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Alien Case Mod
apatheticloser writes "The Ultimate Computer Case Mod Website has a casemod inspired by the movie Alien. The website gives specifics about the computer but doesn't give instructions on how to build it. I think its a great way to show appreciation for a classic film."
I do not see green slime oozing out of the drive bay...
You will probably be modded offtopic, but PS2 Linux is legal and supported by Sony.
Vacancy for signature. Apply within.
The hard-disk rip out of the case? :)
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he didnt mention that alot of that is in Gigers Alien a artbook by the artist that desgined the Alien. That Case looks awsome.
you know, unlike a lot of other people on slashdot i don't usually mind flash, but when it's used just to display a bunch of images and they use lame sound effects with no option to turn them off it just pisses me off.
:-/
Sucks when you've got music coming from your computer in a room full of people
anyone else think casemods are just a bit lame or am I just feeling particularly negative today?
But I guess some people like it that way, fine.
But that website is positively hideous.
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Friends don't let friends enable ecmascript.
One word...
"Silly"
Skull
Window side
Egg closeup
Alien side
Runner
Runner closeup
Egg detail
Insect closeup
Maybe we need casemods.slashdot.org ...
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
Nobody cares. Casemodding is a fine example of uptardation.
Why would I want a riceburner for a computer, and why would I care if others do?
Geez dude, it's one thing for /. to link to the site, but to go out and pull a bandwidth gatling gun? That poor guy's bill.. *sniff*
Obviously, you build it by leaning over the Egg side. Then, for a while, you'll start building it.
If you use GKrellM (MacOS X, Linux, and Windows) and love Alien movies, then check out this skin/theme.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Well the shockwave viewer was really subpar.
Magic
No karma whoring this time
...but not the admin for that poor site, I can just see the majority of slashdot going "wtf, flash, fck that shit! I'll just read the comments...whoa direct links!" :)
Honestly I'm not sure what to say about the whold case modding scene. I can understand a couple lights on the front of the case, maybe a LCD panel. But things like this make me wonder about the people who do these 'extreme' mods to their cases. I personally see (I've got my flame retardant undies on) that this is getting to be a waste of time, the whole modding scene that is. Honestly, my computer and the computers of nearly *all* of my friends never see the light of day outside their desks except for hardware upgrades. And then, it's for a very short timespan. I'm sorry, I just have to say *uuugh*.
As I walk through the valley of death I fear no one, for I am the meanest sonova bitch in the valley!
I don't think Fox will like this. I smell a cease and desist soon. :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Ok, I have to admit, that case looks kinda cool, but is something i'd expect a 14 year old kid to own.
I have NOT done much in the way of aesthetical modifications with the exceptions of spraypaint, but I have done much in the way of internal case modifiction. I'm really no stranger to the hacksaw, hammer, and blowtorch upgrade.
Part of my belief is that a computer case is much like a piece of furnature. It is what you see after all. And in many cases i'm willing to put in a little elbow greese in order to achive a pleasing mellow effect. While I would give this alien case some serious points, it would be the first thing i'd toss out in case I saw it.
One of the things I'd enjoy seeing in the computer case world is the old black and silver look. It was a style that was most popular pre 1982 before we switched to that awful fleshtone. There was a time when the high tech look was brushed metal face, accented with black plastic.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
There's no question that that took a LOT of time, and that it achieved the effect that he was going for. But aren't case mods supposed to make the case look... better?
paint case black with gray spots, buy alien "action" figures glue figures to case. cut holes in case in a strange alien look, cover with green plexiglass and thats about it realy, its not much of a case mod just typical paint and glue things to the case, the only real modding Is ware they cut a hole in the top of the case and installed a fan under some decorations
Dallas: Something has attached itself to him. We have to get him to the infirmary right away.
Ripley: What kind of thing? I need a clear definition.
Dallas: An attachment. Open the email!
Ripley: Wait a minute. If we let it in, the computer could be infected. You know the quarantine procedure. Twenty-four hours for decontamination.
Dallas: He could die in twenty-four hours. Open the email!
Ripley: Listen to me, if we break quarantine, we could all die.
Lambert: Could you open the damned email? We have to get him inside.
Ripley: No! I can't do that and if you were in my position, you'd do the same.
