Prof Stephen Hawking as Deep Thought
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Prof Stephen Hawking (RIP) as the voice of Deep Thought, in excerpts from a film about "The Hitchhiker's Guide" written and presented by Sanjeev Bhaskar from "The Big Read" series (BBC2, 2003). With Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish as the Magrathean programmers Lunkwill and Fook. Hawking was the Voice of The Guide Mk2 in the recent Hitchhiker's Guide Hexagonal Phase BBC Radio 4 series (March 2018).
Whoever came up with the idea of having Stephen Hawkings voice as Deep Thought is simply brilliant
What a great. RIP.
RIP Stephen Hawking
Stephen!
He was asked in interview one time and said that he was staring into his garden trying to think of a sufficiently interesting number for the story. He said that 42 popped into his head and he thought it was good enough so he wrote it down. He also said that it was supposed to just be some random number and hadn't planned for any actual significance to it. Sorry guys, it is just a number.
Is the 1994 illustred hitchhiker's version available anymore
The usual places ebay, amazon etc will have copies every now and then. Not terribly expensive. The silver cover was so easily damaged, it's hard to find a copy that's pristine though. (That wasn't my choice, by the way. The book's editor chose that. I think her inspiration was that Madonna's book "S*X" had recently come out and was in a silver wrapper. The holographic 'defraction grating' foil was simply too fragile for bookshops to handle. There were a lot of 'returns'. They also didn't know where to place it in the shop - it didn't fit among the novels, which is what it was, and it was a bit pricey. Lovely job to work on though. I had a great team helping on the photos.
THINKING THAT THERE IS ONE ANSWER TO EVERYTHING IS A FOOLS PURSUTE
Years ago, studying martial arts, warrior mysticism and etc, after all the stuff like the sound of one hand clapping and other koans, Grandmaster Sung and Master Sensai Hagawa said they'd reval a great secret to the advanced students, they brought out a clip board w the number 42 on it, we didn't stop laughing for 30 mins
Did Adams ever sketch anything in his notes? For several years now I've wondered how he imagined vogons or dentrassi, and what exactly, the most accurate depiction to his imagination was.
He didn't really think visually. Douglas was all about the ideas and the expression of them in carefully considered language. His scripts had little in the way of detail for visuals. He was quite open and generous to anyone else interpreting his ideas. He asked me to art direct "The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide" - a large format book in 1994 - with proto digital comp work. We had fun discussing his concepts. He thought we'd got about as close as anyone to his real idea of how Marvin would look.
Happy towel day!
42 is # in code or "whatever you want it to be" that was Adams point:p
That's a bit sharp... he did like to pound things in to the storyline :-P He also re-hashed things for each different medium.
Alt 042 is ascii for * in computing its a place holder for whatever you want it to be.
Am wondering where the Video comes from if it is a Radio Show?
The best radio helps create pictures in your mind. This clip from 2003 happened to be from a TV show about the British nation's favourite books. Stephen Hawking also provided a voice for the new radio series currently on BBC Radio.
@@KevinJonDavies what's the show called
There is a benefit from Brexit, but you're really not going to like it... :-(
How fantastically shit.