Another one of these alien drawings

Alien / Prometheus reveries after James Bond movie "Spectre"

Still collating this utter exercise in utter pointlessness, 
nothing should make sense for more than half a second

a) Forward
After watching the James Bond movie Spectre, I started to think about the Blofeld character who seemed to be responsible behind everything that had happened to James Bond throughout his life.

I am only barely seeing any of this through a very long dark cloud being blown in my direction from the film and maybe there is nothing within it.

I have to say that the concept is almost but not quite a reiteration of the idea I was having about an observing presence in relation to the film Ringu (See Dreaming about Alien meets Ringu - Aliengu), it might also tie in with thoughts I have that are related to Eraserhead in relation to Aliens.

So I continue to have this strange idea about a conspiracy in the world of Alien, and there is a hideous intelligent being from another star system far far away who is pulling the strings behind all the plot holes around the film series, for many millennias making plans that would surely bring destruction upon the human race, this being has always been changing the human race's past, present and future leaving those who know too much feeling a sense of timelessness to every event:

b) Rough Notes for the The Faux Alien/Spectre Story
The Blofeld alien consciousness has been there right from the beginning spinning its web across the galaxy, something relative to the great Cthulhu and so from now on might as well be labeled as Blowfluthu here who was imprisoned a state of sleep influencing all sort of beings and humans through time and space.

There are ancient petroglyphs discovered of the Blofluthu, sometimes referred to as Blowflute as if his name was a reference to the pipe that he appeared to be blowing and people would wonder what to make of this entity that has been depicted, copying out the form in their notebooks or taking shots with their digital camera

I might start thinking about perhaps a depiction of a Kokopelli petroglyph of ancient America but exaggerated in this instance, blowing his pipe or perhaps a multitude of them all at once fused to its face.

Perhaps it was something that projected itself from the future into the past and invaded everyone's existence that way.

In modern day reality, no one can take the idea of this Blofluthu seriously other than an unexplainable myth of another cultur

Ripley was just one human woven into its tapestry or its curse, and was happy to let things unfold over countless decades.

The thing knew the names and all about the lives of those individuals.

c) A man with an obsession
In this, the hero James Bond is referred to as "Our Man" which is a translation of the name of the ship in Alien called Nostromo.

For all I care, it might as well be "Our Man" as in "Our Man Flint" or "Our Man in Havana"

The lead character in this is supposed to be an archaeologist who is aware of all the information regarding events in Prometheus, Alien, Aliens and Alien 3, as if he has seen all the special information that no one is suppose to acknowledge.

Perhaps even he knows about the events of Alien Resurrection but it seems as if they only happened several years after Alien 3 because the idea that it should happen centuries later puts the whole thing out of context, and perhaps the passing of time doesn't really mean much to the people in this part of the future any more than it might in the world of The Forever War.

d) Killing an alien monster
Our Man finds himself pulled into the obsession of finding signs of a strange alien intelligence interacting with human civilisations through the distant past and he wants to trace it's origin throughout history, find out how and when it first interacted with mankind.

The alien creature has sent itself into his reality once again, perhaps as a shadow that has taken on form in someone else, and out comes one of our alien creatures.

He shoots dead an alien creature that was running through the streets.

People stand around the corpse of the thing mystified as if they were standing there seeing the result of a car accident, even if it would kill them to see it.

One dared to touch its metal teeth and feared that the inner set of jaws would come out and bite his hand off.

Some crouch down to touch the thing, stroking the ribbed patterns and pipes on the side of the head and the body to feel the texture or touch the smooth transparent canopy on the top, seeing through it more ribbed patterns, one woman in a hypnotised begins to rub her own cheek against it and then her lips before unbuttoning her blouse and rubbing her bare breast against it, while others observe her.

An African-American male bystander stood there concerned for her, he took off his jacket and put it around her shoulders telling her that she didn't need to do that, and holding her by the side of her arms, helped her onto her feet and embraced her as she wept.

A man decided to role around in the slimy fluid seeping out of the corpse that appeared to not immediately harmful to human skin.

Our Man considered that the affect of seeing this thing might have become detrimental enough on their psyche, and like them, he might have liked to have actually find out what this thing was that he had killed when it was alive.

The laboratories study the remains of the corpse and decide it was something biologically engineered by either the Russians, the Koreans or even a terrorist organisation.

Another point of view might be that this thing came over from another dimension and had an unstable cellular structure, and if it had remained in this dimension any longer, it would have quickly died anyway.

People feared this thing might have layed eggs somewhere like a cockroach might, and there would be new ones growing soon, but was there anything to the idea that this thing has a life cycle or is it just a misunderstanding that there's a life cycle born out of paranoia,

In time this thing and all memory and evidence of it would vanish like a mirage but not the wreckage that it caused

Perhaps the cry to know more about this thing was the most painful of all since wasn't an actual point of this alien actually existing, but still there were those so certain that it had crossed over from a dream.

Photographers were gathering around to see the beast and Our Man knew it was time to leave and took an air taxi into the southern quarters of the city

e) Hunt for something different about an Alien
Our man starts to wonder about an alien it could be an alien with a special component or in built machine guns, tire slashers, revolving number plates, bullet proof shield and ejector seat, or an alien that quickly turns into a submarine.

Perhaps there is an alien that's three or four innocent looking gold plated components that fit together and become the ultimate beast, it is terrible to think about it, this might be the ultimate terror of the movie worrying about new ways to rehash everything.

Someone who has been forced to investigate the possibility is spitting these thoughts as sarcastic line of fire aimed at my expectations 

Perhaps sadly all lines of inquiry lead to a centre point that tells us this is nothing more than a McGuffin and eventually these McGuffins are everywhere becomes the ultimate fear and anyone who looks too deeply will get egg on their face.

