. Model the orbital weapons platform the same length as the bone, and mount it on the back of the 'monolith' display. Then have the display rotate so the image swaps back and forth.

[@The_Jaganath]

Demerit badge idea: 'Drilling through a finger'. I've done it (drill slipped whilst drilling out a rivet), and I remember Adam mentioning he's done it too 🤦‍♂️

[@coreys2686]

I was wondering why I was seeing moon-watcher again. Nice addition.

[@atimholt]

I've heard the “space station” is specifically supposed to be an orbital ICBM-launching platform. The cut is from the first weapon to the peak of weaponry.

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

Yup

[@R.Craig.Collins]

Perhaps make a solid wheel, put the bone on one side, and your space station on the other side. Spin the wheel slowly, then rotate the wheel to bring the space station into view. Just a thought

[@newwavepop]

what do you think about the film 2010? because i always see a lot of people write it off and give it crap, but ive always loved it as well and think it is great too on its own right.

[@LanceOperative]

2001 is my favorite film and while I'm not one to cry at films, the scene where Hal is being shut down still gets to me, I still don't fully understand why, but the film is great, if anyone reading this hasn't seen it, go watch it, it's a real treat.

[@peterkelley6344]

IF you can get the sequel 2010 it will explain the shut down in a little more detail. I believe there is a THIRD movie that goes with that pair that I have yet find in DVD format. IF anyone knows of a legal source for the region 1 edition of that movie I would appreciate information about that.

[@LanceOperative]

@@peterkelley6344 I understnad the shut down, I meant it makes me cry lol, thats the part I dont understand.

[@peterkelley6344]

@@LanceOperative I had similar feelings when I first saw the movie. Yep.

[@emilyhelms-tippit4053]

I'd love a rubber duck demerit badge for having to explain your code out loud to an inanimate object. Got my Eagle years ago and man seeing demerit badges again really made my day!

[@emilyhelms-tippit4053]

it could look something like , or perhaps func{ 🦆};

[@krillen64]

I was lucky enough to see a Fathom Events re showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey in theaters I want to say a year or two ago. It was the best way I have seen the movie and would suggest any fan of the movie see it that way if they get that chance.

[@506boris]

Heyo, love the video and the replicas. Just a note: I'm not too sure about the taxonomical identification. I'm sure that Steve was very accurate about replicating the bone from the movie it but I am also fairly sure that this is not actually a Horse but rather a cow radius. This would also fit the skull in the movie which is definately a cow skull (I doubt they would get two skeletons of two different species). Horse radii would be longer and more slender. (Other sidenote: Radius-Ulna is in the forelimb not the hindlimb). :) All the Best from an Archaeologist enjoying these videos.

[@valorreplicas]

Good thoughts. And definitely where I started. However exhaustive research showed the cow Radius Ulna was not accurate. Too short and stubby and joined in the wrong place. And there's definitely a horse skull (not cow) in the scene. There's also commentary in a "making of" book that discusses the prop guys going to a horse "renderer" to het horse bones. You are correct however, the Radius Ulna is in the forelimb. I mispoke.

[@506boris]

@@valorreplicas Interesting. The Skull seems to miss incisors in the upper jaw. That's why I was sure about it being a cow. But I'm sure you did more research than me in 10 minutes. Again, great work.

[@Aethelgeat]

@@506boris It's within possibility that the prop crew obtained a cow skull, radius-ulna, and other bones, but someone higher up the production chain said 'that's too short. Find a longer one." And the easiest longer bone was equine.

[@petermot645]

Bravo ! Moon watcher & the first ever tool ! ✨

[@joshuarichardsmedia6112]

Its a awesome film @adam thank you for suggesting these films to the younger generation God Bless Josh

[@maxcklein]

The miniature's curve matches how the monolith appears when shot from below with a wide-angle lens. The way Kubrick used lenses stands out even today. By shooting wide and low, Kubrick distorted the monolith's geometric shape and made it more imposing. That use of perspective may seem obvious to us now, but that kind of effective simplicity is surprisingly difficult to achieve.

