🔸⭐𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑⭐🔸

⭐„𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙬𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙗𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙝 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠."⭐
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘝 𝘘&𝘈 2013)

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes, INTRO@House, screenshot from LLLTV,  edit by Marti

Dear friends,
Placebo album covers are an eternal theme for all fans. As soon as the cover of the last album "Never Let Me Go" appeared, the celebratory and condemning comments were immediately dominated by social networks.

Today, I want to focus on the artwork of the INTRO design studio, which created the cover of the 𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 album from 2013.
Its creative director is 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.
For me personally, Julian's work is a masterpiece. Together with the amazing photographs by 𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐡 𝐋𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬, it is a breathtaking perfection that brilliantly expresses the combination of psychedelic visions with colorful emotions emanating from the songs.

The artwork of Julian's studio and the photos of Mr. Llanes could be enjoyed mainly by all fans who ordered the album ⭐Loud Like Love Limited Super Deluxe Edition.⭐
Which one of you has this gem?

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

However, it is necessary to mention other artists who, together with Julian House, contributed to the visual stage effects during the LLL tour -
🔸𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐦 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐬.🔸
You can also see Catherine's works at concerts by many other well-known artists - I name U2, Shawn Mendes, Michael Buble, Coldplay for all of them.

Here are two links to her work:
🔸Placebo Tour visuals:
https://bit.ly/33qktIw

🔸Loud Like Love music video - „Psychedelic Bedouin dream world!“
https://bit.ly/33ngRqS


And here's a link to Sam Williams' studio and his video accompanying the entire Placebo world LLL tour:
🔸„Working with Julian House at INTRO, I created the stage visuals and album campaign for the ‘Loud Like Love’ worldwide tour. Using a combination of motion graphics, video feedback and other analogue processes to give the visuals a distinct look.“ 🔸Sam Williams
https://samwilliams.studio/Placebo


Dear soulmates, let's remember today what Brian's ideas were about the cover of the album LLL ... An album full of ambiguous lyrics, emotions and melancholy ...:

Album cover

🔸💬𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 “𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆” 𝒊𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒍𝒚𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒆. 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓? 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔’ 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕?
"Absolutely. I went specifically to the design company and told them that I wanted to make a clean break with the Placebo aesthetic which has built up over several albums – quite minimalist, figurative, and very much about the human body, and I thought that we’d kind of taken it as far as it could, and if it had continued, I think it could have fallen into the realm of self-parody or just running out of ideas.


So I went to the design company, asking for something very different, and we talked a lot about psychedelic film/’60s and ‘70s film, sci-fi imagery, photographers that inspired us, French comic books, graphic novels, movies like The Man Who Fell to Earth. We talked a lot about counter-culture and psychedelia. My first love, musically, was psychedelic, so I wanted to make reference to that kind of aesthetic. The designer just ran with it.


We were talking about putting it through the filter of modern technology and that sort of video aesthetic, as well, and the whole idea was to have something with psychedelic, sci-fi tones that had a humanity about it that was otherworldly, but that had something familiar to it, as well. We basically wanted to start a new story. I think we felt that there was a certain amount of rebirth going on within the band itself, and that that should be reflected in the artwork. We tended to carry that aesthetic through tour visuals and merchandising, and throughout the whole campaign."
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘝𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘮𝘦 2013)

🔸𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐿𝐿𝐿 𝑇𝑉 2013 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒:
https://bit.ly/3fcGL3l

It's very beautiful to liven up these amazing moments, don't you think?
Especially now that we are all waiting for new surprises that the band has prepared for us to release their eighth album.

Post by Marti

🎇 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎'𝐬 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑 🎇

🔸Dear Soulmates, today I'd like to talk about an interesting item Placebo sold on their official store in december 2011, their wonderful 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫 2012.

