Covered Calls-Writing Covered Calls

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The custom made car covers are available in varieties of designs and patterns. Getting the quality products can be affordable way to protect car exteriors. So, get the most suitable car covers for effective protection of your vehicle.



By: Daniel Lee

About the Author:

Modesto Susana

Gone are the days when people had to wait for weeks and months for car covers that are custom tailored. Thanks to the reliable manufacturers, nowadays, you can get custom car covers within couple of days. There are several other features that make custom car covers most reliable and sought after. What are these features?

Custom car covers are made according to the size and shape of your car body. Regardless of the year, make and model of your vehicle, custom car covers are available for most of the car models available. Whether you have BMW or the Mercedes, Rolls-Royce or SUV or any other car, there are car covers for all.

One of the most exciting features about custom car covers is that these offer the perfect fitting. The car covers you get embraces the body of your vehicle just like second and covers every nook and corner of your car exteriors. Perfect covering is necessary to prevent hazardous elements of different types.

Custom car covers provide wide range of options to choose from. Whether it is colors or patterns, types of fabric used, or price ranges; there are varieties of options available. Since different environment and situations demand different types of qualities from the custom car covers, it’s necessary that you understand the needs and interests. With custom car covers you will get one that suits best for you. Whether you are planning to store your vehicle under extreme sun or you have to store it in rain, storm or snow; there are suitable car covers such as Stormproof car covers, Autobody Armor car covers, Silverguard car covers, Mosom Plus car covers for different situations. Apart from these car covers there are several other quality car covers available for you.

So, first understand your needs and tastes. Find the reliable brand and you are game to get the superb car covers.



By: Daniel Lee

About the Author:

Carry Tellinghuisen

These days everybody wants to know how to make the money back that they lost in the stock market. Clearly the answer isn’t to trust a financial adviser because they are likely the person who lost your money to begin with. Seventy-percent of mutual funds under perform the S&P 500 and over the last two years most of them are down double digits. So you may have considered learning to invest your money on your own. Surely you couldn’t do any worse than the so called expert advice that you’ve already received you think to yourself. Amidst all the doom and gloom it’s easy to forget that there are a handful of savvy people who make money in the markets whether they are going up, down or sideways.

The Power of Compounding

The first thing you need to understand is how the stock markets can make you rich and why your job, unless you are the CEO, or have lots of stock options, almost certainly never will. Einstein called compounding the eight wonder of the world. Everybody has heard this riddle. Which one would you rather have $10,000 or a penny that doubled everyday for thirty days? Most people choose the $10,000 never stopping to do the math on the doubling penny. Because for the first twenty days the growth is slow and you only have just over $5,000, but by the end of the thirtieth day you have just over $5,000,000 and that is the power of compounding. So unless you are getting some very large pay raises the chances are that you’re pay check grows linearly, while your earnings in the stock market, if you are doing it correctly can grow exponentially.

Find the Trend

One of the most important lessons to know about the stock market is to not trade against the trend. The question is how to determine the trend. One of the simplest ways is to use a 200 day moving average (DMA) . If the market is trading above the 200 DMA the market is in an uptrend, if it’s below the market is in a downtrend. So you first want to find the overall trend of the S&P. If it is in an uptrend you want to look for stocks that are also in an uptrend to purchase. If the S&P is in a downtrend you want to look for stocks that are in a downtrend to short sell.

Buy Strong Stocks, Sell Weak Stocks

Obviously you want to buy strong stocks in an uptrend, and short sell weak stocks in a downtrend. The question is how do you determine if the stock is weak or strong. One of the easiest ways is to go to the Investors Business Daily website and use their stock grader. When you type in a ticker symbol the site will give you a letter grade from A-E. You want to buy stocks that are a B+ or above and short sell stocks that are a C+ or lower.

Buy Stocks When They Drop, Short Sell Stocks When They Rally

Most times even a strong stock that is an uptrend will pull back and take a breather, likewise a weak stock in a downtrend will usually have a few days when it rallies. This is when you want to enter the stock at either a support or resistance level. You can find some handy tools at a website called Trading Markets that will help you to determine when to enter a stock. Putting it All Together So how does one make money in the stock markets? 1. Determine the trend of the S&P index 2. If the stock market is in an uptrend buy stocks, if it’s in a downtrend short sell stocks 3. If you are buying stocks, buy the strong ones with a grade of B+ or better. If you are short selling, sell weak stocks with a grade of C+ or lower. 4. Buy weak stocks on a pullback, short sell weak stocks on a rally.

