the downward spiral
10th anniversary release party

friday december 10
11 pm - 1 am

whirling dervish - 1135 decatur st, new orleans, la 70116

free admission & $1 miller high life from 11 pm til 1 am

enter to win autographed nin poster and the entire nin discography courtesy of interscope records.

free DS deluxe lithograph with purchase of the deluxe album from tower records that night at the party.

What is a lithograph?

Something I can never have

All of you New Orleans people better be there to take pics and type stories for us idiots living in other places.. like where I live, in the middle of nowhere.. and I cant travel.

now I don't know where my dream home is, New Orleans or Los Angeles.. I thought for sure LA was the new "place to be".


This still doesnt make sense to me. Some wiser person on the forum will tell us soon I hope..

EDIT: I found a Google thing using keywords "win a lithograph" to see it in a sentence and I found this:

"Enter to win a lithograph of the CD’s cover art" .. its about some guy we dont care about, but I guess it means a lithograph is the ORIGINAL ART printed on some special thing.

how come this news is not on nin.com or tds.nin.com?

i guess i don't quite understand how official promotion works...

and that competition on tds.nin.com? are they waiting for everybody to forget that TDS was re-leased. sorry for bitching but i'm just annoyed. and i keep hearing about "the new management" and how they will do a much better job.

P.S.: my TDS:DVD-A and TDS:DE are already on the rack along with the rest of my NIN collection

The release parties are often organized by the record label, as I understand it, and might not be sent to Rob Sheridan before approval. There was an entire street team organized for the Fragility tour, apparently, that no one I talked to seemed to know about, except for the street teamers.

btw konstantnin -- Nice avatar, I saw that exhibit when I was in Sydney :)

Man, I'd love a fucking lithograph of the downward spiral artwork.

its a huge posterboard with different artwork, its just for the deluxe
its got teeth on it? really messed up teeth...

its pretty big. a lithograph is just a really fancypants poster - usu. on posterboard, ltd edition, etc
which this one is.

the party is organized by interscope

there are other parties that are happening/happened across the country. i will post more info if i can find it

here are some of the parties that are upcoming - sorry i dont have details, call venues for more info.

boston :
dec 3rd @ 9pm
manray 21 brookline st cambridge ma
manrayclub.com

la:
bar sinister, 1552 N cherokee ave
dec 11th

miami
alter ego@ club XIT
219 N 21st St Hollywood Fl
Dec 11th 10 pm

NYC
albion/batcave
251 w 30th st
sat dec 4 at 9 pm

San Fran
vogue @ the catwalk
Thurs Dec 3

DC
call nation 2025541500 for details


hope that helps!

can i send $$ to somebody in new orleans who is going to the party to get me (another copy) of TDS:DE, so that i can get the litograph??

i'll give away the TDS:DE!

Levy, Ron Mueck kicks ass. his exhibition at the hirshhorn museum here in DC just blew me away when i saw it in 2001. now i have a big, framed poster of the "big man" right above my desk.

Excellent, on in NYC! I'm so there

wooohoooo! hope they'll give away litographs here too. anybody for a meet-up here in DC area?

EDIT: well, they don't have anything listed on the nations site so i'm a bit sceptical...

Those stupid assholes ignored Chicago, but they're in MIAMI??!

ditto.

let me see if i can find out info on chicago, i think either exit or neo - if you know those clubs but dont know which one or when. you may want to ask around . if i find out i'll let you know!

Fixed.

this is what the litho poster looks like. its really large and printed on glossy cardstock.

uh, no. lithography is a copying process.

technically, original art can be made using it. i know of a local artist (shudder) who uses it make utter crap, using a process of multiple lithographs.

basically, an image is appplied to large flat stone (sometimes cut, sometimes with a paste, there are various other methods too imagine), and then ink is applied to the stone, and the stone is used to press the inked image onto the paper.

however i suspect that modern usage of the word "lithograph" has no relation to this process whatsoever. i think they're using it as a fancy word for "album flat."

the original artwork in this case is a giant painting by russell mills, which was photographed, and printed. i don't think true lithography came into play anywhere, although i bet mills has used it to make other pieces...

Right on, thats my fav club. I'm so there! Jaimie lets go!! Two weeks in a row, weeeee!!

no an album flat is 1' x 1' on cardstock double sided with the album image on one side - i.e. it is the same size as an LP with the same image but 'flat' -

this is probably 2.5 ' w x 3.5' l and printed on cardstock. large poster dimensions but not a poster, higher quality paper, printing, etc.

Umm, the image doesn't work when you click on it. It just goes to the ImageShack homepage. I wish I didn't live in Cowtown, or else I'd be at one of those release parties. Alas, I don't have a copy of TDS:Deluxe Edition or TDS: Dual Disc yet "No Dice". So this is sad for me to see everyone having fun with their copies. Anyways, someone put up a real pic of the litho/poster board etc. I'm dying to see what it looks like.

you mean you can't copy the link that you so clearly see and paste it in your browser?

here it is for the lazy asses:

http://img77.exs.cx/img77/5301/tds_dlx_promo_poster.jpg