Storm Thorgerson art

Here's some art by Storm Thorgerson, a British graphic designer and probably a lot of other stuff but I managed to rape my sleeping rhythm good enough this weekend to be unable to go deeper into it. If you like his stuff, I personally think he's really worth checking out because of his artwork for bands like Alan Parsons Project, Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd!!!!)... I guess my dad was a big fan of his work since today I found out I inherited about 40 vinyl records with his artwork on the sleeve and they all look amazing. While browsing through and drooling on them I noticed his name returned a couple of times so I googled the guy and liked what I saw.

I like vinyl a lot. I can't really put my finger on why, I'd like to be able to say I started my collection before it became popular again but that sounds hipster-ish and I don't want to be a fucking hipster. To be perfectly honest I found my dad's old vinyl collection a couple of years ago and that was both the day I decided that my dad actually was a pretty cool guy at some point. Somewhere in the 70's but still.
There's also this great discussion about 'the sound of vinyl' that I don't really feel like going into today (let's blame my laziness on a mix of tiredness and cheap whiskey with the amazing name 'Old Smuggler' - came with a free whiskey glass - the combination makes sound a bit arrogant while the only thing it actually does is making me not care that mu

Blah, I'm not making sense. Let me just close the parentheses because I seem to have a slight OCD with opening/closing those fuckers:
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And show you the artwork before I forget. Damn I fail at blogging properly.

K

And one of my all time favorite album covers:

(Pink Floyd - The Delicate Sound of Thunder)

Alex Grey

Been spending my time watching Alex Grey artwork. He's an American artist who makes somewhat scary yet beautiful paintings and drawings, you might know him for the famous drawings he did for the albums of the band Tool, influenced by his studies in Anatomy and, as I kind of expected, recreational use of LSD. I could give more information but I can also stop pretending I know that much about him you couldn't find out via wikipedia and his own official website. I just like his work a lot, think it's beautiful in a way I can't really put my finger on. You can find out a lot about him and what he's doing on his official site: www.alexgrey.com

K