Comments on: Giger counter

By: themadlolscientist

themadlolscientist — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:01:59 +0000

I remember seeing the Paris catcombs and the church made of bones on Geek TV a while back. Weird.

But yesterday’s microwave mayhem entry is FULL OF WIN x 700mb! This is the real way to burn a CD!

Finally, a good use for all those Fundy Dementorist CDs and DVDs my neighbor across the hall keeps leaving in the mail room! No more surreptitiously removing and shoving them down the compactor chute LOLOLOLOL! From now on, it’s a micro-Apocalypse! Ceiling Cat smites the Evil Henchmen of Fundy Mentalism!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!1oneeleven!!!!!

By: Santiago

Santiago — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:43:13 +0000

Man, that is creepy. I’ve loved Gieger’s stuff since the Alien movies, those were some pretty bad ass designs he made.

Also, this also reminded me of Kutna Hora, which I think is supposed to be a Chapel in the Czech Republic, and yeah, it is very, very creepy. Suffice it to say that the plague wiped out pretty much everyone in there, enough to make 4 two meter tall, 2 meter a side pyramids of assorted bones, stacked with creepy attention to detail.

Those are, of course, besides the chandelier made of nothing but human bones and the coat of arms of whatever country the place was a part of in the 19th century, all completely done in human femurs, jaw bones, skulls, vertebrae, etc. Those were done by a (arguably insane) monk in the 19th century that found all those bones lying around and decided to make something useful out of em.

By: El sofista - El bar de Giger

El sofista - El bar de Giger — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:14:41 +0000

[...] el bar está en Gruyere, Suiza, y fue diseñado por H.R. Giger, el artista que diseñó al extraterrestre de la película Alien y sus continuaciones. No sé si alguien podrá comer a gusto ahí, pero al menos vale la pena una visita [...] Vía Bad Astronomy Blog.

By: Bean Counter

Bean Counter — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:45:27 +0000

If you do eat there and the guy at the table next to you is eating spaghetti, you might want to switch tables. Fast.

By: Zclone

Zclone — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:43:34 +0000

I love HR Giger’s work. Jonathan Davis of the band Korn commisioned him to design a micropohone stand. Photos of it can be seen here (the stand itself is probably NSFW):
http://www.type3media.com/livephotos/korn07272007.html

By: Don’t order the eggs. « Communion Of Dreams

Don’t order the eggs. « Communion Of Dreams — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:24:42 +0000

[...] via Phil Plait, this delightful photo set of the Giger Bar in Chateau St. Germain, Gruyeres, Switerland (also [...]

By: Irishman

Irishman — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:03:26 +0000

marco sc., I’m pretty sure that’s what Phil meant. Soft g “geeger”, not hard g “jeeger”. And totally not “Jiger”.

By: Ronn Blankenship

Ronn Blankenship — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:58:01 +0000

@shane:

But did “X” mark the spot in any of them?

By: sirjonsnow

sirjonsnow — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:40:45 +0000

Mike – they showed that church in Ewan McGregor’s travel documentary “Long Way Round”

By: Jewel

Jewel — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:37:48 +0000

Wow, that is really bizarre.

By: marco sch.

marco sch. — Thu, 22 May 2008 10:45:21 +0000

I think the pronunciation would be more guee-guer than gee-ger (both g as in gig not gee)…

By: has

has — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:36:08 +0000

[obligatory] Just don’t order the Special:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh1exCwGiY0

By: Sarg Bjornson

Sarg Bjornson — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:22:41 +0000

har har, “Giger Counter”. Took me a while to get the play on words

By: Jedediah

Jedediah — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:30:33 +0000

Arr, computer ate my accent aigu. That’s supposed to read Gruyeres (with a ‘on the first e ).
But then, I forgot to include the link to the amazing ossuary Mike mentioned anyway: http://www.kostnice.cz/

By: Jedediah

Jedediah — Thu, 22 May 2008 07:24:25 +0000

That’s the Giger bar in GruyÃ¨res, as Cameron Peters said. It’s part of the Giger Museum (one excellent reason to go to Switzerland!). There’s another one in Chur (also Switzerland) and there was one in Tokyo, but it turned into a Yakuza hangout fairly soon and is closed now (not necessarly because of that, though). http://www.hrgiger.com/bar.htm

By: wright

wright — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:09:40 +0000

Ahh, Giger. Man, the first movie is such a dark, finely polished gem. Scared me nearly outta my skin the first few times I saw it. Giger was one of those artists who could take old, old symbols and make something truly fantastic from them.

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:36:14 +0000

Is the bar right under the primary heat exchanger?

By: Words can’t describe the creepiness « Its a Weird and Crazy World

Words can’t describe the creepiness « Its a Weird and Crazy World — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:10:56 +0000

[...] Source (with more pics of the place):Damn Cool Pics Found at The Bad Astronomy Blog [...]

By: Kol

Kol — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:01:37 +0000

Is this where I point out that the eggs in the Alien movies were intelligently designed?

By: Lab Lemming

Lab Lemming — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:35:38 +0000

In a place like this, how can you not order ribs?

By: shane

shane — Thu, 22 May 2008 01:03:12 +0000

If you want bones check out the catacombs in Paris. The remains of 6 million people down there. Piles of femurs and skulls and you you name the bone. Kilometres of tunnels lined with bones. Fascinating. Your bags a searched on the way out – amazing how many people try to souvenir a skull or two.

Cappuchin monastery in Rome has a decent crypt too. The monks have displayed some of the corpses in bizarre still lifes.

One of the best crypt or catacomb experience I had was the Mummies of Ferentillo in Umbria, Italy. Here they have a number of mummified corpses on display including a Napoleonic era soldier, a mother and child and some murdered dude and his murderer.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 22 May 2008 00:01:49 +0000

While not creepy in quite the same way, there is a *church* in a small Czech city called Kutna Hora decorated in huge numbers of bones. My wife and I stumbled on it years ago, on the way to Prague.

It seems the locals closed a graveyard and had to figure out what to do with all the bones….

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:53:48 +0000

I don’t mind the eggs or even the Aliens, Giger himself is more scary than either.
I got a couple of poster books with his art, it’s strangely fascinating.

By: Darth Robo

Darth Robo — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:40:38 +0000

I remember my bro had the ‘Book of Alien’ when I was a kid. Giger’s art in it gave me nightmares.

Freaky guy. Good artist, but freaky. The bar’s pretty cool, but I’m not a fan of the faces on the wall. Guess I knew there’d be something that would put me off.

By: overstroming

overstroming — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:31:43 +0000

HR Giger was Swiss and there is a Giger bar in Gruyeres, as Cameron Peters mentioned above, (In Château St. Germain I think, although there could be more than one). It looks amazing, and BA wasn’t too far from it when at CERN.

Gruyere cheese Mmmmm!