Noise Addicts posted this effective recipe for near-automatic generation of album artwork (though it does allow for some creative typesetting) –
1. Go to Wikipedia and hit “random†and the first article you get is the name of your band.
2. Go to “Random Quotationsâ€. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page will be the title of your new album.
3. Go to Flickr and click on “Explore the Last Seven Daysâ€. The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
Give it a go – the results can be eerily convincing. Plus – it’s a quick and easy fix when you get the creative urge at the office/library/etc. Man … I could swear my cousin had that Stutz Blackhawk album back in the day.
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My new band name is Ben Hueso. Our next major release will be “Everyone liked you except yourself”.
I think Ben Hueso might have a breakout hit on their hands.
psst – I’m secretly a member of Stutz Blackhawk, they only let me play the tambourine tho :(
my new band is called “Marchinowo”. our upcoming album is “then maybe we won’t blow up the planet”.
“A Slight Ache” releasing “Someone who doesn’t deserve to be hurt”. With some freakishly fitting album art http://www.flickr.com/photos/32415191@N05/3383787282/
unless you plan on giving the album away i don’t think CC would apply
Delta Secondary School’s new hit: ‘catch a trout’
“Defensive War” has just announced the release of their comeback album “As If There Were” on vinyl and 8-track. We’re getting the band back together!
My name is now Lisa Simon and I have an album called “Be Serious When People Laugh”. My album art (http://www.flickr.com/photos/73694036@N00/3382019953/) says that I’m a singer-songwriter who really means it when she says “serious” and that you should probably pronounce my surname “Simone”!
This is an internet meme, not a “make” project. Are we going to see tutorials on how to make lolcat pictures next? Lame.
… and watch for Ren Xun’s latest hit album “because nothing is well-done”.
My friends and found out about this a while ago. To make things easier i wrote a web app built on flex(flash based). It does everything for you. It even grabs the image, allows you to crop it position the text etc. All within your browser. Then you click download and you have your custom album art.
I’d love to put it up but i can’t take the server hit. If anyone can host it please let me know and then everyone wins. If anyone wants to look at it let me know. I can show a few people i just can’t let it kill my server or use up all of my bandwidth.
Please think of the copyright! Only use images given away as Creative Commons!
My band “A Burn or a Shiver” has just released “Something we had to know”, apparently! The album art is weird but totally convincing!
This is one of the most fun articles I’ve seen lately, I really like it!
My random Wikipedia page was actually an album!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly:_The_Seeker/We_Used_To
Artist: Phillip Read
Album: “what nobody has thought”
Cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drhoye/3372331547/
I’m Yukio Horigome with the sophmore album Benefit of the Tallow Trade
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3471/3391237762_c03791704d.jpg
This was actually first suggested by Vincent Baker on his blog at lumpley.com several months ago.
Adam
I had to give this a try.
Band: Andrew Frazier
Title: Every crowd has a silver lining
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iflickyounowjustwatch/3383700134/
This idea gives eerily good results.
Try not using any image from flickr, but only pictures with a CC licence …
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Do you know the new band “Tătaru River” with their new album “balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking” :D
Band: Bone Gap
Album: No mind at all
cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kh2rac/3397635376/
Band: Liszno
Album: Man was made for action
Cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30262305@N05/3549697516/