Ultra-Real Ripley
This here is a jaw-dropping sculpture of Ellen Ripley from the original Alien movie, and it’s the best sculpt I’ve seen in my entire life. The silicone sculpture was created by Steve Scotts and shows very distinct features of Sigourney Weaver. Check Steve Scotts’ Facebook for more info and pics.
Holy shit.
I would have made the part with the underpants.
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Prometheus: an archaeological perspective (sort of).
Opening scene:
Chunky unconvincing CGI chap chases a departing ufo to the top of a hill. Drinks something the aliens left behind. Disintegrates into a nearby waterfall.
Cut to the Isle of Sky:
Archaeologist Noomi Rapace is excavating a crevice in a cave with a paintbrush. Shining a small torch into the crevice, she smiles, and tells her assistant to shout to Dr. Holloway, who is excavating a fair distance away down the hill. You can tell he’s an archaeologist, as opposed to another kind of doctor, because he is sieving soil. When his name is called, he instantly throws the sieve to the ground, and pounds up the hill to the cave. Because, as we all know, archaeology can be extraordinarily hard to catch.
Speed is of the essence. He is too slow however, as in the time it takes him to cover the distance, the crevice is now a large cavern, replete with cave art, which Noomi has already dated. It’s 35,000 years old. Possibly older. One bit shows a human figure pointing at some dots. It’s significant. They hold hands. Archaeologists are hot. Archaeology is cool.
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Gosh! Those darn tumblbeasts are such trouble-makers!
I like to think of my cat as an alien robot.
It isn’t that her favorite hobby is wandering around sniffing stuff and meowing for no reason. It’s that she is collecting information about this planet through smells and echolocation. When she sits completely still in the middle of the floor doing nothing but swishing her tail, she’s wirelessly syncing that information with the mothership up in orbit, through her antenna tail. When she lounges in sunny spots, it’s because she’s solar powered.
She spends most of her time in sleep mode.
I like to help her in her little cat mission, though. So when she’s in standby next to me on the bed, and I am working with objects or food items, now and then I like to hold them out to her to sniff. That way she can collect and sync the information without even having to get up.
I bet she doesn’t like to sync information about oranges.
Mommm!!! He’s at it again!!!
