08/09/2004 Entry: "Return of the Jedi Art Contest! :o"

Okay, here's the deal. Give me something to look forward to after another long bus ride home tomorrow. Time for a one day art contest. Starring Squid Head and Boba Fett.

I've got this old Return of the Jedi coloring book, featuring pretty nice artwork as far as coloring books go. Yehmm. So here's what you do: Click here for a full-sized scan of the page shown at right, and spend the next almost-a-full-day dolling it up in any way you see fit. Color it, fuck with it, add word balloons, paste stupid pictures into it, whatever. Send in your work of art by 8 PM tomorrow. (alternate e-mail if it bounces: click here) All entries that don't make me feel embarrassed for you will be posted later that evening, and one lucky grand prize winner will win a small box of assorted crap sitting on the smoke-ridden shelves behind me. Remember, you gotta have 'em in by 8 PM. If I get it at 8:01, DELETED, even if it was a masterpiece. A masterpiece with Squid Head as the canvas. Get to work.

Chestnuts roasted by Doraemon D. Doraemon @ 08/09/2004 10:46 PM EST

I'm on it. Hope you like German bunnies and cake.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 08/09/2004 10:49 PM EST

I don't have the tools. I don't have the tools. I don't have the tools. I don't have the tools.

Chestnuts roasted by Brad @ 08/09/2004 11:08 PM EST

I remember posting something a little while ago about the british changing teenage mutant ninja turtles with teenage mutant hero turtles. http://www.classicgaming.com/contra/features/probotector.htm check this shit out to see more changes they made to other stuff..

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/09/2004 11:32 PM EST

AAAARRRRG you got my hopes up... I thought you'd win an action figure of that blue guy playing the piano-dealy as the prise. HE IS BY FAR THE COOOOOOLEST GUY IN ALL THE STAR WARS MOVIES. But alas it was only the cover of the colouring book... and yes colouring is spelt colouring you american pigs.

Chestnuts roasted by Canada is not a city and Toronto is not a country @ 08/09/2004 11:32 PM EST

My fave character is the guy in the mos eisley bar who has a babboon ass for a face. no wonder he didn't like anyone, he was probably relentlessly made fun of his whole life until he met his partner in crime the dude with the wierd pig nose and fucked up face. also i was wondering why the werewolf looking dude was removed for the bar scene in the special edition and replaced with a frog taking a toke off a hookah. any answers out there??

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/09/2004 11:38 PM EST

Good nostalgic fun. Maybe if I get a streak of anti-lazy I'll try my hand at zee coloring. I probably won't but it makes me feel better to say that I will.

Chestnuts roasted by Milkaeway @ 08/10/2004 12:50 AM EST

Damn my broken printer

Chestnuts roasted by SuperStar @ 08/10/2004 01:20 AM EST

Best. Contest. Ever.

Chestnuts roasted by Nephilim_X @ 08/10/2004 03:47 AM EST

Damn...I've only got 30 minutes and I'm not even halfway finished. I'm so slow.

Chestnuts roasted by Gunder Wing @ 08/10/2004 07:30 AM EST

That's it. It's over. Man, I was only 3/4 of the way through.

Chestnuts roasted by Gunder Wing @ 08/10/2004 08:00 AM EST

Wait, Matt said 8:00 P.M.! Shit, I've got some time. ...I'm a dumbass.

Chestnuts roasted by Gunder Wing @ 08/10/2004 08:01 AM EST

Sweet! I needed something to do at work today...you know, something other than actual work...awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 08/10/2004 09:09 AM EST

Oh no.

I have only blue, black, and red pens, a pencil, an orange highlighter, a red and a green felt tip, and a big black marker that smells like licorice.

I lack the artistic MacGuyvery to create anything worthwhile out of that.

Chestnuts roasted by Ubu Rex @ 08/10/2004 09:36 AM EST

Drat. Having already done a big portion of it with my limited tools, I have found yellow, blue, and green highlighters, as well.

Chestnuts roasted by Ubu Rex @ 08/10/2004 10:04 AM EST

Aw man! I just tried to submit my entry, but it comes back as "file size exceeds maximum file size"...maybe Matt's mailbox is full?? How, oh how, will I get my entry in by 8:00??

