First, a big thank you toTaffy @taffy for hosting Album Cover Challenge 33, and thank you to the voters who selected my Sticks and Stones Album cover. I'm very excited to host Album Cover Challenge 34. Please think about submitting – it’s great fun, whether you know anything about music or design! Here's how it works:
1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia hit "random article" on the top left hand side (it's a link near the top). The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your musician(s) or band.
2. Go to http://www.quotationspage.com Hit "random quotes" on the left. Scroll down to the end of the page. The last 4-6 words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your album.
3. Next, find or take a photo of yours that fits the album name and artist(s). (Remember album covers are usually square.)
4. Then, use your favorite editing program to create your cover (or, if you don't have one, Ace members have free access to picmonkey.com -- and there are many other free programs out there). You can use any image of yours for the album, old or new, but you must use your own images and do all processing for the cover during the time frame of the challenge.
5. Enter your album(s) in the challenge by tagging it with “albumcoverchallenge34”
In addition to tagging your image, consider posting your album to this thread too. It helps keep this thread alive – that means it will show up on the discussion lists to the right of the home page. It also helps us bring in a lot of participants!
To post a photo on this thread:
1) Go to your page that has the photo you would like to post.
2) Click on the three dots just below the bottom right of your picture. Find the 'Embed Code' box and right click on it to copy it then paste it in this thread.
The challenge begins Monday, August 4, 2014 and ends Friday, August 15, 2014 at 9 pm Pacific Standard Time (Seattle). All entries must be between those dates. If you have any questions or need help getting started, just let me know by posting to this thread. I look forward to seeing your entries AND hope that we have many first-time submitters!
Perfect announcement, Marla. Looking forward to participating (though have some weird names...
Band Name: Lieutenant-General Hon. James Douglas
[(died 1691) was Colonel of the Scots Regiment of Footguards, at that time a regiment on the establishment of the English Army.]
Album Name: Not Understanding Some Things
When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04
Artist/Band: Steve Harrison (various people throughout history)
Song: I'll never see a tree at all.
Full quote: I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
@kali66@taffy@dibzgreasley@salza Thanks for getting in on the challenge! I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with for their cover! You are all so creative, so I'm sure it will be great! :)
Band/Artist: Louis Freeman
Album: You Can Accomplish Almost Anything
Full quote: Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
The quote is from Voltaire and rather disturbing:
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Tweets ahoy!
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
G. Gordon Liddy
this will take some thought!
Band Name: Lieutenant-General Hon. James Douglas
[(died 1691) was Colonel of the Scots Regiment of Footguards, at that time a regiment on the establishment of the English Army.]
Album Name: Not Understanding Some Things
When you really trust someone, you have to be okay with not understanding some things.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-08-04
Artist/Band: Steve Harrison (various people throughout history)
Song: I'll never see a tree at all.
Full quote: I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all. Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Album Title: What we did with it
Quote: In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it - Randy K. Milhollan
My first album cover!
Album: You Can Accomplish Almost Anything
Full quote: Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
Let's see if I can figure something out for this
Album title: Comfort, use and protection!
Band: Birotunda
The quote is from Voltaire and rather disturbing:
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Musician is Zumba Fitness: World Party
Album Title is When the Husband is Not at Home.
Man Island http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Island_(Bahamas)
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux
Musician: Man Island
Album Title: In the Hand of a Fool
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"