| ▲ | BLKNSLVR 3 hours 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | e40 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That website was really frustrating on iOS, had to close it before seeing much. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | kakacik an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
His 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 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||