[@valorreplicas]

Yes ... I love this.

[@thomaslevy2119]

Actually, if I remember, when Moon Watcher threw the bone into the air, the scene changed to show what was intended to be an orbiting nuclear weapons platform, not the space station.

[@akc5150]

Absolutely correct! I saw Arthur C Clarke actually say that he felt that fact never came across in the movie properly... Going from mans first weapon to his latest.

[@RobB-ms4qx]

Glad you mentioned this. I’d heard that, too, & was going to comment to clarify then saw you’d already done so👍

[@joshparken2561]

Demerit badge idea: a badge for when you start an arc on a welder and forget to put your hood down and have a glowing purple reticle in your vision for a while

[@enormhi]

I don't know if that curve on the display is intentional, but it actually makes it look even nicer!

[@TubbyJ420]

My local IMAX owns a 15/70mm print of 2001. Only 4 were made! I hope they play it again this christmas 🤞

[@michaeld387]

If I were you, Adam, the display would have to be moon watcher mask, the bone, the spaceship, and the space helmet from the movie in that order.

[@WarrenFahyAuthor]

Steve did such a great job!

[@blizatrex]

Valor is amazingly prolific.

[@Gcrowan]

I need to make myself something like this. Huge fan of 2001 stuff. Even made a silly little video game once based on some of the cool moments in Dawn Of Man segment of 2001.

[@AstroTricks]

Please make more 2001 content! Would be nice!

[@HankAaronJoseph19]

I think 2001 is an important film by a brilliant director. I respect it. But I can't make it through without falling asleep.

[@davidsharp9166]

Would love to see Adam. Make the weapons platform the bone becomes...in the movie.

[@DarthCobay]

I’m a filmmaker in college. A few years ago, 2001 was re-released for its anniversary. It was my first year in college, and I wanted to see it. My girlfriend and I went. She HATED the movie, but she didn’t say a word and sat through the whole thing. And she’s stayed with me! 😂 As for myself, it was a beautiful movie I needed to see as a filmmaker. But I don’t think I could sit through it again, unless I’m watching for artistic purposes.

[@AlanCanon2222]

I'm the same age as the movie, and even for the time, it was considered ponderously slow. That's probably been exacerbated by tendencies of movies to quick cut nowadays. But to those of us of a certain age and temperament, the slowness of it works.

[@maxstarnes4779]

Love it, thanks adam

[@mycosys]

Loving the Mutton Chops Adam, really stylin imo, tho i may be a lil biased as a fellow ginger ninja with cheek blades lol

[@asyoz]

Adam, just a bit of semantics, sorry... The radius/ulna are the FRONT legs. If it's the back legs the equivalent bones would be the tibia/fibula. Also, these aren't the lower bones, they're the middle set. The lower ones (at the back) are the metatarsus (the lower ones at the front are metacarpus). Horse skeletons are fascinating, particularly when compared with human ones :)

[@billbucktube]

The epic flash-cut went to an orbitting nuclear bomb satellite. Flash cut was "first primitive weapon" to "current ultimate weapon" Kubrick's visual genius on display. I saw 2001 over 75 times in the theater...

[@rong1924]

Exactly! In fact after the bone, the film cut to four different satellites, showing that at least four different nations had orbiting nuclear weapon platforms. A really significate and chilling context of the story that was lost in the final cut (unless you got an explanation.) In the novel, if I recall correctly, when Star Child returns to earth he "prefers a clearer sky" and destroys the orbiting nukes.

[@Ernesto_Gonzalez]

Hello Adam I Love your program for long time ago. Blessings

[@Zogtee]

Now I want to watch 2001 again.

[@java4519]

Adam put the Monolith in Utah......

[@protocole971]

Please do the replica of the space ship! ^^ Great work as always. Thank's from france

[@wander7418]

Great movie!

[@Lavagirlems]

Chef kiss awesome would be a great t-shirt! Or a cooking apron!

