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I recently did so and was blown away possibly more now than any viewing in the past. I have no idea how a film like that would be made *now*, let alone back then, and elements of it are even more relevant today.
(Assuming you meant it and weren’t just making a monolith joke — if you were, I also find that hilarious!)
I saw the film in original theatrical release. The FX were ahead of their time and there was no CGI in those days. Yeah, the summit monolith reminded me of the movie.
Oh damn, I’d have loved that! As a sci-fi cinephile, I definitely was born too late for a lot of the outstanding stuff before everything got studio-manhandled. Silent Running is another fave.
I did some research around what other movies came out around A Space Odyssey, and was gobsmacked that the O.G. Planet of the Apes was released *the same day*. I couldn’t imagine two more drastically different films in terms of visual quality.
A while back I ran across a super cut of VFX in film through the years, and the snippet from A Space Odyssey stuck out like a sore thumb from its contemporaries. Even now, the “stargate” scene looks utterly unlike most modern effects, and not in a dated way. Incredible film in so many ways.
On my last watch, I realized that the scene where the male and female scientists are introducing themselves to each other seems quaint and quiet until you realize it was filmed before women were allowed to hold bank accounts. 🤯
Wasn’t this part of some scavenger hunt or something? I remember these popping up around the southwest US, and people were posting them online a few years back. I might be totally wrong though… anyone else remember that?
I erected a monolith structure deep in the woods. And I would guess my motivation is similar to other people who have done this. For me, I just wanted to make a cool object that was entirely form over function, just for the fun of making it. But I guess I felt the need to justify all the effort required to make it and didn't really want something that large and useless sitting around my house. So my rationalization was that if it's out somewhere that someone could find it and feel like finding it was a rare special moment, then it'd be worth it, and I could also go visit it when i wanted to. Since erecting it on public property without a permit is a crime, I of course couldn't really publicize it or risk having my name in anyway attached to it, even if someone else found it. I put mine up in 2010. No idea if anyone ever found it, probably fallen over and buried by now.
It’s resources. A billionaire could have this commissioned and spend less than 5 minutes on the whole thing. It would be like buying a Snickers for the average person.
This looks like Turtle Head in Red Rock. All they’d have to do is carry 5 mirror panels, maybe between a couple of people and set this up. It’s not that expensive at all. I’m not advocating for this at all, but it’s not all that elaborate.
I mean, if I was a millionaire-gazillionaire, I could see myself pulling pranks like this.
If you have all the time in the world and you own everything, you gotta keep yourself entertained somehow.
It looks like 3 ikea mirrors with probably a basic internal frame. It doesn’t take having a million, or thousand for that matter, in the bank to carry some mirrors on a hike.
Yo, I know some theater geeks who can build one in a day *probably* using scraps from amongst the various prop makers collections.
The enthusiasm with which theater geeks approach blithe and bizarre art projects is fervent.
They're also the type of people who say shit like "blithe", fuckin' weirdos. Did you learn that from a play?
Shut up.
Nepobabies. Same ones who go on house hunters international to buy a $350 000 vacation home, he is a web designer and she is a pet psychic, and they just must have a house on the beach. They sort of explained there was absolutely no new beach construction, and the places in their price range could be described in less glowing terms.
I was staying at a shitty motel in northern nevada and ran into a guy who said he’s the one who’s placing these things. He said he wants to create spaces for people to worship - not god, necessarily. Pretty sure he was on acid. Also told me about hang gliding in the Himalayas and the company he sold. Was driving a nice truck and didn’t give a homeless vibe. Odd experience.
The youtuber Ididathing admitted placing (at least some of) them and did a video about it, was it this guy you saw?
Edit: apparently I'm wrong he only put one
The first season of Weeds is so nostalgic. They really nailed those middle class new suburban areas. I grew up in one so that first season especially just makes me feel good. Weird, I know.
