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Behind the scenes Pt. 2

Date
25. January 2006, 20:07
Author
David Schellnegger
In category
English, precious things, Discovery, Insights

I’ve been doing a couple of record covers for Jullander, a lovely Hamburg-based rock band. For their latest album “Phobos in Funkytown” we decided to work with pictures of worn-out disco equipment, which would hopefully create a nice allegory of the album title.

Now, here you go with some exclusive behind the scenes photography of the “disco light shoot”.

Back in the days me and my homeboys had this party room where we used to hang around. It was located in some kind of shack near my parents house and funnily enough, the thing still exists.

That’s the place. Mountain boy style.

It’s equipped with a decent collection of beer bottles…

… a bar and lounging facilities…

… aaaand disco lights!

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1.
 shusha…
25. January 2006

well, all the charm of the discolight is gone on the artwork… could be a rendering. you should have kept the dirt :)

2.
 David Schellnegger…
25. January 2006

Yeah maybe you’re right. But still I think it’s interesting to see how you can manipulate a certain, or even any, found objects appearance and change its meaning. You just take it off the wall, put it in a clean museum-like environment and it starts to change its meaning.
I guess in that situation all the references to the objects origin are gone and it only referrs to itself. Correct me if I’m wrong.

I just thought that you should get a chance to catch a glimpse of where it came from.

3.
 Christophe Stoll…
26. January 2006

Actually I like the disco lights even more now … :-)

4.
 Johannes Schardt…
26. January 2006

this cover fits so well to the musical aesthetics of the album. perfect.

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