[@halltrain1162]

The radius and ulna is a forelimb element. The tibia and fibula are hind limb elements.

[@MartijnBeekhuis]

I do care about that curvature, some thought went into that i'm sure. It's perfectly complimentary to the object in just the right way

[@damonwebb813]

👏 The geek in me wants Adam to build a new mask stand( realizing the main function of stand is to protect mask and its form) Imagine the stand done like the Aries B1 spaceship or the Discovery pod or even the Discovery spaceship itself

[@666markyboy]

You've said it now Adam...... we need the Station (y)

[@marlobreding7402]

Shortly after seeing 2001 I had a dream that the Monolith was a psychedelic metal, I found myself by it with a hacksaw, I cut a piece and it melted instantly in my mouth,

[@coolhandluke3979]

That is a really nice helmet

[@SharpDesign]

When I first watched 2001, it felt boring and I was upset that the highly acclaimed "matching shots" (ie. bone to ship transition) didn't really match, but it's grown on me. Bear in mind I was pretty young when I first saw it.

[@garagemonkeysan]

Cool video. Shouldn't the model space station be displayed above the bone...with a star lit background? Ha. Mahalo for sharing! : )

[@jasbails9857]

The black mounting...what are the dimensions? Is it a replica of the 2001 monolith? (Assuming the curve is unintentional)

[@karoliandrygoods6457]

I am curious if the curve of the mounting monolith is intentional to help create a better viewing angle?

[@matthewgresham7060]

Not sure if you've covered it in a video before but do you have a nice replica of the Ravenwood diary from Raiders?

[@bert4910]

Good stuff Mr Savage :)

[@rmann1584]

So sad it wasn't a real tapir radius - I spend a lot of my summers digging up 4.8 million year old tapirs, and they don't get as much love as they probably deserve (Gray Fossil Site, Gray, TN)

[@dickdouse9482]

I just saw Kubrick's "The Killing" for the first time I couldn't believe how many films copied it if you like heist movies you'll love it.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Hell yeah, The Killing packs a real punch to this day. Pulp Fiction copied its non-linear narrative. The boxing subplot in Pulp Fiction borrows slightly from Robert Wise's excellent boxing picture, The Set-Up (1949).

[@lunamotionproductions9559]

I'm hella jealous of your toys. BUT I need to point out (and I'm sure you've already been chastised by fellow 2001 freaks) that the legendary smash cut from the bone to -- well, it's NOT the spinning space station... but rather a satellite orbiting Earth. In the discarded narration Kubrick intended to specify that it was a nuclear bomb, which made sense as a match cut from the prehistoric weapon. I have my own unique "collectible" from 2001. It's a model of the Aries, built by hand with scratch materials (no computer print outs or castings) by none other than the designer of the original Aries: Fred Ordway. Roughly 1/3rd to scale of the original.

[@rmt6495]

Hal 9000 unforgettable scene of afraid of death computer is masterpiece

[@theirishempire4952]

Uh, I wonder why he decided to do this? Utah monolith?

[@jakel8879]

Yeah get the space station model next!

[@davidabarak]

2001: A Space Odyssey is what got me interested in all-things visual - film, photography and all the rest of it. The bone toss that jumps from 4 million years ago to 2001 takes 1/48th of a second. All of human history, ALL of it, everyone's that's lived and died, laughed and cried, all the wars fought, all the discoveries and all the inventions dreamed-up through 2001 was represented in that 1/48th of a second. Profound, and one reason why Kubrick was a genius.

[@rudolfsgills9618]

So cool

[@antraxxslingshots]

Radiusulna? One word? Are the two bones grown together in a Horse? I never knew that.

[@antraxxslingshots]

@@gl15col Cool, Thx.

[@egypthobby]

Kind of funny that you are showing now just after all the issues with the Utah monolith.

