i found the following meme on the how magazine blog this morning and because i can't resist a creative challenge i've spent the last hour working on it. actually it was a great creative exercise, and if you decide to try it let me know!here are the rules:
1 - go to "wikipedia." hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
the first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - go to "random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.
the last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/expl
third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - use photoshop (or similar) to put it all together.
in case anyone's wondering, a lester solus was an english automobile built in shepherd's bush, london only in 1913. a single-seat cyclecar, it ran on an 8 hp JAP or precision v-twin engine with friction drive and belts to the rear wheels. i thought this was a fantastic random wiki article to arrive on.
the original hyacinth image is here.
the original hyacinth image is here.
19 comments:
:-)
That was fun.
Nice one. Makes me wish I had a photoshop.
This sounds like fun! : )
Ok, I HAD planned on coming home from work and catching up on more blogs but now I feel a diversion coming on!
ok, had to go and do this and all I can say is it hot over at my latest post or is it just meme fever?
This was fun and I couldn't believe that I came upon an artist from WA state, on flickr, and made a connection there I truly never expected! Thanks.
I'm posting about this meme on 2/26 - remember to take a look. I, of course, give you credit for the fun!
I passed it on and one person already played.
I figured out how to do it just using regular old MS Paint. So here's my new record album.
Ha! Thanks for aiding my procrastination! You can find my newest album art at:
http://auntie-ems-blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/album-meme.html
Hope you are having a good weekend!
too cool! am off to play and work on my first album...
Spooky! My band name is from your neighbourhood!
Loius B.Allyn.
He was chemistry professor, working for the pure foods movement in Westfield,MA, who was shot in 1940. His murder is unsolved.
The cover pic is an untitled spring blossom branch.
Quote is from Soren Kierkegaard:
with breathless haste they hurry past. (In full: most men pursue happiness with such breathless haste they hurry past it.)
I'll try to find time this morning to get it on my blog.
Thanks for the links.
OK mine's up
http://athenadreams.typepad.com/design/2009/02/design-an-album-cover-meme.html
maybe my band could open for yours?
oh man.
the last meme you mentioned - 15 albums - got me listing every album i could remember having and downloading the album covers. the intensity of memories they brought back - even without the music - was amazing.
now this...
have to wait til i get to the office tomorrow but...cool.
neat WV: cultbo
okay.
i've now done 16 of these things.
i can't stop.
i recognize that i am powerless.
i think i need an intervention....
My contribution:
http://twitpic.com/1o5o7
I thought I was set - now can't "get it all together" - any way to force it if no photoshop or MS Paint tools?????
nice one, citizen grim!
sunrise sister, you are asking the wrong person as i can't remember life pre-photoshop (i joke, of course, but it's almost true). maybe someone else knows a way?
Hi m.heart,
I came to this via Melanie at http://my-croft.blogspot.com/2009/02/close-enough.html and put it together on Corel Print House which, of course, I couldn't upload to Blogger. So I just printed it out and scanned it back in to get a jpeg file. I'm sure there is an easier way but that's the best I could do in the ten hours I spent on it!
Good fun :o)
This is so cool.
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