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hannaugh

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Random thought I had today; I got a tee shirt of this HP Lovecraft design for Christmas, and I was thinking how cool would something like this be on one of these crazy wood-burned guitars like what we've been seeing on the forum lately?

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I like this one too:

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It think it would be rad. 

 
Problem is to be authentic you'd have to stain it with...like, cobra venom, sacrificial virgin baby drippings etc. There's nothing less horrific than weenie horror. "oooh! it's so cu-ute!" Cute horror, YYARGH.
 
Just go the whole nine yards and shape the guitar like the elder god himself.  :icon_jokercolor:
 
Giger is so rad.  Alien is one of my all time favorite movies.  His designs are genius.  :icon_thumright:
 
hannaugh said:
Giger is so rad.  Alien is one of my all time favorite movies.  His designs are genius.  :icon_thumright:
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Giger himself: http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k278/theoneandonlymechris/giger_zps69150982.jpg[/IMG]]

I loved Aliens as well, Prometheus was cool in that it spun off Aliens to continue the movies but lent a new twist to the whole saga.  heres some cool info on Prometheus and its follow up: http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/

Another interesting note, Giger never got consulted on the Aliens movie strange as that would seem, especially since the Aliens creature is clearly influenced by his art work, and even though his art was clearly the inspiration if not ripped off, he didnt get a dime. Check out this interview with Giger http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2012/03/gigers-talks-about-aliens.html

Nice Ibanez, Kuro Uma  :icon_thumright:
 
Is that the engraved metal one? There's different "levels" and prices, I know. I wish there were more weird guitars (that sounded great). Alembic sort-of got a trend started, but it got steamrolled by the "vintage" idiocy - now at least half of the "fine hand crafted" guitars are just multi-thousand dollar copy guitars. :icon_scratch:
 
StubHead said:
Is that the engraved metal one? There's different "levels" and prices, I know. I wish there were more weird guitars (that sounded great). Alembic sort-of got a trend started, but it got steamrolled by the "vintage" idiocy - now at least half of the "fine hand crafted" guitars are just multi-thousand dollar copy guitars. :icon_scratch:
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It's not metal. Basswood I believe. It is engraved though with the Bomben style art. I have not seen a metal one but I have seen the engraved S-series styled one. It is done the same way but they brushed the raised areas with a metalized paint. Like those used in hobbies. Looks convincingly like metal. I'm not sure the "level" of mine. It ran me about $1500 new a few years back. I put a dimebucker in it and moved the engraved "HR GIGER" cover to the neck pickup. Being very dark most people take it for a normal black Ibanez until getting within a few feet of it. Then only other guitarist find it interesting and an even smaller percentage know of Giger. Most non-musician folks comment on the gold mirror fretboard inlays. With stage lights it reflects the whole pattern on the wall. You find yourself staring at it...  :tard:
 
That guitar is all kinds of crazy.  I had no idea he designed a guitar! 

lucky13 said:
hannaugh said:
Giger is so rad.  Alien is one of my all time favorite movies.  His designs are genius.  :icon_thumright:
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Giger himself: http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k278/theoneandonlymechris/giger_zps69150982.jpg[/IMG]]

I loved Aliens as well, Prometheus was cool in that it spun off Aliens to continue the movies but lent a new twist to the whole saga.  heres some cool info on Prometheus and its follow up: http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/

Another interesting note, Giger never got consulted on the Aliens movie strange as that would seem, especially since the Aliens creature is clearly influenced by his art work, and even though his art was clearly the inspiration if not ripped off, he didnt get a dime. Check out this interview with Giger http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2012/03/gigers-talks-about-aliens.html

Nice Ibanez, Kuro Uma  :icon_thumright:
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I just got the big boxed set of the movies with all the extra features on it for Christmas.  I was kinda wondering why they didn't really talk about him in the Aliens featurettes since he is featured so heavily in the documentary about the first movie. 

I love the second one, but the first movie will always be the best in my opinion because of the art direction and relationship between Ridley Scott and the artists that designed everything.  Aliens has some great action and it's really exciting, but it doesn't quite have the so-real-you-can-feel-it atmosphere that the first one had.  But the queen vs. the power loader scene almost makes up for it.  It's in the top 5 best special effects sequences ever filmed if you ask me, but I'm a sucker for good practical effects. 

 
I love the fact that there is pornographic art in this thread, and no one cares. :icon_jokercolor:

I like H.R. Giger's art a lot, and I think someone posted a themed guitar in the Kisekae creations thread once that was kind of cool.
Someone needs to make a guitar themed in that style. Maybe even do some woodburning and dye everything black/grey?
 
It's Giger though - that's just the way his art is.  I don't think he does it cause he thinks it's sexy either, I think he finds eroticism disturbing.  It's definitely creepy in Alien.  No secret what their heads and parts of the space jockey's ship look like.  :laughing7:

Wood burning with Giger art could be really interesting.  Or HP Lovecraft imagery in the style of Giger.  Giger Cthulu! :sign13:
 
 
hannaugh said:
It's Giger though - that's just the way his art is.  I don't think he does it cause he thinks it's sexy either, I think he finds eroticism disturbing. 
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You know, I've seen him in interviews (particularly one about alien and how he shivered thinking about how the alien's tongue worked) and the impression I get is that he feels it all.  He feels turned on by the female form (just a woman's lips, even) and he feels the revulsion at the horror of some of his creations.  That's what surprises me, you'd think he'd be all jaded out, (another day, another vertebrae monster) but he feels it all.

On the other hand, I've read some of the things he wanted to do in the other movies, and, while artful, they wouldn't have made sense in anything but a surrealist way.  Things like a tongue that would turn into a drill, or valves on the alien's body that would make sound like a saxophone.
 
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