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agoutihead


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tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art
#5599069 - 05/06/06 09:41 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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just bought the new cd... the cover art and flip art with those glasses is one of hte coolest things i have ever seen.
just wish they had other stuff that you could buy to go along with the glasses.
does anyone know if alex grey does everything by freehand or if he uses tools or anything?
-------------------- "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing" - Kevin Herbert "Psychedelics let you see the world through a child's eye." "Experience the liquid realm..." "The evolution of mankind is in the alteration of consciousness" - Dr. Albert Hofmann
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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: agoutihead]
#5599097 - 05/06/06 09:48 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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i read his book, and i think i recall him doing some sculpting or something.
Do you think the new cd is worth buying just for the art? i got it when it leaked 2 weeks ago for free 
and there are many many more things you can buy for those glasses, its called stereoscopic, and you can get really old war pictures of piles of bones and like airplanes and sixties ones with like fractals and stuff, i have a shitload of em, tho im not shur where to find them i got them from my grandpa. just search online for stereoscopic pictures, and make shur the sizes match!
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agoutihead


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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: AA2277]
#5599122 - 05/06/06 09:54 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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absolutley... i havent even listened to the cd yet and the art is amazing! defintially worth the money just for that!
i wouldnt be interested in the war pictures or the bones....but defintially the more psychedelic stuff... ill check on ebay. the glasses make it though cause its so more 3-d with them.
-------------------- "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing" - Kevin Herbert "Psychedelics let you see the world through a child's eye." "Experience the liquid realm..." "The evolution of mankind is in the alteration of consciousness" - Dr. Albert Hofmann
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agoutihead


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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: agoutihead]
#5599764 - 05/07/06 01:04 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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# 7 on this cd is called:
Lost Keys (Blame Hofmann)
i listened to it for a minute or so... didnt get a chance to hear it from begining to end...
but does anyone know the meaning behind this one?
im going to assume when it says "blame hofmann" they are referring to dr. albert hofmann.
any thoughts?
-------------------- "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing" - Kevin Herbert "Psychedelics let you see the world through a child's eye." "Experience the liquid realm..." "The evolution of mankind is in the alteration of consciousness" - Dr. Albert Hofmann
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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: agoutihead]
#5599822 - 05/07/06 01:19 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Maybe they lost their keys once on LSD!
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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: agoutihead]
#5599842 - 05/07/06 01:26 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Keys can mean a lot of things
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agoutihead


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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: Wysefool]
#5599854 - 05/07/06 01:31 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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yeah im going to assume they mean in some type of mystical or psychedelic way no?
-------------------- "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing" - Kevin Herbert "Psychedelics let you see the world through a child's eye." "Experience the liquid realm..." "The evolution of mankind is in the alteration of consciousness" - Dr. Albert Hofmann
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agoutihead


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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: agoutihead]
#5601741 - 05/07/06 05:01 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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anyone else get the actual cd art?
i would love to view all of alex greys work like this.
it makes it 100x more amazing which is hard to belive... will all of his work have the same response with these glasses?
-------------------- "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing" - Kevin Herbert "Psychedelics let you see the world through a child's eye." "Experience the liquid realm..." "The evolution of mankind is in the alteration of consciousness" - Dr. Albert Hofmann
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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: agoutihead]
#5601774 - 05/07/06 05:11 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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the key to the doors.
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The art is fucking amazing!
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agoutihead


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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: EquilibriuM]
#5602397 - 05/07/06 08:03 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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doors of perception i assume right?
in the song there is a funny excerpt with a nurse and a doctor saying that some guy is really messed up and they dont know why but his vitals are normal.
there is more to it.... specially when its "the guys" turn to talk then the music rocks ass!
im really surprised that stereoscopic stuff isnt more popular, its quite amazing.
-------------------- "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing" - Kevin Herbert "Psychedelics let you see the world through a child's eye." "Experience the liquid realm..." "The evolution of mankind is in the alteration of consciousness" - Dr. Albert Hofmann
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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: agoutihead]
#5602574 - 05/07/06 08:51 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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The artwork combined with the stereoscopic glasses gives quite an amazing affect. I'm interested as to the look it will have while tripping.
Definitely buy the CD. Not only for the artwork, but to pay for the music.
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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: agoutihead]
#5602592 - 05/07/06 08:55 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Lost keys and rosetta stoned are both about tripping, and the blame hofmann thing is based off of an inside joke the members of tool have. Whenever something bad happens, theyll say 'blame hofmann'.
I actually believe they may have a bit more meaningful edge than just that, though. It is possible that it's about the abuse of drugs (specifically psychedelics) as Maynard has said, “I think psychedelics play a major part in what we do, but having said that, I feel that if somebody's going to experiment with those things they really need to educate themselves about them. People just taking the chemicals and diving in without having any kind of preparation about what they're about to experience tend to have no frame of reference, so they're missing everything flying by and all these new perspectives. It's just a waste. They reach a little bit of spiritual enlightenment, but they end up going, 'Well, now I need that drug to get back there again.' The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.” The song talks about a high school dropout who trips, talks to aliens who tell him he's the one who is responsible to deliver the message of the universe to humans, and then can't remember any of the experience because he forgot his pen, and then goes to the hospital.
And yes, the artwork is worth the money alone. The cd is only $10, and for it, you get stereoscopic art photography and artwork done by the shaman artist, alex grey, and then a phenomenol progressive metal cd to boot.
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Re: tool 10,000 days cover art/flip art [Re: Veter]
#5602717 - 05/07/06 09:13 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey man, I agree with your interpretation, especially of Track 8.
As for Lost Keys (Blame Hoffman), the nurse is telling the doctor that the patient is showing no visible/physical signs of trauma but there is clearly something wrong with him etc. etc. Obviously the person they are discussing is tripping balls on acid.
The doctor is like, Well OK I better take a look at this chap, and tries to communicate with him but gets no response. So, based on the way they were talking and the title of the track, I assumed this scene was set back in the day, maybe the late 40s or early 50s before LSD had become widely known and the patient had dosed himself and "lost it", hence presenting the medical establishment with a big WTF??.
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