Redlight Visions
It's been said that opportunity only knocks once, but failure bangs on your walls at all hours of the night. It is in that spirit that I present part two, or II, of my red theme study. Here are two rough concept sketches of what my glorious winning entry could have looked like, if only the admins would see fit to give us some more theme goodness.
Lost Theme 3: Video Game Expertise Translated into Real Life
I'm not sure why this theme got denied. I would have had fun with it. I can think of a couple of concepts for this one, but for my example I will use GTA.
Of course, I probably would have spent more than 20 minutes on it if I was going to enter it in a real contest. Probably would have used a different font as well. For anyone who cares, the source pic is from a Tivo commercial, I believe. A guy is hanging his head out the window in the original, so I had to clone that away. Now the car looks kind of weird without a driver.
Lost Theme 4: Become Big Brother. Create a Propaganda Poster for your very own Dystopia TSZ should hang himself.
This one seemed limitless to me on the surface, but now I'm not so sure. How many variations of the Big Brother poster do we need to see? Also, I believe we did a propaganda poster contest not too long ago.
Here's my vision for the Big Brother contest. Apologies to Papa Bear over at the TFPSTC. The source is an original Big Brother poster that I inverted. Not my best work, but it's stupid to spend more than 20 minutes on a non-contest piece. However, since I am the only one to attempt either theme, that means I automatically won. Congratulations, me. I always knew I could do it.. You are a pussy.
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Some rejected themes for today:
Photoshop our favorite Romance movies as Zombie thrillers
Has potential. Kind of reminds me of a Worth1K contest idea.
Photoshop theme: Updated versions of Norman Rockwell paintings
I might still do one of these for shits and giggles. My family members were often the subjects of his paintings. Yes, we're THAT white.
Make a totally inappropriate coloring book
Aw, did someone resub my coloring book idea? The more I think about it the more I like it as a concept.
Maybe I'll try again with "a coloring book for adults."
They just greenlit a couple themes. I might wait a couple of days.
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I just noticed this entry on TFPSTC's blog (his site is not accepting comments or I would have left this there instead):
http://tfpstc.blogspot.com/2007/08/ps-contest-is-not-your-personal-hall-of.html
But what about:
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1130876&tt=voteresults&ok=1
(1st place)
and
http://stovebend.us/cgi/usersample.cgi?user=thesniperzero&sortby=date&go=Go
(3rd one down, 8th place)
He added some cosmetic changes to the more recent entry, but it looks recycled to me.
I totally agree. I'm sure he would make some lame excuse about "changing it alot", but the fact is, he's done it before. His winning entry in the cereal box contest was recycled from a Something Awful post he made with zero changes. Very lame, IMHO. Some people take time to come up with stuff that hasn't been seen before.
I had no idea about the Farkitol ad. God, what a hypocrite. I must have been asleep at the switch, because I would have really given him shit over it. Damn. He hasn't done 200 entries and he's already out of ideas? C'mon, TSZ, give us some of that legendary wit and charm.
IMO, the original is better. The text box in the update reads pretty dumb. Typical TSZ writing, really. Choppy/boring...
What do you say, "Critic"? We all know you read this blog. You're supposed to be my "worst enemy" or something. Cretin.
Here are "not sniper0's" links again for easy reference...
Blog link
Farkitol Ad
Original Farkitol ad
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