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I had a successful and not so successful trip. I found the Alien World area in the Valley of Dreams area, but wasn't able to get to the King of Wings.
Don and I hiked for several hours getting to Alien World in 40 mph winds. You have many gullies and streams to cross, along with sandy dune areas. Anyway, after 5 hours in the Valley of Dreams area, we had had it.
Now to the Alien World area and the Valley of Dreams. It has awesome rock formations. I could post pictures until you are sick of the area. There was also amazing amount of petrified wood, including large logs. It is another place I hope to get back to, I'm sure I missed many rock formations in it.
If you get the chance to see this, I highly recommend it. I don't think you would be disappointed.
Happy Novvember! In much the same way as I redid the ADU mech, I've reduced the alien Crescent to its component parts and started again.
Once again, the big saucer pieces are integral to the build (although I'm honestly sick of them, they're so big and blocky!), along with the lime fins. I've also used some of the larger shells to round out the back of the cockpit, so all told this is a rather chonky build.
I started with the triangular-finned prongs, and from there the build continued. I do wish I had a third 16x4 wedge, as I've used two for the wings, and I think for maximum absurdity it would have been good for it to be the stabiliser too. No such luck though, so I made a more sensibly-proportioned fin.
This will be coming to Bricktastic in February, along with the rest of the ADU/alien invaders. Come say hello!
Basement of the Roman Coliseum, El Djem, Tunisia.
This is the passage where gladiators used to use to go up to arena
Doctor Racine and her team are the world's leading experts in non-terrestrial technology and xenobiology.
Commenting on her rather unorthodox approach to research, which has been criticised by other teams working in this field, the doctor observed: "We just focus on the practical applications and let the boys worry about the ethics."
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Alien posing (68 pictures)
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I have always wanted to experiment with modeling balloons. Very funny like being equipped with an exoskeleton. The hard light emphasize the new body shape with strong shadows. With the added insulation from the balloons and layer of air, the alien suit is quite warm. The alien therefore loses some fluid. It still has to acclimatize.
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"When they first landed we noticed that they had these really fantastic biosuits..."
As seen in Neill Blomkamp's amazing short film, "Alive in Joburg". The short is being expanded into a feature-length movie this August under the title "District 9". Please see the MOCpage for the video and more information.
Alien vs Predator Action figure photo. Ph. Stan Volsky (@stanvolsky)
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I honestly love Death Valley. It’s vast and alien-like terrain is different from anything I’ve grown accustomed to in my lifetime. I’m used to the low lands of Illinois, and the great plain states filled with prairies and deciduous forest.
This is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. I recently met a photographer while shooting that told me he once sold a photo outright for $8,000 of none other than Zabriskie Point that he had taken 15 years back. I find that to be inspiring and downright awesome just like Death Valley.
Yeh Liu Geopark, Taiwan.
I'm thinking this is one of those images where you either like one of the outstanding elements, or you don't. The element here in question is the bright light on the top left, which is actually (I think) a lighthouse of sorts, it lit up furiously for a short moment before never doing so again.
There were lights behind us in the distance (floodlights) to allow people to find their way in near pitch blackness. With a load of mixed lighting, and the deep colours of the night, some wild colors resulted from this exposure. I'm wishing I could improve the composition but it was a lot of guesswork in the dark while trying to avoid stray shadows from myself.
“Oh, I’m an alien…
I’m a legal alien
I’m an Englishman in New York “ Sting
“Be yourself no matter what they say”
This is what happens when one is bored, it's late at night, and strange ideas pop into your head.
The effect was created by taking a brand new green sponge and slicing it thin enough so that a flash light would shine through it. The room lighting picked up these warm highlights on the edges of the sponge, which was unexpected (because it wasn't visible to me -- it still looked green), but very, very cool.
Here are the other two in this series:
wouldn't want to meet this sucker on a dark night
ok
its the cooked lobster (i know how to maximise the photo opps round here)
33/116 - alien
This came about by accident. I have been folding some wonderful, cute models by Riki Saito and folded the white alien from Jo Nakashima's excellent video tutorial at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQurMRSjzY
While I was folding I noticed I had made a mistake and didn't have enough paper left to finish the legs. Rather than re-do the model, I decided to change the legs into a skirt. I then folded another one, correctly, from green paper. When I put the two together I thought how the white one looked like a bride, so decided that this was an alien wedding.
Grateful thanks to Riki for the wonderful designs, and to Jo Nakashima for all of his wonderful tutorials.
The first Alien movie may be the only movie I’ve seen in this long franchise, but it’s my favorite horror movie of all time. That being said, I was really excited to see that Alien: Covenant was returning to its roots as a horror movie first, rather than the sequel, Aliens. I also really enjoyed the Martian, so I seeing that Ridley Scott had returned to form, I checked out Alien: Covenant last night! So was Alien: Covenant as good as the first Alien that I love so much, or was it more like the rest of the franchise, which from what I’ve heard, are quite bad. Let’s check it out!!
Good: Now this movie was surprisingly intellectual. Now I heard that Prometheus explored some of these questions that the movie poses, but I haven’t seen Prometheus, so this movie really gave me the desire to watch it! I love learning about the origins of the Xenomorphs, it was so interesting! But with these great intellectual moments come some great suspense and scares. The xenomorphs in this movie were really awesome, the CGI really helped them be more active than when they are just a dude in a suit. Now let’s talk about the performances. Everyone in this movie was really good but the obvious stand out Michael Fassbender. You could really tell he was having a great time in his role and he really just chewed up his lines, making him both creepy and funny at times too.
Bad: Now I’m going to be honest, I should’ve seen Prometheus before seeing this movie. There was so much confusing stuff that I didn’t understand because they were all referencing Prometheus. I feel like I would enjoy this movie a lot more if I had seen Prometheus. My next complaint is that there were a lot of scenes in the movie where I felt like I’ve already seen them! Most of movie just felt like a rip off of Alien, like there were times where I called things would happen because I’ve seen Alien, and they would happen. I’m not talking about certain themes or motifs or anything, I’m talking about actual scenes. Because of that, most of this movie is very predictable, especially the ending, you can see it coming from a mile away. The last complaint I have is that the first act is a little slow until the alien shows up. I understand that Ridley Scott was trying to build up the characters in the first act, but I feel like they should’ve done some more interesting things.
Overall, this movie is the kind of movie that I’d only see once maybe, but it really inspired me to see Prometheus. It had some great suspense and scares, but with a rather messy and unoriginal basic plot. For these reasons, I’m giving Alien: Covenant a 7.5/10. I had a great time with this movie, but I don’t plan on seeing it again any time soon, instead, I want to go check out the other Alien movies! If you’ve seen Alien: Covenant, let me know what you thought about it in the comments below, and remember, no spoilers!