what are the odds
Sunday, August 24, 2008
First some background. So I get the inspired idea to query "i was there" on flickr, hoping to see wondrous and amazing things like celebrity sightings, chemical fires, and amazing moments in sports, but I flubbed the search a little... Instead of putting "i was there" in quotes or tag-ifying it as "iwasthere", I ended up searching for matches on photos that contained "i" and "was" and "there."
Anyway, the result set was still interesting. But this photo in particular caught my eye. Nobody is that stupid... but there it is. A man leaping between two rocks towering 900 meters above the ground... in flip-flops.
Naturally, I am compelled to then perform a search on "moron". And look who is at the top of the list? What are the odds?
(Query results will change over time. Trust me, at the time of this writing, the flip-flop leaper was the top moron on flickr.)
Labels: flickr, iwasthere, moron, search
yup, a fourth submission
Friday, August 22, 2008
One more entry can't hurt. (Can it?)
Labels: contest, design, flickr, littlebigchallenge, littlebigplanet, mediamolecule
media molecule rocks
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Why? Because I'm on their homepage, of course! I don't think the challenge is over, but the fact that Jim just had to blog about my third submission is surely a positive sign. :)
Labels: contest, mediamolecule
a third submission
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Yeah. I think I need to stop obsessing over Little Big Planet. I can't sleep, I can't stop checking my e-mail and I'm jonesing for comments on flickr like a crack addict. I wonder how it's going to be when the game actually ships! I should go ahead and request that month off.
Anyway, I present to you submission number three:
While I was pretty happy with the previous compositions, they still had that synthesized Photoshop smell to them. You know the one. It smells vaguely of filters... (This is what happens when a developer pretends he knows how to design) So I left Photoshop completely out of the equation and instead used a nifty old Apple II paint program called Blazing Paddles and took a photograph of the screen connected to my Apple //c.
This one is "me" for sure.
Labels: apple ii, contest, flickr, gaming, littlebigchallenge, littlebigplanet, mediamolecule, ps3
littlebigchallenge 001
Monday, August 11, 2008
Everyone's favorite PS3-game-that-isn't-out-yet, Little Big Planet is having a logo design (technically, more of a "logo remixing") contest. It sounded like fun, so here are my two entries:
From the site:
In a few days / weeks, stay tuned and we'll share our (and your) favorite LBP logos to share with the rest of the LBP fanbase.
So, feel free to star all of my (Thelbane's) comments on the website and tell me how much you love them in the comments on flickr (entry 1, entry 2). Media Molecule doesn't mention any sort of prize other than rockstar-like fame, but I'm hoping for a public beta invitation or something if I make the cut.
If you don't know anything about LBP, definitely check out some of these videos.
Update: One of the nice posters has created a page that aggregates all the contest submissions.
Labels: contest, gaming, littlebigchallenge, littlebigplanet, mediamolecule, ps3