Popped Culture: 2001

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How many of these robots can you identify. I got 19/30 — not bad, not great. (Famous Robots by Daniel Nyari)

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Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Heavyweight Champion Of The World
The Birth Of Robot Punk
Vitruvian Robot

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?

HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.

Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.

HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave Bowman: What's the problem?

HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

A vintage mock ad for the HAL 9000 computer by Justin Van Genderen. (Link via Reelizer)

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A Space Oddity: Thirty Five Space Helmet Reflections

This is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in a most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today

Here am I floatin' 'round my tin can far above the world

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

3 Ton Gallery pulled together a whole lot of Hollywood astronauts (and one Thom Yorke)

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Stanley Kubrick Bloopers

Finally the King felt like a king. Poor beast was just lonely. And the flying monkeys look pretty happy too. (Ape Amongst Apes via Scott Campbell, featured in the Amicvs Monstrvm exhibit at Gallery1988.)

Previously on Popped Culture...
Take Your Stinking Maps Off Me, You Damned Dirty Ape!
Curious George Takes Manhattan
Great Movie Showdowns

Watching the droogs shoot milk out of their noses at the milk bar is alone worth watching. From the twisted mind of Dan Meth.

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A Clockwork Green
Full Metal Rudolph
Here's Cookie Monster!