#record frames

[artvinyl]

Uncovered: PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying

We continue to delve into the detail of the creative process for some of The Best Art Vinyl 2023 shortlisted album artworks and today we take a look at this seemingly simple cover design for PJ Harvey’s tenth studio album that, in fact, couldn’t be less so. The final image is actually a result of months of preparation, awaiting perfect weather conditions and a combination of multiple photographs and techniques. We were lucky enough to get the whole story from artist Michelle Henning.

Henning’s background is in fine art, she started as a painter and installation artist. As well as being a Professor in Photography and Media in the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool, Michelle works for PJ Harvey as art director/creative director, and as such is very much involved in decisions relating to many of the visual assets.

Michelle explained to us how the creative process starts and about her collaboration with PJ Harvey; “The way I approach the work is to listen to the music. Polly and I don’t discuss visual ideas at first, instead, she gives me everything to do with the album: recordings or demos, poems and lyrics, drawings and notes. I then immerse myself in it and try to get a feel for it and start working. I already had a way into it because I was familiar with her poetry book 'Orlam', which is connected to the album, and I had a strong sense of the world of the album. What matters most to me is trying to find a visual equivalent for the music, not to illustrate it or directly reference lyrics, but sense the atmosphere and convey that.”

Michelle elaborates, “In the case of ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, this album has a strange and interesting feel, on the one hand it’s about a twentieth century rural childhood, with references to Curly-Wurlys and Coca cola but also there are soldiers who appear from a much more ancient past, and there’s a strong presence of nature."

PJ Harvey, I Inside the Old Year Dying concept gatefold (Copyright © Michelle Henning, 2023) with photographs by Steve Gullick and drawings by Polly Harvey

"I started by thinking I would try to put wildlife cameras in a forest, not to capture animals but to get infra-red photos of trees. So I did that for a while but I wasn’t satisfied with the results. Then I started to paint forests, but that didn’t feel right either."

Early Forest concept ideas for PJ Harvey, I Inside the Old Year Dying (Copyright © Michelle Henning, 2023)

"I had a sudden realisation that I didn’t need a whole forest, I just needed one stick and such a simple single object would give it the feel of the classic album covers I admire. Now I realise an unconscious influence was Polly herself, because she had chosen to use drawings she had made of single twigs (“twiddicks”), to break up the sections in 'Orlam'."

Orlam by PJ Harvey

"I think the idea of giving the stick a shadow emerged from the process of finding twigs on the ground and photographing them — the shadows seemed to bring them to life and make something very ordinary suddenly seem almost animate."

Concept ideas for PJ Harvey, I Inside the Old Year Dying (Copyright © Michelle Henning, 2023)

"The back cover is a photograph of Polly by Steve Gullick, onto which I superimposed a scan of a tissue and plastic envelope, so it has a slightly battered, used look. I chose this photo because I loved the way her legs echoed the shape of the twig, and also how it could be cropped so that it seemed as if she was almost kicking the edge of the album away."

Front and back cover artwork for PJ Harvey, I Inside the Old Year Dying (Copyright © Michelle Henning, 2023)

Michelle has produced three album covers and a number of singles for PJ Harvey as well as several for other artists, including for John Parish, Mazgani and Dot Allison. She works with a wide variety of techniques; photography, clay models, printmaking, drawing in ink and watercolour and moves between analogue and digital, with a lot of work in Adobe Photoshop, creating very complex layered files.

Michelle Henning: PJ Harvey, Let England Shake (Island Records, 2011)

Michelle Henning: PJ Harvey, A Dog Called Money 7" Single

Centre label of Hope Six vinyl | PJ Harvey (Island Records 2016)

Expanding on her techniques for this current album cover artwork, Michelle tells us, “I photographed a lot of sticks in bright sunlight on different coloured and textured backgrounds. At a certain time in the afternoon the sun started to cast really interesting shadows. I remember Polly’s manager Sumit calling me and asking me when I would have something ready to show them, and I said I wouldn’t be ready until we had had more sunny weather. He was very patient with me but he must have wondered what on earth I was doing.”

She continues, “The stick that worked best, that I felt had the most mysterious shadow, I then rephotographed under plastic. The final image is a composite of about three or maybe more photographs of this twig, both under the plastic and not. The orange sticker is based on the sticker stuck on this piece of plastic — which was a large transparent folder in which my film photographs were returned to me. I liked the way it brought a pop of colour to the cover.”  

"In Photoshop, I changed the lighting on the plastic, added more layers of plastic lighting, superimposed Polly’s handwriting onto the sticker, and created the fake embossed text in the centre (which is a mixture of hand-painted ink drawing and a lot of digital editing)."

