#Klaatu barada nikto

[pointandshooter]

Seven Years.

My tumblr blog is seven years old this month. Seven years is a long time in a person’s life and an eternity on social media. The photography community has changed quite a bit here since 2016 . Many photographers have left Tumblr for other platforms with more potential views, worries about work being stolen, censorship, or just the fear of missing out. Others have just moved on from photography or social media in general. I can understand that. It might actually be healthy to reevaluate and change what one is doing in life every seven years. I used to be passionate about music, hoping to make a living playing guitar in my band. And then, for about 14 years I was an avid cyclist, riding over 150 miles every week. Nowadays, I don’t ride my bike anymore, although it would be very beneficial to both my physical and mental health; and I haven’t touched my guitar in several years. I sometimes miss playing and still have dreams at night where I am back on stage with my band. During all of those years I never thought about taking up photography. When I visited art galleries, I never bothered looking at photo exhibits. One day, in the Autumn of 2015, something clicked in my brain, and here I am today - just as passionate about photography as I once was about the guitar and cycling. Maybe in the coming years my interest and passion will change again, but for now I am happy to keep taking photos and post them on Tumblr.

Every year, on this blog’s anniversary, I like to give thanks. 

First, I give thanks to Tumblr for still being here. It is still free, but I pay the subscription fee to give back something, and to avoid the manscaping ads. Tumblr has made some positive changes in the past year and I have seen a few photographers return to the platform. I hope the platform can afford to keep going for a few more years.

I would then like to thank all of my followers, real and bot. For the real followers, I appreciate every like, reblog, tag, and comment. I find it encouraging and it helps lift my spirits. Some of you have been following me for years. I appreciate your endurance. As for the bots - who knows? With the advancements in AI maybe the bots will some day become sentient beings, creating their own AI generated text, images, and memes. 

I want to thank all of the wonderful photographers who share their work here. You are an inspiration. Something I love about Tumblr is the variety of photos I find here and the willingness of photographers to experiment. There doesn’t seem to be the drive to be popular here, and the photos are not as homogenous as might be found on other platforms. 

Praise be and blessed are all of the hard-working curators who tirelessly reblog our photos. You help put our photos on so many dashboards that would not normallly find us. I am also grateful for those curators who find classic and contemporary fine art photos from other sources and post them on their blogs. As I have said in the past, I feel these blogs are providing me with a free education in photography appreciation. My home library expands every month with photo books of photographers that I first discovered on Tumblr.

Lastly, I want to thank my team members on ISU: Nur and Lina, who are also my team members on Lensblr, along with Tom. You have become good friends over the years. Although we have never met, and may not ever, it is good know you. I hope we can continue as team members for a while yet.

I hope everyone has a good creative year, and find stimulating challenges along the way.

Love you all,

David

[kekwcomics]

GORT and VAMPIRELLA (Barbara Leigh). 1975

Photo uncredited.

[silveragelovechild]

[bobjackets]

Let’s go gang,I call shotgun.

[beauty-funny-trippy]

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

[astercontrol]

Thinking about Alan's cubicle and how he has "Gort Klaatu barada nikto" prominently displayed there

as a NERD, Alan knows that it is a movie reference (from The Day the Earth Stood Still) and as a programmer he knows that this reference (a command to an AI to do no harm) is highly relevant to his work

We don't see much of the "sci-fi fan" side of Alan's nerdiness in Tron 82, mostly just the serious programmer side, but there are hints of it, like this, and I wanna explore them

like: right now I'm imagining that movie quote played a role in naming the Tron program. Imagining a thought process like:

could call it Gort…

no, too on-the-nose, maybe spell it backwards?

Ew no. "Trog" sounds more caveman than computer

maybe change a letter?

ok YEAH make that last letter an N and it sounds totally… elecTRONic. Let's go with that!

(aaaand now I imagine steps 1, 4, and 5 being involved in naming Gorn from Uprising.)

(dunno if she was named by a User, canonically… but if so that User was nerdy enough to know about Gort but somehow unaware of the rubber lizardmask alien Gorn from Star Trek TOS… or MAYBE aware of it and more fond of it than usual)

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

TAKING YOU BACK TO THE PALM DESERT SCENE WITH KLAATU, GORT, & HEAVY FRIENDS IN '92.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a promotional photograph of Gort and Klaatu from the American science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), and the same image repurposed for flyer art to a KYUSS and FU MANCHU show, performing live at the Sea Hag in Palm Springs, CA, New Year’s Eve, 12-31-1992. Flyer art designed by Scott Hill (I think).

IMDb/FILM FACTS:

The original story ends slightly differently. After helping the robot to revive Klaatu, a newsman asks it to be sure to tell its masters that Klaatu's death was an unfortunate accident. The robot responds, "You are mistaken. I am the master."

Klaatu assures Professor Barnhardt that "such power exists" to eliminate the Earth if necessary. What is not mentioned in the script is that mass invasions like "War of the Worlds" or "Invaders from Mars" would not be needed; that Gort by himself could do the job. In fact, in the original story the robots were the rulers.

Klaatu tells Professor Barnhardt that once the Earth brings nuclear weapons into space it becomes a threat to the other planets, as if it was a basic fact that intelligent life lived throughout the solar system. At the time the film was made the first astronaut to enter space was still almost 10 years away, and the idea of intelligent life on the other planets, or even the moon, was still an acceptable concept.

"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) was also known as "Farewell to the Master" and "Journey to the World."

Sources: https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100011301047559&story_fbid=685461515173877 & www.monash.edu/muma/public-programs/previous/2018/winterfest-2018-sci-fi-movie-night

[doctormarvello]

My favorite Jovians

Klaatu gets to keep his helmet on because the idea of everyone thinking he’s human after he just changes his outfit was funny to me. And he takes it off in the elevator and he’s just a normal guy and THATS when Helen is like omg… you ARE the spaceman…

[awidevastdominion]

[scrivnomancer]

Goodnight out there, whatever you are.

[dj-carni]

[galactic-hunter]

[neuromangler]

Klaatu

[silveragelovechild]

[leesargent]

Robot 3 of 100 - Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still

A genuine classic science fiction robot.

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[arkantolas]

FUCK YEAH GORT

being obsessed with a character is so fucking embarrassing like I'll be getting dressed in the morning like "I bet the 12th doctor would wear these socks" bitch shut the fuck up