Updates 2013-21

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July 

 

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

 

July 15th 2021

 

i) Added: Aliens: Mark Rolston plays Drake

ii) Updated  Alien: Ivor Powell wrote a treatment for an Alien prequel/sequel "Universal Matter"

and added "Universal Matter" to the title 

 

 

July 14th 2021

i) Added Alien: HR Giger's Space Jockey and the "Pacal Votan" tomb lid as an exploration of the relationship between the two

 

July 11th 2021

 

i) Added: Alien: James Bond - Diamonds Are Forever (1970) references The Adventures of Tintin: The Broken Ear ?

 

July 10th 2021

i) Added: Alien: Early Alien script by Dan O'Bannon references The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin and the Broken Ear (Published 1936) by Hergé?

 

July 4th 2021

i) Added: Alien Covenant: Alien Newborn by Colin Shulver

ii) Added Alien Covenant: Flute scene as a homage to Hamlet?

iii) Added Alien Covenant: Echoes of Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books?
 

 

July 3rd 2021

i) Updated Alien: The TV series

June

June 30th 2021

i) Added: the make of the radio control box seen in the photo at Alien: David Watling's Alien Head

June 23rd 2021 

i) Added:  Echoes of Occator crater on the Ceres planetoid in relief of Roman relief of a port scene from the Severan age (Yes, I'm sure that I'm causing confusion with this but there we go)

 

 

 

June 19th 2021

 

i)  Added:  Relativity (1953) by MC Escher echoes the Cerealia Facula in Occator Crater on the Ceres planetoid? 

ii) Added: Mycenaean lentoid featuring a daemon standing between two lions echoes Occator Crater on the Ceres planetoid?

iii) Added: Echoes of The Henu Barque from the Papyrus of Ani in the “Battle in the Glenn” Mycenaean seal ring 

iv) Added: Dance (1910) by Henri Matisse echoes Cerealia Facula on Occator Crater on the Ceres ?

 

 

June 15th 2021

i) Added: Mycenaean lentoid showing a sacred palm and wild goat echoes Cerealia Faculae in Occator Crater? 

ii) Added: Seated goddess between lions on lentoid ring-stone echoes Occator Crater on the Ceres planetoid?

 

 

June 11th 2021

 

i) Added: HR Giger: Alien Monster II (work 407) (1978) references Demons tormenting St. Anthony (1520) by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch?

ii) Added: Demons tormenting St. Anthony (1520) by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch June 10th 2021

i) Added: Puzzle picture (commissioned by Catherine Scorsese as a present for father Martin Scorsese) (2021) designed by J Frederick Fesel references "Demons tormenting St. Anthony" (1520) by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch?

 
June 9th 2021  i) Added:  Puzzle picture for Martin Scorsese (2021) designed by J Frederick Fesel

 

June 5th 2021

i) Added: Alien Vs Predator: (2007) Predalien maquette

ii) Added: Alien vs Predator (2004) - Alien Queen Full-size Crown Casting

 

 

May 

May 15th 2021

i) Google have deleted over a dozen pages because of supposed Malware violations, and there shouldn't be anything of that nature at all. but there we go.

ii) 'January to December 2020' has just been restored.

iii) 'Prometheus: Giger-esque relief in the ampule room' has just been restored.

iv) 'Aliens: Writing the script' has just been restored.

v) 'Alien: Nostromo' has just been restored. 

vi) 'Alien: Nostromo: The Garage 'has now been restored. 

vii) 'Alien: HR Giger's Life Cycle Hieroglyphics: Mythologist Will Linn's comments' has now been restored.

viii) 'Alien: Hypersleep chamber' has now been restored.

ix) 'Alien: Nostromo: Hypersleep chamber' has now been restored.

x) 'Alien: Development of the hypersleep chamber via the Countdown comic book #1, 1971 ?' has now been restored.

xi) 'HR Giger's Woman with Child, 1967 (work 72) references Brusilov's "Des Visiteurs Du Cosmos" illustration?' has now been restored. xii) 'Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to Rob Ager of "Collative Learning"'  has now been restored.

xiii) 'Alien: Nostromo's Windows into the Engine Room' has been restored.

xiv) 'Alien: Nostromo: The Refinery' has been restored.

