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So I met these two weirdos named Dorek and Swert today. Yeah, I dunno what their deal was either. Nah, had a pretty awesomely chill time with two pretty cool guys (not cool dudes); many fun conversations were had Swert works at a place guaranteed to make anyone with even a passing interest in Lego jealous, and Dorek was awesome and provided me with a ride back to my apartment. Hopefully I'll get a chance to chill with them (and others?) again sometime.
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Don't forget, the final polls in GAC #18 are up! Click here to go to the poll! My entry, Swarm of the Century, is in the running! Now, other updates. On Monday I drew and inked a piece based on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman graphic novels, which I will be attempting to color. I haven't decided how I'm going to color it. I was able to color something very well digitally recently (and am near finishing an older drawing that has been incomplete for far too long). But digitally coloring a piece with lots of characters in it is a challenge I've never really tackled successfully. I also am not sure what style of coloring I'd prefer, so it may be a while before that is finished. But quick edits are not quite as much of a challenge as full pieces of artwork, and I was inspired for this Avatar: The Last Airbender comic during a recent chat:
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My entry, Swarm of the Century, narrowly made it through Preliminary Poll A, and as such it's now a contender in the final poll! Click here to go to the poll! I think it goes without saying that Crunchy's two entries, which dominated the preliminary polls, will also sweep the voting in this poll. It's kind of a shame, because the rules state that each member can only have one winning entry, and I'm worried that with Crunchy's entries so likely to get most of the votes, the margin between the remaining entries will be very small indeed. I won't mind losing this contest (it's not like I have any kind of reputation to uphold), but with such a slim margin I don't want to feel like my entry won or lost by random chance. One way this could be avoided in future contests would be to do it like how another LEGO forum I use often does MOC contest voting. On that site, voting is done through posts rather than polls, which makes it more difficult to track, but you get more than one vote (still a finite number), and can distribute those votes how you prefer (either award all of your votes to one entry, or divide the votes evenly or unevenly across multiple entries). This way, even if you have one overall favorite, you can also show support for other entries you consider deserving. And as such the runners-up will be decided by more members than just those few who didn't like the winning entry. But I'm not going to pressure anybody to vote for my entry. Vote for the entry you think is best! All the entries in this poll got through the preliminary polls by their own merits, and the same ought to be true this time around!
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I know where you live.
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Just for my own peace of mind, I've been wanting to reboot my character's entire continuity to clear my head of all the tangents and alternate universes. There's too much stuff that shouldn't exist in Kakaru's personal canon and I want to set the story straight and establish a firm base for any future stories/rpgs. I want to establish origin, homeland, and backstory, something I've screwed over with all my absurd epics and stories over the years. (Mind you that I almost never posted them, but they're floating around my head nonetheless.) For this reason it will probably be a rather spontaneous, lighthearted event with far too casual a tone to make for any good reading. You've been warned: I'm writing this for myself, though I'll still put in an effort to make it enjoyable and accessible for anyone interested. oh I need a new banner to commemorate the occasion brb
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Just about one week to go in the General Art Contest #18 preliminary polls! I encourage voters to show their support for my entry, Swarm of the Century, in Preliminary Poll A! It's Entry 6 in the poll. In other art-related news, recently a friend of mine who is also an artist had a birthday, and I gave her a portrait of her I had drawn. To my delight, she really liked the drawing! Since she's also an artist (and a much better one than me, all things considered), I was thrilled to have her approval, and I hope it will motivate me to keep drawing over the course of the summer. Even though I'm often lacking in inspiration, I have tried to keep drawing so I remain in practice. Most of my recent drawings are merely sketches, like this one which shows some human figures of varying ages to approximate scale with one another. But hopefully inspiration will strike again soon and I'll have something more meaningful and finished to show you all.
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I like how they're absolutely irrelevant now. Remember when everyone used to use them and now they're just outdated content blocks that none of us will ever bother to update or remove? like what was the point of them anyways guys I feel like updating mine anyways just in case they ever come back into style by which I mean if the content blocks ever stop disappearing
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You can find my entry, Swarm of the Century, in Preliminary Poll A! Go vote for the entries you think are best!
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Oh man look at that article. Right there on the front page. Free stuff, sounds exciting. Prototype parts and Mata-Nui stones. Oh man oh man. If that wouldn't convince anyone to come I don't know what would. Maybe if there was actually going to be balloons. Nobody says no to free balloons. The point I'm making here is WHERE WILL YOU BE IN ONE WEEK
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The Overlord and Grand Quillmaster of the Library, or Velox as he is more commonly known, has opened up a very cool contest: 12 short stories, 2 weeks, 400-600 words max, alternating Bionicle and COT. Flash fiction can be very fun, and writing under a word limit can be as well (contrary to what college applications lead you to believe), so I'm taking this opportunity to advertise what I'm sure is going to be a blast. That said, given my schedule for the next two weeks, I probably won't be able to enter a good deal of these (though I'm willing to bet I'd run out of creative juice even if did, so I guess it's a wash). But that's the fun part! No need to worry about entering all of them; if one catches your fancy, throw caution to the wind and go do it. Hopefully my complete lack of anything resembling charisma hasn't completely turned you off entering. Seriously though, go do it. I promise it'll be awesome.
