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Well Rick, we'll see how this thread goes and then we'll see if we can create an entire board for Giger-related discussions. Great idea by the way!

It´s rather uncommon- Mr. Giger fashioned this designer watch ( at first I thought, it was a clock) which comes closer to the standards of classic industrial-design, I´d say... Model: Passagen; Released by Morpheus (ltd. to ??? pieces); [url=http://www.morpheuswatches.com/Giger_Watches_s/41.htm]More Info[/url]. [img]http://www.watcheswatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/P2-2.jpg[/img]; P.S.: I presume that this dude had ants enough in his pants, anyway; furtheron I presume that he honors [i]`Krom- the god of steel´[/i]; as also [i]`Conan (Arnold) the Barbarian´[/i] used to honor... Furtheron, `[i]he must love it, when a plan comes together in the ending[/i]´, this Mr. Cheap Laugh Wanna Have... (as I just learned in the added article above). Weather´s fine here, I´m cured.

@ Rick: Hello. As I´m from Germany, I was in Switzerland some times. It´s very expensive ( they´ve still pay w. Franken, as you know) ... as you take it upon yourself to go all the way transatlantic, you should also vist [url=http://www.jungfraupark.ch]this (test?) site[/url] It´s that theme park of `von Daeniken´. Maybe that´s sth for you. I´ve not visited yet and perhaps won´t do so. Once, in the early 2000s (2004) I was visiting an dissertation, though. I was the only one in disguise, wearing a headband with an UFO attached on it. only btw. : two beauties who I´d adored very much, in each case, have moved over there. anyway. : (

Vanilla, What do you consider expensive? Rick

o.k., Rick - that, of course, depends on how much you want to spend and lastly what your expenses are goin to be; take a chicken mc nuggets menu at mc donalds: it´s 12 Franken which is circa 9,60 Euro (everyone needs a rest when touring); furtheron, if you plan to go roaming w. a rented car- you should know that they have milage dependent toll (unless I cannot say how it´s gonna be converted in the tariff rate). Once, I sat in a street café in Zuerich and paid almost eight Euros for just eating a small portion of pudding. And that´s just public spaces in downtown; you´d dread to think of the expenses at places like St. Moritz (the Aspen of Switzerland). P.S.: If you´re that enthused about darkwave and related art-forms, you´d be better to go to Austria/Vienna. Indeed, there´s not a Giger Museum, but all in all there´s a lot more of this realm of possibility- and it´s more price-worth; ) Here´s another link:[url=http://www.sabotage.at/state-art/sabotage/hr-giger/hr-giger-in-vienna]](...and of course, from time to time there´s a Giger arts exhibition, too.)[/url]

To get back to discussion´s topic, here´s an image of some (ski?-) boots, that H. R. Giger once designed (and casted?): [img]http://www.sabotage.at/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/gallery/art_01.jpg[/img] P.S.: I have done some sketches or drafts of similar shape (darkwaver´s sunglasses, however without any body fixation); unfortunatelly I`m not able to upload these, because I don´t have a photobucket-account, yet.

so much of that is completely in line with Spaiths' original ideas and script. I have to wonder how much of it is still credible, despite how much I totally enjoyed reading it. {I know, I Know, I am the ONLY one that did, LOL}

Rick. i like your "trickle effect", but in the marines briefing Ripley states that it took the alien 24 hours to neutralize the crew of the Nostromo, and i believe that she means 24 hours from "birth" till her escape on the shuttle! I think they mature faster than you indicate.

[quote]The Crew ships back to planet lv429 (I think thats the name). Doing this they go thru the typical deep space sleep. This would mean they are under sleep for a quite some time. They wouldn't go into that for a week journey - right? Wouldn't Newt have aged? [/quote] The journey from Gateway station to LV-426 took 3 weeks. So, the siege between the colonists and aliens took place around 5 -6 weeks approx. The added few weeks included in that approximation includes the two weeks contact time. The maturing is a rapid process, very rapid. Ricks trickle effect is a nice allegory and regardless of the speedy maturing rate of the creatures is still plusable.

