Sunday, 22 March 2015

Alien 3

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Aliens Vs Predator

1. Constantine Sekeris' sketches for Alien facehugger, 
2. Constantine Sekeris' sketches for Alien warriors,
3. Constantine Sekeris sketches for an Alien Queen

Various alien maquettes
1. Alien Queen Quarter Size Maquette sculpted by Akihito Ikeda 
2. Alien/Predator hybrid maquette sculpted by Akihito Ikeda 

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Saturday, 21 March 2015

Alien Resurrection


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Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Alien 5

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Friday, 30 January 2015

January 2015

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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. Influence of was-sceptre on design of the tip of the derelict's engine
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
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Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Did Giger's "Vlad Tepes" inspire the Eldon character in the "Fire and Stone" comic book series?

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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.


Alien Vs Predator: Fire and Stone, no.3





Detail from Giger's painting Vlad Tepes showing the head
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Monday, 1 December 2014

December 2014

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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

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