Ok, this image has a story and I hope I don’t screw  my English up too bad trying to tell it. Please forgive me the grammatical oddities.

Everything begun many years ago when all humans were hairy monkeys beating each other with thighbone. Few years after (…When monkeys had already flew away with their spaceship to conquer a planet for them and Charlton Heston…) my wife, who sometimes makes art out of found objects, came home with a thing.

I don’t know for sure what it is, but I think it might be a piece of some sort of a lamp or illuminating device. It is a short tube and it has couple of lenses attached in it. It is rusty and dirty and it is just looks so cool.

This thing ended up on a shelf in our living room to wait the day it joins some other objects to become a piece of art. One day I took it down and placed it on the table, in front of our coffee maker. Coffee makers red light shimmered through the lenses beautifully, and I took a picture of it.

The thing in front of a coffee maker.

Cool huh?

Then I did what I do best, I played around with image manipulating programs.

HAL 9000 never dies.

You may check the full size, 1920x1200px, here.

For the background I used a photo by Michael Kuehn. You can see his original shot here:
http://limited-vision-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/30382360#/d3joho6
He generously granted me a permission to publish this.

The HAL 9000 logo I created from scratch. I had so much fun making his. I hope you enjoyed it too.

“Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do,

I’m half crazy all for the love of you.”