There are at least a dozen derelict ships around the galaxy that need to be discovered by the human race.

The Blofluthlu had sent them there with the intention that they would be discovered many millenias later by the human civilisation.

They are time capsules containing items that would change the direction of the human civilisation.

The humans would enter these places that have been waiting for what seems like an eternity and believe that they are discovering something about a very ancient civilisation that has been exterminated what seems like a million years ago.

Someone amongst the explorers would become infected by one of the artifacts and becomes bearer of an alien being inside him 

f) Suicidal cult
"Our Man" reaches building complex where they are devoted to this strange entity, it might even be considered its home, it's a temple where the central object of cult obsession is an asteroid discovered in the depths of space that dominates the chamber almost leaving very little room for any large group to enter the place.

One version of the story is that it contained remains of a strange biomechanical organism left behind by an ancient civilisation.

Perhaps it was another thing that was planned all along by this strange ancient being and was a time capsule.

They cultivated its cells which grew into something and infected members of the cult who were giving their lives up for this thing, and from their bodies erupted these strange monstrous things and from their injuries they died.

The other story was that this thing acted as a portal for a hideous entity to come through and infect all the people around it with its touch or it would orally rape them all.

They would quickly die as if infected something.

He finds a woman who has been infected by this life form with a creature growing inside her as part of this cult, and she knows that only has a few hours left.

He tries to lead her out of this strange mental labyrinth offering to have the creature removed from her, she waits hoping for the people to come to carry out the surgery but fears what this creature within would do.

It gets to point where this strange Blofluthu entity shows its face to Our Man perhaps through a portal or vortex and it looks back at him as if it recognises him.

The revelation is that all it's interactions through history are just a way for this to leave its mark.

When Our Man saw its face, he thought that it represented something like an ancient hieroglyph filled with ancient meaning and he was so sure that he saw it transforming into another hieroglyph, and he wanted to record these strange impressions in the form of a notebook and he had to see this thing again face to face.

g) A man with a career blackened
He meets a man who has found out that all his discoveries pointing to this strange intelligent entity had turned out to be false and that the solidity of reality has started to fall to pieces, various day to day facts and most important events in history seemed to change and no one else was taking any notice, mysterious without realising it his reputation had become blackened over night as if blanketed over by something that didn't make sense, he has also gone into hiding trying to keep a vantage point of this forever fact changing reality.

However the ancient Blofluthu being has done something to infect him, he realises that there is something inside that is slowly growing like an inoperable cancer and he can feel it moving, he fears that his daughter will be next and tells Our Man must help her before the Blofluthu catches up with her, and in front of our man he says his last words and commits suicide shooting himself in the head.

h) Looking for a woman
From this man with a blackened reputation, Our Man realises that he has to find a certain woman who is working on a space station or a structure of some kind appears to be nothing much to do.

The place where she is seems to be a complicated shadow, perhaps it's the remains of a derlict ship that's been transformed into a building being used. Perhaps she is there trying to be ignored by Blofthulhu, but he finds out where she is there summons her and has her extracted from the place and taken into a vehicle that will drive her away.

As they are driving along the narrow roads, they are attacked by a strange flying creature, perhaps it's a misunderstood aircraft that was somehow alive. Perhaps one passenger perceives it as a portent for disaster. After they try to shoot it out of the air, it slides down a hill crashes into a barn and begins to shed its skin as it wings are removed to be transformed into a land creature.

The woman has important information that seems to lead to the discovery of a secret room halfway across the frontiers of human exploration, where there might be a star chart on a wall or in a drawer showing where the Blofluthu's secret star base or whatever is to be found. It turns out to be a set of co-ordinates written on a piece of paper and nothing more.

Where and what this is all about, perhaps to be replaced by a much more complicated idea would be worked out by someone else or trimmed out of the final story because they just needed to get the characters to their destination, perhaps by long distant voyage on a space ship.

There is no end to the uncertainty that's prevalent but they realise that they just have to push on.

i) Convergence
They reach the lair of Blofluthu in an impact crater and he tells them about his plan from aeons ago extract the DNA of the ultimate dark force in the universe and inject it into the human race so that this dark force might slowly arise and shed its human skin under his command. He has been plotting havoc for millions of years.

(This might be a little bit like Quatermass And The Pit where the ancient Martians had biologically re-engineered the human civilisations five million years earlier and could unleash powers in thos with DNA from this new human species with the aid of the sound being sent out from one of its space crafts, but this time it's unleashing a monster from these people's bodies )

The Blofluthu slowly reveals its existence to "Our Man", who thinks that while he is looking at it, is really witnessing something else completely

The being had been behind all the conspiracies in the Alien legacy and Prometheus, and all the contradictions that the AvP franchise might offer as well.

He presents before Our Man, a representation of himself that has a history spanning backwards in time for millenias, but sheds his skin to reveal himself to be something else another alien species completely different that has a history going back millenias in a completely different direction.

j) Blofluthu's affect on Alien
For Alien, it was the one who placed the egg silo upon the planetoid and organise the landing of a derelict ship there which would merge with the egg silo to confuse everyone, and allow the space jockey there to become a victim of the chest burster, making it look as if the pilot had been killed by its ships own cargo.

It was the one who had the silo filled with thousands of spores just so that perhaps only a handful needed to get where they needed to.

Perhaps the body that was the space jockey was its own long dead corpse.

And there was this strange alien creature that with the help of an android would unleash itself through a strange life cycle and become perceived as the ultimate killing machine

k) Blofluthu's affect on Aliens 2
For Aliens, it also must have been the one who had someone turn the derelict transmitter off once Kane was facehuggered.