Dallas: Ripley, this is an order. Open that email right now, do you hear me?
Ripley: Yes.
Dallas: Ripley! This is an order! Do you hear me?
Ripley: Yes. I read you. The answer is negative.
But I blew it out the Goddamn airlock.
This is the single most inspired and creative case mod I have ever seen. I see some posts from people scorning it. Maybe you would not want to own one, but that's only because it would be better off in a museum or something.
bother with a mod. Just pop over to planet LV-426 and get the real aliens to do it for you.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Bleh, I'd still take the coffee maker mod over this anyday.
...I'll go for the real thing and show my appreciation by ripping the heart out of this geeks chest when i met him.
"You wasted your life anyways! Now die and give birth to my children, asshole!"
Huh, I didn't know who she was, and I looked her up on google. Quite a lovely young lady if I do say so myself. But more interesting is the first link in the search results. Check it out here. Somebody has figured out how to get fake search results as the very first result on google! I ran into it sometime in the past couple of days, but seeing it again prompted me to take greater notice. Amazing! I wonder how long it will take google to figure this scam out...
Is this the proove that PC cases ARE too big? Why do people try to "camouflage" hugh PC cases by wrapping them in "stuff" or "things"? Why does nobody do this with Notebooks? Is this the desperate try of our society to make hugh PC cases disappear? Will we favour case-mods over "compact" PC's? Will modded cases contain 90% air in the future?
This is certainly one of the best mods I've seen. Awesome detail. I have to wonder though, what is the point of putting in so much work to something that very few people besides the owner will see. The whole purpose of case mods is to show them off, innit? This sort of stuff would be so much cooler on laptops. However I haven't seen any of those. A quick search on google didn't yield much either. Does anyone know of a site that showcases laptop case mods?
Pfft. I can make one of those in a few seconds! ** dips case in toxic waste infested river **
If you like the case, you should try the fish!
Remember, whenver your power up this system to keep your mouth closed.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
This particular page would have worked fine with just HTML, no flash. There is nothing that Flash add to the display of the mod case shots, and there are ways that Flash makes the page worse (noises that get around the noises-off setting on the browser, and those annoying upgrade Flash popups).
This page is an excellent illustration of a page that does not need Flash and is made worse by it.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
This HTML version is a lot better. In the time it took to get rid of the Flash popup window and kill the volume on the Flash screen, I'd already viewed a few of the images of the case on the HTML version.
Call Flashbusters!
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
I remember seeing one that looked better...
Go here (http://www.lanlab.co.uk/frms/frmsmain.asp) and then click on Articles / Alien Case Mod... (dumb site won't let me link directly.
This girls' (yes, it was confirmed on a UK forum that the modder was female) case shows much more talent (and restraint) I think...
"Is this the proove that PC cases ARE too big?"
Sure, you might think it is too big, but if you ever have had to open one up and change memory SIMMS/DIMMS etc, hard disks, or sometimes even a modem card, you will be thankful you have a roomy case that you can move around inside and all regrets go away.
I once had a "compact" Puckered-Smell tower, and you had to disassemble a lot of innards to access just about everything inside it.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Who needs a laptop mod when the original Toilet Seat Powerbook from Apple is available?
Isn't this what everyone wanted: a bright-green toilet seat? A pity Apple never went forward with the idea of a G4 Cube shaped like a chamber pot.
I word of advice: never leave a toilet-seat powerbook sitting out in a public lavatory.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
We should nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
In the 70's and 80's my uncles modded their cars to cruise down the streets and pick up "chicks and sheilas"
I guess this is to entice the girls once in your room ?? Nahh you need to get them there first !!
Your'e all thinking it, I just said it for you
10. "The Matrix". Get an old Toshiba Infinia ("Darth Vader's Toilet Tank") black case, cover it with grease, place green magnetic letters on the sides, and sit back and watch them ooze down the black background
9. "Attack of the Clones". All you need is a lot of PC clone boxes (Columbia, Gateway, Leading Edge, Zenith, Dell, etc. Put stormtrooper helmets on top of them.
8. "Lord of the Rings". This one's pretty easy. Just clear out a space on the desk and tell people there is an invisible computer there wearing the One Ring.
7. "The Hulk". 89 cent green spraypaint case at Wal*Mart, that's it.
