What?
At this time Spacerex appears to be a science fiction narrative.
Garden Planet, Spacerex,
Space Rex, Space Wrecks, Loft in Space, the Metastatic Vacuum Disturbance…
In the future mankind will discover a distant planet, PBR12, that will have, as it’s sole inhabitants, huge primitive organisms that horde, within their fruiting bodies and mycelium, enough oxygen, nitrogen and other trace elements to create an earth-like atmosphere around the otherwise inhospitable planet.
A panel of earth’s greatest scientists will convene to study these fascinating organisms and devise a safe, efficient and cost-effective way to kill them.
The USS Belleforest, a genetic research lab and terraforming vessel will be launched and it’s mission on PBR12 will be successful. As the life-sustaining gasses leak out of the dying organisms, leaving a fertile topsoil for our new Earth, twelve and a half light years away, the desperate survivors of our own depleted world will celebrate.
But then something will go terribly wrong…
In the beginning
“Loft In Space,” the original title, before it was SpaceRex, was a promotional tool for an ambitious and as-yet un-produced science fiction film. The film has languished for 20 years in development, subject to the vagaries of my creative intent and lack of money, while this website lives on. I have also started writing a novel, Garden Planet, set in the same dystopia.
The current tag line is “Trucker webcasting pirate tv suppressed by robots of future white-collar crime syndicate” or “Celebrated in history. Rewarded in the afterlife” (I alternate). Here are some other suggestions:
- A cautionary tale to ambitious pot smokers
- Cool props in search of a narrative
- The Unmaking of Spacerex: The Procrastinator’s Dilemma
- The greatest film never made
Spacerex intent
One of my big motivations for being an artist as a younger man, whether it was playing rock and roll, painting, doing sculpture or making films, was to make myself interesting and sexually attractive to potential mates.
Having married a beautiful woman and had beautiful children, in spite of being depressed, stoned and narcissistic, that big motive has gone away. Which is fine. I don’t look for sympathy. I have done drugs. I have gotten sober. I’ve read self-help books and done therapy. I write a journal. I’ve done Transcendental Meditation® and Zen Buddist Meditation (all of which I whole-heartedly recommend). On the advice of a life coach (one meeting–I do not have a life coach) I’ve closed my eyes and asked myself “What does my heart want?”
“What does my heart want?”
The answer, for what it was worth, finally came:
“I want my mind and my ego, like… slung across a big mattress, pleasuring each other.”
If everyone was honest and probing with themselves, I suspect this conclusion would be nearly universal. It might be “my acting and my ego, my cooking and my ego, my money and my ego,” whatever… If it’s not true in your case, congratulations! You are a better person than me.
What my heart wants is to pump blood into all the parts of my body. My mind wants to be clear and present. The themes that leak out of my self-indulgent process are interesting to me. I hope to enjoy them too.
Evolution
Since I started shooting spacerex, way back in 1998, while my wife was pregnant with our first child, the making-of and the thing itself have co-mingled and become a three-headed hydra:
- a hard-to-produce movie
- the next great american sci fi trilogy
- a web-based grunt of creativity.
So far 3 is winning out. I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks,
If you are looking for facts about the filmmaking, artwork and graphics you see here, go to our business website, motherlode-pix.com.
Spatz Curtis & Friends
The domain name, Spacerex.com, was registered by Spatz Curtis in 1998. He saw it on the first Spacerex transmission and went looking for the site. (see fig. 3) Having purchased, among others, Pepsi.com, and selling it at a huge profit to the named corporation two years before, Curtis moved quickly. But no owners came forward to claim Spacerex.
Later it came to light that a satellite signal which carried the spacerex.com watermark appeared as early as the late 1970’s, and was recorded by John Mauchley, the inventor of the computer and the skateboard.
Figure 4 is a scan of one of four mysterious life forms Curtis’ cat found in his yard, shortly after first contact with the future.
Click here to see Spatz Curtis’s original website in all it’s deprecated mid-1990’s frames-based glory. (We include this link for the sake of our most scrupulous spacerex historians and scholars–most of the same information is available here on this wordpress site).
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