The Conference Of The Birds, Persian Manuscript, Circa 1600; Safavid Iran (Isfahan)

Concept paintings by Mary Blair for Disney’s PETER PAN.

“I forget people after I kill them,” Peter Pan says in PETER & WENDY. Was that in the Disney version?

One of the great “lost movies”: in the 1960s, there was talk of making a live action Peter Pan movie with Audrey Hepburn as Peter Pan, Peter Sellers as Captain Hook, and Hayley Mills as Wendy. The world was robbed of something wonderful there...

Wonderland Expedition Kit, by Absinthetic.

Containing, among other things: a Card Guard specimen, mounted; a caterpillar, preserved; a rose painted red; a looking glass; Cheshire Cat teeth; “Eat Me” and “Drink Me” bottles; a vial of water from the Pool of Tears; a map of Wonderland.

Art and images from the H.R. Giger film, SWISS MADE (1968). The design for the alien visitor was based on his own 1967 work, “Woman with Child” (last image).

Early designs and sketches of Wallace and Gromit by their creator, Nick Park.

On my blog I occasionally feature first/early versions of famous characters, as that somehow fascinates me. The first seed, the first spark. A few lucky lines on a piece of paper.

The Yoda puppet under construction.

Nightlife in Hong Kong in the 1970s. Photos by Greg Girard.

Carlo Rambaldi designs for ALIEN (1979). Effects artist Rambaldi was hired to make the head do its thing basically, the original design of course was Giger’s.

That skull one though. Nightmare.

The Horned King animatronic in Disneyland, Tokyo. Part of the finale to the Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour, the attraction was one of the few instances of Disney acknowledging THE BLACK CAULDRON it seems.

The attraction lasted from 1986 to 2006.

Concept drawings for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968): an early “Star Gate” version, and an alien landscape.

Cocoon fun by H.R. Giger for ALIEN (1979).