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My Beck Cover for The Information, originally uploaded by themaneatingcow23.

Today Jeremy asked me if I had the new Beck album, The Information. I told him that I did and that I thought it was pretty darn peachy keen. I was going to burn it for him, but then he was like, “No, I want to buy it and make my own cover!” Which made me think, “Hey, I haven’t made my own cover yet!” I thought about doing it a while back, but things came up, I made excuses so I wouldn’t waste the stickers, yadda yadda yadda. But now was the time to make that cover. You can now see the results.

Funny thing is, they give you a lot of frakin’ stickers. Six pages worth. I wasn’t content to just make a cover, because there were so many other stickers I wanted to use, but couldn’t because of space. So I just kept going until I ran out of stickers. Cover, back, inside cover, inside book. Pretty nice. You can see the rest of my efforts on my Flickr page.

Can I tell y’all how much fun I had doing this? I surprised myself. I spent over an HOUR using stickers. A lot of careful preparation went into making this (well, a lot for the cover and the back. The inside stuff…not so much. I was just having fun sticking things.) The cover was the hardest part, because I wanted to use the Beck sticker that came on the front of the plastic case, but it’s placement didn’t immediately jell with what I had planned. I’m pretty pleased with what I came up with instead. My favorite part is the drummer drumming on the head of the toothache on the back cover. I wanted everything to have a very dreamlike quality, thus my weird Beck on the cover with an eye crawling out of his head. He needs the 3D glasses because he now has three eyes (get it?). There is also a rain theme that runs through just about all of the sticker art I made, as if these wacky, crazy ideas are falling out of the sky. Everything feels like it is falling to me.

Me likes.

(Thing I didn’t notice until right now: My inside cover looks a lot like a turntable.  Isn’t that funny?)