In Record Time

To create your own album cover:
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 flickr 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.
Often this kind of digital ephemera that apes an artifact of material culture is created with a web generator, but in this case the different randomized components are assembled by the participant, so the final product is a kind of quip that uses both happenstance and clever styling.
Labels: participatory culture, social networking, visual culture
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