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Tangential: Alien(s) brought H.R. Giger to my attention, for which I shall ever be thankful. My parents visited Gruyères in Switzerland a couple of years ago, a
by BLKNSLVR 11mo ago
Tangential: Alien(s) brought H.R. Giger to my attention, for which I shall ever be thankful. My parents visited Gruyères in Switzerland a couple of years ago, and whilst they didn't tour the museum[0] (his art isn't their thing) they did take a couple of photos of the sculptures outside for me.
I'll get there one day.
[0]: https://www.hrgigermuseum.com/en/ https://www.hrgigermuseum.com/en/
- e40 11mo agoThat website was really frustrating on iOS, had to close it before seeing much.
- ChrisGreenHeur 11mo agoSwiss people can't ever grasp html
- omnicognate 11mo agoHTML was invented in Switzerland, albeit by an Englishman.
- ChrisGreenHeur 11mo agoyes, that's the joke :)
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoStrictly speaking it was invented in France, although I'll grant you that depending on exactly when TimBL had the idea for it, it may have depending on which side of the office he was sitting on.
- moffkalast 11mo agoGiger art should only be enjoyed rendered on a CRT in a damp dark cave for that in-universe feel.
- dotancohen 11mo agoActually Giger's sculptures are rather interesting. But I agree about the print and paint work. It's too deep in the uncanny valley - in a bad way.
- user____name 11mo agoCerntenly not.
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- kakacik 11mo agoHis cafè just opposite the museum is also quite something, chairs and tables from spine-infested shapes. And when in Gruyères then one should taste meringues double crème, or fondue in colder months. And last but not least - its a region of Swiss pre-alps, mountains up to cca 2000m high, lovely hikes all around in picture-perfect nature and fields (government pays farmers to keep it looking nice) and even nearby very nice via ferrata on Moléson peak which I did 2 weeks ago, this time with some snow. It overlooks the castle and whole area from avove. That was interesting and intense experience while being alone on whole mountain.
- moffkalast 11mo agoMy dad took me there as a kid a long whole ago when Giger was still alive, it was really something. The bar is amazing and the museum is... oppressively dark in a very unique way, like anything Giger ever did I suppose. There's several lifesize necronomicons/xenomorphs, some earlier and later variants, Sil and the skull train, a lot of art that was never used in Alien and sequels but some made it later into Prometheus.