Wednesday, 18 February 2015
Friday, 30 January 2015
January 2015
Leading from
Saturday 31st January 2015
1) Wrote my summary of the exploration of Giger's derelict exterior as a preface for the Index in The Design of Giger's Derelict
2) Information about how Ridley Scott first started with the derelict by taking an idea from Giger's Necronomicon has been absorbed into "Giger has the derelict idea" , however a new point of confusion comes out of the report that Giger came up with a derelict ship design that looked too much like a saxaphone and the question might arise about when he came up with this illustration and if it might be present in a sketch but not easy to work out.
3) Added image of Brian Johnson's head split in two revealing an Escher optical illusion drawing to Escher optical illusions etched on the mind of Brian Johnston
Friday 30th January 2015
1) Okay, this might actually be the origin of the derelict's hammer head, finally. This was-sceptre discovered in 1895 in Ombos, shown here on display at the Victoria and Albert museum in London.
2) Added quote from Scifi entertainment, Feb 1996, p41 to Dan The Script Surgeon
3) Broke down The Design of Giger's Derelict into separate pages leading from the page
Tuesday 27th January 2015
Added comments by Ron Cobb from Mediascene #35 to Ron Cobb's design philosophy and continued to work on this page in general
Saturday 24th January 2015
The page "Starting to Construct the Nostromo exterior" has been removed and the contents broken up into separate pages or integrated with other pages linked to Creating The Nostromo.
(NB What I'd like to say is that to the degree I've wanted to present about the creation of the Nostromo has been a blurred fragmented clueless mess and I'm overjoyed to think that I've managed to successfully break the information down into pages helping to connect the stray bits of information to a greater degree or at least give them some kind of context in terms of the bigger picture and this work of course continues. )
Friday 23rd January 2015
1) Updated Confusion about number of Nostromo's shuttles using information from Bill Pearson's article in the "From Script to Screen" book
2) Added Four foot long Nostromo based on a comment from Simon Deering in the "Alien Makers" and the knowledge that Jon Sorensen worked on the four foot version
Thursday 22nd January 2015
1) Updated The Alien Derelict as the Ancient Egyptian God Ra's Barge of a Million Years?
with some information about the mythos of the Ancient Egyptian concept
2) Eternally updating, rearranging and altering Initial construction of the Nostromo.
(NB At the moment as I research this, I am looking for information about the front section of the Nostromo that was created and find a blurring in what is being said, do they mean the front section of the Nostromo lander or do they mean that the Nostromo is both the tug and the refinery and so the tug is simply the front section. And then there is talk about a small model that was built and shown to Ridley while Bill Pearson built a small model as a rough and it was Brian Johnson approved of it, were they the same model?)
Wednesday 21st January 2015
1) Added Nostromo's Windows Into The Engine Room based on Bill Pearson's article in the "From Script to Screen" book 2) Updated New Engine Room Miniature, Construction of the Nostromo exterior, Adding a new cockpit, with sections from Bill Pearson's writeup of the construction of the Nostromo in "From Script to Screen"
Monday 19th January 2015
Added The Alien Derelict as the Ancient Egyptian God Ra's Barge of a Million Years?
Sunday 18th January 2015
1) Added section from the AMC Prometheus Q&A with Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof to Lindelof's response to Spaihts script detailing what Ridley had asked Lindelof to do in terms of Spaihts script, although it's not really certain when and where Ridley did talk to Lindelof about this.
2) Updated, The coming of Bill Pearson, Initial Construction of the Nostromo, and Nostromo with Close Encounters Of Third Kind mothership lighting with sections from Bill Pearson's writeup of the construction of the Nostromo in "From Script to Screen".
Saturday 17th January 2015
An attempt to compare similarities between elements of the story for "Doctor Who and The Cybermen" with "Prometheus". I admit this article is rather rough and perhaps their similarities are somewhat blurredly represented by me and then the complexities of it all could spin off into very dimly lit god knows where places, it has been giving me a headache today and perhaps the similarities of the hammerpede head and the hieroglyph of the scarab with its wings outstretched begins to make me ask questions. Echoes of Doctor Who and The Tomb of The Cybermen in Prometheus.