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Obligatory Advertising And a repost from the MLP topic:
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Topic Tahu is best pony.
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no pony yet =< Awesome job bringing evertything back to normal, y'all. B)
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Good to see things are all sorted out. I've seen plenty of forum hackings in my time, and I followed the pattern with this one that I've learned works best - just ignore the hacker and leave it to the staff. It's an attention game. ...Granted, that was made easier by the fact it's darn near impossible for me to contact other BZPers outside of here. Which I really ought to remedy, so for future reference you can find me on Twitter as BoltGSR. In other news, life continues as normal, with the added bonus of finals just around the corner. I also found out the specific Windows 8 team I'll be working for this summer, so I'm looking forward to that (even if it's going to involve some really, really fast learning on my part.) It's good to be back.
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Hi everyone! Don't worry, I haven't given up on my AC18 entry. Since I last blogged about it, I scanned my drawing and put in a lot of work separating the parts of it into different layers, before realizing that it would be easier to just print off some copies of it and color it using non-digital media. So I have my first colored draft mostlyt finalized now. It uses colored pencil and thus gets a lot more detail than I would have had time to do digitally. However, I am going to print off a couple more copies of it and try coloring it with different media if I have time. Watercolors would be the ideal medium if I wanted to go for the less detailed color layout I had planned to do digitally (each character and their elemental powers tinted with a one-color filter). As of right now, there are two other entries in the contest and I believe there is going to be an extension. If not, I probably won't have time to experiment with other media since I'm going to be at a press event this weekend. But since I have a colored draft finished, I should be able to enter on short notice if there turns out not to be an extension. Anyone else got an entry nearly-finished but not yet posted? Or is this going to be a very small pool of entries? Either way, best of luck to all those who are entering. I know there's a lot of talent apparent in the entries submitted so far, but I'm sure that's not the limit of artistic talent here on BZPower! ----- On a side note also related to art/creativity, I encourage everyone to read this PDF. It's an extremely informative booklet about systematic creativity put out by the LEGO Learning Institute. I like it a lot because it makes me more confident in my own creativity by expressing that no, I'm not less creative just because I'm better at creative work when given constraints to work within. Ironically the idea of "creativity with constraints" was mentioned by one of my professors in their tribute to me at my college graduation last December.
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Was yesterday. And yes I was inspired by Bunda's blog entry. Wow, 9 years. I've been a staffie for more than a third of that, and a fan of LEGO for more than twice that. I've visited/attended 6 LEGO conventions and met countless awesome members (I say countless because, while a sidebar tracks that, it might be inaccurate due to not writing down new names at last BrickFair. But it's a lot). I've been on BZPower for middle school, high school, and college, never wavering. There have been MOCs and stories and reviews. And there has been you! So...here's to 9 more? -CF
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Even in the blogosphere, nothing goes right for you, does it?
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Who else is planning to enter? So far there haven't been any entries, but I'm sure some of the more talented artists here already have entries in the works and are simply devoting more time and attention to them than I have. I finished drawing my entry this morning, but I may add more detail. Right now it has very little shading, but I'm hesitant to shade much more than the background details, and I'm certainly not planning on inking this one. It looks very nice right now in graphite, and while I might add some color digitally, I don't plan on treating it like much more than a line drawing. I normally wouldn't expect my drawing to stand a chance, but with so few entrants and an idea I think a lot of people might appreciate, I suppose I might at least be able to impress a few people, even though better-quality entries are sure to turn up.
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What would destroy your enjoyment on here so much that you say "That's enough; I'm gone?"