"The gatefold is a scan of a 1980s sticky photograph album complete with the blue lines of glue and the plastic layer, and the inner sleeve is based on photographs of red kitchen linoleum superimposed over photographs by Polly of a lamb and a forest. I did a rough layout for the body text and type, and then handed that over to Rob Crane of Rob Crane Design, who did a brilliant job of making the typography on the inside and back covers look elegant and balanced, and made all the files print-ready."

Inner gatefold for PJ Harvey, I Inside the Old Year Dying (Copyright © Michelle Henning, 2023) with typesetting by Rob Crane, and photographs by Steve Gullick gatefold pic

Michelle told us she looked at a lot of great album covers when creating this artwork and there are subtle references to some of them, both in the inner gatefold and the front cover. She says, "I love the idea that there are record cover geeks like myself who like to figure out the echoes of other designs, so I won’t say what they are!" (two iconic late 60s LP covers spring to our record cover geeky minds!)

Michelle Henning: PJ Harvey, I Inside the Old Year Dying concept (Copyright © Michelle Henning, 2023)

I Inside the Old Year Dying by PJ Harvey on Partisan Records is shortlisted for the Best Art Vinyl 2023 Award. Art Director, Design and front cover photography by Michelle Henning. Additional design and typesetting by Rob Crane.

#art vinyl #record frames #play and display #best art vinyl #lp cover frame #bestartvinyl2023 #contemporaryart #mixartandmusic #artanddesign #recordcoverart #albumcover #photography

[ep-40]

Record frame I decorated!!! <333 (Album: Minute By Minute- The Doobie Brothers

#records #record #record frames #stickers #sticker #lgbt #lgbtq #nonbinary #enby #bisexuality #bisexual #the doobie brothers

[crawley-fell]

#this is. a real thing that happened. btw #this is verbatim. and i; m fine #michael sheen #the assembly #good omens #my gifs #soz for the missing bloody frames blame my screen recorder

[richardgrimes]

#danaiguriraedit #dguriraedit #twdedit #womenedit #marvelcastedit #dailytwd #cinemapix #useroptional #dailymarvelgifs #mcufam #dailyavengers #danai gurira #mine #my gifs #* #sorry about the skipped frames i couldn't do anything cause the video had already been pre-screen recorded

[kth1]

⁂ 42/100 days of park jimin | blue hair jimin

#*100JIMIN #bangtanarmynet #armysource #networkbangtan #btsgif #bts #gif #pjm #park jimin #jimin gif #usersky #userbangtan #btsedit #dailybts #heyryen #annietrack #i forgot how to color certain things jdksal #also forgot where this was from -- i think bts paris ly stuff #i screen recorded this SO long ago that i dont even know what fps i was working with. clearly some frames are missing jkdsal

[celeryguy]

Small messy Sif animation I did for fun

Was originally going to be a gif but flipaclip screwed it up somehow so you get a video instead 👍👍👍

#originally I wanted to show some progress on my animation #but then I decided ‘nah’ #mostly cuz the part I had recorded to show was already out of date and the current version still needs a few frames between the poses #but a lot more of it is cleaned up now so yippee!!!! #don’t worry about the weird cloak jitter it just does that 👍👍👍 #isat #isat siffrin #Siffrin isat #animation #celery scribbles #in stars and time #in stars and time Siffrin #siffrin in stars and time

[egophiliac]

Do yoy like their silly little dance

the inside of my brain at any given moment:

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #stage in playful land #stage in playfulland #gif warning #gifs that bop along to your music warning #gidel is SO little #look at him compared to everyone else! #three apples tall! #i could put him in my pocket and still have space to pack him a lunch #this rhythmic is so silly. i love when we get a cutesy upbeat rhythmic right before everything goes straight to shit. #fellow and gidel: (dance around all cutely and throw confetti) #fellow and gidel: anyway now it's time to sell you #just the most adorable little kidnappers 🩷 #so glad they made an official gidel chibi because otherwise i would have tried to and it would not have ended well #i'm trying to do a meleanor right now and she is giving me enough trouble. she doesn't even have any STRIPES. #do you think the riggers got handed the designs for this event with all the stripes and swirlies and patches and patterns #and just had to go stare at a wall for an hour or two #'okay look people are going to see this on a small screen with a rhythm game going on in the foreground' #'nobody is going to take a high-res screen recording and then go through it frame-by-frame to scrutinize our rigging breakdowns' #'what kind of HUGE NERD do you think plays this stupid game' #(shifty eyes)

[deathflare]

i'm enamoured with erenville's 2 second long happy/proud expression (before he gets in a bad mood for the rest of the patch)

l;ook... isnt he so cute..,.,

#it's so fleeting i couldn't even get a screenshot myself i had to make a short recording and go frame by frame #ffxiv #erenville #g'raha tia #wuk lamat #krile and meteor look like peanuts i dont feel like they warrant an organizational tag #patch 6.55

[shiftythrifting]

A record player with a recording feature (super cool!) And a picture my boyfriend bought to hang in his bathroom.

