Listen and read with your eyes and brains, please.

Include the text from the twitter you are illustrating IN THE EMAIL.  That means write it WITH YOUR FINGERS on the keyboard you are, theoretically, using to send your emails for someone to easily copy and paste into the Flickr page.  You can write it on your actual artwork, but that’s not what including the text in the email means, and really, more often than not writing it in your artwork looks terrible and makes all the other people think you eat soup with your hands.

People are actually writing in confused as to how to include their name in or as the file name of their artwork for easy crediting in the Flickr page.  This would likely involve simply changing the file name in your computer or saving the file as whatever it is you are capable of dreaming your name to be as your file name.  If this is still confusing to those out there facing this problem, then you need to buy those cd sets where the bald guy keeps begging you to “Try my product.  Please…try my product.  For the love of GOD, TRY MY PRODUCT I SLEEP WITH THE MURDERED CORPSE OF MY WIFE TRY MY PRODUCT!” and teaches you such valuable skills as turning on your computer, turning OFF your computer, telling people you have seen a computer, approaching computers at social events, extinguishing the flames from your body after trying to “print a document”, and so on.

A lot of the submissions appear to be drawn on toilet paper and then photographed with a 1.5 megapixel phone cam.  No rules against that at all, but it does reveal you as being a horrible, unwashed person.

There was a bigfoot comic that was submitted early on, and got lost in the great folder disaster of ’08. Hoping it shows up again.  Very glad the cockroach parked like a car one showed up again.

Just so you know, a couple of us here at Question Sleep Headquarters are planning on critiquing the submissions in a post-mortem extravaganza.  It’s going to be terrible.  

 

TRY MY PRODUCT!

Deathmatch #1 

Well, the Flickr is up, and a few submissions are there, but there’s a bit of a problem, and a few of you who have submitted might notice that you’re submission is not up for all the world to behold, celebrate or mock enthusiastically.

The biggest reason is that some of the earlier emails with the links to your submissions were deleted thanks to a smart folder and its hatred of both fine and hideous art.  The submissions started coming in the day the contest started, but everything up to the 6th of August has been wiped, so please resend your pieces.  Some pretty cool stuff has been lost, as well as stuff that made the cool stuff look even more amazing, so get that stuff back here.

Beyond that, some of the submissions were left out simply because you didn’t follow the rules, the most common being the exclusion of the text of the Twitter post that inspired the piece. 

Here’s a few additions or clarifications that will help out as far as sending stuff from now on.

• Really, REALLY include the text of the post from Twitter

• Include the name you wish to be credited by in the file name itself

• Flash animations aren’t quite part of this challenge, but it might be fun for a future one

• Go ahead and attach the files from now on, just in case something terrible happens

• Some of you have to try even harder to iron out the anime look to your stuff.  Everyone’s staring at you

• If you uploaded images to a site that requires registration to view them, upload them somewhere else or just send them directly.

Until the future…