Sunday 11th January 2015
Rather than expanding "The Script That Ridley Wanted", it was merged with "Dan The Script Surgeon" since they were dealing with the same subject and this page remained with the latter title since it was the better of the two.
Saturday 10th January 2015
1) A page about "The Realism of Giler and Hill's earlier drafts" of the Alien scripts been turned into three pages now: (i) Hercules, Genghis Kahan and Attila the Hun vs Jack the Ripper script? (ii) The Cylinder script (iii) "The script that Ridley wanted" and the latter page will soon be expanded to mention how Dan O'Bannon put something near to his old script back together again which have all been linked to the section Pre-Production.
2) The page about Ron Cobb's concept sketches became renamed as Ron Cobb's Derelict ship concepts however the information about the The Cylinder script scenario on that page has been seperated and merged with some of the information about the bunker from the page formerly known as "The Realism of Giler and Hill's earlier drafts"
Friday 9th January 2015
1) Added Possibilities of merging universes of Alien and Blade Runner. This is just a page about the Ridley had thoughts about adding references to Blade Runner to Prometheus and Charles De Lauzirika added an "Easter Egg" inspired by this fascination about merging the two and on a least a couple of occasions he's had to inform people that it's only a light hearted joke. So if I have to be told about this 'Easter Egg" being evidence that Alien and Blade Runner take place in the same universe, I have something at hand to show them.
2) Created a page for scaraboid multiple eyes of horus/ wedjat/ udjats seperate from simply the multiple eyes of horus/ wedjats/ udjats, the latter which now I have discovered come in threes and sometimes nines
3) Added Henu Barque on dress of sculpture of unidentified high ranking woman
Thursday 8th January 2015
1) Added Trails of inspirations for the derelict ship as a list for various works that Dan O'Bannon is either known to or likely to have read or seen which feature the idea of a derelict ship
Monday 5th January 2015
1) Added "Mystery derelict found at sea" in "Call of the Cthulhu". A possible sign of where Dan O'Bannon had been drawing inspiration from to write about the discovery of a derelict vessel where the crew ran into something rather troubling.
2) Added Candidate for a Giger Cthulhu , about whether there's a remnant of a Cthulhu painted by Giger in his painting of the Egg Silo, and what there would be to compare it with.
3) Added Chris Nolan on Alien and Blade Runner
Sunday 4th January 2015
Added Conception of the Cybermen of Doctor Who. Well, this is straying from Alien here again, but I seem to find it important to explore the background of the Cybermen from Doctor Who to look at some of the grounds of science fiction thinking which had led to the formations of films such as Alien and I've covered the basics of their conception here and will add to it more eventually if I can find out any more decent information. I think these characters might have caught the imagination of HR Giger for at least for a while with his interest in biomechanoids. The inventor of the Cybermen who was Kit Pedler was an interesting person with a scientific background who found himself concerned about the future of humans and their machinery, and well as we many of us may have noticed, ideas from one of the stories seems to have wormed its way into Prometheus.
Thursday 1st January 2015
1) Updated Life cycle of the alien with information based on thoughts from Ridley Scott about the alien transforming into a chrysalis and returning to the form of an egg.
2) Updated Organic box like thing with a mention by Ridley Scott about the intended scene with Bodaji dressed as the alien suspended in the air attempting to unfold like a bird from an egg
3) Added Ivory label of pharaoh Semerkhet which shows a very early depiction of a Sokar Funerary Barque/Henu Barque
4) Added Early depiction of Sokar Funerary barque on a djet comb
Wednesday, 3 December 2014
Did Giger's "Vlad Tepes" inspire the Eldon character in the "Fire and Stone" comic book series?
leading from
In 2014, Dark Horse created a comic book series called "Fire and Stone" incorporating the Aliens, Alien Vs Predator, Predator and Prometheus franchises into a set of interconnecting comic book stories and a mutating android villain named Eldon that in its later stages of its transformed looked seems as if it has a face roughly inspired by the female figure on the left with its white elongated ribbed head and near flat animal nose.
