This is still my favorite magazine cover of all time. I find it utterly mesmerizing.

Reading the bottom line, perhaps it was laced with nanites….

Cover scan posted with permission from the fantastic photographer, Bart Nagel, former Art Brute for Mondo2000.

18 responses to “My Favorite Magazine Cover”

  1. artwitness Avatar
    artwitness

    Weird to see him listed as T. Caraghessen Boyle, not "T.C. Boyle".

    Yeah, I remember that cover. That was before the dot com boom. Yikes.

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  2. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    1994 I think.

    Looking at the ads, I realize now, in retrospect, that I have purchased several of the obscure music CDs highlighted in this issue. We even had D’Cückoo play at one of our events, with their big inflated MIDI trigger ball bouncing over the dance floor.

    How about Siberry? Strangely, the nanites did not steer me to buy her music. Any particular songs to recommend?

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  3. Telstar Logistics Avatar
    Telstar Logistics

    Holy Retro! (CUE: "The Way We Were")

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  4. scottpartee Avatar
    scottpartee

    I have this issue. Used to read them all cover-to-cover. It is a great photo, too.

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  5. angry shock Avatar
    angry shock

    That picture of you by Bart is superb, if I were you I´d ask him for permission to post that one here. Thank you for the pointer to his site. I found that he was the creator of Sergey and Larry´s great corp. pictures. And I hadn´t seen this one before. My God… wow.

    Btw, my ol´avatar has some similarity to this photo… something in the pose. Not in the beauty, obviously. +)

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  6. tempo Avatar
    tempo

    I also remember seeing D’Cückoo play at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. You really can’t forget that midi ball.

    I always liked Siberry’s When I Was a Boy from around this time. The song "Calling All Angels" is on that album, which Wim Wenders used on his soundtrack for Until the End of the World.

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  7. Joi Avatar
    Joi

    Wow. I loved this cover too. I think I have several thousand copies of Mondo 2000s in storage somewhere. Maybe time to dig them up.

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  8. davemc500hats Avatar
    davemc500hats

    reminds me a lot of the scene in Dark City where Jennifer Connelly sings Sway (Anita Kelsey).

    fyi, soundtrack is here

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  9. muckster Avatar
    muckster

    ah the memories

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  10. caterina Avatar
    caterina

    Bart Nagel!! He did a photo illustration for Salon when I was working as an Art Director there that made me smile, Clinton naked with a flag, like that picture of Nastassja Kinski with the snake…

    Jane Siberry: I was obsessed with The Walking in high school.

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  11. D'Arcy Avatar
    D’Arcy

    siberry is awesome…great cover

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  12. Crinity Avatar
    Crinity

    I remember this cover. I’m sure I have this issue buried somewhere.

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  13. artwitness Avatar
    artwitness

    Okay. I need to keep up on my comments more. Flickr needs a nice way to ping users like livejournal when somebody makes a comment on a comment.

    Wow. I was just thinking about D’Cuckoo the other day. They did the music for one of my old company’s demo reels, (Xaos|tools).

    Re: Siberry – I only know her songs from other people’s tracks. I think she was a voice on the track "Calling All Angels" on Wender’s "Until the End of the World".

    She also did a song called, "Slow Tango" which is hypnotic but may also make you feel like recently suffered Enya-cide, i.e. death by New Age music.

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  14. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    I have a black t-shirt with a big red X on it, and it says "Xaos|tools"

    Thanks!

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  15. artwitness Avatar
    artwitness

    Aw man?!? That gets me all misty. Seriously. Once upon a time, Xaos was a cool company. Glad people enjoyed it.

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  16. travísimo Avatar
    travísimo

    Hey, I still have a few issues of M2k! Those guys (and Wired) definitely pushed the conventional boundaries of magazine publishing in the early ’90s. I think I kept the first few years of Wired as well. I suppose they’ll be a bizarre novelty someday… Wait, I think they are already. 🙂

    BTW, found you hiding in my mailbox today – congrats on the Red Herring cover story!

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  17. MichaelHarren Avatar
    MichaelHarren

    Awwwwww I used to have this issue too. I miss it very much. That interview with jane/Issa was very inspiring to me.

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  18. dtweney Avatar
    dtweney

    This is still a very modern looking design.

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