Father also clicked a photograph of Kubrick,” reveals Sandip. Father had a look around the sets of the movie on the floor and then visited Kubrick’s office in the Shepperton Studios, where the shooting unfolded, to chat up with Kubrick. Father was the only outsider whom Kubrick allowed on the sets of the film.

“Clarke had invited father to the sets of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Father would wonder with admiration at such meticulous planning. “Besides, with every letter of his, Clarke used to enclose an itinerary which outlined his schedule for the next three or four months, the conferences he would attend and the like. This brought the maestro and Clarke closer. Ray had sent a concise version of The Avataar to Clarke. Clarke showed deep interest in the screenplay and felt it would make for a great movie. Interestingly, correspondences between Clarke and Ray began from the time Satyajit Ray scripted The Avataar. Clarke had co-authored the script of 2001: A Space Odyssey with Kubrick. Almost coinciding with this development, famed movie director Stanley Kubrick was set for the shooting of his path breaking film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ray penned The Avataar, which was later rechristened as the Alien in the mid-sixties and Columbia Pictures expressed interest in turning the screenplay into a film. Thomas, John Jajeh.Satyajit Ray and world famous science fiction author Arthur C. Special thanks to The Desktop Issue’s contributors: A. While reading, you can also listen to our Spotify playlist curated for this edition!Īlong with the zine, we are releasing the Adobe Illustrator file used to create the front and back cover elements, which includes a wood texture, sticky notes, a phone, an open book, lined paper, notebooks, highlighters, an eraser, a pencil, and a pen! EratoZine1-DeskElements.ai is licensed by Erato under CC BY-NC.

A desk is also a reflection of current experiences, littered with objects indicating beginnings and endings, a surface of subtle intimacies ripe for examination.Ĭlick here to read The Desktop Issue. On each desk is a student’s identity, spread across the tabletop. Some might keep their desk simple and organized, while others might have a system that works only inside their mind. Papers are written on and put away, drawings made and scrapped, laptops opened and closed, candy wrappers set aside to be discarded later. The limited horizontal real estate in a student’s room results in a student’s desk being in constant flux.

Erato is excited to share our first online-exclusive zine! The Desktop Issue focuses on a student’s desk as a microcosm of identity:

The Cut of the Clothes by Erato