Your Album Release

I had a fricken blast doing this one... please join in and post your artwork

1 - Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use PhotoShop or similar (I used Picasa 3) to put it all together.

UPDATE: There is a flickr group that is collecting these album covers and you can see some other insprired works there, or join and upload yours! 

 I had so much fun with the first one... 

That I did a second one... 

and now my third go round (sources here, here and here

and #4 (sources here, here and here)

 

lucky760 says...

Haha! Great idea for a game and the results are ridicaliss awesome almost every time it seems. Did you come up with this yourself, ydj?

Here's my first attempt. Given the dimensions, my first album must have been released on dvd:

lucky760 says...

Oh man I'm loving this stuff. Some of those designs are incredible!

Here's my second shot from the band Capita Group featuring their new album Nothing Relieves Exercise:


(Source: band, album, image.)

In a related note, I wonder if VideoSift should have like a single page of random videos. Ya think?

lucky760 says...

Direct from Egypt is the only CD you should buy this year... Vocalist extraordinaire, Fouad el-Mohandes, is... Continually Fearing You Will Make One.



I guess it doesn't always work. (Source: artist, title, image)

I wonder if we can come up with a similar sort of "random mash-up" game using the new VideoSift Random Video feature I just added. Any ideas team?

paul4dirt says...

<embed src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3585/3309991441_c34ae8f8f3_o.jpg" width="300" height="300">

<embed src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3567/3310024881_bfca9772d9.jpg" width="300" height="300">

<embed src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3593/3310984564_b8019f97db_o.jpg" width="300" height="300">

i love kommies and lot of the other albums btw, really creative use of fonts!

paul4dirt says...

some great ideas in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sinnpause/2931429265/in/set-72157605731746604/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sinnpause/2598189288/in/set-72157605731746604/ http://www.flickr.com/groups/coversutra-battle/

this photostream. he does use edited versions of the pictures, but its pretty amazing stuff.
(there's also a nice 'battle' idea there, that might be fun to try on the sift -> "You have 24 hours to build a cover with these. (the random bandname, title and image) After the 24 hours the round ends and one of the competitioners is the winner. The winner gives the new cover, title and name for the next round")

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