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DESIGN PERFECT MUSIC

Blow Up LP cover: Music by Herbie HancockBlow Up LP cover: Music by Herbie Hancock

Fashion worships Antonioni's "Blow Up" as the most perfect film ever about the subject of fashion and photography. Every frame has been called "an epiphany that calls the very idea of framing into question" . TI loves all that but I also loved the music which was the complete antithesis to the expected "Swinging London" pop. (The director's feelings about modern pop music are pretty much made explicit in the scene where a mob of fans inside a swinging London rock club fight for the remnants of a guitar hero's guitar. The fight spills outside. The last fan standing is left with a fragment of guitar ..surveys it and tosses it away) . How great is the design of this LP cover? It is one of the things I miss in the otherwise fantastic age of mp3's...the space designers had to create via those little cardboard squares.

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