Kate of SmallDeadAnimals.com is taking some photoshopping of her image in a good enough way that she’s encouraging other photoshoppers to take their crack at her.
“…An idea so utterly groundbreaking in its originality that it deserves to be stolen!”
In support, I’m stealing her idea, and letting you photoshop me. You see, I’d much rather look at a mangled photo of me, because I know I can identify with the subject of the photo. I also hope this starts a new internets meme, where a truck of bloggers dump their photos into the internets tubes and plug everything up for the weekend so we stop getting spam when the tubes become filled.
With a long weekend coming up, and lots of you sitting at your keyboards looking for something to do while the blogosphere slows to a crawl [because the Main Stream Media trots out the Canadian Idol], it’s a perfect time for a contest. Here are the rules:
1, Download the original and use it to create your own photoshop of “Saskboy” (or SaskBoy, CSB, that kid from Saskatchewan, or Computer_Saskboy).
2. Save your work in jpg format. Keep the size down under 100 kb.
3. Image must be work safe.
4. Email your entry (max. 3) as an attachment, or post it in this thread.
5. Indicate whether your credit should be your real name, a link to your blog, or fake name.
6. Contest closes 12:01 PDT Thursday, September 7 2006 [So all Canadians have a chance, even those wacky left coasters]. I extended the finish date in honour of the impeding defeat of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
The winner of my contest will be judged by me and my fish Comet. You can post at any time in this thread, you don’t have to wait until the contest closes. It’s fair game to steal someone’s work, but you’ll lose points for originality, and adding humour by building on something might not be enough for the win. Good luck!
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Chris from Victoria, BC | 31-Aug-06 at 11:35 pm | Permalink
It’s Labour Day, dude, you should extend it a day. Or are you not very union friendly?
Saskboy | 31-Aug-06 at 11:54 pm | Permalink
Done, Chris. I’ve even made up a handy excuse for extending the deadline.
RP. | 01-Sep-06 at 7:40 am | Permalink
I don’t have photoshop, but if I did, I’d be pasting the head of Bruce McCullough as Gavin onto that picture (or your head onto Gavin).
Lance | 01-Sep-06 at 8:19 am | Permalink
RP. Download The Gimp. http://gimp.org/downloads/
Open Source Photoshop.
AltaInd | 01-Sep-06 at 8:19 am | Permalink
Do you always start the day off with a glass of urine?
jeff | 01-Sep-06 at 11:26 am | Permalink
hey saskboy, one thing about getting kkkate’s attention, my sad little blog has had a ton of traffic! thanks for stopping by. peace-jeff
Saskboy | 01-Sep-06 at 1:21 pm | Permalink
AltaInd if this were a Caption contest, you’d be in first place right now. You’re on the only caption entry, but that’s beside the point.
Jeff, I notice a lot of traffic too when Kate links to my blog, about 3 times my normal traffic in a day.
CfSR | 01-Sep-06 at 2:28 pm | Permalink
It’s Labour Day.
I’d have to put you in Stampeder red.
And that might be well received in Saskatchewan… :-)
Rosie | 01-Sep-06 at 3:59 pm | Permalink
Hey! Thats you at the Pogue Fado! We frequent that bar occasionally. Was I out of town when you were around??? Gotta love Halifax.
Rosie | 01-Sep-06 at 4:15 pm | Permalink
btw, I added you as a flickr contact….I’m Poo chi chi. I don’t download much and all thats there are scans of things I did like 10 years or more ago, but oh well!
Saskboy1 | 01-Sep-06 at 6:43 pm | Permalink
Rosie,
I went to Halifax after changing plans on ferrying to Newfoundland, so I didn’t have time to make contact. I left the next morning. I didn’t know there was such a thing as Flickr contacts, which shows how much I use it :-) I don’t like how it deletes links to old photos if you don’t pay for it.
Syncrodox | 01-Sep-06 at 11:01 pm | Permalink
sb
Ya might want to try photoshopping some neural receptors……or transmitters….such as the case may be.
p.s. If yer having probs booze or crack may suffice.
Syncro
havril | 03-Sep-06 at 12:41 am | Permalink
September 7th, huh? That leaves very little time to a Chiquita Banana girl image with a matching angle. We’ll see what we can do.
Saskboy | 05-Sep-06 at 2:34 pm | Permalink
Syncro, I have some of those receptor thingies, but they seem to misfire when I put beer into my mouth.
Havril, I can’t wait to see what kind of bananas I’ll be wearing.
Saskboy | 08-Sep-06 at 8:52 pm | Permalink
Kate-O-Shop went well. My photoshop contest… not so much :-)
I guess I’m already funny-lookin’ enough.
Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy » Blog Archive » Results of the Saskboy photoshop contest are in | 08-Sep-06 at 9:17 pm | Permalink
[...] Last week to co-incide with the SmallDeadAnimals.com Kate-O-Shop contest, I started my own contest here with a picture easy to manipulate into something worse. The contest results are posted in the empty space below this line. [...]