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ASK HAPORI TOHU!Note: I know that Tahu the Burger Burglar Burglarizes a Burger wasn't that funny,so i'm rooting that on this.HT: Hello,there BZPower members! It is I,your fearless leader,Hapori Tohu!B6: Sir,our Wi-Fi is down,it has been since the Visorak took over Metru-Nui.HT: So wait,we didn't have Wi-Fi for 6 years!???!!!?B6: Yep,but the staff are working hard to fix this.HT: Just,just go get the Video Camera.B6: Yes,sir!10 minutes later....B6: Alright,here you go.Random Matoran: After 6 days of no Wi-Fi,it is finally back up!HT: Black six,you said that we had no Wi-Fi for 6 years,not days!B6:But sir,I...HT:You're FIRED!B6: Shoot,I was kicked out of the LEGO Office in Denmark 13 years ago... :(HT: And you'll be kicking yourself out of BZPower as well! :superfunny:B6: I thought this was a FAQ thingie,not a "yell at Black Six" thing!HT: Go away,I wish to never see you again!B6: But...HT: Fus...B6: Huh?HT: Ro...B6: Uh-oh...HT: DAH!!!!HT: There,with my lead Administrator gone now,I can start this thing! HT: Huh,who,what? Oh,I had to go into hibernation,and the staff were too lazy to operate the site. HT: No,why would I? :shoots wall with lazer vision: Okay,okay,maybe I DO have superpowers! Also,LEGO STAR WARS sucks. BIONICLE rules! HT: Hmm,"NOT Black Six",I am part of the awesome Toa Team. The team members are: Me,Billy Mays,James Bond,Chuck Norris,Icarax and Winnie-The-Pooh. HT: NO! HT:Hey,that isn't a question!:Door opens:W7: Hello,I am White Seven,and I would like to get a job here.HT: Hmm,you look as if i've seen you before. Black Six ring a bell?W7: Black Six? Who's that?HT: Some guy I fired.W7: Oh,he says he wants his job back.HT: I think you are B6...B6: Hello,I want my job back!HT: Wait,so White Seven is really NOT Black Six!B6: It all ends here,brother.W7: Come at me,bro.:Bam!:B6: :spank:W7: Ow!HT: That's it! Time to Nuke the ground!W7 and B6: NOOO!-CDP
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This is the review topic for The Uprising: http://www.bzpower.c...t=0#entry188465A little thing to explain what The Uprising is about:The Uprising is the story of how Malia(a water-tribe Agori) goes on the adventure of a lifetime. The Skrall live,and their new leader is the last Makuta alive, Makuta Miserix. It happens 36 years after the battle between Mata-Nui and Teridax. 30 years ago,a top-secret project began. This is the tale of how the Hero Factory was created...Characters:Malia: An Agori from the water tribe. During the battle between Mata-Nui and Teridax,her left hand was sliced off by a Skakdi warlord named Nektann. Due to advances in technology,she was given a Bionic arm.Sardis: Malia's best friend. Also the new leader of the water tribe after the original one was murdered by a Rahkshi.Yarhki: A Skrall. Very few Skrall are now left alive on Spherus Magna.Gali: Oh,you know who's Gali. No? Well,Gali is one of the six Toa Nuva.Giant scorpion: A random desert scorpion mutated by a Thornax,and grew to 100 feet.Barnax: A Skrall messenger. Was the commander of the Skrall army during the Battle of the Temmaot Valley.Miserix: The last surviving Makuta(other than the Alternative Teridax from the Melding Universe);also the new leader of the Skrall.Mawel: A Jungle tribe Agori,the Chief in the production of the HERO FACTORY.Makunero: The Founder and leader of the HERO FACTORY.Kopaka: The Toa Mata/Nuva of Ice. Got upgraded to Stormer.The three Skrall: Kinda like the Three Stooges,they are funny and weird.Ghulu: A giant Snake that lives in Dream Land. Needs to go back to Grammar School.-CDP
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Review topic: http://www.bzpower.c...?showtopic=3740The UprisingPart One:It has been 38 years since the defeat of Makuta Teridax. All the Makuta are dead. The Glatorian and Agori and the Toa and Matoran have united and build powerful technologies. The Skrall still exist,but there is few of them left.Malia: Sardis,I need to have a discussion with Toa Gali.Sardis: Fine with me,just make sure to come back before the sun sets!Malia: Alright,i'm off!Sardis: Bye!Malia left the village,not knowing she wouldn't be back in a while...Malia: I have reached Gali's hut! Now all I need to do is...Yarkhi: You're not going anywhere!Malia: Aaagh! A Skrall! How is it possible?Yarhki: Oh,it's possible alright,it's possible. How about I shoot you with my Thornax launcher?Malia: Help! Somebody,HELP!Gali: Get away from her you fowl creature!Yarkhi: Never!Yarkhi shoots at Gali,Gali dodges,the Thornax hits a small scorpion instead. Yarhki does not notice the explosion,but he notices the result.Yarhki: How,what,where?Gali: Now,how do you like that?Yarkhi: Oh no,a giant Scorpion!Gali: Try to run,it will get you anyway!Yarkhi was killed by the scorpion,but then the scorpion went off in the direction of a Matoran factory.Malia: What are we going to do? It shall kill those villagers!Gali: Not unless we catch up to it!Malia: But how? We are not fast enough!Gali: I think we can.-CDP