Making Money in Sideways Markets

So the only question left is how does one make money in sideways markets? Well the simplest answer is to use options. Most people think that options are very risky and complex, but the truth is that if you don’t know how to use options you are ignoring one of the most useful tools there is in the financial markets. By using a combination of easy to learn trading techniques such as covered call writing, credit spreads and iron condors it is easy to make money whether the markets go up, down or sideways. If you want to find out more about how to make money in the stock markets, credit spreads, iron condors, or covered calls, please click on the link below.



By: Palmer Owyoung

About the Author:

Noble Willick

With the renewed interest in vinyl records, an old friend is becoming more important again- album cover art. There have been tens of thousands of album covers created throughout the years and there are some that are instantly recognized, while some remain obscure, but one thing is certain, album cover art is part of our pop culture and the rock and roll lexicon.

Let’s explore a particularly innovative British art design company that specialized in creating instantly recognizable album cover- Hipgnosis. This creative group has made album covers for some of rock’s dignitaries, including Pink Floyd, Genesis, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Yes and the Scorpions, to name a few.

Hipgnosis primarily consisted of artists Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell and later on, Peter Christopherson. In 1968, Thorgerson and Powell were asked to design an album cover for Pink Floyd’s second album called “A Saucerful Of Secrets.” They completed that project and soon commissioned additional work from EMI, which included photos and album covers for Free, Toe Fat and the Gods.

Being art and film students, the pair was able to utilize the darkroom at the Royal College of Art, but after they graduated, they had to set up their own facilities and in early 1970 they rented a space and built their famous studio.

Their unique company name came from graffiti found on the door to their apartment. They liked the word because it sounded like hypnosis and they combined two somewhat contradictory terms, “hip” for new and cool and “gnosis,” which related to ancient learning.

Hipgnosis’ novel approach to album design was strongly photography-oriented, and they pioneered the use of many innovative visual and packaging techniques. In particular, Thorgerson & Powell’s surreal, elaborately manipulated photos that utilized innovative darkroom tricks, multiple exposures, airbrush retouching, and mechanical cut-and-paste techniques were a film-based forerunner of what would, much later, be called photoshopping.

“We were self-taught,” writes Powell in the book,” For The Love Of Vinyl.” “What we did was come up with ideas based on the music. The design ideas were poorly sketched in the early days and required a lot of accompanying blag to be understood. Our usual strategy was to talk the job through with each other and then use photography as a means to express it.”

Hipgnosis got their real big break in 1973 when they were hired to do the cover for another Pink Floyd album, “Dark Side Of The Moon,” which is one of the most recognized album covers in the world. After the success with the Floyd cover, they were in high demand and soon took on jobs for Led Zeppelin, Genesis, UFO, Black Sabbath, Peter Gabriel and The Alan Parsons Project, to name a few.

Peter Christopherson joined the company in 1974 as an assistant and later on he became a full partner. The firm employed many talented assistants, of particular note were freelance artists George Hardie, Colin Elgie, Richard Manning and Richard Evans.

Another interesting side note is that the company did not have a set fee for designing a particular album cover, instead they asked the musicians to “pay what they thought it was worth,” a policy that would occasionally backfire according to Thorgerson.

Let’s explore some of the stories behind the album covers:

Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)

Probably Hipgnosis’ most famous work, the album was originally released in a gatefold LP sleeve designed by Hipgnosis and bore Hardie’s iconic refracting prism on the cover. Inside the LP were two posters, one bearing pictures of the band in concert with the words PINK FLOYD broken up and scattered about, and the other being a slightly psychedelic image of the Great Pyramids of Giza taken on infrared film. The album was also the first Pink Floyd album to have picture labels on the record where it depicted a blue prism with black background and the credits written either in grey lettering (European issues) or white lettering (US and Canadian issues). Also included was a sheet of stickers of the pyramids.

The album is the third best-selling album of all time worldwide (not counting compilations and various artists soundtracks), and the 20th-best-selling album in the United States. Though it held the #1 spot in the USA for only one week, it spent a total of 741 consecutive weeks-over fourteen years-on Billboard’s list of the top 200 best selling albums, longer than any other album in the history of music.

