A remix of my video of the works of the Swiss artist Giger.

guy likes girl...i really don't know

this is my video tribute to a triumvirate of unholy artists supported with a cacophonic torture track from my favorite band.

This is the first in a series of demo/tutorials in which I demonstrate how to create images in Photoshop from scratch, working largely in freehand. In this episode I doodle one of my bizarre alien skulls,   more...using primarily the "Dodge" and "Burn" tools over a dark background. Besides being a fast and effective technique for "painting" a picture, it also shows you how I work my own creative process when designing something, or when I just want to cut loose and have some creepy fun.

For a better view of the finished product, a full-size pic is available to view in the Photos section of my Channel.

Please let me know if any of this inspires you and if you'd like to see more. Your Hits and Favoriting will do much to incentivize me. Comments and questions are helpful, too, as I may have missed some vital i info in my audio prattling. LOL  less

This a trailer of Alien without images of original Alien. Only used scenes of Odyssey 2001 and pictures of HR Giger.

Ever since I was a kid I have always had a fascination with bones. I don't know what it is. Probably because I find them strangely beautiful, much like seashells. Seashells and Bones are the hard evidence   more...that some organism once shared space with them. Human skeletons are often scary looking, and yet, wrapped around most human skeletons are some fabulously beautiful people. I like that aesthetic contrast. I'm always looking for that duality, the beautiful within the horrific. It makes me stop and take a longer look and try to admire the hidden beauty of something or someone ugly.

As a kid I loved natural history museums (Art museums became a much later love affair) and seeing the reconstructed dinosaur skeletons,and thinking about tht guys who first found them, dug them up, and reassembled them without an instruction manual. My grandparents lived out in the country and I loved finding old cow skulls and such out in the field.I'd pretend they were dinosaurs and that maybe, just maybe, a few live ones might still be around. For me, a box of old bones was a treasure chest!

In the summer before I entered College the movie "Alien" came out. The film features a scene where astronauts stumble across a derelict alien shipwreck on an uncharted planet, and find the very realistic bones of a dead alien inside, with evidence of some kind of internally generated trauma that killed it. That rekindled my fascination with bones, and I started creating my own collection of "Alien skulls"out of kiln-fired stoneware clay, which I would then paint to look like real dessicated bone. I would proudly display them as knick-knacks on my shelves, as ersatz "Specimens" from my travels to other worlds (or some perversely mutated corner of THIS world, since there was an oddly human feel to all of them). Sometimes I would build a display stand for a skull that lookedlike part of the rest of the creature it belonnged to.

I turned a very elaborate one in as my final project in my second semester of Sculpture in college. Its stand actually possessed something of a ribcage,although I took artistic liberties with it to make it more interesting and asymmetrical (That's the tall center piece in the photo in my photos section here!). I was rather amused by the reactions of people who were unfamiliar with me and my work. A biology student criticized the piece for not having the correct rib-count. At first I was offended until I learned that she thought the damn thing was REAL! A similar comment came from one of my fellow students who worked in a different section of the sculpture labs:"Who th' hell brought these old bones in here?" Needless to say I was proud of my inadvertent deception of my viewers. Got an "A" , too. Bonus!

I still make skulls and skeletons now and then. Sometimes I like to put comical fish-bones in my Cat paintings. I've also made 3-D paintings of imaginary prehistoric fish skeleton specimens and flying beasts. I don't do it as often as i used to, but I have a lot of fun just letting my imagination run wild in different media whenever I get my Jones to make Bones!

Just thought I'd share one of the many strange things about me since I ran across this video of my original skull collection the other day. The sound collage in the audio track is all mine.  less

An animated montage of a series of my own dimensional paintings called "Creature Cutlets" (mixed media on canvas, 4" x 6" each) accompanied by one of more... my song parodies, "Parasites"   more...(Sung to the tune of "Edelweiss"), complete with lyrics so you can sing along with me! (Also, if you're too grossed out by the footage, just concentrate on the words)  less