This is my new desktop background:
It’s a word cloud based on Bob Dylan’s album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. I even used the same colors on the album cover.
I created it by taking all of the lyrics from the album and putting them into Wordle. I regularly read through his lyrics and analyze his word choice so it made sense to find out what words he uses most. I plan to create one using all of his lyrics but in the interim, I’ll be making one for each of his albums.
I’ll post them as I make them. You can download the large version here.
You can find them all here: Bob Dylan Word Clouds
DanielBatchelar says
Interesting and impressive, Graham. I’m not sure what it all means, but I don’t care. It’s inspiring, freewheelin’, and fun, more so because I memorized all those lyrics long ago, so I can’t look at any word without hearing it as a series of echoes and reverberations.
Graham English says
These are the top 100 words he used throughout the album. It’s pretty cool how it can trigger so much memory, huh?
Graham Cole (Southampton UK) says
I absolutely love these word clouds – the words, the colours, brilliant idea. I guess it helps if you like playing with words (like I do, like you clearly do, and cert like Bob does and always has done. Fab stuff – will be looking at all the albums in between classes (I teach!). Many thanks
in peace
Graham
Graham English says
Thanks! Glad you’re getting something out of them. I know I am!