It could changed the scenario around instantly so that the alien queen was perhaps always the chestburster that erupted from the space jockey and would grow to a comparable size, kept in stasis for thousands of years, until this thing with its huge size became a normal part of the creature's life cycle.

l) Blofluthu's affect on Alien 3
For Alien 3, it must have been the one who planted a spore aboard the Sulaco and intervening when its plan had failed, implanted Ripley with the queen chest burster.

Bishop 2 was another person caught in its plans, believing himself to be in hunt for a live Alien Queen that was fruitless

Blofluthu had interfered with his life and sent him along to bring Ripley back just so that everyone might get confused about whether he was a robot or an android, and then suddenly decided that instead of the queen being something that was a later stage of the alien's growth, it could also be born as a queen.

m) Blofluthu's affect on Alien Resurrection
For Alien Resurrection, it must have been the one who supplied blood samples just so that Ripley 8 clone be born hundreds of years later pregnant with an alien queen. At the end, there was no sense to any of this, other than for prodding the human race and seeing how it responded.

Damien Hirst's 1000 Years

n) "A million years" installation in space.
For Prometheus, it was the one who created the ampule room as an installation that might even be named "The temple of a million years" after the Egyptian temple of Ra. 

It was made as something mirroring Damien Hirst's "1000 years" installation that would pop up in its distant future. The latter was a display of a sort of a life cycle in a box,  composed of a vitrine with a glass division. In one half is the severed head of a cow on the floor; in the other is an insect electrocutor.

Maggots introduced into the vitrine feed off the cow and then develop into flies that are killed by the electrocutor.

It was also a sort of homage to Francis Bacon who very much appreciated it and felt as if he were actually passing the baton to another generation.

o) Ampule room
Here in the Ampule room, when the atmosphere becomes contaminated by the human's presence, the ceiling artwork begins to destroy itself and the ampules start to melt, worms crawling in the ground when they come into contact with the contents of the ampules begin to transform into serpents with cobra heads that opened up as if they were living hieroglyphs to be shaped roughly like the symbol of the winged scarab representing resurrection and immortality.

(In ancient Egyptian religion, the sun god Ra is seen to roll across the sky each day, transforming bodies and souls. Beetles of the Scarabaeidae family roll dung into a ball as food and as a brood chamber in which to lay eggs that are later transformed into larvae. For these reasons the scarab was seen as a symbol of this heavenly cycle and of the idea of rebirth or regeneration. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab artifact) ) 

Scarab relief and the hammerpede

p) Barge of a million years
Despite the fact that this planet Zeta II Reticuli is many light years from planet Earth in an unknown star system, this ampule room transforms itself into a temple of the sun god in reference to the barge of a million years on which Ra and his companion gods sailed through the sky giving light and heat to the world and then through the dangerous journey of the night, sailing through the underworld known as the "duat". 

However this place becomes a temple of an aggressive transformation and indeed death. 

One of these so called barges of a million years would be discovered in a bay down the end of a long tunnel not far from the temple.

Barge of a Million Years

q) Schrodinger's Engineer 
The entity had holographic orrery placed there as a lure that also spread the information that we lived in a holographic universe.

And activating it led to the discovery of a living extra-terrestrial humanoid known as an engineer. Its presence in one of the hibernation chambers was as a sort of Schrodinger's cat which in quantum theory is a cat imagined as being enclosed in a box with a radioactive source and a poison that will be released when the source (unpredictably) emits radiation, the cat being considered (according to quantum mechanics) to be simultaneously both dead and alive until the box is opened and the cat observed.

The engineer is amongst a group of people from another world that have been infected by the contaminant from the strange black substance, and so he is to be considered simultaneously both a victim of the infection and not at all until the hibernation sarcophagus has been discovered and the engineer inside found to be alive.

Perhaps the fact he was still alive meant he had a part to play in the story as a pawn of this strange ancient thing.

r) Million years symbolism transforms into a virus with recombinant genes
This strange silo appeared to bring those who entered it hoping for answers to become part of a transformation process, a strange display of living symbols become transformed by the human consciousness into a plan to infect the universe with a deadly transforming disease.

What does it really do?

The cluelessness about it all, the male human transforms into a predatory humanoid beast, and if he inseminates a woman, during his transformation, perhaps she gives birth to a tentacled creature that grows to be large that when it plants its seed in another humanoid and this was always where the Engineer was going to play its part, and from the latter's body erupts another strange semi-humanoid beast that seems be somehow has been prophesied in the mural, as if the black substance always had the DNA for this creature buried in it combining with the DNA of one creature then another and then another, perhaps like a recombinant virus, that might be considered a dark angel of sorts.

The relief.

s) And there goes another MacGuffin!
And then this was obviously all Blofluthu's secret plan, that it would be witnessed on a small scale and surely have to be reported as something important to the human race, along with all its secrets that would be unveiled to the man on one level or another.

Nothing could really be imagined, it would obviously never happen in anyway describable, and on the vast scale that everything had been planned, obviously it would never be imagined to happen.

Our Man still assumed for that moment that the thing wanted it all seen and reported, that he wanted the human race to feel how he was in control of it all and no matter how many times he died, killed by one means or another, he always had his hands on the controls somewhere in time.

Our Man had seen the mass killing unleashed on the members of the suicidal cult, he desperately wanted to tell the people of Earth everything that happened, but the Blofluthu informed him that it had done something to his brain and this event with all its unbearable truths and plans would all be forgotten.

The truth was that the DNA of the aliens has found its way into the human species DNA many hundreds of thousands of years ago.