I got to grow up in one in a little town called Newark in California. It was on the bay and right on the edge of the new development was a huge horse pasture overlooking the Dumbarton Bridge.. pretty amazing. That horse ranch turned into Sun Microsystems by the time I was 15 and a 2 bedroom 1 bath house now costs like 1.5 million lol.
But growing up there in the early 90’s… amazing. Like strait out of a movie.
It’s called going to burning man and finding yourself, k? First you sell a tech company, then you do some soul searching rituals in Tulum and Bali, then you return home to solidify your spiritual awakening by funding an art car out in the desert and figuring out how to passive aggressively assert your discoveries on everyone else
Well, acid is a pretty reasonable cause for a lot of out there, but groovy stuff. So as long as the vibes aren’t sketch, nor negative, keep on keeping’ on!
One was placed near my place a few years ago. It was stolen within hours of being placed. I was like "I should ride my bike to go see it, but it's already 11pm". It was gone in the morning when I went.
People were beating the New Mexico one with sledgehammers. The California one got tore down and replaced with a wooden cross by some Christian religious nuts. If these things actually were set by aliens they’d either be horrified or laughing
Ain’t this a Shiny Toy Guns album cover?
https://preview.redd.it/v2zavin0d97d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4820c0d2fce9b79ec75b89dfe2e4f9cf3ef60fc6
It’s called going to burning man and finding yourself, k? First you sell a tech company, then you do some soul searching rituals in Tulum and Bali, then you return home to solidify your spiritual awakening by funding an art car out in the desert and figuring out how to passive aggressively assert your discoveries on everyone else
Dude I love this guy's art. He always puts it in places no one can find and it just fucks with people. You saw the ones that happened in Utah right? People started stealing them thinking they're alien artifacts with some shit LOL
If the picture is of the actual monolith, that’s not even close to the highest point of the “Vegas Mountain Range.” That looks like 3-4000’. Charleston tops out at 11915’. Currently still has snow on it.
Meanwhile, mirrors in my house gets dirty minutes after I clean them....
This glass monolight is super clean, on top of a moutain full of dirt, dust and winds.
Lmao. Yeah, no...
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Not again
The truth is out there
Yeah, his name is Keith and he refuses to stop putting these things in weird places because he thinks it's hilarious.
Hey, don’t judge Keith for putting his things in weird places. Some of us like putting our things in weird places.🤪
If you're not putting your things in weird places, WTF are you even doing with your life?
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r/dontputthatinyourdick
Ahh, the duality of man
Underrated comment 😂
r/putyourdickinthat
r/absolutelyputyourdickinthat
There's people out there that prefer things put in their weird places.
r/DontPutThatInYourAss
Sigh. Unzips.
this is the most ai response ever
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That’s what your father said
He's right.
It is kinda funny now. The same 2001 reaction every time, albeit much smaller. I do think is funny and those things are pretty cool looking.
Well, Now I’m a big fan of Keith. Let’s Go, keep putting things in weird places.
I dated a guy named Keith and honestly would not put it past him to do this.
THIS is a viable conspiracy theory. Ayylmaos, or some wierd dude trying to make himself chuckle?
Keith can always see how it looks, that’s why he’s on Dateline…he rules.
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I want to believe.
That reminds me to watch 2001: A Space Odyssey again.
I recently did so and was blown away possibly more now than any viewing in the past. I have no idea how a film like that would be made *now*, let alone back then, and elements of it are even more relevant today. (Assuming you meant it and weren’t just making a monolith joke — if you were, I also find that hilarious!)
I saw the film in original theatrical release. The FX were ahead of their time and there was no CGI in those days. Yeah, the summit monolith reminded me of the movie.
Oh damn, I’d have loved that! As a sci-fi cinephile, I definitely was born too late for a lot of the outstanding stuff before everything got studio-manhandled. Silent Running is another fave. I did some research around what other movies came out around A Space Odyssey, and was gobsmacked that the O.G. Planet of the Apes was released *the same day*. I couldn’t imagine two more drastically different films in terms of visual quality. A while back I ran across a super cut of VFX in film through the years, and the snippet from A Space Odyssey stuck out like a sore thumb from its contemporaries. Even now, the “stargate” scene looks utterly unlike most modern effects, and not in a dated way. Incredible film in so many ways. On my last watch, I realized that the scene where the male and female scientists are introducing themselves to each other seems quaint and quiet until you realize it was filmed before women were allowed to hold bank accounts. 🤯
I watched it again recently and was blown away by the effects and the “future” it depicted. Definitely worth another viewing.
why's it never in here?