[@ReedCBowman]

Looking at the bone that closely, I seriously want to know if the Blockade Runner/Tantive IV was built as an homage to the bone-which-turns-into-a-spaceship. Of course, my first moment of looking at it I said "that's wrong!" - I want the first bone, with the funny handle on it, that Moonwatcher first figures out how to use to smash things. It's much more distinctive, and though it's less cinematically pivotal as a moment, it's the actual moment of the Dawn of Tool Using Man.

[@valorreplicas]

Hi Reed, actually I found that it's the same bone. Or at least the same sort of bone. When Moonwatcher picks up the bone at the beginning it looks larger because of the attached Ulna (the little part at the top). As he smashes, that Ulna breaks off, eventually leaving what looks like the shark fin on the side of the bone. Pretty neat!

[@kingofpointless]

Shame this came out just a couple of days late for you to use the mask to observe the Utah Monolith.

[@erichurst7897]

The big problem with that is the Utah monolith is completely different than the 2001 monolith. It's triangular, and doesn't have the distinct proportions - all of the 2001 monoliths are 1:4:9, which are the squares of the first 3 prime numbers (1, 2, & 3). So if whomever created it was doing a tribute to Kubrick/Clarke, they did a sloppy job of it.

[@kingofpointless]

@@erichurst7897 Yeah I agree, but the fun collective mystery over this Utah Monolith is still enjoyable to me.

[@lethososdonkeypuncher6585]

Just so you monolheads know, that monolith reappeared (As of this post) in Romania.

[@ArgumentativeAtheist]

Was this filmed before they found two mysterious monoliths in the last week or so?

[@dickdouse9482]

I would love to see you make a model of HAL!

[@peterkelley6344]

Yea, the 2001 space station probably needs to be there too. Kinda makes sense

[@adamklerkx9408]

ccol vid, maybe make a colab with LTT i would love to see that

[@Pushpin06]

PLEASE take us through a prop building journey! make the space station yourself, and I don't care if it takes a year

[@pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591]

I have a replica of the polystyrene that Victor Meldrew broke up next to some wallpaper with his face on it!

[@glacieractivity]

So, nobody is asking Adam on how any secret monolith replica-builds are going? ;-)

[@kareldobbelaere1870]

When will you start making a 2001 space suit? or do you allready have one?

[@AlanCanon2222]

He did! Two in fact. He and astronaut Chris Hadfield did a walkaround in them. There is KZbin video of it. It's the suits from the moon walk scene (TMA-1 / Tycho crater).

[@joeblow3143]

You should really make a HAL replica.

[@MarkWladika]

It's not a space station that it cuts to, it's a space weapons platform.

[@santinogaretto160]

Make a merit badge where you're missing an eyebrow.

[@petracoresage8288]

Turn it into a Lightsaber.

[@modelcitizen1977]

Adam will earn a healthy living into retirement just giving guided tours of the cave.

[@nervosuss]

I'd pay for that...if I could afford it lol

[@simoncribbes9141]

An idea for another demerit badge is one for make two parts of one hand, not one of each.

[@GeoRizzard]

awesome

[@EnAimBoy]

Using any tool as a hammer? That seems like a good demerit badge. ;)

[@CarboniteDreamer]

i would totally wear that to the utah monolith as a goof id it was still there lol. i read the books 2061 was a really cool story i wish they would make into a movie to finish the visual story.

[@peterkelley6344]

2061 WAS A MOVIE; AS WAS 2010. Would like to find a legal copy of 2061.

[@CarboniteDreamer]

i knew 2010 was never knew 2061 was. wonder if they did the giant pyramid diamond lol. thanks for letting me know.

[@richjfoxone]

No mention of what they found in Utah? Or was this a big coincidence?

[@keithdow8327]

Dude! The smash cut isn't into the space station, it is into an orbiting nuclear weapon!!

[@reddcube]

2001: is a horrible movie to watch on a phone. It needs a big screen, without distractions.

[@sparkyprojects]

Radius and ulna is the front legs, not rear, that would be tibia and fibula. Same as on a human

[@ivanheffner2587]

Demerit Badge: DisOrder of Operations. Graphic design could simply be the numbers “1, 3, 2” in a staggered overlay.