The Cartoon Boobies for "Ride the Dragon" Were Censored at the Gate

Our digital partners' artwork guidelines do not allow the attributes listed below. We will need a replacement file if artwork displays any of the following:

• Website URL
• Social network symbols or information (i.e., Facebook links, Twitter handles, etc).
• Contact information (i.e., email addresses, phone number)
• Pornographic images
• Pricing information
• Copyrighted images
• Scan of a CD (it must be retail-ready artwork)
• UPC barcodes
• Tribute albums where the original artist name is as large as or larger than the performing artist
• The cover art refers to physical or digital versions of the album (i.e., CD, Disc, Digital Exclusive, Digital Version, etc)
• The cover image is blurry, pixilated or has other quality issues
• The cover art promises content that the album doesn't contain (i.e., "includes DVD", "includes free stickers", etc)
• The cover art up-sells to another product (i.e., merch, other albums by same artist, etc)
• The cover art claims to be an exclusive of one of our digital partners without their permission (i.e., iTunes™ Exclusive, Only on Amazon MP3, etc)

- Insert long-winded editorial on the childish sexuality of America as I couldn't be bothered -

I'm kind of pissed even though I knew this would come at some point but it never even got out of the gate.  Here's one more time since she's a deader now because, oh, God, she's deemed pornographic.

Yeah, I know.  The mere sight of her gives you the irresistible urge to run off and masturbate like a chimpanzee in the jungle.

Ed:  do they really do that?

No idea.  I don't hang out with them.

Ed:  America can't handle that much power in a woman

Whoa, that's a surprise.

Fucking Puritans.

Ed:  was that the editorial?

Yep


I don't have a good answer for a replacement and the kneejerk fix is to do a white album with a simple font for Silas Scarborough in the top left, Ride the Dragon on the bottom left, and in the middle it reads This Space is Empty Due to Puritanical Americans.

Ed:  affected minimalism.  Fail.

Yep.  No good answer beyond that but killing the project to make a point is senseless when it didn't get far enough for anyone to see the point.  Hmmpphhh.


The only other dragon rider I've got features Telia Soyer riding a gold dragon as the warrior queen.  She looks supremely bad ass but it's twisted enough explaining posting a fake female I made but maybe it's even more twisted posting a fake female some real woman made.

Ed:  you're going to do it anyway, aren't you?

It does seem so.  Must review the inventory since I need sufficient resolution in an image before I can work with it.  Up-sampling an image to 'increase' resolution has a slightly better result with cartoon images than photographic but it's still something best to avoid.

We shall see.  I think I have some material which is sufficiently borderline.