6. "Indiana Jones". Everything must be wireless, no cables. Indy hates snakes.
5. "The Empire Strikes Back". Just slap the IBM logo on your box.
4. "The Fully Monty". Just remove the case shell.
3. "Christine". To honor the final scene of this fine Stephen King movie, you need to take it down to the local junkyard and ask to use the crusher.
2. "Battlefield Earth". Just make it ugly. Real ugly, so bad no one will want to see it.
1. "Firestarter". Another Stephen King inspired mod: a flaming PC! Please visit to find out how to cause your PC to burst into flame.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
You guys should advertise some decent products instead of going through all this trouble to link the TWO slashdotters out of hundreds of thousands who will now purchase his case, and no doubt feed him for a year.
I think this is pretty ridiculous, he just glued stuff to his case and dry brushed it. There are people out there that make case art that transforms the CASE into sculpture; doesn't just use it as a medium to glue shit onto and stand action figures on. If he had embedded the computer into an Alien sculpture, or egg, I wouldn't have minded seeing it here.
This isn't an Aliens theme so much as it's an H.R. Giger tribute. The alien theme was only one of his works...
.f00Dave
OK, after reading all the comments and seeing the case for myself I've got to say that the commercials on TV about kids not getting enough art are true.
/. crowd just didn't get this one. On one hand we have very creative & clever IT people. On the other, they can't see the beauty in something that doesn't have two black webbed feet dressed in a tuxedo that doesn't compile the lastest kernel.
You know, the one where the little girl wants her father to read to her a history lesson, one where a girl reads CS books to relax and the one where the boy tells the acordian player to 'get a job.'
So this guys case mod can't be made by most of the slashdot crowd even if they did have the knowledge of how use the tools to create it. It's the creative ability of the artist that makes a medium art.
I'm not surprised, though, that the
Shesh! To quote 'The Matrix': "Free your mind."
mod away!
"they can't see the beauty in something that doesn't have two black webbed feet dressed in a tuxedo that doesn't compile the lastest kernel."
Last time I saw, the little fellow had yellow feet.
Maybe this is a new Blackfoot distro I've not heard of before.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
like the kind used for movie special effects... i doubt it is injection-molded plastic. As an artist, I've seen stuff like that before, but never on a computer. If you want to make one, look at this suppler for more info.
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So what if it's not "functional" or seems "pointless." So what if it "goes over the top" for case modding. It's supposed to be art, which is the point of most case modding. If case modding was meant to be functional, the most we would ever do is add a few fans to our cases or some other such piece of hardware. The bland tan colored boxes wouldn't bother us.
Judge it for its aesthetic appeal, not for its functionalness or whether or not you would want to buy it (even if you did want to, I would doubt you would be able to.) Judging it by any other context is off topic.
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#include "frickin_lasers.h"
You can't steal IP. You might be able to steal the medium it is recorded or imprinted on it, but you can't steal the IP itself.
Duplication is not theft.
No problem. Although, considering the requirements of traditional formalwear, it would appear that as is, Tux would not be allowed into a formal event. Black shoes are after all required, not yellow.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
OK, after reading all the comments and seeing the case for myself I've got to say that the commercials on TV about kids not getting enough art are true.
And nowhere in this whole thread is that tendency more evident than in this post.
It's the creative ability of the artist that makes a medium art.
In your high school art class, perhaps. That's about the only level at which such a thing could even remotely be considered as 'art'.
Yes, there's a certain degree of craft facility involved, and the creator has some design skills -- even though they could hardly be regarded as innovative or even aesthetically pleasing by anyone who was more visually literate than a 14 year old boy.
But that still doesn't make it art. Art is something that changes the way that we see the world, casts new light on the human condition or expands our visual or conceptual vocabularies.
This is just a computer case with a few of those Aurora model kits glued on.
Not art at all.
Why stop with the case?
SOme dim lights in the room, flickering fluorescent light would be good. Strobe but could risk headache/seizure, YMMV.
