Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Creating a CD cover with rules and limitations

A great shared site for creative random art with some effort is on Flickr with the shared CD meme pool. This is a game where you create a CD cover for an imaginary band and upload it to Flickr; the trick is you have to create it from 'found' materials, again following a set of rules.
1. Generate a name for your band by using WikiPedia's random page selector tool, and using the first article title on whichever page pops up. No matter how weird or lame that band name sounds.
2. Generate an album title by cutting and pasting the last four words of the final quote on whichever page appears when you click on the quotationspage's random quote selector tool. No matter what those four words turn out to be.
3. Finally, visit Flickr's Most Interesting page -- a random selection of some of the interesting things discovered on Flickr within the last 7 days -- and download the third picture on that page. (Even better: Click on this link to get a Flickr photo that's licensed under Creative Commons.) Again -- no cheating! You must use the photo, no matter how you feel about it.
4. Using Photoshop (or whatever method you prefer), put all of these elements together and create your very own CD cover, then upload it to the CD memepool
To conclude, analyse the extent to which you think you have been creative. What decisions were made for you? What decisions did you make yourself? How did this exercise compare with creating your own coursework pieces?



In this task, i've only been able to use a small amount of creativity as most things, such as the name, artist and picture, were decided for you by random selectors, and you had no say as to whether you wanted to use them (unless you cheated of course).

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