Create a Band Name and Album Cover
This is a great “distraction project” for graphic designers. It’s kind of like visual poetry. I wish my projects in college would have been this fun and inventive. Here are the rules:
1 – 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.
2 – Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations” or click 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 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.
4 – Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.
5 – Post it to Facebook with this text in the “caption” or “comment” and TAG the friends you want to join in.
6. Use the “img” tag to post yours to my comment section. I’d love a big collection. — OOPS, apparently I’m the only one who can use the IMG tag in the comments section. Just paste in the image URL and I’ll fix it. You can even use the URL Facebook assigns to your image.
(If you spend more than 5 minutes, you’re doing it wrong.)
Here’s my original photo, just to prove I wasn’t ripping off a current movie.
Tim
This was by my friend Jeremy.
February 22nd, 2009 at 12:04 amTim
This was the first one I saw anybody do. I like the photo.
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:18 amTim
Someone else did this
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:22 amTim
found it on Facebook
February 22nd, 2009 at 1:23 amJeremy Bear
These are great, man! The Coraline one is almost eerily perfect.
Hey, you inspired another one in me:
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:29 pmJeremy Bear
…Er, which wouldn’t post using the image tag for some reason. Anyhow, it’s here:
February 22nd, 2009 at 2:32 pmLisa
Same problem as Jeremy had. Here’s mine….
(Although not NEARLY on a par…)
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:36 pmJeremy Bear
Ach! Now I’m addicted:
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:49 pmJeremy Bear
Lisa, you’re always more than on par, sister…
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:56 pmTim
My friend Chris did this one:
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:25 pmTim
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:32 pmChris Clark
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:05 pmChris Clark
this one is so poetic.
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:11 pmTim
From Erin
February 23rd, 2009 at 12:29 pmChris Clark
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:03 pmChris Clark
damn this is addicting.
February 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 pmTim
February 23rd, 2009 at 5:58 pmChris Clark
can’t….. stop……..
February 23rd, 2009 at 6:14 pmJeremy Bear
A few designer friends of mine gave it a whack, in case you’re interested…
Andy Jewett:
Graye Smith:
Andy Kerr:
February 24th, 2009 at 12:41 pmTim
February 24th, 2009 at 12:57 pmTim
From My friend Conrad
February 26th, 2009 at 1:37 pmTim
From Rob
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:43 pmTim
From Trevor
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:43 am