More Secrets Revealed in the Artwork of David Bowie’s Last Album
David Bowie has been gone since January 10 but he’s still managing to surprise his fans thanks to the carefully designed artwork of his last album, Blackstar. Here’s what the vinyl package looks like.
Here’s a better look.
Earlier this year, fans discovered that if you hold the album up to sunlight, a starfield appears. When you take out of the sun, the stars fade away.
Another discovered this.
You may have heard what happens if you expose it to sunlight. Well, it turns out that if you put the Blackstar LP under a blacklight…. pic.twitter.com/WvDg7xkF8t
— Matt (@RobboRobson21) November 13, 2016
The latest discovery involves the total number of points on the six black stars found in the booklet that comes with the CD. There are 69–Bowie’s age when he died.
And there’s more.
- What’s the significance of a “black star?” Yes, there’s the cancer lesion theory, but is there more?
- Is there an Elvis connection?
- What’s the “villa of Ormen?”
- What does Norway, an old girlfriend and a Tumblr have to do with it?
- Can we infer anything in the fact that this is the first Bowie album not to feature his image on the cover? What about t
- What about the design of the vinyl edition? Is there a Unicode message in plain site in the album artwork? (Hint: ★ means something to coders.)
- Does Aleister Crowley pop up somewhere?
- We’ve seen that smiley face on the astronaut’s jacket in the “Lazarus” video before. But where?
Anyone else found anything interesting?
This is a bit far fetched, but I think the black star is actually a space ship. Look at the 5th symbol at the bottom, looks like a ship getting ready for take off. Now that you see the star broken down like that isn’t it easy to believe that the black star is a space ship with wings?!
The stars spell out “BOWIE”
I can totally see that now, I had no idea it spelt his name out. Its so obvious now that I look at it. Sheesh! Something else that I found interesting is that STP front man Scott Weiland who died 2 months prior to DB, released an album in 1999 with STP called No. 4. Its literally the exact same cover just reversed colours. I always thought that was so weird. Also in Scotts last interview ever he talked about how David Bowie was his biggest inspiration and how he would love to work with him. I just always thought this was so strange. Link to No.4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._4_(album)
Has anyone figured out why the astronaut’s helmet has a symbol, of what I believe is a symbol for fire, on the upper left part of the visor? Also, I think it IS Major Tom and it represents the end of his mortal life. There are just too many references of Major Tom in all of his videos. But, I could be wrong…
I think the symbols under the star say bowie. I think it could be village of all men instead
Have you seen the star man in the stars I have just seen him
It’s my birthday. The only thing that would have made it better would be if our Starman were still here on Earth. As for Blackstar, I feel too many people try to read things into his artistry – his music is the gift that will always keep on giving and should be taken for what it is.
“There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’d like to come and meet us
But he thinks he’d blow our minds
There’s a starman waiting in the sky
He’s told us not to blow it
‘Cause he knows it’s all worthwhile”
There is a black star flying around our solar system, hidden, since February 27, 2010. The only way we knew it was here was if (a) you were waiting for it based on star lore, or (b) you noticed the impact of its szyzygy with Jupiter and Sol on Maule, Chile, or (c) you noticed stars go missing as it passed. It is due to show up dramatically by March 2023. Impacts beforehand will be floods, fires, quakes and volcanoes. Some people have noticed the “Earth symbol” showing up as a reflection around sunset. It is a phase shift off that infrared space object, a black star. Remember the Egyptians had a Black Sun? The same. The Sumerians had an object named Erra? The same. It probably “did battle” with all the heroes. Enki, Ninurta, Marduk, Gilgamesh … same stuff, different day. It has a small partner. Dumuzi, Nergal, the Beast of Revelation … and now you know the rest of the story!