hey everybody adam from tested here in my cave with a couple of show-and-tells well one main
show-and-tell um and an ancillary show-and-tell shall we say um this here in front of me is my
beautiful moon watcher mask this was sculpted uh by steve neal a legend in the animatronics
industry he worked with john chambers on the very first planet of the apes makeups he's
you name it he worked on it and steve is a good friend and an amazing sculptor he sculpted this
in a very uh pliable low durometer silicone and it even has the same ah
stuart freeborn lip curl mechanism which stewart called a toggle um
and i i i have never witnessed or looked on the inside of a real moonwatcher mask but i think he
simply means the cabling um so the way a mask like this works is that there is a yeah see that oh and
i got to tell you what steve really got right here what he really nailed is is one there's a kind of
off-center aspect to it but then when the lip curls look at that see that how it gets kind of
square right there that is super accurate i don't even know how he did it blew my freaking mind when
this arrived oh also because i have castings of my head i sent one to steve and he actually built the
internal fiberglass frame off of my head i know i covered this when i wore this as a walk around
in new york a couple years ago but it's always worth talking about it is a beautiful piece um
i it's one of my favorite pieces in my collection um oh right i was telling you how it worked the
way that lip curls is that there is a couple of cables going from the bottom from the bottom jaw
to a little a little spring mechanism on the upper lip and the same thing going from the
top jaw to a little spring mechanism on the lower lip and if you watch what happens as you open it
both lips both lips come down yeah ah i have to tell you when you wear this thing and someone's
like hey can you take a picture and you ah like this everybody backs away every human it is
evolutionary how they whoa they just nobody likes watching something like this barrett's big sharp
teeth but this isn't even the show and tell that i wanted to show you this is sort of my indicative
example of my deep and abiding love for stanley kubrick and all things kubrick and also 2001 and
a few a few my hair a few every now and then um a couple of years ago i started a twitter thread
about the bone that moon watcher throws in 2001 the bone that precipitates the
one of the greatest smash cuts in cinema history from the bone spinning around to the space station
spinning around and i actually got farther than i thought i would in terms of the research
and discovered through discussion with some twitter anatomy people and some animal bone people
that it was a horse uh bone a leg bone um there were a couple of choices about which it was
and i made notes about this and i planned and actually back then i went looking on ebay and
etsy for some some of those types of bones and i found something close but never quite exact
anyway turns out my research became moot um when a a lovely uh maker of things named steve radke
of uh valor replicas did the same amount of research well actually he didn't do
the same amount he went much further and he figured out that it was specifically uh uh uh
a horse leg bone a radius ulna that is a back lower leg the distinctive fin oh sorry
here's how i was thinking of this in my head i would say but my research on twitter became
unnecessary because somebody else did the same research and went all the way to figuring out
exactly the kind of bone and actually made a replica of said bone this is the creation of steve
radke of valor replicas uh he is an rpf member and i believe this is where that's where i found this
um here's what steve has to say about this uh he suspects it was intended to be a prehistoric tapir
bone i was thinking the same thing uh it was a horse leg bone a radius ulna lower back leg yeah i
couldn't figure out i was it i was it was in this point on an airplane when i was getting spotty
wi-fi and i was like looking at horse bone drawings and i couldn't tell it was the front
leg or the back leg at any rate steve figured it out and also that this distinctive fin here is
actually part of a broken off ulna that you can see in some of the shots of the film um
yeah look i mean this is this is just what he sent for me purchasing this on the rpf it's
a great little informational thing uh lots of different versions of the so he this is great
this is exactly the kind of deep dive that i love yeah so as that bone flies through the air
steve frame grabbed it in every orientation of its spin line them up yeah that is that's right
after my own heart steve nicely done um it's a beautiful replica it's exactly what i wanted it
to look like but i wanted to it's exactly what it should look like he really really really nailed it
uh even down to the color i i just think he did a stunning job and we haven't even gotten to the
fact that he made this beautiful monolith replica now i am not sure if the curve here is an artifact
this is a casting so this is cast in urethane um and nicely solidly mounted to an acrylic base
so it displays really well here in the cave um there is a curve happening here i don't really
care about that um plus this really beautiful here i want you to get up close to see this
uh here let's get that out of the yeah see that the dawn of man he's even gone so far
to do a beautiful rendition of that text in the top of his monolith and i didn't even pay
for that i mean when i ordered this i ordered this he could have sent me this wrapped in a
newspaper and i would have been totally happy but he didn't he actually added this beautiful
monolith base and i'm here to say that again the attention to detail is chef's kiss awesome
these two scamps now live next to each other moon watcher yeah and the bone he threw and
i guess maybe i'll need to get a replica of the space station and model it right next to the bone
maybe we'll see thank you guys for joining me for this show and tell and i will see you next time
hey by the way 2001 terrific coveted movie just give up a whole evening and dive right in
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