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Yeah, I had a hard time picking a winner. Porter's is definitely the most painstakingly well done, but I also judge these at least 50% on technical photoshop skill.
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Porter gets the "Alexei Nemov" award for wowwing us with something that wasn't quite what the judges were looking for. Though AFR's was awesome.
I have to say I have a lot less regard for your protestations of modesty over the glacial lake photo after reading your version of OSC reviewing pornzines . Can't really say why, it's just funny.
Oh, and the "cheap" hair and makeup thing.... I caught a glimpse of "Ambush makeover" the other day, and they took a lady who looked like a good candidate to be a school principle or a state legistator and turned her into someone I would be afraid to hire to mow my lawn.
I really wanted to enter this week, but I've been so busy being dead in the mafia game and procrastinating packing for our trip to Phoenix. That really takes it out of you. Maybe I'll come up with something for next week.
Could anyone explain to a old-ish person such as myself how to grab an image off the internet? I know how to use photoshop sort of.
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William Hung, mph, was an Asian guy that tried out in the auditions of American Idol. He sang "She Bang" in his own rendition, with a heavy accent, and it was SO bad that watchers were rolling on the floor with laughter. The judges almost couldn't make it through..
This, of course, made William Hung a superstar. He was so bad that people loved him. He appeared on talk shows -- the mp3 of his performance was widespread across the internet, etc. Now he has his own album and everything -- quit a cult following.
Not unlike the popularity of Rocky Horror Picture Show after it's initial flop.
Farmgirl
edit: This is not to say you are a flop!! oh dear! No -- it just wasn't exactly what the judges had in mind, but the people loved it...
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Alexei Nemov is a Russian gymnast who at the Athens games went third in the high bar event finals. The two guys before him had solid routines with the required number of release moves, like 2.
Then Alexei goes and does about 6 release moves and the crowd is going wild for him. The crowd is already pretty emotional because a Greek had just won a gold medal on the rings event. When his score comes up, he is like in third place. The crowd proceeds to jeer, whistle and boo the judges until some kind of big wig comes over and makes the judges reconsider a couple of their scores. It actually didn't change the rankings, so the racket started up again and didn't really stop all the way through the next routine, which was Paul Hamm who at least had 3 release moves. Unfortunately, he scored higher and the crowd did not like that.
This is different from the all-around competition that the Koreans kept protesting.
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I meant to do one for this week... I promise. Perhaps I'll have one for next week in time. >_>
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I don't know. I think the server is having issues - it's actually Hobbes's webspace so I'll ask him if he knows anything.
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Sorry about that, not sure what actually happened, I found I could access it through SCP protocals (and sftp), and through ssh actually, but for some reason html wasn't working. Well it's back up, so good for that, but I'm afriad I have no clue as to why it wasn't always up.
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Annie, I'm sitting with mucho unused bandwidth. Do you want some of it? I could set you up with a subdomain on primalcurve.net.
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I don't think it's bandwidth - Hobbes is the one with the web space we're using and he tells me it's virtually unlimited. I think the server's just down.
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Good Lord, Annie. No wonder your site takes so long to load on my system. Your title image is 45kb! Seriously, thassa bad web design, Mario. Use a gif with a limited pallete and compress it a bit. Sheesh. Posts: 4753 | Registered: May 2002
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Annie -- your entry is great -- technically speaking especially. I have limited experience with PhotoShop, but what you did was difficult -- the lighting is right, you continue the tack (probably from the original horse in the photo) on around the chicken, etc. Lots of detail there! I'm impressed!
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You obviously aren't very good with gifs then. At least compress the jpeg a little... or use some css... something other than that rediculously huge image.
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I'm not going to spend hours on the Photoshop site - I threw it together and it's going to stay that way. Sorry.
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Wow not many people entered. I wish I could have found a better un-pixelated picture for my entry. oh well.
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Moon Rabbit's entry (Sumatran Satellite Cat) made everyone at my house immediately think of the character "Batty" in the animated movie Ferngully (if you remember that)
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I keep having issues with some of the images loading completely, but others stay blurry or only load partway (so the top of the image is clear, but the resolution diminishes as you go down the image). Anyone else having this problem?
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