I never know what my friend Todd will send me, but it is always worthwhile. Today was a video clip that, even though it pre-dates Ardrey's book by a few years, takes that same evolutionary trip backwards, from space to the African plain and a pre-technological society (not killer apes!) to welcome the Star Child, all in under 8 minutes.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Tuesday Afternoon
At Miami I had to read selections from Robert Ardrey's African Genesis (1961, I think) which put out the ideas that mankind was born on the African Savannah and aggression (and the invention of weapons) fueled the survival of the species. This was leading up a discussions about how visionary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick and futurist Arthur C. Clarke then extrapolated those ideas to create the world's most expensive pornographic film, 2001, a Space Odyssey (money shot here)
I never know what my friend Todd will send me, but it is always worthwhile. Today was a video clip that, even though it pre-dates Ardrey's book by a few years, takes that same evolutionary trip backwards, from space to the African plain and a pre-technological society (not killer apes!) to welcome the Star Child, all in under 8 minutes.
I never know what my friend Todd will send me, but it is always worthwhile. Today was a video clip that, even though it pre-dates Ardrey's book by a few years, takes that same evolutionary trip backwards, from space to the African plain and a pre-technological society (not killer apes!) to welcome the Star Child, all in under 8 minutes.
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