Smashing Pumpkins Cover Art

The Smashing Pumpkins enlisted the help of street art legend Obey aka Shepard Fairey to design the Zeitgeist Album cover. It doesn't look to me like the pictures that leaked last week would go all that well with Shepard's art but I guess we will have to wait and see. Shepard had this to say about the art.

"I think global warming is an issue that is currently relevant, time sensitive, and a symptom of the shortsightedness of the U.S. As a broader metaphor, the drowning Statue of Liberty, a revered icon of the U.S., symbolizes the eminent demise of many of the ideals upon which the nation was founded. Civil liberties, freedom of speech, privacy, etc. have been decreasing since 9/11. The sun in the image could either be setting or rising and this ambiguity shows that there is still hope to turn things around."