I dont really do the music thing these days, bands cds, following whats going on etc. I just turn on wnamp and listen to stations mostly
are album covers crap now??
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Sid what the FUCK are you doing ressurecting my threads?? i could have answered a year old post by mistake ffs! oh the potential shame of it!!
siderea
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zupi_clone
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siderea said:
i have this on vinyl, come to think of it, i took it out & looked at those leaves when doing nick drake. i met her in town last year, fine woman for her age i tell ya
siderea
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hows the nick drake looking then? it will take a while before i buy it.
ah it's a promo i have here, it must look nice in big. things just look nicer on cardboard.
ah it's a promo i have here, it must look nice in big. things just look nicer on cardboard.
zupi_clone
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siderea said:
printers fucked it up on us a bit, its ok though, nothing great tbh, it could of been re-pressed, but time wasnt to be
inspiration courtesy of ellen allien & hand rolling tobacco products.
siderea
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i dunno my post doesnt seem to work on the now playing thread, it's probably cursed
err
so
sad sad planet.
anything not antimatter/anathema related is interesting too tough.
i tried to check that link you have in your signature, the sounds are addictive but i wouldn't know what you've done on that site
and the nick drake looks simple thus nice... you took it from a picture that drawing?
zupi_clone
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siderea said:i dunno my post doesnt seem to work on the now playing thread, it's probably cursed
err
so
sad sad planet.
anything not antimatter/anathema related is interesting too tough.
i tried to check that link you have in your signature, the sounds are addictive but i wouldn't know what you've done on that site
and the nick drake looks simple thus nice... you took it from a picture that drawing?
i never dress things up for style/impact sake or to make something look 'cool' an image means fuck all to me if theres no concept and function, by concept i dont mean 'idea'. no, its my own illustration, and imagery. i never steal or use clip art, thats only for chancers
siderea
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sound.zupi_clone said:i never dress things up for style/impact sake or to make something look 'cool' an image means fuck all to me if theres no concept and function, by concept i dont mean 'idea'. no, its my own illustration, and imagery. i never steal or use clip art, thats only for chancers
i dont mind the stealing if they make it into this funny thing (like this jeroom guy does in belgium, i'll look for some things he done later), but some friends of mine do graphical studies and it's like they don't learn anything bout copywrite, they just take anything of the web or old book or whatever and... ehm yeah. i get your point.
the drawing fits nice yes. well i havent heard the cd but i've a clue.
siderea
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siderea said:
ah yea, a mate of mine was always at that in college, just for fun though, i used to but not for actual work then or now evenhmm yea thats strange they dont learn that cos it was bet into me, it just doesnt appeal to me on a sort of sound ethical level. what goes around comes around, tis a small world and nothing goes unnoticed
i designed a label for dog food once, and that was a hard thing to do, cos if you look around on the shelves, they all look the same and arent designed, just mass produced dtp work. what i did do though was try to make it funny, and also used a name associated with english surnamed food brands in a tin, such as Campbells soup, Bakers etc, so i called it 'Barkers', which is also an english surname and its what a dog does haha
it would of been too easy to have used a simple black n white photo like on nick drakes albums, and i doubt very much danny wanted to do a blatant copy of the songs so i felt, why should the artwork be
theres 5 leaves there but the formation is clued to tobacco artwork, and a piece of paper found on cigarette paper packets used for hand rolling tobacco, which also reads 'five leaves left'
thats just the cover, the inner is just an illustration of the album title 'a place to be'. oddly enough, that leaf formation is similar to that used by the British Tobacco Company as their device/logo, except theres just 3 leaves, and that was just purely coincidentali dont usually say this, in fact, i actually hate having to explain things, cos i know myself what ive done, and would rather let the clues remain for others
but fuck it, im a kunt haha
snow2fall
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zupi_clone
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snow2fall said:
I sort of like this one. Don't know why.
that symbol is very very like Einstürzende Neubaten's logo, im sure they didnt mean it
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Hehe, I prefer the Vitriol cover though.zupi_clone said:
Were EN the first who used that figure?
siderea
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i suppose some cavemen weresnow2fall said:Hehe, I prefer the Vitriol cover though.
taken from some forum
Be11n Fitzhugh (djentropy@hotmail.com) Jan 15 2005, 20:42 It is a Toltec symbol, it is a man with the face of the sun. It is one of the few symbols we have from the tribe. Toltec's were a tribe of artists, musicians, mystics, etc.
siderea
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heh you should tell that on the EN forum thenBambi said:henry rollins was the first to use it,and hes ancient. toltec rip off bastids
they interpret this picture
as that rollins is a big EN fan
(http://www.neubauten.org/forum20/view_topic.php?topic_id=2573&forum_id=3&page_start=0)
zupi_clone
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snow2fall said:Hehe, I prefer the Vitriol cover though.
i'm afraid i dont, i prefer EN, and yes they were the first group to use it long ago, on most of their albums, even henry rollins is a fan. in fact, one of their albums, Silence is Sexy ( i love that word sexy dont you? *coughs*) is noted as one of the best album artworks from the last decade, look at the books
besides, vitriol is relatively new in my book, to be found on the not so diverse but obscure neurot recordings
here zupi the inner sleeve on that drake is reminding me of some school book i had. " a treasury of english" or something, weird
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