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Create your Own Album Cover

Instructions

Go to Wikipedia.com and click ‘Random Article’ in the menu. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band name.
Go to Quotationspage.com and click “Random Quotation” in the menu. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your album.
Go to Flickr.com and click on “explore the last seven days”. The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
Use Photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.
Share it! #albumcover

Original image from Tim Dobrovolny, thanks.

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fletter:

Google Creative Lab’s Alexander Chen turned the train paths of the New York subway into an interactive instrument at MTA.ME. Check it out, it’s wicked genius.

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Music Industry Braces for the Unthinkable - NYTimes.com

mikehudack:

shaneguiter:

In each of the past two years, the rate of increase in digital revenue has approximately halved. If that trend continues, digital sales could top out at less than $5 billion this year, about a third of the overall music market but many billions of dollars short of the amount needed to replace long-gone sales of compact discs.

“Music’s first digital decade is behind us and what do we have?” said Mark Mulligan, an analyst at Forrester Research. “Not a lot of progress.”

“We are at one of the most worrying stages yet for the industry,” he continued. “As things stand now, digital music has failed.”

Music executives disagree, saying there is hope, as long as they can come to grips with piracy, which according to the industry federation accounts for the vast majority of music distributed online.

Stronger measures to crack down on unauthorized copying are taking effect in a number of countries, executives note, and even as the authorities wield a heavier stick, the complementary carrots are appearing, too, in the form of innovative digital services.

The market gets larger, the sales get smaller. The same thing happens to every disrupted industry.