Perhaps someone else started it, but I don’t know who. So, I’m saying that Mel started it!
You have a band. You need a band name, a title for your first album and an album cover design.
Here’s how to do it:
1 – Go to Wikipedia and hit random. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 – Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. 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”. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 – Use Photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.
5 – Post it on your blog along with these instructions, and trackback or link to your post in these comments.
Here’s mine:
My new band, apparently
Nice. Long way from the corn field though.
To many words. The last four or five words of the very last quote. So yours is should be “Miles from the corn field.”
Read your instructions dude!
Mine turned out very good. Unfortunatly, I realized much later that the image is flagged “All rights reserved”. Can’t post it. Now I’m bummed out and I don’t want to start a new one
Marc, Nothing on Flickr is reserved or copyrighted. You waive those rights by uploading to it.
MacBros, I don’t want to pollute this site with a single issue, but I wish you could back up your claim with written evidence, unless you are refering to some vague notion of ‘fair use’, which many mistankely think about ‘fair game’:
Yahoo/Flickr has twp policies regarding copyright:
First (the most obvious): Item 25 of the Terms of service page specifically forbids putting images that you do not own the copyright. There’s even a copyright claim formula on their Copyright/IP page.
Second (this one interests me more): The image uploader has specific instructions on how to copyright your photos (they are automatically granted regardless of the uploaded status). Flickr encourages users of their service to use a Creative Commons licence but doesn’t enforece it. If you want to maintain full copyright, it’s your right regardless.
Marc, Nothing on Flickr is reserved or copyrighted. You waive those rights by uploading to it.
Yes, it is. Please read the Flickr Terms of Service. We still own the image when we upload it and we don’t give up *any* rights with regard to the image unless we specifically license it as Creative Commons.
Of course, this applies to pictures that belong to us when we upload it.
Flickr is not a free-for-all public picture library. It’s a way for people to showcase their own photographic work (and artwork).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
There could be an argument that what you use in a low quality reproduction may be used under the terms of fair use. Not always the case, but its something to consider.
I posted a comment here, but it was swallowed by the spam filter?
Anyway the point is Flickr is like any other publishing medium where you publish your own intellectual property. You don’t lose your rights to a photo just because you publish it to Flickr.
@hari – Sorry about living in the spam hole, hari. I guess that Akismet “decided” that I was to have exclusive first reading rights on your comment
OK, let me rephrase that. “Nothing on Flickr is REEEEEAAAALLY copyrighted.” Inert sarcasm here.
Anyways, “Ask and you will receive.” I contacted the author and I got his permission. Just click on my name to see my reponse to this challenge.
John told me to give you an F but I won’t. I give you a B+
OH I see where you say he cheated now
About all this copyright stuff, I think most people wouldn’t mind letting you borrow their image for a good fun blog challenge.
@Marc St-Jacques – Heh heh. Don’t worry about polluting my site. Look around. You’ll see all kinds of pollution.
Ok my band is called “West View, Pennsylvania”, the album is called “You have got all you want” and the cover is a picture of a girl sitting on a footpath reading a magazine.
I checked out your site and I can’t find the picture. Where did you stash it? Love to see it.
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