Podcast Episode 7 - Jupiter And Beyond the Infinite

Here's episode seven of the new Synchronicity Arkive podcast, Arkiving Synchronicity. This episode features Arkiver commenting on the end of 2001, Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite. Again for your listening enjoyment...

Due to the nature of the actual commentary track itself, it's probably best listened to along with the movie. Downloads and a partial transcript follows after the break...

Download introduction here (approx. 1Mb, 2 min.).
Welcome to another episode of Arkiving Synchronicity, the Synchronicity Arkive podcast. This is your host, Arkiver, webmaster of the Synchronicity Arkive. For today’s installment, I thought I’d do something a little different, a bit of a departure from the previous podcasts. Rather than interviewing a member of the synching community, I’d like to talk a little bit about the video piece of one of my favorite synchronicities, Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite (which is the last 23 minutes or so of 2001).

2001 is pretty widely regarded as an influential film, but it can also be very difficult to watch and understand. I know when I first saw it, in high school actually, coming into it from such films as Star Wars or the Last Starfighter, it struck me initially as a very slow and boring film. And the last 23 minutes, Jupiter and Beyond itself, were just downright weird. It took a while before I was ready to try that material again, and it took a friend of mine showing me the Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite synchronicity to change my mind. That combination, the 23 minutes of video with Pink Floyd’s Echoes, really opened up my mind to the symbolic possibilities of this segment, as well as the larger 2001 film itself.

So I thought I’d just take a run through and kind of comment on the movie as it plays. There may be some dead air in this one, so I’m going to split this podcast into a quick intro, followed by my commentary, and then maybe a wrap up at the end.

Let’s take a trip beyond the infinite, shall we?

Download commentary here (approx. 13Mb, 23 min.).

Download wrap-up here (approx. 1Mb, 30 sec.).
Well, having never done commentary before, I hope that turned out OK. Going forward, I do hope to mix up the Arkiving Synchronicity episodes with something different now and then. But coming up, I do have both Andrew Wendland and the DeVille as candidates for interviews, which hopefully we can get to soon. If you have any ideas for other topics or interviews you’d like to see, feel free to post them on the Arkive.