Here are 140 album covers with birds on them. Now why would we create something like this? Well, we were inspired by this image on flickr, which shows 415 albums with birds on the cover. We wondered how we could recreate something like that and set to work. It turns out that it was harder that it seems. First, you need a lot of album covers in the composite image to get the colors bands/separation to look pleasing.
We chose mostly albums with birds on the front and not people. And we limited ourselves to albums that we could find in www.discogs.com. We also opted for a rectangular orientation that constrained presentation of colors. If we get enough energy, we'll think about this problem again. Our end result is not as pleasing as the image on flickr.
To make this image, we used Visual Studio Code as an editor, studied this tutorial: Using the HTML5 Drag and Drop API, and read up on CSS Grid Layout Module. With these references as a guide, we created a simple HTML page, and in the browser we used drag and drop to move images around to a configuration we liked and then saved page. Kind of low tech, but it worked.
Here's the list of albums used in this post (left to right and bottom to top):
Tedeschi Trucks Band - Let Me Get By
Floorplan - Paradise
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Old Crow Medicine Show - Best Of
Roger Lion - Roger Lion
Relient K - The Bird and thew Bee Sides
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Raven - Raven
Earlimart - Everyone Down Here
Arooj Aftab - Bird Under Water
Crooked Fingers - Crooked Fingers
Jim Guthrie - Now, More Than Ever
The Lovetones - Medidations
The Low Anthem - What the Crow Brings
John Zorn - The Mockingbird
Kishi Bashi - Omoiyari
Lee Curtiss - Watergate 08
Yardbirds - Birdland
Strawberry Path - When the Raven Has Come to the Earth
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Ancients - Heart of Oak
Doomtree - False Hopes
Santana - Greatest Hits
Great Lake Swimmers - Onigiara
Doldrums - Secret Life of Machines
Gary McFarland - America the Beautiful
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Steve Earle and the Dukes - Guy
Baroness - A Horse Called Golgotha
Dif Juz - Out of the Trees
Bert Jansch - Avocet
A Grave with No Name - Feathers Wet Under the Moon
Neal Halstead - Palindrome Hunches
Ulaan Passerine - Byzantium Crow
Jeff Beck - Emotion and Commotion
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Last of a Dyin' Breed
Clifton Chenier - Bayour Blues
Sangre De Muerdago - Sangre De Muerdago
Will Hoge - Blackbird on a Lonely Wire
Guster - Keep It Together
Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan
Hoelderlin - Rare Birds
Brian Borcherdt - Coyotes
Jeff Hanson - Madam Owl
Train - Save Me, San Francisco
The Silos - The Silos
Talk Talk - The Very Best Of
Waylon Jennings - The Eagle
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Ermerson Lake and Palmer
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
Rare Bird - Rare Bird
Spread Eagle - Spread Eagle
Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell
King Kurt - Big Cock
Spyro Gyra - Carnaval
Macondo - Macondo
Radical Face - Ghost
Portastatic - Slow Note from a Sinking Ship
David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Talk Talk - Asides Besides
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Big Business - The Beast You Are
The Mission - Carved in Sand
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Quicksilver
Pavement - Watery Domestic
Christopher Cross - Christopher Cross
Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires
Elvis Costello - Secret Profane and Sugarcane
Our Lady Peace - Naveed
Jets to Brazil - Four Cornered Night
Melvins - Stoner Witch
William Doyle - Great Spans of Muddy Time
Aquila - Aquila
Alda - Alda
Europe - Wings of Tomorrow
Saxon - Wheels of Steel
Alphataurus - Alphataurus
Andrew Bird - Are You Serious
Pernice Brothers - The World Won't End
Various Artists - Imagination Anthem
Shearwater - Rook
The Inner Banks - The Inner Banks
Blackfoot - Marauder
The Stranglers - The Raven
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Inti-illimani - leyenda
Midnight Oil - Bird Noises
Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Rosemary Hardman - Firebird
Robert Rich - What We Left Behind
Shearwater - Palo Santo
Mike Oldfield - The Complete
The Bluetones - Expecting to Fly
Ian Anderson - Secret Language of Birds
Rain Parade - Beyond the Sunset
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Chicago - Chicago VIII
Seculos Apaixonados
WASP - Still Not Black Enough
Kansas - Song for America
Peter Frampton - Winds of Change
Rascals - See
Deadsoul Tribe - A Murder of Crows
Bjork - Vespertine
American Eagle - American Eagle
Original Soundtrack - The Flight of the Condor
Herbie Hancock - Mr. Hands
Little Feat - Down on the Farm
Christopher Cross - Another Page
Deftones - Gore
Afghan Whigs - Unbreakable
Saxon - Thunderbolt
Yardbirds - Live Yardbirds
Budgie - The Definitive Anthology
Opeth - Socrceress
Monopoly Star Searchers - Make Mine, Macaw
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit – Here We Rest
Yes - Yesshows
Magnus Granberg - Come Down to Earth Where Sorrow
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Chick Corea - Return to Forever
Ryo Fukui - Mellow Dream
Christopher Cross - A Night with Christopher Cross
Troyka - Ornithophobia
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Graham Parker - The real Macaw
Rush - Fly by Night
Songs - Ohia -
Magnolia Electric Company
Homer - Homer
Rosie Hardman - Eagle Over Blue Mountain
About Tess - Beautiful
Big Country - The Seer
Neil Cavanagh - Short Flight to a Distant Star
Tony Williams - The Joy of Flying
Maharadja Sweets - Somethings Been Lost
Deodato - Frist Cucko
Julia Holter - Maria
The Cakekitchen - Stories for Late at Night
Various Artists - Sweetheart 2005
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