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Posted: September 22 2009 at 07:53

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom. Wonderful album, dreadful art work.

With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince.
With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with.

Teaflax

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Posted: September 23 2009 at 08:55

harmonium.ro wrote:

Making art in an child-like style isn't bad at all, while it is done professionally and with real inspiration. That Moon Safari looks like it tries to emulate the cover of Genesis' Foxtrot... with no real success.

Oh, sure. Not that I think that Foxtrot is a great sleeve, but you can tell it's done by someone with some sort of artist's eye. Actually, properly capturing childlike innocence towards art as an adult is one of the hardest things in the world.

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Posted: September 23 2009 at 09:02

Dean wrote:

no that's a genuine error on my part, thanks for pointing that out, as a dyslexic I have problems with words that look wrong, but are right, and look right but are wrong.

It's okay, but you weren't the only one doing it. I realize that not everyone can see word-shapes the way I do (that's how I spell correctly - it's almost entirely a visual process for me), but to me the difference between Hipgnosis and Hypnosis is like the difference between Camelot and Camel. ;)