second challenge over
Friday, September 05, 2008
LittleBigChallenge 002 has ended and my submission made the top 5 out of 69 entries!
Media Molecule <3 Me.
Labels: contest, design, flickr, gaming, grandtheftauto, gta, littlebigchallenge, littlebigplanet, mediamolecule
so, this new contest... it vibrates?
Thursday, September 04, 2008
I kicked off my participation in LittleBigChallenge 002, as usual, with something terribly contrived. Just to get the mental juices flowing, naturally. The real submission is yet to come... and will likely manifest itself in some hardcore nerdish way.
And it just figures that as soon as I upload this to flickr, I find another GTA-themed submission. I should be flogged for not looking through the other entries first.
Labels: contest, flickr, gaming, grandtheftauto, gta, littlebigchallenge, littlebigplanet, mediamolecule, ps3
did i win?
Monday, September 01, 2008
Okay, how do I start this? I know I've poked fun at my obsession with Little Big Planet. I've pre-ordered the game, submitted four entries (yes, only two good ones) to Media Molecule's LittleBigChallenge 001, and I've even been featured on the Media Molecule blog (which has been really hard not to let go to my head). So why am I still agonizing over this contest?
I think it's over. At least, Media Molecule has posted some of their favorites and started a new contest: LittleBigChallenge 002. My 8-bit entry made the top of the list, which is awesome for sure. I think I won... Maybe. Maybe I'm just thrown off by the word "Challenge" in the title of the "contest." Is it really a contest? Is it over? Did I win?
Or am I just being overly competitive? (Rhetorical. I know the answer is yes.) I suppose I always knew the contest was more for fun than anything else... and it has been fun, really. So I'll just stop whining like a baby now and thank Media Molecule for the entertaining diversion (and 4,500+ views on flickr).
:: cleansing breath ::
Okay, time to act like a grown-up again. I need to go wrap Karen's birthday presents now.
Labels: contest, flickr, littlebigchallenge, littlebigplanet, mediamolecule, ps3
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