This Visual Assignment was incredibly fun and random. I was not going to complete this because I already had completed enough assignments to get credit for the week but I just loved what happened.

Here are the directions for the assignment:

http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/an-album-cover/

Basically I had to do a mash-up of all these random things to create an album cover. My name turned out to be Nils Rydström, who was actually a Swedish fencer who competed in the Olympics way back. I love the name because it looks pretty rock and roll with the umlaut above the ‘o’.

Here is some information on how heavy-metal groups use umlauts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

 
Next there was a random quote by JFK that ended with “Powers Along Lines of Excellence.” Again, pretty sweet.

Next I had to get the photo for the cover that just happened to have power lines in it. I thought it fit perfectly with “Powers Along Lines.”

This seemed too good to be true. Here is the final product: