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 […]
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Hamlet Recorder Scene and Alien: Covenant Flute Scene
Firstly I would like to express gratitude to Matt Hatton, in my podcast conversation with him he revealed the following homage to Shakespeare. Like Matt, I wonder if this scene in Hamlet generated a similar sort of response when it first debuted in 1609. When this particular scene was being filmed in Alien: Covenant, Matt […]
David and Lawrence’s Journey
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. – T. E. Lawrence […]
Artist Guild Commission: Androids of Alien by Ashstryker
I recently requested Ashstryker to draw me the Androids of Alien, my request was pretty specific. They needed to be drawn height accurate and be holding something associated with their character. From left to right: Ash is holding a porn magazine, Bishop is balancing a knife in his palm, Walter is holding a flower, Call […]
Artist Guild Commission: David and Walter by Mattie Draws
I commissioned Mattie to draw any of the Alien Androids, they selected David and Walter. Here’s the magnificent piece: What I especially like is that the longer I looked at it, the more little details started to appear. Which I likened to my experience of Alien: Covenant, little nods to their characters are there. I […]