A dark or black motorcycle helmet resting on the chair to reflect the (ulp!) 80x25 console
SOme of that black ribbed piping to cover networking cables
Huge heavy chains hanging from the ceiling. DOn't forget the sprinkler overhead busted up a bit to leak continously
Lifesize alien available from Sharper Image, lying asleep in the half open closet
Army surplus store could be carrying spare coveralls. To hang in the same closet. With some Chuck Taylor Converse hi-tops or wrestlemania shoes
Fog machine (ThinkGeek?). Better, fog machine AND a blue laser light/laser pointer.
White bra and panties. But that's just me.
Incidentally, anybody got the keyboard sound to go with the letters appearing on the screen?
This case mod and the action figure rock. If *YOU* don't get it, move on, he ain't selling it. He can show them off at LAN parties. Oh, you don't know what those are, after all.
Could people start spending more time doing something interesting with their computers than simply decorating them?
"Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
Yes I must agree, smoke that fool!
"...in agreemeNT ...punishmeNT..."
Does this flamebait really contain a hidden message about Windows NT?
we tell each other everything.
as for the Godless corepirate nazi georgewellian SpyWare(tm) payper liesense hostage ransom stock markup fraud billyboxes, yikes, i mean yuk.
there's no 'hiding' this type of evile execrable, it MUST be eXPosed. for further details/messages (& there are LOTs of them) ask yOUR creator, &/or visit trustworthycomputing.com(missarIE).
phlame on. complain to va lairIE/robbIE et ALe, if you're NoT satisfIEd with you search/results.
It's the same model as I have hanging from my ceiling.
So obviously he's either consolidating a number of his hobbies, or he's supposed to be cleaning out his garage. :-)
There are 10 kinds of people; those who know ternary, those who don't, and those now hunting for a dictionary.
from the corporate OFFICEs we eXPect georwellian communiazi HAILSTORM of lies.NETher utterances from the evil yuk, a FRAMEWORK of bad billy.
it is a like a vietnaM SNowstorm of lies and FUD.
foodam! by the time you do all that you gots to upgrade yo system.
What in the name of hell is this alien doing?...
I know that casemods are a geeky and all but they dont need to be mixed up with the other things geeks do.
I expected to see the alien hatchling erupting out of the CPU.
there are rumours that you will have to buy into the hole Godless stinking payper liesense hostage ransom stock markup fraud BugWear(tm) cesspool, if you waNT to have a babIE/browser.
that MUST be what we want, as we are the 'customers' of the frauduleNT kingdumb of debt?
LIEk a kernel of corn passes through a byrd's butt.
That's why they don't have any eyes!
In vino vici
Come on, a post about a case mod? Get real.
I say I ain't giving you no tree fiddy you goddamned Loch Ness monster, get yo own goddamned money!
This isn't an Aliens theme so much as it's an H.R. Giger tribute. The alien theme was only one of his works...
Exactly what I was thinking, but this guy manages to mention Giger only once... You have to click on "Front/Door Closed" to see it. He says "the blend of mechanical and organic is reminiscent of Giger's early paintings."
The whole thing is Giger.
On the main page he says "...I decided to blend a bit of James Cameron's futuristic military look-and-feel into the piece. Worn steel, subtle detail and well-used armor all played a part in my inspiration."
So the guy who directed Titanic gets a front page nod as an influence while Giger is relegated to a secondary link, where we learn his "early paintings" had an influence on the front. I don't even see any Terminator in it. Where the hell does Cameran come in? Is he planning to put a steam-outlined handprint on the case window or something?
Maybe he thinks Cameran directed Alien? But that was Ridley Scott, and even crediting with inventing the Alien look would be, well, wrong anyway. I don't get it.
"So the guy who directed Titanic gets a front page nod as an influence while Giger is relegated to a secondary link...
Maybe he thinks Cameran directed Alien? But that was Ridley Scott"
I can see the reason for his confusion. Ridley Scott did "Alien", but Cameron directed the sequel "Aliens". This second film recycled some of Giger's work from the first film. Most people I talk to think "Aliens" (the sequel) is the far better film, which is something I do not agree with.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
"The reason why many people choose to use Flash to display pictures is that it is harder for someone to steal it and put it on their website."
Does theft of pictures take place, where someone can easily remove pictures from someone's web site so they aren't there anymore????? I rather doubt it.
No, you can't steal with HTML. You can copy. However, you can copy with Flash as well, with a screen-capture.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Bingo. I'd mod you up if I could, but guess what? I already posted. Silly moderation rules. =)
.f00Dave
If it included the stupid cat...or Sigourney Weaver in her underwear......
