I had thought about blogging this, though I see I’ve been beaten to the line. Hell, I’ll blog it anyway. Maybe Habit and Antonio Joli can tour together.
This sounded lame as I started reading it on Facebook, but by the time I was done I decided it was one of my favorite viral “surveys” I’d ever seen. You get an artist name, album title, and cover artwork, smash it together, and there you go. Dig:
- Your artist name is the title of a random Wikipedia article.
- For your album name, go to this page, scroll to the bottom, click New Random Quotations, and take the last four or five words of the last quote on the page.
- Now the Facebook note tells you to go to Flickr for the artwork, but I’m uncomfortable with that, for reasons Saintseester has already gloriously detailed. So I used the eighth photo in the eighth subfolder in my main photo directory. Do that, or do whatever sensibly randomizes your selection in your hierarchy.
Stick the three components together in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or whatever, and voila! Your presence in the bargain bin has a visual identity!
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I was watching a video about finding inspiration. The narrator is a professional photographer, can’t remember his name. One thing that stuck with me from the spot was when he mentioned creating all of this visual pollution. I always wonder what anthropologists hundreds of years from now will think about our weird internet affectations.
Melanie: Hey, you know? You could put that on your Facebook page. 😛
‘seester: Isn’t there a book set several thousand years in the future about an archaeological dig of a 20th century hotel?