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And the winner is…

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Sharley, who said that Picasso’s self portrait of 1907 was her favourite piece of art.

Shirley has won a $50 shopping spree on my online Society6 store for simply taking the time to enter my ‘Art of Series’ competition.

self-portrait-1907

Thank you to all who participated. I was truly overwhelmed by the response; so I thought I’d put together a small selection of your favourite artists. Check them out here, I think you’ll be surprised by the amazing diversity of choice.

The winners of ‘Name the Alien’ competition

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Meet my new alien mascots

blue alien blank

WARP

Moon alien 2

QUARKLE

pink alien blank

FANG

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to our winners, Teresa, Colleen from MorgueMouse and Shirley

But here are some of the other fantastic entries – all really clever and funny. A big thank you to all who entered!

  • Sky Moos, Lunar Rover, Iron Chicken (Simon)
  • Big Blue, Screaming Pink, Old Gold (Harold)
  • Quasar, Pulsar, Lidar Farkle, Quarkle, Sparkle (Colleen, from http://www.morguemouse.com)
  • Hix, Isboor, Strognor, Galagat, Zobrat, Ecotylyn, Silaspran, Dugae, Ots, Crawog, Teopee, Olaf, Selcuk, Oreo, Erfu, Afana, Layorra, Largik (Ruqhia from http://beadingtutorialsforu.wordpress.com/)
  • Nanu Nanu (Seeker from http://3psbyseeker.com)
  • Tendercles, kudzlefly and Hesnaw (Lovehappynotes from from http://lovehappynotes.com)
  • Scary, Mary, Marti – I suggest your extraterrestrial trio are the Moonbeam sisters. But which one’s which?
I think Marti is the one in the middle (Grumpy old git from http://alanfrancis.wordpress.com)
  • Tiny (blue), Gumball (yellow), Fang (pink) (Shirley)
  • Warp,
 Piranha, Sunshine (Teresa)
  • Ecks, Wye, Zed – or X, Y and Z as a short form. Ecks (pink alien – you never know what he/she will do), Wye (blue – always asking questions and usually worried about the answers) and Zed (yellow – cool and calm, the last word in any discussion. (GD from http://gdkonstantine.wordpress.com)
  • Gregory, Cheeseball, Pinky Poo (Katja)
  • Cosmo, Knuckles, 4t2 (as in, the answer) (Saskia)
  • Flotsom, Jetsom and Getsome (Jonathan)

 

Reference: Competition details

What do Facebook and evil aliens have in common?

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Nothing!

But congratulations to Harold, the winner of the August Name the Evil Pink Aliens Competition with his winning names of Grumble and Grudge.  And because we like to break the rules here, we’ve decided to have a second winner as well with  facelikeafryingpan.wordpress.com coming in as our winner of the middle names for our evil pink aliens with Hank and Chester.

Check out the other notable entries and see why the judges found it so hard to decide.

And for today’s cartoon, check out below.

The prehistoric like for Facebook

A surprise Saturday cartoon

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Well, a cartoon of sorts. I recently discovered The New Yorker Cartoon page online. It had a competition designed to test your cartoon creativity and asked people to make an animal, invention, toy, whatever, by using any 3 of the 15 shapes provided.

Although my entries were technically invalid (they only choose those from the USA), that minor rule was not going to stop me. After all, I’ve heard Australia is the 51st forgotten state of the USA.  My two submissions are below and the winners are one click away here.

Bubbles of fun….and the May winner is

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Congratulations to Hugh for winning the May Cartoon Caption Competition. 

Click here to see the runners up

Hugh was inspired by the following mathematical discovery, in the making of this winning caption above and this other entry ‘Bill and Ben didn’t really understand the Double Bubble Conjecture, but they did throw themselves wholeheartedly into a practical demonstration.’

“When two round soap bubbles come together, they form a double bubble as on the right in Figure 1. Unless the two bubbles are the same size, the surface between them bows a bit into the larger bubble. The separating surface meets each of the two bubbles at 120 degrees. This precise shape is now known to have less area than any other way to enclose and separate the same two volumes of air, even wild possibilities as on the left in Figure 1, in which the second bubble wraps around the first, and a tiny separate part of the first wraps around the second. Such wild possibilities are shown to be unstable by a new argument which involves rotating different portions of the bubble around a carefully chosen axis at different rates. The breakthrough came while Morgan was visiting Ritoré and Ros at the University of Granada last spring. Their work is supported by the National Science Foundation and the Spanish scientific research foundation DGICYT.” (Link) Got nothing to do tonight? Why not read the paper?

June 2012 Competition

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The 3 click competition 

Especially for those who don’t want to think too hard in order to win a fantastic prize!

Yes, I have ulterior motives. Call it an engineers approach to marketing. Click here (that counts as #1 click) to find out more and enter.

Is your clicking finger up to the challenge?