Little sculptures made for LP sleeves

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I miss the little sculptures people would build, photograph, and then put on record sleeves (as opposed to a staged photo of the performer or something obviously 'musical'). I'm not sure when this - as well as beautiful calligraphy on LP sleeves - started to die out, probably with the advent of computers in design. These are a couple of my favorites.

Anybody got any others?

― Brakhage (brakhage), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Tool to thread! (kind of)

― 400% Nice (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3819/351/1600/tom-volcanosuns.jpg

― Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

terrible cover, terrible record

http://www.musicmatic.de/I/Incorpo1a.jpg

― Bobby Count (jaxon), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/yaxhaxley/Records/echadbourne.jpg

I think the Army men count as a little sculpture ...

― Brakhage (brakhage), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Not that you can see 'em that small

― Brakhage (brakhage), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rattaymusic.de/uk%20gif

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

(sculpture by Tom Recchion, the inside has more pictures of it from different angles)

― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

These aren't very little:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f647/f64731ko4a3.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc600/c624/c62482a0mt1.jpg

― DJRokyManson (DJRokyManson), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, I love this sort of thing Brakhage. Not so much some of the examples that have been posted so far but the kind of thing that you see a lot on old jazz or classical LPs. Let me go find some.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.parrstreet.co.uk/elbow03.jpg

― dmun drive-in (dmun), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

http://pds.egloos.com/pds/1/200312/09/85/a0006785_193224.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

http://endlessgroove.com/issue1/kub2.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.td-fan.de/tdream/cover/electronic_meditation.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

It's hard to tell but that's a circuit board printed with the album title:

http://www.music.princeton.edu/paul/electronicmusicwinners.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dougpayne.com/jfcf.jpg
http://www.dougpayne.com/6057.jpg
http://www.dougpayne.com/sal703.jpg
ihttp://www.progressiverock-online.com/copertine/BATTIATO-FRANCO(2).jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

The Caribbean's new album, Plastic Explosives.

http://home-tapes.com/images2/ht013b.jpg

― bobby lasers, Wednesday, 5 October 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000AS2T0.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― andrew_g, Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:32 (twenty years ago)

cameron potts of melbourne band ninety nine used to make sculptures which he would photograph for record sleeves. probably the best example of this is kirsty stegwazi's "a good day" ep (probably not terribly clear from the below though)

http://www.amo.org.au/media/release_cover/3047.jpg

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

zoot woman one's awesome. this is a cool picture thread.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jazzguide.de/images/freea07.jpg

― Øystein (Øystein), Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

It's not that little, but it's a sculpture. Maybe more of a statue, but it was made.

http://www.michaeljacksonforsale.com/picture/CD-Album-History.JPG

― Voodoo Child, Thursday, 6 October 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000AANW0K.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025NLT.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 October 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drd600/d618/d61806236f3.jpg

― Jez (Jez), Thursday, 6 October 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

sonambient LPs

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 October 2005 07:51 (twenty years ago)

x-post - wasn't that Jackson statue actually erected in Budapest or some such?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Vaughn Oliver's work for the Pixies to thread.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/covers/B/00/000/2JS/B000002JSJ.l.gif

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 6 October 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006LSTC.03._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 6 October 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/tubesocks/twomonths.jpg & http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/tubesocks/ahundred.jpg

― Gregory T (tubesocks), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

http://images.windowsmedia.com/img/prov_w/300_80/081227873462.jpg

― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 6 October 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

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