{"id":4167,"date":"2008-01-16T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/01\/16\/make-a-band-altered\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:16:01","slug":"make-a-band-altered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/01\/16\/make-a-band-altered\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Band (Altered)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' 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18:03:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5651,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/mayr&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240624044915\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/mayr\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 11:39:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 11:17:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 18:03:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 18:03:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Thom posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/thomnottom.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/14\/lets-make-a-band-meme\/\" title=\"Let's Make a Band...Meme\">fun little meme<\/a> using Wikipedia, a quotations site, and Flickr to randomly choose a band name, album title, and cover art. I wanted to do it, but the one thing that bugged me was the cover art portion: the original instructions simply had people grabbing the third image off of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/explore\/interesting\/7days\/\" title=\"Explore interesting photos from the last 7 days in Flickrland...\">the past week&#8217;s &#8216;interestingness&#8217; page<\/a>. A great way to get good images, sure, but one that paid no attention to copyright. Each time I reloaded the page, I was coming up with images that were published under a standard &#8216;all rights reserved&#8217; copyright.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s my version of the Make a Band meme&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The title of whatever <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random\" title=\"A random Wikipedia page\">random Wikipedia page you land on<\/a> is the name of the band.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The last four words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/random.php3\" title=\"A page of random quotes\">the last quote on this page<\/a> is the title of the album.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Put the last word of the quote (the album title) into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?s=int&amp;l=4&amp;w=all&amp;q=&amp;m=text\" title=\"Flickr: Search\">the search box on this page<\/a>, and the third image the search brings up is the cover of the album (this will search Creative Commons Attribution licensed photos and sort them by interestingness).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Put &#8217;em together in your image editor of choice, and post your band&#8217;s new album for the world to see!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I got, from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HLA-DP\" title=\"Wikipedia: HLA-DP\">this Wikipedia page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quote\/38564.html\" title=\"The Quotations Page: Quote Details\">this quote<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mayr\/447423622\/\" title=\"Mayr: All You Need Is\">this image<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mayr\/\" title=\"Mayr\">Mayr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image4166\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/hladp-nottoneedit.jpg\" alt=\"HL-ADP Not to Need It\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of whatever random Wikipedia page you land on is the name of the band. The last four words of the last quote on this page is the title of the album. The third image this Flickr search is the cover of the album (this will search Creative Commons Attribution licensed photos and sort them by interestingness).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}