Look at the Alien Side Panel. Is it me or does it look like somebody else is doing something "creative" with their hands?
Is this how the alien became blind?
Ironic, if the box is being used to download pr0n, yes?
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
All attention given to the case, none given to the thought of a decent web page.
How do you turn off the sound in shockwave? I'd like to take a look at this while listening to a CD. Please tell me Macromedia isn't so retarded that they don't have a way to disable audio...
Interesting that among all of the film and or TV series with a really devoted following - (The Matrix, Star Wars, Star Trek, LOTR to name a few) the Alien films have slipped under the radar for media attention. You just never hear or see anything in the mainstream media about Alien film fans, but there they are, writing fan fiction, constructing webrings, and undertaking interesting projects like this case mod. The attention to detail given by fans often outstrips that by show creators and filmmakers, but I'd argue that the Alien series is an exception.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
I've seen the movie a few times, and I always thought that line was, "...nuke the site for morbid."
I case modded my notebook, a small switch and some leds pointed at the keyboard, they work pretty well, this was more funtional than anything else. Also a coat of metalic paint followed by a coat of clear uv reactive paint. It looks pretty sweet, and its unique as hell, i've googled around and havn't been able to find any laptop mods.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Instead of just stealthing the drive bays he should have moved the optical drives back in the case, mounted alien head on them and had flip down drive bay covers. Press eject and i think you get the picture.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Thanks to all for taking the time out to discuss my Alien Case Mod. I'm enjoying both the criticism and the praise. IMHO you can't take art too seriously. Some may argue whether this case even falls under the category of "art" or just someone kitbashing a few model pieces onto a pc case. The case for me was a spiritual cleansing, a way to keep my mind and my hands busy doing something I love (model building/computer building) in the days following September 11. After I cleansed my Brooklyn apartment of WTC dust and debris, I found out I would have no telephone or DSL service for several weeks. To keep busy I casted, carved and painted this case. I made this case mod for myself, and no one else, as all artists should. As I was building, my mind was free to wander and think of my childhood, and the good memories of magic and movies, imagination and inspiration. The model store I bought the parts from on Mott Street in Chinatown was hard-hit physically and economicaly by the devastation at the WTC. I had been going to that store for 15 years, just a hole in the wall place with a friendly owner and rare model kits. He has closed his store after 25 years, unable to recover. Take from this what you will, If you want to search for meaning in true art, you must to look inside the heart and from the eyes of the artist. My art will not change the world, but it will change the way I see my world. Peace Out.
The problem with something that changes the way we see the world, casts new light on the human condition, or expands our visual or conceptual vocabularies (art or otherwise) is that it is *subjective* and open to interpretation.
A man impaled on a cross with his bowels on display certainly qualifies for all of the above, but for some it is not art, it is disgusting.
A flower in a certain light at a certain time of day also qualifies for some people, but not for others.
I'm arrogant enough to believe that I have a better definition of art without invoking elitism or subjective valuation...
Art is the expression of an individual's perception, vision made reality. For people who agree with the vision, or people who choose to interpret/reinterpret the vision, it is art. For people who disagree with the vision, then it isn't art, it is something else... but it is still an outlet of construction, creativity, and expression.
GPL Deconstructed
Why do some websites insist on serving static images as plugins? This is idiotic, how can all browsers be expected to render this properly? If its a JPG or PNG file on the other hand, everyone can see it. Ugh, the death of the Web.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
This is a great mod, but it belongs to a group of cases that have been floating around for a very long time. I'm not exactly sure when I first saw this case but it may have been in a PCGamer issue that featured a case mod contest many months ago. I wonder what the lag in case mod popularity is
piece of shit.
Learn to tell them apart.
I'm no expert, but I don't think this is Art, its his brother.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I vaguely recall seeing an Alien casemod some 2 years ago... I know slashdot like old news, but this is a bit extreme...
Mod that "informative"!
Now, is there a way to to set up apache to prevent your site being "slashdotted" ?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Hmmm I wounder what kind of design you would use for a porn server ? Tom
Mix 2 parts Alien, 3 parts Quake III, and 1 part Deep Space Nine (the top fan exhaust port).
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