Enjoy a spectacular view of every day of the Talking Head’s history, including a year-by-year recognition of the band and its founding members’ milestones and contributions. This is your very own, downloadable, numbered edition from a series of 20, high resolution .png file for whatever type of viewing, rendering, or printing you may wish:

• 23K X 23K pixel image at 230DPI

• 44MB

Once you purchase it, you receive a downloadable, secure link that will expire in 24 hours.

In this visualization, you can see every day that has passed since the founding of the Talking Heads. Starting with 1975, and reaching 2025, a galaxy-like spiral wraps and ascends from a distant past to the immediate present. Each sequential year is subtly larger; years are orbited by months, each containing within them their corresponding number of days. It’s a beautiful constellation of time.

Your year-by-year journey up through the spiral is narrated with annual annotations of the most prominent accomplishments of the group and its members - starting with their first gig in 1975, their increasingly successful album releases through the later 1970’s and 1980’s. Although the group formally dissolved in 1991, the contributions of the founding measures and the ongoing legacy of the band continued to shape modern music throughout the next 34 years.

To guide your navigation through the spiral, a legend in the lower left corner shows the placement of months, days, and years. The Talking Head’s birthday month of June stands out from the other eleven months’ yellows, featuring a grey and white highlight that nods to David Byrne’s iconic Stop Making Sense ensemble of his gray kabuki-theater inspired suit and white sneakers.

And, the detail is extraordinary: as you zoom in and descend through the spiral, the image retains clarity and resolution for reading narrative and visualizing the true length of the Talking Head’s career, counted in days, months, and years…all the way down to the first year of the Talking Head’s significant and important history in modern music.

Numbered but identical editions ascend in price; Edition 1 begins at $30 and Edition 20 concludes at $50. Further editions, if issued, will follow suit with similar pricing.

25% of the net proceeds from each edition goes to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, a grassroots mental health advocacy organization dedicated to building better lives for people affected by mental illness.

Rights, Representation, and Acknowledgements

This is an unofficial chronological representation of the history of the band, and members’ related projects. It’s produced as a ‘fair use’ work of art - meant as a biographical representation of the band and its work. All of the information researched and presented in this visualization is available in the public domain. Citations are not a feature of the artwork, but are available if requested.

The title font takes inspiration from the font used for the titles in the Talking Head’s concert movie Stop Making Sense. The original font was designed by Pablo Ferro; the font used in this rendering, inspired by Ferro, is titled Strangelove Next,