Week 236 Challenges
»» From now on, the Challenges will end at 10pm Central Time instead of 8pm.
CONTESTANTS: 09
Actor Submissions: 09
Capt Submissions: 14
Text Submissions: 12
Please remember to read the rules carefully for each challenge, because they vary depending on what they call for. If you have any questions, please leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Also, we nominate all winning icons to hp_awards. If you do not want your icons to be nominated, you need to say so when you submit your entries !
Actor Challenge: Warwick Davis (Filius Flitwick)
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Rules of the Actor Challenge:
* You may use the pictures provided above OR your own.
* Your actor photos must be OUT OF CHARACTER!
* Blending, Text, and Animation are allowed.
Capture Challenge: Sorcerer's Stone
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Rules of the Capture Challenge:
* You may use only the pictures provided above.
* No blending with outside pictures.
* Text and Animation are allowed.
Text Challenge: Ani DiFranco - Parameters suggested by kasiopeia
Thirty-three years go by
And not once do you come home
To find a man sitting in your bedroom
That is a man you don't know
Who came a long way to deliver one very specific message:
Lock your back door, you idiot
However invincible you imagine yourself to be, you are wrong
Thirty-three years go by
And you loosen the momentum of teenage nightmares
Your breasts hang like a woman's
And you don't jump at shadows anymore
Instead you may simply pause to admire
Those that move with the grace of trees
Dancing past streetlights
And you walk through your house without turning on lamps
Sure of the angle from door to table
From table to staircase, sure of the number of steps
Seven to the landing two to turn right then seven more
Sure you will stroll serenely on the moving walkway of memory
Across your bedroom and collapse with a sigh onto your bed
Shoes falling, thunk thunk onto the floor
And there will be no strange man
Suddenly all that time sitting there
Sitting there on what must be the prize chair
In your collection of uncomfortable chairs
With a wild look in his eyes
And hands that you cannot see
Holding what? You do not know
So sure are you of the endless drumming rhythm of your isolation
That you are painfully slow to adjust, if only because
Yours is not that genre of story
Still and again, life cannot muster the stuff of movies
No bullets shattering glass
Instead fear sits patiently
Fear almost smiles when you finally see him
Though you have kept him waiting for thirty-three years
And now he has let himself in
And he has brought you fistfuls of teenage nightmares
Though you think you see, in your naivete
That he is empty handed
And this brings you great relief at the time
New as you are, really, to the idea that
Even after you've long since gotten used to the parameters
They can all change
While you're out one night having a drink with a friend
Some big hand may be turning a big dial
Switching channels on your dreams
Until you find yourself lost in them
And watching your daily life with the sound off
And of course having cautiously turned down the flame under your eyes
There are more shadows around everything
Your vision a dim flashlight that you have to shake all the way to the outhouse
Your solitude elevating itself like the spirit of the dead
Presiding over your supposed repose
Not really sleep at all
Just a sleeping position and a series of suspicious sounds
A clanking pipe, a creaking branch
The footfalls of a cat, all of this and maybe
The swish of the soft leather of your intruder's coat
As you walk him step by step back to the door
Having talked him down off the ledge of a very bad idea
Soft leather, big feet, almond eyes
The kinds of details the police officer would ask for later
With his clipboard and his pistol in your hallway
Rules of the Text Challenge:
* You must use at least three (3) consecutive words from the lyrics provided above.
* No words, other than the text we provide, will be acceptable in your icon(s).
* The text/font you use in your icon must be clearly legible... see examples here.
* You may use any picture you find, but it must be a scene/character from the Harry Potter movies.
* Please do NOT use images provided on this post for your text icons. Go find YOUR OWN images!
* Blending, Text, and Animation are allowed.
Rules of the House:
* You may submit only two (2) icons per challenge.
* All icons must be 100x100 and under 40k in gif, jpg or png format.
* Remember to include the URL and the SRC when posting (see the example below).
* Try to keep all your challenge icons under ONE post, labeling which ones go to each contest.
* DEADLINE: Monday, February 15th @ 10pm(NEW TIME!!!) central time zone.
* Unsure of the time difference? Compare time zones here.
Example of Submitting Icons:
Actor Challenge:
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu288/wizard-icontest/winners/w234--act--metamorphosia.jpg
Cap Challenge:
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu288/wizard-icontest/winners/w234--cap--metamorphosia.jpg
Text Challenge:
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu288/wizard-icontest/winners/w234--text--captain_sarah.png
Format for Submitting Icons:
If you have ideas for a future challenge, drop a line in our suggestion box! Also, please help us by adding to the community resources !
