First, shame on you for daring to belittle Maiden. Second, they don’t know guns, or at least the graphic designer doesn’t. Bruce Dickinson is actually a military history buff and I think he collects tanks. That doesn’t mean he knows guns, of course, but I’ll bet he knows that graphic don’t hunt.
I know, that’s always irritated me about those icons, although you can tell that it was done for stylistic purposes; the guns would be a jumbled mess if the magazines were where they’re supposed to be. I guess they could just have chosen a better gun for the image.
What the hell is that?! Iron Maiden used to have album covers that were works of art you could appreciate even if you had shitty taste in music and didn’t like Iron Maiden. Those covers made awesome posters which you’d want to frame, and they were the ones you kept when you grew out of having posters on your wall. This one isn’t even good enough to be a bumper sticker.
I know, that’s always irritated me about those icons, although you can tell that it was done for stylistic purposes; the guns would be a jumbled mess if the magazines were where they’re supposed to be. I guess they could just have chosen a better gun for the image.
It’d have been easier to simply cross them further up the rifle, at about the front end of the hand guard, rather than down at the action.
I don’t know squat about dinosaurs either, but when I wanted to use a dino in a print ad, I got the graphic artist several professional renditions of one, so she could study them. When we wanted to use some moonscape shots in an ad, we went right to NASA photos. When Disney was making Bambi word is he brought in a live fawn for the artists. It ain’t hard to do a minute or two of research, but unfortunately this sort of oversight is common.
August 2nd, 2010 at 8:27 am
Talk about short barreled rifles.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:02 am
First, shame on you for daring to belittle Maiden. Second, they don’t know guns, or at least the graphic designer doesn’t. Bruce Dickinson is actually a military history buff and I think he collects tanks. That doesn’t mean he knows guns, of course, but I’ll bet he knows that graphic don’t hunt.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:20 am
It needs more cowbell
August 2nd, 2010 at 11:14 am
An anti-bullpup.
August 2nd, 2010 at 1:06 pm
I know, that’s always irritated me about those icons, although you can tell that it was done for stylistic purposes; the guns would be a jumbled mess if the magazines were where they’re supposed to be. I guess they could just have chosen a better gun for the image.
Great album, though.
August 2nd, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Is that the forward grip for a pump-action?
August 2nd, 2010 at 2:36 pm
They’re British, they can’t know guns.(Humming Run to the hills as I type………….)
August 2nd, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Steve Harris plays bass better than anyone who reads this blog…
…unless Geddy Lee reads it.
August 2nd, 2010 at 3:50 pm
They need to watch the “You suck at photoshop” series on Youtube.
August 2nd, 2010 at 4:38 pm
What the hell is that?! Iron Maiden used to have album covers that were works of art you could appreciate even if you had shitty taste in music and didn’t like Iron Maiden. Those covers made awesome posters which you’d want to frame, and they were the ones you kept when you grew out of having posters on your wall. This one isn’t even good enough to be a bumper sticker.
August 2nd, 2010 at 6:33 pm
It’d have been easier to simply cross them further up the rifle, at about the front end of the hand guard, rather than down at the action.
August 2nd, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Spare mag carrier?
I don’t know squat about dinosaurs either, but when I wanted to use a dino in a print ad, I got the graphic artist several professional renditions of one, so she could study them. When we wanted to use some moonscape shots in an ad, we went right to NASA photos. When Disney was making Bambi word is he brought in a live fawn for the artists. It ain’t hard to do a minute or two of research, but unfortunately this sort of oversight is common.
August 2nd, 2010 at 8:10 pm
It would have been better leave the magazines off rather than put them in the wrong spot.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
It totally needs a shoulder thing that goes up.
August 3rd, 2010 at 12:16 pm
I thought maybe that was the shoulder thing that goes up. I’d always wondered what one looks like.
August 4th, 2010 at 4:59 am
‘Shoulder thing that goes up’= shrug, as you say,”What the hell is that?”