Friday, May 13 2005: “Taken By Storm” Exhibit in
Pictures and Details by Seth of Floydhead.com
Official Details of
Exhibit here: http://www.takenbystorm.us/
Storm’s Official Site:
http://www.stormthorgerson.com/
Storm & Seth
Storm Thorgerson,
and Seth of Floydhead.com
Storm is an international
artist, best sought for his amazing album cover designs. He helped to fortify the art of the “concept
album” in the late 60’s, with the collaboration of (band members he grew up
with named) Pink Floyd. His success in
creating astonishingly meaningful and symbolic artwork for that band opened floodgates…
Other album covers
designs for bands include… Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Genesis, Cranberries,
Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, Anthrax, Dream Theater, Muse, Foreigner, The
Offspring, Ween, Catherine Wheel, Alan Parsons, The
Scorpions, The Mars Volta, Foreigner, Styx, Megadeath,
Audioslave, Phish… among many others.
(Above, the ‘welcome’ entrance to the “Taken By Storm” exhibit, no mis-communication here)
Already owning a couple of his signed and numbered pieces (“Tree of Half Life”,
and “Back Catalogue”), I visited Storm’s exhibit with the intention of buying
another piece (“Interstellar”), as well as meeting him, getting some photo’s / signatures,
and pitching my next album project idea to him. Surprisingly, all went well…
(note, these pictures can be resized 2x as large)
Liz, the owner of
the Gallery (“Inspire Fine Art”) was gracious, friendly, and a wonderful host. All of the artwork was layered out
perfectly. It was great to learn some of
the stories behind the artwork, such as Audioslave’s
(bronze flame, above) (inspired during Storm’s second visit to
Note “Interstellar” upper
left, had to have it!
Refreshing to see new
cutting-edge bands such as MUSE utilize Storm’s genius. (far
right image with man & Shadows)
Storm
signing autographs, far right.
Storm’s Peeps.
Yeahhh… Crazy Seth… I told him I wanted simple…
like the cow! Not complex like the beds
on the ocean, my bank ain’t got that much bling!