Howdy. This is my first post.

The album cover, when I see it, is a 'monkey', a habit, an addiction touching you, letting you know that it's still there and be aware....be very aware and it can come back whenever it feel s like it.

It seems simple, sorry. I am familiar with addictions and this is what it translates to me.

floodie4 posted:

Howdy. This is my first post.

The album cover, when I see it, is a 'monkey', a habit, an addiction touching you, letting you know that it's still there and be aware....be very aware and it can come back whenever it feel s like it.

It seems simple, sorry. I am familiar with addictions and this is what it translates to me.

Ya, I agree, the hand is not on the shoulder, which could symbolize reassurance, but rather gripping the arm.
As for the red line, it spasms out at the persons face ("and this is not my face" )- I think this means that the person is like deteriorating, becoming "irrelevant".

or the hand could be what is holding on to what is left of the individual-the sanity or something.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2009 03:49PM by aqualimo5857.

a pull and a slip, a fall down and a way to get back up, its really the slip in a nut shell. I mean we all slip sometimes only to catch our fall for there is always a helping hand or someone to guide us

The Perfect Chris posted:

I always found this artwork kinda creepy

I get that, I think there's a sense of a loss of control in it. I think that's where I get it from

Alessandro's arm looks cool.

Yeah.

Am I the only one who sees a scary face being grabbed by a hand when I look at The Slip´s cover upside down?

If I am, it´s Ok, I don´t sleep as much as I should...

i always felt that the hand was the hand that was trying to pull you out from your "slip"
which, to me, explains the shadows cast on both the main figure and the arm, as well as the bloody looking line which is broken right above the main figure

Honestly I think it's NIN best album cover.

ive asked b4 but nobosy seemed to answer this. ill try here. on the cover of the booklet of the cd for the slip with the gray lines. i c NIN on it but idk if thats just me? anyone?

i like the design. the blurred out photo is neat, it's the first time we see a person (even two) on a NIN cover. it gives it a more human feeling and it's really open to interpretation... also, i dig that red, i used it some times in my projects, the font is killer too. but the composition could have been better though, somehow the position of the red line bugs me... but the artwork inside is pretty neat, the symbols could have been more consistent, but that's just me being a graphic design snob...

i see this cover like a bridge, like the album is leading to something else that's also how i see the music. The red line represents that brige and the person (TR i guess?) is slipping into the next phase, and someone is trying to hold him, maybe himself (a common theme eg. tried to save myself, but myself keeps slipping). The cover shares similarities with those of year zero and with teeth (the shady hand, the blurring line). So it really feels like some kind of interlude, to something darker maybe (the pitch black background). Also, The slip could have been the split, the dividing line tells me that, and you get to hear it in the album, after head down, it becomes something else, and the trio of corona radiata, the four of us are dying and demon seed show NIN in it's darkest form since downward spiral, compared to the standard upbeat rock NIN of the first songs. The cover shows this spirit of rebellion trying to escape, only to abandon itself to something worse...

rob does a great job on everything! everything he did since he's Trent reznor's art director feels very nine inch nails and each cover fits the sound of the album. my favorite is ghosts, so simple yet so beautiful, and the vagueness of it goes well with the variety of the songs... the one i like less is Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D...

(damn... i should have read the first post... it says almost the same thing hahaha, i agree with you 'bro)



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how about this. everyone can see the hand grabbing for the shoulder. BUT theres one picture the noone noticed! turn the album UPSIDE DOWN! now DO YOU SEE THE FIGURE COVERING THERE FACE FROM THE LIGHT? MAYBE THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY??!!? I SEE SOMETHING OR MAYBE IM JUST OFF THE ROCKER!!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/09/2009 12:55PM by rev6.

I do not see the face...
I have had my LP sitting upside down in front of me on my desk for 2 days... Is this one of those "magic eye" pictures? I could never do those.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2009 11:30AM by TheKMNINMethod.

It's different and new. Obviously it's Trent and he is being pulled back or slipping away

For me, it is like the hand on "Year Zero" cover. But now, it touches human, not only ground.

My 2 cents, of course

floodie4 posted:

Howdy. This is my first post.

The album cover, when I see it, is a 'monkey', a habit, an addiction touching you, letting you know that it's still there and be aware....be very aware and it can come back whenever it feel s like it.

It seems simple, sorry. I am familiar with addictions and this is what it translates to me.

That's how I see it too. Drug addicted Trent in Clean Trent's body telling him he's there. One slip and he's back.