So after our class tonight, I was inspired to begin on my Assignments. I figured I’d start with a relatively easy one, so I chose “An Album Cover”. Rating: ✭✭
The assignment has you go to Wikipedia‘s random page and choose your (fictional) band’s name, then go to The Quotation Page‘s random quotes page and use the last 5 words of the last quote on the page to get your album’s name, and then go to Flickr‘s interesting pictures of the last 7 days and choose the third picture that comes up, and that is your album cover. You then put those elements together in a creative way, and upload it. Sounded pretty painless to me.
The information I came up with after doing all those things is this:
Band Name: Smolna Street, which is a street in Warsaw, Poland
Album Name: Nothing Is Any Of Your Business, from a quote by Lenny Bruce that says, “When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.”
Album Cover: this picture of a man’s silhouette holding a camera
I just downloaded Gimp, and haven’t quite figured it out yet, but that’s what I used to make this. I don’t love it, and I may try again later, but this is what I have so far:
I like this assignment, and I think was interesting, but I do wish I knew more about Gimp, or another kind of photo editing software, because I think I could have done something a little more attractive than this.
Are you kidding me? This is awesome, amazing what you have done with just a little photo editing application knowledge, just wait to you start exploring further, this is really brilliant in its raw abstraction, and sometimes the idea of chance as the purveyor of something abstractly beautiful makes me question the idea of divine design.
This looks really nice. Love the picture, I didn’t realize you added the smoke or that it was an actual guy. Looked like a cool drawing of a smoking street.
Fantastic, one assignment down! The texture pattern makes a perfect metaphor for the album title. You will get better at GIMP just by using it more. We will have time next week in class to try this together.
This is neat — could totally pass as a real album cover. I’m digging the work you did with the crosshatching pattern.
This looks good! The funny thing is that the quote you chose could actually be an album name and the street name could be a band name. This came together well but I can understand your problems with Gimp, the layering aspect kind of confuses me. If I ever manage a band named Smolna Street, I will come to you for an album cover design.
This is awesome, not only is the assignment in general really cool but the album color is really creative, and a really cool name.
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