FILM… Ego, Arrogance, and Emptiness. 8 Dec 2019 16:08:558 Dec 2019 16:33:56 When I first came upon photographs of Alien while reading Starlog #22, I was struck by the authenticity of the spacecraft. It looked real, not like some of the less-realized…
ART… “ALIEN went to where the Old Ones lived, to their very world of origin.” 16 Nov 2019 10:49:43 Those words were written in 2003 by Dan O'Bannon, in his essay that included this recollection of a particular movie review of Alien: Continue reading "“ALIEN went to where the…
BOOKS… A page right out of… “The Thing” ? 29 Oct 2019 09:19:0129 Oct 2019 09:46:36 I was re-reading Alan Dean Foster's ALIEN novelization this morning (and the "decompression scene"), and I came across something I had not noticed before on page 211: one of the…
FILM… Spreading the word: Alien at US theaters! 28 Jun 2019 22:09:0828 Jun 2019 22:14:02 <INTERFACE 2037 READY FOR INQUIRY> (If you are in my neck of the woods for this event, the popcorn and soft drinks are on me!) Continue reading "Spreading the…
ART… Alan Sutcliffe: a legacy of computer animation. 2 Jun 2019 12:28:06 <INTERFACE 2037 READY FOR INQUIRY> This article for io9.com was written back in 2013, but it includes a brief look at the computer displays seen in ALIEN, one in…
FILM… Reifying computer typing sounds. 2 Jun 2019 10:19:402 Jun 2019 12:57:39 <INTERFACE 2037 READY FOR INQUIRY> Although they left out the Nostromo computer in their examples of reifying, this article is interesting in that it goes toward explaining why we…
FILM… “Equatorial orbit nailed”: the story behind the computer animations of ‘Alien’. 2 Jun 2019 10:08:3922 Jun 2019 15:26:31 Reblog.
FILM… ALIEN@40 Week: David McDonnell is kickin’ it Old School. 31 May 2019 21:00:00 <INTERFACE 2037 READY FOR INQUIRY> David McDonnell started his professional career in 1975 with a column in The Comic Buyers' Guide, but I didn't discover his work in the…
ART… Alien 40th Anniversary Short Film: “Ore”. 26 May 2019 14:06:00 <INTERFACE 2037 READY FOR INQUIRY> From the ArtStation gallery of Julian Calle... Continue reading "Alien 40th Anniversary Short Film: “Ore”. "
EPHEMERA… In space no one can hear you scream, not even after 40 years. 25 May 2019 00:01:0025 May 2019 08:36:42 <INTERFACE 2037 READY FOR INQUIRY> To mark this 40th anniversary of the release of ALIEN (1979), I want to share something with you that I recently added to my…