Led Zeppelin- Houses of The Holy (1973)

The concept for the cover was taken from Arthur C Clarke’s Childhood’s End. It is a collage of several photographs which were taken at the Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland, by Aubrey Powell. The two children who modeled for the cover were siblings Stefan and Samantha Gate. The photo shoot was a very frustrating affair and took ten days. Shooting was done first thing in the morning and at sunset in order to capture the light at dawn and dusk, but the desired effect was never achieved due to constant rain and clouds. The photos of the two children were taken in black and white and were multi-printed to create the effect of 11 individuals that can be seen on the album cover. The results of the shoot were less than satisfactory, but some accidental tinting effects in post-production created an unexpectedly striking album cover. The inner sleeve photograph was taken at Dunluce Castle near to the Causeway.

Jimmy Page has said that the album cover was actually the second version submitted by Hipgnosis. The first, by artist Storm Thorgerson, featured an electric green tennis court with a tennis racquet on it. The band was furious that Thorgerson was implying their music sounded like a “racket”, the band fired him and hired Powell in his place.

Atom Heart Mother- Pink Floyd (1970)

The original album cover depicts a cow standing in a pasture with no text or any other clue that it was an album from Pink Floyd, although some later editions have the title and artist name added to the cover. The concept was the group’s reaction to the psychedelic “space rock” imagery associated with Pink Floyd at the time; the band wanted to explore all sorts of music without being limited to a particular image or style of performance.

So the band requested that their new album cover have “something plain” on the cover, which ended up being the image of the cow. Storm Thorgerson, inspired by Andy Warhol’s famous “cow-wallpaper,” has stated that he simply drove out into a rural area near Potters Bar and photographed the first cow he saw. The cow’s owner identified her name as “Lulubelle III.” More cows appear on the back cover (again, with no text or titles), and on the inside gatefold. Again, an instantly recognizable cover, simple as it is.

Peter Gabriel (1980)

Peter Gabriel’s third album, it contains two of Gabriel’s most famous songs, the U.K. Top 10 hit “Games Without Frontiers” and the political song “Biko.”

This album is often referred to as “Melt” due to its cover photograph by Storm Thorgerson. The photo was taken with a Polaroid SX-70 instant camera, and subsequently modified by Thorgerson or Gabriel, and one side of the portrait of Gabriel seems to be melting; although Thorgerson does not recall whether he or Gabriel manipulated the image.

…And Then There Were Three… Genesis (1978)

A rather gloomy and dark cover; it is one that Hipgnosis was not real keen on as Thorgerson explains:

“We were trying to tell a story by the traces left by the light trails. It was a torch, a car, and a man with a cigarette. The band was losing members and there were only three of them left. The lyrics of the songs were about comings and goings and we tried to describe this in photographic terms by using time-lapse. So there’s a car going off to one side and then the guy gets out of the car, walks over to the front of it, and lights a cigarette. But as he walks he uses a torch and the car he was in leaves. There’s a trail left by the car, a trail left by him as he’s walking and then he lights a cigarette, which on the cover is where there’s a flash of his face.”

Still, whether the company was happy with the result or not, it is another amazing cover.

In Through the Out Door- Led Zeppelin

This original album featured an unusual gimmick: the album had an outer sleeve which was made to look like a plain brown paper bag and the inner sleeve featured black and white line artwork which, if washed with a wet brush, would become permanently fully colored. There were six different sleeves featuring a different pair of photos and the external brown paper sleeve meant that it was impossible for record buyers to tell which sleeve they were getting. The pictures all depicted the same scene in a bar (in which a man burns a Dear John letter), and each photo was taken from the separate point of view of someone who appeared in the other photos. In 1980 the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of best album package.

Storm Thorgerson recalls the design in his book “Eye of the Storm”:

“The sepia quality was meant to evoke a non-specific past and to allow the brushstroke across the middle to be better rendered in color and so make a contrast. This self same brushstroke was like the swish of a wiper across a wet windscreen, like a lick of fresh paint across a faded surface, a new look to an old scene, which was what Led Zeppelin told us about their album. A lick of fresh paint, as per Led Zeppelin, and the music on this album… It somehow grew in proportion and became six viewpoints of the same man in the bar, seen by the six other characters. Six different versions of the same image and six different covers.”

Hipgnosis’ ideology and concepts are still being utilized and will be copied for years to come. Thankfully, these young art and photography students understood the meaning of an album cover and the art and music worlds are a better place because of their insights and talent.



