Who's on your geek Mount Rushmore?

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Can we do a very tiny, separate sculpture with Lovecraft, Heinlein, Whedon, and Kipling as a monument to people that we recognize as influential but really really don't want to put on the side of a mountain?

We'll give them a sand castle.

JRR Tolkien, HG Wells, Jules Verne, Robert E. Howard

 

[Reynard]

Can we do a very tiny, separate sculpture with Lovecraft, Heinlein, Whedon, and Kipling as a monument to people that we recognize as influential but really really don't want to put on the side of a mountain?

Why would you want to eliminate Lovecraft but not Howard?

 

[payn]

Can we do a very tiny, separate sculpture with Lovecraft, Heinlein, Whedon, and Kipling as a tribute to people that we recognize as influential but really really don't want to put on the side of a mountain?

Its ironic that Wheddon wrote a line from Firefly about statues begin erected to celebrate people that were really butt holes in one way or another.

 

[Deset Gled]

Why would you want to eliminate Lovecraft but not Howard?

There are arguments to be made. But if I'm going Mount Rushmore-style on the side statue as well, I only have four slots. And the four I picked stood out as above and beyond (IMNSHO) on both the scale of influence and problems. Howard is lower to me (personally) on both scales. He wouldn't be a candidate for my normal Geek Rushmore.

Although I'll admit Kipling is much lower on the "geek" scale. Howard might be a good alternative to him.

 

[overgeeked]

Who are your big four cultural icons -- yours personally, or what the world knows and cares about -- that you'd slap on a mountain? (Preferably land you had actual rights to.)

Dave Arneson. Philip K. Dick. Robert E. Howard. Jack Kirby.

 

[Gradine]

JRR Tolkien, Gene Roddenberry, Hayao Miyazaki, Shigeru Miyamoto

Surprised Lucas hasn't been mentioned yet, it kind of pained me to leave him off, but Roddenberry felt more influential in the Film/TV sphere, and I figured it would work best to include one entry from each medium (literature, film/tv, animation, video games)

If I had a secondary mountain for runners up I would probably go Asimov, Lucas, Bakshi, and Sakaguchi

 

[Aeson]

None of us would be posting here without some impact by Gary Gygax . It's really hard to choose just four people. I want to put William Shatner and Mark Hamil up, but I can't with mentioning Roddenberry and Lucas. I could probably fill the whole width and breadth of the Rocky Mountains of geek influencers.

 

[Deset Gled]

For my Geek Rushmore:

Shigeru Miyamoto, Hayao Miyazaki, H. R. Giger, Bill Slavicsek.

That nicely covers scifi, fantasy, TTRPGs, video games, movies, animation, art, and horror. Doesn't cover music at all, but I think that's generally less geeky.

 

[Aeson]

Surprised Lucas hasn't been mentioned yet,

Only because you beat me by like 3 minutes. I was still forming my thoughts.

 

[Deset Gled]

Surprised Lucas hasn't been mentioned yet,

Only because you beat me by like 3 minutes. I was still forming my thoughts.

I also have a hard time giving Lucas all the credit for Star Wars. Yes, he was the central guy, but he wasn't anywhere near as much by himself.

My Star Wars Rushmore would be: Lucas, Williams, Tippet, and Slavicsek. Idea, music, visual effects, expansion.