“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light” — Stanley Kubrick, 1968 Playboy Magazine interview

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Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove
1964

Add this to the list of images I need hung up on my wall.

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Thanks to the good peeps at TOKION magazine/Behance for featuring this piece I did a while back on their new site TOKION SERVED. Pretty sweet work from other amazing artists on there so check it out.

Note to self: MAKE MORE ART

I love the look on Kubes’ face. Even when you have a giant ceramic penis practically next to your face, Kubrick does not flinch.

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Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made
Edited by Alison Castle

Oh Taschen why do you like to empty my pockets? I already have Taschen/Alison Castle’s previous Stanley Kubrick Archives, which is epic in and of itself, chronicling his films through stills, behind-the-scenes photographs, documents, quotes, reviews, and an overall encyclopedia of all things Kubrick (if you haven’t seen this or picked it up, DO check it out). Now they, along with French design studio M/M (Paris) team up to create what they call, “the greatest book ever made about the greatest movie never made”.

To equal Kubrick’s grand vision of Napoleon (whom he envisioned either Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino to star in), the book itself is a massive 11.6” x 14.7” hardcover book representing a Napoleon biography, and is cutout inside to make room for 10 smaller books, all of which cover the abandoned film in great detail.

To really get an idea of the book’s brilliant design, watch Taschen’s feature HERE, as the photo doesn’t really do it justice.

As amazing as this all is, and I’m sure any and all Kubrick heads would love to put this up on their bookshelves and/or coffee tables, it’s only limited to 1,000 numbered copies and is going for a hefty $700.00. Not that this isn’t worth every penny but designers especially, gotta eat. Just sayin.

More info via Taschen

Would love to go to this!

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Epic Beards: Stanley Kubrick

The Men Who Stare At Goats
Directed by Grant Heslov
Starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey
2009

Whoa. First of, I’m a fan of this book and its author Jon Ronson. His books are filled with quirky, witty, British humo(u)r and plus he also happens to be a documentary filmmaker. He recently directed Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes, which aired on the UK’s Channel 4 during their Stanley Kubrick week (where’s our Kubrick Week, America?) in which he visits Kubrick’s home in Hertfordshire and goes through his thousands of boxes of stuff. It’s a pretty amazing look at how meticulous Kubes was when making a film. There’s a segment where they show all the thousands of reference photographs he had just for a door in Eyes Wide Shut, then after going through every single one of them he ends up filming it on a set anyways. I love it.

Anyways, I read that George Clooney bought the rights to this book a while back and more or less forgot all about it until seeing this trailer. No idea that Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor, and Kevin Spacey are going to be in it as well. Besides McGregor’s questionable American accent, it looks pretty good and sort of nails the quirky conspiracy theory feel the book has. That and it looks like Jeff Bridges is playing The Dude again plus they play Boston’s “More Than A Feeling” in the trailer. Can’t wait.

View the trailer HERE.

Anyone looking to watch Ronson’s Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes, can view the whole thing HERE.

Peter Sellers on Kubrick: “Kubrick is a God as far as I’m concerned.”

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