It's a question of activating the DNA and the alien organism's life cycle begins, growing and shedding off its skin, without the aid of the life forms referred to as a spore or face hugger.

It didn't seem that way until the strangeness in the strands of DNA had come to the surface of discussion and now they had decided that it didn't need to combine with the DNA of any other hosts other than the life form who had it in his DNA.

He then began to witness all the memories of the reality of this crumble, and realising that he had to let go was an agony, but with him afterwards all those uncertain chaotic emotions remained.

t) The lair of Blofluthu

The woman thought that she was getting away from it with her memory removed, and she told him that she refused to stay with Our Man. He doesn't give up this obsessional search that continues to destroy his life.

Although he recalled that there was something there vitally important that he should remember, he
realised it would never be recalled but the emotions still agonised him.

He finds himself taken into a strange environment, where there appeared to be no up and no down, where one thing can not be told from another, but finding himself there, he is desperately trying to get away from it, he finds suddenly in there another artifact that looks as if it has been buried that is another revelation,  it might even be the remains of a near fossilised devilish ancient alien coming to life, but there is movement in the walls, what looked like a piece of machinery , perhaps a pipe or a control panel begins to come alive with teeth. there are myriad creatures moving around that before were once a part of the architecture.  and this artifact too wakes up to be another living thing,  it might even result in another mental battle as if a thousand soldiers are to be sent in to kill this thing and it would kill them all single handed, while it went on a rampage to destroy even more memories and relics of a forgotten past (this whole scene might just be a waste of time repeating the Ripley in the Alien hive scene all over again).

The place is however destroyed in an explosion, he is terrified about all the information that had been lost there, it can't be retrieved. It might have uncover the history of the cosmos and the many civilisations around or perhaps it might have been information suddenly generated to interest the human race and confuse it forever about what makes the universe up only to find it to be completely wrong, much later. History was now just a virus.

u) Ending the struggle
Blofluthu has escaped the explosion, or it's as if he has left his shell and something crawled out that would quickly grow again. But this thing is caught on the bridge. Our Man gets close to it, Perhaps it might even be something that shows off the true face of the Blofluthu with another face underneath that is even more real, he is emotionally paralysed by it can not put it aside and wants to put it aside, but the other side is that he knows it can't be real and asks his girlfriend to pull him away from the object, and so she does.

There were a myriad of strange ancient things across the galaxy and even more across the universe that were trying to get the interests of people of such places of Earth and use cunning methods to appear more important than they really were to the people of this planet and offering no other way out other than to become infected by it, go on missions to carry out its bidding to unleash its kind from eternal prisons across the cosmos and in doing so die.

Our Man had much more important things to do with his girlfriend, even if it was to share a plastic cup of water with her,  rather than be absorbed into that vortex of eternal non-existence.

He stepped out of the reach of its tendrils and walked off while other experts in protective gear came along and contained the thing.

v) Beginning the struggle all over again, and perhaps ending it sooner
They takes a star ship to another part of the galaxy to get on with life with her and it is only then aboard the ship that one of the crew using a scanner realises that she is an android and she is informed about the truth herself while she is sure she had evidence that she was a human, she wonders when it was that she was actually last a human and how she can go on existing knowing that all she is, is a machine, was it some sort of strange disease that turned her human body into a non organic machine or was this another illusion that would somehow change again in time, perhaps it was all just normal and it should be accepted as in many scifi movies

Space Jockey with single lower limb

The Mayan Space Jockey creates his rocket

a) Mayan Space Jockey. The idea is merging the World Tree image from the Dresden Mayan Codex with the question of where would the Mayan Space Jockey's space ship come from that would be imagined from seeing the Pakal Votan tomb lid. 

b) So Ron Cobb did a chest burster scene in a painting for Alien, that seemed to be based on the Dresden Mayan Codex image where it looked as if the World tree was a tentacled monster erupting from the victim's body as a chestburster victim in a ritual. Since the Pakal Votan tomb lid is another one of these odd images with a world tree.

c) I thought that after he has drunk something from his little bottle, perhaps the space rocket erupts from the chest of the victim  the space jockey as some sort of a life form that takes its victim off into the depths of space or the sky as its pilot.

Drawing of the Pakal Votan Tomb Lid next to
the World Tree from the Dresden Mayan Codex
next to a detail from Ron Cobb's birth temple for Alien

d) See Dresden Mayan codex image in relation to Ron Cobb's alien birth temple mural and also the Pakal Votan tomb: The World Tree

Rough Mayan Rocketeer sketches

Leading from 

PROmethearZAC story part II

a) My idea for a Mayan Rocketeer keeps changing every time I attempt to draw one, loosely inspired by Pakal Votan Tomb lid, inspired by the idea of the Mayan Space Jockey tablet featured briefly in the movie Prometheus.

b)  I admit that when I draw these things, I am not always sure what the point of it all is other than continue to explore different possibilities all the time and I often don't see the point in finishing them and I am quick to assume that there is another way to do it and what I have done is all wrong, but I like the idea of a narrative being formed however loose it might be.

Archeologist examine tomb and suddenly it comes
to life with the occupant transforming it
at the touch of a button into a space rocket.

Perhaps the idea of a coffin bank is relevant for the above sketch

Mayan rocketer launching from Mayan tomb while an archeologist runs for his life.