 

 

April

 

April 26th 2021

 

i) Added:  Alien: Birth Temple painting for Alien (1976 or 77) Ron Cobb  references The Railway Guard looking at Alice' for Lewis Carroll's 'Alice Through The Looking Glass' (1871) by John Tenniel ?

ii) Added: Alien: Ron Cobb's birth temple references Slumber Inc. crematorium from the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever" (1971)?

 

April 23rd 2021

 

i) Added: Alien : Jewels of associations

ii) Added: Alien: Development via Alfred Hitchcock's "To Catch A Thief" (1955)?

iii) Added: Alien: Development via James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971)?

iv) Added: Alien: Development via horror movie 'Blood From The Mummy's Tomb' (1971)?

April 17th 2021

 

i) Updated Alien 3 Cocoons with news that the story about David Fincher's "Thinking Shell" as told to Cinefex was a fib

April 1st 2021

 

i) Added: Further rewrote: Alien: The end of the line and back to the distant past. Whenever I look at the essay, i keep finding that the words are mixed up or meaningless as if a digital whirlwind is forever mixing everything up. This problem has gone on for years and may well continue. 

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 

 

March 29th 2021

i) Added: Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to Christopher Robinson as published in L'art et la science dans Alien

March 24th 2021

 

i) Updated Alien: Ridley's creative turnaround With the release of the longer version of the interview featured in the Ivor Powell documentary recently (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ivor-powell-associate-producer-of-alien-and-blade-runner/id1522552119?i=1000514095372) this means I can update the article Ridley's Creative Turnaroud with the name of the actual station where Ivor carried out the near legendary act of picking up the copy of the Metal Hurlant.

I'm obviously excited to think that Ridley saw the magazine that Ivor bought as they sat on the train, and then perhaps said "Let's have a look at that" before he picked it up. That's part of the story of the making of Alien . 

 

March 18th 2021

 

i) Added : HR Giger's Unused Alien Life Cycle Tableau according to SciFi Explained

 

 

March 17th 2021

 

i) Added: Federico Fellini as an index page for articles dealing with this director

 

 

March 14th 2021

 

i) Added: Alien:Evolution, of the Pilot in Cockpit by HR Giger via Portrait of James Tissot via Walrus and the Carpenter with empty oyster shells, via Behind Veronica's cloth?

ii) Added Alien: Pilot in cockpit (work 380) references 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking Glass (published 1871) by John Tenniel'

iii) Added: Behind Veronica's Cloth (1953) by Ernst Fuchs references 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking Glass (published 1871) by John Tenniel'?

iv) Added: Alien: Pilot in cockpit (work 380) (1978) by H.R Giger references Portrait of James Tissot (1868) of Edgar Degas ?

v) Added: Alien: Pilot in cockpit (work 380) references 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking Glass (published 1871) by John Tenniel'?  

vi) Added: Alien: Pilot in cockpit (work 380) (1978) by H.R Giger references Behind Veronica's Cloth (1953) by Ernst Fuchs?
March 13th 2021

i) Added Alien: Construction of the egg silo

ii) Added: Alien: HR Giger's Egg silo interior version II (work 388) 1978

iii) Added: Alien: Egg silo interior version II (work 388) 1978 by HR Giger references the cover of The Pink Panther #5 (published March 1972)?

iv) Added: Alien: Egg silo interior version II (work 388) 1978 by HR Giger references The Oysters with the Walrus and the Carpenter' for Lewis Carroll's Alice Through The Looking Glass (published 1871) by John Tenniel? 

v) Added page for Alien: "Pilot in Cockpit" (work 380) (1978) by HR Giger painting to act as an index page for other articles relating to the painting

 

 

March 3rd 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

 

March 2nd 2021

 

i) Added: Alien: Development of the hypersleep chamber via the Countdown comic book #1, 1971 ? 

