2024
December
20th December 2024
15th December 2024
1st December 2024
November
28th November 2024
a) Added : The "Pacal Votan" tomb lid: Referenced in Picasso’s Candle and bottle with goat skull (1952)?
26th November 2024
25th November 2024
a) Added: The "Pacal Votan" tomb lid: Referenced in the Fisher-Price music box teaching clock (1968) ?
October
14th October 2024
a) Alien 3: HR Giger's Carl Saganalien?
September
29th September 2024
a) Added: Comparisons to Cronenberg's Naked Lunch?
8th September 2024
a) Added: Alien:Romulus - Alien beast coming out of the cocoon
2nd September 2024
a) Added: Alien : Romulus - Renaissance Station designed by Joshua Viers
August
29th August 2024
August 9th 2024
a) Updated Alien Romulus with more segments about Fede Alvarez getting Alien: Romulus made.
July
July 4th 2024
a) Added details from The Face magazine, October 1982 about Eldon Tyrell as a replicant to Blade Runner: Replicants
July 1st 2024
a) Added: HR Giger: Alien Monster IV references WWII German Brückenleger IVb bridge Layer ?
b) Added an index page for the WWII German Brückenleger IVb bridge layer
June
June 8th 2024
a) Added a detail to the Two Robots Chatting scene at the beginning of Alien from Starburst #486 (2024) regarding Roger Christian's involvement in that scene. See Alien: Two Robots Chatting
b) Added: Alien: Ridley said "That's what I want, I want it like hair." based upon comments from Roger Christian
c) Created a separate page for Alien: Roger Christian witnesses the power of Buddhism over conflict
June 7th 2024
a) Added a detail about how Apollo space capsules inspired aspects of the Nostromo flightdeck, and the Trinitron mini TVs were Sony. This comes from reading the Roger Christian inteview in Starbust #486 (2024) See: Alien: Dressing the Nostromo (The bridge and corridors) but shortly afterwards the flight deck section was turned into a separate section Alien: Planning the Bridge set
May
May 8th 2024
a) Restored a number of Chris Foss images which had become unlinked from the site , held in the Google Photos albums. I don't know why Google keep changing the URLs like that! It will happen again to other images
b) Added: Aliens: Peter Briggs looks at the use of the name "Acheron" in Aliens
May 5th 2024
a) Added : Aliens: Development of Vasquez by way of Hill Street Blues?
March
March 3rd
February
February15th 2024
a) Added: HR Giger: Alien Monster I (Giger's Alien) (work 406) (1979) references the Barbie country camper toy set from the 1978 Barbie doll catalogue? after the original page was posted on 29th January 2024 but disappeared
February 5th 2024
b)Added: Herge's Tintin and 2001: A Space Odyssey
c)Added: The Tintin triangle trail
January
January 29th, 2024
2023
November 2023
November 26th 2023
a) Added: HR Giger: Necronom IV (1976) by HR Giger references The Enigma of Hitler (1939) by Salvador Dali?
November 20th 2023
October
October 31st 2023
a) Added: Blade Runner: Development via The Adventures of Tintin and the secret of the Unicorn?
October 2nd 2023
a) Added: HR Giger: Alien Monster IV (1978) by HR Giger references Barbie catalogue 1978 cover ?
b) Added: HR Giger: Erotomechanics VII (Mia & Judith) references Barbie's furniture as seen in the Barbie catalogue 1979
d) Added: Barbie Doll as an index page for anything relating to Barbie
August
August 19th
a) Added: Alien: Ash's observation blister
August 18th
July
July25th
June 7th
June 6th
June 4th
June 2nd
May
May 31st 2023
May 29th 2023
a) Added: Alien : HR Giger's translucent Alien painted up
May 27th 2023
May 20th 2023
May 18th 2023
May 16th 2023
a) Added: Prometheus: Starmap motifs scattered through Earth's history basically as an index page for the the tablets and cave drawings. This page had been hanging around for quite a while but I forgot to post it.
May 7th 2023
April
April 17th 2023
a) added: Aliens: Model of Alien head owned by Michael Jackson
March 30th 2023
March 29th 2023
a) Updated and re-edited Illustrations from Linda C. Cain and Susan Rosenbaum's "Blast Off" (1973) by Leo and Diane Dillon (I don't know what happened here but I hadn't finished posting all the links for the pages of comparisons, or perhaps it had reverted back to an slightly earlier version of the page which does seem to occasionally happening. That sounds like a poor excused but tt happened right before my eyes once. But this page deals with how Giger referenced this illustrations in his Mordor paintings as if he knoew of a significant referenced work for each. So I worked out three)
h) Added: HR Giger: N.Y. City II Lovecraft over N.Y. City (work 452) (1980) by HR Giger references Radio Times July 3-9 1976 cover "Viewing America" as a separate page for the comparisons between the painting and the Radio Times photograph
a) Added Alien: Giger's carrying alien bodyparts from A to B
February 12th 2023
a) Added more photos to:
- H R Giger's work studio in the corner of a film studio at Shepperton, 1978
- H R Giger's studio moved into the hut in the car park, 1978
- H R Giger's studio moved to the Art Department, 1978
February 6th 2023
a) Added: Prometheus: The Engineers background story
January 28th 2023
- Aliens: A little boy named named Pepe who bites becomes a little girl named Newt who also bites
- Aliens: Gauls shaking Roman lookout crew out of the trees becomes Colonial Marines entering the alien's nest with aliens coming out of the walls?
