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Robert Beatty

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My book "Floodgate Companion" is back in print and shipping now from Floating World Comics @floating_world . I made this trailer for the book in 2016, remastered here in HD.

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Robert Beatty

@EdSunspot

1 year

"R Plus Seven" by @0PN came out 10 years ago this week. By far one of the strangest album covers I've made and one that's taken on a weird life of it's own. Here's a thread with some backstory to how it came to be.

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Artforum firing their editor for signing a letter of support for a Free Palestine while having Black Panther artist Emory Douglas on their cover is peak art world hypocrisy. The Black Panthers were extremely vocal in their support for Palestine, absolutely shameful.

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Made an illustration for today's @nytimes

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Two stills from a Brazilian commercial for Sharp electronics directed by Walbercy Ribas Camargo from the late 70’s. Images from the 79/80 Graphis Annual. Would love to see this, it’s surely totally insane. Someone find it!

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Internet Archive forever, fuck copyright

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3 years

💛💛💛Designed a poster for @KaceyMusgraves tour that started this week, available at the shows.💔💔💔

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Over the span of a few months I designed a visual world for every song on @0PN Magic Oneohtrix Point Never which became the inner sleeves of the double LP, one panel for each side of the record.

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Design of early Scientology publications before they got all slick were so wild.

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New single artwork I made for The Weeknd "Out of Time"

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9 months

Me, going to the park to make field recordings "WTF these swings sounded so good just the other day"

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Today, I finally did it. Peak dad. Took a mini WD40 to the playground to tackle the squeaky swings that have bothered me for months. Satisfaction off the scale. Permanent addition to the bottom of the buggy going forward. My purpose in life is found.

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4 years

How did this Ikko Tanaka poster end up being the most prominent image associated online with Haruomi Hosono's "Watering a Flower" cassette of minimal background music for MUJI? Well let me tell you! Thread->

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1 year

While working on the cover I turned it upside down & saw "R+7" in it and immediately any reservations I had about recreating this image went away and I knew Dan had make the right decision to use this as the cover. An abstracted flipped version then became the back cover

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7 years

Some absolutely unreal design and typography on these 45's from 70's Madagascar

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3 years

Logo I designed for The Weeknd "DAWN FM", out tonight at midnight. @theweeknd @0PN

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1 year

The “R Plus Seven” art thread has escaped my bubble and made it to normal twitter where people are critiquing the art and correcting my grammar mistakes. Didn’t know that was still possible on this site

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3 years

Gathered up some "Currents" memes for a talk I'm giving and this one was new to me.

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6 years

Japanese Ray Bradbury editions from 1976 with incredible covers.

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4 years

Bulgarian Science Fiction covers published in the Galaxy Library series- Библиотека Галактика

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2 years

In a lifetime of incredible work the Michael Snow piece I come back to most often is his video “Corpus Callosum” from 2002. Hypnotic and strange beyond words. RIP

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1 month

Tried to remove my thumb from an image of a book using Photoshop's generative AI fill and it just replaced it with a way more fucked up thumb.

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3 years

Illustration for today's New York Times "Computer Chips Are the New Toilet Paper"

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4 years

Thinking about John Rogers Cox clouds a lot lately.

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3 years

I made an illustration for The New York Times for an article on how billionaires’ world-building aspirations are built on misunderstanding science fiction and how we all suffer because of it. Fun stuff!

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3 years

I think it totally sucks that the way live music is starting to come back is festivals, a way to see music that I despise on pretty much every level.

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5 years

Going extremely hard in Illustrator experiments lately, making things that look entirely un-vector like. There are straight screenshots, no processing.

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1 year

I wish Bandcamp would be bought by a company that wants to add a volume control.

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3 years

I made the poster for CHILLIN ISLAND, coming soon from @ElaraPictures @JOSH_BENNY on @HBO

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Carla Bley on the cover of Jazz Magazine, Spring 1978. Incredible cover design by Bob Delboy

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4 years

MAGIC ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER out now @0PN

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1 year

The cover image is a recreation from scratch by me of a VHS screengrab still from the film "Le ravissement de Frank N. Stein" from 1982 by animator Georges Schwizgebel. I made the image with Schwizgebel's blessing and permission.

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1 year

RIP to the incredible artist Konrad Klapheck

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3 years

I designed a poster for a @sevwave quadraphonic show coming up at @ZebulonLA

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@EdSunspot

11 months

Keep thinking about this Minoru Muraoka album cover in light of the big flute news this week.