By: Robert Benson

About the Author:

Kathleen

It is no secret that 2008 was a terrible year for most stock investors, and most probably things are going to get worst in the future. The US and the World economy are in a recession that will probably last at least for the rest of 2009. The recession translates into less demand for products sold by companies, which means less profits from companies and then lower stock prices. In very simple terms this is the summary of why the stock market is going lower.

If you are an investor that is loosing money on your stock portfolio, maybe you should take a look at another market that can help, the Option Market. Most investors don’t know anything about stock option trading, or stock option strategies, or what is a Call or a Put option. The truth is the Option Market is a sophisticated market mostly used by professional investors. But this does not mean individual investors should stay away from it. There are many firms that will offer you advise on this market (for example www.teofutures.com), others will offer you newsletters and education so you can familiarize with this market.

It is not my intention to explain in full detail about the option market, but these are some of the most important characteristics about stock option trading:

1.- You don’t need a lot of money to trade this market. In general terms you should open an account with minimum $10,000 in order to be able to diversify that money into different stock option strategies. Some firms allow you to open with less than that, but based on experience accounts that start with small amounts of money generally loose 100% of their investments.

2.- When trading stock options you can bet that the price of a stock will go higher or lower in the future. This means you still can make money even though the markets are down.

3.- Stock option investing is a fast investment. You don’t buy and hold when trading options. You buy and sell, sometimes even in the same day. When purchasing options, usually the more time you keep a position the higher your chances of loosing money.

4.- Trading options is considered risky because you can loose 100% of your investment capital and with some stock option strategies you can even loose more money than your original investment.

5.- Be very careful whom you open an account with. Preferably follow strategies where you only buy Options (Calls or Puts) or spreads. Stay away from firms that will offer you guarantee returns or spectacular profits. As a rule of thumb anything between 0% and 120% return a year is an actual real return to obtain from Option trading. Returns of 500% a year, or turning $15,000 into $200,000 in 18 months, or 100% returns in the first 6 months, it is better to stay away from those offers. Maybe you can obtain those returns but the risks are very high so chances are you most probably loose all your money trying to obtain that type of results.

As mentioned before, stock option trading could be a very good alternative to help investors during these difficult times. Don’t invest all your capital in this market and be very careful whom you work with. Specially stay away from guarantee returns.



By: Jorge Malo

About the Author:

Cara Larose

CDs changed the way we listen to the music. CD covers are paper or plastic covers for covering the CDs, thereby safeguarding it against fungus or other kind of damages. Hence, it is preferred to the keep the CDs for protection as well as for prolonging the life of them. The CD covers help in providing good information about music and movies stored in the CD, kept inside the cover.

The CD covers made from hard plastic and cardboard paper is for providing durable protection. Usually the CD covers come in the same size and shape be-fitting all the CDs. These covers are available in all Music shops, electronics stores and specialized CD shops. Some of the common types of CD covers are available in categories like long covers, exclusive metal, plastic decorated boxes and hard shielded plastic covers etc.

Music lovers prefer different varieties of CD covers for their favorite music and they cover the CDs with the latest available covers. Cover art is simply the illustration or the photograph related to the movie, the music or stuffs related to the concerned cds or DVDs, which is in the cd cover. Cover art helps in distinguishing various CDs or DVDs. Cover art includes mostly fancy images or information, figure of the famous pop singer or the scene from the movie or simply some stunning design. These designs changes from time to dime depending on the latest trend in the market.

Album art is simply the illustration of the content of the music album, the artists. Album art plays an important part in the promotion of the music albums of singers across the world. Therefore, the singers and record companies try to put stunning album art relative to the theme of the music on their cd or album covers.

Quality of CD covers depends on the materials used, the design etc. The CD shops offer best quality CD covers, for music fans at affordable prices. Marketing the business with best and quality CD covers promotes the business growth, which means quality is vital. CD covers made out of rigid and strong fiberglass helps in the durable protection of the CDs. This kind of cd covers can resist the wreckage, when it falls down, far better than normal covers.

CD covers are purchasable online, and there are varieties of shops available for buying CD covers. It is important to select the cd covers according to the quality and price. These shops also provide a sample of the products and this helps in the determination of the best CD covers at an affordable price. You can download the CD cover design from the internet, after printing it, pasting it on the cover can make cover attractive. Enrolling in the various CD cover shops in the online helps in getting free sample products. These kinds of websites conducts contest based on CD covers. CD covers come in different art based prints and hence considered as perfect gift for the rock music lovers.



