Been ages since I’ve joined in with a silly meme, so here goes. From WhatIFoundThere, the Dadaist rock band album cover meme:
Instructions:
1. The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the name of your band.
2. The last four words of the very last quotation on the Random Quotations page is the title of your album.
3. The third picture in Flickr’s Interesting Photos From The Last 7 Days any nice appropriately Creative Commons licensed photo* will be your album cover.
4. Use your graphics programme of choice to throw them together, and post the result.
The full quote was:
“We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It’s a messy business, life. It’s hard to figure–full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.”
Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
What amuses me about this meme is that many of the resulting album covers are far better and more interesting that a lot of real ones. But we really need an Dadaist album cover builder (akin to the LOLcat builder) for the real fun to start.
* You’ll note I changed the photo source. When I looked, most of the “Most Interesting” photos on Flickr are ‘All Rights Reserved’, and as someone who champions openness and sharing online, I have to also respect the wishes of those creators – especially photographers – who do not want to share. I don’t always get it right, but I always try, so rather than just pick the third photo on the most interesting page, I found a nice Creative Commons licensed photo instead.
It’s disappointing to see that Flickr hasn’t really done much else with Creative Commons except produce a rather clunky search page. I’d like to see them do a much more refined CC search, so that one can search across CC licence types. They should also apply the ‘most interesting’ algorithm to CC photos, so that we can see the best of the open photos. I’m sure there’s a lot more imaginative stuff that could be done, but it’s a shame to see Flickr not even doing the basics.
“it’s a shame to see Flickr not even doing the basics”
Here here.
There is, at least, a ‘most recent photos’ for each license type (e.g. http://flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/) which might be helpful. I can’t see the interestingness filter being applied to the CC licensed photos though, except in the clunky search, where you can show search results by interestingness.
Flickr gets a B-. Could do better.
Hi Suw, you _can_ search across different cc licence types from the advanced search page (http://flickr.com/search/advanced/) and then view ‘most interesting’ on the results page: http://flickr.com/search/?q=some+good+some+bad&l=deriv&d=taken-20071228-&s=int
I think if I owned a dslr and had more luck [time] I’d develope the tags more that would sort the search some
Couldn’t resist – its here.
Happy New Year.
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