JoeWynne, 17 days ago to random

Summer 1979. I'd finished my first year at college. There is no internet, but a frenzy has been whipping up among weird kids for this movie for months.

One of the chief sources of information for nerds was Omni Magazine (In the US and UK). I had subscribed to it for its entire lifetime.

There was a long feature on H.R. Giger in the November 1978 and his eerie art with creatures that combined biology and machine-like elements. It put me over the edge.

#FridayThrillerClub #Alien

clive, 6 months ago to random

I generally have found the trend towards "let's illustrate this blog post / new story with a Midjourney image" to be a little dreary ...

So many of the images tend towards "sci-fi hyperrealism" that it gets boring after a while

(And man, I'm someone who grew up on Omni magazine covers, so normally I'd love this stuff, lol)

But, I will say, the Midjourney illustrations for this Boing Boing post are total <chef's kiss>

https://boingboing.net/2023/11/15/horse-breaks-loose-on-boeing-747-forces-flight-to-turn-around.html