Shirley has won a $50 shopping spree on my online Society6 store for simply taking the time to enter my ‘Art of Series’ competition.
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.
WARP
QUARKLE
FANG
Congratulations to our winners, Teresa, Colleen from MorgueMouse and Shirley
Reference: Competition details
…and thanks to Hugh, for this caption on a former alien competition.
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.
Thanks to all who entered. Why not view all the July cartoon caption entries?
Missed out last month? Don’t worry, you can enter the August Name the Evil pink aliens competition
Good with names? Well, this month’s competition is designed for you!
Nick name our two latest characters – the evil pink aliens with purple spots and fluffy feathers
What are you waiting for?
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.
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?
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?