a product of slowly increasing attention from outside die-hard metal circles? dopesmoker version came along at just the right time, coincided w lots of attention directed at both high on fire and om, but seemed intended as a fans-only collector's piece.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 11 March 2012 21:18 (fourteen years ago)
Brand new cover art, again!
http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sn158d-e1333380276402.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2012 16:11 (fourteen years ago)
Ned, Ned, Ned... beat you to it on the metal thread!
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Monday, 2 April 2012 16:11 (fourteen years ago)
Ah well. But now it can celebrated here too. If that's the right word.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 April 2012 16:16 (fourteen years ago)
I like it on this thread too.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 2 April 2012 16:19 (fourteen years ago)
the art is good, but the fonts and font colors are atrocious. the writing was clearly done by a different person than the image. and that person should be fired.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 2 April 2012 16:39 (fourteen years ago)
otm
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, 2 April 2012 16:48 (fourteen years ago)
weedians iirc
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 2 April 2012 16:50 (fourteen years ago)
That shade of lime green makes me want to clean my sink not smoke a bowl.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Monday, 2 April 2012 17:39 (fourteen years ago)
Font aside, best artwork of the three released versions of this imo. Not that I will be buying it a third time...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Monday, 2 April 2012 18:03 (fourteen years ago)
so thats what a procession of weedians looks like
― shur fine (am0n), Monday, 2 April 2012 18:56 (fourteen years ago)
eh, i can hang with the retro space fonts, but this cover ain't a patch on the teepee edition from a few years back
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 19:09 (fourteen years ago)
looks like taller jawas leaving uncle owen's house
― shur fine (am0n), Monday, 2 April 2012 19:10 (fourteen years ago)
eh, i can hang with the retro space fonts
no you can't. the feel of the fonts are completely inconsistent with the image, and not in a way that's clever.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 2 April 2012 19:33 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SleepCover300dpi-RGB-e1333384944852.jpg
this works a lot better imo, from the earsplit pr blog
― diamonddave85, Monday, 2 April 2012 19:58 (fourteen years ago)
this is better, but the green does not work. it should either be shade of green from the robes, or shade of the brown from the sands. and the font does not encapsulate the tone of the band at all.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 2 April 2012 20:02 (fourteen years ago)
the contrast works for me, what can i say? i like a little bit of pop in my graphics.
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:13 (fourteen years ago)
2nd version is much, much better though
i think the font works, its just the color is really wrong
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:37 (fourteen years ago)
you have to imagine it as a foil stamp, knowing southern lord
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:38 (fourteen years ago)
looks like they're already committed to that logo
http://weedian.com/files/products/23054_th_94.png
― shur fine (am0n), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:40 (fourteen years ago)
Actually, that top is amazing.
― Conan The Asshander (Doran), Monday, 2 April 2012 20:53 (fourteen years ago)
See, to me, the font evokes something good-natured, friendly, and somewhat futuristic. But it should evoke something mysterious, elaborate, hallucinogenic, and vaguely threatening. This was better communicated by the font on "Sleep's Holy Mountain," though even that album's art looked somewhat amateur and probably could have been greatly improved.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 2 April 2012 22:13 (fourteen years ago)
it's retro-futuristic, as is the album title. Very 70s, fits the sound of the band just fine.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 2 April 2012 22:18 (fourteen years ago)
album title font, I should say. Smoking dope is timeless.
xp: feh, the holy mountain art is magnificent and requires no mortal "improvement":
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vY8I5HvOvk8/SoR_vu6XCjI/AAAAAAAAIL8/NJ8gdb7STXE/s400/Sleep%2520Holy%2520Mountain.jpg
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 22:29 (fourteen years ago)
^ for those too stoned to click links
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 22:30 (fourteen years ago)
love how the 'ee' the new logo looks like a pair of lidded eyes glancing thataway
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Monday, 2 April 2012 22:32 (fourteen years ago)
half want to read it as "bloop" though
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 2 April 2012 22:46 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah I like it a lot.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 2 April 2012 22:52 (fourteen years ago)
T-shirt also awesome.
philistines.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:05 (fourteen years ago)
http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SleepCoverSpreadArt-e1333384672854.jpg
i like the foldout even more
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:41 (fourteen years ago)
stonarz on tattoine
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:42 (fourteen years ago)
chewbacca approved
otoh you gotta give these guys credit for finding new reasons to design covers for the same album
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bOj1v_BgW2s/SoMs137RC2I/AAAAAAAAAN0/02l9I4-Rksw/s1600/Sleep+-+Jerusalem.jpghttp://www.remnantsofreason.com/temp/images/reviews/Sleep_Jerusalem_cover.jpghttp://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/sleep/album-dopesmoker.jpg
fwiw, i have no idea where that second one came from, fan made?
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 00:45 (fourteen years ago)
So it turns out it's part of a bigger painting:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/528504_10150799941128689_728803688_11693890_610822546_n.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:24 (fourteen years ago)
lol
― og (admrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:25 (fourteen years ago)
o rly?
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:28 (fourteen years ago)
Weedian on the Edge of Time
― I will transmit this information to (Viceroy), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:28 (fourteen years ago)
Yeah that image badly needed an odd sailboat-shaped spacecraft. I was really worried for a moment there
― og (admrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:31 (fourteen years ago)
the cover is a fractal that can be infinitely zoomed out
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:16 (fourteen years ago)
IIRC the second cover was by arik moonhawk roper
― the late great, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:46 (fourteen years ago)
who is no doubt a fan but i think more to the point kind of a "band bro"
― the late great, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:48 (fourteen years ago)
if roger dean is an honorary member of yes then arik roper is an honorary member of at least half the good stoner metal bands out there
― the late great, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:50 (fourteen years ago)
sadly it looks like he's removed a ton of his illustrations from his website, it's a much fancier website now but has way less of his art and a lot less of his early hand-drawn work which appeals to me more than his new oil painting style
― the late great, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:51 (fourteen years ago)
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lntt4140321qc95xvo1_500.jpg
― the late great, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:53 (fourteen years ago)
i think this new cover must be by roper, too. craggy peaks, loose brush for the lines, basic look of those overgrown jawas and their weird dromedary. couldn't be anyone else.
way less of his art and a lot less of his early hand-drawn work which appeals to me more than his new oil painting style
yeah, feel the same, but he probably gets sick of people saying they liked his early stuff better. my favorite moonhawk:
http://image.musicimport.biz/sdimages/upc07/690989000421.jpg
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2012 19:43 (fourteen years ago)