Hey Oan, That was just a quick analysis. You also need to factor in Queen Birth, Queen placement and egg birthing canal supports built. This takes time and I am sure would have drawn away from them plucking humans. Not to mention building the hive in the reactor, and egg maintenance. By the time the Marines got there the hive was rather extensive. Spartacus, I've seen all of the extended uncut films. I don't think the Queen growth would be the same as the rest of the aliens. I believe that would take much longer before she reached the proper age/size to start producing eggs. I would like to think they snatched a human and cocooned it to grow a queen egg for reproduction. (Drawing on Alien Cocooning and staying as far from Alien 3 as possible). Regards, Rick

The queen could evolve from a Warrior, by eating the royal jelly. This is what Cameron suggested also how bees form a queen. This way would make more sense instead of a special facehugger as seen in Alien 3, which should die after first implantation. Although how the egg got on the ship was never even mentioned or thought out. Okay, I am going to cry now at how bad Alien 3 was....although Fincher came into his own thankfully, stinking producers! lol

oh and this is Cameron's take, not Scott's I might add.

copy that [b][i]Rick[/i][/b], very cool words indeed, and here's more food for thought... IMO You are Right, [i][b]{I would like to think they snatched a human and cocooned it to grow a queen egg for reproduction}[/b][/i] but the XENOMORPHS, IMO, did not pick who that would be...and rather, much later, WAYLAND-YUTANI did, with the help and/or insistence of BISHOP, and the woman they settled on for that, the Pentagon of their race, and any future queens of their sinister bloodline... was RIPLEY !!!

Nice memoirs Spartacus!

Yo Neurion, Time to man up and go to Switzerland. LOL Rick

Nice post Spartacus, I think you mean that new 'H.R.Giger Revealed' dvd with the moving images don't you? The 'Erotovisions' are phenomenal. You're right about how the later films (with the exception of the creature in #3 - that was an exquisite design)dumbed down the Alien form rendering it so far removed from the Necronomicon imagery as to make it look like an oily, swimming blind dinosaur. As you infer, this was because of stupid Hollywood money-mentality, wrong choices for concept design and general art department and lack of artistic execution while making the later films. I really hope to God this Tom Rothman fella levels well with Scott's vision and comes to a hair's breadth compromise for the rating - never mind the blu-ray version, the long-awaited, definitive filmic Giger phantasms and there attendant shock value should be rightly experienced at the cinema.

I’m up for that Rick! Leave all this Ameri-trash for a couple of weeks. I’ll be packin’ my big-ass Swiss Army knife, my Swiss watch, my Swiss backpack, my Swiss Family Robinson DVD, and even my Swiss cheese. I’m ready to bust out some home grown, Swiss Absinthe, so that when we meet H.R. Puff ‘n Stuff…the Gigster himself…we’ll be seein’ the same shite he paints. La Fee Verte…AKA the "Green Fairy," can give us the grand tour of his museum of Whores…I mean Horrors. Hell yeah I'm up for that! I'd love to meet that scary ol' bastard...before he goes to Hell...or where ever he's headed. Plus, I'd enjoy meeting you and a few of my other pen pals from this site. Aufrichtig, ~Neurion

"ya- rrright!?"

Member Posts: 85 Neurion › Posted 10/11/2011 I’m up for that Rick! Leave all this Ameri-trash for a couple of weeks. I’ll be packin’ my big-ass Swiss Army knife, my Swiss watch, my Swiss backpack, my Swiss Family Robinson DVD, and even my Swiss cheese. I’m ready to bust out some home grown, Swiss Absinthe, so that when we meet H.R. Puff ‘n Stuff…the Gigster himself…we’ll be seein’ the same shite he paints. La Fee Verte…AKA the "Green Fairy," can give us the grand tour of his museum of Whores…I mean Horrors. Hell yeah I'm up for that! I'd love to meet that scary ol' bastard...before he goes to Hell...or where ever he's headed. Plus, I'd enjoy meeting you and a few of my other pen pals from this site. Aufrichtig, ~Neurion another in an absolute and seemingly unending chain of some of the best and most entertaining POSTS I have ever read on any Alien related subject matter. Damn that's some funny stuff Neurion... IMO, you're right up there with Giger himself on the "Unique" scale. and maybe some other scales I don't even know about yet. LMFAO!

pretty sweet man!

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very nice stylized work .. it will work VERY well for an alien convention , less for a movie ( too stylized to be scary :p )

Very well done Jonesy, I like it. I'm curious to know what kind of application you used to make it. Vector or raster based , or was it a traditional medium and not done on a computer?

