Here is something fun to do. Create your own album cover using wikipedia, flicker, and a random quote generator. It is fun to see what you end up coming up with when you follow these instructions.
- Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. - Go to "Random quotations"
or click 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. - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.
- Post it with these instructions
It's great fun, you can play for hours even if you don't actually make the things into covers. It's amazing how many come up looking quite genuine - maybe this is how artists come up with album names & covers.
For this second image I used ImageChef which lets you combine text with some standard images and pick color and theme. It looks like you can also upload your own photos to incorporate into the program. Anyway here is the image I generated using the Visual Poetry section of ImageChef found at: http://www.imagechef.com/ic/poem/===
I'm having a hard time getting my images laid out properly on this blog. I'm just going to leave it and move on. If you have suggestive tips (no, not that kind ;-)) please let me hear them....well maybe....
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