We even met up again with Dick Warlock,
stuntman for many Carpenter films. He remembered Bruce and I from HORRORHOUND
WEEKEND from March of last year. He remembered Bruce by name. He and his
absolutely lovely wife, Kat, were very gracious and treated Bruce and I like
family, not just people he met over a year ago."
Cyril Roquelaine, a
French sculptor, sent us these fantastic photos of a Norris-Thing he is working
on. He tells us:
"I'm working on a figure from the thing design for some collector
people, and I would like just to tell you about this project, may be you're
interested to follow it, it will be at 1/2 scale, a big statue, full painted at
the end."
Woodman sent us these pics of his fantastic MacReady costume.
See here
for a discussion of it.
Steven Resendez sent is these cool Southpark-style renderings of
The Thing cast.
Three stages of the creation of Ross Grant's wonderful Dog Thing.
Joey Vegas has sent us this sharp and stylish digitally inked
drawing of Kate.
Jacob has created these Lego versions of MacReady and the Norris
transformation scene. Note the armless Dr. Copper on the floor.
Tobie Hill has produced this rendering of the spaceship discovery
scene in Carpenter's movie.
MonsterThing has finally completed this stunning poster, whose
development we have been eagerly following on the discussion forums. It is
to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carpenter's movie. He has this
special message for us:
"Hello Thing fans, first of all I'd like to
thank whole Outpost #31 community for support. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as
I did when I was creating it. I'm huge fan of the original classic and based on
what I saw on the internet The Thing fan base is very creative. So once again
thank you and watch that poster because it can and it will take you over."
Karl Jones has sent us some more artwork inspired by The
Thing and other things.
Cat has sent us a Lego version of the 'Lightface-Thing' . I'm
sure you'll be able to think of captions involving ice blocks!
Joey Vegas has sent us two Thing-inspired illustrations that he
has recently put up on his
DeviantART
page. They are both pencil drawings, with the first being colored and inked
in Photoshop. The second is still a work in progress and we hope to see the
finished article when it's done.
Finn Pette has sent us these photos of his MacReady sculpture in
construction and the finished, painted result. It took him 8 hours to create
this using Fimo.
Take one walnut tree, one chainsaw and voilà: the Blair-Monster!
Thanks to Jason Gamble for sending us these pictures of his novel sculpture.
Douglas Murphy has made these atmospheric, prequel-themed
wallpapers.
Gregory Slevin has produced this stunningly-detailed pencil-drawn
Norris-Thing, and also produced a colour version with Photoshop.
Jesse Ohrn has sent us a very nice black and white Split-Face.
Tim Utton has sent us photos of this highly-accurate Split-Face
pumpkin carving.
We're very happy to see Adam Stephenson's Blair-Monster Halloween
costume in its complete form. Great job, Adam!
Chris Wall has sent us these photos of his great R. J. MacReady
Halloween costume. There is a flamethower there - the perfect trick for
householders insufficiently stocked up on Mac's favourite treat: J&B.
Brian McEnroe has sent us these photos of his sculpture of the
Dog-Thing undergoing the beginnings of its transformation.
Jon Kroll created these two Thing-inspired Google Chrome themes,
one for each movie.
Tobie Hill has produced these 3D models of The Thing's spaceship
and trailers for both
The Thing (1982)
and
The Thing (2011)
.
Brian McEnroe has sent us photos of his Thing diorama -
very nicely done. He tells us that he will be making more Things over the
next few months, which we're very much looking forward to seeing.
Adam Stephenson from Niagara Falls is making a Thing-inspired
Halloween costume. He is actually making a time-lapsed video of its
progress and we hope to see this and photos of the finished article. Can
you tell what it is yet?
Holger Heissig sends us pictures of his impressive Thing
collection.
Tobias Kessler sends us this scan of a French review of The Thing
(2011). Seulement deux étoiles!
Steven Lennon Resendez sends us these brooding Thing pencil
drawings touched up with a little Photoshop: further proof that practical and
computer-generated effects can work very well together.
Mark Maddox has sent us a scan of the cover he recently produced
for issue #31(!) of
Horrorhound magazine. He explains:
"Like you guys, I left the theatre in the
Summer of '82 dazed, realizing I had seen one of the best movies ever made. I
went back and saw it several more times before it was gone. I was ecstatic when
Nathan Hanneman exclaimed he wanted me to do a Thing cover for his magazine. It
was like a dream come true."
Mark's website is
Maddox Planet and he informs us that he does commissions. So, if
anyone wants a personal Thing piece, he is available.
Karl Jones from Hereford, UK, sent us scans of some beautiful
Thing and Predator inspired oil paintings and a sketch of MacReady he has done.
Dave Lewis produced this wonderful, highly-detailed sculpture of
the Palmer-Thing. This sculpture, which measures about seven inches high,
was created in Super Sculpey Firm. Dental tools were used to create the
fine details.
Holger Heissig sends a revised, six-legged version of his pet.
Tobias Kessler has sent us these scans of German newspaper
advertisements for The Thing.
Adam Pantofel has sent us photos of a custom ice-cube casing for
his VHS copy of The Thing.
GhodiGirl has sent us another glorious monster: Agony.
Fausto Ferrante has sent us photos from the First Italian THING
Fan Fest, which he intends to make an annual event. This first one
comprised a group of friends but he hopes to see this event grow over the coming
years. The Italian THING Fan Fest has this Facebook page.
Jean-François Berreville has sent us
this complete storyboarding of The Thing.
GhodiGirl has produced this beautiful, hand-drawn Ghodi Thing: a
horse-Thing in mid-transformation.
Holger Heissig sent us these photographs of a diorama he has
build depicting the pursuit of the Dog-Thing by the Norwegian helicopter.
