Update #11: 12” X 12” (No. 2) WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE • THE CRANBERRIES
Besides MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON for Pink Floyd and its 765 beds on the beach, this has got to be one of Storm’s most poetic depictions of his edict to “do it for real”. As you can see from the production shot revealing the scaffolding, the dozens of red yoga balls (Storm’s representation of molecules of the smell of the coffee wafting through the air) were gathered onto the platforms of the structure and bounced towards the startled character. If you’ve seen the Sony Bravia commercial with the colored superballs escaping down a San Francisco street, you now know where they nicked the idea. Storm does have recurring motifs, one of them being a fun relationship to scale, another being the freezing of a moment of a performance or action, and another being beds. Not to keep going back to Andy Warhol, but for me a lot of Storm’s images using beds are about transitional and in-between states much like Warhol’s films EAT or SLEEP. Is this real? Is it a dream? Is it a metaphor? All these interpretations co-exist but the fact that the actual image was executed for the camera just makes it all the more hyper-real and compelling. The upper image was for The Cranberries fifth record WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE and the lower image from a different shoot for the CD single of ANALYSE from the LP (these production shots from Storm's archive and never before seen).
AUDIO: Noel Hogan and Fergal Lawler from The Cranberries
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Custom made TAKEN BY STORM 1” promo rock badges (set of three) + soundtrack CD to Roddy Bogawa’s last feature film, I WAS BORN, BUT… [Original music by Chris Brokaw, released on Atavistic Records]
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Custom made TAKEN BY STORM 1” promo rock badges (set of three) + soundtrack CD to Roddy Bogawa’s last feature film, I WAS BORN, BUT… [Original music by Chris Brokaw, released on Atavistic Records] + official DVD of the completed feature of TAKEN BY STORM
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Custom made TAKEN BY STORM 1” promo rock badges (set of three) + soundtrack CD to Roddy Bogawa’s last feature film, I WAS BORN, BUT… + signed promo poster by Roddy Bogawa and Chris Brokaw for I WAS BORN, BUT... CD PLUS digital download of two unreleased Chris Brokaw tracks for TAKEN BY STORM
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Custom made TAKEN BY STORM 1” promo rock badges (set of three) + soundtrack CD to Roddy Bogawa’s last feature film, I WAS BORN, BUT… + signed promo poster by Roddy Bogawa and Chris Brokaw for I WAS BORN, BUT... CD PLUS digital download of two unreleased Chris Brokaw tracks for TAKEN BY STORM + official DVD of the completed feature of TAKEN BY STORM PLUS “THANKS” in film credits.
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ORIGINAL FINE ART SILK SCREEN PRINT by Storm Thorgerson. Prints include designs for “Deloused in the Comatorium” and “Televators” for The Mars Volta, “Eternal Flame” for Audioslave, Ellis Beggs and Howards “Homelands”, “Late September” for Deepest Blue and “Transmission” for Gentleman Without Weapons. Each print signed and uniquely customized by Storm with his fingerprint and personal ‘fish eye’ logo stamp. Prints are high quality silk screen images on archival paper - image size @ 19” x 19” overall print size 26” x 32” PLUS ”SPECIAL THANKS” in film credits. Fine Art Prints will be gifted via random numerical system.
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ARCHIVAL DIGITAL FINE ART PRINT by Jill Furmanovsky. This photo of Pink Floyd is in the recording studio Abbey Road during the sessions for WISH YOU WERE HERE (Jill believes it was specifically for WELCOME TO THE MACHINE as many shots also include Roy Harper) and this image has David Gilmour casually laying atop the mixing desk, Roger Waters and Rick Wright in conversation, and Nick Mason reading some type of handbill. A legendary band in a legendary studio making a legendary album, this photograph is a rare and intimate glimpse of Pink Floyd making the follow up record to the massively successful DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. ADDITIONALLY, donors at this level will receive a signed copy of THE MOMENT, Jill’s collection of rock photography from 1970-1995. This book is rare and nearly out of print and you get both for YOUR PLEDGE. Prints are on Hahnemühle paper - image size @ 16.5” x 11.7” PLUS ”SPECIAL THANKS” in film credits
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ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWN STORYBOARD for the actual concert films directed by Storm that were projected behind Pink Floyd for their 1995 Pulse World Tour. Sketches in the series include the mechanical hand from the Wish You Were Here lp sticker and the faceless bowler man from the back cover. Each storyboard includes six images and measures 16 ½” x 11 ½” PLUS ”SPECIAL THANKS” in film credits. Two storyboard pages to be gifted via random numerical system.
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ORIGINAL HIPGNOSIS PHOTOGRAPHIC LAYOUT BOARD. These are three original boards that were the actual designs by famed company HIPGNOSIS and include “Getting Closer” for Paul McCartney and Wings featuring a hand-tinted photograph of a lobster getting a Sunday walk down a city street, the surreal face pulling of Paul Young for his band Sad Cafe lp “Misplaced Ideals” and theater company Lumiere and Son’s film noir imagery for their “Dogs” performance. Each layout board is in excellent condition, measures approximately 14” X 19” and is signed by Storm (and have totally cool crop markings, notes, HIPGNOSIS business stamp, etc. on boards and cover sheets) PLUS “ASSOCIATE PRODUCER” title in film credits. These truly rare items to be gifted via random numerical system.
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Born in Los Angeles, Roddy Bogawa studied art and played in punk bands before turning to filmmaking. He received his MFA degree from the University of California at San Diego and moved to New York Shitty to attend the Whitney Independent Study Program. His features, SOME DIVINE WIND, JUNK, and I WAS BORN, BUT… have screened in dozens of film festivals, gallery and museum venues including the Sundance Film Festival (Dramatic Competition), the Mannheim International Film Festival (Germany), the Asian American International Film Festival (New York), the Hawaii International Film Festival, and the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival (Japan), Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and the 1993 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American. His low-fi science fiction film, JUNK, was praised by critic Amy Taubin as "everything indie film no longer is" and I WAS BORN, BUT…, a re-examination of Bogawa's punk rock years in Los Angeles featuring performances by Joe Strummer and Seam, premiered as the closing night film at the New York Underground Film Festival where it won the Festival Choice award and was reviewed in Variety as “a welcome addition to the Underground Canon”. His more recent short films have been featured in the New York Film Festival, Oberhausen Festival Internationale, the Black Maria Film and Video Festival (Director’s Choice Prize), the 1995 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Cinematexas Short Film Festival and Chicago Underground Film Festival.
