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R.I.P. H.R. Giger
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Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#21 - 2014-05-15 03:27:16 UTC
He will be remembered for all of man's existance. His creations are preserved in forms that will exist longer than man; as his influence should.
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#22 - 2014-05-15 03:29:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Slade Trillgon
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Ugh. This one actually hurts.

I'll never ever forget the shock, when I was 10 years old and "shopping with Mom at K-mart". I was looking through the rock albums (all vinyl of course....there were some 8-Tracks, but no cassettes, yet), and out pops this Emerson Lake and Palmer album with this cover.

I was never the same.

Within a few years, Omni magazine started using his work to illustrate short stories and such. And then, of course, came the famous design of the most amazing monster ever designed for film.

True Horrorshow, most indeed.

Sometime during this period was the first time I saw the word "bio-mechanical".

I always liked his cover for Debbie Harry's solo album "Koo Koo".

Even people who didn't like the subject matter could not help but acknowledging there was an extreme talent at work.

This is the one sad part for me of getting older. Those who blew your mind when you were young start disappearing.

What an amazing, beautiful genius, who shall be very much missed.


WTF! He really did a cover for Emerson, Lake and Palmer Shocked

That is now on the top of my list of must have albums!!!

EDIT: Just remember Krix, it is their work that inpressed you and the work is still there. It is sad they will produce nothing else, but ashes to ashes, dust to dust; he has been released.
Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#23 - 2014-05-15 13:56:05 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
R.I.P. disturbing uniquely genius bizarre man. I think he'd take that as a compliment-- I meant it that way at least.
By the way, he and another bizarre fellow Klaus Kinski kind of resembled each other.


lol. At least Giger didn't try to kill Ridley Scott, like Klaus attempted on Werner Herzog while filming "Aguirre, The Wrath of God".

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
BLACK-STAR
#24 - 2014-05-15 18:52:52 UTC
Ya, this is too bad. o7 R.I.P.

Have to admit that Alien he imagined was the most grotesque yet beautiful creature you've ever seen, in a way.. Much enjoyed his other works too.



Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#25 - 2014-05-15 19:00:17 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
R.I.P. disturbing uniquely genius bizarre man. I think he'd take that as a compliment-- I meant it that way at least.
By the way, he and another bizarre fellow Klaus Kinski kind of resembled each other.


lol. At least Giger didn't try to kill Ridley Scott, like Klaus attempted on Werner Herzog while filming "Aguirre, The Wrath of God".

holy **** just saw bits of the documentary.


I mean.


dude

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[quote]The more I know about humans, the more I love animals.[/quote] ain't that right
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