watching expired appliances align

but...it's not real

Last weekend I meant to link to “a collection of hand-drawn ‘imaginary record covers’. Homegrown funky folk art: Howard Finster meets Motown. posted on a bulletin board and linked from boingboing. After briefly scanning the link I vowed to return and check out everything that was posted. Looks like I waited too long. According to an update on the boingboing posting, the discussion thread of the original posting was removed due to privacy concerns about the artist.

Fake album cover art can be a lot of fun. I’ve only made three fake album covers in my life. And I’m only happy with the way two of them turned out. All three were created as art projects during college (as a high school teenager I was too busy making fake videos to pretend-package anything having to do with music). The first was an awful, awful 7” cover self-portrait based thing. I used terrible colors and I’m now embarrassed to show it to anyone (and I’m not embarrassed about too much). The second was for that same class. It was a very dirty sort of cut and paste collage, assembled from various photos I had sitting around. It worked at the time but it was a definite sign that I wouldn’t be going into graphic design as a profession.

The third album cover (cd size, like the second) was designed for a band some friends of mine had formed. Mitten never actually released a “6 song EP” called “Do you eat meat?” on “Picky Boy Records (pbr002)” as the spine of my cd indicated, but I had fun mistitling the songs. I couldn’t remember the actual titles of their songs (except for the two covers) and it was late at night when everyone who would’ve known the answer was asleep. I did the best I could when it came to titling. “Elevators/Lifts” became “Elevator is a Lift.” And I hope I was right when I titled a song “Grafton Snowball.” Now that I think about it, I’m not even sure if that was an actual song by Mitten. Did I just make it up? Jamie, Jeremy, Kate, Rishi, Kevin? Someone want to chime in here?

'do you eat meat?'

Anyway, making up fake stuff is fun. If anyone finds out that the imaginary record covers I mentioned at the start of this entry are posted online again, let me know.

(and only related in the most distant of ways - here's a post by blogger jay smooth that discusses the idea of 'blog beef' dis records. his entry links to an mp3 he created, "i know why the unicorn cries." it's all tongue-in-cheek. and it's a great example of the fun, creative things people are doing with their free time.) (link via a whole lotta nothing)