Thursday, June 14, 2007

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons (1995)


You know, it's not that I don't get the point behind this cover or anything (ha ha the little kid in swim trunks is playing in the snow as if it were sand), it's just that the execution seems kind of slipshod. If you're trying to depict a small child playing in the snow, why not take a photo of a child playing in the god damned snow instead of taking a separate photo of the child, throwing him through a blue filter, then haphazardly photoshopping him onto a winter scene in as if we wouldn't notice. The same goes for the damned stupid bucket and scoop. I also like how for some reason the blue filter doesn't work on the piercingly red rose. Jesus Christ, Photoshop turned Storm Thorgerson into a lazy bastard.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No, this song is amazing, along with the artwork.

If you actually had purchased the original CD you would have seen that on the back, the child is an old man in a parka shivering on a warm beach.