Happy Birthday America! Here's the Houdini "art edition" for you to gander at in between your fifth PBR and your fourth hot dog, operating your phone with your left hand, because the right one has an ice pack on it from that short fused firecracker.
HAZEXXL linocut art design silk screened, based off the Frank Kozik original.
(https://s32.postimg.org/glrlvd5vp/13439154_10153841363360939_652388641295860548_n.jpg) (https://postimg.org/image/rlct6ywap/) (https://postimage.org/)
Oh, and I commented on the post they made...and this is what the colored version of the album that's in the teaser video from Third Man Records will be housed in.
...so there's that.
Oh well, I love this sick Kozik mutation!
Hmm.
I like it. I like the conflicting colors.
Not every note has to be in tune.
C'est magnifique!
good lawd! haze does it again !
I hope to get my hands on one, I love it! HAZE XXL!
Mr. Haze keeps getting better at what he's doing.
I absolutely love this adaptation of the cover. It's like looking at Matisse in his fauv stage. Sometimes the colors don't always agree with me but gives another reason to why I can't stop staring at it. It's so morbid and hard to look away from. It's a thing of beauty.
He's on game. Get over it :P
I use those colors as a spiral background a lot coloring in the kid's coloring books. That is what always made Kozik's posters so cool.
I think some of us are just getting a bit tired of the same artist doing all the artwork for all these Melvins vinyl releases.
Hehe, maybe a few here will have a revisit of Hazes banhammer. I`m the one that don`t care one millimeter for the art and comic strips that follow The Melvins. The band, Buzz and Dale + the bass player is the sole reason why I follow. I see that both Walsby and Haze know their craft, and I might buy a poster or a tee at the merch if I liked it, but other than that it`s the band I come for.
Regarding the colours on tha Houdinie Haze art edition, I can`t see the problem with them, often contrasting an unsuspecting colour choices can make it stand out.
Yes, this I liked:
(http://www.themelvins.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21213.0;attach=22997;image)
Quote from: ))))(((( on July 06, 2016, 06:27:17 AM
Quote from: JUDY on July 05, 2016, 11:40:13 AM
I absolutely love this adaptation of the cover. It's like looking at Matisse in his fauv stage. Sometimes the colors don't always agree with me but gives another reason to why I can't stop staring at it. It's so morbid and hard to look away from. It's a thing of beauty.
It's sooooo garish though! I actually really liked your embroidered version of Houdini. That would have made a great cover and been 100X better than the one we got!
Quote from: BERZERKER on July 06, 2016, 06:39:02 AM
Yes, this I liked:
(http://www.themelvins.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=21213.0;attach=22997;image)
Awwwe, thanks guys! I worked super hard on it :) it's hanging in our main room at home :love:
Wait WHAT?!?!?!?!?
YOU MADE THAT!!!!???
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
Any idea when this bad boy is gonna be up for sale?
Quote from: deatheats on July 07, 2016, 01:02:10 PM
Any idea when this bad boy is gonna be up for sale?
when you least expect it! :lol:
My guesses are:
1.) Just after I fall asleep
2.) Just before I wake up
3.) Or during the 10 second break I took from hitting F5 on my keyboard
:lol:
wet ink off the press, oh boy!
(http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee392/robotsindetroit/13631426_10154180966927040_58543466978395856_n_zpswsy6bznn.jpg) (http://s1225.photobucket.com/user/robotsindetroit/media/13631426_10154180966927040_58543466978395856_n_zpswsy6bznn.jpg.html)
My Precioussss.... :evil:
I just read the original release sold around 110,000 copies.
I wonder how many of those sales were vinyl?
Anyone know how many vinyl copies Atlantic pressed or, for that matter, how many third man did?
I wonder this:
out of how many albums they sold in total.. what percent of that number made true lifelong fans out of the buyers of any of them?
Quote from: Dumpster D on July 06, 2016, 11:23:00 PM
Wait WHAT?!?!?!?!?
YOU MADE THAT!!!!???
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>
Thank you, Dumpy
I was teaching a cultural embroidery unit to 8th graders. Had never done it before! This was my first attempt and the example I showed to the kiddies.
They were like
Wow you so cool an weird
And I was like - listen to this💫 It inspired me. What inspires you?! ( plays record)
:shock faces:
I hope the limited releases are signed and all that jazz. I'm hoping and also assuming
You so cool and Weird! 8)
I salute you for your hard work here and also outside this realm, for subjecting kids to Melvins IMO is doing good work.
I as well have Graded your Cool Factor as Such:
A+
so that means you were embroidering a Melvins Cover with 8th Graders while blasting Melvins in class? there is no emoticon to express how that rules.
