Monoliths Gone
The saga, or should I say odyssey continues! The Utah monolith referenced in last week’s blog post has disappeared a day or so after the news about the monolith went viral. Here’s all that remains, the baseplate and how it was imbedded into the stone.
Meanwhile, other monoliths were found in Romania and California, but both also disappeared after a few days. Or how about the monolith in the sky photographed in Utah that disappeared after a few seconds. Photoshop anyone? Then the latest version of an on-line video game Arcana included a monolith located in the fictional region of Vesuvia. And it gets crazier! Here’s a photo shot from a video showing Sasquatch planting the monolith!
Southwest Airlines also got in spoof with this ad.
Here’s the kind of natural monolith that I like. Maybe the monoliths represent some far out (alien) marketing campaign, but for what? We’ll have to wait and see.
The original monolith in the movie 2001 Space Odyssey had only one true replica in my view; the one that was found on New Years Day, 2001 on a Seattle hill overlooking the ocean as pictured here. It was very apropos that the monolith showed up on the first day of 2001 in honor of the movie’s title. It too disappeared a few days later.
The famous theme song from the movie was actually composed in 1896 by Richard Strauss and entitled "Also sprach Zarathustra”! Who knew? My friend Ray sure did, as he is a percussionist with the Michigan Philharmonic orchestra that literally plays the movie's theme song during most performances. As a percussionist, Ray's contribution is the meticulously timed drum rolls so prevalent in the song. He’s a perfectionist and practices the precise timing before every performance.
Ray is also an avid photographer and a life-long Detroit Tigers fan with season tickets. We met through his work as Fire Chief for our area when I was Mayor in Orchard Lake, Mi. in 2006. This previous blogpost covers some of those memories.
His garage serves as his photo studio, Tigers baseball memorabilia exhibition and percussion practice space. The cars stay outside. He’s invited me to many Tiger games, shows me any new items in his baseball collection, shares photos he’s most proud of and asks me to listen to his various drum rolls, all under the guise of talking shop about the fire and EMS service he so effectively led until he retired a few years back.
Last of the monolith stuff, promise!
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