It contains 13 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 of the band, taken by different photographers and 𝐴𝑙𝑒𝑥 𝑊𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑛, the band's manager.🔸

Photo credits at the end of the text

⭐📷Among the photographers is 𝑱𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒑𝒉 𝑳𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒔, who was involved in the artwork for 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 with these great photos of the band at 𝑉𝑎𝑠𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑧 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘 in the Los Angeles desert. He was also with Placebo when they performed at 𝐴𝑛𝑔𝑜𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑡 in 2008. And these are some photos that we can see in the calendar. 💕


⭐📷We also find a picture of the lovely 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒈𝒆 who always manages to bring out the emotional side of Placebo through her soulful and beautiful pictures. 💖


⭐📷𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒊 is a well-known fashion photographer. During the 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑜𝑘𝑦𝑜 𝑖𝑛 2010, where Placebo played an acoustic session, Sam Noiri was there and took this great photo of Brian smiling. Great gift eh! . 💝

⭐🎬The film director 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕-𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒔 is the author of the live photographs of the band in this calendar. There had to be live photos ! It should be remembered that Charlie Targett-Adams followed Placebo during concerts in 2009 and filmed them. And that's good! Because we can enjoy his incredible talent ! 💞


⭐🌟In the 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, there is one very important person... 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒙 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏. She is the director of Riverman Management, along with 𝐷𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑑 𝑀𝑐𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑛. She often follows the band on tour. She must have hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the band ! On the calendar, we can thank her for this superb photo of Brian and Stefan sitting on steps in Cambodia. 💚

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

✨Photography is an art and all the people I have mentioned above know their stuff !

Here are the links to appreciate their great work✨

📍 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦 https://www.scarletpage.com/

📍 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘛𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵-𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘴 http://www.charlietargett-adams.com/

📍 𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘪 𝘕𝘰𝘪𝘳𝘪 http://www.saminoiri.com/

📍 𝘑𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘩 𝘓𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘴 https://www.josephllanes.com/


🔸What I like about this calendar is the eclectic choice of pictures that brings together the fun, the musical universe and the committed side of Placebo. I think it sums up the 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 perfectly.


🎵As many pictures are from the concert in Angkor Wat, let's enjoy ourselves with one of my favorite song from this live: 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸-𝗘𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗸𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝘁 🎥https://bit.ly/39UoSnd🎵

𝑃ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑠:
- Joseph Llanes (6 pictures on the left + picture of the calendar taken from his IG)
- Charlie Target-Adams (4 pictures on the rignt)
- Scarlet Page (in the middle left, bottom page)
- Sami Noiri (in the middle, right bottom page)
- Alex Weston (in the middle, on top)

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STORY BEHIND A PICTURE: the sensory overload

"When we step out on to the stage there's a bit of a sensory overload at first and it's almost like a car crash in slow motion, when your life flashes before your eyes … It kind of takes 20 minutes for things to settle and to feel completely comfortable with that sensory overload."

“It's having to prove yourself again and it's having to prove yourself worthy. But it's very good because it really gets in the way of ever becoming complacent. I'm quite pleased for the insecurity and nerves because if I didn't have it then I would really start to question whether or not there was anything vital left."
(Rolling Stone, Go Behind the Scenes With Placebo, October 21, 2013)

This picture is one of the shots taken by Joseph Llanes at The Wiltern Theatre (see the info down below) in Los Angeles on October 18th, 2013, where Placebo played one of their first shows in the US after not stepping there for six years. Can you imagine how exciting it was both for the fans and the band?! The concerts in New York and Los Angeles were a part of Loud Like Love tour in honor of Placebo then latest release.
The quotes above come from the “behind the scenes” interview while Brian was getting ready for the show in the dressing room downstairs The Wiltern.
To catch some special moments of the night, the Rolling Stone magazine engaged Joseph Llanes, a photographer who also worked with the band on Loud Like Love album shooting (which I told you about last week).

“…LLLA” is read below the picture of The Wiltern shared on @placeboworld IG just a few hours before the show. Were they going to be Loud Like Los Angeles?..
The show was opened with B3 followed by For What It’s Worth and Too Many Friends, but I can’t find them recorded from that day. Let’s listen to Twenty Years instead that seems to be a moment of starting to ‘feel comfortable’ according to Brian.

