Back To School Art Competition: De-CGI something and win prizes from HP/AMD

HP has offered three splendid "Back To School" machines to give away to Boing Boing readers: First prize is an HP dv6 15.6" laptop with an AMD Phenom Quad Core Processor Second prize is an HPE Elite 210f desktop computer with an AMD Phenom Quad Core processor. Third prize is an HP 2509 monitor. The competition theme is De-CGI. Take something that is characteristically computerized and render it with natural media. For example, the pixelated layout of an old-school video game represented as bottletops, or a mandelbrot fractal drawn with crayons. Be imaginative! You retain the copyright in your entries. Only legal residents of the U.S. aged 18 and above and Canada can win the prizes. Read the contest rules. You've got until midnight next Monday to get your entries in! To enter the competition, simply upload your entry online somewhere and post a link to it in the comments below. Alternatively, email it to me (rob át boing boing døt net). Good luck! UPDATE! Attention Canadians! HP can ship prizes north of the border. This means entries from oop north are eligible in this contest to receive prizes.

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vadermoss

So who won? I didn’t see any announcement on the date in question.
Anonymous

what a great idea for a contest! I think I will give it a try.. hmmmm…. . what to do… hmm
LupinFan

I decide to make a light cycle from the movie Tron using a sponge and a few sharpies.
Here’s a before and after shot:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=50778585&id=10139916&ref=fbx_album

Enjoy!
Tsubasa no Kami

i’m so going to do this!! :D
vadermoss

Aloha!

Here is my entry entitled ‘Totoro Wins Mario Kart’ which is done in water color on illustration board. Thanks for having this contest :-)

http://creepingmoss.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/totoro-wins-mario-kart-150.png

Best wishes,
Michael
http://www.quitting-time.com
Trent Hawkins

A boing boing contest closed to Canada… sigh…
LupinFan

decided*
jungletek

HP? Do not want. Laptops that overheat because of poor thermal design, crappy printers with overpriced ink, etc.
zikzak

Maybe some lawyer-type can parse this better than I – from the contest rules:

entry into this Contest constitutes Entrant’s irrevocable and perpetual permission, consent and license, without further compensation or attribution, to use, reproduce, print, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, adapt, enhance, or display such Submission in connection with the Website, the Contest, the Sponsor and the Prize Provider and the advertising and Contest of the foregoing.

It sounds to me like HP gets the right to edit and use any entry in this contest (whether it wins or not) in their own advertising for free, without giving credit, right? If so, seems like quite a bargain for HP…especially considering the high quality creative work I know all you mutants bring to the table :)
- Rob Beschizza
  
  ZikZak, that section refers to us (me!). HP has no involvement at all in the competition other than providing the gear and getting the corresponding mentions here in the post. You’re giving us permission to publish the entry “in connection” with them, bla bla bla law law law.
  - zikzak
    
    I see, it was confusing with the terms “Sponsor” and “Prize Provider” thrown in there. In fact, i still don’t really get the legalese, but if you say so I guess I trust that. Thanks for the explanation!
  - agger
    
    Basically, what the legalese says is that if you submit an entry to Boing Boing’s competition, Boing Boing gets to post it. Which is, of course, entirely fair.
    
    But, I do have an issue. This is a clueful web site. Why on eart the legalise? If the above is what is to be understood, then why not just write that, clearly? Legalese is hostile and demeaning and seriously, I don’t think it’s necessary.
    - Rob Beschizza
      
      The legalese exists to protect us from lawsuits from ‘competition chaser’ lawyers. That’s all! It’s a necessary part of being able to run the contest.
Withremote

Here’s my 8-bit Black Mage from Final Fantasy
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=6482962&l=cbac58eb17&id=733126549

39 x 27 inches aprox., each pixel is a 1 1/2 inch block of pine, hand painted and then glued.
kwheelwr

In response to comment #25, I took a whack at creating a little piece of Pandora here on earth.

http://kawdesigns.weebly.com/boingboing-de-cgi.html

You’re welcome. ;)
Daemon

Meh. Not open to Canadians. Fail. At least set it up so that we can enter and have prize go to charity of our choice.
soubriquet

Could we perhaps have an edit of the post title to make clear at the outset that this is NOT a Boing-Boing competition, it’s a Boing-Boing USA only competition.

We’re a global readership.
LupinFan

The last link I sent wasn’t a public one.
Here it is:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2592151&id=10139916&l=c4c6831247
pKp

Good luck to y’all US mutants.

I don’t care anyway. My country has better health care AND better cheese.
caipirina

What #5 said .. and #6? Italy or France? :)
Beatupclone

Well, it just so happens that I finished this project last night. In Star Wars episode II and III, all of the clone troopers are completely CGI. I built a replica DC-15 blaster rifle from wood, PVC, and some plastic from a model airplane kit. Here is what the rifle looks like in the movies: http://tinyurl.com/26vsb9v

Here is my take on it, assuming the clone got beat up pretty hard trying to kill Jedi when Order 66 was issued: http://flic.kr/p/8wuLBp
Anonymous

…this is one time where i wish i didn’t live in canada….
Anonymous

Rob, maybe I’m missing something, but how exactly are we to submit entries? The linked Contest Rules say: “Visit http://www.boingboing.net (the “Website”) during the Contest Period and follow the instructions to complete and submit the entry form.” I see no such thing.
RogueEntomologist

I have a question: I don’t have a driver’s license or state ID, but I do have a birth certificate and a Social Security card. Do either of those work? I would hate to be disqualified because I never learned to drive and have no use for a liquor ID!
Rob Beschizza

