Well, this meme I nicked from Paul seemed like a good idea. I mean, it's just go to Wikipedia and bash the Random Article link to get the name of your band. Then, go to The Quotations Page and click the Random Quote link, scroll down and snag the last four words of the final quotation on the page to get the title of the album you're creating.
Once that's finished, head on over to Flickr to grab some cover art by downloading the third picture on the Explore Interesting Photos page.
After that, slap the collected text in there with whatever sort of photo-editing software you use, and post it to your blog.
My band's name is Synchronous Condenser, and the title of this "smash" album is pulled from the Bill Vaughan quote, "We learn something everyday, and lots of times it's what we learned the day before was wrong."
At this point, I was thinking, "Cool! We've got wrongness here!"
Then, I got to Flickr... Things really flew off the rails into a bizarre land of dead bodies and death metal when it came time to find the cover art. Fitting.
The art is from someone who goes by the name Miracle Man, and the title of this brilliant and oddly fitting work is Crime Scene: The End. His description of which is thus:
The slow trek to the burial mounds.Now, I honestly have no idea how many more attributions I need to append to this entry so as not to piss off the artist. I mean, the last thing I want is Lee Tanner banging on my door with length of rope in his hand and look on his face that says, "Time to go, man."
Best viewed large!
This is the third image in a 4 part series.
Strobist: Fusion Reactor, 93M miles behind the camera, right 30 degrees using a water vapor diffuser. SB800 on camera in TTL/BL mode.
Makeup by Lollycat
Models: Miss Morgue and Lee Tanner
That dude would make short work of me. And, for what it's worth, I'm sure the girl in the picture deserved it. Maybe she tripped and fell on that knife? Who knows? With hair like that, she looks like someone who would run with scissors and knives. Maybe she came home drunk one night and hit Lee with a toaster as he was innocently sitting on the sofa innocently watching Jeopardy while innocently knitting some Hello Kitty mittens for his mother to show off?
A guy's gotta defend himself, people.
Right Lee? Right?
Please god, don't stab me in the face!
-DP
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Posted By Dan to The Wisdom of a Distracted Mind at 4/17/2008 11:16:00 AM
SICK! SICK! SICK!
ReplyDelete... wow ... your observations are just on this side of the line ... but I would defend your right to say them ... interesting as they are ..!
ReplyDelete... photos, art as supposed to elicit reaction ... this does ..! So do your pics too ..!
I consider the photo to be art regardless of whether or not I agree with its content. After all, let's face it, we've all seen movies depicting scenes much, much worse than what's represented here.
ReplyDeleteWhich brings up an interesting question: Is it the near infinite length of time that our eyes have to linger over this which separates this offensive scene from those of films?
Compare what you see here to an episode of CSI, for instance. This is actually much more tame.
Kind of interesting, don't you think?
-Dan
Had a go at this one myself.
ReplyDeletehttp://journals.aol.co.uk/oddb0dkins/WaffleandWhinge/#Entry1997
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