the last picture is the scenary one. this picture is taken from famous magazine that claim to be in the southen part of thailand. the picture is very natural and green. it connots the sense of freshness from the composition of the natural color tone of green, blue and brown. the sky is very clear and sunny, this leads the viewers to feel optimistic and happy as if they are on holiday. however, this kind of picture is often use to ease the viewers' eyes.

this is the Best of album cover of the British rock band called Suade. the picture is interesting in a way that it is obviously get its inspiration from Edward Mund's famous piece, The Scream. you can see from the painting stroke that it is very similar, but this version it changes the color tone to be of a cooler tone.( the original one use red -warm color tone). this change give the new meaning to this picture, it cut out the theme of anxiety that the warm color brings, instead it brings out the feeling of serenity and sadness. the sadness is also illustrates in the facial expression of the man in the black suit. the color black also connote blue, or disconsolateness.

this picture is also an album cover. this one is from the American band, Red hot chillie peppers. the album named "By the Way". the color used here is very interesting. it is very similar to the color in a negative picture. i think they use the ngative picture has two meansing, first to signify the fact that people have two sides in thems ( positive and negative ) and secondly i think it also serve the purpose of portraying the surface condition vs. the underlying codition-- portray the underneath into the surface. the first interpretation coresponds to the famous song in the album, Californiacation in which talks about the bad influence of hollywood and how young women sacrify their innocence for the superficial stardom. ( take this girl for example, she might does something that is perverse and inappropriate so that her identity has to be covered.

this is the picture of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' album cover. the name of the album is Fever to Tell. as the name suggests it is all about fun, youth and madness. as you can see from the composition, there is the use of bright color and the repetition of red lines, as if to stress some massage. the background is some rundown building. these building you ususally see as a place to hank out for the adolescence. there are also a lot of snakes. snake often connots 'sin', as in the story Adam and Eve that snake represents Satan who lures Eve to intake the forbidden fruit. Thus, it can be infered from the images of snakes here that this album is somehow lustful.

This is the picture of The fornidden palace in Bejing, China. the color connotes the sense of oriental beauty. the decoration scuptures here are mostly dragon. Dragon is the symbol of Chinese Emperor. it denotes power and authority. the little animals on the roof signify how important the building is.

this picture is a cd cover from the American band called Nirvana. i think this picture connotes the disadvantages or criticism of Capitalism. The Us banknote ( one dollar bill represents Captitalism or Capitalistic worldviews ( you can call it the American dream) such as building yourself up from nothing. this system is beneficial in many ways such as provide the world with 'process', yet it drawbacks is making people 'greedy'. This gluttonousness show in a way that the creator juxtaposes the innocent child with the act of restless pursuing the dollar bill which in now fall under water. this also connotes the idea of Money is God , it can entice anyone even the innocent child. as you can see that the dollar bill has a "hook" attached to it. this is shown is a very sacastic tone. the water connots purity of the child which is strongly contrast with his action at the moment.

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this is the picture of a cd cover from my favorite band "Sonic Youth". this experimental, avante-garde album call Simon Werner a Disparu ( means Simon Warner is disappeared). the name of the album is in French. i think the purpose this american band

try to acheive in putting the name of the album and the rest of the songs in other language (Fr.) is too add a sense of confusion and ambivalent to the listeners. so they don't have to attach to the fixed theme, the theme here is fluid depends on each person understanding.

Here the cd cover unravel a lot of meaning according my understanding. the western girl here is relatively young, it is visible in the way she dress and her skin complection and codition.Her youth reflects on the lushness of the grass field. Se might be Alice ( since one song in the album named Alice And Simon), Simon's love interest. they might be a newlywed with small kid, looking from the background of soccer field with small children, as if the photographer let us infer that one of them is hers. the composition of this picture connote a sense of individualism, this woman stand alone away from the collectives. it connotes that perhaps simon disappeared on her , left her to be "single" mom and this particular place could be her son/daughter school and she comes to pick them up. in short, this picture ilustrates abandoned woman in her domestic sphere.