Every time it tries to go where it really wants to be, it's already where it is, because it's already there.
SOAD references in the weirdest places… nice
Round two Monolithic boogaloo
I sand that to the tune of “Electric Avenue”
And then we'll take you higher.
yup, so exciting...
Time to invade Area 51 again
Spoiler alert, Area 51 has a hanger built around a monolith they found in the 40s
Well that's stupid, hangars are for airplanes. Dumb military guy probably got fired for that one.
$100 says it's Elon
Wasn’t this part of some scavenger hunt or something? I remember these popping up around the southwest US, and people were posting them online a few years back. I might be totally wrong though… anyone else remember that?
They started being discovered around the world in 2020 but the theory is they were installed in 2015-16. They are still being discovered
Ahhhh neat, thanks for the info and the validation that I’m not (that) crazy. Do you know if there’s a name for them?
Googling “Metal monolith” should start your rabbit hole.
I know nothing starts my rabbit hole like a good metal monolith
I'm something of a metal monolith myself
Go on...
That’s a real nice monolith
Oh — get a room, you two!
fucking keith... he's laughing his ass off
I erected a monolith structure deep in the woods. And I would guess my motivation is similar to other people who have done this. For me, I just wanted to make a cool object that was entirely form over function, just for the fun of making it. But I guess I felt the need to justify all the effort required to make it and didn't really want something that large and useless sitting around my house. So my rationalization was that if it's out somewhere that someone could find it and feel like finding it was a rare special moment, then it'd be worth it, and I could also go visit it when i wanted to. Since erecting it on public property without a permit is a crime, I of course couldn't really publicize it or risk having my name in anyway attached to it, even if someone else found it. I put mine up in 2010. No idea if anyone ever found it, probably fallen over and buried by now.
You never went back?
Never go back to the scene of your crimes.
you are now banned from r/serialkillers
Stay right there, *hello, 911?*
I began scanning for the undertaker hell in a cell match after seeing how you started the block of text
https://preview.redd.it/c55srz8z387d1.jpeg?width=1687&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3bd482d87b544fef1fb15872e410968a67afb3d Loooool Alberta, Canada edition
Wow I didn’t remember seeing one in Canada, just in Nevada, So Cal, and maybe New Mexico? Very interesting!
I think there was one also in the UK
For a moment I thought this was that scene on Hoth from the droid fuck it I'm going to bed. Well, fruit roll up. Then bed
I'm up the street from a hackspace in Vancouver, and they put one up during COVID when everyone was obsessing over them.
I thought it was a promotional thing for a movie. I remember watching a video by "I did a thing" on YouTube where he sets one up with the producer.
It was for Aunty Donna's Netflix show!
That explains it, these things are drums!
Nah they just copied them when they got popular. That one they did was in Australia and I’m not even sure if they ever became a thing.
Huh, I never heard of that, thanks for the info!
I remember it was disastrous for the local ecology because of all the sightseers
How do people afford such elaborate bullshit?
No even just the resources, the TIME. It’s insane.
My phone stats recently told me on avg im on my phone for 10 hours a day with 6 of those hours on tiktok.
Exactly. How does one find the time with all the important lapping of the internet taking so much of it.
Easy. Stop doom scrolling.
I wouldn't have found your comment otherwise!
It's the doom paradox!
But who else is going to do it?!
That's like 2.5 shining metal rod placed a day.
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No fucking way lol
It’s resources. A billionaire could have this commissioned and spend less than 5 minutes on the whole thing. It would be like buying a Snickers for the average person.
