Thanks Sally @salza for hosting the last round of the album cover challenge and thanks to all who viewed and voted on the finalists. As it was my honour to be selected, albeit by the slimmest of margins, it is my turn to host Album Cover 142.
This is a fun challenge that combines a bit of luck with the creative talent of the person who draws the random quote and article.
The rules for the challenge are as follows:
1. Go to the Wikipedia website’s main page. The title of the “Featured Article” for the day is the name of your artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
2. For your album title, go to http://www.quotationspage.com/ and choose "Random Quotes" from the left menu. Scroll down to the end of the page. The last 4 to 6 words of any of the three last quotes on the page is the title of your album (whichever you think would go with your band or artist).
3. Please enter your artist and title in a comment box below so we all know what you are up against!
4. Next, find or take a photo (photos) of yours that fits the album name and artist(s). The cover can be made up of one single shot or an edit with multiple layers, and so on. The processing options are limitless, but don’t forget to crop your album cover into a square format though!
5. You can use your favourite editing programme to create your cover. You can use any image of yours for the album, old or new, but you must use your own images and do all your processing for the cover during the timeframe of the challenge.
6. If editing with software isn’t your thing you could create something manually – e.g. a collage or montage including text cut from a newspaper or magazine – and take a photo of that. Just remember the SQUARE crop.
7. You can enter multiple times but only one album cover will be chosen per photographer.
In addition to tagging your image, you can post your entry to this thread, as well. It’s always fun to see what others are coming up with and just may inspire others to enter.
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 arrow below your picture.
3) Find the 'Embed Code' box and right click on it to copy it, and then paste it to this thread.
Album Cover Challenge 142 begins today, January 17th and ends at midnight (in your time zone) on Saturday, February 18th. Finalists will then be chosen and the list for voting will be posted, the winner being announced after the vote is completed.
As in the last round, it’s been suggested that, if the first selection of artist title and album title are too out there for you to work with, try one more time for another combination.
This challenge is fun but really “challenging“ with combination of given square format, unpredictable name and topic and of course processing/editing requirements. I look forward to seeing the results of your creativity.
Artist: George Andrew David Jr (Korean war fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient)
Title: If the Line Is Good
Quote: I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca
when did wikipedia change the main page not to have a random article ??
I got Fatima Whitbread (British javelin thrower )
Nobody thinks of complaining
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
fyi Chris, i found that random article is hidden now, you need to click on the three bars top left corner of the Wikipedia home page so that the side menu opens up, and random article is there... if you want to include this info into the post for the next person
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Title - Can see nothing but sea
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Title: If the Line Is Good
Quote: I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. - Seneca
I got Fatima Whitbread (British javelin thrower )
Nobody thinks of complaining
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
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