He also sent us a charming little space oddity depicting, well, see for
yourselves.
Zombie partisan is currently helping a director with his new
short film and was asked to come up with simple designs for fake punk bands.
Going with a Thing-based motif, he produced these striking, stylish patches.
You can see more of his work over at his
blog.
Burt Durand from LaFayette, LA has sent us this cool
hand-sketched and digitally coloured Thing pic. He has produced lots of other
great illustrations which can be found on his
blog.
Brian Ellis has shared with us these pictures of his wonderfully
imaginative 2002 The Thing Halloween costume. He has also sent us the
equally striking cover, inspired by Drew Struzan's classic poster for The Thing,
for a graphic novel that he has co-created. You can check it out
here where the four issue mini-series can be read for free!
Paul Anderson from Toronto got his gear on to become a near
perfect imitation of R.J. MacReady for Halloween 2008!
Crew at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station watching THE THING
before a long winter-over.
Carving by Patrick J. Kennedy
Jack-O-Lanterns!
Outpost #31 license plate!
Outpost #31 Goes To Antarctica!!
Bob Zook, a radio
operator who is going back to McMurdo Station in Antarctica for the summer
rotation is bringing a copy of the DVD, video game poster and patch donated by
Outpost #31 down to "The Ice". Bob is going to get us exclusive photos with
these items in Antarctica. Viewing the film is an annual tradition on the
mid-winter solstice, June 21st.
Bob in Antarctica (copyright Bob Zook.)
The Thing DVD, video game poster (rear), and patch going to
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Byrd Camp, the REAL Outpost #31??
There has been
speculation among peoples who have been stationed in Antarctica that in the most
popular movie on "The Ice", the fictional Outpost #31 is actually
modeled after Byrd Camp, a remote U.S. outpost. Strange and eerie events have
gone on there. The following recounts are by Bob Zook, a radio operator who
works at McMurdo over the summer and has been stationed at Byrd Camp.
News I have heard on The Ice is that
Outpost #31 was contrived from Byrd surface camp located on the West Antarctic
ice sheet at 120E 80S. Back in the 60's they wintered small crews there and they
had many problems. One year in the eternal darkness of mid-winter Carl Dish
wandered into the rec room drunk and called everybody a bunch of unfriendly
assholes. He said you can all fuck yourselves I want to go visit my friends at
the south pole. Carl then wandered away from camp with one of the dogs never to
be seen again. 2 years ago we started a traverse from Byrd camp. We were looking
at the sub-surface layers with radar. We all spent hours looking at the radar
screen hoping to see that blip that was Carl. But no such luck...
Byrd camp has a really bad radio hole. One year we
went two weeks with out any contact. They finally flew a plane over and we
talked on the VHF radios to the plane just so they would know we were ok. They
classified it as a SAR Search and Rescue mission even though they didn't land.
Byrd camp has by far the most strange stories. Later that same year in McMurdo I
stumbled on to an old tape from the TV station recorded in the early 70's. They
were doing a weather forecast with the weather person in front of a map of
Antarctica. Each stations location had a temperature on the map except Byrd camp
it had a question mark. As the weather man worked his way through the camps
talking briefly about the temp and weather at each one when he came to Byrd camp
he simply said well we haven't heard from them in a while so we don't really
know what's going on over there. It's like the place is in a time warp and it
leaves the planet for a week or two every now and then.
It's a strange place. Last year I was on the put-in
team. We were the first deep field camp to go in, it was still real early in the
summer, maybe too early. The temps were about -40 but the C-130 still landed on
the ski-way and as they were still moving when they released our cargo pallets
they simply slid out the back of the plane and plopped into the snow. The plane
stopped, we got out, and as they kept the engines at about 20% power we were
required to set up a tent, start a stove and set up a radio and contact McMurdo.
This took about 15min as we had practiced it. With all that good they just waved
good-bye and and got the hell out of there. We watched them fly over and waggle
their wings then there was nothing...no noise, no sign of the camp, only 2 piles
of gear and 5 people bundled up real well standing in the middle of the polar
plateau
900 miles from the next living person. We had to find the camp and dig out the
buildings. I was scheduled to stay there for 2 weeks but the next plane didn't
come for more than 6 weeks! It is a real pretty place in a Kansas sort of
way, flat and white in every direction. We each lived in normal tents because
the current camp is only big enough for dining and the science equipment. The
old camp itself is completely buried under 30 feet of snow.
Bob Zook
R.J.
MacReady at Halloween F/X Party
MacReady
costume. Thanks to Dan for the pic!!
THE THING Video Game Store Display
EB Games display for the video game in Orange, CA.
Nice work guys!!
Saucer in the ice homage
in ICE AGE
THE THING Vs. E.T.
Playboy's Julia Ann & Inari Vachs autographed pics to Outpost
#31
.
Jessica Rabbit is accosted by the Norris Creature...
Outpost #31 - The THING THONG
THE THING Drinking Game
1. Every time someone says
"MacReady" - Drink 1
2. Every time some one says "Mac" - Drink 2
3. Write your favorite quote down, when it is said - Drink 3
4. When anybody say's "THING"- Drink 1, If you fail
to drink because you weren't paying attention,
taking a leak, etc. - Drink 2
5. Whenever some one dies - Drink 1
6. Whenever some one dies, WHO IS NOT A THING (No debating
FUCHS, he left a human corpse) - Drink 2
7. Whenever PALMER questions WINDOWS humanity - Drink 1
8. Whenever PALMER tokes up - Drink 2
9. Whenever any one THING's out - Drink 1
10. Anytime Mac has a bottle of J&B in his hands - Drink 1
11. Anytime a
character mentions "BLOOD," - Drink 1
12. Anytime a character's
identity is questioned or a fight breaks out...Drink!
