This might be fun: http://www.indierecords.com/anvcontest/
Ghostdog, our irc channel bot, does a stupid little trick. When we type @anv, he spits out a sentence generated by combining an adjective, a noun, and a verb, each randomly selected from a file. The folks in our circle continously expand these files (and subsequently Ghostdog's vocabulary) by submitting new adjectives, nouns, and verbs through a PHP form. The resulting sentences are sometimes rude, sometimes non-sequitur, sometimes true, sometimes all of the above. In most cases, they conjure up bizarre visual imagery, so we're launching a weekly (? for now ?) ART CONTEST. The rules for now: Each Sunday evening at 7:00 EST we will gather 'round ye olde channel bot and hold the official "draw", in which we ask Ghostdog for the @anv sentence of the week. If it *really* sucks, everyone in the channel will have a chance to say, no, that really sucks, and we'll give it another go. We shouldn't vote it down for being too outrageous or weird -- only for being too vague, bland, or impossible to interpret. The official @anv sentence will then be posted on http://www.indierecords.com/anvcontest/ . Any time between then and the following Friday, upload your submission to the contest at http://www.indierecords.com/anvcontest/submit.shtml. Your entry can be just about anything -- we were originally thinking drawings and/or computer generated images, but we will accept text pieces and audio mp3s too -- so long as it's your interpretation of the @anv sentence of the week, the file is less than 2MB, and there is no obviously illegal content. There are no quality guidelines -- spend hours on it, or spend five minutes on it. Even if it's cheezy and half-assed, you still might win with a sympathy vote! Once the deadline arrives, the contestants have 24 hours to vote on each other's work (again, just follow the links on the site to do so). PRIZES!!! PRIZES!!! PRIZES!!! The grand prize is that you get to have your piece at the top of the contest page for that week! *WOW!* The second prize is that you get to have your piece JUST BENEATH the grand prize winner's piece on that same page! *WOW AGAIN!* And uh . . . so on. All qualifying entries will appear on the page; if you don't want to be associated with your work, be sure to put something in the "pseudonym" field. Note: the rules, deadline dates, and even regularity of the contest are subject to drastic change as per suggestions of anyone who participates. That's all! Have fun and good luck! -Keith