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| Alien Vs Predator: Fire and Stone, no.3 |
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| Detail from Giger's painting Vlad Tepes showing the head |
Monday, 1 December 2014
December 2014
leading from
Wednesday December 31st 2014
Added note about Kit Pedler to co script-writer of Doctor Who and The Tomb of the Cybermen being inspired by Erich Von Daniken to Von Daniken's concepts used in Prometheus. More about how "Doctor Who and The Tomb of the Cybermen" appeared to inspire Prometheus will be added.
Tuesday December 30th 2014
Added scan of Back of the River Boat Leviathan by Chris Foss from a transparency in Charlie Lippincott's collection and renamed the page named "Riverboat Design, 1977" as sketches 7 & 8 Riverboat Design since the picture of the back of the Riverboat Leviathan has been revealed to be numbered as 7 while the image on the transparency of drawing of the rest of the ship in Charlie Lippincott's collection revealed it to be numbered as 8.
Thursday December 25th 2014
Slightly re-edited Derelict Entrance page adding quotes by Lyndsey Muir from Charlie Lippincott's Facebook page which basically reaffirm the basics of what Brian Muir has already said about the entrance
Wednesday December 24th 2014
1) Made separate page for the Multiple Wedjats that were amongst the single Wedjats on the The Eye of Horus /Wedjat page
Wednesday December 17th 2014
1) Added Jesus Christ: Emissary from outer space
2) Added Ridley's afterthoughts on Prometheus
3) Added Deacon's mouth echoes of scare faces from Beetlejuice
4) Added Space Jockey inspired "Ship of fools" comic book story from Doctor Who Weekly #23-24
Sunday December 14th 2014
Added Reaching Prometheus 2
Saturday December 6th 2014
1) Slightly updated Industrial Conglomerates And Their Ships with information from An interview with Ridley Scott by Danny Peary, Omni Screen Flights, Screen Fantasy and Warren presents, Alien Collector's Edition.
2) Updated Building the Refinery with Ron Cobb's experience of the event from Fantastic Films July 1979
3) The contents of the page "Ridley's Nostromo" which contained part of an interview from Fantastic Film magazine was absorbed by the pages Industrial Conglomerates And Their Ships and Building the Refinery
Friday December 5th 2014
Slightly updated The Creature In The Wall with information from H.R. Giger's Alien diaries
Wednesday December 3rd 2014
Updated Simon Deering's auto destruct panel by identifying use of, "Akasa" "Bel", "En-Soph", "Aum" along with "Padme", as well as "Yoni" along with "Linga" in Blavatsky's writings and creating a separate page "References to Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine" for these words
Saturday, 1 November 2014
November 2014
leading from
Wednesday November 26th 2014
Added Industrial Conglomerates and their ships
Tuesday November 25th 2014
Added parts from a December 2003 Total Film interview with Giger to Carlo Rambaldi's Alien head,
and No, No eyes! and Sculpting the alien costume
Saturday November 22nd 2014
Added 2005 quote from Ridley about use of the alien in bacteriological warfare first published in Empire in 2011 to dissecting the derelict end of the line the and back to the distant past.
Friday November 21st 2014
Expanded the page about Damon Lindelof and his involvement in Prometheus, breaking it down into several pages.
Thursday November 20th 2014
Re-writing, re-editing and making corrections to "Giger's Alien head". However the structure of that page will continue to change as time goes by because it is a page still for collating the information about the subject matter at the moment and it will in time become divided into several pages.
Wednesday November 19th 2014
Added The Alien as a Dragon since Ridley has managed to reiterate the idea that the alien is a dragon in a recent interview after he mentioned it about 35 years ago.
Saturday November 8th 2014
Added comments from Martin Bower from his Facebook page to Nostromo's engine room towers become Engines
Wednesday November 5th 2014
Updated "Harboring the remains of Li Tobler" with an additional statements about where the bones of the dead wife rumour was going by Roger Christian, and William Malone managed to get confirmation from Mia Bonzanigo about the Li Tobler's brain splattered on a Giger painting, as found in Rue Morgue magazine #149
Monday November 3rd 2014
1) Added Alternate endings for alien
2) Perhaps have completed Sex and The Alien
3) Re-edited Evolution of the Space Jockey via Giger's Necronomicon adding quotes from Alien The Archives that just seemed to be quotes repeated almost word for word from elsewhere
Sunday November 2nd 2014
1) Added information from interview with Sigourney Weaver to Sex and The Alien from Alien: The Archive, p96
2) Added information from interview with Sigourney Weaver to Sex and The Alien from Omni Screen Flights/Screen Fantasy, "Playing Ripley In Alien" p162.
