Sleeveface pool on Flickr

Posted by David Pescovitz, January 24, 2008 10:06 AM | permalink

Sleeveface is my new favorite Flickr pool. There are more than 700 examples and they're a total laff riot. Seen here are contributions from John Rostron (left) and Godesinge (right). Link (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!)

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Older History of trepanation

Newer Stone Faces

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#1 posted by progosk , January 24, 2008 10:21 AM

Here's Daniel Eskils video for Knight Music's "Green River Killer" that uses this to very chuckleworthy effect.

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#2 posted by aperryz , January 24, 2008 10:23 AM

I believe that this flickr group actually came first and is substantially larger. And they call them LP Portraits.

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#3 posted by David Pescovitz , January 24, 2008 10:35 AM

Thanks to both of you. Great links.

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#4 posted by Steven

, January 24, 2008 10:59 AM

@1 I'm having a bit of a hard time appreciating the video, given how thoroughly repellent the song is.

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#5 posted by Flakcatcher , January 24, 2008 11:04 AM

Wow, I didn't realize that youngsters nowadays still listen to Big Black. Maybe there is hope for the future.

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#6 posted by PolishQ , January 24, 2008 11:28 AM

I can't believe that out of all 700 entries, there's not one Jandek LP.

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#7 posted by Jonathan Golub , January 24, 2008 11:53 AM

This reminds me of work by the artist Christian Marclay - he uses album covers in collages to great effect. Here's a link with some good examples: http://christianpatterson.com/blog/archives/198

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#8 posted by lamarlowe , January 24, 2008 1:34 PM

Okay, so this is people looking at art in a different way? I remember when I used to get excited about that sort of thing, way back before I became jaded. I guess I'm glad people are still janking on what passes for popular medium, .....I suppose, but they should watch every single episode of MST3K, just so they know what the unbeatable competion looks like.

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#9 posted by connor811 , January 24, 2008 5:34 PM

Ha, I'm actually listening to Songs About Fucking right now. These remind me of something Christian Marclay would make.

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#10 posted by Andrew Baron

, January 24, 2008 7:59 PM

Hi David! One of my favs too. 'Just last week we translated this idea (having been inspired by the same Flickr pool) into video form, one of our better episodes I think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCRSsxtSk1U

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#11 posted by l0k1 , January 24, 2008 9:39 PM

i want that album!!!! quarterstick records wasn't selling them last time i looked :( well not on cd anyway.

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#12 posted by Anonymous , December 2, 2008 3:12 AM

This thing is really catching on.. its all over the place. There's even a ratemysleeveface now at http://www.ratemysleeveface.com