The field and the rock
EBGDAE
in Innsbruck where he had his inspiration for the HHGTTG in 1971 is
apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, does anyone know of
candidates for its location? I'm interested in visiting it, if not in
person, then on Google Earth.
I remember reading many years ago someone's assertion that the field
no longer existed as a field, so presumably that person must have
found some truth in the story. Does anyone else remember coming across
such a statement?
In his book Hitchhiker, M J Simpson presents evidence that DNA had his
inspiration whilst lying on a rock in Greece in 1973. Does anyone
have a location for the rock?
Please post Google Earth coordinates!
4794
Nemo
Whilst I can't post coordinates, this strangely enough meshes closely
with a Google Maps personal map I started only today.
The idea I had is just a marking of the places mentioned in Douglas'
books, and a few relevant spots from his life too. Thus I compiled
this list:
http://www.thorx.net/wiki/BopAdTour
From there, I started mapping. This was my lunch break at work, so
it's very very very very early yet.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=103038660362717824460.00044d3e4834f6f87eb1a&t=h&z=3
Incidentally, both links are editable by anyone at the moment. Go nuts
and improve.
.../Nemo
DaveH
>
> The idea I had is just a marking of the places mentioned in Douglas'
> books, and a few relevant spots from his life too. Thus I compiled
> this list:http://www.thorx.net/wiki/BopAdTour
>
> From there, I started mapping. This was my lunch break at work, so
>
> Incidentally, both links are editable by anyone at the moment. Go nuts and improve.
I have slowly been working on a "Hitchhiker's Guide to Cambridge" for
a while. I have put references to the Ultra Complete Index. Mine is
at:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=110518841025385462728.00044300543fd6a9994aa&z=12
By the way, I think you have the wrong Hotblack Desiato office.
Feel free to copy across anything of interest to your map.
DaveH
Nemo
> > From there, I started mapping. This was my lunch break at work, so
> > it's very very very very early yet.http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=1030386603627...
>
> > Incidentally, both links are editable by anyone at the moment. Go nuts and improve.
>
> I have slowly been working on a "Hitchhiker's Guide to Cambridge" for
> a while. I have put references to the Ultra Complete Index. Mine is
> at:http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=110518841...
oooh very nice. Though I assume you mean London moreso than
Cambridge :)
I had forgotten entirely about the Ultra Complete Index as a
reference. So far I was going purely from memory...
> By the way, I think you have the wrong Hotblack Desiato office.
> Feel free to copy across anything of interest to your map.
I may have - I went purely by the Google maps search result for Hot
Black Desiato. I may just link straight to your map rather than
replicate effort though, and focus mine on the less specific towns and
locations around the globe :)
.../Nemo
DaveH
> oooh very nice. Though I assume you mean London moreso than Cambridge :)
Yes, but I have done one of Cambridge as well - which was why I got
myself confused. See:
http://www.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110518841025385462728.00000111dc89c7ddc009f&ll=52.210868,0.136385&spn=0.022826,0.057678&t=h&z=14
DaveH
Tian
Neither of those pages come up for me... :-(
--
Tian
http://tian.greens.org
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EBGDAE
wrote:
Thanks, this is great!
I see the Innsbruck marker is right in the middle of a road :)
With reference to DaveH's map, who was KJD and what was the famous
Douglas Adams interview?
DaveH
> With reference to DaveH's map, who was KJD and what was the famous
> Douglas Adams interview?
KJD = Kevin Jon Davies who worked on the animations for the TV series
and directed the Making Of for which he interviewed Douglas. It is
the interview where Douglas has a Hitchhiker towel over his shoulder.
Dave Adalian
news:evft24d6dv33sb936...@4ax.com...
That's not a road. It's a bypass. They knocked down the field to build it.
Gotta build bypasses.
--
-- Dave
Read my latest astronomy column!
http://parkingorbit.blogspot.com/
(not quite so) Fat Sam
I was amazed to learn that all the computer graphics were hand drawn
animations.
I suppose it makes sense when you think about it now, because they were way
smoother than the sort of graphics being churned out by computers of the
day, but I had never considered this and just accepted that they were
computer graphics until I saw this guy interviewed.
The funny thing is, looking back on it, the style used sort of went a long
way towards defining the future evolution of computer graphics.
--
http://www.SavePentney.co.uk
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Save-Pentney
Nemo
And indeed it was a common misconception at the time that they were
computer drawn.
I've wondered before why there hasn't been fan-work on creating new
entries in that style for screensavers. Seems very suited to modern
Flash
.../Nemo