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March 1, 2005

Extraordinary Machine Photoshop Contest

Hope you enjoyed those leaked Fiona Apple tracks. We all got a kick out of the Angelfire page that's hosting them and its creative interpretation of the album title.

That's not the real album cover, nor is the one Chris posted in the comments:

Which made me think: Photoshop contest!

Your mission: create a (hopefully funny) cover for Fiona Apple's much blogged about unreleased album Extraordinary Machine. Stick with the robot theme or do something totally different. But unlike the ones above, please make yours a square, at least 300x300 pixels. E-mail the .jpg to scott [at] stereogum.com by Friday afternoon. Maybe there will even be a prize this time.

Posted at 7:18 PM
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thank you stereogum-- that image is horrible!

my friend and i both agreed that someone needed to freshen up on their photoshop skillz because it looked like a bootleg cd cover for a compilation of deep house classics.

Posted by: c.b. at 03/01/05 7:32 PM | Reply
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google image searching for fiona apple, this is the first image you get: http://www.miliandtilduh.com/pitures/fionaapplemili.jpg

searching for extraordinary machine, you get this:
http://www.killmargot.com/oyster/proposedcover.jpg

i thought i'd share those, and i'll see if i can come up with something of my own.

Posted by: bill at 03/01/05 9:11 PM | Reply
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hey, is that fairuza balk about to eat fiona apples head? so 90s.

Posted by: WHAT at 03/01/05 10:07 PM | Reply
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I did one teehee.

Posted by: calliwell at 03/01/05 10:30 PM | Reply
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http://www.killmargot.com/oyster/proposedcover.jpg

That's awesome. Nicole designed the Stereogum logo! Yay KillMargot!

Posted by: stereogum at 03/01/05 10:39 PM | Reply
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are you and/or other bloggers being compensated to do some sort of viral marketing for fiona apple?

Posted by: bigbrother at 03/02/05 9:56 AM | Reply
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Not much to say about it. I thought I could do something funny with that picture, but it just turned out freaky. But I still like it.

Posted by: David at 03/02/05 10:16 AM | Reply
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Whoops, I put my album cover (which is what I was talking about) as my URL. I'll just post the link: http://folderol.homestead.com/files/extraordinarymachine-cover.jpg

Posted by: David at 03/02/05 10:18 AM | Reply
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I have two... First I did this one...

http://thechrisivesexperience.typepad.com/photos/openwa/fionacover.jpg

Then I thought... Robots... How can you think of something involving robots and not include Voltron, defender of the universe... Here's my final:

http://thechrisivesexperience.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/contest.jpg

Is it my webserver or are these pages coming slowly today?

Posted by: chrisives at 03/02/05 3:13 PM | Reply
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Mine's not funny, but I like it.

http://img80.exs.cx/img80/7183/appl7uj.jpg

Posted by: designer for hire at 03/02/05 4:07 PM | Reply
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i guess i can post mine here as well.

http://www.boomspeed.com/taoofme/fionamachine1.JPG

Posted by: taoofme at 03/02/05 4:29 PM | Reply
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chrisives:

The toaster one is way better.

Posted by: AnotherDesignerforHire at 03/02/05 5:09 PM | Reply
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They changed the one on the angelfire site...

Posted by: normal at 03/02/05 5:44 PM | Reply
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Robocop - Now that is a kickass Fiona Apple robot CD cover!

Posted by: chrisives at 03/02/05 7:32 PM | Reply
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My email was bounced back to me, so here's a link:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/iheartsharing/fiona.jpg

Posted by: Nikole at 03/03/05 4:24 AM | Reply
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30 minutes I will never get back. eh well! enjoy:
http://www.zombieinsurance.com/mousetrap.jpg

Posted by: fluffy at 03/03/05 6:07 AM | Reply
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Nikole,

HA! I love the one of Fiona on the excercise machine. Hilarious.

Posted by: taoofme at 03/03/05 8:58 AM | Reply
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Ditto Nikole... funniest one ive seen so far

Posted by: marsh at 03/03/05 11:18 AM | Reply
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Not Funny but i'll post it anyway...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v600/flaunt_m/extraordinarycover.jpg

Posted by: M. at 03/03/05 12:01 PM | Reply
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Additional songs have leaked. Entitled 'Waltz' and 'Oh Sailor' as well a tracklisting.

Posted by: Jen at 03/03/05 4:05 PM | Reply
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Thanks, guys!

Posted by: Nikole at 03/03/05 5:17 PM | Reply
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Gentlemen.... BEHOLD!

here is my faux album cover creation! *evil laugh*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v160/mrheaume/frankie2.jpg

Posted by: matthew at 03/04/05 5:42 PM | Reply
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ah, they've got a new one up: http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/nadjadee/images/FionaBOT2005webber.jpg

i'm not sure which i like better.

Posted by: nicole j at 03/04/05 7:31 PM | Reply
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Here's mine

http://download.markryan.de/em.jpg

Posted by: Mark at 03/05/05 6:38 AM | Reply
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those of you who are make fun of micheal till u die you will never reach to his standard.
You will always remain in makine fun of rich of good poeple and u will not than to make fun of others SO IS SAID SO IS WRITTEN. a man who shoot gun always die by gunor die while shooting.

Posted by: mazi ogubike at 03/09/05 1:04 PM | Reply
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