Mayan Rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer

Star bus full of tourists off to visit a planet, catch sight of the rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer

Mayan Rocketeer travelling into a vortex being held open by angels, observed by a tourist on a star bus

Mayan rocketeer disappears into the vortex

detail of rocket from above

Mayan Rocketeer travelling through strange tunnel

Mayan Rocketeer travelling through strange tunnel

Mayan Rocketeer travelling through strange tunnel

See also: Mayan Rocketeer Painting

PROmethearZAC story part III

leading from

Film scenario explorations
and
PROmethearZAC story part II

a) Aerial battle
I keep thinking of a serpent rocket,  that twists around like a coiling twisting dragon that breathes laser fire, and half way along its body is the place where the pilot is inside, some strange hideous thing seemingly stretched and merged into the interior mechanisms of the body of the ship, holding the chopper motorbike handles the pilot the vessel. Perhaps it is not easy to actually see where the entity begins and the machinery around it ends. In this case, he must be the villain chasing the Mayan rocketeer that seems to also be a sort of dragon, through a vast complex beyond the vast toothy entrance that chews everything up. As they twist and turn through the air in an aerial battle, the villain is trying to do his best to wrap his snake ship around the Mayan rocketeer's vessel and crush, but the Mayan rocketeer is always clever enough to slip through.

I very much like this giant black serpent featured in Gustave Moreau's Phaeton

The black serpent reversed and turned on its side

Detail from Biomechanic Landscape III
that I like to use as pilot for the snake rocket,
with its translucent head in the left top corner
and air hose connected to a machine.
So he will be sitting inside's the serpent's belly.

b) Idea behind a serpent rocket
The idea of a coiling serpent rocket came to me when i read a book about film director Jan Kounen's shamanistic experiences with Ayahuasca and one could be swallowed up by a giant snake but that snake would serve as a vehicle to take the person somewhere else and so I wanted to biomechanise it. I see the Mayan Rocketeer on the Pakal Votan tomb lid as a depiction of a shamanistic experience. I will provide a visual for the serpent rocket later with a pilot based on a detail from Giger's Biomechanic Landscape III as seen below.

c) Biomechanoid landscape
There is the other place, the shattered remains of a world which has been ruined, taken over by the biological weaponry and there, a civilisation can be found scattered in a state of living death buried within the landscape transformed by the biomechanised organism. Perhaps we might be thinking about the Vipers Nest scene from Alien Resurrection and how it was inspired by part of Giger's Passage Temple Entrance. And in this landscape, the aliens are as it were swimming through it , as one with its physical material.  There are the abandoned and crumbling buildings slowly being eaten away. The Mayan rocketeer travels across the surface, seeing impressions of faces and eyes staring back up at him, wondering if they were real or generated by the mind. He wants to find his fellows who have been sleeping for thousands of years but finds that the places where they are buried are heavily guarded or encrusted by the strange creatures ruled by something intelligent that must surely with an iron like grip be holding them as hostages. (By the time of writing this, Ridley Scott has mentioned that the home of the Engineers to be encountered in the Prometheus sequel, Alien: Paradise Lost is a planet where a disaster has taken place)

Giger's Passage Temple Entrance presenting elements of a biomechanic landscape

Giger's  biomechanical landscape III (train station)
would be another environment for the rocketeer to fly over

Giger's Biomechanical Landscape X another environment for the
rocketeer to fly over that I think looks like a further exploration
of the Giger's  biomechanical landscape III (train station) would
 be another environment for the rocketeer to fly over as if we were
 looking at the trains lined up from the front

Further Thoughts for Alien V/H/S or Umhlanga Alien

leading from

Film Scenario Explorations

a) Monday 21st September 2015,  furthuring my thoughts from watching Reveries while watching V/H/S/2  and Dreaming about Alien meets Ringu = Aliengu. I decided that Neil Blomkamp's Alien V movie should be called Alien V/H/S because of the videofeed story he talked about and the fact that Sigourney kept yapping about how Blomkamp wore his Alien VHS videotapes, and this all seemed like some sort of a Japanese ghost story. (See: Alien 5 Blomkamps Initiation)

b) Neil Blomkamp infected by the alien
I started mentally fusing this with Neil Blomkamp's story about being at his family's holiday apartment in Umhlanga, a residential, commercial and resort town north of Durban on the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, where he had found himself watching Alien from the videofeed on the television. And so the idea came of Neil Blomkamp as a child sits there being infected by the alien, and as soon as his parents pull him away, he starts screaming and out of his chest erupts a chestburster slithering into the depths of the apartment block where it grows and binds with other creatures of its kind.  Perhaps in this case, instead of a South African holiday spot,  it's a space station or colony on a planet somewhere in the depths of space.

c) Videocassette bugs
There would be the videocassette player machine in the basement, and these oversized cockroach like creatures with video cassettes in their bodies have been growing and evolving so that one of them would insert a videotape into the slot in the player and this videocassette would contain a signal that would play through the video feed in the block of apartments and anyone who is watching would find their television screen peeling open like the top of a four petaled alien egg and out a facehugger would burst out of the screen as perhaps an hallucination in the manner of the movie Videodrome, and it would plant its seed into the person sitting in front of the TV screen and this would be very much like the Koji Suzuki novel Spiral where Sadako's DNA in combination with the smallpox virus would combine and try to transmit their DNA into someone else in a transmission that gets recorded on videocassette played on the TV, and sometimes women become impregnated and give birth to a genetic copy of Sadako.

Where did the creatures come from, had they somehow infected the woman operating the videocassette player. They find that the creatures had come in through a hole in the floor, they find a chamber beneath full of large urn shaped vessels all with these large insect like creatures each with a videocassette their body, each must have evolved to create a biological videocassette to insert into a video cassette player, each with rows of sharp teeth inside their spools. 

d) Neil Blomkamp infected by the alien
There are other victims in the building by the same method. A creature that is a mass of these alien creatures is slithering around the building, through the vent shafts, it looked like an accumulation of tortured souls, all eyeless, all tied together in the form of a living breathing knot. The glass of the TV screens around the building are found to have been melted and ripped open in the alien egg opening four petaled formation.