- Aliens: Spurius Brontosaurus' first sighting of the Gaul's superstrength potion becomes Burke's first encounter with the facehugger?
- Aliens: Asterix using a red cloak in a bullfight with an aurocs becomes Ripley using a powerloader to fight to fight the alien queen, rescuing in this instance Spurious Brontosaurus who becomes Newt?
December 4th
December 2nd
November
November 23rd
November 19th
November 9th
October
October 29th
August 24th
v) Added Helmut Newton: Fashion Photo, Eida, Paris 1973 by Helmut Newton references cover of The Pink Panther #14 (September 1973) ?
If I read a page of it, it means often nothing. As time goes by the context of everything being said appears to fragment into nothing. It's almost perhaps as if I'm at times word blind with the computer screen content
So if I divide every paragraph up with coloured subheadings for each individual action and decision being described, it's more navigable and I can get a better idea of what has been written that's often a fusion of three or four different quotes from various interviews. With that, every sentence has to be set a line apart.
However this this form of breaking information up probably might be better for all, because I'm not really convinced that anyone ever has much of a clue about what's being written in these long articles, they don't have the time to skim through the words and if they read too much on the screen, they're likely to become disorientated.
However I've noticed that one popular poster of Alien material and gots lots of enthusiastic thumbs up (about a month later that's almost 300) , I've realised that the person quoted a section from my writeup about the Yellow Nostromo although I wasn't being given credit.
Everyone could understand what was being communicated within those words that accompanied several photographs of the Nostromo spaceship model painted yellow, and what is more I was able to recognise his own words even though it was a snippet of what he had written. So, I thought that was interesting. It was my style of wording here anyway, as if to describe the sequence events as they've been described to happen from fragments of numerous interviews, whether those events were really as described or not.
iii) Added an index page for E.L. Kirchner's "Studio of Painter" (1920)
vii) Added a separate page for Illustration for "Europ Assistance" (published 1981) by Moebius references the “The Painter’s Eye” (1942) by Salvador Dali? which used to be on the page for the Europ Assistance illustration
29th September 2021
July 31st 2021
i) I decided to break the "Alien Covenant: The xenomorph - a stripped-down killing machine" down into a number of different pages and with that added information based on quotes from Cinefex #153 and the Conor O'Sullivan interview for the Reel Feedback podcast. Unfortunately, the story of the process of whatever went on there seems very fragmented still.
July 27th 2021
i) Added Alien beast by Fraco since people were still confused about the illustration and thought it was by Moebius
July 24th 2021
i) Had a go at adding more details to Alien production timeline May 1978 and Alien Production Timeline June 1978 such as Giger having an acid trip in June when she arrived. I keep finding things that ought to be there are not and I thought that I had written a chapter on Giger's use of LSD but somehow it has been erased, and one wonders what to make of these inconsistancies. Although I have written all of thise out in the timelines which should really be brief, they might as well become more complicated, in order for me to really work out what I think that I am doing rather than guessing about what these brief references mean
i) Added Alien: HR Giger's Space Jockey and the "Pacal Votan" tomb lid as an exploration of the relationship between the two
July 4th 2021
i) Added: Alien Covenant: Alien Newborn by Colin Shulveri) Updated Alien: The TV series
June 2021
June 30th 2021
i) Added: the make of the radio control box seen in the photo at Alien: David Watling's Alien Head
I don't know if we can find out enough because Ridley only gives vague fragments of the development of his ideas for the evolution of the Space Jockey scenario which is infuriating for an Alien fan.
What we have are bare bones and very little to flesh it out with. Posting quotes from Ridley as something conveying meaning isn't good enough, because they don't always mean that much for anyone really wanting to know something.
Is there another direction to go with this? I'd like to go there.
March 13th 2021
i) Added: A separate page for "HR Giger: The theme of Nut the Sky Goddess involved in Giger choice of grave stone" was made on 3rd March 2021 although the information had been published here as soon as photos showed up of the tomb stone which was shortly after the completion of the grave memorial in 2016
February 25th 2021
i) Added: Predator: The Val Verde Universe of movies
January13th 2021
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