original Alien Poster

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Film Scenario Explorations

a) When the Alien poster first came out in 1979 outside of the cinema, I wondered what to make of the organic grid at the bottom. I thought at first that these were humans bowing down to accept their hellish fate as the primal egg unleashed it's glowing energy.  The since these things were not necessarily actually humans, I wondered if perhaps they were transforming into something less known and it was also something therefore very alien.  I also thought about people in anti-nuclear weapons protest people lying down with their arms spread out which still goes on today. This bowing down of multiple humans idea that I had would also bring me to think about a possible mass ritual suicide.

Alien Centipede 2

I had been drawing pictures of the Alien Centipede inspired by Tom Six's The Human Centipede and then when The Human Centipede 2 came out in 2011 which featured a group of humans layed out in the form of a centipede in a dark space, I took note of the poster and it reminded me of the strange criss-crossing pastries effect at the bottom of the Alien poster that when it first was shown at the cinema reminded me of humans lying down with their arms spread out on the ground to accept obliteration or a sense of hellish transformation into something else, perhaps in the Alien movie become victims of the cocooning process, in Alien to become food for a spore to grow, or in Aliens, a host for a chestburster. Perhaps now we are dealing with Prometheus, the imagined might undergo an actual transformation into some sort of other thing.

Alien Centipede

Having seen the publicity for Human Centipede which came out in 2010, a rather wonderfully strange but severe movie about a surgeon who stitches three humans together that seemed reminiscent of early David Cronenberg,  I began to wonder about a Giger's Alien version of the concept and thus began to draw Aliens forming a chain connected by genitals or strap on dildos inserted into one another's rectums since there was enough of this sort of connectivity going on in HR Giger's illustratons. Perhaps this is what would feature in an Alien movie if Tom Six the director of Human Centipede had a go at directing one.

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