Elephant Reissue! (RSD 2013)

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Picked mine up on the way home today - looks amazing
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Have to admit being a dumbo here: I don't understand the cover art. I read somewhere that it's supposed to somehow look/represent an elephant's head, but . . . me no see . . .
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woodisgood wrote:Have to admit being a dumbo here: I don't understand the cover art. I read somewhere that it's supposed to somehow look/represent an elephant's head, but . . . me no see . . .
From Wiki:
In an interview with Q Magazine in 2007, Jack White said, "If you study the picture carefully, Meg and I are elephant ears in a head-on elephant. But it's a side view of an elephant, too, with the tusks leading off either side." He went on to say, "I wanted people to be staring at this album cover and then maybe two years later, having stared at it for the 500th time, to say, 'Hey, it's an elephant!'"
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woodisgood wrote:Have to admit being a dumbo here: I don't understand the cover art. I read somewhere that it's supposed to somehow look/represent an elephant's head, but . . . me no see . . .
I have a picture somewhere on my desktop of the image of an elephant superimposed into the cover art.
Once you see it you'll get it.
I'll try and find it later unless another swirler knows what I'm talking about.
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That'd be most helpful. I do "see" the head somewhat; but I also meant all the imagery, what with the cricket bat, the light bulb, Meg's ankle and the rope, the skull . . .
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woodisgood wrote:Have to admit being a dumbo here: . . .
But being a Dumbo is very appropriate here!

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Dunno about the lightbulb and skull, but the cricket bat has always struck me as being a tusk, and the rope on Meg's ankle is like the tail of an elephant.
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i kinda think i see it but at the same time i dont...
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Never heard it was an elephant on the cover this whole time! Been staring at it for the past 10 minutes but can't see any elephants :( This thing's harder than some Picasso's to crack.
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Obliquitous wrote:Never heard it was an elephant on the cover this whole time! Been staring at it for the past 10 minutes but can't see any elephants :( This thing's harder than some Picasso's to crack.
Put it right up against your face, defocus your eyes and slowly move it away.
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Jamie wrote:
Obliquitous wrote:Never heard it was an elephant on the cover this whole time! Been staring at it for the past 10 minutes but can't see any elephants :( This thing's harder than some Picasso's to crack.
Put it right up against your face, defocus your eyes and slowly move it away.
It's a schooner!
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woodisgood wrote:Have to admit being a dumbo here: I don't understand the cover art. I read somewhere that it's supposed to somehow look/represent an elephant's head, but . . . me no see . . .
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I mean, I guess you can be the judge?
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When you look at it straight on (squinting a bit and using a fair amount of imagination), Jack and Meg form the elephant's "ears". And the cricket bat could be one of its tusks. I've yet to figure out where the trunk is in the straight-on view, though. Unless that's what the bat is for, perhaps.
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It's a schooner!
"You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!"
“I’M GONNA KILL MY BROTHER JACK
I’M GONNA KILL MY BROTHER JACK
I’M GONNA STAB HIM RIGHT IN THE BACK
PUT HIM IN THIS HOLE
AND HE’LL NEVER COME BACK
‘MEMBER THAT?”
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AlexFaderr wrote:
It's a schooner!
"You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!"
You beat me to it.
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Moller72 wrote:
AlexFaderr wrote:
It's a schooner!
"You dumb bastard! That's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!"
You beat me to it.
Thank you thank you! :D
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