Friday, September 11, 2009

this picture is not actually moving

5 comments:

Erin Bassett said...

wwwhhhhooooooaaaaaa

jdisco said...

Didn't you just post a picture of album art of an album you dont even like?

Lord Sabbat said...

is this someones album art? i got it from an online 'background contest' haha

jdisco said...

Well that makes no sense...someone has stolen something. This is Animal Collective's "Merriweather Post" cover.

matthew said...

album cover was done by a dude named Rob Carmichael.

randomly I found an interview with the dude who made it today on Pitchfork.

excerpt....
Pitchfork: Have you got a lot of response for that Merriweather Post Pavilion cover?

RC: [laughs] Yeah. Yeah, people hate it. A lot of people really hate it. A lot of people really love it. A lot of people thought it was quickly thrown together, which is not the case.

Pitchfork: No, it looks like it would take a lot of work.

RC: Yeah, the gesture itself is very simple, but it's actually based on some pretty academic research by this Japanese optical theorist. We actually ended up having to-- even though it was recreated and redrawn-- we had to license it from him, just because we didn't want him to sue for stealing ideas. But yeah, a lot of people really hate it.