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Be the album cover, people: Welcome to Sleeveface
Posted on: 16 February 2008 | Comments (0)

NS pays tribute to a site that's gaining cult status in the web, helping fans become their favourite vinyl album cover.

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Surfers who have taken the journey with me down the corridors of the Internet will know that the Naked Surfer loves nothing but an obsessive website... especially one that pays a strange tribute to a fading art.

Months back, we took a look at a site, Sleevage.com that was paying tribute to the fading art of the album cover. Now, a movement that is a lot sillier, and no less effective - Sleeveface.com.

The definition of a sleeveface, the site tells us, is "One or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion."

In other words, dress up and shoot a photograph of you with the album in front of your face, such that it looks.. well, like you are the cover.

Word has it, Sleeveface started in a Cardiff bar and is fast becoming a phenomenon.

Step forward John Rostron, of Cardiff, one of the original faces behind the sleeves and a man boasting a record collection of around 6,000.

Mr Rostron who works as a music promoter for Plug Two in Cardiff Bay, said it all started last April when some friends were DJ-ing at Cafe Bar Europa in Cardiff and started messing around with album sleeves.

Founder John Rostron told BBC,

"They held up a couple of sleeves in front of their faces and took a picture. We showed them at work and we thought it was good fun, took some more the next week and put them on a website," he said.
Sleeveface's Facebook club now has almost 5,000 members, pictures posted from UK, the USA, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Iceland and Israel. There is now even a book in the pipeline.

Of such nonsense are great things made. We can't wait for Sleeveface for President.

Peace,
Naked Surfer.

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