Happy Birthday, Mr. Giger

Hans Ruedi

Happy Birthday, Mr. Giger

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

- H. R. Giger

One of these years, in my still-nonexistent Haunted Barn, there will be an organic room that might just look like H. R. Giger got in there somehow while I was sleeping.

Biomechanical World

I love that Hans Ruedi Giger (pronounced GEEGER, btw) will always be the father of biomechanical design.  That was his jam.  He invented it.  Giger has cited inspirations along the way, but his work is not derivative of their drawings and paintings (Salvador Dalí...Alfred Kubin).  He was his own thing.  To the point that his influence is instantly recognizable in other artists' works.  It can't be hidden.  Literally never.  And that's pretty neat.

As much as I wasn't a fan of the recent ALIEN films, I do love that his name appears in the credits of those films.  And in the current video games that exist.  The stories are literally built around his designs.  The settings feel alien and foreign because of Giger.  The atmosphere is smooth, shiny, dark, and terrifying.

And it appears Hollywood will never stop squeezing that intellectual property, so I think Giger shall live forever in xenomorphic splendor.  

Wren sent me the below IG account... Biomechanical World.  It's loaded with photos of Giger's work that I've never seen before.  Pretty amazing stuff, of course.

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Thanks, Wren!

Christmas Wish List

Sometime in the 1990s the Swiss occultist who goes by the name Akron suggested to his countryman H.R. Giger that he create a set of tarot cards. Giger demurred, claiming a lack of time as well as a lack of interest in the subject—all the while insisting that he was “too superstitious” to take on such a project.

Giger did, however, regard tarot as an interesting venue for his artwork, and he was willing to re-purpose some of his pre-existing images as a tarot deck. The tarot deck featuring Giger’s artwork covers only the major arcana and is known as the Baphomet deck.

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Thanks, Mike!  I had no idea these existed.

Teaser: My Tuesday Night

Weekend Plans

The Pilot

I reject that expensive fan film called Prometheus.

The creature below is exactly that:  A creature.  An alien being.

And definitely NOT some blue humanoid in an elephant-bone space suit.
Lies.  Prometheus was all lies.  The King of Lies.

Click below and tell me that thing is just a space suit.

The Pilot

Engineers Are Not Space Jockeys?

I love that other people are as troubled as I am about this.

The comments section is the best, as most folks ignore the simple fact that Ridley Scott did, in fact, try to explain that the Space Jockey [non-humanoid-shaped] creature was actually just a humanoid in a [illogically-designed] space suit.  

That said, I still reject it.  

There's just no way.

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Giger

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A Neat Interview

With the director of the new H.R. Giger documentary.

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Now Playing: Electronic Rhythm Number Two

By Pye Corner Audio.

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Pilot

 More images here.

Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World

Click below for the trailer:

Jodorowsky's Dune

The most awesome scifi movie you'll never see.

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Electronic Rhythm Number Twelve

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Ghost Trains

Photographer Dave Julian's wonderful blog devoted to H.R. Giger.  So many amazing photos.

Click here for the Expeditions and Exhibitions blog.

And click here for the photographer's personal blog.

Giger

You know what he's NOT thinking in this photo?
"This is really a helmet on a very human-looking Engineer creature."

Ridley Scott is officially placed into the George Lucas Hall of Fame [for Ruining Great Things].

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HR Giger Work Catalog

More at gigerworkcatalog.com