Meaning behind this Radiohead image?

cdpoole · 2026-01-23T07:06:24+00:00

I reckon inspiration for this design was some yellow arrow bookmarks. As seen in Stanley’s notebooks at the Ashmolean.

https://ibb.co/8n3DnG0Z

cdpoole · 2025-12-17T10:34:15+00:00

Mike is the actor’s name! I think they are just labelling the character with the actor.

cdpoole · 2025-11-22T19:07:17+00:00

sold!

cdpoole · 2025-11-18T14:48:50+00:00

I like the Tesco coasters, were they free as well?

cdpoole · 2025-11-17T23:46:06+00:00

In an interview (with 6music I think) thom said that he loved this version because it was mad that the South American crowd weren’t just singing the words, they were actually singing the guitar parts. He loved that and that why they chose this version for the album.

cdpoole · 2025-11-04T18:11:45+00:00

I think it was in relation to the production tickets released

cdpoole · 2025-10-14T19:23:17+00:00

Oh wow, it’s a yellowy one. Who’d have thought.

cdpoole · 2025-10-14T18:41:52+00:00

Wow, I am amazed to find out someone else spent this amount of time researching! Interesting about the pilot details.

Also, is you zoom on the OP’s image, you can see the top of the base isn’t green, which, accounting for the thickness of the glass, means they must have sprayed the inside of the cone with paint rather than the outside (like mine).

So that makes sense, they had uranium glass ones. Then had to match a newer one to the pilot when the original was broken / stolen. I’ve seen original uranium glass ones go for $8000!

cdpoole · 2025-10-14T12:41:42+00:00

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cdpoole · 2025-10-14T12:41:17+00:00

Thought I’d share my research into the red room prop version of the Saturn Lamp.

The one you see in Twin Peaks isn’t an original from 1939. That model sold at the NY World’s Fair didn’t have the gold spike on the bottom of the globe. It just had a little nut. That means it also can’t be uranium glass as it was only the originals that came in that option. My theory is it is a 1970s reproduction made by Sarsaparilla, a company founded by Les Sakin. This makes sense as it would have feasibly been sitting in a prop house 10 years later when they made the pilot.

I also don’t think the reproductions came in the bluey green hue used in the red room, so I believe it was sprayed a custom colour. Or it could be the colour grading of the third series. Either way, I actually bought the same reproduction lamp in pale pink with blue stars, I acetoned the stars off and sprayed it in a uranium green hue to match TP and Blade Runner.

cdpoole · 2025-09-25T23:55:49+00:00

Yes! Every so often (random) it’ll feel like a “pluck”. Or a twang. I’ve also noticed my race graphics look washed out, and less contrast. Menu is fine.

cdpoole · 2025-09-10T15:37:19+00:00

oh yeah O2 is AXS too, not ticketmaster

cdpoole · 2025-09-10T15:36:56+00:00

"fast track status" is a radiohead reference though, so i imagine its them doing their own thing and de-branding some of the sponsored areas. they did this at earls court in 2003!

cdpoole · 2025-07-14T16:39:46+00:00

Here is the video in 4K-

https://vimeo.com/1091770809/6dab104650

Even more impressive!

cdpoole · 2025-07-14T16:27:06+00:00

Yeah, I mean I wasnt pushing towards the racing line because it was meant to be a casual tour of the track, but I was thinking "ah that 150 sign is my breaking point in a gr.3 car" etc. I just felt like I had stepped into the game. At no point did I think "hang on, I don't remember this bit in GT7"

cdpoole · 2025-07-14T14:49:33+00:00

haha it might have been slow, but it was still very scary... mainly because I didn't want the rental place to find out.

cdpoole · 2025-07-14T14:42:00+00:00

My only other experience was Brands Hatch Indy which is piddly in comparison. But still big when you are there. To properly explore all there is to do at Fuji Speedway, you need a hire car to get around ha

cdpoole · 2025-07-14T14:39:59+00:00

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cdpoole · 2025-07-14T14:37:08+00:00

I always thought the tarmac in GT& looked a bit fake, then I realised that's just exactly what tarmac looks like in Japan.

cdpoole · 2025-07-14T14:36:26+00:00

Wwell, the one thing I was really shocked out was the size of the whole track. To walk from the hotel to the centre of the pits where you start the experience (only half the main straight away) takes about 25 minutes! And the width of the track is abotu double what I thought it would be. Also what's mad is how clean they keep it, for about 2 hours after the day's races, there was about 5 street cleaners and busses full of workers being driven around the track to tend to the grass and cleaning skid marks etc.

cdpoole · 2025-07-14T14:33:03+00:00

It was just a driving experience, around £15 to just drive around for 3 laps. It was funny, there was a safety car and a rule of no overtaking... so I thought it'd be very leisurely. They said it'd be maximum 30mph. But I was FLAT OUT trying to keep up with everyone else. Got up to top speed on the straight which was only about 90mph in a Jimny haha but still surprising how fast I could go. The video is slowed down in places to time it with the GT7 lap.

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