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I remember wondering if the Joy Division album cover was related to one of the computer displays shown in the movie Alien. Here's an image of the two side by si
by huxley 12y ago
I remember wondering if the Joy Division album cover was related to one of the computer displays shown in the movie Alien. Here's an image of the two side by side (scroll down a bit):
http://asiwyfab.de/2013/02/04/random-music-fact-30/ http://asiwyfab.de/2013/02/04/random-music-fact-30/
- gdubs 12y agoInterestingly they came out in the same year -- US release of the film was only a month before the album. (Peter Saville probably would have caught the movie in the UK though, which wouldn't have been for another six months.)
- coroxout 12y agoAlthough the computer-generated art was done in the UK, at Atlas Labs (now part of Rutherford Appleton). http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/applications/animation/p014.htm http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/applications/animati... (Not that I think there's any realistic chance Saville saw the art before release.)