I'm imagining clusters of humanoid monsters in the manner
of Beksinski to get away from the idea that it must be Giger's Alien
and that it could never be, and this serves as an abstract reference.

e) Dead body in the old haunted house
People come to inspect the building to find out what has caused this. They enter the building's basement, they find the woman who operated the videofeed, and she looks as if she is growing from the chair, or perhaps she looks as if she is growing from the wall, maybe she looks as if she is growing from the desk, or the TV set or even the videocassette player. In her hand, she seems to have a videocassette that she was about to push into the videocassette player, perhaps she looks as if she was growing from the videocassette as well or vice versa. Something had changed her DNA, perhaps wanting her to put the videocassette in and she was their failed experiment, or perhaps the videocassette she was about to put into the machine would have been something that would have stopped the other creatures from inserting one of their own. They would not have an answer without pouring endless amounts of dollars into a close investigation.

f) Chief inspector De Boos, Goosen or Grobbelbar investigates
The chief inspector with a thick moustache and a surname such as De Boos, Goosen or Grobbelbar looked at the chamber where they were found in relation to the rest of the building and noticed that it couldn't be there, and was belligerent towards anyone who claimed the chamber was there. He decided that the woman sitting at the video recorder must have been killed by wasps and turned into a wasp nest. That was good enough for the report. Dozens of people had either been found dead or had disappeared, some have been found melting into the furniture where they can't quite find out where the furniture begins and the human flesh and bone else and he decided that some serial killer was either ripping them open killing them, using a variety of bone cutting weapons or a mad animal or something that was a cross between the both, and the rest he can't explain, some form of odd experimentation. Everyone involved in the investigation is interrogated to see what they know and then they are told to shut up or else.

g) The inspector walks into a room wondering what to do and keep everything under his control when all of the sudden wallpaper starts to bulge and out of this wallpaper cyst erupts with the strange semi humanoid figure of an alien creature in a bed of flesh and snatches him, absorbing its body into its own alien mass. The ripped hole in the wall seemed to turn into a blood encrusted biological scar.

h) Through the holes in the walls are chamber that shouldn't be there, as if new spaces have been torn out of the fabric of time and space, and they find it carpeted with this unimaginable flesh that spanned off into unimaginable new dimensions, perhaps all simply compact spaces behind the walls reworked in a strangely alien way.

i) It seems as if these alien creatures around the building would soon die and begin to dissolve, burning holes in the walls, floors and ceilings, but with the interest in evolving to a new level. They want to transmit their life form to somewhere outside of the building complex, through television sets elsewhere and somewhere a new life form was waiting to do that, perhaps turning into a rip-off of the Japanese horror movie "One Missed Call" with perhaps people received ghostly phone calls and here the sound of the space jockey's transmission from Alien before they become cursed and some strange biomechanoids start to grow. Perhaps a small little creature with an audio cassette growing inside is found in someone's car and which still has a slot for an audio cassette and this thing plants it into the slot and it starts to play some dreadfully strange sound.

j) Source of the mystery
In V/H/S 2, there was a story about a suicide cult whose mass suicide and use of one woman's body leads to the birth of a devil of some kind that wasn't very good. But on the 23rd of September, 2015, the thought of it takes me back to Poltergeist 2 where there was a religious cult who are led to their own suicide by a demon inspired by a design from Giger, and in Alien, the remains of other lifeforms are devoured by the egg creating organism and the eggs grow, suggesting almost a kind of metamorphosis form the victim to the sport and perhaps I am imagining that these videocassette bugs in their urns or whatever are the transformed remains of a suicide cult that must have lived in the building some decades before hand, and somehow the remains of this strange entity are coming out of the foundations of the building, and because of the presence of an old videocassette machine have been evolving to be able to have one of the bugs out of thousands of others grow a videocassette to fit into the machine and transmit its signal in the videofeed through the building. Although by the twenty first century, the whole building is like to have satellite TV through the whole building. So many the remains of the old videofeed is somehow reactivated by an unknown presence. With that perhaps it is a biomechanoid ghost of video nasties erupts from the television set with chainsaws, drills and so on growing from its body to kill everything before suddenly evaporating.  I seem to remember though from the Come to Daddy video by Chris Cunningham a strange demon inside a television set suddenly comes through the screen as if being born. Perhaps a chapel is to be found beneath the apartments with lit stained glass window featuring various stages of the alien life cycle and various deaths caused by the creature, and is seen in the reflection of a swirling pool of water. The strange otherworldly intelligence that transformed this cult has been somewhere from the depths of time and space been opening up a small wormhole into this dimension carrying out genetic manipulation on the followers in various ways.

Alien Monster IV with drill bit tongue

k) Videonasty Aliens
Somehow there are videonasty inspired aliens on the rampage. However the idea of the video nasty aliens results a Texas Chainsaw Alien, a driller killer alien, a nail gun alien. The Texas Chainsaw Alien has a chainsaw tail , a chainsaw running along the length of the head, and perhaps this is a Predalien, but with a lower mandibles resembling the runners or blades of a sled, it might be known as "sledge face" for short, and he might have mandibles sticking out of the side in place of the dreadlock like tendrils. The driller killer alien would have a drill bit for a tongue perhaps much like Giger's Alien Monster V's tongue.  I thought about an alien with a human skull shuttling back and forth along a track within the cranium. These entities are guided by an all seeing eye that peers through a vortex and these entities can combine together to create an alternate strange biomechanoid form.  The nail gun alien might well fire a life form into its victim that's grows and slowly eats its victim. There would be a buzz saw mouthed alien inspired by the Helicoprion shark

