Back to album covers:
A BEAUTIFUL THING

Here's one of the best covers in my collection.
Someone with a deconstructionist bent has removed the
original cover from this album to reveal the cardboard
of the sleeve. Then, a photo of a bouquet of flowers
with a stuffed bunny and a chick that has been
(rather hastily it seems) glued to the surface.

Then, a white square of paper has been added with a gold
foil sticker of a numeral 6 placed over that (Perhaps this is
one of a series. I'd love to see the others).
Interestingly, the 6 sticker is exactly centered, while the
photo is tucked under this to create an asymmetircal composition.

After this, the album was put to use and the scuffed ring appears
which reveals, without showing, the circular contents of the package.

Finally, the thrift store I bought this from has presumably added
the price sticker in the upper-left-hand corner, adding further
tension with its interplay with the 6.

The track listing on the back of the album is centered like the 6 on the front,
but uses black type on white similar to the $0.29 on the front.

A thing of beauty.

A new topic:
SMALL TOWN PRIDE

These images are from the chamber of commerce
web sites of several small towns in Washington state.
Hailing from a small town in the Pacific Northwest myself,
I was taken with the images featured on these sites.
Some of the photographs were quite banal, some heartwarming
and a few a bit disturbing. I arranged them by theme into diptychs
(plus one triptych) and titled them .

Here they are:

TRUCK/FLAG

COMPETITION

LODGING/LODGING
WAITING/WAVING

THREE CASHIERS

NURTURING/PROVIDING

FORMAL/CASUAL
ACTIVE/AT REST

FOOD/LODGING

ADVERTISEMENT/REFLECTION

HAPPY/HAPPY

EMPLOYEES

PRESENTS/PRESENTATION

REWARDS

WINNER/LOSER

PRIDE

Today's theme:
FROM THE BEFORE-THEY-WERE-FAMOUS FILE

Here's an obscure album on the Craftsmen label from the early 50s
featuring none other than...Mary Tyler Moore!
I didn't even know she was latin!

Think her dress is being held up by fishing line?

Here she is closer. Proof!

Today's theme:
VISUAL PUNS!
In which the title sets you up, and the image knocks you down.
Here are three for the Capri pant aficianado,
all with the same pun.

In this one, a dapper Shorty Rogers has caught the eye
of a peroxided grade B (or is it C) starlet.
Looks like those many months of walking through the park in her
striped Capris and silver mules, hoping to attract a lonely
Flugelhornist with argyle socks and penny loafers has finally paid off.

Here's another, from the guy who brought you"I Dig Chicks":

Here's another, this time with the Capri pants replaced with
something from Fruit-of-the-Loom:

By the way...Here's "I Dig Chicks".
One of the best visual puns ever committed to
a paper tip-on over cheap cardboard over vinyl.
This example has a pleasing patina.

Today's Theme:
THE MASTER'S CALL

Here's an album cover with strange hair and a strange title.
Don't file under bondage, discipline, slave worship, domination or BDSM.
Let's just file it under subservience.

Here, on the back of the album, the whole family is heeding
"The Master's Call". You'll just have to imagine what one of Grace's
face-melting sax solos sounds like.