What is your avatar? Is it just some random scene from a movie? It strikes me as somehow psychedelic or dream-like but I can't put my finger on it. Just curious. Mine is from the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey where Bowman enters the monolith.

Love that film. I used to use this one as an avatar:



SWIM's seen this film on so many substances. Usually people watch it that way for the last scene, but SWIM is more impressed by the whole scene when Dave's battling HAL. The mood, ambience and imagery of that segment is superb.

Easily my favorite film of all time. Thought Kubrick's other films kind of paled in comparison. It's hard to even compare it to other movies, it's virtually in a league of its own in terms of its artistic merits, IMO

You may have seen this already, but if not check it out asap! http://www.kubrick2001.com/

Hope ya don't mind if I borrow that jpg

Glad you asked!!
The screencap is from a great british movie called "If..." by lindsay Anderson, having Malcom McDowell in it's first role.

The whole film got a dreamish atmosphere, and that scene in particular is very raw and exeggerated in very archetypal way namely the forces between male and female, predator and game...and all this in a short interlude, in a burst of youthfulness, of rebellion and the knowledge of beeing locked up in a cage, unable to move. A phantasy? Maybe. It might been a very bitter dream.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063850/

Oh, and I just like the composition of this particular picture...how it tells you what happens next

...and I bow to Kubrick, the eternal master ...I had the chance to see it in a cinema...in the year 2001, ironically.

I would have sworn the man from behind was Robert Redford!

obliguhl- I've always thought that you got yourself the most enigmatic avatar on the Nexus!

Every time I saw it I wondered ...

I haven't seen the film but how you describe the scene is exactly what came across in the avatar- you obviously have an eye for a screen capture.

tryptographer- Robert Redford- yeah me too!

BTW totally with you guys on 2001.

Thank you transitory, that was very kind of you
But you should really applaud to the director, Linsay Anderson for creating this nice movie.

Well, I just dropped in to say that this thread really made my day back in december, thanks!

Yeah, 2001 is incomparable to anything else. But I fondly remember when I first saw "Eyes Wide Shut" while stoned on MJ. I couldn't believe the depth I perceived in that movie.

lol and I could have sworn the girl was the one from requiem for a dream

Agreed. Very intruiging avatar.
Good art.