Finally I’ve got around to banging out the details of the competition. Sorry about the delay! You can see the fruit of my labour across the top of every page though! Please let me know if it doesn’t work, and if so, which browser you’re using. If you’re reading this in Google Reader or something, do me a favour and click through to my blog — it’s quite pretty, really!
Anyway, the competition — to start with, here’s the prize:
I, Sebastian, will ingeniously craft some kind of avatar (or logo), for your use online. The interpretation of your name and/or blog used to create said avatar (or logo) is left to my sole discretion. In all honesty, it might be completely awful but there’s an outside chance that it might be really awesome**.
This competition is open to anyone but I am the only person that will be choosing the winner. Upon choosing the winner, I will do my best to dig around your blog/online presence and create a photo (or some kind of digital amalgam) that I think embodies the soul and spirit of you.
The prize will be awarded to you in the form of a high-quality image that you can use freely, as long as the attribution to me is preserved. Always wanted a funky new header image for your blog? Or a BODACIOUS avatar to use on forums or when commenting on other blogs?! This is your chance! Perhaps your only chance! (Unless it goes really well, then I might do it again)
So what’s the competition? How do I win?
(You can tell I haven’t really thought this through…)
You must, in 100 words or less, tell me what you feel most passionately about.
It can be something you love, or perhaps something you hate, fear or abhor. You can leave it in a comment, or you can send it privately.
I’m not really going to penalise you if you use more than 100 words (but I do love being arbitrary; it’ll force you to use long words like a German!), but try to be short and punchy — everyone likes short and punchy. The contest will end when I feel like it; probably in a week or two, depending on how many entrants there are. You have plenty of time to choose those 100 perfect words that best describe your most passionate feeling!
Good luck to all that enter! And good luck to me…
** There’s a real chance that I’m going to totally fail, but I will try my very best to make something you’d be happy to use publically.
andhari
Feb 28, 2009
Great idea Seb. You can post it in 20sb forum too thatd be handy!
Renee
Feb 28, 2009
Maybe, or maybe not. I don’t know. Would we post it in our comments or elsewhere?
Linnea
Feb 28, 2009
Hi, thanks for stopping by my SWF post. That’s how I found you. Interesting competition you’re starting. By the way, I tried to view your photos in your header. I’m using Safari and when I try to click on the arrow to view the next one, it doesn’t bring up the next photo. Your pics look gorgeous though. Enjoy the weekend!
sebastian
Feb 28, 2009
I will do Andhari, if it gets some interest!
You can post in a comment here, or mail me — I don’t mind. Obviously a comment is slightly more exciting for the other readers, but it’s entirely up to the entrants!
Thanks Linnea — I didn’t check it out in Safari… I was hoping that Firefox would be similar enough to Safari. Alas! Why not enter the competition? It’s open to Safari users too!
andhari
Feb 28, 2009
You know me, Seb, I’m really passionated about doing my music and enjoy what comes out of it. My songs reflect who I am, and I feel like I’m on top of the world on stage. Constant partying, freebies and special treatments are of course sweet bonuses.
andhari
Feb 28, 2009
and if i win i want pictures!!
sebastian
Feb 28, 2009
Yes yes… pictures… I’ll see what I can do!
I sometimes wish I was a rockstar — but I think I’ll have to wait until I’m a celebrity of some other variety
Sarcastically Bitter
Mar 1, 2009
I don’t even know how to start!
sebastian
Mar 1, 2009
Well, like… think of something you’re passionate about… and then… describe it! How it makes you feel! What weird things it makes you do! Email it, or post it here!
Sarcastically Bitter
Mar 1, 2009
Oh geez thanks
Chele
Mar 1, 2009
oh this is great, so much fun.
pinkjellybaby
Mar 1, 2009
Pink. I like pink. Pink slippers. Pink cakes. Pink cats. Even better if it’s sparkly too. Pink laptop. Pink phone. Pink dressing gown. If there’s a choice of colour, I always pick pink. It’s just better that way. Passionate about pink, that’s me. I’d like a pink house but I don’t think The Boy would like that. Boy’s are anti pink. I don’t dress in pink though. That’s important. Not everything is good in pink. You have to know where the boundaries are.
I didn’t even need 100 words.
sebastian
Mar 1, 2009
That was glorious. Pink is also my favourite colour, I’m just not so open about it… being a boy and all… But I guess I am unlike most boys.
You don’t even have any pink underwear?
Morten aka. Starbrow
Mar 1, 2009
I love science. It is all I care for, besides women. I study Nanotechnology, not only because I think it is fantastic, but because it has the most scientific fields packed into one degree. Chemistry. Physics. Mathematics. Biology. A ton of it.
I study to understand as much as possible. I want to know why, or how, everything works. Why dough rises, how come we get ill, why sunsets are red, how come balloons can fly, what is out there in space. I am not sure why I want to know. I guess that is what makes it a passion.
sebastian
Mar 1, 2009
If I had entered my own competition, I probably would’ve said the same thing
‘Why?’ was the one question that plagued my parents as I was growing up. Being inquisitive of your surroundings is probably the #1 thing anyone can do to increase their chance of survival, and their enjoyment of their life here on Earth!
phampants
Mar 2, 2009
Love.
When I almost killed myself my frosh yr of college, some came to show me her love for me. With that, friends who didn’t know care about me came to show me their love. now i can’t stop showing love for strangers. because there might be someone out there who just needs love to save him/herself
sebastian
Mar 2, 2009
Thank you, sometimes-pantless one!
pinkjellybaby
Mar 2, 2009
Um… I have one pair of pink pants. Just one. And (now) one pink dress.
sebastian
Mar 2, 2009
You need more… with ribbons.
Chele
Mar 2, 2009
I am deeply deeply passionate about bed sheets and perfect beds, no seriously, I have a blog post about it I need to publish soon.
I love bed sheets, I can spend one hour at the bed sheet store just stroking and feeling the different sheets.
I am passionate about making my bed perfect every morning and that all my pillows are fluffed just right and that it is symmetrical pleasing to the eye as well as inviting to sleep on. I am passionate about thread counts and anyone who has over 500 thread counts gets a gold star in my book.
sebastian
Mar 2, 2009
Wow, passionate… and educational! I didn’t have a clue what a thread count was, until I went to check it just now!
500 sounds awfully snobby…
I have no idea what mine is… but it’s king-sized, and I always make it in the morning… so I must get some kind of approval for that, right?
Jossie Posie
Mar 2, 2009
Hmm, okay so I’m going with a passionate fear:
I have an insanely ridiculous fear of lizards. As a child someone put one down my shirt in the playground and the little bastard latched on to my very non-existent boob. From that day forward I tremble in fear at their mere presence. I realize that I am 100 times their size. No matter. They scare the crap out of me.
sebastian
Mar 2, 2009
Is your fear so great that it interferes with your love of Jurassic Park?
I tell you, when that raptor breaks through the wall into that power-switch room… I jumped out of my skin.
pinkjellybaby
Mar 3, 2009
Pink pants with ribbons? Hmmm
Jossie Posie
Mar 3, 2009
Lizards, not dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are fair game, except that Raptor. I may have had nightmares that it would pop out of my closet.
floreta
Mar 9, 2009
oh bollucks! i’ll enter!
“i’m passionate about art and music. i play violin. i like baroque. and impressionism are my favorite art genres. but then throw in dada too.. and surrealism like frida kahlo and pre-surrealist hieronymous bosch and i’m all set! ok, i’m completely an art geek. i love typography (words!) and uh, i want to be swept off my feet someday. in a good way. i.e. not in that cheesy romance knight on a horse way.”
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