My old, eccentric friend Shuey -- with whom I once exited a high school geometry class via its first-floor window -- alerted me to a fun make-your-own randomized album game on Facebook. I try to avoid Facebook as much as possible, but the game is fun, so I'm playing it here. Feel free to do it yourself, via Facebook or blog or on the corkboard at work.
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Here are the rules:
1: Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article that comes up 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 on the page is the title of your first album.
3: Go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
The third picture in the top row, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4: Use Photoshop or whatever to put it all together.
5: Post it.
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I got lucky with my band name and an artsy Flickr photo. (Also, I'm a designer, and that helps.) Anyway, here's my album...
Flavio Schmid, it turns out, is not just a great fake band name. He's also a Swiss footballer.
According to the imminently quotable John Gunther (1901-1970): "Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."
Your turn. Play your own random albumizer game and post a link to it in the comments.
6 comments:
Here's my random cover. What a great game.
"Eccentric"? Just because I grow my hair long and throw cats at people?
Here's mine.
Funny that we both went the "oversized all-cap Helvetica Bold extending beyond the border" direction. Keep in mind I did mine last week. :)
Word verification: "shalit" - a Muppety-looking movie critic with a comical mustache and silly bowtie...hey, wait a minute.
you would buy my album
http://tinyurl.com/b8nab3
and here's the link:
The debut album from LOST IN THE MALL
My new Album:
Become Captives of the Media.
I have to admit I stole my style shamelessly from Jason.
http://eriktheintern.blogspot.com/2009/03/from-my-lunchbreak.html
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