Sleeveface – The Book
UPDATE 17th November 2008
The Sleeveface book is available in shops now! Go to the book page for latest info.
Below is an old post from September 2008.
Drumroll please…
Let’s recap. It started with a Paul McCartney sleeve, then swiftly led to one or more persons in Cardiff, Wales having TOO MUCH fun ransacking their record shelves – from Rolling Stones to Nugent to Bowie to Cymande to Streisand. And people brandishing cameras yelling “up a bit, down a bit”.Sleeveface has heralded several positive outcomes for humanity. Viz:
- How To Sleeveface – the vid by Ewan Jones-Morris – which you have surely seen by now…
- Some rip-roaring Sleeveface parties, of which more soon
- A worldwide shortage of Barry Manilow records
- Students and dogs covering their faces with record sleeves
- Sleeveface, the book
So what’s in the book? Initially I envisaged a lengthy academic thesis about how it combines Marcel Duchamp’s readymades and Magritte’s treachery of images to form Warholian pop art. I’m kidding. The book publisher would rightly have stuck up a nose to that.
So it’s a 192-page compilation of Sleeveface pictures – hilarious, debonair, artistic – and in full colour! (Color!)
It’ll make a great present for that certain person in your life. Namely, the person who likes books featuring pictures of people holding record sleeves in front of their faces.
You can pre-order the book now. Here’s some info:
CANADA
Amazon Canada
USA
Find an independent USA bookstore
Amazon USA
Barnes & Noble USA
REST OF WORLD
You can buy the book using the links above. We are also working on getting it released at shops in your country.
“This book WON’T help you lose weight, make friends or money, won’t help you give up chocolate or change the way you think. It will, however, make you laugh, stare and wonder at the brilliance of Sleeveface!” Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1
If you want to tip-off a book shop, the publisher is called Artisan Workman. Hooray!
For the curious, the Sleeveface photograph on the book cover was done by Gunnar Bangsmoen. It’s a record by the band Bob Hund who are signed to Silence records. Original design of the sleeve is by Martin Kann. “Be the vinyl” is taken from a rather enthusiastic quote by Andy Bell of Erasure when he heard about Sleeveface.
September 18th, 2008 at 5:47 AM
[...] Original post by Sleeveface [...]
October 5th, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Cool! You’re an author now… can I get a signed copy? ;-)
But what album is that on the cover? Doesn’t even look much like a record sleeve somehow.
October 6th, 2008 at 2:47 AM
Mei, the album is credited above!
October 7th, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Aaaah. I love Magritte :-)
October 7th, 2008 at 9:30 PM
[...] you are diggin’ the sleeveface you can see more on Flickr and Facebook. Even fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld is into sleeveface (kind of [...]
October 15th, 2008 at 5:21 PM
[...] Sleeveface: Be The Vinyl [...]
October 18th, 2008 at 12:22 PM
[...] Sleeveface (Be The Vinyl) out in december in UK [...]
November 4th, 2008 at 7:18 PM
Ordered my copy yesterday for the missus (but really its for me… mwah ha ha…)
Looking forward to sending in some new pics from the pile of sleeves I brought back from a junk shop in France.
Keep on ‘Facing !
November 8th, 2008 at 11:24 AM
[...] vi jo). Fenomenet har resultert i en utstilling i Cardiff (som er åpen fram til 15.11) samt en bok som utgis i vinter. Lag gjerne dine egne og legg dem inn i [...]
November 17th, 2008 at 4:56 AM
[...] Born in the U.S.A to the controversial Strokes’ Is This It. You can check out their website here. You’ll find links to where you can buy the book, facebook it, and go to Sleeveface [...]
September 26th, 2010 at 10:38 PM
If you look deep enough you will see music; the sensitivity of nature being everywhere music.
October 23rd, 2010 at 8:26 PM
this is a laugh for you from me :)
If life gives you lemons, stick them down your shirt and make your boobs look bigger. :)
May 7th, 2012 at 10:23 AM
[...] donde pedían fotos para aumentar la colección, y un año después publicaban un libro, Sleeveface: Be the Vinyl, que reunía imágenes de gente y discos de todo el mundo. Desde entonces, más de una reunión ha [...]
May 7th, 2012 at 6:05 PM
[...] donde pedían fotos para aumentar la colección, y un año después publicaban un libro, Sleeveface: Be the Vinyl, que reunía imágenes de gente y discos de todo el mundo. Desde entonces, más de una reunión ha [...]
May 7th, 2012 at 10:57 PM
[...] donde pedían fotos para aumentar la colección, y un año después publicaban un libro, Sleeveface: Be the Vinyl, que reunía imágenes de gente y discos de todo el mundo. Desde entonces, más de una reunión ha [...]