Rick Wright, David Gilmour, Roger Waters & Nick Sedgwick Backgammon backstage at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, British Winter tour, November 1974. Photos: Storm Thorgerson/Aubrey Powell
nope (dir. jordan peele, 2022) // hannibal, mizumono // paul bert, l'année préparatoire d'enseignement scientifique (1887) // ocean vuong, on earth we're briefly gorgeous // nope (dir. jordan peele, 2022) // hannibal, sakizuki // sermons of meister eckhart // nope (dir. jordan peele, 2022) // chuck palahniuk, invisible monsters // the cranberries, bury the hatchet (album cover by storm thorgerson) // victor hugo, les misérables
David And Polly getting married at Westminster Register Office in 1994, 29 years ago today. His best man was his teenage friend and the Pink Floyd album artwork designer Storm Thorgerson seated next to David. Happy Anniversary!! 🎧
Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, Pyramid and Rainbow, 1782-1784
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George Hardie, Hipgnosis, Pink Floyd “The Dark Side of the Moon” album cover, Harvest Records, 1973
I didn't realize how much Pink Floyd's album artwork imprinted itself on my soul until my first thought at totality was "Pink Floyd's artist nailed it, the uncanny well ringed by pure white light"
Storm Thorgerson on the set of the film 'Tune' at the Royal College of Art film studio, where he was studying Film and Television at the time. London, 9th March 1967. Photos by Chris Morphet.
so imagine this, it’s the 1970s and you’re one of England’s top bands. you tell Storm Thorgerson an idea for an album cover and you say to him “something with a sheep, a psychiatrist’s couch and the location must be somewhere in hawaii.”
Storm will simply tell you “alright, give me a minute” and he will literally pull something like this…
…that man is literally a gift from God. he’s so bloody talented i want to kiss the bastard.