![]() More political backlash after Nordstrom leaves San Francisco.There's a mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge.Coachella files cease-and-desist to hide Frank Ocean footage.Images of Malvina are everywhere in the somewhat otherworldly Airtight Garage at Metreon, where Giraud also contributed several visionary wall murals depicting outlandish places.īasically a moody, atmospheric game arcade, Airtight Garage features a new and somewhat haunting generation of sci-fi computer games developed by Sony - all set up in a space called Quaternia - along with the HyperBowl attraction and a Bad lands pod arena that is a virtual demolition derby in a space that looks like the forbidding terrain of an asteroid. ![]() "For the Metreon project I used one thematic character named Malvina because she is so intriguing, a woman of the future, one who's beautiful and very feminine, but she is also an explorer and scientist," he said. "The story had this sense of a strange land of expanding space with machines, and there is a utopia at some level. " 'Airtight Garage' was something completely crazy," Giraud said on a recent visit from Paris to check out construction progress at Metreon. The original "Airtight Garage" was a graphic sci-fi novel, published in serial form in the mid-1970s under the French title "Metal Hurlant" (forerunner to the American magazine "Heavy Metal," published by National Lampoon and later made into an animated movie). Giraud, 60, is best known in the United States for his adult comic- book creation Lieutenant Blueberry and for his production designs for films such as "Alien," "Tron," "Willow," "The Abyss" and "The Fifth Element." Marvel Comics and Dark Horse Comics have published his extensive work.
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