Thursday, April 30, 2020

Insane Clown Posse - First 6 Joker's Cards Raw Vectors

         So, on r/Juggalo, I noticed a post of a very high quality upload of Ringmaster's album art. On that post, the original uploader commented that they got it from a press kit PDF for The Wraith Shangri-La, found on the wayback machine. In the PDF, I noticed that there was album art for the first 6 joker's cards, all 100% vectors. This is important, because due to the fact that these are vectors, that means that these are the highest quality art possible for these albums. 
         Using Inkscape, I extracted all of the raw vectors for each album. I have included 600DPI PNGs, 2000DPI PNGs, and the raw SVG files. As a bonus, I have included album art restorations of Ringmaster, Riddle Box, The Great Milenko, The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (both variants), and The Wraith: Shangri-La using all of these vectors, alongside the original background for Shangri-La, sourced from Getty Images. There is also the ICP logo and Hatchet Man included, as those were also in the PDF file. If there is interest, I can make high res versions of every color variant of The Great Milenko (Green, Purple, Gold, ETC), just let me know in the comments below.


         Some side notes:

  • Carnival Of Carnage seems to have been edited, its ever so slightly different, thus there is no restoration for that one.
  • I have included 2 versions of Ringmaster, one mimicking the original CD cover, and one mimicking the Vinyl cover.
  • I have also included 2 versions of Shangri-La. One has the background color matched to the original CD/Vinyl cover, and one is the color of the original image.
  • Someone mentioned that Milenko's hands have the wrong color outline on Reddit. That has been fixed.
  • All of the restorations are 5000x5000 besides Shangri-La. This is because the section of the original image they used only came out to around 800x800.
  • The raw vector of the logo has a very thick black outline, there was a background layer for that which was black. The one with the deleted background is in the "Thinner Black Outline" folder. The raw vector still has a black background, and I could not figure out a way to remove that. I removed it using the magic eraser tool in Photoshop, which is why there is no raw vector for the outlineless logo.
  • Included in the MEGA is the PDF that I sourced all of the vectors from.
  • If the link goes down, pm me on Reddit at /u/mrgameandwatch09
I mainly uploaded these so that people could make fanart, alternate album art, shit like that. Go wild! Enjoy!

EDIT 5/21/20 - I added an album art restoration for Carnival of Carnage (despite it being edited) per request. I also added every color variant for The Great Milenko as it didnt take very long (raw vectors+album art restorations for those)

EDIT 11/10/20 - I added an album art restoration for the split Jeckel Brothers. The vectors for that one were found in another press kit PDF. Vectors are also included for that one.

EDIT 4/4/24 - I added a version of Ringmaster that has the same colors as the first press CD/Cassette.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats Interview:Terrorizer 2015 (The Night Creeper Era) (English Only)

Couldn't seem to find this interview anywhere online, so I thought I'd post it here. I didn't get the chance to read it, but skimming through prior to reading it, seems interesting. The first string of text misspells "The Night Creeper" as "The Night Crawler", and I noticed a few times the interviewer referring to the band in some comedic ways, my favorite being "Kev And The Boys". I don't think this magazine can be purchased from the original manufacturer, I had to get my copy off of eBay. A link to the raw files will be at the bottom of the page. Also, sorry for the shit cropping on most of the pages, this magazine was giving me a lot of issues to scan for some reason. Enjoy!
Cover

 Page 1
 Page 2
 Page 3
 Page 4
 Page 5

Click here for the raw images

Monday, February 10, 2020

Scatman John - High Society Interview (German+English Translation)

Recently while browsing eBay for Scatman John related items, I came across a listing simply titled "High Society(D) 4/1996, Scatman John, Dara Rolins, Molo..." with the text cut off due to the fact that I paid for it in June 2019...I really need to get around to uploading more, wow. The only image on the listing was a magazine cover with a topless woman on it. I was super skeptical about this, and assumed the guy uploaded the wrong image, but I bit the bullet and bought the magazine anyways. To my surprise, the image uploaded to eBay was the correct one.

Scatman John's name wasn't featured on the front cover or the back cover, so I just assumed I got screwed out of 20-30 dollars. Not the biggest loss, but whatever. I decided to at least see if there was something related to Scatman John, and to my surprise, there was! An ENTIRE INTERVIEW with Scatman John in a damn porn magazine. Words cant describe how shocked I was at this being legitimate. Makes me wonder whether he knew this was for a porn magazine or not??? Like, did he just think it was funny? Or did they not tell him? Weird situation.

Regardless, this interview has never been uploaded online to my knowledge. The interview in question is in German, and I only speak English. I decided to ask if anyone in the Vitas discord server was willing to translate the interview for me, and a very nice person by the name of Maeva1702 messaged me saying they could translate it for me. So a very special thanks to Maeva1702 for translating this interview!

I will include the uncompressed versions of these images in a Google Drive link below.

EDIT 4/17/23: Was finally given some information about this, the interview here is taken from an interview with the German Stuttering Association, so he never conducted one for this magazine specifically. Still such a weird situation.

Here is page 4, detailing the interview
Page 1 (German)
Page 2 (German)
Page 3 (German)
Page 1 (English)
Page 2 (English) 
Images