{"id":5562,"date":"2014-05-13T22:27:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T05:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2014-05-28T22:33:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:33:27","slug":"h-r-giger-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/h-r-giger-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"H.R. Giger Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/sci-fi-artist-h-r-giger-has-died_b85749\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from GALLEYCAT<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Sci-Fi Artist H.R. Giger Has Died<\/h1>\n<p class=\"byline\" style=\"color: #999999;\">By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/author\/diannadilworth\" target=\"_blank\">Dianna Dilworth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-85759\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/files\/2014\/05\/Hans_Rudolf_Giger_Necronomicon_Dali_Edition.jpg\" alt=\"Hans_Rudolf_Giger_Necronomicon_Dali_Edition\" width=\"200\" height=\"284\" \/>Swiss artist\u00a0<strong><a style=\"color: #0088cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/HR-Geiger-profile.html\" target=\"_blank\">H.R. Giger<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has died. According to reports in the Swiss press, Giger died of injuries after he suffered after sustaining a fall. He was 74 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The surrealist artist was known for his work which explored the fusion between man and machine. He was best known for designing the sets of the film\u00a0<em>Alien<\/em>. Giger was both the author and subject of many books. Giger published his first book<em>Necronomicon<\/em>\u00a0in 1977. Taschen published a comprehensive study of the artist\u2019s work in a book in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Giger built his\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0088cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hrgigermuseum.com\/index2.php?option=visit\" target=\"_blank\">own museum<\/a>\u00a0in Gruyere,\u00a0Switzerland which featured many of his sculptures and paintings. Here is more about the site from\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0088cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/morpheusgallery.com\/H.R.%20Giger\/biography.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Morpheus Gallery\u2019s bio page of the artist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/sci-fi-artist-h-r-giger-has-died_b85749\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at MediaBistro.com\/GALLEYCAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from GALLEYCAT Sci-Fi Artist H.R. Giger Has Died By\u00a0Dianna Dilworth Swiss artist\u00a0H.R. Giger\u00a0has died. According to reports in the Swiss press, Giger died of injuries after he suffered after sustaining a fall. He was 74 years old. The surrealist artist was known for his work which explored the fusion between man and machine. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}