Tuesday, February 24, 2009

album cover test

i spied this activity on beware of the blog. the rules are simple. first go to a random wikipedia article. this will be your band's name. then grab the last bunch of words in the last quote at the bottom of a random quote page from this site. this will be your album's title. finally, download the 3rd photo from the explore/interestingness/last 7 days page on flickr. this is your band's album cover. mock up the results and serve!

here is how mine went:


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email me your results and i will post them.

addendum: if you can figure out how i screwed up my cover, i will give you extra credit. here is an example of the same kind of mistake, but on a real album cover for a real band.

5 comments:

Eliyahu said...

You misspelled "Retroperistalsis." Do I get a gold star?

ben said...

gold star for eli. did you do the assignment as well?

Eliyahu said...

I sent you an email. maybe it was lost in transit. Here is a link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/7kswrhA-FlHoFs5Fu2yxBQ?authkey=VGTfXrEB9RE&feat=directlink

Kelly Merrill said...

Here it is...
http://i318.photobucket.com/albums/mm435/bioflavin/TimberOregon_Final.jpg
sorry, won't let me embed

ben said...

these are great! we'll post everybody's submissions on tuesday!