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 08/10/2004 11:00 AM EST

make sure you submit it as something other than a .bmp file. Do it as a JPEG or GIF, those are smaller and should send fine.

Chestnuts roasted by chiablo @ 08/10/2004 11:06 AM EST

D-O-N-E Done!

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. Mr. Mr. @ 08/10/2004 11:13 AM EST

If you get an error in mailing, send to xemattmail@aol.com

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/10/2004 11:20 AM EST

this

was

awesome

My picture is allll done, and i only had microsoft Paint at my disposal. fun stuff

Just got an undeliverable from Matt's @x-e addy....oh no, my picture can't get to him!

Chestnuts roasted by -Jen- @ 08/10/2004 11:28 AM EST

oops, shoulda refreshed before posting.

NOW, its on its way

Chestnuts roasted by -Jen- @ 08/10/2004 11:29 AM EST

"Come on, let's go smoke some crayons."- The Smothers Brothers.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 08/10/2004 11:43 AM EST

Thanks ciablo, it was a jpeg and only 110kb, so I dunno what the issue was. I uploaded it to geocities and sent Matt the link, but in case that doesn't work, I will sent to the other address provided...Thanks Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 08/10/2004 12:33 PM EST

Ok i guess this isn't meant to be:

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'matt@x-entertainment.com' on 10/08/04 12:59 PM
The content length of the message is too long for the recipient to take delivery
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a= ;p=*;l=PTRMAIL-040810165857Z-30826
MSEXCH:IMS:*:TRMAIL 3552 (000B09AA) 129331 bytes exceeds server limit of 29000

and:

The following recipient(s) could not be reached:

'xemattmail@aol.com' on 10/08/04 11:31 AM
Unable to deliver the message due to a communications failure
The MTS-ID of the original message is: c=US;a= ;p=*;l=PTRMAIL-040810153104Z-30580
MSEXCH:IMS:*:*TRMAIL 3554 (000B09AA) 554 TRANSACTION FAILED

I give up...can't compress a jpg much with MS Paint

Chestnuts roasted by -Jen- @ 08/10/2004 01:03 PM EST

Jen, see if you can email me your file and I will upload it to my Geocities account and then send Matt the link to download...
bleysath at yahoo dot com

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 08/10/2004 01:07 PM EST

I'm workin' on it... I could use the CG practice, since I draw so infrequently.

Chestnuts roasted by Raijin Z @ 08/10/2004 02:00 PM EST

My attempt to attatch my entry to an e-mail also failed, so I ended up uploading my entry to my webspace and re-sending the original e-mail with links to the images instead of attatchments.

Chestnuts roasted by JDavis @ 08/10/2004 02:08 PM EST

Was that colouring book only FIFTEEN CENTS?!?!??

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 08/10/2004 03:29 PM EST

Based on the problems everybody else has been having, I did the link thing instead, without even trying to send it as an attachment. It'll still work for you, right?

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 08/10/2004 03:42 PM EST

I, too, have received the delivery failure message, mere minutes after sending. I've also sent one to Matt's other address, and haven't received a failure message...yet.

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 08/10/2004 04:14 PM EST

Matt, now I know this is off topic, but this is someting I must share! On the new DVD set of "The Lost Boys" there will be a featurette of all featurettes. It is called "Haimster & Feldog: The Story of Two Coreys." I hope that you can obtain a copy of this and someday do a review of this splendid masterpiece!

~The Captain was here!

Chestnuts roasted by Mugzy. . . @ 08/10/2004 04:43 PM EST

Hey Matt, I sent in my picture through e-mail, got the error message, sent a link to you, and got an error message after that as well. So, I'm going to post it here: http://www.geocities.com/laivincolmo/alternateuniverse.jpg
Oh, and don't look at it if you're not Matt or I'll have to post the goatse guy in its place (never actually seen it, but hear its rather gross).

Chestnuts roasted by Laivincolmo @ 08/10/2004 05:06 PM EST

I always suspected a clandestine relationship between Han Solo and Chewbacca.

