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I sourced my album artwork from Google images, using the 600px x 600px images where possible. Copied them into Paintshop Pro where I made them perfectly square and resized them to 200px x 200px. Then I pasted them into Adobe Fireworks where I had created my grid using the Slice Tool. This enabled me to quickly snap them in place. I exported the whole thing from Fireworks as a PNG.
Day 2
I wanted my grid to be entirely random so each album would get the attention it deserved. So I copied each album back into Paintshop Pro and used Gaussian Blur at 100% to establish the average colour of each album as RGB and copied the results into Excel. I tried various permutations of sorting the list by red, green and blue but couldn't figure out a way of arraying information that has three parameters as a two dimensional grid. So I ended up working out the luminance value for each image by adding red green and blue together and then sorted the albums from dark to light. Then I repositioned each album on my grid in accordance with the list and shuffled around the occasional album so that the colours didn't jar so much.
I'd be keen to hear anyones ideas of how to array red green and blue in a two dimensional grid. I was hoping to achieve something like this:
Don't wait to derail this thread @revsorg, so PM'd you.
It's the first album of theirs I heard and one that I and my university mates used to listen to a lot whilst, errr, 'chilling' Not as well produced as later albums, but it has more of a live feeling and character that stands out, the songs are imprinted into my consciousness. Strangetide is from the same era and has a similar vibe. Curious Corn and Become the Other are also great.
A lot of songs sound they same, but to be fair, they do play variants not just of one, but of a few types of song. There's the long proggy epic. The ambienty one. The Arabic one with acoustic guitar. The dubby one. The eastern/gypsy type one etc.
Pretty long, @TTony, but certainly not full of significant events!
I guess those 50 or 60 would just be "favourites". I could narrow them down to 25, hopefully, but they wouldn't relate to significant life events. They'd just be albums that were particularly "big" to me at different points over the years, maybe times where my musical tastes went in different directions or tangents, although I don't feel like my tastes have really changed all that much.
And thanks very much for the tech tips, guys, I don't understand most of it but I'll have a look into it later (@revsorg that picture of coloured stones is pretty).
I'm just being naughty. Love The Beatles in particular but they don't fit the criteria requirement.
It was a toss up between that and an Oasis offering. What's the story most likely. But then I'd be lying to myself. I hate Parklife single as it goes. Trouble in the message centre, however is massive.
Modern Life is Rubbish could have been on my list, I love it. But I can’t stand Parklife and the whole Britpop hooha that came with it.
Pink Floyd, their 70’s stuff is just so awesome it trancends any concept of what is cool or not. Where’s your list @UnclePsychosis ? Lets have it!
But you're right, in terms of significance, Smell the Glove should be on there!
As for "when am I ready?" You'll never be ready. It works in reverse, you become ready by doing it. - pmbomb
Here's mine...
https://i.imgur.com/BoxCEwP.jpg
I did attempt something similar but the idea was I was going to paint the about covers myself, all about cd case size. I got halfway through the first one and then forgot about it. I only recall it now because I found the half done Weasels Ripped My Flesh the other day when having a sort out. My god, I can't paint.
But I just can't see it!
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My ‘25’ significant albums:
Moon Safari, Air
Live and Dangerous, Thin Lizzy
Photo Finish, Rory Gallagher
Frampton Comes Alive, Peter Frampton
Back in Black, AC/DC
Joan Armatrading, Joan Armatrading
Gold – Greatest Hits, The Carpenters
At Folsum Prison, Johnny Cash
Old No. 1 & Texas Cookin, Guy Clark
Communique, Dire Straits
Hotel California, The Eagles
Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
Appetite for Destruction, Guns ‘N’ Roses
Hot August Night, Neil Diamond
Ride On, Christy Moore
Trompe Le Monde, Pixies
Greatest Hits, Queen
The definitive SIMON & GARFUNKEL, Simon & Garfunkel
Slayed?, Slade
12 Gold Bars, Status Quo
The Best of Rod Stewart, Rod Stewart
The Joshua Tree, U2
Famous Blue Raincoat, Jennifer Warnes
It Must Be Love; The Collection, Don Williams
The Wall, Pink Floyd
Some of the albums listed above are also favourites of mine but all have some ‘significance’. From listening to a cassette deck playing Simon & Garfunkel in the car as we went to college in the early 1970s to discovering Moon Safari at a hi-fi system demo way back......
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