Start a Band!

This is too cool not to share. On the re: Becca blog that a friend of ours writes, I learned about a cool game to randomly generate a band name, album name, and album cover.

Go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article on the page will be your band name.

Then
http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the last quote on the page will be the name of your album.

And lastly
http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/?
The third picture is your album cover.

Another friend of hers liked the game as well but didn't like having to go into a photo editing package to create the cover, so he wrote a web application to do it automatically:

The Random Band/Album Generator

It gets the results and lets you crop and position the picture and text, change fonts, change font colors, or re-fetch any of the three elements. You can then preview it and download the "album cover."

I think it's interesting that our brains are so programmed to scan album covers and try to make sense out of enigmatic band names and album titles that most of these don't even seem out of the ordinary. In fact, I find myself wondering what the music would be like...

Here is my favorite result so far:



By the way, I hereby lay claim to the band name "Zealots of Piety" - I'm surprised it isn't a real band.