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Vacceo

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I was tempted to post the full artwork from Autopsy´s Act of the Unspeakeable, but this is a public forum and it may hurt some sensibilities. So in turn, we´ll go for some classic Gustav Doré:



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Brief personal history of this cover (painted by Peter Schmidt).
At the beginning of the ‘80 I was in college, studying Computer Vision, I was a sort of a hacker spending my nights in the lab, learning my trade (I am still working in the same field) when we finally got a color workstation. This was one my favorite albums of that time, so I decided to make that my desktop background image, but because we didn’t have color cameras I decided to write a program to re-create the image artificially, based on gradients and shades (I wrote everything, there was no image processing applications at that time). I tested different algorithms to find out the best mathematical functions to create the gradients, even the shape of the island was mathematically computed. I was so pleased with myself that I decided to add some animation, adding glitter in the ocean and a flock of seagulls that were randomly crossing the image. It was everyone’s envy in the lab. I think the code is still there, in some half inch tape.

 

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The Rolling Stones_Their Satanic Majesties Request Lenticular Vinyl Record Album​

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Post in the Jazz Music thread. A 1998 release.

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Post in the Audiophile Americana thread. This album won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.

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This was recently nominated for a 2023 Latin Grammy Award for Best Jazz Album, and generated 2 posts in the Jazz Music thread: Post 1 ; Post 2.

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this was pretty controversial. Her first album after Lennons murder. And yes, those are supposedly his blood stained glasses.
 

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This album has been kicking my ass since it came out November 2022, and I love the cover.
 
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