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PS. That one roach only cost about $50 in supplies. The rest of course was just time spent in labor. This roach sculpture is 1 of 3 roaches that stand around a lower human mandible. The mandible is suppossed to be the "bar" and the 3 roaches are it's patrons and bartender. Two of the molars can be removed from the mandible to act as bar stools (one of the roaches is actually designed to sit on one of them). When you walk up to the sculpture you trigger a song that plays called: "Do the Roches Really Want Nuclear War?" I'll try to load one or two more pics to give you a sense of its size. The entire piece is pretty big.

Nice : ) Where will this be displayed Db?

Thanks Biomechanic. I'm working on 13 different aural sculptures for a show I'm putting together entitled: "20 Megatons of Fun". My second piece (I'm working on this summer) is a 8 foot tall nuclear explosion that plays a song I wrote a while back called: "Uh Oh". It'll be awhile before I can publicly show them. If someone could let me know how to post pics on here (I've only been successful once), I could throw a couple up to give you an idea of scale. Also, can we post music here directly in an embedded player or would I have to link to one? Thanks for any info.

What if the SJ's de-evolve somehow into the Xeno's we've seen. . .??

Lyle, Hmm, interesting, like the SJs go through withdrawal if they cease to use/ingest/imbibe/inject some kind of bio-enhancer. Interstellar heroin. Hah, here's an alternate plotline: What if the ore on the mining ship the Nostromo is tugging is used for a massive drug-cooking operation? Weyland-Yutani earns some of its profits by running an intergalactic drug ring. Alien 5, starring Bryan Cranston.

@Jones "Insterstellar heroin?" Lol!

@Shambhala....the movie is really interesting in that regard, "do (you think) engineers could be extinct and their cities are habited by their biological weapons". What really helped me make the connection with 'Prometheus' is Scott's comment in one of the 30 sec teasers about how "any number of things could eviscerate them in a second". 'First Spaceship On Venus' projects that idea....The cities inhabitants are long gone, but what's left behind is so terribly dangerous that we, people, can't fathom the kind of horrible things they can do to us.

I think I caught some of that movie on TV a few years ago. Was disappointed I missed so much of it.

It's funny, because that movie is at once, goofy and interesting at the same time. It's design elements were rather good, fo its time, and the story, as a beware the nuclear age cautionary tale, is not bad. By the way Gehirn...it's available on DVD and dowload rental on Amazon.com under the name 'The Silent Star'.

Yesss.... I also find this annoying

Zeta, This location is ok. BugHunter is looking into lengthening our "logged in" time, and will be implemented in some upcoming site improvements. I talk to him about this all the time as a Moderator because I have the same issue. Don't take offense but I am going to lock this thread as we are aware of this, if you need some more information feel free to PM one of the staff or BugH. Regards, Rick

Maybe it is related to these dudes: [img]http://www.dwtickets.com/v/vspfiles/images/Blue%20Man%20Orlando%20Tickets.jpg[/img]

Why are there so many Blue People in popular culture? Blue Aliens in AVATAR, Blue Aliens in MEGAMIND, Kal El dressed in Blue etc...

I'm impressed by this theorizing - I think it pretty thoroughly draws on the various themes that have been spoken about, as to what this movie will be about. It's speculating that I find is food for thought, expanding on what folks have up to now come up with.

I got my own theory about the "blue guy" - he's not really blue. He just looks that way because everything in the room has a blue tint to it.

lol... is only a nickname... at least until we know if he is an engineer or something else. It is like the name space jockey, improvised... Best regards

I think he's really orange.

NO, it's these guys making a cameo appearance [img]http://www.applause-tickets.com/images/blue-man-group.jpg[/img]

I agree with RickK, I don't think that he is blue. I think the color is the result of indirect illumination from the room. If you ever watched the matrix everyone looked green in it but they were not. : ) I think that was a stylistic choice ( using fluorescent lights whose color temperature was not corrected) to give the film a more artificial feeling atmosphere. Another example would be Minority Report and the "bleached" look.

