Alien meets Gravity: Gravitalien

a) While observing the publicity images for Gravity, I began to wonder how one might transfer ideas to do with Alien into this movie since it was in some way asking me to.  I wondered about Aliens crawling around ruined parts of space crafts in Earths outer orbit and then when I looked at the images of the astronauts connected to one another by umbilicals marooned in space. Perhaps there are aliens out there in the outer orbit ready to pounce on any stray astronauts

 
b) I thought about my earlier concepts for an Alien version of Human Centipede which might feature aliens connected to one another with their phallic tails inserted into one another's anuses walking around together. I took an image of the alien suit shown at various exhibitions of Giger's and replicated it a few times to build a chain as if they are passing by in the manner of a train.

Fear and Loathing in LV 223

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concept / exploration doodles

Exploring the concept that this monster was partially inspired by the Ralph Steadman's artwork for Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas. (SEE: Did Ralph Steadman Inspire The Final Fifield)

Reveries of Giants with serpentine feet etc

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concept / exploration doodles

I was inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses which tells stories of Greek Mythology and that fight with the gods and briefly describes the giants that fought with the Gods, and these beings had snake feet and also images of the mythological figure Abraxas , an ancient Egyptian god connected with early gnosticism had serpentine legs and he was related to entity Baphomet. Finding out about these inspired me as well.

See: Space Jockeys With Tentacular Legs or Multi Knee Joints

Ovid briefly mentions the battle with the snake-footed 
giants, who fought to avenge the Titans' downfall
source: http://larryavisbrown.homestead.com/

Z43.1 WOUNDED GIGANTES

Museum Collection: Villa Romana del Casale (in situ),
Piazza Amerina, Sicily, Italy
Catalogue Number: TBA
source: www.theoi.com/

A wounded, serpent-footed giant, Roman
mosaic C3rd A.D. , Villa Romana del Casale
detail from above image
(soure: http://www.theoi.com/)

Abraxas

 various depictions of Abraxas (source gnosticwarrior.com)

Siren at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sassymouthphotography/5475298486

Space Jockey's with tentacular legs, or multi knee joints

I was being inspired to think about the possibility of the space jockey having flexible lower limbs that might be serpentine or tenticular to some degree, although I wanted to look at the idea of adding firm joints to the tentacles. The inspiration came from stories about the ancient giants that the gods fought with in Greek Mythology and the image of a mythological character called Abraxas.

See: Reveries of Giants with serpentine feet etc

Deacon Blue(s)

Word and Image exploration to see how the blue coloured Deacon and the Deacon Blue logo fit together to suggest some sort of relationship between the two that would reveal a possible connection with the song Deacon Blues by Steely Dan.

Revelation about a prediction regarding Prometheus

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Film Scenario Explorations

I'm interested in the idea of predicting the future, I made one two years ago and well the new Alien movie to be, which is called at the moment "Prometheus" seems to be going that direction.

See: Alien scenario thoughts Monday, 28 April 2008

AVP:R Response and thoughts about Screamers

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Film Scenario Explorations

a) I suppose I just have to continue on and redesign my whole experience of AVP:R movie because I'm obviously tuned into the Alien saga on some other level that continues to work on an obsessive creative level, and it's difficult for me to perceive their movie sincerely as anything but a pile of rubbish. I don't think much of their idea of introducing the audience to dinosaur sized aliens that are twice the size of alien queens on the alien home world in AVP:3. I don't like the idea of such an alien home world either in the context that people are often fantasising about anyway, there ought to be another dimension to the whole thing to make it intellectually interesting. Those who like the movie are probably not looking for much in a movie. Sticking to the premise of the predator ship crash landing in an isolated town area, I suppose there are things that one can do, and I think that paying homage to Texas Chainsaw Massacre could have been interesting too because the movie had some interesting ideas, but I've been transformed into a typical person who's had **** shoveled down his throat in the movie theatre and still wants to complain about it. It's probably like the rage that people have against Uwe Boll because of the way he's made terrible bargain bin type movies out of good computer games. I find it revolting to see the Brothers Strause's faces on the DVD as they're being interviewed, maybe they should stick to brainless slasher movies.

b )I watched the scifi movie Screamers on DVD the other day, I avoided it  for all these years because I couldn't imagine how such a low budget  film could be inspiring, and not all of Dan O'Bannon's scripts are  interesting to me and well I found that more entertaining than AVP:R,  and I liked the fact that there was a scene with an insect in it that  was disguised as a rock since that seemed almost to be a reference to  O'Bannon's earlier unfilmed script, "They Bite".