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Den wrote:Robert Beatty: “I've been credited a few places with doing the artwork for the Boards of Canada album - wanted to clarify I didn't do the album artwork or the VHS, just the trailer and the "Introit/Prophecy At 1420 MHz" video (so far…)”

He also said that Mike and Marcus made Tape 05.

The Other wrote:I remembered this quote from NME February of 2002.

Sandison: "My memory of Calgary is a picture of boxy 1970s office blocks dumped in the middle of nowhere against a permanent sunset."
https://bocpages.org/wiki/The_Secret_Li ... _of_Canada

It's cool to see that they still draw inspiration from memories like this. I remember when I read that quote it stuck with me. I have travelled to places where certain buildings seem very out of place and juxtaposing in relation to its surroundings. Sort of falls in line with idea of "Somewhere Right Now In The Future." To me it does anyway... sort of like looking ahead to what could've been or might be.

noveltywave wrote:This might have already been noticed by someone, but I noticed the handwritten notes on the Boc Maxima tape given to a friend have the new logo on them (or just a flower).

https://bocpages.org/w/images/Bocmaxima ... dealer.jpg

Redd Panderson wrote:Bringing in an idea I brought up in the general Inferno thread because it applies to the cover. It has to do with the idea of our past, present, and future selves being contained in this one moment and how parts of ourselves get frozen in the past.

It involves behavioral loops that get stuck on repeat in our psyches as we age and continue to manifest as similar situations in our lives over and over. It's like the negative edge of nostalgia. Not necessarily trauma, but the momentum of habit that we are often blind to while ending up in the same difficult situations time and again.

Also related to loops: feedback. The closed loop producing monstrous things with exaggerated features in our lives, dreams, and societies, frightening us until we can cultivate enough equanimity to face them head-on. I think that exaggerated, maybe even cartoonish, character of our demons when left unchecked kind of fits with the bit of camp in the design for Inferno.

I already said it somewhere else, but, to me, I'm getting the feeling this isn't strictly a dark album, but also about the process of turning to face your demons--individually and as a society--in order to transcend and move beyond them. To thaw the frozen parts inside. To befriend those exiled aspects of our psyche so we can rescue ourselves from the havoc they can wreak when left unchecked.

So I appreciate the kind of horror, kind of camp look. There's a funhouse mirror yet sinister look and I do think it all has some parallel to what some people call shadow work.

2020k wrote:Like most art, it looks a lot better offline than it does on a screen. There's so much detail in these images and it really assists the narrative of the record.

Quiller wrote:People have ID'd these as the 300 Aragvians Monument in Zhinvali, Georgia and Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Canada.