This is so cool. The original Matrix, now 20 years old, is my favorite movie ever, and now I am super excited to share the sneak peek that my Pilat painting of my Apollo 15 umbilical cable that flew to the moon — providing a data link to the Lunar Module from the mother ship — will be among the symbolically-perfect home décor for Neo in the Matrix 4.
Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss are in town for filming that starts Feb 9 in the San Francisco financial district, SoMa and Chinatown. It goes by the code name “Project Ice Cream”. The action scenes will mostly be filmed at night and over the weekend with “low-flying helicopters, pyrotechnics, drone cameras, crash stunts and simulated gunfire” as they describe on the fliers sent to the local businesses here. Shipping containers of film equipment are also in place in the Alameda (as they were for Matrix 2) and an FX studio is running in the basement of a certain iconic SF hotel.
So excited to see what the Wachowski sisters — née brothers — will simulate this time around. And I hope my Pilat makes the final cut!
Details on the Apollo 15 umbilical cable: In 1971, on the way to the moon, it was routed through the docking tunnel to connect the two spacecraft; it was used to provide power to the Lunar Module from the docked Service Module fuel cells until separation for the lunar landing, and it functioned as a command link for the LM/SLA sequence controller (required for LM extraction from the Saturn V stack).
Here is a flickr post I made on the artifact and Pilat’s painting of it. And her site: www.agnieszkapilat.com
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