SeanBeckk Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I'm not sure if this has been asked before, and I've tried searching for the answer but couldn't find anything, but what exactly are the field goal shaped objects on the album cover? OoS is probably my favorite album and artwork but I just never knew what they were haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK Soultra Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I'm not sure if this has been asked before, and I've tried searching for the answer but couldn't find anything, but what exactly are the field goal shaped objects on the album cover? OoS is probably my favorite album and artwork but I just never knew what they were haha. tuning forks See: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jobby Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I'm not sure if this has been asked before, and I've tried searching for the answer but couldn't find anything, but what exactly are the field goal shaped objects on the album cover? OoS is probably my favorite album and artwork but I just never knew what they were haha. Don't think anyone knows. At Leeds/Reading on the video for New Born they were shown as transmitters sending a message to aliens so it could be that or it could just be Muse being pretentious again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FearAndPanic Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Matt's thrown around the theory that the cover represents a world ruined by technology, so I suppose those fork things are necessary for supporting the fictional technological network. I like to think of them as tuning forks though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anxyous Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 American football field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic. Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 There was an interview when OoS came out, briefly mentioned in on Musewiki in the Micro Cuts page. He talks about a landscape, with the stuff going in your brain, I think he mentioned those forks in those landscape or something Or maybe it was all just the artist's interpretation of Origin of Symmetry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furygirl Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 So basically, they could be anything! I think of them as some sort of giant alien transmitters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 There was an interview when OoS came out, briefly mentioned in on Musewiki in the Micro Cuts page. He talks about a landscape, with the stuff going in your brain, I think he mentioned those forks in those landscape or something Or maybe it was all just the artist's interpretation of Origin of Symmetry Yeah, I think this is right. I heard they gave the name to a bunch of artists and they did what they want. And they picked their favourite to be the cover and the rest are on the inside cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Yeah, I think this is right. I heard they gave the name to a bunch of artists and they did what they want. And they picked their favourite to be the cover and the rest are on the inside cover Yes, that doesn't answer the question though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave. Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Yes, that doesn't answer the question though. You don't understand. I was confirming what Dominic had said about it being the artists interpretation of the 'Origin of Symmetry' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hat Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 You don't understand.' No, I understood perfectly. I was confirming what Dominic had said about it being the artists interpretation of the 'Origin of Symmetry' ...Which I thought was common knowledge for a Muse fan...And which still doesn't answer the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashhh Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 i think they're antennas i believe i heard one of them mention it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dylb88 Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Isn't that the great thing about artwork? Open for interpretation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcade Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 hows about asking the artist of the picture what they were thinking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7revor Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I'm pretty sure I heard, in reference to the Reading Festival stage ornaments, that they were crude "antennas". Maybe I'm making that up in my head but it makes sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinSM Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I'm sure I've heard several times they're antennae and represent a civilisation destroyed by it's own technology, But the ambiguity of it is what makes it great artwork, same for the shadows on the Absolution artwork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
platty1907 Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 I swear in the interview with Matt and Dom at Reading this year, Dom referred to them as "goalpost thingys" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Megal*mania Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Nobody knows what it is, I want to believe they are some sort of antennas abandoned. However some time ago I saw this image and the first thing that comes to my mind was: It's OOS cover art! It's a photograph taken by Frans Lanting, I believe in Namibia, Africa. The similarity is so insane, maybe the artist get inspiration from that place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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