I don't really follow the vinyl releases too closely but im a little confused by these "art editions". Am i right in thinking Houdini, Stoner Witch and Stag all recently got re-released by Third Man with the original artwork. While Prick, Houdini and (it looks like) Stoner Witch are all limited Amrep versions with new Haze artwork?
Quote from: ))))(((( on July 10, 2016, 04:55:47 AM
I don't really follow the vinyl releases too closely but im a little confused by these "art editions". Am i right in thinking Houdini, Stoner Witch and Stag all recently got re-released by Third Man with the original artwork. While Prick, Houdini and (it looks like) Stoner Witch are all limited Amrep versions with new Haze artwork?
special editions pay the bills yo.
Quote from: ))))(((( on July 10, 2016, 04:55:47 AM
I don't really follow the vinyl releases too closely but im a little confused by these "art editions". Am i right in thinking Houdini, Stoner Witch and Stag all recently got re-released by Third Man with the original artwork. While Prick, Houdini and (it looks like) Stoner Witch are all limited Amrep versions with new Haze artwork?
I think he's doing Stag too. Not positive though but I thought I a picture with the beginnings of one of those flowers on the cover carved in wood. Don't quote me on that. No, do. It's fine.
The back cover is amazing.
(http://thesickos.free.fr/houd-back.jpg)
I do actually like that one! Anyone else noticed that 'Spread Eagle Beagle' isn't on the tracklist!!
Thumbs up, and the vinyl version didnt have spread eagle beagle. Just rocket reducer, which is one of their best covers ever. Correct?
WOW! :shock: This thing is super-duper awesome. Might have to buy two, so I can display both sides.
Haze really captured something there with their likenesses based on the original.
I also really like the angry duck :o
(http://thesickos.free.fr/houd-back.jpg)
Quote from: anaconda on July 12, 2016, 01:31:28 PM
I also really like the angry duck :o
Donald "The Duck" Manson?
pretty much man! :lol:
Lori's got a big red X on her face too but it's more subtle than the Mark D one. Oh and Ian the artwork on the Third Man versions is slightly different than the originals, at least compared to the CDs (different liner notes, different pictures for Stoner Witch), kind of like how the Boner reissues were.
Quote from: (PAUL) on July 12, 2016, 04:03:25 PM
Oh and Ian the artwork on the Third Man versions is slightly different than the originals, at least compared to the CDs (different liner notes, different pictures for Stoner Witch), kind of like how the Boner reissues were.
Ah right thanks for that Paul. I had to read your post twice to wrap my head around it! All these different versions and reissues are difficult to remember and differentiate. At least for me anyway.
Quote from: The Minneapolis Kid on July 11, 2016, 11:58:14 PM
I think he's doing Stag too. Not positive though but I thought I a picture with the beginnings of one of those flowers on the cover carved in wood. Don't quote me on that. No, do. It's fine.
Ah, i knew about Stoner Witch but i hadn't seen a Haze Stag! I look forward to how he will interpret the cover art.
An animal associated with Houdini has only one head?! :disagree:
Goddamn it!
I hate these boutique releases remember? Fuck that back cover is unbelievable. I have no words other than, now I want to fucking get one and I'm to poor for the luxury
Quote from: (PAUL) on July 12, 2016, 04:03:25 PM
Lori's got a big red X on her face too but it's more subtle than the Mark D one.
At first when I saw the big red X over Mark's face I was kinda bummed. It just seemed unnecessarily mean, but this one with Lori, that big red X is starting to become one of my favorite aspects. It fits. I now understand that that's exactly the way they should be.
Quote from: ))))(((( on July 12, 2016, 04:07:50 PM
Quote from: The Minneapolis Kid on July 11, 2016, 11:58:14 PM
I think he's doing Stag too. Not positive though but I thought I a picture with the beginnings of one of those flowers on the cover carved in wood. Don't quote me on that. No, do. It's fine.
Ah, i knew about Stoner Witch but i hadn't seen a Haze Stag! I look forward to how he will interpret the cover art.
I would think if he's doing the first two it just kinda makes sense that he would do Stag too. After seeing the back cover art for Houdini, I can't WAIT to see what he does with Stoner Witch and (assuming) Stag. I have a feeling that if he does indeed do Stag it's gonna knock dicks in dirt man. As in, it's going to be amazing.
Just confirmed that Stag is also coming.
Quote from: anaconda on July 12, 2016, 01:31:28 PM
Haze really captured something there with their likenesses based on the original.
I also really like the angry duck :o
Damn! That duck
is SWEET!
I was neither here nor there on that new front cover ... but that new back cover is tits! With duck nipples!
Dale looks like he's got something in his eye ... and that something is driving him insane!