FALAA - Cover symbol
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 19:34
On the frontcover there is a symbol, does anybody know exactly what it represents?
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Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 19:38
I got that tattooed on my arm years ago. I asked Wayne about it and he said "I have no idea probably some Japanese crap that Andy was into at the time"
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 19:51
Good enough for me! 
If memory serves, it showed up first on the Walk Away 12" and - I think - was used on the Black October tour. Given the tendency to - ahem - appropriate cover art from various sources, I wouldn't be surprised if this had originally come from a print or painting or similar.
If memory serves, it showed up first on the Walk Away 12" and - I think - was used on the Black October tour. Given the tendency to - ahem - appropriate cover art from various sources, I wouldn't be surprised if this had originally come from a print or painting or similar.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 20:40
looks like sun eclipse on the wester sky 
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 20:41
Well it is a crescent and a line. I guess the line represents the horizon.
Maybe sunrise or sunset?
Maybe sunrise or sunset?
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 20:49
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 21:28
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 21:34
Von might have had a japanese crest in mind but I think it's probably something he designed himself.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 22:15
One needs to be able to count to higher numbers than three for it.Quiff Boy wrote:http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon4.gif
isnt the 2nd one in on the top row a mish logo?
Nope.
7th of first row or 8th of 8th row.
...*runs*
Posted: 10 Sep 2009, 22:50
It's a stylised depiction of the head of a bull, representing "ersatz hippy bullshit", as any fule kno.
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 10:15
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 10:27
.... hum of the powerlines ... again ... I'd like to know the year of manufacture of this, say, thing ...
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 10:46
What? That image there? I just did it this morning
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 11:04
... ah, I had wondered, looks like from a catalogue ... Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 11:17
I have the Photoshop-fu.
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 11:28
It looks like the top of a male genital organ with a barbells-piercing shot through ...
IZ.
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Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 11:39
I always liked the 'other' logo... and was very happy when I spotted a tattood one on a lady's shoulder the other week. She was in front of us in the queue to get icecream... icescream for crow
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 21:42
What is Photoshop-fu? ...markfiend wrote:I have the Photoshop-fu.
... My version is something like 6.0 ... Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 21:47
It's one of these pictures one can, say, flip and see from two directions ... like a tunnel ...lachert wrote:looks like sun eclipse on the western sky
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 22:25
have a word with me fiendymarkfiend wrote:I have the Photoshop-fu.
Michael, I call you friend but those links are total bollix!mh wrote:Nah, fiver says it's one of these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_(crest)):
http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon2.gif
http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon3.gif
http://www.flopdesign.com/fordesign/kamon4.gif
as a professional designer (they pay me for this shit) I have searched long and hard for reprazent!ations of the Black October symbol and only two ring true, and they're missing the bar
ye even get the star flung in for free
and another 5 pointed star for free! nes pas?
I'm 51 ye ken and my obsession is long
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 14:11
Sorry, it's a joke, Photoshop-fu like kung-fuBeing645 wrote:What is Photoshop-fu? ...markfiend wrote:I have the Photoshop-fu.
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 14:26
... ah, I should have gathered ...
maybe it's the slight difference between Fu and Chi that blinded my comprehension partially ...
Thanks for explaining ...
... 
Posted: 14 Sep 2009, 05:21
At least I now know what this is supposed to mean:markfiend wrote:
For those who do not know, The Sisters of Mercy are a rock'n'roll band. And a pop band. And an industrial groove machine. Or so they say. They make records. Lots of records, in fact. But not in your galaxy.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009, 12:06
Posted: 15 Sep 2009, 12:09
I found this symbol before many years in a book of astronomy.
According that book, this is the symbol of Charon planet, which is a kind of Pluto's moon.
Charon was also the ferryman who ferried the dead to the underworld (in Greek mythology).
I took a quick look on the net and I didn't find the symbol exactly.
But I found that:
http://www.space-art.co.uk/gallery.php? ... -of-Charon
According that book, this is the symbol of Charon planet, which is a kind of Pluto's moon.
Charon was also the ferryman who ferried the dead to the underworld (in Greek mythology).
I took a quick look on the net and I didn't find the symbol exactly.
But I found that:
http://www.space-art.co.uk/gallery.php? ... -of-Charon