By: Eyal Adonspot

About the Author:

Blake Dominquez

It is a well known fact that serious investors seeking long term growth of capital have as their main objectives the two most basic goals in investing:

• to find an investment vehicle that would effectively preserve capital and minimize risk in the face of a fluctuating and constantly flexing economy

• the investment vehicle must provide better than decent yields in all economic conditions to promote constant growth of capital value.

With the stock market as the premiere choice due to its historical record of outperforming all other investments over time, people are increasingly turning to the stock market as their main investment vehicle for future capital growth. It is here where much higher rates of return can be made with a relatively small increase in risk to capital.

With thousands of books, manuals, internet sites, seminars and courses offering investment strategies and trading systems in the stock market and its derivatives, there are few, if any, that deliver the ideal investment vehicle sought by the long term investor in search of safety and high returns. Not only is there a near total absence of an ideal investment system but there are many that promise eye popping, mind boggling returns and, they are exactly that; mere promises.

Most of the trading systems offered are structured on strategies or activities that work when conditions are ideally suited to the program being peddled. Most of their successes are highly dependent on picking the right stocks at the right time. In other words you must be a good stock picker or use a stock picking service (for a high monthly fee) to select the right ones for you. Market timing is also an important factor in their systems. Again, you must be a good market timer or depend on a service that provides market timing signals (also for a high monthly fee). These supposedly high yield investment programs don’t say anything about how bad things can be when conditions go against their predictions. These programs do exactly as promised: great when the going is good but disastrous when the going is bad. Without doubt many have been taken by these so-called services and while an investor/trader may be successful for a while, the end result over a long period of time is always the same – no better than if you had done the selections yourself.

While there is no one investment system or vehicle that can be an answer-all to the various goals of various investors, there are some investment alternatives that can come close to satisfying the two basic needs of safety and decent returns. Diversified mutual funds have been touted as the answer to these basic needs. But over the years these funds have shown that during downturns in the economy they perform just as badly as the whole investment market in general. And, over the long term, many of these diversified funds have failed to even match market performance in general, much less outperform it.

Enter market derivatives with emphasis options.

Trading in stock options has become very popular with institutional investors as well as private individuals as a sound money management system supplementing their investment portfolios. The ability of stock options to give the investor a wide range of choices is what has made the options market grow considerably over the last two decades. To quote one options expert: “Stock options are the greatest wealth producing tool ever invented on this planet. . . . if you know how to use them”.

The key element of this statement is: . . . if you know how to use them.

For many people the mere mention of stock options, sends shivers up their spine. They look at options as synonymous with great risk. But isn’t driving a car very dangerous for one who doesn’t know how to drive? The ability of stock options to give the investor a wide range of choices in stock market investments is what has made the options market grow by leaps and bounds over the last twenty years. Statistics compiled by the Options Industry Council, a group that educates investors about options, show that volume in options trading has risen tremendously in recent years. Further, studies show that individual investors make up 60% of the market.

For the individual who has sufficient funds and is looking for more than a decent return on his capital and with controllable risk, stock options may be the answer.

There are dozens of option trading systems being employed by individual investors and institutions. Each system is designed to accomplish a specific investment goal. A financial institution may use long put options to hedge its winnings in stocks that have appreciated in value. Another investor may buy call options instead of stocks to enter a position in a security that has caught his fancy. Still another may sell calls against his stock holdings to generate income from his stock position, or what is popularly known as covered call writing.

Of the dozens of option trading systems there is one that can be carried out as a long term investment program offering a fair degree of safety and consistent high returns over time, thus satisfying the investor’s two basic needs of safety and return.

This is the selling of uncovered or ***** options.

But wait! Is it not said that selling ***** options carries the risk of unlimited losses? Isn’t this a contradiction?

Indeed selling ***** options when done carelessly and without a disciplined strategic program is extremely risky!

But by using a carefully planned and disciplined system of trading, the so-called “unlimited risk” factor in selling options can easily be conquered. There is a three-pronged trading strategy being used by one successful options trader that is proving to be a consistent winner in all market conditions. It is a trading technique that couples ***** option selling with a modified ratio credit spread and the use of the roll over feature. While ***** option selling has acquired a bad rap of being highly risky, this three-pronged trading strategy allows the trader to defeat the risk. Not only is the system able to substantially reduce the risk, it also offers one the ability to become a savvy investor/trader without having to depend on picking the right stocks or timing the market.

