Speaking of things demonic....

[uriel1972]

Or at least bio-mechanically demonic, I caught this at PZ Myers Pharyngula. HR Giger is dead alas.

My visions of Hell owe quite a lot to his work.

[Act_of_Reparation]

1. That was the first thing I saw on my news feed this morning.

That might give an indication as to how abjectly nerdy I am.

Too bad. He made some great, if somewhat disturbing art, and played a pivotal role in moving sci-fi into a more mature direction.

[theHandpuppet]

2. I always wondered if his work was inspired by Paul Wunderlich

I don't know how many of you are familiar with his work but I'm hopeless at posting images. If you do a simple search y'all will see what I mean.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Easiest way to post an image in a DU thread;

Do your Google search, click the "Images" label at the top and pick the one you want. Click on it and it will display on your screen with a description and other similar images to the right. There will be two buttons - "Visit Page" and "View Image". Click View Image and it will now be full sized on your screen all by itself. Look at the URL in the address bar at the top and if it ends in ".jpg" you're good. Copy the entire URL and paste it to the text section of your message.

This is the first image that comes up when I search "Paul Wunderlach":




Another way of doing it is right click on any image you find and then click on "View Image Info". That will also give you the URL of that individual picture. You can repost the pic above using that method.

Try it!

[Act_of_Reparation]

5. Possibly so. Have you heard of Peter Gric?

He draws heavily from HR Giger's subject matter, but his skill with light/shadow and scale makes his work all his own.

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. I saw the first "Alien" movie in the theater when it first came out....

with my brother. When we walked out of that theater I looked up and said to him "That motherfucker better not fall out of the sky on me!"

Giger was a true artistic genius. His sketches of The Alien and his concept of the ship - that idea that it was grown, instead of assembled, is most certainly the stuff of nightmares.

I had a USCSS Nostromo cap for years;




Rest in peace, HR.

[AlbertCat]

6. What a great artist he was!

His melding of natural machinery/forms with artificial machinery/forms was unique.