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Special Effects Wizard Passes

By Gregon

Special effects wizard Stan Winston passed away yesterday, aged 62. Winston was the creator of some of the modern era’s greatest sci-fi ‘monster’ characters, working on Aliens, Terminator, Predator and Jurassic Park, among many other movies (and winning Oscars for a number of them). Such an amazing body of work, one of science fiction’s greatest in my opinion (those writers always get all the credit, time to change that).

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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including 'Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife'.
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  1. Now he’s the best “special effect”
    Goodbye, Stan, and thanks for all the fun. Now you’ll know exactly how ectoplasm works and looks :-).

    I wonder if all those funky resins, glues, makeup and other stuff contributed to his illness? From a medical website about multiple myeloma:

    “People in agricultural occupations, petroleum workers, workers in leather industries, and cosmetologists all seem to have a higher-than-average chance of developing multiple myeloma. Exposure to herbicides, insecticides, petroleum products, heavy metals, plastics, and various dusts including asbestos also appear to be risk factors for the disease.”

    source: http://www.multiplemyeloma.org/about_myeloma/

    1. Hmmm
      I haven’t thought of that. Like Marie Curie, it would be another great human being that sacrificed his health—and life—in pursuit of his life’s passion.

      When Jurassic Park opened, I was staying at my sister’s in Connecticut, and we went to NY’s museum of Natural History to see the dinosaurs created by Stan for the movie. It was an amazing experience, the creatures were literally imbued with life by their creator.

      Farewell, Mr. Winston, and thank you for all the joy, the thrills an the screams.

      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

  2. A great artist
    In today’s age of CGI, Stan Winston’s art will be greatly missed.

    Every day a dreamer dies,
    To see what’s on the other side     — U2, “In God’s Country”

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