Also interestingly: [i]A dazzling array of devotional practices surround Kali, and the iconography representing her is equally lavish in displaying her common attributes: red rage-intoxicated eyes, lolling tongue, fangs, disheveled hair, dark blue or black skin, 4 or 10 arms, sometimes many faces, wearing a garland of human skulls, holding a severed head and a skull drinking bowl of blood on one side, and a sword and trident on the other. She is accompanied by jackals and snakes, and often dances in triumph over her submissive consort Shiva. She represents death, time, energy, the battlefield, change, ultimate reality . . . . . and disease.[/i] [img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6GzHtTwgqHo/TUjDCLOo5ZI/AAAAAAAAAA0/huB1x0eJilQ/s1600/hindu-gods-kali.jpg[/img]

Certainly, as it could also be a Na'vi ... lol XP

Now that you mention it, RickK, his color does blend in with the colors in the room - so maybe he's translucent, which hints at some interesting possibilities!

or krishna XD

Avatar has lots of Hindu themes as does the Matrix.

Biomechanic and pjr, is Just a nickname...It probably has a pale color in their skin. Although you could be Smurf dad. what I mean is that this subject is a human of the future and not an alien. Best regards

We really need a new trailer, these speculations are going in circles

I know Shambhala. Just trying to explain it before we are flooded with many "SpaceJockey is Shiva" threads.

visualizer...certainly we need the trailer, the wait is killing me ...

That's a valid nickname Shambhala. My feeling about him is he is further up the hierarchy from the space jockey, maybe a lessor "god", possibly aka Prometheus.

I quite simply belive this is the space jockey that gets the controvertial "suit" wrapped around him as he takes control of the derelict. He is then "impregnated" by the new geneticly engineered creature "facehugger". A chestburster erupts from him as he is en route to Earth - He then looses control of the ship, crash landing on LV 426.

@The High Priest...Well, technically that is the most obvious and plausible explanation ... but since this movie has become so enigmatic...

Am I with the rest of you in seeing only 3 fingers and a thumb?

I ask because I was under the impression from the original Alien that the SJ only showed 3 fingers when grabbing the controls in front of him.

@ The High Priest: I've been a believer in that scenario for weeks myself (since I saw the trailer really). I don't think Ridley is trying to go out of his way to complicate the story line. I think it will be an engaging and challenging story but all this speculation about 2 different derelicts, various space jockeys/engineers/pilots is a great big excercise in creative thinking, but futile. There may even only be one SJ in the whole movie... once that guy becomes it. 1 SJ to operate 1 derelict. That's my bet.

@Db, Perhaps the bald blue giant is not a jockey... can be an alter ego of Prometheus in Greek mythology, a human of the future, or a mutant, or a God... perhaps the jockeys and engineers or gods are not the same thing..

I too was wondering about how many fingers the space jockey in Alien had, so I watched that scene in Alien - at the beginning, when you first see him, it looks like maybe only 3 fingers, but then they show him from the other side, and it's pretty clear there he has at least 4 fingers (as well as a thumb though you can't see it but it should be on the other side of what he's gripping.

...shambhala, this movie has nothing to do with greek mythology. it's a metaphor. do you expect the obviously fictional greek god to make an appearance? with ancient astronaut, you at least have some room to maneuver. *facepalm*

@walterhiller Yes, I know that Prometheus is just a metaphor ... and no, I do not expect obvious appearances of the gods of Greek mythology ... for this reason that I use the term alter ego ... my thoughts was that the ancient extraterrestrial astronauts are not gods ... they are time travelers ... but they are only subjective theories ... the movie is the only source of truth after all ... as they say: the truth is more stranger than the fiction ... Regards

any one read alan moore's promethea nothing to do with this film but a great entertaining read for a graphic novel the artwork is gorgeous to.

defo the guy from euro supergroup - eiffel 55, im blue da-ba-dee-da-ba-doo!!!!!!