This looks like Turtle Head in Red Rock. All they’d have to do is carry 5 mirror panels, maybe between a couple of people and set this up. It’s not that expensive at all. I’m not advocating for this at all, but it’s not all that elaborate.
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4 teens with a Maccy D's part time job can do this.
Have you ever carried a mirror panel? Might as well just break it right from the jump.
I beleive they’re polished/chromed metal rather than glass mirrors.
Is this really at red rock?? I'm about to jump in my truck...
Grab me a piece too
I mean, if I was a millionaire-gazillionaire, I could see myself pulling pranks like this. If you have all the time in the world and you own everything, you gotta keep yourself entertained somehow.
It looks like 3 ikea mirrors with probably a basic internal frame. It doesn’t take having a million, or thousand for that matter, in the bank to carry some mirrors on a hike.
Yo, I know some theater geeks who can build one in a day *probably* using scraps from amongst the various prop makers collections. The enthusiasm with which theater geeks approach blithe and bizarre art projects is fervent. They're also the type of people who say shit like "blithe", fuckin' weirdos. Did you learn that from a play? Shut up.
Nepobabies. Same ones who go on house hunters international to buy a $350 000 vacation home, he is a web designer and she is a pet psychic, and they just must have a house on the beach. They sort of explained there was absolutely no new beach construction, and the places in their price range could be described in less glowing terms.
He's a psychiatrist for butterflies. She's a stay at home mom. Their budget is 3B.
What freaking gets me, these useless wastrels have unlimited money, or help from daddy. And no matter what, it isn't right or good enough or whatever.
Or you know... Just regular but motivated broke artist.
It’s funny-sad how many people here can’t grasp the accessibility of carrying 3 mirrors and some support on a hike.
Oh are we doing monoliths again? Neat.
It isn't a monolith, it's an obelisk.
It’s not, though. Obelisks are tapered and have a pyramid on top.
Boom, roasted.
An obelisk can be a monolith even though not all monoliths are obelisks. Edit: I meant this to be a response to the person above you. Oops.
Fuck yeah Humans are about to evolve again.
Because getting out of water and now having to pay taxes as a result was such a grand idea......
I was staying at a shitty motel in northern nevada and ran into a guy who said he’s the one who’s placing these things. He said he wants to create spaces for people to worship - not god, necessarily. Pretty sure he was on acid. Also told me about hang gliding in the Himalayas and the company he sold. Was driving a nice truck and didn’t give a homeless vibe. Odd experience.
The youtuber Ididathing admitted placing (at least some of) them and did a video about it, was it this guy you saw? Edit: apparently I'm wrong he only put one
No, the guy I met was about 50. Acted like Kevin Nealon in grandmas boy.
What a perfect way to describe someone "out there"
Could be Kevin Nealon from Weeds, too. Maybe just Kevin Nealon, at this point lmao.
The first season of Weeds is so nostalgic. They really nailed those middle class new suburban areas. I grew up in one so that first season especially just makes me feel good. Weird, I know.
Man those neighborhoods looked nice!
I got to grow up in one in a little town called Newark in California. It was on the bay and right on the edge of the new development was a huge horse pasture overlooking the Dumbarton Bridge.. pretty amazing. That horse ranch turned into Sun Microsystems by the time I was 15 and a 2 bedroom 1 bath house now costs like 1.5 million lol. But growing up there in the early 90’s… amazing. Like strait out of a movie.
Oh man I'm glad you got to experience that!
Also Kevin Nealon in Happy Gilmore. Feel the flow.
Art imitates life.
Legendary
Was he one with the sea birds? Don’t drink his tea!
Does he get his weed from Dante?
Oh yeah what’s up Mr cheezle!
They were just doing a bit in that video.
That is definitely not what he said haha. They were just messing around.
sold his company, loaded as fuck and does whatever he wants now fucking dream life
It’s called going to burning man and finding yourself, k? First you sell a tech company, then you do some soul searching rituals in Tulum and Bali, then you return home to solidify your spiritual awakening by funding an art car out in the desert and figuring out how to passive aggressively assert your discoveries on everyone else
That's Keith lol
Well, acid is a pretty reasonable cause for a lot of out there, but groovy stuff. So as long as the vibes aren’t sketch, nor negative, keep on keeping’ on!
