Hidden Findings discovered in Backspacer Cover (Updated)

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  • i shit and i stink
    i shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    UncleSpaggles wrote:
    I'd say its worth reading through the whole thread tbh.

    I'm just too lazy...! and I'm saving myself for your review of Binaural ;)
    we're all going to the same place...
  • Spags
    Spags Leigh-on-Sea, UK Posts: 3,057
    LOL, tell you what mate - you read this thread and I promise to keep my review very short.
    Nature drunk and High
  • dreamcode
    dreamcode Posts: 165
    Can anyone please sum up what the result is so far?

    By the way - the yellow fish in the 4th picture could relate to Jeff Ament´s sideproject Three Fish.

    Don´t know if this has already been stated...
    And he still gives his love,
    he just gives it away...
  • dreamcode
    dreamcode Posts: 165
    To me the legs to the left look like the legs of Tina Turner. The colour fits, the era-theme fits, the short dress/nightie look fits, but I just can´t find the right picture.
    And he still gives his love,
    he just gives it away...
  • doompony
    doompony Wellington, NZ Posts: 4,501
    someone please find the red legs. i can't keep searching for 1960s movie moments...
  • spread_the_jam
    spread_the_jam Posts: 93
    best reading I had in a long while
    intresting finds and great fun to see all those speculations (and spot on similar pics/drawings)

    AWESOME, keep up the good work y'all !!!!
    This land is mine, this land is free, I'll do what I want but irresponsibly

    #192XXX
  • Crazy Marcus
    Crazy Marcus Posts: 1,823
    New York times article on Tom Tomorrow and how the inspiration of the cover came to be. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/arts/music/08pearl.html :D
  • Kinsey
    Kinsey Posts: 197
    Nice article, thanks
    When we found the things we loved,
    They were crushed and dying in the dirt.
    We tried to pick up the pieces,
    And get away without getting hurt,
    But they caught us at the state line,
    And burned our cars in one last fight,
    And left us running burned and blind,
    Chasing something in the night.
  • IamMine
    IamMine Posts: 2,743
    Crazy Marcus wrote:
    New York times article on Tom Tomorrow and how the inspiration of the cover came to be. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/arts/music/08pearl.html :D

    Thanks so much, Crazy Marcus!!!

    Wow...now he's too good to even email to anymore! :shock: He's more famous now!

    *removes him from my email addy book* :P ;)

    That was a really great article!

    Wow... can you imagine how much nerves it takes to walk up to Ed and "can you give me a job?"

    glad it worked out well in the end! :mrgreen:
    JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
    EV: It's your band.
    ~Q Magazine


    "Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,385
    Interesting - we can expect at least one more Tom Tomorrow concert poster, then!
    '05 - TO, '06 - TO 1, '08 - NYC 1 & 2, '09 - TO, Chi 1 & 2, '10 - Buffalo, NYC 1 & 2, '11 - TO 1 & 2, Hamilton, '13 - Buffalo, Brooklyn 1 & 2, '15 - Global Citizen, '16 - TO 1 & 2, Chi 2

    EV
    Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
  • dirtyfrank2005
    dirtyfrank2005 Posts: 192
    What does it mean?
    subscriber-only edition of the October issue of Spin
    I can't get that cover unless I subscribe? :(
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  • IamMine
    IamMine Posts: 2,743
    Tom Tomorrow clarifies the NY article:
    http://thismodernworld.com/4890

    September 7, 2009
    Tom Tomorrow:
    Part of the family

    There’s a great article in Tuesday’s New York Times about my collaboration with Pearl Jam (already online here). One small error at the beginning though: I didn’t contact Eddie after I lost all the VVM papers because I wanted a poster gig — I contacted him because I was contacting everyone I knew in cities where I’d lost a paper, encouraging them to write letters to the editor.

    What I actually said was to the writer that I’d known Eddie a long time, but never in my wildest dreams expected to be tapped for an album cover — at most, I kind of hoped that maybe someday I might get to do a poster for the band, but it wasn’t something I was ever going to bug him about.

    Apart from that small nit, though, I really can’t complain ..!

    … adding: this seems like good news — apparently the rest of my old papers are now free to reinstate the strip at their own discretion.

    Lately Mr. Perkins has gotten some good news: last week “This Modern World” returned to The Village Voice. Andy Van De Voorde, the executive associate editor of Village Voice Media, said it would be up to the discretion of each paper in the chain whether to reinstate the strip, and so far no others have.

    Sounds like a good time to contact the editors, if you live in one of the affected cities (which I am deliberately not listing, to avoid astroturfing — much better if the letters they get are from real readers aware of the situation) … and you Village Voice readers, don’t forget to send your thanks…

    posted by Tom Tomorrow at 7:07 PM
    JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
    EV: It's your band.
    ~Q Magazine


    "Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
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  • joewalshdc
    joewalshdc Posts: 948
    Oh man this thread is amazing and exhausting in equal abundance....!!!! :)
  • RideRick
    RideRick Hoorn Posts: 703
    We need an overview because to search this topic is sh*t...


    How about topicstarter to put everything in the first post...

    Will be much easier to check the findings of the cover ;)
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  • pleatherman
    pleatherman Posts: 472
    RideRick wrote:
    We need an overview because to search this topic is sh*t...


    How about topicstarter to put everything in the first post...

    Will be much easier to check the findings of the cover ;)

    I'll see what I can do. Was hoping to wait until we completely solve this thing but that goal is becoming more and more elusive.
  • pleatherman
    pleatherman Posts: 472
    edited September 2009
    By popular demand, I've included an update to the original post as a swift alternative for those who don't care to trudge through the past twenty-some pages (even though it's well worth it). It's meant to only brush upon the dense amount of info that has been discussed. Let me know if I missed anything of significant importance.
    Post edited by pleatherman on
  • IamMine
    IamMine Posts: 2,743
    pleatherman wrote:
    By popular demand, I've included an update to the original post as a swift alternative for those who don't care to trudge thru the past three hundred and some posts (even though it's well worth it).

    I agree. :D But thanks for taking the trouble to update your first post with additional information! Nice job on recapping the entire thread! :mrgreen:
    JA: Why do I get the Ticketmaster question?
    EV: It's your band.
    ~Q Magazine


    "Kisses for the glow...kisses for the lease." - BDRII
  • pleatherman
    pleatherman Posts: 472
    IamMine wrote:
    pleatherman wrote:
    By popular demand, I've included an update to the original post as a swift alternative for those who don't care to trudge thru the past three hundred and some posts (even though it's well worth it).

    I agree. :D But thanks for taking the trouble to update your first post with additional information! Nice job on recapping the entire thread! :mrgreen:

    No problem. I also added some links to the first post of the original material Tom Tomorrow appropriated.
  • i shit and i stink
    i shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    pleatherman wrote:
    IamMine wrote:
    pleatherman wrote:
    By popular demand, I've included an update to the original post as a swift alternative for those who don't care to trudge thru the past three hundred and some posts (even though it's well worth it).

    I agree. :D But thanks for taking the trouble to update your first post with additional information! Nice job on recapping the entire thread! :mrgreen:

    No problem. I also added some links to the first post of the original material Tom Tomorrow appropriated.

    Nice,

    So, there is still no exact match on some of the first frame, on the legs in the red dress and on the meaning behind the Seattle picture.

    Are we still assuming that each picture represents a song on the album?
    we're all going to the same place...

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