Neptune cover.

[L Heckman]

No one asked, but does this make sense for
the cover of a punk compilation? I mean, what
does Greek mythology have to do with Kansas City punk?

[dan]

they are both undeniably awesome.

[nick]

probably the orgies.


also, did anyone else submit anything? because that could be the clencher.

[matt judge]

if this helps, my concept of it didn't have to do with greek mythology, i just picked the neptune statue because it looked intense.

the buildings are from the sort of east crossroads area, where the next space and the momo are-- i think of that as the scene's stronghold, for some reason, i guess because it seems like no one else is ever around there.

really it's about local culture. when the city and developers want to create a downtown 'culture,' it always has to do with bringing things (money) IN from elsewhere-- building condos to start the process of gentrification, building a stadium so some second-tier sports team from somewhere might decide to move to our city... as if 'culture' was this product floating out there that the city council can buy if they allocate enough money to it. and i like to point out, there IS a downtown culture, albeit sort of a small one-- and getting smaller, because their attempts to import culture from leawood or LA are actually crushing it. i had my problems with the stray cat, but "has bad sound" is a way more fixable problem than "is torn the fuck down to make room for a parking lot."

so, to be as much of an art student as possible about it, i'd say the neptune is like the elemental force of KC-DIY, rising up-- in the form of the music on the record-- to challenge that. it's directly confronting the person who looks at it.

also neptune is sweet

[L Heckman]

OK. Rising up and above a sea of musical and cultural mediocrity, as it were.

I should note that I did NOT submit cover art, so I shouldn't be whining on the board in the first place. Sorry guys.

[justin anxiety]

another thought:

neptune is just one of many fountains in the city, kc has more fountains than any other city outside of some places in italy. so you could also say it represents something about kc that way.

up the fountain city punks!

[JH]

i hate fountians!!! Fuck them! today i spent 5 hours on a jacuzzi fountian pump that had both the pump and motor rebuilt. Of course Jacuzzi is out of Canada and wont sell me parts so you have to over night the mother fuckers. Then i hook the whole thing up and its 3 phase so i dont want to switch any of the hot legs because that will reverse the rotation on the pump and cause massive damage. After hooking it all up, in this tiny box in the ground with no room to work in, mind you. The motherfucker flips the thermal overload each time i turn it on. I by pass the thermal overload switch and then it flips the breaker! So no fountian for family day at rockhill manor. Yes, that means my ass is grass on monday. FUCK FOUNTIANS!

[nicholas a]

JH said:

i hate fountians!!! Fuck them! today i spent 5 hours on a jacuzzi fountian pump that had both the pump and motor rebuilt.

my first thought was that you meant your dick was caught in a fountain pump. i don't know why.




i was thinking today that kansas city needs to start making cool fountains. that aren't all old-timey. i'm going to expand on that idea someday.

[flannery]

the james hathorne fountain. it will look just like the neptune fountain, except it will be james poppin a wheelie on his mountain bike with a boombox over his shoulder. photoshop that!

i agree though. i think we should out-fountain Rome.


and i don't know, with regards to the record art, i think it's just as recognizably "kansas city" as anything else in this city. you really think people in other cities know what bartle hall is? hell naw. and i'm much more in favor of using something recognizably kansas city than recognizably punk... i mean, presumably, people buying the record are going to know what to expect, we needn't put a mosh pit on the cover just to send the point home. that shit's boring.

i'm leaning more and more towards "KC DIY" as a title, by the way.

[JORDAN ALERT!]

that's good, because the title is most definitely KCDIY now.

[matt judge]

thehospital.sphosting.com/coverversions.html

now with red-only and black-only versions.

if these get unusably pixelly at 12 x 12, which they would on their own but might not with the silkscreen process, then tell me because i can do some that'd probably be better quality at that size.

[JORDAN ALERT!]

i say if you are able to do them at a better quality, go ahead and do it... i actually haven't checked it out though yet... as a general rule i like to keep things at at aleast 300dpi at actual size for resolution's sake... if that's what those images are, then that'll work fine. word!

[matt]

OK, both colors are ready at 300 dpi. they're much too big to put on sphosting now, though, so how do you want me to send them?

[JORDAN ALERT!]

hmm... will they fit in an email or two?

[e-mail]

[matt]

37 MB each for 12x12 bitmaps at 300 dpi, so i can't think of any other way than putting them on a CD. if you don't mind the reduction in quality from using jpegs instead, those might work.