Congrats Shan, KMA and Beef! Well done.

Much honor also to Plinth (so much for your escaping notice...), Intaglio and z144man.

Now that tgentry has Bryce'd the sushi guy, can a full-length feature aninmation be far behind?

Wrage ... naked monkey grabbing?? For shame!

Woohoo! Another free shipping! (Thanks Jason)

Congrats to y'all. I'm still frightened of that flying monkeyhead creature by kosmosdeli.
Good luck next week!

Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man
Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man!

Nice to see he made an appearance in the contest.

congrats everyone!!!

Great job guys, esp Shan! Well done!

And TG - who cares if you used a past winner.. it looks great.

wizard7926 wrote:Great job guys, esp Shan! Well done!

And TG - who cares if you used a past winner.. it looks great.

I'd rather it never showed up again. I know everyone thinks its funny, but to me it screams racism. Pointing out that its racist doesn't stop its being racist.
...and I realize not one of you guys was thinking racist thoughts when you made the image, or remade it. Stereotypes, like this one, sneak up on you. As many images as I've posted, heh, I probably have promoted some stereotype or another more than once. I wish I hadn't. I wish you guys hadn't posted this one.

gwp wrote:Congrats Shan, KMA and Beef! Well done.

Much honor also to Plinth (so much for your escaping notice...), Intaglio and z144man.

Now that tgentry has Bryce'd the sushi guy, can a full-length feature aninmation be far behind?

Wrage ... naked monkey grabbing?? For shame!

Woohoo! Another free shipping! (Thanks Jason)

I know! It means I have to start my streak all over again! Nice job, guys.

tgentry wrote:I can't see the results. I can only assume from the comments that I took a shot from Toon...

Not entirely:

Jason Toon wrote:Champions' Championship Champion
tgentry - Mascot of the Rad Dunk
We weren't that thrilled that this one was based on a winning entry from our last "mascot" contest, but our past winners had no such qualms.

A CCC is a CCC, regardless of the thrill quotient of the panel of geniuses.

Sweet! Me and Walrus are gonna go celebrate later if anyone wants to join

Josephus wrote:

I'd rather it never showed up again. I know everyone thinks its funny, but to me it screams racism. Pointing out that its racist doesn't stop its being racist.
...and I realize not one of you guys was thinking racist thoughts when you made the image, or remade it. Stereotypes, like this one, sneak up on you. As many images as I've posted, heh, I probably have promoted some stereotype or another more than once. I wish I hadn't. I wish you guys hadn't posted this one.

Glad you mentioned this, Joe. I feel guilty that I missed the implication of that image, I am usually more aware of things.

Congrats to the winners! Good choices this week!

Congrats to the aforementioned, and a good show all round from a fairly limiting theme. Looking forward to 115, and see you all in Dodgeball!

tgentry wrote:

It's not very co0l that when KMA2 won for that character you went so far as to play along with the stereotype, but when I post something on it, it screams racism. Thanks a bunch.

I'm sorry about that. I shouldn't have done it then. I'm quite conflicted about this, frankly. You are one of the choppers I aspire to be as good as, and highly respect, and I nearly didn't post that comment because it was your image. I read somewhere that we need to confront racism wherever we see it, especially when it makes us uncomfortable. I'm grateful that you posted that comment- it shows that even when we believe we are not racist, stereotypes like this one lurk inside us all. Maybe I should have sent you a PM about it- but then the whole thing stays hidden, where it shouldn't. So, I'm sorry, and uncomfortable about it, and I hoppe we are each a little more thoughtful about how this stuff sneaks up on us.

Congratulations everybody, although I'm starting to wish I hadn't already spent that $100 dollars.

After seeing Shan24's ultimately winning entry, I was glad I didn't submit one of my mediocre chops this week.

That said... Congrats to all!

Wowzers, it feels good to break back into the money winners crowd again after such a loooong time! Congrats to all the winners and thanks for all the kind words.

Frozenwrage, I just noticed the title of your entry and I am laughing again over that one.

Tgentry, can you see it by looking at the blog? His post here is a quote of the blog entry.

Is the fish racist against Japanese or Chinese?
Sushi would be Japanese, but the fish looks more Chinese to me.
I also don't see how a sushi fish is racist.
Not trying to start trouble, but I really don't understand what is going on.*
In any case It was good looking and well rendered.


*I know that will be a big surprise

I was glad to see a few non-rebranded mascots win this week, I enjoyed the hand drawn ones.

It's sad to see stereotypes promoted in any form. I shook my head the first time I saw that entry and it won, it's even sadder the second time. Racism is wrong even if it wrapped in a rendered bow.

Fun contest, congratulations to all. Shan24, any input on what exactly that thing is? Doesn't really matter, I still love it

Josephus wrote:
... it shows that even when we believe we are not racist, stereotypes like this one lurk inside us all...

