Lacatus Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Stanley Donwood intervistato da NME ci rivela finalmente quante pagine ha il Newspaper Album: 36Stanley Donwood has designed all of Radiohead's artwork. Here he explains the thinking behind the free newspaper, 'The Universal Sigh', copies of which were handed out last weekOn March 28th and 29th 2011, thousands and thousands of copies of a publication entitled The Universal Sigh were handed out in many major cities around the world. Many people might now be wondering why this happened.Well me, I got back from London, from Brick Lane, where I and a fellow-conspirator handed out about three thousand free copies of The Universal Sigh outside a record shop called Rough Trade East.This was the culmination of an idea that had its germination in a seething mass of humanity that I’d been embroiled in at the top of the steps down to Oxford Circus tube station, where amongst the heaving throng of commuters were valiant distributors of London Lite and Metro and the Standard, attempting to hand them out.The newspaper thing began some months previously, in the summer. I’d left a newspaper on a bench in the sun, and when I returned to get it a few hours later it had already begun its inevitable decay; the paper had rippled slightly, the whiteness was yellowing, and it was feeling more brittle and delicate than it had before. I thought that this constituted a wonderful medium.There’s nothing archival about a newspaper. It doesn’t pretend to be definitive; just because a newspaper comes out we don’t expect news to stop, or sport to finish. A newspaper is just a simple statement, an account of how things were at the time of writing. Newspapers aren’t even preserved. The vast bulk of them are recycled and turned into more newspapers.Radiohead's 'The Universal Sigh' - what does it all mean?The last packaging that I’d produced for a record was the hefty chunk of cardboard and paper that accompanied ‘In Rainbows’, but something of that kind was entirely inappropriate for this new record, which was very much more a state-of-play document.After a lengthy concatenation of ideas, the usual meetings, conversations, work, doubt, worry and fear of the unknown, we had produced a large-format 36-page full colour newspaper which was to be presented, along with various other articles with the record ‘The King of Limbs’.Afterwards, in response to the idea that began in a crush of commuters at Oxford Circus, we made another one. The Universal Sigh was a 12-page tabloid, printed using web-offset lithography on newsprint paper, just like the LA Weekly or London Lite or The Daily Mail. It may have been printed using the same machines that produce these newspapers.'The Universal Sigh' decodedThe newspaper can of course be seen as a relic of the past, a dying format that has no place in the modern world where digital content interfaces seamlessly with an ever burgeoning plethora of shiny devices; portable tablet computers and e-readers, laptops, netbooks and smartphones.But it is also a tactile pleasure, a finger-inking, page-flapping, paper rustling codex of information that won’t crash or corrupt. It won’t become useless without electricity. It won’t end up on the shores of somewhere far away, its innards picked at by underpaid children. But it will, with time, slowly crinkle, yellow, fade and crumble; much as we will. http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=146&p=10039&title=newspapers_are_a_tactile_pleasure_stanle&more=1&c=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Wolf Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Stanley Donwood intervistato da NME ci rivela finalmente quante pagine ha il Newspaper Album: 36http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=146&p=10039&title=newspapers_are_a_tactile_pleasure_stanle&more=1&c=1Aaa facc rooo cazz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
principles Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Aaa facc rooo cazz.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s18R_IhMmmE&feature=related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CutToShreds Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Stanley Donwood intervistato da NME ci rivela finalmente quante pagine ha il Newspaper Album: 36http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=146&p=10039&title=newspapers_are_a_tactile_pleasure_stanle&more=1&c=1mi basterebbe avere un terzo di quel numero, ma canzoni... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@li Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 se contiamo the butcher e supercollider per arrivare a un terzo di 36 ne mancano due Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKP ThE InSaNe Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Speriamo in una sorpresa bella almeno quanto questa...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7MkQJuaOrc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero1918 Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Chissà perché ma c'ho il presentimento che l'immagine sul disco delle braccia e delle dita c'entri qualcosa col numero delle pagine del newspaper album. Boh.I conti non tornano però, visto che le dita sul disco sono 35... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paranoidguitar Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 mi basterebbe avere un terzo di quel numero, ma canzoni...Cut, accontentati del tactile pleasure! Se ti può consolare, la musica rimarrà, mentre il newspaper si sgretolerà!"But it is also a tactile pleasure, a finger-inking, page-flapping, paper rustling codex of information that won’t crash or corrupt. It won’t become useless without electricity. It won’t end up on the shores of somewhere far away, its innards picked at by underpaid children. But it will, with time, slowly crinkle, yellow, fade and crumble; much as we will." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purenoise Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Cut, accontentati del tactile pleasure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singer of sixpence Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 36 pezzi in tutto. (26 + 8 di TKOL + The Butcher e Supercollider). YES, THEY CAN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purenoise Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 sto perdendo interesse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThEpAnIcThEvOMiT Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 36 pezzi dove l'avresti letto 36 pezzi? a dire il vero non dice proprio così.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
singer of sixpence Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 dove l'avresti letto 36 pezzi? a dire il vero non dice proprio così....No bè caro, ovviamente è solo una speranza... 36 pagine il Newspapers Album, 35 le "dita" dell'immagine qui sotto (manca un dito, mah ), 36 i pezzi in totale... magari. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ueuo Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Mi aspetto un video del genere nonappena il primo fortunato acquirente riceverà il newspaper albumhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrdHe__tt3U Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikele Yorke Posted April 7, 2011 Report Share Posted April 7, 2011 Che c'hanno ancora da produrre? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinetic Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Cazzeggiando come mio solito su Wikipedia scopro che l'idea del newspaper album, senza sapere come effettivamente sarà TKOL, è già venuta nel '72 ai Jethro Tull.L'idea fu applicata al packaging di "Thick as a brick".http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick_as_a_Brick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CutToShreds Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Cazzeggiando come mio solito su Wikipedia scopro che l'idea del newspaper album, senza sapere come effettivamente sarà TKOL, è già venuta nel '72 ai Jethro Tull.L'idea fu applicata al packaging di "Thick as a brick".http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick_as_a_BrickBravo, e' vero!E lo sapevo pure... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmapoliceman Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 pare che sia disponibile il famoso upgrade a newspaper album per chi aveva acquistato solo gli mp3... così dice josh, non ho tempo di controllare che sto uscendo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notlivingjustkillingtime Posted April 22, 2011 Report Share Posted April 22, 2011 pare che sia disponibile il famoso upgrade a newspaper album per chi aveva acquistato solo gli mp3... così dice josh, non ho tempo di controllare che sto uscendo!Confermo, mi è arrivata la mail stamane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikele Yorke Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Sono uscite le foto del Newspaper Album, a questo link.Ne posto solo alcune...GIORNALE:625 TINY PIECES:CIDDI':VINILE:TUTTO INSIEME: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petlifesaver Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Non si può dire che non sia sborone... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
principles Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Io non commento. Potrei sembrare eccessivamente polemico e fuori luogo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikele Yorke Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Bella merda i tiny pieces comunque Praticamente sono degli adesivi... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomThom Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 Mike', grazie per averci rovinato la sorpresa, almeno ora so di aver davvero buttato 40€. "625 tiny pieces", l'avevo comprato solo per quello in pratica, perché pensavo intendesse 625 piccole opere/disegni di Stanley...Vabbè, mi censuro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzuki Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 a vederlo così sembra un bel pacco.al prossimo lp ci arriverà a casa un kilo di sale grosso. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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