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #in frames #wizard posting #record players #wizard shit #gay recordette

[mo-mode]

Okay so now that we have more satyr lore in the show, I’m gonna need an in-universe documentary about all of the magical creatures and monsters narrated by minor god of nature himself David Attenborough and filmed by a crew of brave satyrs but it always goes horribly wrong. every time they try to document a monster in its natural habitat, the monster’s just reading a book or like eating a churro or something until either it tries to eat the crew or a demigod child appears and then they turn into a living nightmare and David is like “oh dear” in his posh British accent and they cut to some b-roll footage of centaurs galloping or something. And then when they try to get some cute footage of magical creatures, either the satyrs almost die or there’s a tragic death of the creatures like hippocampus babies traveling in a pod with their family, but then one of them gets eaten by a sea serpent and you see a satyr wailing in the corner as we hear David say something like “oh what a shame but that’s the circle of life” and they just keep on going. the satyrs keep trying to give the animals satyr’s blessings but that’s not allowed cuz they can’t interfere like normal documentarians can’t so it’s just them trying and failing to protect the animals while the omniscient god David Attenborough keeps narrating without pause. But it’s also their duty as satyrs to preserve nature so they still need to make the best show possible

It’s a Need. I will write the script myself, okay? Don’t tempt me. Rick Riordan hire me PLEASE

#the satyrs are filming a gorgon and it’s just the gorgon sharpening a knife really threateningly until the camera crew just awkwardly leaves #one satyr is rubbing a hellhound’s belly to keep it in frame but then it shadow travels and takes the satyr with it #they get a call from the satyr like three minutes later like I’M IN TANZANIA? #David Attenborough after watching a basilisk eat a moose: so is life (satyr audibly sobbing in the recording) #it’s like Our Planet but for Greek monsters alright? #David Attenborough gives off Aristaeus or Oxylus vibes #percy jackson #pjo #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo tv show #percy jackson tv show #pjo spoilers #percy jackson the lightning thief #pjo series

[artvinyl]

Uncovered: Glüme - Main Character

Continuing our insights into the creative behind the shortlisted album covers for Best Art Vinyl 2023. Andrea Riba talks us through her work and this evocative cover shot of the avant-pop star Glüme who flippantly calls herself the 'Walmart Marilyn' for her latest album Main Character.

Andrea Riba is a Mexican-Chilean writer, director, producer, and co-founder of Femina Films. The album cover for Main Character was shot on the film set for 'Child Actor' which is the opening track on the album and inspired the short film and music video of the same title produced by Femina Films and Italians Do It Better.

Andrea tells us “It's a surreal film in which Glüme revisits her child self in the 90s. The image was taken after shooting the climax of the film in a preserved 70s dressing room in the outskirts of Hollywood. In this scene, Glüme confronts her mother (played by Riki Lindhome - whose credits include Knives Out, Wednesday) about the loss of her childhood to the demanding world of child acting in Hollywood."

Riba first met Glüme on set for her debut album cover shoot for 'The Internet', although the shoot initially started as a passion project. Andrea explains, “I had a Blue Velvet inspired photoshoot I had been sitting on, and after discovering Glüme through music label Italians Do It Better, I thought she had the perfect cadence for the concept. At the time, the label had already announced the album cover for her debut album The Internet, but when the label saw the photos from our shoot, the plan changed and they landed on one of the images for the album cover and billboards around LA, which was such an exciting surprise.”

The Internet album cover - Glüme 2012

We asked Andrea how the iconic image for the cover of Main Character came about. She told us, “We purposefully scheduled this scene at the end of our 12 hour set day in order for the exhaustion of the day to aid Glüme's performance. After wrapping the scene, I thought of taking film stills to capture Glüme's raw emotions, which were at an all-time high. There was no intention for the image to be the album cover, but the distraught expression captured on Glüme sparked the attention of her label, so they landed on this image as the album cover. There is an interesting contradiction between the title of the album 'Main Character' - someone at the centre of the plot, with an image of a woman tearing and in pure vulnerability.” 