Placebo - Twenty Years, The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles CA, October 18, 2013
♫ https://bit.ly/3fQbNfz ♫


🔹VENUE INFO: THE WILTERN THEATER🔹

The Wiltern Theatre received the name from its location: the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue.
The magnificent interior of The Wiltern evokes a period of elegance and style simply not found anywhere in today's modern venues. The entrance is set back among colorful terrazzo paving, and its Art Deco design contains decorative tile work along with colorful murals. The most dramatic element of the overall design is the sunburst on the ceiling of the auditorium, with each ray representing its own Art Deco skyscraper.

Originally built in 1931 in Los Angeles, the Wiltern was designed by the city's oldest architectural firm as a vaudeville and movie theater. After a big renovation started in 1981, while the whole unique vintage style was carefully kept, the venue was converted into a performing arts center that could host live concerts and Broadway-level stage performances.

With 1850 seating or 2300 standing room capacity, the Wiltern remains one of the largest theaters in Los Angeles.
Dear soulmates, I hope you’ve got to know something new from today’s story. Now, back to the quote by Brian I started with… I think those words could only be said by a person whose feelings about everything he shares with the audience are extremely deep and true.
What do you think of this Brian’s reflections?

Photo credits: Joseph Llanes
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STORY BEHIND A PICTURE: Loud Like Love photoshoot at Vasquez Rocks

Many of you surely remember some stunning images from Loud Like Love packaging revealed in 2013. It was Los Angeles photographer Joseph Llanes who worked on the pictures for Placebo seventh studio album.

An extremely beautiful location, Vasquez Rocks, was chosen for this photoshoot so, the result appeared to be breathtaking. 

On May 18, 2013, Joseph Llanes shared this photo on his IG account with the following message: “The band that started my music career. Best shoot of the year so far. Can't wait for the new album.”

PHOTOSHOOT LOCATION INFO

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 377-hectare park located in the Sierra Pelona Mountains in northern Los Angeles County, California. It is widely known for distinctive rock formations repeatedly used as a filming location.

The prominent rock formation has been nicknamed "Kirk's Rock" due to being featured in several Star Trek episodes, each time representing a different planet. It was also featured in an episode of Star Trek: Picard, in a scene identified as taking place at that real location.

A small hint: do you remember that Stefan has once got a nickname ‘Volcano’ from his bandmates – just as the Star Trek character?

In 1935, Vasquez Rocks was used as a filming location to portray Tibet on the famous Hollywood horror movie Werewolf of London.

Feature films shot at Vasquez Rocks include Dante's Peak, Hot Shots! Part Deux, Rustlers' Rhapsody, The Flintstones, Blazing Saddles, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Free Enterprise, Paul, and Hail, Caesar!

Television shows include Zorro, The Fugitive, F Troop, The A-Team, MacGyver and G.L.O.W.

Commercials for Taco Bell, Bank of America, Pacific Bell, Pepsi, and Nike have been filmed at the rocks.

Musicians Radiohead, Michael Jackson, Greta Van Fleet, 311, Eddie Money, Sammy Kershaw, Restless Heart, Lee Tae-min, and BTS have made music videos there.

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is open from sunrise to sunset for outdoor activities. It is also a popular place for hosting so called Star Parties. Those are gatherings of amateur astronomers for the purpose of observing objects and events in the sky which sometimes last up to a week or longer and attract hundreds or even thousands of participants.

Joseph Llanes:

“I believe that the person I’m photographing should be put at ease, so my goal is to earn their trust.”

“I love cultivating relationships and recognizing the talents of others and putting them to good use. At the end of the day, my goal is for everyone to feel a part of something and to be proud of the images that were created.”

(Directory of Illustration) 

No doubt, both Placebo and photographer are proud of their collaboration outcomes.

Photo credits: @josephllanes

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