Meatcard contest -- recreate Frazetta paintings using live people

The Meatcard Challenge: If you do a good job of recreating one of three Frazetta paintings using live people you could win a slab of beef jerky with your business card laser-cut on it.

RULES
* Your image must be a photograph of actual, live people, not a drawing, illustration, or diorama. Recreating the painting with action figures does not count.
* Do not halfass the photo. If there is a dinosaur in the painting, there had better be something awesomely dinosaur-y in your picture. Not a stuffed animal, or your cat. Unless your cat is six feet tall and has a wicked gleam in its eye. We will be judging on creativity, ingenuity, and attitude.
* No photoshopping. No shooping whatsoever. We have shooped the whoop many times, and we will be able to tell.
* Judging is gender-agnostic. That's a man in the bikini holding the knife? Fine! We will judge based on whether he's successfully achieving the Fierce Frazetta Stance. Gender doesn't matter in the contest, but attitude and costume does.
* One winning photo, one alpha-tester slot. If your photo wins, you get one alpha-test slot, with one 4"x11" slab of jerky resulting. (Otherwise, one photo with 15 people in it could take up all the slots.)
* Pictures do not need to be work-safe, fully clothed, partially clothed, tasteful, appropriate, or attractive. They must be creative, ingenious, and make us glad we did this instead of just doing it "first come, first served."

I can't wait to see the contest entries!

Meatcard Challenge

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tikaro

@belldl: that’s because it doesn’t have Frazetta’s blessing. This was a spur-of-the-moment thing (that’s an explanation, not an excuse.)

I plan to bake him a pie, then drive out to East Stroudsburg and ask VERY NICELY if he’ll give us his blessing.
eagleapex

@tikaro I make good pies. I’ll come too.
Xeni Jardin

Fixed!
Guysmiley

Huh. Am I reading this right?

# If there is a dinosaur in the painting, there had better be something awesomely dinosaur-y in your picture. Not a stuffed animal, or your cat. Unless your cat is six feet tall and has a wicked gleam in its eye. We will be judging on creativity, ingenuity, and attitude.

# No photoshopping. No shooping whatsoever. We have shooped the whoop many times, and we will be able to tell.

Sooooo, option one has a GIANT, option three has a DINOSAUR. No Photoshopping but if the original has a giant or dinosaur then the submitted version must also. That kind of narrows down the range of options to just #2… unless someone here has a source of giants or dinosaurs?
Daemon

Three Frazetta paintings, not a Deathdealer to be seen.
tikaro

Dear commenters, I’m delighted to report that we’ve gotten some AWESOME submissions, which you can see here:
http://meatcards.com/challenge/#winners

Two words: BALLOON. ANIMALS. (!!!)
Anonymous

@19 Guy smiley – it didn’t say anything about large cardboard cutouts, paintings, friends in GWAR-style rubber suits, papier-mÃ¢chÃ©, or simply finding a willing giant or dinosaur.

Hell, those are the EASY parts. Where does the kind of guy who would want to take these photos find a bunch of bikini models willing to pose?

Oh, right. Money…
oasisob1

Please, please, please post your entries in the comments here!>?
Brett Burton

I hate to be the whiny melodramatic vegetarian, but can we have a broccoli chaser or something? I just threw up in my mouth.
TheOceaneer

I must not be getting it…this is a joke, right?

I mean, it’s great that it’s a business card made from meat, but I’m pretty sure that I could make my own for cheaper than the price of this “re-enactment”.

I’m going to go with #3, as aside from the dinosaur, it looks easiest, and requires the fewest extras (I have very few friends that I could convince to dress in loincloths for 1/15th of a meat business card).

Expenses:
One (1) Rubber Dino – say, $200, conservatively.
One (1) Sledgehammer: $0 (in my shed)
Two (2) Loincloths: $0 (Old boxers)
One (1) Knife: $0 (Kitchen)
One (1) Expensive piece of jewelery that it would take to convince my wife to let me post a picture of her bare-assed and topless on the internet, just to get a sad-ass meat business card: $2000

So, $2200.

Alternately, I think I could get pretty close with some beef jerky and a woodburning kit. So as much as I’d like to see my wife in the above situation — suck it, internet.
Anonymous

I don’t get it – the meat cards are kind of cool, yes, but not cool enough to put in a ridiculous amount of effort in order to make a decent photo to get it.

It seems the suggestion is that you should put time, effort, and money into creating a decent photo.

If the prize was worth something – in other words, if it wasn’t $1 worth of beef jerky with some stuff laser engraved onto it (I find it hard to believe this is a difficult or expensive process, assuming you already had the machine), then I expect you’d get some entries.

As it stands I will be genuinely surprised if you get a decent entry, if you get any entries at all!

Why not just sell the meat cards, for a reasonable price? If you care more about the contest than making money, then you have to make doing the contest worthwhile.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Anonymous,
  
  People aren’t doing it for the prize; they’re doing it because it’s fun.
Anonymous

isn’t that _the_ card from American Psycho?
Takuan

do we have to wear skin?
phlavor

So only people with access to really hot chicks who are willing to wear next to nothing and then be photographed for the internet have a chance at wining business cards made out of meat?

Yeah, OK, I can see that.
Takuan

why couldn’t it have been one I’d have a chance at?
http://www.frankfrazetta.com/gallery/prints/84_bran_mor.jpeg
gabrielm

“No shooping whatsoever”

…but I love to shoop!
FreakCitySF

I don’t even know what this is but I’m probably passing.
planettom

Frank Frazetta’s passing today made me want to review the results of this contest.

For the record, the above link is broken, but the contest results can be found here:

http://www.meatcards.com/pages/alpha-tester-challenge
Tom Hale

So, there’s a good chance we might get to see some of our female commenters topless huh? This is good.
Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZL_NCdhxVQ
Tom Hale

How much trouble would I get into if I were to suggest that BB make an example photo with Xeni as the she warrior/damsel in distress?
Anonymous

Apparently even boingboingers are way low on reading comprehension skills?

“Judging is gender-agnostic. That’s a man in the bikini holding the knife? Fine! We will judge based on whether he’s successfully achieving the Fierce Frazetta Stance.”

And:

“Pictures do not need to be work-safe, fully clothed, partially clothed, tasteful, appropriate, or attractive.”

No, you don’t need really hot scantily clad women in your photo to win.
MrGone1980

Can I at least get the Patrick Bateman meatcards for doing nothing? That shit is genius!
oasisob1

@#21 posted by Brett Burton:
“I hate to be the whiny melodramatic vegetarian, but can we have a broccoli chaser or something? I just threw up in my mouth.”

Well, if you just threw up in your mouth, and you’re a vegetarian, don’t you already have your broccoli chaser?
Tom Hale

Ah crud – you have to choose between those 3 – I was hoping for one of his rated-R paintings.
belldl

I don’t see anything at the site to indicate, this has Frazetta’s blessing?