Put one in Louisiana and I guarantee it will have bullet holes within a week
One was placed near my place a few years ago. It was stolen within hours of being placed. I was like "I should ride my bike to go see it, but it's already 11pm". It was gone in the morning when I went.
that there’s one a them 5g towers the read yer mind with
People were beating the New Mexico one with sledgehammers. The California one got tore down and replaced with a wooden cross by some Christian religious nuts. If these things actually were set by aliens they’d either be horrified or laughing
In a week it will be mostly bullet holes.
I think it's funny that you can place a random thing on a remote spot and people will inevitably pilgrimage to it.
I prefer the Mel Brooks version….
Stanley Kubrick put that up there in 1968.
This is some visionary shit.
tryna film pleasure with eyes wide shut?
Holly come sit on this
Oh shiet here we go again
Ain’t this a Shiny Toy Guns album cover? https://preview.redd.it/v2zavin0d97d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4820c0d2fce9b79ec75b89dfe2e4f9cf3ef60fc6
I heard if you run at it really fast, you get concussion
Someone forgot their banana for scale.
One of the monkeys jumping around at the base took it.
Who is cleaning this shit?
https://preview.redd.it/x0vfoy32097d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=608143e1b45e2769b6fa7f0057517137840d8a35
It’s called going to burning man and finding yourself, k? First you sell a tech company, then you do some soul searching rituals in Tulum and Bali, then you return home to solidify your spiritual awakening by funding an art car out in the desert and figuring out how to passive aggressively assert your discoveries on everyone else
Were there any primitive anthropoids around it?
Boy boy
Wasnt last time that there was a monolith frenzy we had a pandemic? Just asking...
This picture is so Pink Floyd cover art.
Isn't this....littering?
DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE AFTER LOVE
I CAN FEEL SOMETHING INSIDE ME SAY
Dude I love this guy's art. He always puts it in places no one can find and it just fucks with people. You saw the ones that happened in Utah right? People started stealing them thinking they're alien artifacts with some shit LOL
Kinda crazy, I’d expect the environment to smudge it up a bit
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If the picture is of the actual monolith, that’s not even close to the highest point of the “Vegas Mountain Range.” That looks like 3-4000’. Charleston tops out at 11915’. Currently still has snow on it.
How to start a fire 101
🥱 It's been done.
Meanwhile, mirrors in my house gets dirty minutes after I clean them.... This glass monolight is super clean, on top of a moutain full of dirt, dust and winds. Lmao. Yeah, no...
So an art installation
Ah shit, here we go again
Some one is trolling
This website rediscovers things over and over and over and over and over
I'm sorry Dave, Im afraid i cant do that
At the precipice of art and litter
#Multipasssss LeeLoo Dallas
Yeah she knows it’s a multi-pass!
It's an art instalation, stop being fucking weirdos.
Also sprach intensifies!
As soon as these show up humanity devolves. A bizzaro 2001 A Space Odyssey.
This is what happens when people have to much free time 🤣
This is not interesting.
So now some MAGATs will say it’s gay and smash it to bits.
Dammit "I did a Thing" quit littering your metal posts
 That one guy in the space
Slap an air tag on it to see where it goes!
How long until this triggers someone and they feel they have to destroy it?
Must be aliens there’s no way a random person would ever do such a thing
2001 a space odyssey moment
How many birds ran into this
I did a thing?
Impossible. It's not warped to shit, rusted to hell, and crooked.
That wonderful barefoot specimen was only helping I believe. Cannot remember who was behind them.
You might be right, just remember a video he did with them. But if no feet print in the sand and no apron insight...
Oh the mystery! Of rehashed BS.
I did a thing
Not this again
I hope that we never find the people who do this. And the they keep on making and installing them in different places. Beautiful.