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".

AVP scenario thoughts

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Film Scenario Explorations

a) Oh no, that's done it, I can't bare to think about it but it looks as  if I've started storyboarding the whole thing today, or made a bit of a  leap in that direction. It looks as though the Predators have a captured space jockey found in hibernation, imprisoned by what might be considered as ancient magic spells and have been worming arcane bioweapon technology secrets out of him for some millenias and he's been trying to find a way out break free from his prison (the space jockey lower body area though is going to confuse the hell out of everyone apart from those who've studied Giger's work in detail).  Today's predalien's head started to look like a biomechanic chinese lion. Don't know where else's it's going, probably the predaliens thought they were immune from facehuggers but their protection is obviously starting to fail that's why the body at the beginning of AVP:R went unchecked and predaliens are uncommon, maybe they have to stop themselves from suffering a catastrophe and maybe this is what the Space Jockey has been planning all along for thousands of years. And somewhere amongst the ancient space junk yard are the remains of a small rocket ship with what looks a bit like a Mayan king just to upset all the people who disapprove of Eric Von Daniken's fantasies, and that obviously this will probably provide some irritating AVP producer with a dumb idea for AVP4.

b) The question is whether I will I get as far as putting together a forever unmade AVP3 movie script that everyone will want to know about for prosperity? Until then I will surely never escape from it.