Check out the cover that Marke and I made, all cut up! So xcited to hear this when I get back to a computer!Son Lux - We Are Rising REMIXED
Our original artwork, remixed by John Bloor
Hey folks, check out all the latest offerings from Son Lux this month… and take your own chance to remix the cover artwork we made during the 28-smoke bomb photoshoot!
WE ARE RISING - RE-IMAGINED
(wanna help?)
Well, here we are. March 1. Last year today I was catching my breath, having spent the 28 days of February making We Are Rising. So I’ve spent this February celebrating the anniversary with new live recordings, a video from the studio, releasing instrumentals, and sharing big news of collaborations and even more collaborations.
But while you weren’t looking, I also commissioned a completely diverse and mega-talented group of nine artists to re-imagine the entire album start-to-finish.
Not only that, but I’m now asking YOU and PEOPLE YOU KNOW to get involved.
The good people of The Made Shop, who so brilliantly devised and executed the album artwork, complete with cranes and smoke bombs, have made available the Photoshop file and even some B-roll from the shoot, SO THAT YOU CAN REMIX THE IMAGE (or someone you know can).
HERE is the link to download the goods.
Spread the word and let’s come up with a cover for the remix album!
Click through for some great photos from the Son Lux cover that Marke and I designed earlier this year!
(Source: themadeshop.com)
A friend just texted me the photo on the left in the new issue of Wired magazine this month. It looks a little bit similar to the artwork I did for the Fray’s record, right?
Check out these beautiful shots of the Son Lux cover art that Marke & I did a couple months ago. Always super-exciting to see the final physical packaging come together. Love me that disc color, yes I do!
THING OF BEAUTY.
Just look how nice these CDs look, thanks to the Made Shop. Can’t wait for the LIMITED-EDITION 180g COLORED VINYL!
Come to my Album Release Show on 6/28 at Public Assembly in Brooklyn and get one from my personal stash
The CD tray gives me a serious case of the Mickey Mouse. Not ideal, but whatever.
Check out the Made Shop’s site for some incredible b-roll from the shoot, and then hire them.
WE ARE RISING IS OUT TODAY ON CD!!! And this video is a lovely reminder how great the artwork is (I had little to do with it). It sounds better, too… Now don’t you want it?
Vive Le Made Shop !
(Source: hrrrthrrr.com)
I mentioned earlier that our buddies in The Fray are opening for U2 this Saturday and I’ve decided to post a few (previously unseen) images from our cover shoots during the lead-up to this weekend.
This shot depicts Marke and me in the final stages of setting up the cover photo for the single “Never Say Never” somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. The buzz of neon and fluorescent tubes feels pretty amazing in the middle of a forest.
I’m always so excited to work on band projects like this because it is pretty much the equivalent of getting funded to make crazy art projects.
The Made Shop’s film documenting the creation of Son Lux’s “We Are Rising” album artwork.
If I had my way, I would work for The Made Shop. I love anything and everything they produce. It’d be like my dream job and I’d be working with the coolest family around.
Anyway…this video is a perfect example of how wonderful they are. Setting off 28 colored smoke bombs while shooting from a make-shift crane…yeah…cool. And the finished product is just beautiful.
If you love design, you might swoon a little over this.
If the music is half as good as the video for making the album cover, it’s gotta be killer. Marke and Nathan are two of the best artists anywhere, but clearly it was Maxx that was directing :)
Thanks Hrrrthrrr & Dennis! It is really a cool thing when people you respect like the work you’re making!
The music is fantastic and we’ve got some news about the physical release, now set to come out on CD (6/14) and limited edition color vinyl (6/28).
Also, everything that Maxx directs is just better.
Speaking of Fray shows, this is a photo for one of the staging designs that Marke and I made for an early Fray tour. We were coming off the end of The Cinematic Underground shows and, somewhere in Texas, we replicated the shatterbulb cover image into SketchUp. I tracked down a company that could cut vector shapes out of a mirrored sheet and when we got back to Denver, our massive broken bulb was waiting to be assembled.
We finished it up with a trip to Home Depot to get linking chains and the screw-thread base of the bulb (which was some kind of textured plastic garden roofing that we angled slightly before cutting out and painting).
When the lights came on, the backdrop acted as a massive mirrorball that reflected out into the crowd. Supposedly, one of the stage hands valiantly took on the job of crouching behind the drum riser on nights when there was no wind, softly twisting the chains in order to make the mirrors spin.
As some of you may know, I made & photographed the first album cover for my good friends in The Fray. I just found this detail shot from an alternate white bulb which never made the final cut.
As the story goes, it was late one night before the band’s artwork deadline and they weren’t happy with any of the options that the art department had provided. I asked if I could take a shot at something, and after listening to Joe talk about the themes on the album, I got a few ideas and headed for the supermarket to buy lightbulbs.
I spent the rest of the night huddled over a kitchen counter with Zach holding a desk lamp while I photographed broken bulbs with his digital point-and-shoot camera. The next day, the band selected one of the photos for the final cover. The album went on to become the largest selling iTunes record of its time.
Now, six years later, I’m getting ready to head out to Denver to see them as the hometown opener for U2 at Mile High Stadium. It looks like there may even be some tix still available if you’d like to join us.
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