The android portrait of Philip K. Dick–an intelligent, evolving robotic recreation of the sci-fi writer who authored VALIS, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, UBIK, and many other masterworks. By resurrecting PKD as an android, we seek to realize genius-level AI with compassion and creativity. While we have a long way to go, even the […]
July 2018
Creatives: Billy Mansell, Engineer Extra for Alien: Covenant by Ozymandias
On Alien Day, we were very busy and had multiple posts to publish, so we didn’t want to flood you with all this Alien goodness. Now that our schedule has freed up, we can share this interview that Luis/Ozymandias did with Billy Mansell. He was an Engineer extra in Alien: Covenant/The Crossing. *Úrnājā (oornaajaa) is PIE(Proto […]
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Deaths of Paradise Part I
Alien: Covenant and The Tempest
Brett assigned: Corazon Oscuro.
“Corazon Oscuro” translated from Spanish to English means “Dark Heart” What does this have to do with Alien you may be wondering? Well, Author Joseph Conrad wrote a novel called Heart of Darkness published in 1899. From The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, he describes Heart of Darkness as “a wild story” of a journalist […]
Spacesuits by Moebius for Alien.
I really like that the yellow space suit used in Alien Covenant looked just like that design on the right. Check out the suits we made for #AlienCovenantThanks to @donttrythisEven get a rare glimse at my concepts at 4:35 https://t.co/LpxY5Hl20K pic.twitter.com/tfwOrjk02a — Phil Hope (@PhilHope_Ind) May 15, 2017
Dark Horse Comics Announces New Alien 3 Comic!
Comic update from Dave at Xenomorphing!
Early seeds of Prometheus/Covenant and classicism by Phil
During the after-shoot of Alien, Ridley Scott had originally set his eye on the space opera Dune, something that was left after the death of his older brother. He later started production of the film Blade Runner. He explained in an interview that he wanted to do a fantasy film of the opera Tristan und […]
The Creatives Series: Beginning
I started this interview series originally as a way to find out more about the artists who created the work in a movie that challenged me on so many levels, I loved it and I hated it and it filled me with anger but also awe. So here’s the story of my journey and how […]