There is a distinct different between stereotypes and racism. Stereotypes are not inherently bad, where as racism is. Stereotypes are just caricatures of a group, distorted to emphasize a detail. They don't necessarily concern race either. They exist for every single group you can imagine because it is a tool used to group items so that we can recall them more easily. To say that each race doesn't look different or act differently from one another is silly, of course they do. It's a result of their geographic location and culture. It's when an individual says one group is better than another that stereotypes becomes a problem. The stereotypes then become a dangerous tool for propaganda and hate.

Pretending stereotypes aren't funny isn't the way to eradicate racism. Instead, laugh at our differences and still accept that each one of us is both a human and an equal.

tgentry wrote:

If someone took offense, I apologize. It was my intent to parody stereotyped mascots, but clearly I failed at getting that across. I'm not going to comment on this further.

A refreshingly mature apology. I am sure there was no harm intended by TG, and I for one feel this comment proves it. It is clear that we all agree to keep this forum free from any possible offensive material in the future. I agree that this forum is no place for stereotypes, however there is no need to beat this into the ground, I believe we have all learned our lesson. The mods may want to note as well, that this type of material should probably not be winning awards in the future, regardless of intent or talent.

BTW: z144man, is that Bob Saget in your sig? lol

z144man wrote:

There is a distinct different between stereotypes and racism. Stereotypes are not inherently bad, where as racism is. Stereotypes are just caricatures of a group, distorted to emphasize a detail. They don't necessarily concern race either. They exist for every single group you can imagine because it is a tool used to group items so that we can recall them more easily. To say that each race doesn't look different or act differently from one another is silly, of course they do. It's a result of their geographic location and culture. It's when an individual says one group is better than another that stereotypes becomes a problem. The stereotypes then become a dangerous tool for propaganda and hate.

Pretending stereotypes aren't funny isn't the way to eradicate racism. Instead, laugh at our differences and still accept that each one of us is both a human and an equal.

well-said

froznwrage wrote:
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BTW: z144man, is that Bob Saget in your sig? lol

It's me, and I'm pretty sure I look nothing like Bob Saget.

http://www.kere.fr/boutique_us/fiche_produit.cfm?type=63&ref=FATMONT&code_lg=lg_us&pag=1&num=

I just wanted to say, "WTG! Especially on the originality!"

z144man wrote:

It's me, and I'm pretty sure I look nothing like Bob Saget.

Yea, I totally understand... people say I look like a wookie. I don't see it though... what do you guys think?

Congrats to the winners~!

killingtime wrote:Congrats to the winners~!

I agree.

tgentry wrote:

He appropriated it from somewhere else and made it his own. So did KMA2, or did you think he hand crafted all of those parts? And I'm sure Intaglio stitched up that crazy waving guy. And gwp probably hand crafted that ken jennings head. Shan did enough to the original to make it unique. I just want to say WTG on having to create an alias to post that.

I better call it a day for woot. It's not good for my health. Speaking of which, be sure to go over to the dodgeball forum and get an entry in!

I grew my carrot and Braille on Cookiesli then modeled costumes after them. then photographed them in a basketball stadium I built. but it looked too good and wasn't fair to the other choppers, so I photoshoped it to to look really fake.

z144man wrote:


I grew my carrot and Braille on Cookiesli then modeled costumes after them. then photographed them in a basketball stadium I built. but it looked too good and wasn't fair to the other choppers, so I photoshoped it to to look really fake.

lol, at least you have a new stadium now!

froznwrage wrote:

lol, at least you have a new stadium now!

but I can't get in, I locked my keys inside it.

z144man wrote:I grew my carrot and Braille on Cookiesli then modeled costumes after them. then photographed them in a basketball stadium I built. but it looked too good and wasn't fair to the other choppers, so I photoshoped it to to look really fake.

I cloned Jason, then genetically modified him into chibi form. After that I put him in a hyperbolic time chamber so he would grow up in time for the contest. However, after all of this work I realized that chibi Jason was so cute there was no way anyone could throw darts at him and chucked him into the furnace.

z144man wrote:
I grew my carrot and Braille on Cookiesli then modeled costumes after them. then photographed them in a basketball stadium I built. but it looked too good and wasn't fair to the other choppers, so I photoshoped it to to look really fake.

Oh you all are making me laugh. When I saw that post above I thought "uh-oh here we go" but thanks for the responses. I have this favorite site I like to use for source images and when I saw this theme I immediately thought about going there for inspiration. I have used the same site for sources but since I haven't been a money winner since about 40 or 50 contests ago I can't say it's helped much until now.

z144man wrote:but I can't get in, I locked my keys inside it.

*snigger*