Show how you would advertise our woot to as many people as possible.


Sources:
Printer and camera photo from Woot site
http://asia.cnet.com/i/r/2005/nb/39221563/sc003.jpg

Are we THERE yet??? I sure hate the waiting....

I'm relatively new to these Photo-Woot Contests. Here goes...

Theme: Things that Lexmark printer/Vivitar camera bundle can't do!

Show the results if the Lexmark Photo Printer w/ Vivitar 5MP Digital Camera Bundle was purchased by Mother Nature.

pute wrote:

This one has grown on me. Great theme.

dsb411 wrote:
Ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Morons.

Buttercup: And to think, all that time it was your woot that was bad.

Dread Pirate Roberts: They were both bad woot. I spent the last few years building up an immunity to bad woot.

"Use the Lexmark-Vivitar Photo Bundle to create something the whole family can enjoy"

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pute wrote:

LKK - I like the puzzles too - reminds me of a bad recurring dream I had as a kid . . .

Thank you kindly

Contest: Show how this pair would spend their holiday weekend.



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Theme: Considering that the people who bought this bundle probably aren't very tech savvy, give them a photography tip to ease their transition into the digital world.



Sources:
http://www.exploreseville.com/images/basic-info/television.jpg
http://www.tsunodahiro.com/tv/img/s_photo/noise.gif
(Yes, that's right. I have a source for noise when I have photoshop)

pute wrote:

Thanks! but the bandwidth police are lookin' fer ya LOL; where I tried to make this funny is the end of the theme where I say 'show us what you can do with JUST ONE CLICK' then I throw you off with the emboss filter . Your first pee-lace Batman from last week seems to have taken on a life of its own!

LKK - I like the puzzles too - reminds me of a bad recurring dream I had as a kid . . .

Batman was a fluke. Concept over quality that time.

Theme: Create a collage of all the different places where the Lexmark/Vivitar bundles were sent.

No need for a collage! They're all right here:


Sources:
http://www.wesseling-transport.nl/images/warehouse%20heftruck%201.jpg

Josephus wrote:
Show an unconventional use of this Friday's woot bundle, when it has fallen into the hands of the subject a previous Woot contest winning image.

From Contest 70; Winner - Josephus - Remote Control Lazarus

McGuffy wrote:

Batman was a fluke. Concept over quality that time.

Not true - you do very nice work!

wonderstew wrote:make the pirnter more patreotick

Caffinehog wrote:

Lol, I surrender!

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Caffinehog wrote:

You forgot the thing that makes it really French:



Additional source

gnuman wrote:

You forgot the thing that makes it really French:



Additional source

uhh you also need a little green mist rising out of the thing signifing stench....

Contest 79: Include today's Woot in a scary, yet popular, urban legend!



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easy1 wrote:

From Contest 70; Winner - Josephus - Remote Control Lazarus

haha. I bet those linens really suck up the ink!

gnuman wrote:
You forgot the thing that makes it really French:

Source

And the winner is:

majit wrote:Contest 79: The long and the short of it... Well, it's the best of all possible worlds. No problem, it's a cinch... like the blind leading the blind. If you decide to enter this weekend's contest you'll be busier than a one-armed paper hanger. Play it by ear and stick to your guns. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Remember, winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. If you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch. That's right, Einstein, the cliché will rule this week; but not just any cliché... the granddaddy of all Photoshop Contest cliché subjects... M.C. Escher himself.

Photoshop the Lexmark Photo Printer w/ Vivitar 5MP Digital Camera Bundle into an M.C. Escher cliché print.

Do you like to hold reflecting globes? Non-Euclidean space not a problem for you? Tessellations get you excited? Images wrapping into themselves give you goosepimples? So let it be written; so let it be done.

To make a long story short, post your entry here by by 12:59 AM EST on Wednesday, July 5, 2006. Prizes are $100/$50/$20 for 1st/2nd/3rd. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand the rules and criteria for winning: in a nutshell, our panel of geniuses can and will make stuff up as it goes along. Youth is wasted on the young, so use Photoshop, pen and ink, collage, MSPaint, Spirograph, iron-on transfers, guitar tablatures, whatever, but it’ll only be judged if it’s visible in our forums as a jpg, gif, or png. The more things change, the more they stay the same: keep your maximum width to 550px. If you're out on a limb and need a place to host your pictures, try imageshack.ws, photobucket.com, or wootimagehosting.net. Check it out. We have no connection to the first two, but they seem free and easy to use, especially the last one (phenominal donation required). A word to the wise: If you want us to be sure your entry was indeed your work, post links to your source images. If you want us to be sure your entry was indeed copied from someone else, post links to the original image. The more sure we are that you did (or did not do) your own work, the more likely we are to consider it for a prize (or permanently ban you from the site). And if you don't win this week, there are plenty more fish in the sea.