ii) Added: Alien: Nostromo: Hypersleep chamber as an index page for articles dealing with this chamber 

iii) Added: Alien: Nostromo: The Garage as an index page for articles dealing with this chamber

iv) Added: Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to Rob Ager of "Collative Learning" on Youtube

 

 

 

 

February

February 25th 2021  

i) Added: Predator: The Val Verde Universe of movies
 

 

February 20th 2021

 

i) Re-edited "Prometheus: Encounter with the Engineers references Dromedan from Jack Kirby's The Eternals?" (Formerly "Prometheus references Jack Kirby's The Eternals?")

ii) Added: Predator 2 : Trophy display storyboard references "Wir Kleigen in Kreisen" by Sergei Eisentstein 

iii) Added: Wir Kleigen in kreisen (We complain in circles) (21/11/1937) by Sergei Eisentstein

 

 

 

 

February 10th 2021

 

i) Added: Job and the judgement of Paris (1966) by Ernst Fuchs references "The Borogoves, Toves and the Raths " from Alice Through The Looking Glass (1871) by John Tenniel? 

ii) Added: Job and the judgement of Paris (1966) by Ernst Fuchs references Adoration of the Magi (1503 approx) by Albrecht Dürer? 

iii)  Added: "The Borogoves, Toves and the Raths " from Alice Through The Looking Glass (1871) John Tenniel references The Promenade on Horseback (1868) by Edgar Degas? 

iv) Added: Alien; Alien life cycle hieroglyphics (work 384) (1978) by HR Giger references "The Borogoves, Toves and the Raths" from Alice Through The Looking Glass (1871) by John Tenniel ?  

v) Added: Alien: Life cycle hieroglyphics (work 384) (1978) by HR Giger references Job and the Judgement of Paris (1966) by Ernst Fuchs?  

vi) Added: The Promenade on Horseback (1868) Edgar Degas references Adoration of the Magi (1503 approx) by Albrecht Dürer?

 

  

 

 

February 1st 2021  

 

i) Added: HR Giger's Alien's Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to Shonky Lab podcast 

ii) Added: HR Giger's Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphs according to Giger's biographer Herbert M Hurka  

iii) Re-edited Alien: HR Giger's Life Cycle Hieroglyphics Tableau

 

 

 

 

January

January13th 2021

i) Updated Carl Sagan vs von Däniken with quotes from "Planetary systems beyond the sun" lecture (1977)for The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children

 

 

 

 

January 10th 2021

 

i) Updated "Chris Nolan on Alien and Blade Runner" changing it to "Chris Nolan on Alien, Alien 3 and Blade Runner Thankfully Chris Nolan has expanded on his discussion about the Alien franchise in interviews beyond his few words of appreciation for Alien. As we can see from the article from The Independent which has already reached most of you by other sources, he has talked a little about Alien 3 and I've now added that to my page on his experience of the films. 

ii) Added: Space Jockey from "The Alien" in Aliens Platinum Edition, April 1992, illustrated by Tony Akins and Paul Guinan references Jorge Camacho's El sueño de Sancho (The dream of Sancho) (1978)? 

 

 

 

 

January 5th 2021

 

i) Added: HR Giger: The Spell IV (work 331) (1977) references The Mad Hatter's Tea Party for Alice In Wonderland by John Tenniel?

ii) Added: HR Giger: The Spell IV (work 331) (1977) references "The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane " (1590s) by El Greco? 

iii) Added: The Mad Hatter's Tea Party for Alice In Wonderland (published 1865) by John Tenniel references "The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane " (1590s) by El Greco?

iv) Added: Supposed "Mayan" artifacts showing contact with extra terrestrials.

v) Added: Supposed "Mayan" artifact showing contact with extra terrestrials Side A

vi) Added: Supposed "Mayan" artifact showing contact with extra terrestrials, Side B 

vii) Added index page for articles dealing with HR Giger's Passage Temple - Way of the Magician (work 264) (1975))

viii) Added HR Giger: Biomechanoid III, (work 255) 1974 by HR Giger references Alice and the Knitting Sheep from "Alice Through The Looking Glass" by John Tenniel?  

ix) Added: Illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland etc by John Tenniel

 

 

 

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