[WikiEN-l] CDcovermeme

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:08:52 +1100, "Steve Bennett" 
<stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/28/08, Adrian <aldebaer at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.flickr.com/groups/cdcovermeme/pool/
> 
> Cute. If only I had more enthusiasm for being a memebunny, I would now
> be posting a link to a CD cover for my band, "Moogerah Peaks National
> Park" with the surprisingly appropriate background
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/18548381@N05/2218803959/ and the quote
> "Nothing fails like success".

I don't have a Flickr account, but mine would be:

Band name: Elmendorf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmendorf%2C_Texas

Album: you just trusted yourself.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/39296.html

Cover:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loredana/2221921676/
...which would made a really good cover, but unfortunately it's "All 
rights reserved", and some in the message threads over there say it's 
technically illegal to make derivative works of such things (though 
you're unlikely to get sued for doing it noncommercially as part of a 
meme)... so using a link somebody provided to get only free images, I 
got this alternative cover:
http://flickr.com/photos/14555484@N02/2214694579/

I find it interesting how often this random selection comes up with 
combinations of band names, album titles, and images that give the 
impression of having some sort of deep symbolic artistic 
significance... makes one wonder how many of the real-world arts-and-
literature stuff, about which people write academic treatises 
discussing what they represent, were really just born of random 
thoughts of their artists.  I remember struggling in English classes 
in high school and college (where I was great at more "rational" 
subjects like math and computer science) where the teachers kept 
expecting me to understand all the symbolism that was supposedly 
there in the books and stories we read (the rocking horse isn't just 
a rocking horse... it represents the lost innocence of childhood!), 
but how is anybody to know what symbolism was really intended and 
what is a figment of the observer's imagination?


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