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Is three times in one day enuf fer ye, Lynn?

(And, in a slightly more gracious tone, let me say thanks for the nomination.  Sorry I don't have the energy to continue the meme.)

Labels: Meme

I grabbed a meme from Scuffulans Hirsutus and gave it a try.  Here are the rules:

1 - Go to wikipedia. Hit “random”.
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:
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”
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 mix it all up.

I think my result is highly serendipitous.  I chose the font Justinian to tie in with the Latin theme of the band's name and the (probable) ethnicity of the woman in the image (by flickr photographer Luiz Alberto).  The album's title sounds like an earnest plea on behalf of the poor of the third world:  our proffered solutions don't work because we never trouble ourselves to listen to the poor.  (In fact, the title's source is a quote from Tolstoy:  "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.")  I'm pleased with the S-shape of the unjustified left edge of the album title snaking its way around the woman's elbow and fist--but I'm an amateur at graphic design, so probably it violates some rule of taste written down in the secret rule book of graphic design techniques that only real graphic designers are allowed to read.

I'd say the result is better than Don's (of Scuffulans Hirsutus) thanks to dumb luck.  It makes me wonder how many times one would need to turn the crank before a genuinely compelling album concept would pop out.  Maybe not too many.

Labels: Design, Meme