I love it, and want to see one by you just like it but with the Word "Prometheus" emblazend across it. Fantastic Job Jonesy! For a Cat!

of course we saw them , and not less than 5 times each day :) there are ALOT of shoots regarding medical tables or cryogenic stasis or something like that ... but can also be that this part was the most "ready" for some footage to be exposed . I will not surprised also if the giant head statue with the eggs around is on earth

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It does to me, I will look for that. I am a big Giger fan. I am not sure i made the post right or if there was a glitch when I tried to post it but I made a thread about Giger you can check out called "Necronomicon" if you can see it/find it. let me know what ya think. Love the avatar Rick. Spartacus ~Montreal.

Yup I was just reading and got distracted looking for travel arrangements to Basel, Switzerland (91miles) from Musee de H.R. Giger. I think I am going to take a week in January and go. 1,200USD for a week stay, I don't think I can pass that up.

Merge the three... "Weyland-Yutani": "Discovering, Exploring and Building, Xenomorph Laden Worlds" !!! lmao !!!

red hood, I think it took atleast 3-6 months of deep space flight. I am sure not everyone was impregnated all at the same time it would have been the trickle effect. 1-2 Aliens popped up (2 days gestation, 3-4 days of growth) then 4, (another 5-6 days) then 8, (another 5-6 days) then 12(another 5-6 days), it starts becoming off balance. Then they barricaded the doors and blocked off the vents and etc. I can see several weeks of siege taking place as they kept getting plucked out by the Aliens before becoming deserted. That left Newt to her own devices for several months as she scurried the vents being the only thing small enough to get down them. That's just my take on it. Regards, Rick

The answer is No, During hyper sleep you do NOT age. It is the equivalence of suspended animation. There is also this... Newt clearly HAS aged, as Ripley discovers when she picks up the picture of her underneath the ventilating fan when she first encounters her, but not from having traveled through space while in hyper sleep, rather, apparently from regular human growth as a citizen pre "attack of the Xenomorphs", within the Wayland-Yutani complex on LV-426. The give away there is...she was in Hyper-Sleep for 57 years as BURKE so emphatically pronounces to her, and her looks there are the exact same as at the end of ALIEN...57 years have gone by...and Ripley clearly hasn't aged a day.

The cryogenic sleep was made exactly to not make the people aging during very long space travels ... ( and in aliens, at the beginning , in a deleted scene Ripley get the news that her daughter is already dead ) ..btw i suppose that the sulaco trip was about a month ( maybe some geek have more precise timeline )..not that long anyway . And Newt made that kind of trip eventually some time before the sulaco voyage . In another deleted scene we see the Newt family that went to look for the alien spaceship ( an indication from Burke Pj ), they got infected and slowly all the colony was infected OR overrun by the aliens ..the lost contact from LV426 did lead to the rescue mission with the sulaco .

That's the thing of it Frantz, Rick, RedHood...in order to get all of it, you have to see the full extended versions of all 4 films. it's truly remarkable how massive the difference is with just a few added scenes to each film, especially ALIENS which had I think 28 or so minutes of added material in it's extended version and just FYI, the added material in the extended Alien 3, IMO, created an entirely curiosity provoking and completely different film in it's meaning and mood than the one seen in theaters. ***Check out my Thread called "Necronomicon" if you can see it {not sure if it's even showing up} and tell me what your thoughts are on all that.*** Ridley truly is a the ONLY man to do this Other than H.R. Giger and what these 2 guys created off of each other's creativity is one the greatest stories IMO in the history of film, and I think we are about to see their/it's crowning achievement .

If you love Necronomicon. Download Google Earth and look up Musee HR Giger, Guyeres, Switzerland and you can see the layout of his Bar with "Delicious Alien Coffee" Maybe we could convince Ghostface to market a "Prometheus-Movie" Sanctioned Expedition to Guyere's, Switzerland to check out Gigers Museum and we all meet at Giger's Bar for Alien Coffee.

I think that sounds like a great idea Rick! ;)

lmao Me too. I 2nd that!

I agree, it would kill the film. Waiting until June 8, 2012 is killing me too.

This is pretty cool! VERY DARK! Welcome back to science fiction Ridley Scott! If this is the way Prometheus plays out then I will be pretty stoked. Its bizzare, twisted and scary and gives that felling of being stranded. I hope this is something thay will spawn to more movies, comics, just an new universe for the space jockeys. This almost sounds like Pandorum but value size.

If you take a read of the latest [b]'plot leak'[/b], some pretty perverse activities take place!