Pink Floyd Again

My, how time flies. A few years ago, I posted at this blog that I was coming close to posting an expanded version of "The Wall" album by Pink Floyd. My idea was to expand it as much as reasonably possible, using extended versions and extra songs and so forth. There's a surprising amount of such material, enough to double the total length of the album, which already was a double album. I came very close to finishing that project. But then I got a list of sound edits from a diehard Pink Floyd fan, and I lost my momentum to finish the project. It was good enough for me to listen to, and frankly, that's the main reason I make these albums, because I enjoy listening to the music.

So I was just sitting on that project for a long time without doing the last small amount of work to finish it and post it. Guest poster Mike Solof has copy of the version I made and has been privately prodding me to post it, easily at least a hundred times, but I never got off my lazy butt to finish it. Recently, though, another guest poster, Fabio from Rio, made some pretty interesting artwork for his theme albums about vegetables (with the help of an AI program). That gave me the idea to ask him to make artwork for my "Wall" project, which I'm calling "The Maximum Wall." While I have been traveling around in Europe, this last month, Fabio made dozens of really great pictures to illustrate a lyrics and notes book that is part of this project, basically one picture per song. So we are very close to finishing this project, and I think it's going to be even better than before, thanks to this new artwork. I just need to do some more work on it when I get back from vacation to finish some loose ends.

However, there is one more thing I would like to see to improve the art for this project even more. If you are a big fan of the album, you probably know that an artist named Gerald Scarfe made all of the artwork for the album. We have found some appropriate pictures made by Scarfe that we are using. But when Fabio tried to make more pictures in Scarfe's distinctive style, his AI program wouldn't allow it, due to copyright issues. So I'm wondering if anyone would be able to help with this. We already have all the pictures we want. But it would be great to convert some of them to more of a Scarfe style, to have a more consistent overall style to the artwork. If you think you have the artistic and or AI picture making skills to help with this, please let us know in the comments.

Otherwise, this project is very close to completion, and I am aiming to post it in the next few weeks, knock on wood.