Vinyl scan image for 'Main Character' 2023 by Andrea Riba

We wanted to delve into how the vintage feel of this image was captured so effectively. Andrea tells us, "I wanted to shoot the image on Cinestill 800T because this film captures a beautiful halation and glow around practical lights, that being the vintage tungsten bulbs around the mirrors around the entire dressing room we shot in. There is also a thick grain to the film which provides a sort of surreal veneer between the audience and the world captured, which was meant to reflect Glüme's life as a child actor in the 90's. We also wanted to keep it same world, since her first album 'The Internet' was shot on Cinestill as well."

Riba and Glüme have a close professional and personal relationship which may account for how Andrea was able to capture such a wonderfully raw and personal image of the star. She explains, "Glüme approached me about joining her team as a creative director and this was the beginning of, not only an organic professional collaboration between her and I, but a long term friendship. She is an inspiring human being and we share the same aesthetic interests and love for film, music, and people."

Glüme Harlow and Andrea Riba

Main Character by Glüme on Italians Do It Better label is shortlisted for Best Art Vinyl 2023

#art vinyl #record frames #play and display #best art vinyl #bestartvinyl2023 #lp cover frame #flip frame #record cover art #glume #maincharacter #childactor

[spaciebabie]

#mlp #mlp fim #fluttershy #my friends hyped me up inta recording this fkjdfhajkhfkjashfjk #ive has this joke on my mind all day lmao #hatsune miku #out of all my shitty posts....please let this be the one that makes it ta 10k....plsplspslplsplspslpslpslpslpslpslpslpslsplspls #I WAS RECORDING THIS LIKE ''this doesnt sound like fluttershy at all 😭'' #and then i showed my friends some audio of me talking in her voice and they were like ''IT SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE HER???'' I DUNNO #IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE ME I HAVE. NO FRAME OF REFERENCE FOR IF IT ACTUALLY SOUNDS LIKE HER

[sage-nebula]

Picked up my replay of the OG Ace Attorney trilogy again and I have to say, the real criticism that needs to be made about Manfred von Karma is that he was such a little wuss back in the days DL-6. "Waaaah I got a penalty, I need to wander around the courthouse in a melodramatic daze for hours and murder someone over it, waaaah." Cry me a river, then build a bridge and get over it. I get penalties in these games every other day in court and you don't see me having dissociating episodes and orphaning children over it, smh. Honestly pathetic behavior. What a gigantic wuss. "Most feared prosecutor" my ass. This man is so stupid he hand wrote instructions so a letter could be traced back to him with his handwriting. He's such a doofus he suggested cross-examining the parrot himself. He could let a bullet sit in his shoulder for 15 years but he couldn't take one measly penalty like a man. He's a joke. Absolutely pathetic. "But I got a penalty!" BFD I've had three penalties since the recess and you don't see me crying about it, sit tf down and put away the taser you big baby. Smdh.

#ace attorney #manfred von karma #i don't consider this a hate post bc i'm right #i replayed the first case of T&T and the judge was like ''I'll penalize u'' and i was like 🙄 #ok and?? do u know how many times i've been penalized your honor? idgaf #it may have been Mia's second case but it sure af wasn't mine! #do whatever idc! #anyway manfred was a pissbaby throwin a tantrum over one penalty #SUCH an overreaction #mY pErFeCt ReCoRd #like dude get some real problems ffs #i mean i guess he made some when he murdered Gregory Edgeworth #and then made MORE 15 years later when he tried to frame Miles but yknow #besides all that

[sbiderverse]

something something an archdevil has full immunity to fire something something (it's the thought that counts 😌)

first time making a lil comic and making an animation!! had to do it for them

#figayda #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high sophomore year #d20 fantasy high #d20 fanart #figueroth faeth #fig faeth #ayda aguefort #yeah this may be 40+ frames i may have gone overboard what about it #the trouble i had to go thru when i remembered tumblr is not gif size friendly #54mb size gif whomst #had to screen record it and convert it to a gif?? to have the least loss of quality?? #yes i have watched good omens recently why do u ask #my art

[kth1]

V for WKOREA

#wkorea #kth #kim taehyung #taehyung #taehyung gif #gif #dailydaegu #userbangtan #armysource #btsgif #btsedit #networkbangtan #bangtanarmynet #i messed up my recording frame rates and now i gotta figure out the frames for giffing jdskaldjs im getting there! #i also didnt have time to do all of the things i wanted to so i did the pretty pink photoshoot one hahah #usersky #annietrack #heyryen

[dogstomp]

Dogstomp #3143 - August 9th Patreon / Discord Server / Itaku / Bluesky

#comic diary #daily comic #comic journal #autobio comics #comics #webcomics #furry #furry art #august 4 2023 #for the record nobody was actually there to ask that question - it's just poetic framing #comic 3143 #outer wilds #slice of life