Dj /Rupture - Special Gunpowder
Record + CD covers
Collaboration with Dj /Rupture
Tigerbeat6
Oakland, USA
June 2004
Dj /Rupture explains: "The watermelon image comes from a slot-machine parlor in Madrid. I was walking by in 2001 or so (when I lived there), the idea struck me instantly: add three black 'motion lines' and the watermelon would become a shooting bullet. It was bright, iconic, and played with inverting notions of black
stereotypes (watermelon and fried chicken) into a funny statement. The idea came years before the album, the image-idea was that strong, it just stayed with me. It also speaks to people who have no ideas about watermelon stereotypes, so that's cool too, to them its just a powerful, simple design."
"Philadelphia is burning and water- / melon is all that can cool it / so there they are, spiked / atop a row of metal poles / rolling on and off pickup trucks / the fruit that grows longest / the fruit with a curly tail, the cool fruit / larger than a large baby, wide / as the widest green behind, wide / vermilion smile at the sizzling metropole." Excerpt from "Overture: Watermelon City", a poem by Elizabeth Alexander, included in the cd liner notes.
This project appeared in:
Atlas of Graphic Design - Published by Mao Mao Publications - Barcelona, Spain
Supersonic: Visuals for Music - Published by Die Gestalten - Berlin, Germany
Honest Magazine - Fall 2006 - New York, USA