The walls of my new office were looking rather bare, and so I did a couple of canvases of "things" that meant something to me.
One was guitar-related, and another was music (CD) related.
A 5x5 matrix of album covers that have been "significant" to me during my life in one way or another. Not my "best" or "favourite" albums, not even the ones that I play most often, and certainly not anything that wins trendy or cool points, but probably my "desert island" albums. It's the music that has most meaning for me.
Each one has a significance, a whole series of memories, for different events in my life that I now see as significant.
Having done that, I thought that perhaps we get too caught up in what's technically good, what's popular, what the critics say we should be listening too, and none of that is really the point of music.
The point should be what it means to us, individually.
Just thought I'd share, but not sure why!
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@TTony did you once say you worked in insurance or have I imagined it?
Getting canvases done is ridiculously cheap now. That's a 2ft square canvas (roughly), and would cost <£30.
Thats really great value. I am going to look into it. Do you have a link?
Thinking up my 25 albums would be a mammoth task
I wonder what my own "25" would be. I got to 8 quite easily, but then I have to start thinking a bit harder.
Help!
(What's the Story?) Morning Glory
The Joshua Tree
Born to Run
Led Zeppelin II
A Rush of Blood to the Head
Origin of Symmetry
Kid A
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@magicpigdetective
Simple as a simple thing.
1. Decide which albums you want to include (actually, that bit was reasonably hard).
2. Source the album images. Amazon is good, but there are plenty of sites about that provide album artwork for free.
3. Use your drawing application of choice (I probably did it in Powerpoint!).
4. Arrange the individual album images in a suitable layout.
5. Save as a jpg or pdf or whatever - highest resolution possible.
6. Upload to the site, pay your money, wait a week, take large package from courier, unwrap, and put on wall.
but it I couldn’t stop
There's stuff on my canvas that I'd probably not put on my top 25 today - nor even my top 250 probably - but they still have some sort of meaning to my life and that's really the point.
My "top" 25 would change regularly - something new and brilliant gets released and in it goes, pushing something else out of that top 25.
But my significant 25 has remained fairly static for the last 10-ish years (Cowboy Junkies' Studio would be the last new entrant). Maybe that means my life has been more settled and less dramatic in the last decade than previously?
Brilliant idea - would never have thought of it.
Another reason to love this place. Well done.
Thank you for this fantastic idea!
And that would be my significant 25