Thursday, February 26, 2009

Happy Accidents


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 "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to ... Read Moreflickr 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.




In creating an Album cover in response to Carly Grigg's album cover Madlib post on Facebook, I realized that happy accidents and awesome inspiration can be found in associating a purely random combination of words and images.

2 comments:

  1. We learned about this in leadership class. It's called 'forced connections' and is a tool for divergent thinking. Yay non-daap classes!

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  2. ah yes, thanks Carly,I new there was a name for it

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