It involves utilizing the system in any market condition using only one or a few stocks, ETFs or indexes (the latter two are more effective). One need not worry about finding the right stocks or timing the trades. The fact remains that stocks behave, more often than not, in crazy and irrational ways so that one can almost say that consistently choosing winning stocks is as good as a random walk down Wall Street. Rather than be proactive and try to predict and time the market, as many try to do, this three-pronged investment system is reactive. The prescribed trades are done in reaction to how the market has moved, not in anticipation of its future behavior.

This three-pronged trading system does not promise quick profits or mind boggling yields but steady annual returns in excess of 30%. Many are averaging returns of 50% to 60%. It would be prudent to say that in times of deep downturns the system may not deliver the promised returns but it will hold its own and will definitely outperform the market.

One options trader that has mastered this three-pronged trading technique has decided to share his knowledge of the system by writing an e-book on its methodology. Borrowing from that quote about options being a great wealth producing tool he has aptly titled his work: STOCK OPTIONS: THE GREATEST WEALTH BUILDING TOOL EVER INVENTED. In it he details the step by step methodology of this trading technique and gives an exhaustive series of sample trades covering several months of transactions. It shows the effectiveness of the system in an up market, down market and horizontal market using only one ETF stock. To this day the writer continues to use only one or two ETFs in all his options trades and he includes a web page that shows his current and actual trading results month by month on an ongoing frequency.



By: Daniel Mollat

About the Author:

Edward Daylong

Having quality Jeep seat covers enhances the interior look of your Jeep, comfort level, durability of Jeep seats, and improves overall driving experience. However, in order to get such a desired look and feel, you need to have presentable seat covers. There are numerous types of seat covers available in the market place. Selecting the best quality seat covers needs specific knowledge of Jeep seat covers. This article will provide you with necessary know how about seat covers.

Custom Seat Covers: The Types

Basically there are two types of seat covers: Universal seat covers and custom seat covers. Universal seat covers are designed to suit all types of seats without major modifications. On the other hand, custom seat covers are customized according to customers’ specifications. Both types are good depending upon your requirements. However, given a choice, custom seat covers are better options as these offers flexibility to design one according to your choices.

The specifications of Jeep seat covers also vary from company to company. Different companies use different types of materials. Jeep seat covers are available that range from Neoprene seat covers to leather, cotton, tweed, velour, and poly cotton seat covers. You will get different designs, colors and patterns, sizes as well.

If you are particular about the theme of your Jeep, get your jeep seats customized that fit your taste. With custom Jeep seats, you can have your initials, themes, designs, name, logo embroidered onto your Jeep seat cover. The custom seat covers are more suitable for people with creative inclination.

Custom Seat Covers: The Cost

Jeep seat covers differ in price ranges as well. The cost may vary according to the quality. Better the quality more expensive the Jeep seat cover will be. Similarly, custom seat covers are more expensive than universal seat covers. The cost of seat covers starts from as little as $40 and may go over $225.

Jeep seat covers protect the seats and improve the charm of interiors our Jeeps. It reflects your style as well. Custom seat covers offers excellent opportunity to flaunt your style statement. The quality of seat covers you have got for your jeep is directly proportional to the charm of your jeep.

Where to get custom seat covers from? There are several jeep seat covers suppliers offering different range of seat covers. You can get suppliers over internet as well. There are reliable jeep accessories suppliers available online that offer Jeep covers, custom seat covers, dash covers, floor mats, and other Jeep accessories. Getting reliable supplier online is not a hard task. Just surf internet, do Google and find the best Jeep accessories and choose the best seat covers for your jeep. Moreover, you can order seat cover of your choice from the comforts of your home. So, determine your needs first, and order now for a comfortable and pleasant jeep driving experience.

Check out the complete range of Custom Jeep Seat Covers here at www.jeep-seatcovers.com



By: Paul Nixon

About the Author:

Anette Fostervold

Album cover art software allows you to explore this pop phenomenon

In the last article, we discussed some of the elements of album cover art and I would like to continue the discussion with some more details and an album cover finder that is a must for any fan of album cover art.