 

l) Another Bishop android, Bishop III or IV or some number that I can't imagine

There is another Bishop the android or some similar android. As with the original Lance Henriksen's Bishop android. The character exists like a black man or child in South Africa, that if he made a mistake, anything could happen and he would be out, either replaced or destroyed. Just as Lance Henriksen imagined for his background  for Bishop back in the time of Aliens

(See: Aliens: Bishop The Android at alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/)

Reveries while watching V/H/S/2

leading from

film scenario explorations

a) Cockroach videocassette sleeves
I watched V/H/S/2 on TV and found it partially interesting while I could stay away watching it late in the evening.   In the opening scene, some people enter a house where there are various video casettes around, and I began to think of the transparent cassette sleeves lying around as shed skin, and then I began to imagine that these people have entered an alien environment where there are creatures about a foot in length that are like oversized transparent cockroaches or beetle crawling around, and their innards resembled VHS video cassettes, the man slides one of the cassettes out of the creature leaving the skin with its legs inactive, and the inside of spools which are a couple of inches wide are sharp teeth that would close in on someone's fingers very easily and bite them off or begin to suck blood out of the person.  These things would replace the facehugger, and would suck its victims into an alternate reality by the looks of it, perhaps loosely they were inspired by things from Cronenberg's films eXistenZ and Videodrome.

b) Uterine environment
The first story seen on a video casette in the film was about a man who had a prosthetic eye implanted and he could see the dead with this and a woman comes by who can hear the dead and most of this story takes place in the man's house. As the story becomes more disjointed, and so did the photography to the point where it seemed as if the viewer was trapped in tiny rooms with tiny doorways and it was impossible to work out what exactly was up or down. The woman gets dragged into a swimming pool to drown and at points it seemed as if the pool was upside down and perhaps one might have wanted to think about the star gate in the movie Stargate that was a pool of water on its side. While I was watching it, I began to think about a man wakes up in a strange environment where there appears to be no up or down, as if it were a zero gravity space station interior of non human design. A woman that is with him, he finds lying on a leather sofa on the ceiling and she begins to get sucked into the space between the back of the sofa and the cushions, as if it were a birth passage between thick fleshy lips. He himself is passes from one chamber to another trying to find her. The entrances from chamber to another seem impossibly small and he can see the woman behind through them and hesitates as he realises that he can get through them.Activating the cassette created holographic images in the form of demons that come to life and grab the person who has activated and thrust something down his throat.

c) The rest of the movie
The rest of the movie didn't grab my attention particularly to the point where I fell asleep during the story about the suicidal cult.

Reveries inspired by Blomkamp's Alien 5 project but nothing to do with it

leading from

 Film Scenario Explorations

Blomkamp's photo

a) Pustules filled with Aliens
Ever since Neill Blomkamp posted the photo of a room with a television screen, a model of the power loader and various photos from Alien and images of pieces of artwork by Giger on the wall, I thought about biomechanoids swarming in clusters so that one sees all connected together in a single environment and one can not where one alien begins and another finishes and thought how perhaps this could be accomplished with special effects, and then, I imagines one of Giger's landscapes of flesh and pustules and how one of the pustules ripped open and there inside were the alien creatures compressed together, and the Colonial Marines armed with guns and perhaps exoskeleton suits are looking in to the masses of aliens that perhaps lie there dormant ready to slowly wake up as in James Cameron's Aliens movie. Perhaps I am thinking about the original cocoon concept about how if a piece of the growth was broken off, lots of maggots would pour out of the segment.

A Giger flesh landscape

b) Further exoskeleton thoughts
Perhaps the exoskeleton suits would be something like the ones from Halo since Blomkamp had been working on a movie adaption of that and it looked as if there was one made in Korea in a recent piece of artwork he put on the internet or indeed perhaps just a cluster of yellow Power Loaders all tangled together so that one can not see where one begins and the other end. The non functionality of it all would interest me even more.

A Giger biomechanoid landscape with biomechanoids fused together

c) Previous thoughts
Previously when I had reveries connected with Bloomkamp making the film, he told his story about Alien being played on the video feed at his childhood family's holiday apartment and I started to imagine that the new Alien 5 must be connected with the videotape horror movies (See Ghosts In The VCR at dreaming about Alien meets Ringu = Aliengu) and also when the news that he would be making Alien 5 was announced, I drew a picture of an alien pretending to be the robot hero from the movie Chappie. (see Alien 5: "Big Chappie")

Further Alien thoughts, set off by watching the Sinister II trailer but not related to it

leading from

 Film Scenario Explorations

a) After watching the trailer for Sinister II, I began to think about my Alien plot that went via thoughts to do with Ringulien/Aliengu plot since the original Sinister movie had been loosely inspired by Ring.

b) A mysterious transmission and the government are tracking down the signals to see where it comes from, with the intention of retrieving something of interest for them. However it .

c) However it appears to be about cults setting themselves up and creating temples dedicated to a warped biomechanised version of the Henu Barque which is the Ancient Egyptian artifact that inspired the Space Jockey in its seat. (So already Giger has biomechanised the Henu Barque before and created something original out of it, and I'm only using it as an artifact of mystery because of what Giger had used it for.) Perhaps the new versions of the things might be made from wire and paper maché since I watched a video where someone made a brilliant dragon from paper maché. It might be a thought following the way that in Call of the Cthulhu there were all of these various cults being discovered with their alters with Cthulhu idols

d) People are travelling around the place trying to track down the Henu Barques as they suddenly manifest and with each one there's some sort of a strange gift to be found in a time capsule. Perhaps this one turns up in a human settlement filled with Rio De Janeiro styled Favelas, and a death cult serves itself up, and at the core of a cluster of favela buildings a derelict ship interior has begun to form as if it were fusing into the environment. Perhaps a well leads down from a house into a shaft into the pilot chamber and both look as if they were built by the same hand, they can't work out how the house interior has changed, and behind another wall is a space that opens up into a giant cavern where spores are kept, and it would not normally fit into the area. No one can work this out, but they assume that there must have been a cave system that no one knew about.

