Françoise Gilot, “Polarities” (2009)
The original packaging for Alice Cooper’s School’s Out
The original album cover (designed by Craig Braun) had the sleeve opening in the manner of a wooden school desk, similar to Thinks: School Stinks, by Hotlegs, released two years earlier. The vinyl record inside was wrapped in a pair of panties, though this was later discontinued as the paper panties were found to be flammable.
Whoa, that is… quite the theft!
Every time I hear this song I think of Dazed & Confused:
I’m not going to spend what’s left of my life hanging round waiting for [happiness]. I’m going to settle for small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist. Things that remind me of other things. Tiny scenes. Words that people choose, their accidentally biblical turns of phrase. Hand-lettered signs, quotes from books, offhand remarks that make me think of dead people, or of living ones I can no longer stand the sight of. I plan to keep writing them down, praising them, arranging them like stepping stones into the dark. Maybe they’ll lead me somewhere good before I shrivel up and blow away.
(‘Battle Bunny,’ by Jon Scieszka and Mac Barnett - The New York Times)
Thanks to a clever book design, “Battle Bunny” has two layers of text: The first is the “Birthday Bunny” story, printed on each page as in an ordinary book. But most of the words of that story have been crossed out and replaced with handwritten ones, so that the old story is reconfigured to tell an entirely new one about a power-mad rabbit bent on destroying the world.
“The photographic rules of exposure also apply to life: you either need more light, or more time. And all the time in the world won’t help you if you don’t have any light.”
—Clayton Cubitt
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