Random Synaptic Misfire
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Certain individuals keep telling me that I should be a writer (Hi Mom). This is probably as close as I'll ever come to making that happen.

Fantasy band meme

Category: By Foo
Via Gwynne via Eric via... aw hell, you get the idea. The idea behind this meme is to take three somewhat random bits of content and create from them a fictitious band, album, and album cover (or CD insert, if you must).

Here are the rules:


Rolls Royce image © Mike Yamin. Used by permission.
Finally, here's Even If It's Wrong, the latest (and only) release by The Boshin War, which fictitiously debuted at #10.

The base image of the Rolls Royce is here. My random Wikipedia article was about The Boshin War. “Even if it's wrong” was my random quote fragment. Unfortunately, I didn't think to make note of the whole thing or who said it.
 

7 comments so far.

  1. Eric 10 January, 2008 22:35
    I love the graphic treatment you applied, "defacing" the Rolls with the album title. It works perfectly with that phrase, doesn't it?
  2. Bret 11 January, 2008 11:08
    I had every intent of submitting to the meme.

    But my random Wikipedia article was "The General Secretary of Defence (France)" and I just gave up.

    I kept hearing "Der Kommisar" in my head, and nothing good ever happens from that.
  3. Lou 11 January, 2008 21:39
    For bret - Don't turn around, uh oh..
    zha zha
    Der Comissar's in town uh oh..

    LOL

    Couldn't resist...sorry
  4. Foo 11 January, 2008 21:56
    @eric: Thanks for the kind words... and for getting what I was going for.

    @bret: It's tough, if you get the wrong stuff. I got lucky (although I wasn't quite sure what I was going to make of the Rolls, at first).

    @lou: Yer an instigator, as always. Happy New Year!
  5. Gwynne 12 January, 2008 00:59
    Yes, great graphics work. Very fitting. :-)

    I realize now that I forgot to make note of or get permission to use the image I found on Flickr. What are the chances of finding it again, I wonder?
  6. Foo 12 January, 2008 09:24
    @gwynne: Could be a tough job finding it again. I think it would be a real long shot for someone to happen across one of our blogs, recognize his photo, and make a fuss about copyright infringement. However, I try to be very conscientious about always checking the copyrights assigned to pictures on Flickr before adapting them for works of my own or embedding them in web pages somewhere.

    I'm probably a bit more of a stickler about copyrights than most people. Part of it is that it upsets me when I find someone has taken my work without attribution, much less permission. It's only fair, then, that I do unto others. Questions of legality aside, I just don't need the potential ill will and negative karma.

    Flickr makes doing things legally pretty easy, though. Many images have very open Creative Commons licenses assigned to them and don't require explicit permission for use; others have standard copyrights, but getting permission is as simple as shooting the owner a FlickrMail. In the case of the album cover, I went ahead and posted the image but sent the owner a note with the link to my blog and a promise to immediately take it down if he objected to my use of his image.

    Turtle thinks I'm wound too tightly.
  7. Gwynne 12 January, 2008 13:01
    Given the ease with which you can do that and the ill will that can be avoided by doing the right thing, I wouldn't say you're over reacting. And besides, you may gain a new visitor in the process. ;-)

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