A bit of random fun on Facebook got me thinking .....
The message below - when I did it - produced the result above
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 with this text in the "caption" and TAG the friends you want to join in
As someone suggested mine looks like a real album cover. The one I saw on another friends status looked even more convincing ....
A further facebook friend has pointed out 2 websites that generate random covers: album cover generator and fake album cover with both a twitter following and a facebook group.
That got me thinking - how much of what we attribute meaning to is actually random. Meaning making is retrospective. we see patterns and make connections and attribute meaning to what may be otherwise random events. And even if that is so then so what...
It reminded me of something else I read about random tourism. Go to a city / town and using a pack of cards, draw a card - Hearts go straight, Clubs left, Diamond right, Spades back. And walk the number of blocks on the card. Just follow the cards for the day and see what happens.... talk to people, visit places en route....
Maybe we need more 'random' in our lives.... not everything planned ..... more 'wandering for the love of God'......
Back to my random quote:
2 comments:
http://www.gradesaver.com/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead/study-guide/section1/ deep
I loved Rosencrantz and Guidenstern are dead. I seem to remember seeing it YEARS AGO at the Young Vic
So random.....
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