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I'm gonna revive another one, because I think I managed to reconstruct the rules of the variant I so fondly remember. The goal here is to create a convincing album cover from random elements. What makes this fun is how simple it can be, album covers are a truly free form of expression with the only limitation being the traditional square shape.

1. Go to Wikipedia and click the “random article” link. The title of the article is the name of your band.
2. Go to "wikiquote" and click the “random page” link. A snippet from the very last quote on the page is the title of your album. You have some creative freedom here to make it fit together.
3. Click on this secret "Explore last 7 days" link, because you can't find it on the flickr home page. Third picture on the page is the basis for your album cover.
4. Use an image manipulation method of your choice to put it all together and post the result along with the source material in this thread.

I'll start us off

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Dziechtarzew.jpg (80.27 KiB) Viewed 9318 times

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Band: McGovern–Hatfield Amendment
Album: Purposefully Destroyed
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Band: Reinforced Concrete Column
Album: Innocent Suffer
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This one was done really quickly, because the photo itself feels like an album cover photo on its own.

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There have been some really good ones here - I feel like I can't compete.

Band: Kildin Strait
Album: You're Welcome
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I don't think this is a competition and I like your contributions anyway.

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This one wound up being quite similar to one I made for the old forum

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I actually had an idea of what I want to try, but then the image took it in a different direction

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Would this be the longest band name ever?

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Band: 2007 Guadiana Trophy
Album: From Paragraph To Paragraph
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Thanks for reminding me, I've been thinking of doing one of these again.

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The Danish dialect put me in mind of something metal and then the fonts took over this one.

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This wound up looking rather ominous.

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Band: 1982 Northeast Louisiana Indians Football Team
Album: Perfect Co-Operation
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Haven't done one of these in a while

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Messed around with some Gimp filters again.
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I may have cheated with the title there, but I could not pass it up

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Does a made-up Wikipedia article from an xkcd count as a random article? Yes, yes it does

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I love how you ended up with a bird in there but not the right one for the band.

Anyway, it's been... over a year since I last did one?? OK, time to get one done! Cheating a bit though because I really didn't like the first selection it gave me. I think this turned out possibly a bit sacrilegious.

Band: Allergies in Dogs
Album: Barren of Idealists
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ratammer wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 8:00 pm I love how you ended up with a bird in there but not the right one for the band.

Yeah, that amused me as well.

Anyway, it's been... over a year since I last did one?? OK, time to get one done! Cheating a bit though because I really didn't like the first selection it gave me. I think this turned out possibly a bit sacrilegious.

Maybe? I kinda like the effect though, it's nice when the album title can resonate with the art.

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I actually like the idea of a band named "She's in London", which makes it more of a shame my GIMP skills couldn't do the idea justice this time.
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I would love to know the real life series of events that would lead a British-themed album cover to have those bits of Polish text on it.

ratammer wrote: ↑Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:40 pm I would love to know the real life series of events that would lead a British-themed album cover to have those bits of Polish text on it.

The real life series of events was that the best image of a railway station split-flap display I could find was from Poland. Maybe you know the secret trademark that'd find me some English ones?