3) Added comment from interview with Sigourney Weaver to Sex and The Alien from Fantastic Films #11
4) Added comment from Ridley about his ideas for the Nostromo pulling the derelict from Alien The Archive to The Crunch
5)Added Ridleygram of the refinery that loosely resembles key buildings from the spire filled skyline of Oxford.
Saturday November 1st 2014
1) Added detail from David Giler about Ridley meeting up with Giler and Hill at Musso's from a report from interview for Alien Evolution documentary to Ridley arrives in Hollywood.
2) Added detail about David Giler and Sandy Lieberson both being at Cannes at the time of the release of The Duellists to Ridley of the Duellists in the page Hunt For The Director.
3) Added detail about David Giler interest in Giger's work to Into The Necronomicon from a report from interview for Alien Evolution documentary
4) Added details from interview with Ron Shusett to Creature In The Wall from
Cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/09/executing-alien
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
October 2014
leading from
Friday October 31st 20141) Added information Ron Cobb working on the Nostromo by The Alien Archive to Alien : Ron Cobb's design philosophy
2) Added information about Spielberg being offered the Alien film from a comment by Ron Cobb in The Alien Archive to Alien: Hunt for Director
3) Added comment by Ron Cobb in The Alien Archive to Alien: The Art Rooms of LA
4) Added information from comment by HR Giger in The Alien Archive to Physicality Of The Alien Humanoid's Head
Thursday October 30th 2014
Added Christ Foss' Leviathan Sketch No. 3
Tuesday October 28th 2014
1) Updated Harboring The Remains Of Li Tobler with Brian Johnson's report about the story from the Alien Legacy documentary
Saturday October 25th 2014
1) Added Egg Silo page to list the pages dealing with the egg silo from Alien
2) Added HR Giger's Preliminary Egg Silo Interior
3) Added HR Giger's egg silo interior version i
4) Added Chris Foss Alien Temple interior
5) Added Giger's Egg Silo Exterior
Thursday October 23rd 2014
1) Added Brian Johnson's statement from Alien Legacy Documentary about Giger having the bones of his "ex-wife" to Harboring the remains of Li Tobler.
2) Added photo of Dan O'Bannon and Ron Cobb in the art rooms to The Art Rooms of LA from Alien Legacy documentary.
Monday October 20th 2014
1) Added One more surprise ending
2) Added Life Cycle of the Alien (in response to quotes being published by Xeno Alpha 07 in a discussion going on at AVPGalaxy.net )
3) Added quote from Bolaji from Cinefantastique to The creature in the wall
Saturday October 18th 2014
Added The creature in the wall about the scene of the alien being discovered in the Narcissus
Wednesday October 15th 2014
1) Updated Initial construction of the Nostromo, Moebius' Derelict and Sylvain Despret's Alien Resurrection Alien Warrior Concepts with images from SFX#254 December 2014's preview of The Alien Archives
2) Added Veronica Cartwright's comment from Alien Quadrilogy documentary to "Mother of All KY Jelly Tubes" on the John Birkinshaw aka "Mother" and rewrote the summary to accommodate additional information
3) Rewrote : The starting point at Swiss Made 2069 adding information from Cinefantastique Vol 9: No.1 and broke it down into two pages, the second being Doctor Who and the 10th Planet inspired Swiss Made 2069?, since Swiss Made 2069 deserved its own page and the page about Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet will become extended.
Tuesday October 14 2014
1) Added image of six limbed alien understood to a preview from the Alien Archives
and shows itself to have the characteristics of Sylvain Despretz alien warrior concept art for Alien Resurrection from SFX#254 December 2014's preview of The Alien Archives (thanks to Jonin of Alien Xenomorph Origins on Facebook for the headsup)
2) Added Nostromo with Close Encounters Of Third Kind mothership lighting
Sunday October 12th 2014
1) Created One Nostromo shuttle or two?
