Giger dead at 74

[hjmick]

If you're asking yourself, "Who's Giger?," well, this thread probably isn't for you...

H.R. Giger dies at 74

By FRANK JORDANS , Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) -- Swiss artist H.R. Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic "Alien," has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall, his museum said Tuesday.

Sandra Mivelaz, administrator of the H.R. Giger museum in Gruyeres, western Switzerland, told The Associated Press that Giger died in a hospital on Monday.

Giger's works, often showing macabre scenes of humans and machines fused into hellish hybrids, influenced a generation of movie directors and inspired an enduring fashion for "biomechanical" tattoos.

"My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy," Giger said in a 1979 interview with Starlog magazine. "If they like my work they are creative ... or they are crazy..."

Giger's vision of a human skull encased in a machine appeared on the cover of "Brain Salad Surgery," a 1973 album by the rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Along with his design for Debbie Harry's solo album, "Koo Koo" (1981), it featured in a 1991 Rolling Stone magazine list of the top 100 album covers of all time.

Giger went on to work as a set designer for Hollywood, contributing to "Species," ''Poltergeist II," ''Dune," and most famously "Alien," for which he received a 1979 Academy Award for special effects. Frequently frustrated by the Hollywood production process, Giger eventually disowned much of the work that was attributed to him on screen...

'Alien' artist H.R. Giger dies at 74 - MSN Movies News


I always found Giger's work... interesting...

Some of his stuff made me think the guy might be a little "off..."


But I always liked it...


Maybe I'm a "little bit 'off'..."

 

[Pennywise]

He was brilliant and original and he will be missed by many, including myself.

 

[USNavyVet]

I remember seeing his work in the magazine Heavy Metal when I was a kid. RIP Giger.