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@EdSunspot

3 years

Oneohtrix Point Never made a version of "Tales From the Trash Stratum" with Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and I made an accompanying video. @0PN @WarpRecords

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1 year

I remade the image 100% from scratch, trying to match the colors and texture of the screenshot as closely as possible. Also to make it work as an LP cover it had to extended from 4:3 to square.

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Robert Beatty

@EdSunspot

10 months

My version of this playlist would just be their entire discography in chronological order.

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An Introduction to Broadcast. A playlist of songs from 1996 – 2013. In here the world begins. →

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4 years

Part of my work that I never really talk about is reigning in/deflecting all of a musician's terrible ideas. lol

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Robert Beatty

@EdSunspot

2 years

Goodbye to early computer artist Ken Knowlton. The work he did at Bell Labs with Lillian Schwartz is some of my favorite art ever made. Here's a clip from "UFO's" from 1971 with a soundtrack by Emmanuel Ghent (warning- flashing images)

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Robert Beatty

@EdSunspot

3 years

My type work for "Dawn FM" got a staff pick on @FontsInUse

The Weeknd – Dawn FM album art

Dawn FM is the new album by Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, released on January 7, 2022 by XO and Republic Records. Robert Beatty did the artwork for the various collector’s editions as well...

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Robert Beatty

@EdSunspot

3 years

Shout out to all the haters mad that I used a font from DAFONT DOT COM on the biggest job I've ever done.

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Robert Beatty

@EdSunspot

1 year

I've actually been reminded that what I remembered as an accident was Dan's idea! Sorry all credit for this ingenious coincidence goes to @0PN

Robert Beatty

@EdSunspot

1 year

While working on the cover I turned it upside down & saw "R+7" in it and immediately any reservations I had about recreating this image went away and I knew Dan had make the right decision to use this as the cover. An abstracted flipped version then became the back cover

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3 years

“Take My Breath” single art for @theweeknd 🌅 Out tonight 🌅

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@EdSunspot

3 years

Made the art for the new Oneohtrix Point Never @0PN & Rosalía "Nothing's Special" single out today from @WarpRecords

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3 years

Absolutely bonkers Charlemagne Palestine interview from PBS in 1979. Dressed in a leather jacket and a sparkly scarf waving a torch and spewing absolute nonsense. Hard to believe this is real.

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@EdSunspot

4 years

“Currents” by @tameimpala was released 5 years ago today. Never could have imagined when I made this that years later I’d still be seeing it every day in the form of memes, tattoos, bootlegs, and whatever else you can imagine.

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1 year

In recent years I've seen people question online about whether I made this cover or not. It's been an interesting learning experience about perception of authorship in visual sampling, especially in context of the sampling on the album and how authorship isn't questioned there.

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@EdSunspot

1 year

That's it- Thanks to @0pn for always throwing me curveballs that make a better album cover in the end and congrats on the new album out today!

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@EdSunspot

3 years

I’ve made as many movie posters as I have album covers this year, it’s been a very nice change of pace.

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@EdSunspot

2 years

So strange that there’s never been a comprehensive book of John Rogers Cox artwork. Love his work so much, absolutely incredible.

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@EdSunspot

1 year

Obviously this image on the right was edited to become the cover for "Commissions I" a few months later.

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@EdSunspot

1 year

I had been working on a bunch of minimal pseudo corporate graphic stuff in the vein of Paul Rand for the cover that wasn't really coming together when Dan suggested using that still for the cover. I was definitely skeptical, but Warp got in touch with Schwizgebel about it.

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3 years

Here's a photo from the inside of the house Maya Deren's "Meshes of the Afternoon" was filmed in from the real estate listing the last time it was sold in 2014. That window in the back is (probably) where this famous shot was filmed.

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5 years

Illustration for @NewYorker , a portrait of Chinese Sci-if author Liu Cixin

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1 year

It used to be that you could go to the experimental section in any record store and buy some of the most mind-blowing music in existence and it was all somehow on one label. Glad all this Tzadik stuff will be available to a wider audience now via streaming. Some of my faves-

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4 years

"John Was Trying To Contact Aliens" is on @netflix today! I designed the titles for this incredible short documentary directed by Matthew Killip and featuring music from Harmonia, K. Leimer and Michael Stearns.

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@EdSunspot

3 years

✨💛 I made a bunch of stage visuals for the @KaceyMusgraves tour that just finished. 💛✨ Photos by Jasmine Safaeian

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@EdSunspot

1 year

I had been working on a bunch of minimal pseudo corporate graphic stuff in the vein of Paul Rand for the cover that wasn't really coming together when Dan suggested using that still for the cover. I was definitely skeptical, but Warp got in touch with Schwizgebel about it.

