Naturally, many of the reviews came accompanied with pictures of the original CD cover, complete with exploding buildings.įunk said The Coup, known for lyrics with an edgy, anti-establishment bent, chose the original cover for its powerful imagery.Īnd, as was the case with The Coup's previous three releases, "Kill My Landlord," "Genocide and Juice" and "Steal This Album," not all harsh statements are meant to be taken at face value. Before the album's release got pushed back to November, The Coup received reviews in several publications, including print editions of Wired Magazine, Spin and CMJ. "Ultimately, they reserve the right to use whatever cover they want because they're the label," he said.Īdding to the confusion is the fact that the original CD cover had already gone out to members of the press, distributors and others. It's not out of respect to the victims."Ĭhris Funk, The Coup's manager, said it's most likely that 75 Ark will prevail in its plan to change the cover, however. "But they can't sidestep that the reason this is being censored is a political one, not a sympathetic one. "My condolences go to the families of the victims and all their friends and anybody affected at all by the catastrophe," Riley said. Its far from perfect, but I really had a great time making this video.Requested by. It should not be interpreted as a call to violence, particularly in light of Tuesday's tragedy, he said. Inspired by 'Super Mario Odyssey,' LBF takes a stab at the featured song. Riley said the cover design, completed in June, was "supposed to be a metaphor for the capitalist state being destroyed through the music." The move to switch covers has not been without opposition.Ĭoup founder Boots Riley said he argued with the label to keep the original design, which a distributor had threatened not to release. However, the decision making is particularly difficult due to the fact that 75 Ark has been unable to reach officials with The Coup's publicist, Girlie Action, which is located in lower Manhattan. They're looking at pictures from an old photo shoot as well as an image based on the group's logo. The game follows the life of Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh. Isabella said the label hasn't decided on a new cover. The Cat and the Coup is a puzzle video game by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad. The game, situated within the traditions of Persian miniature art form and cold war foreign policy, asks players. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off shelves, scattering his papers, and scratching him. The fictional picture depicted on the cover, it seemed, was a bit too close to the horrific images occupying the television screen. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. He writes, “What makes The Cat and the Coup exemplary from a historiographical perspective is its striking adherence to, and departures from, the historical record." The game is noted for "using factually grounded sources such as New York Times headlines,” while also positioning players in the imaginary role of Mossadegh's cat, whose inability to control the course of history serves as "a metaphor for the uncertainty of historical outcomes.The printers were set to crank out copies of the fiery World Trade Center image on Tuesday, Isabella said, when the label put in a last-minute call, urging them to stop the presses. Anderson in his book Technologies of History: Film, Television and the Eccentricity of the Past (Dartmouth 2011), which features an image from the game on its cover. The Cat and the Coup is considered an example of "eccentric history" by Steve F. Over the course of its development, it received multiple awards, including IndieCade's documentary game award it was a finalist for the Nuovo award at the Independent Games Festival and Runner Up for the Knight News Game award at Games for Change. The first thing that stands out in The Cat and the Coup is the. The Cat and the Coup was developed over a three-year period and was funded in part by The Advancing Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. art (like video games) that continues discussions about the wisdom of our foreign affairs.
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