Monday, February 11, 2008

Albums That Don't Exist

Whoohoo! That was fun! I just made six album covers. Well, let's say five, that first one sucked big time. Here's the site for reference, but you don't need to go there, I'm about to explain how it works (Actually you could go there, he has dozens of covers, and they're all better than mine).

OK, so first, you go to a random Wikipedia page. You could follow the link or just click "Random Article" in the Wikipedia sidebar. That's your band or artist. Next, you go to the quotationspage.com random quote generator. Go to the last quote on the page. The last four words of that bottom quote is the name of your album. Finally, go to FlickrStorm. FlickrStorm is great because it allows you to specify "non-commercial photos" under advanced setting. No copyright infringement! Yay! The third photo on the page is the album art (refresh the page to get random keywords). It's that simple. Observe:

I think my favorite is the Wallago Attu album. Also, wanna hear something weird? Both Taha and Billy Fraser are football players. I mean soccer.

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3 comments:

sayer said...

i made two after i read this post, instead of doing my homework. i'll put em on facebook.

K E said...

Permit me to make a suggestion: rather than the third picture of the flickr interesting page, use fickr-storm, click "non comercial" use in the advanced search, and don't change the search term - take whatever word the site offers (it changes randomly each time you open the page). That way your product can be cc licensed with a clear conscience.

Josiah Blocker said...

Ideal! Noted and edited, k.e.