I saw an interesting game the other day that produces even more interesting results. People create fake
album covers using the randomizing powers of Wikipedia and Flickr. It's a four step process:
- Go to Wikipedia's random article page. The title of the article is the name of your band.
- Next, visit the random quotes page on Wikiquote, a sister project of Wikipedia. The last four words of the very last quote on the page are the name of your album. If you get a page that has no quotes or is empty, try it again.
- For the final component, go to Flickr's random images of interest page. These images are screened to actually be good images, and not be blank or really tiny or anything (or something worse than blank).
- If you want to compile these into an actual image like some people have, use Paint or something to make a masterpiece of copied-and-pasted Times New Roman album cover. If you have something made for photo editing like Photoshop, then all the better.
Some images come out truly beautifully, like the one at the top of the page, or the one to the right here. Despite the randomness of the randomizers, a certain amount of luck produces, on occasion, very nice results. (Those are real attempts, not ones picked to look good.) Some even might be mainstream enough for a few people to recognize, like how the image at the right actually has the last four words from The Great Gatsby.
...However, of course, the majority of the images will be funny at best, and nonsensical on average. Occasionally something comes out that's so stupid it's actually funny, or a select few things actually make funny joke [sic], but the vast majority of them are just stupid.
