The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art

Re:The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art by NelsonMinar on Saturday May 18, 2013 @09:48AM (#5728893)

This whole article reads like it's written by someone who has never been inside a library. "it would be nice to have an original copy of those 3 aforementioned works in front of me to see if they list any copyright". If only there were institutions that have copies of obscure works like "Scientific American" that allowed people to peruse them for free.

Here's an animated, interactive visualization that looks like the Joy Division album cover, based on d3.js https://github.com/daliwali/unknown_pleasures

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Re:The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art by waterlesscloud on Saturday May 18, 2013 @11:28AM (#5729226)

I happen to own a copy of the Cambridge Encyclopedia Of Astronomy (Doesn't everyone?).

There's no attribution credit for the image, though many other images in the book have such credits.

The caption does note, however, that the pulsar has a period of 1.337 seconds. I believe this makes it quite leet.

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Re:The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art by xefer on Saturday May 18, 2013 @03:24PM (#5730026)

I too had a copy.

I remember when the album came out I immediately recognized the image, but I had no idea they had lifted it directly from the book itself. Now I wish I hadn't cut the picture out and taped it to the wall. :)

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Re:The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art by bjornsteffanson on Saturday May 18, 2013 @10:26AM (#5728998)

I wonder if the images of the magazines were copyright-protected themselves since it appears he didn't actually access them firsthand.

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Re:The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art by dfc on Saturday May 18, 2013 @01:53PM (#5729709)

Is this a poorly written joke? It makes no sense to me.

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Re:The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art by bjornsteffanson on Saturday May 18, 2013 @08:02PM (#5731018)

Not a joke, but my first language isn't English so I'll own up to the poorly written part. I think I was trying to point out that it seems he copied the actual photographs of the magazines from somewhere because he admits to not owning them.

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