Your desk. A lone ray of sun shines upon it. Tension squeezes the air. Your pencils tremble. Your pulse quickens. Mysterious forces of the universe are at work. And there it is: a black plastic monolith. Dare you touch it?
ThinkGeek’s incredibly cool and, of course, incredibly minimalist new toy isn’t quite an “action” figure, but will certainly be the most awe-inspiring object on your desk. Designed to the exact proportions of Kubrick’s towering, evolution-pushing movie monolith, this miniature replica will compliment and/or terrify whatever other knick knacks you have sitting around. Just – whatever you do – don’t let them touch it. Or else – My God, it’s full of stars!
Jones
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 12:00 PMBest action figure ever!
Chris Michelle-Wells
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 12:58 PMUltra geek trivia: monolith proportions are 1:4:9, the squares of 1, 2, 3.
monkeymind
Friday, October 22, 2010 at 3:10 PMUltra geek trivia: monolith proportions are 1:4:9, the squares of 1, 2, 3
Ultra Geek+ “Why do you think the sequence only stops at three demensions?…
1:4:9:16:25:36….
Mr Biggles
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 3:37 PMBecause you can’t show more than 3 dimensions in any solid object.
Anthony
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 1:29 PMI just went to try and purchase this and it doesn’t really exist. It was Thinkgeek’s April fools joke…Gotcha Gizmodo
Simon Reidy
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 2:15 PMDamn. Same here! The best you can do is put your name down at Think Geek, for when it’s supposedly going to be made for real (unless that too, is a cruel joke!)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/brain/email_bis.cgi?id=dcad
Monolith
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 1:45 AMThe proportions of the film prop monolith aren’t 1:4:9 (as stated in the novel). It’s “flatter”. Looks better on film that way. More trivia: the monolith was a tetrahedron in Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel” that 2001 was based on. Kubrick tried to film a clear acrylic tetrahedron but this proved impossible. They switched to an acrylic block which also proved unsatisfactory. Then they tried the black block, but filming the flat black object was next to impossible for Kubrick’s perfectionist eye. After several attempts at changing the paint formulation, a black paint heavily laced with graphite finally produced the desired effect.
The enormously expensive original acrylic block was modified into a commemorative monument, and is on display somewhere in the U.K.
Celestial Elf
Sunday, March 20, 2011 at 7:42 PMGreat Post Amazing Monolith haha,
thought you might enjoy my machinima film on Kubric’s Monolith
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02IhI64Jz0
Best Wishes ~