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I just read this too. (And I have never watched Alien)
He reconstructed that whole fucking keyboard … at that point my jaw dropped open a bit.
The whole blog looks great.
The keyboard killed me.
Plus the French/English instructions.
Have you seen Moon? Have we discussed this? Fascinating in re: identity. It’s profound … plus, Sam Rockwell. Playing ping-pong. With himself.
Inspired by Madame Blavatsky. And the ‘instructions’ in French which they clearly did not give a fuck about.
Yes, I saw Moon and loved it.
and the random coffee cup symbol. ha!
From the “Moon” write-up:
Later on, Sam watches some TV. Specifically, he watches Bewitched – or as it’s also known in the future, ‘SUPERNATURAL COMEDY LADIES’
… which I believe I’ve covered in SPN re-caps….
You didn’t indicate what the thing was that made you laugh out loud, but may I guess? Was it the International Font Council and its choice for Most 70s Font Of All Time? :)
His writing style throughout made me laugh out loud. Now I need to read everything he wrote.
although yes, that is a totally 70s font! “Nice Guys” – which I LOVED – although it came and went – used a similar font. I think Boogie Nights did too!
“I mean, it would be bad at the best of times – but we’ve just lost our cat to a xenomorph.”
and on … and on …
From the “Moon” write-up:
Sam has a sexy dream about his wife. It does not, however, contain any typography.
So I jumped a little down the Madame Blavatsky rabbit hole. According to the entry in Wikipedia, the composer Alexander Scriabin was a follower of hers “and before his death Scriabin planned a multimedia work to be performed in the Himalayas that would bring about the armageddon; ‘a grandiose religious synthesis of all arts which would herald the birth of a new world.'”
The entry on Scriabin says ” In 1915, at the age of 43, he died in Moscow from septicemia as a result of a sore on his upper lip. He had mentioned the sore as early as 1914 while in London.”
Could this have been the work of the London MOL, preventing yet another world-wide disaster? A hunter would have just ganked him. (demons I get, people are crazy!)
When he first started in on the keyboard, I thought the Hindu references were going to be a riff on Robert Oppenheimer’s “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” What with it being a nuke.
Nope.
His post on Blade Runner is equally excellent. Thanks for pointing him out!
And the commenters!!
In the post for Moon – Duncan Jones shows up, as well as the production designer to correct and comment.
It’s such an awesome site – Matt Seitz linked to it yesterday and I am obsessed.