HR Giger's Passages I-IX

leading from Development of Giger's ArtPassage Ia) The Passages nightmaresGiger spoke about the Passages painting series, how the first of his corridor pictures were prompted by a series of dreams. In these dreams he usually found himself in a large white room without doors or windows, he would compare the place to being like a stone grave or a tomb and the only way outlead to an all powerful evil represented by a dark, iron opening barred by...

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H R Giger

a) Giger interviewsb) Development of Giger's artc) Problems with work on Alien 3: Riddle of  the Alien 3 beast with 4 legsd) Giger's letter to 20th C Fox regarding Alien Resurrection...

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Development of H R Giger's art.

Leading from H R GigerHR Giger with his Alien 3 beast. (source: http://fantasticvisions.net/)ArtworksXenoerotica drawings (2005) The Windowlickers I, II & III (1999) Aquatic Super Facehugger (1990)Bambi-burster  (1990)Alien 3 beast (1990)Erotomechanics VII (1979)Alien Monster IV (1978)Alien Monster III (1978)Life cycle hieroglyphics (1978)The Space Jockey (1978)The Derelict Ship (1978)The Alien Egg (1978)The Face Hugger(1978)Alien stage...

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Delville's influence on Giger's Facehugger?

leading from Delville's influence on GigerandDevelopment of Giger's art  Delville's "Idol of Perversity"a) The zig-zag tentacle motif can be seen as visable as the facehugger tail in a sketch from Giger's notebook as seen in a video and in Giger's Alien Egg Version III during the film production and the egg's glow is inspired to by Delville's influence from Idol of Perversity. The other side though is that Giger purposely designed his ...

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Erotomechanics VII continues to explore the Pakal Votan tomb lid imagery

Leading from Pakal Votan tomb lidand Development of Giger's artmodelling for Erotomechanics VII (from Giger's Polaroids) unfinished Erotomechanics VII by HR Giger (from Giger's Polaroids) Erotomechanics VII by HR Giger (1979)Models posing for Erotomechanics VII, 1979 (Polaroids, 2014)a) Continuing with the exploration into Giger's Necronom V, showing a female figure with the head of the Alien, riding on a piece of apparatus being inspired...

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Galactic Geography

leading from AfterworldsA) The Galactic Map of "Alien"B)  Locating the NostromoC) Houston replaced by the Solomons D) Galactic Geography In The Alien NovelisationE) The "Middle Heavens"F) The "Fifth Gala...

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The galactic map of "Alien"

leading from Galactic Geographya. O'Bannon's star mapA diagram with the online script shows a starmap of the territories where humans have explored.  As we know the Nostromo in its return journey has not reached the rim of "The Outer" which is 108 light years in diameter, or 54 light years away from Earth, and the area is separate from the inner circle, Earth Vicinity which is an area around Earth , 32.6 light years in diameter which equals...

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Locating the Nostromo

leading from Galactic Geographya). Verbal referencesLooking for a way to build an idea about how the galactic geography is formed in the film. We have very a small amount of information to play with.In the movie we have Parker's statement "We're way out in the boondocks here"  This as a generalisation might  suggest a remote area in the galactic area where they travel.a) In the movie we have Lambert talking about the fact that the Nostromo...

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Galactic Geography In The Alien Novelisation

leading from Galactic Geography  a) The official novelisation of the Alien movie by Alan Dean Foster offers us a secondary source of speculation since it was written and released as the film at the time of the movie, however little is known about what of the dialogue was his own creative contribution.b) Page 20, Kane gives an explanation of a possible reason why they can't work out where they are because they possibly came out of...

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Houston replaced by the Solomons

leading from Galactic Geography    Near the beginning of Alien,  Ripley attempts to hail Antartica Control over the galactic airwaves. "This is commercial towing vessel Nostromo, out of the Solomons". We might ask where in the cosmos the Solomons might be as if we were to assume this is where the ship had just come out from there. However later we find in a time line given in the Alien Quadrilogy set released...

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The "Middle Heavens"

leading from Galactic Geography  In Scanlon and Gross' Book of Alien, they talk the design crew worked long hours to produce a realistic chart of the Middle Heavens which can be seen barely in the background. What they show in a photograph of the chart in the book is one that contains an image of the moon and at the bottom of that, the top of a translucent star chart bearing the enigmatic title "Stars of the Middle Heavens" which is...

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The Fifth Galaxy

In the Alien script known to feature the Black Ship and the Cylinder, the Nostromo has been directed to a planet that the computer reveals is at the "co-ordinates 1482 to 61325 of fifth galaxy" (1)  Where the fifth galaxy is in relation to Earth is remains unknown but the journey to Earth remains 250 years.Alien script (Black Ship and Cylinder version) page 85, This journey time length can be found also in the earlier scripts by Dan O'BannonIn August 1959 edition of the comic book World of Fantasy, issue 19, Vol 1 featured a story called...

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"The Tomita Planets"

Leading from AlienAdmiration for The Tomita Planetsa) Ridley Scott had been introduced to the music of Isao Tomita by his film editor Terry Rawlings, and wanted to use the music from his album The Planets, which was basically Tomita's electronic interpretation of Holst's Planets suite which was released in 1976. But because he wasn't very well known to Fox Studios and certainly his music hadn't been used in movies by then, it wasn't used.b) Ridley...

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