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Ransom Riggs
How to Sleeveface
by Ransom Riggs - May 26, 2009 - 10:09 AM

Finally, there’s a use for all those LPs that have been collecting dust in your closet: sleeveface! It’s a website, a book and a phenomenon in which, with the right album cover, the right lighting and perspective, and a little luck, you can create one of these:
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The sleeveface website is devoted to user-submitted sleevefaces — the sillier the better. But it’s not as easy as it looks: first you’ve got to find just the right album cover, preferably featuring a head-and-shoulders closeup of the artist. Then you might dress like that person appears to be dressed (from the shoulders up, at least), pose in a way that seems to complete their pose, and do your best to match the perspective of the photo on the album sleeve with your own photo. Which is to say, if Jimi Hendrix was photographed from a low angle, you’d do well to mimic that:
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Or if Morrissey was photographed from a high angle, you should use a high angle, too:
morrissey_adrian_barr.jpg

If you want more in-depth tips, check out this video, called “How to Sleeveface.”

Here are a few more of our favorites:
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randy_newman_laurel_connell_sleeveface.jpg

orion_testoricci _family.jpg

james_taylor_never_die_young_sleeveface.jpg

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Comments (10)

  1. This approaches the legendary Critical Mass of Cool.

    posted by Joe Maz on 5-26-2009 at 10:26 am

  2. I am astounded by the awesomeness displayed here!

    Recaptcha: Leggiest Detmit (how leggy is your average detmit?)

    posted by Dana on 5-26-2009 at 10:40 am

  3. Could this somehow be combined with the worst album covers of all time??

    posted by Anne on 5-26-2009 at 4:06 pm

  4. Brilliant!

    posted by beth on 5-26-2009 at 4:45 pm

  5. wow!

    posted by j roland kelly on 5-26-2009 at 8:31 pm

  6. I did this with this weeks TIME cover with Michelle Obama on the front.

    posted by Rachel* on 5-26-2009 at 8:38 pm

  7. Thank you for posting this!
    I know how I’m spending my summer vacation.

    posted by holly on 5-27-2009 at 2:03 am

  8. Humanity never ceases to amaze me.

    Such a random creative expression !

    I need to go dig out my few remaining vinyls

    posted by Snark on 5-27-2009 at 3:54 am

  9. So I have a crap load of my parents old LP’s…
    Prince, Chaka Khan, Peaches and Herb…
    It’s going down.
    People are so cool sometimes.

    posted by Chrystani on 5-27-2009 at 4:47 pm

  10. Great stuff! Florida needs more of this ‘art’!

    Thank you!

    Lanny

    posted by Lanny on 5-30-2009 at 10:45 pm

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