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1 year

Really curious if anyone actually cares about Apple Motion or Spotify Canvas or finds any value in it beyond "content". The amount of extra expected work it has created for album cover artists *usually without the budget to justify it* is completely untenable.

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4 years

I've been reading @thewiremagazine since I was a teenager when it blew my mind wide open several times over. Psyched to have done a cover illustration for the new issue for a feature on Tangerine Dream.

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@EdSunspot

4 years

I made the cover illustration for the April issue of @newrepublic . Art director @lindsayballant

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4 years

Said goodbye to my companion of the past 7 years this week. Velvet was the sweetest, funniest, most resilient miniature alien deer and it gave me immeasurable joy to give her the best life possible.

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3 years

Tried to order a book of Iranian music posters from @50WattsDotCom and Paypal blocked the transaction because it had the word "Iran" in it. Cool policy there @PayPal Posters by Ghobad Shiva from the book "Music Posters from Pre-Revolution Iran, 1960s-70s."

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3 years

Here's hoping some Weeknd fans check out some mindbending improvised free jazz albums that I also made the art for.

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4 years

I made the cover artwork for a compilation of Mort Garson rarities "Music From Patch Cord Productions", out in November on @SacredBones

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Illustration I made for The Atlantic for an article about roadkill's threat to endangered species.

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3 years

Filmmaker and artist Curt McDowell with his 7 foot tall Beatles autopsy calendar painting in 1968.

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4 years

Love seeing my art printed on smeared newsprint.

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1 year

Duchamp still making haters mad 100 years later is proof he's one of the best to ever do it.

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3 years

I made the artwork for the upcoming self-titled album from @mymorningjacket Out October 22nd on @ATORecords

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5 years

RIP Pedro Bell, one of the greatest album cover artists there ever will be

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4 years

For all the people asking what this aesthetic is called I think it's "advertising"

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4 years

Did an interview with Stereogum, talking about lots of stuff regarding the new @0PN and more general album art junk

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We talked to Robert Beatty, the artist behind album covers for Tame Impala, Kesha, Oneohtrix Point Never, and whole lot more

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6 years

Man 70's bootleg LP art was WILD

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4 years

Cover art by Daniel Le Noury for computer programming books by Rodnay Zaks. 1980-1983

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3 years

For everyone wondering what software I used to make that OPN & Rosalia single art

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5 years

I did the cover illustration for this week’s @NYMag

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7 months

I made an illustration for the new issue of the New Yorker for the article "What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet." A fascinating piece about space weather and the people who study it. Thanks to art director @zsigmonda

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8 years

I see so many people apologizing for talking about their music or art these days, I'd only expect an apology if you stopped making it.

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4 years

I’ve got an illustration in @nytimes today. Black and white in print and digital in full color

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3 years

Here’s one of several pieces of album artwork I made for “Dawn FM” by The Weeknd @theweeknd . More to come.

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4 years

‘MAGIC ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER’ OCT 30 @0PN @WarpRecords

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4 years

I made the cover illustration for this weekend's @nytimes Sunday Review "The Coup We Are Not Talking About" by Shoshana Zuboff. Online now and in print tomorrow.

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@EdSunspot

1 year

All of the images Schwizgebel sent over were crisp scans of the original animation cels that didn't have the patina of being shot on film and recorded to VHS that gave the screenshot it's aura so it was decided I would recreate the VHS still with Georges' permission

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If you spend any time in this world, you soon realize it's all guided by the money. If some billionaire hedge fund bozo who wants to decorate his condo decides you're annoying, you're done for.

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2 years

I love Lee Bontecou's drawings. Rest in peace

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4 months

I've spent years trying to emulate the Rutt-Etra Scan Processor in Photoshop (and have gotten very close using a few different techniques) but this new @texturelabs tutorial really cracks it. Unreal.

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Robert Beatty

@EdSunspot

2 years

Lol putting other peoples work through a Gaussian blur as a concept is a new level of design studio/art director cringe

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2 years

For a new gradient visual identity, Resident Advisor looked to its vast archive of club night flyers >

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@EdSunspot

5 years

Genesis P-Orridge has passed away. I've known this was coming for a while but still hurts. Gen was about as complex as a person can be, and there's so much (good and bad) to learn from such an insane life. I wouldn't be here doing what I do without them.

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Tape Don AKA Sheet designed by Hans Donner and Sylvia Trenker circa 1975.

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