I was also kinda expecting a gratuitous shower scene in "Return of the Jedi" that'd explain where Han Solo got his name... and the tragic accident involved.

Good article.

Chestnuts roasted by Barry J. Deeper @ 08/10/2004 05:45 PM EST

Hey, could I send in a picture of that instead?

Chestnuts roasted by Barry J. Deeper @ 08/10/2004 05:47 PM EST

random entry pertaining to other area of site: hey! you know that horrible game room at the Atlantic City quality inn? i've been there! a year ago! nothing has changed at all, although they used to sell "creamsicles" in the ice cream dispenser, and let me tell you...thank god alcohol is medicinal.

Chestnuts roasted by chicklet @ 08/10/2004 05:52 PM EST

Well, now I really wish I had crayons. And a scanner. But this is what I could do with lousy Microscrap Paint. Better than nuthin, I guess.

I hope it went through, I mailed to the alternate address.

Matt, what happens if we sent it to you on time but it came back?

Chestnuts roasted by Yzziefrog @ 08/10/2004 06:00 PM EST

I got the unable to deliver message to the main address, with a jpeg attachment. Re-sent as a link. I hope it gets sent before 8 EST, cos it'll be 5 PST here and chance are I'll be out and about.

My entry kinda sucks, so good luck to everyone else who sent something in. XD

Chestnuts roasted by Lysanna @ 08/10/2004 06:23 PM EST

Last hour to enter! Remember to try xemattmail@aol.com if the usual address don't work -- or upload the file and just send me the link. Got a decent amount of entries, too!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/10/2004 06:55 PM EST

Out of mild curiosity, might the recently reviewed box of crayons be within the prize box? It would be deliciously ironic.

Chestnuts roasted by JDavis @ 08/10/2004 07:26 PM EST

In case it doesn't get through via email, I've linked it here. Just click my name.

Chestnuts roasted by Silkenray @ 08/10/2004 07:34 PM EST

Wow... that is amazing! *Tries to draw a straight line and fails miserably* I have no skills at all...

Chestnuts roasted by Anonymous Coward @ 08/10/2004 08:04 PM EST

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v253/Starfig873/rotjb2colorcrazy.jpg

Hearing about all the problems folks are having emailing, here's my crap entry. I decided to be funny...lord knows if I'm doing any good.

Chestnuts roasted by John Brumit @ 08/10/2004 08:27 PM EST

Assuming Matt meant 8 PM EST, which is most likely, you're 27 minutes late.

Chestnuts roasted by JDavis @ 08/10/2004 08:47 PM EST

Oh boo...I'm central time...I go out to eat dinner and forget...ah well.

Chestnuts roasted by John @ 08/10/2004 09:08 PM EST

Damn, saw this contest 1 hour before it was over, though that would be enough time to throw something together... but of all days I was having relationship problems and it took about 1 hour to fix :/ oh well. I still coulda done it but as much as I love Matt, I love my girl a billion times more.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. S @ 08/10/2004 09:36 PM EST

I e-mailed this late last night and I didn't get an error but I figure I should post it here anyway. http://ourworld.cs.com/Ewzzy/ewzzyrotjb2.jpg

Chestnuts roasted by Ewzzy @ 08/10/2004 10:00 PM EST

Well, mailed a link, because my file was 170-some KB, and since that text message didn't bounce I guess the XE address worked.

Oh, for the record, my submission is more of the serious colorjob instead of the batshit crazy "hay I had lsd-flavored ice cream" style. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Some say the "touched" are touched by the Great Spirit's own hand, and to harm them is to court a hideous fate.

Chestnuts roasted by Raijin Z @ 08/11/2004 04:33 AM EST

Yea... i just wanted 2 say that spock has got to be the greatest star wars character. Cuz of his tazers, and they.. stun.. things.. and animals.

Chestnuts roasted by Pink "Meat" @ 08/16/2004 03:23 AM EST

Jabba the Hut wacks his tiny thingy

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Chestnuts roasted by fioricet @ 10/29/2004 07:56 AM EST