As I stated previously, many famous artists have been commissioned to design and produce album covers. For example, the Rolling Stones and pop artist Andy Warhol are famous for the cover art on the Stones’ album “Sticky Fingers.” As the story goes, at a party in 1969, Andy Warhol casually mentioned to Mick Jagger that it would be amusing to have a real zipper on an album cover. A year later, Jagger proposed the idea for “Sticky Fingers.” But, there was a flaw in the shipping process, the zipper would press onto the album stacked on top of it, causing damage to the vinyl record. The solution? The zipper had to be pulled down before the album was shipped, then it would only dent the album covers. However, they never figured out how to keep the zipper from scratching the other album covers. Additionally, some department stores refused to display the album, feeling it was risque and not family oriented because of the model’s snug jeans and the zipper display. But this album is historic because it broke new ground and also saw the debut of the now famous Stones logo: a caricature of Jagger’s lips and tongue.

If you are a Janis Joplin fan, then you would probably know that the famed cartoonist Robert Crumb designed the cover for Joplin’s album “Cheap Thrills.” This revered, yet misunderstood artist, drew the cover as a favor to Joplin, who he befriended in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood where they both resided. He was paid $600 for his work by Columbia Records, which later sold the artwork. Crumb was asked to do a cover for the Rolling Stones, but refused because he did not like their music. Crumb is also the artist for the “Keep On Truckin’” poster and “Fritz The Cat,” and has more than seventy covers to his credit.

The Internet is full of sites related to album cover art and is just too numerous to list. There are sites devoted to fan favorites, the weird and unusual, particular decades and so on. Many users have turned to ebay to find lost art treasures from their childhood. But I want to share a website and album cover artwork finder that is not only convenient, but a must have for any art lover.

I recently spoke with Richard Nicol, the program designer and owner of “Album Cover Finder.” (http://www.albumcoverfinder.com) The program has been available for more than two years and is a godsend for anyone interested in album cover art.

“Album Cover Finder” allows the user to not only find specific searches for interesting album cover art, but also allows the user to download selected songs from the release. I asked Richard about his fascination with album cover art.

“I’ve always been interested and loved album cover art and wanted to create a database where the users could not only look at album cover art, but experience it as well. The program allows the user to browse through the cover art of a particular band and also lets the user to download particular songs through iTunes as well. The main feature is convenience, you can utilize iTunes and not only get more of an experience for the music, but the great artwork involved with the music and artists.”

But “Album Cover Finder” is more than just iTunes and album cover art. The program allows users to look at different art work from different countries as well. Some of the art work involved in a US release may be different from that of a UK release or German release, only adding to the experience. The program also allows users to review artist biographies, read reviews of a particular release and add the artwork to their iTunes library and an iPod. “Album Cover Finder” also allows users to find additional cover art from a particular artist or band, copy the artwork to a clipboard and has artist videos and applicable tour information. “Album Cover Finder” is a fully functional way to search for album artwork and includes free updates for registered users and is available at http://www.albumcoverfinder.com.

Now, I have only had the program about a week, but I have to admit spending literally many, many hours looking at historic artwork and listening to the songs associated with the acts. This software gets a hardy “thumbs-up” and is a “must have,” affordable program for album cover art connoisseurs and anyone with a fascination with art and music.

Needless to say, there can be a lot more written about album cover art and the impact it has had upon music and pop culture and cannot be summarized in a couple of articles. There are countless books, (I actually own one that talks about and illustrates ***** vinyl and the images used to try and sell albums!) that detail album covers and the impact upon pop culture and music.

Additionally, there are so many web sites and blogs associated with album cover art, they are to numerous to list. Why there are even web sites devoted to preserving this treasured art and frame it for display.

Furthermore, did you know that June 1, 2007 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?” Not only is the release one of the most influential albums of all time musically, the cover art itself is iconic as well.

I spoke with Gary Freiberg, owner and operator of http://www.rockartpictureshow.com about “Sgt. Pepper” who related to me that the album “broke new ground and challenged the industry.” Gary and I talked about album cover art and the influences it has had on our culture. He also told me of a recent poll conducted by http://www.vinylrecordday.org that voted the “Sgt. Pepper” album cover the favorite album cover of all time. Gary is world renowned for his work in the album cover art industry with his patented record album frame and his work has been cited and used by the Smithsonian, Home & Garden TV, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and thousands of satisfied Internet customers. And if you interested in getting your great album art framed, you may visit http://www.rockartpictureshow.com and tell Gary you heard about him from an article posted at http://www.isnare.com



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