Past money winners: If you'd like to nominate any entries from this week's contest, email your selections (with links to the individual post) to me at jtoon@woot.com by 1:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday.

Past monkey winners: If you'd like to nominate any entries from this week's contest, email your selections (with links to the individual post) to me at jtoon@woot.com by 1:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday.

A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.
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Minimum Rage wrote:Contest 79: Include today's Woot in a scary, yet popular, urban legend!



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Best. Unauthorized surgery. Ever.


Love it

Gimmaroon wrote:
OK, since the Woot staff have so lamely fallen down on the job, and have not posted a contest theme for this week, I have been informed by Matt (founder) to go ahead and provide some kind of theme. In his words, "those morons don't grasp that we strive for consistency in business. Our users now expect this lame contest every week, and just because Dave and Jason go on a bender and can't make it in for four days running doesn't mean we can omit the idiotic contest. Since you are more dependable than everyone who works in our St Louis office, I hereby promote you to Czar of the Photochop Contest. Give them a theme, any theme. Oh, and make it include something about Colonial times, since its 4th of July week."
So, here's my contest for you game photochoppers: Using one part of the bundle of digital joy we have provided, and a previous contest winner, imagine how the authorities would have used it for their own agenda back in the Revolutionary War era. I promise to get better each week, as I wish you all would do.
...post all that crap Jason used to put in here...
SInce this is my inaugural Photochop theme, you have an extra two days to post your phenomenal chops.

and be sure to PM me with your opinions for winners. I'm not freakin' likely to give any of you MY email address like Jason did. ;)

First Prize - $100
Josephus' Bread Pirate Roberts' Wanted Poster
Trust Josephus to show us that there was more going on than just a revolution back in 1776. Sure, there are hundreds of similar images on the internet today, so we're including links to his sources to give pause to all you naysayers.


click the image to see a bigger size and read the text.


sources
panelling on back wall
colonial drop table
heart pine floor
blank paper
text that I didn't draw myself
loaf skull on his hat
one of the crossed loaves on his hat
other of the crossed loaves on his hat
Lexmark printer

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thanks pute. I might end up with one more...

quote user="Josephus"

Josephus' Bread Pirate Roberts' Wanted Poster


Incredible attention to detail - even right down to the loaf skull with crossed loaf bones.

All hail the Bread Pirate Roberts!

Josephus wrote:


click the image to see a bigger size and read the text.

Why is there a shadow under the printer? Is it a hover printer?

gnuman wrote:

You forgot the thing that makes it really French:

added more stuff and the colors should be blue white red.

"Use images taken with the photo bundle to illustrate your favorite patriotic song"

Sources - mostly my vacation pics

Let's face it, your new Lexmark printer/Vivitar camera bundle is going to have a pretty boring life. Sure, you'll use it at first, taking photos of your cats, and sending strange girls pictures of yourself over the internet. You might use the printer to print out some kind of fake certificate like "World's Biggest Star Trek Fan" or maybe you'll finally print out that menu from Domino's instead of having them tell you every topping they have, every single time you call them. But in the end, your Lexmark printer/Vivitar camera bundle won't lead the kind of life they dreamed of having when they were young. The printer dreamed of printing out beautiful landscape photos, and the camera was sure it would get to travel to exotic locations.

This week, show us just what these products would have done with their lives, if you hadn't come along and took their delusions of granduer away from them.
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The entry: Lexmark the Magician, and his assistant, the beautiful Viv Itar!



Sources

Still not french enough...

Duneland wrote:

Why is there a shadow under the printer? Is it a hover printer?

Thanks, Duneland.
I made the shadow, it isn''t a drop shadow- I tried to make it look right, and I missed.

any suggestions on where the shadow ought to be? - maybe I can fix it before tomorrow.

FodderFigure wrote:Show how you would advertise our woot to as many people as possible.


Sources:
Printer and camera photo from Woot site
http://asia.cnet.com/i/r/2005/nb/39221563/sc003.jpg

Nice cloud effect

Josephus wrote:

Thanks, Duneland.
I made the shadow, it isn''t a drop shadow- I tried to make it look right, and I missed.

any suggestions on where the shadow ought to be? - maybe I can fix it before tomorrow.

1/10 as much shadow on the printer, the printed paper shadow is good. the light seems to be coming directly overhead.

Minimum Rage wrote:Contest 79: Include today's Woot in a scary, yet popular, urban legend!



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Winner.