Get Your Sleeveface On

Get Your Sleeveface On

Trend takes off as music fans take cover: Aidin Vaziri | Carl Morris was merely bored when he held the cover of an old vinyl copy of "McCartney II" up to his face while playing records at a club in Cardiff, England, making it appear as if the former Beatle's heavily mulleted head had briefly replaced his own. "I thought it might be kind of childish actually," he said. "What sensible grown adult would do such things?"But it was a moment so hilarious to those that witnessed it that soon other DJs across the United Kingdom started repeating the trick at their own parties, finding record sleeves of just the right dimension and comedic proportion to give their sets an ironic visual kick: Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever," Iggy Pop's "Lust for Life," Joni Mitchell's "Clouds." Then a couple photos hit the Web, and things went seriously insane. Now the phenomenon has a name: Sleeveface. And on the rudimentary Web site Morris started after it caught on, it's defined in a roundabout way as, "one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeves causing an illusion." Continue reading.