- Chicago is the home of the blues and the truth of jazz, the heart of comedy and the idea of the skyscraper. Here, the age of railroads found its center, and airplanes followed suit. “Stormy, Husky, Brawling / City of Big Shoulders,” Chicago is a Heartland boomtown, its ethos defined by urban planner Daniel Burnham’s immortal vision: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” It is one of the world’s great cities.
- Alien (1979) - Art of the Title (artofthetitle.com)
We float over a planet as white forms appear, dismembered. They work their way from the outside in, everything pointing to the centre. That is where they come from – the middle of you. As the pieces come together, forming a word denoting, in the most basic of terms, The Other, we are enveloped in a steady and dark tension.