CONTESTANTS: 09
Actor Submissions: 09
Capt Submissions: 14
Text Submissions: 12
Please remember to read the rules carefully for each challenge, because they vary depending on what they call for. If you have any questions, please leave a comment and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Also, we nominate all winning icons to hp_awards. If you do not want your icons to be nominated, you need to say so when you submit your entries !
Actor Challenge: Warwick Davis (Filius Flitwick)
Click on the thumbnails to open the full size image in a new window.
Rules of the Actor Challenge:
* You may use the pictures provided above OR your own.
* Your actor photos must be OUT OF CHARACTER!
* Blending, Text, and Animation are allowed.
Capture Challenge: Sorcerer's Stone
Click on the thumbnails to open the full size image in a new window.
Rules of the Capture Challenge:
* You may use only the pictures provided above.
* No blending with outside pictures.
* Text and Animation are allowed.
Text Challenge: Ani DiFranco - Parameters suggested by kasiopeia
Thirty-three years go by
And not once do you come home
To find a man sitting in your bedroom
That is a man you don't know
Who came a long way to deliver one very specific message:
Lock your back door, you idiot
However invincible you imagine yourself to be, you are wrong
Thirty-three years go by
And you loosen the momentum of teenage nightmares
Your breasts hang like a woman's
And you don't jump at shadows anymore
Instead you may simply pause to admire
Those that move with the grace of trees
Dancing past streetlights
And you walk through your house without turning on lamps
Sure of the angle from door to table
From table to staircase, sure of the number of steps
Seven to the landing two to turn right then seven more
Sure you will stroll serenely on the moving walkway of memory
Across your bedroom and collapse with a sigh onto your bed
Shoes falling, thunk thunk onto the floor
And there will be no strange man
Suddenly all that time sitting there
Sitting there on what must be the prize chair
In your collection of uncomfortable chairs
With a wild look in his eyes
And hands that you cannot see
Holding what? You do not know
So sure are you of the endless drumming rhythm of your isolation
That you are painfully slow to adjust, if only because
Yours is not that genre of story
Still and again, life cannot muster the stuff of movies
No bullets shattering glass
Instead fear sits patiently
Fear almost smiles when you finally see him
Though you have kept him waiting for thirty-three years
And now he has let himself in
And he has brought you fistfuls of teenage nightmares
Though you think you see, in your naivete
That he is empty handed
And this brings you great relief at the time
New as you are, really, to the idea that
Even after you've long since gotten used to the parameters
They can all change
While you're out one night having a drink with a friend
Some big hand may be turning a big dial
Switching channels on your dreams
Until you find yourself lost in them
And watching your daily life with the sound off
And of course having cautiously turned down the flame under your eyes
There are more shadows around everything
Your vision a dim flashlight that you have to shake all the way to the outhouse
Your solitude elevating itself like the spirit of the dead
Presiding over your supposed repose
Not really sleep at all
Just a sleeping position and a series of suspicious sounds
A clanking pipe, a creaking branch
The footfalls of a cat, all of this and maybe
The swish of the soft leather of your intruder's coat
As you walk him step by step back to the door
Having talked him down off the ledge of a very bad idea
Soft leather, big feet, almond eyes
The kinds of details the police officer would ask for later
With his clipboard and his pistol in your hallway
Rules of the Text Challenge:
* You must use at least three (3) consecutive words from the lyrics provided above.
* No words, other than the text we provide, will be acceptable in your icon(s).
* The text/font you use in your icon must be clearly legible... see examples here.
* You may use any picture you find, but it must be a scene/character from the Harry Potter movies.
* Please do NOT use images provided on this post for your text icons. Go find YOUR OWN images!
* Blending, Text, and Animation are allowed.
Rules of the House:
* You may submit only two (2) icons per challenge.
* All icons must be 100x100 and under 40k in gif, jpg or png format.
* Remember to include the URL and the SRC when posting (see the example below).
* Try to keep all your challenge icons under ONE post, labeling which ones go to each contest.
* DEADLINE: Monday, February 15th @ 10pm(NEW TIME!!!) central time zone.
* Unsure of the time difference? Compare time zones here.
Example of Submitting Icons:
Actor Challenge:
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu288/wizard-icontest/winners/w234--act--metamorphosia.jpg
Cap Challenge:
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu288/wizard-icontest/winners/w234--cap--metamorphosia.jpg
Text Challenge:
http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu288/wizard-icontest/winners/w234--text--captain_sarah.png
Format for Submitting Icons:
If you have ideas for a future challenge, drop a line in our suggestion box! Also, please help us by adding to the community resources !