2) Article from SFX# 6 , from November 1995 where Bill Pearson is interviewed, broken chunks scattered across The Crunch, Adding a new cockpit, Engine room towers become engines, Probes from the refinery transplanted elsewhere, Ron Cobb's design philosophy, One Nostromo shuttle or two? and Finishing touches to the Nostromo
Saturday October 11th 2014
1) Added Belly lights of the Nostromo
2) Updated Steven Jolliffe of Tangerine dream joins the Nostromo wiggeters
Friday October 10th 2014
1) Added Dennis Lowe's view on Giger's egg silo and derelict squeezed into one
2) Added Denis Lowe's view on the Space Jockey fused wth the chair
3) Added an index page for Dennis Lowe
Wednesday October 8th 2014
1) Expanded on Jon Sorensen's arrival
2) Added John Birkinshaw aka "Mother"
Monday October 6th 2014
Divided page about the creation of the Nostromo into several different pages linked by this one
Saturday October 4th 2014
1) Added Ridley Scotts egg silo exterior adapted from Giger's Necronomicon having worked out where Ridley took the head from
Friday October 3rd 2014
1) Updated section The Resurrection of Ripley with information from the books Joss Whedon: The Genius behind buffy section and Joss Whedon : Geek King Of The Universe merged together
2) Added segments from the books Joss Whedon: The Genius behind buffy section and Joss Whedon : Geek King Of The Universe from Googlebooks
Monday, 1 September 2014
September 2014
leading from
Tuesday September 29th 2014
1) Updated Into The Necronomicon with a quote from Ridley from the Alien Saga documentary
2) The section "Giger's objectives with the alien" becomes transformed into Starting the Alien,
and the information about the body contortionists has been given its own page merged with the information about the body contortionists as Looking for the Alien's Nucleus.
3) Looking for the Alien's Nucleus is broken into separate sections attempting to focus on bringing clarity to each section.
4) Added image of the model Veruschka to Enter Veruschka folded into a position vaguely reminiscent of the Alien folded up like a box
Sunday September 28th 2014
1) Wrote summary for Noomi Rapace plays Elizabeth Shaw
2) Wrote summary for Charlize Theron plays Meredith Vickers
3) Uploaded a complete black and white scan of Moebius' space jockey
4) Created another page Ridleygrams to list the Ridleygrams
5) Expanding and splitting up sections on The Tomita Planets
6) Expanding section on the Two Computers Chatting
Monday September 22nd 2014
Sunday September 21st 2014
1) Added comment by Richard Stammers from Cinefex 130 to The Dark Side of The Moon
2) Added comment by Paul Butterworth from Cinefex 130 to Origins of the Orrey
Friday September 19th 2014
1) Updated Did cocoon scene Ridleygram inspire Brainstorm's hell? with images from Cinefex of the organic landscapes being created.
Wednesday September 17th 2014
1) Questions about Necronom VIII, inspired by Viking Helmet or perhaps another Doctor Who monster or even both? (This very much up in the air but it's interesting to find out more about the Doctor Who monster that it vaguely resembles in terms of Giger's biomechanoid concept and if that is a coincidence, well....)
Sunday September 7th 2014
Saturday September 6th 2014
Possible connection between Cybermen and Giger's Extra-Terrestrial outfit for Swiss Made 2069
Friday September 5th 2014
1) Updated the page about the other Moebius sketches of derelict ships, now that I've been able to identify them as the ones from Ashcan Comics #4 having found the copies of the sketches that Jean-Marc L'Officier uploaded to his site.
Thursday September 4th 2014
Added additional information to Script Out of the Blue about the picking up of a copy of Metal Hurlant in the Dordogne based on the Q&A at Genesis Cinema, August 2014
Wednesday September 3rd 2014
Summary for the Little Rascal has been rewritten
Tueday September 2nd 2014
1) Updated Casting Kane with Roger Christian's view on the incident of letting go of Jon Finch.
2) Chronologically arranged source quotes for Organic box like thing and added image file with the article from Famous Monsters of Film Land from 1979.
Monday September 1st 2014
Added the eye goggles of Alien stage iii version 2. Were they inspired by ancient Egyptian depictions of lillies?
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