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Here it is, your ‘Unknown Pleasures’ waveform gif generator
10.10.2016
11:58 am
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Joy Division‘s first album Unknown Pleasures has long had one of the most iconic covers of the twentieth century. Serious JD fans know that Peter Saville designed the cover based on an image that Bernard Sumner had found in The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy of radio waves from pulsar CP 1919.

Someone named Garrett Finucane has created an Unknown Pleasures waveform generator on Github. Here is some sample output:
 

 
You can clear it and make your own patterns on a field of more or less parallel horizontal lines, which will probably come out more unruly. I made one where the pattern resembles an upside-down cross:
 

 
After the jump, the full album that inspired this cool little toy to listen to while you play with it…

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Posted by Martin Schneider
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10.10.2016
11:58 am
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Calling for a moratorium on Joy Division mashup T-shirts
06.11.2015
09:53 am
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Peter Saville‘s iconic cover art for Joy Division‘s Unknown Pleasures album is becoming nearly as ubiquitous as the Black Flag bars when it comes to Post-Irony Age Internet appropriation. If there’s any question, we’re offering two dozen examples of t-shirt mashups that make us hate life.

Oscar Wilde said that sarcasm was “the lowest form of wit,” but Wilde never lived to experience the “mashup” genre. As Ian Curtis himself questioned on the Unknown Pleasures album: “Where will it end?”
 

We posted about this one, actually produced by the Walt Disney Corporation, back in 2012. It was killed by an angry Internet, and removed from the Disney catalog.
 

 
Worf/Unknown Pleasures mashup. - We wrote about this one last year. From Threadless.
 
More of these mashups after the jump…

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Posted by Christopher Bickel
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06.11.2015
09:53 am
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Joy Division for the kiddies: What is this ‘Unknown Pleasure’?
05.20.2013
12:16 pm
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Amusing t-shirt design in response to all those gazillion Tumblr images of Joy Division’s iconic album cover for Unknown Pleasures.

The t-shirt is by Adam J. Kurtz and it’s available to purchase for $25.00 here.

Via Post Punk Tumblr

Posted by Tara McGinley
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05.20.2013
12:16 pm
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‘Unknown Pleasures’: The story behind Joy Division’s iconic album cover
10.16.2012
09:59 am
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Graphic designer and artist Peter Saville tells the interesting back-story on how the now iconic Joy Division Unknown Pleasures album cover art came to be in 1979. 
 

 
Via Nerdcore

Posted by Tara McGinley
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10.16.2012
09:59 am
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The Cloak Of Unknown Pleasures
10.02.2009
05:18 pm
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Attention Obama family (or those who do their shopping for them): this Joy Division cloak will make the perfect Christmas gift for those Zapatero daughters!

(Via Coilhouse)

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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10.02.2009
05:18 pm
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