 

 

See: Alien Explorations: 

Evolution of Space Jockey via the 

Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Henu Barque

e) What in essence is the nature of the alien?
 Personally, after finding that Gustave Meyrink's Golem novel and its illustrations had inspired Giger with his biomechanoid, I started to think that perhaps alien this time comes in the form of a golem of a kind created by an ancient other dimensional being, and perhaps they can reproduce, and if the original golem can be destroyed, then the rest, all the following generations will to be destroyed. What are these golems made from? Clay, wood, stone? Might it just as well be made from paper maché and wire. It might be as terrible as that. What would be the next generation alien, who would care. Before I had the idea that maybe the aliens were created by extra-terrestrial alchemists as a medieval alchemist might have created a homoncule using magic, and the latter might have been a lot more interesting for me, the idea of something magic creating flesh.

f) Thoughts about the conception of the idea
I still haven't really found a reason for having aliens in a film, I don't have any inner chest bursters to consider, nor has anyone handed me a copy of something that is supposed to be a study of the actual Necronomicon for me to summon up any inner demons as Alejandro Jodorowsky handed to Dan O'Bannon back in Paris. I don't seem to much material to feed that way of thinking. O'Bannon and Shusett's teamup together created wonderful ideas. But it's terrible to think that poor Dan O'Bannon became a victim of the thing that inspired a crucial scene in Alien that got it noticed and many people do die from it, it has nothing to do with demons coming for their payback but one might romanticize about it in that way. I'm still looking for something idea behind the alien other than the need to stick an alien suit in a movie. Anything approaching a monster ruins the whole idea. Perhaps it's an hallucination of sorts within the architecture.

g) How would the victims become infected since facehuggers and black fluid are old hat?
I keep thinking thought about how the alien might have been something locked away in the Human DNA for millions of years waiting for humans to find something to trigger it off and activate it, as if the human race has been tampered with by an alien intelligence many millions of years ago, and so we are getting into Quatermass And The Pit Territory, but the changes are physical rather than creating strange superhuman powers.

The ancient buried space capsule from the movie version of
"Quatermass And The Pit" movie that acts as a catalyst
for humans with ancient DNA tampered with by martians

h) Space 1999 related thoughts
In the very odd "Force of Life" or "Force of Evil" episode of Space 1999, shown in 1975 where someone was invaded by a mysterious force and then began to drain energy of people and the moonbased complex, and when they shoot him with their lasers, he is burnt all over to a crisp and his eyes begin to glow, however perhaps due to the bad makeup it looks as if he has begun to mutate into some hideous dark creature looking sloughing off his human skin and transforming into something as ridiculous looking as Doctor Doom from the 2015 Fantastic Four movie. Then he enters one of the power reactors in the complex and the building explodes. I assumed as a child that he was tearing his skin off because he has transformed into something else that was black skinned. This episode gave me a great deal of confusion and perhaps led to nightmares. Probably the bigger shock would be that the man who was taken over by the mysterious force was played by Ian McShane better known for his role in Lovejoy decades later

i)  Oddity of the Company of Wolves transformations
Another thing that often grabs me is the transformation sequence from some werewolf films such as Company of Wolves, probably because it looks almost ridiculous, a man's face stretching open to allow a dog or wolf face to come through, and a man rips his face off to allow a clock work dog/ wolf face to begin to extend and this results in something like a skinned barbecued dog snarling away.

Company of Wolves werewolf transformation 1

Spanish poster for Company of Wolves showing the barbecued skin dog puppet

Company of Wolves werewolf second transformation

Company of Wolves werewolf second transformation

j) Recalling the American Werewolf in London transformation
American Werewolf In London had a very interesting transformation scene showing everything happening before the screen in full light with all the limbs deforming, but the actual fur covered creature that it turned into seemed to be of secondary interest

Hand deforming

American Werewolf In London undergoing transformation

Face stretching out

k) Thoughts about another alien creature
However in the last decade, perhaps in line with the Transformers robots idea or perhaps more the fact that there are Giger paintings where there are numerous unidentifiable life forms fused together, I thought about parts of a large creature coming out of various humans and then coming together to form one life form. Then I thought about perhaps something as large as a horse being invaded by all these creatures and having his limbs etcetera being eaten and replaced. There is a parasite that devours its host's tongue and then take over the role of a tongue. Perhaps there were various grinning entities poking their heads out of its carcasses, as if they were small living carved idols grinning away as bizarre as the head of a Pazuzu sculpture.

Fish Tongue Parasite

l) Obviously all the people involved with the Henu Barque must be involved in a ritual of self mutation into something unknown. They are quickly destroyed along with everything in the temple. Questions about where this thing was likely to turn up, would they find unexplainable anomalies and find that the Henu Barque was at the centre of it all. Where else will another Henu Barque turn up, just as at the end of Hellraiser, a Lament configuration turns up out of the blue.

m) When watching the Sinister II trailer, I perhaps was interested in the fact that there was this strange ancient demon interfering with the modern day lives of people and they were doing a serious examination of where this entity came from the history of mankind and then looked for places that the demon might take an interest in later in search for victims . But the story might indeed as the reviews show, not be very good.