This form is the form — wherever you post your entry, link to it here.
Anonymous

If I’m not mistaken we’re supposed to annouce our eligibility here in the sommeents and that counts as our entry? If so, Then I’m eligible and I enter!
Beatupclone

“Only legal residents of the U.S. aged 18 and above, who notify us in the comments thread below of their entry, can win the prizes.”
The Dharmatist

I’m not seeing anything in the rules (or this post) about a deadline. When do submissions need to be sent in?
andyhavens

My entry. Progress bar for real-life in sidewalk chalk.

http://www.tinkerx.com/2010/09/04/my-entry-in-the-boingboing-back-to-school-art-competition/
- andyhavens
  
  WordPress is giving me grief. Direct links to the photos are here:
  
  http://www.tinkerx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/just_luggage.jpg
  
  http://www.tinkerx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/andy_loading_luggage.jpg
oohShiny

I don’t really know if it qualifies, because I made the digital image myself to work from, but I figured I’d share anyway.

Just finished this little project. A bunch of my friends all went to York, and now that we’re moving in together in Boston, we’re naming the place the House of York, so I made us a sign.

http://i777.photobucket.com/albums/yy59/oohshiny_bb/hoy.jpg

Maybe not what you’re looking for, but I had fun doing it anyway ^__^
sheala

Pac-Man Made of Junk

http://shealadraws.blogspot.com/2010/09/pac-man-made-from-stuff.html

Great idea for a contest!
Anonymous

watercolor rendering of boing boing blog post on iPhone…
Jesse Vital
Hollywood CA
http://www.v1tal.com

http://www.v1tal.com/host/boinboing.jpg
Jim Woodring

Here’s my submission… a wireframe mÃ¶ebius strip rotation just like the one I used to watch on the bulky prototypes my father, a computer engineer, used to bring home in the 1960′s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItQRYL1HQGs

and on my “blog”

jimwoodring.blogspot.com
Xenu

One Horrible Printer (HP) product was enough for me… would not take another one even as a gift.

Too bad, because the contest sounds like a lot of fun.
Rob Beschizza

Midnight next Monday!
andyhavens

The saga of the broken blog continues…

Just in case you’re still judging the competition, the pics are back on the blog. [Note: upgrading an SQL4 to SQL5 database is trickier than it sounds]

http://www.tinkerx.com/2010/09/04/my-entry-in-the-boingboing-back-to-school-art-competition/
Rob Beschizza

Announced!

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/08/decgi.html
kmcqueen

This might be a stretch…..I’ve been converting diagnostic electron microscope images (of computer chip defects) into wall pieces (all with a removable wearable element).

Here are a couple on flickr……

http://www.flickr.com/photos/9965476@N05/sets/72157624754620341/
glatt1

The contest rules say basically that if Boing Boing tries to contact the winners, and they don’t respond within 24 hours, the prizes will be awarded to someone else. Sounds reasonable. So the 20 or so contest participants need to keep coming to this thread every day to see if this is where the announcement will be made. It’s also possible the announcements will go to the email account used to register to make comments. The rules don’t say, but the participants better make sure to check that account each day as well.

If it seems like the participants are getting restless, this may be why. They have been checking a couple different locations once a day for a couple of months.

Everyone wants to know the results, but nobody wants to hurt their chances of winning by being obnoxious and pestering Boing Boing. It was a cool contest idea and it would be cool to have some feedback on the work submitted by the entrants.

Thanks for hosting the contest!
- Sillybicycle
  
  Don’t worry too much–I have a good feeling that everyone’s keeping track of their accounts. Last I heard (no regrets pestering), the results will be posted soon.
Cinder

This is a neat contest. I’m so in! Seven days almost seems like too much time… XD
gregorz718

I’ll give it a shot – but what do I De-CGI…?
h0n0rb

Here’s my entry, a Flying Toasters Zoetrope:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATdPNj31mns
Rob Beschizza

We’ll hold the prizes, don’t worry. TOMORROW AM FOR REALZ.

It’s been a busy october. November. ish.
teapot

Nice work HP – concoct a promo competition offering your products as prizes, place it on a blog with large international readership, and then open the competition only to US citizens (legal? – what you gonna do, make ‘em produce papers you jokers?).

I’m not in the market for a new PC anyway, but the fact that this competition is closed to non-US entrants just makes me think: Don’t buy HP products. Is that the marketing message and public-buzz you were aiming for with this campaign HP?

If so, nice job! Another potential customer down the drain.
NJ

One imagines the HP Marketing meeting:
“This form factor business isn’t moving product as we’d hoped, so we’re adding a little something to this month’s sales contest. Anyone wanna see fourth prize?
Fourth prize, set of steak knives. Fifth prize is you’re fired.”
- agger
  
  Glengarry Glen Ross. Love that film.
OhSnappl!

Here’s my rushed attempt, I think its not so bad

http://tinyurl.com/3x787ys
Rob Beschizza

Winners to be announced on Monday, Oct 15. Thank you!
- andyhavens
  
  Any thoughts on when we’ll know?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  What year?
  - dorkus1218
    
    ^ This is funny for at least two reasons
- vadermoss
  
  Who won? I didn’t see an announcement on the date in question :-)
  - dorkus1218
    
    I like this guy’s style
dorkus1218

I recreated the Photoshop tool menu with real tools (mostly,) and with no “photoshopping” (gimp to crop.)
http://tiny.cc/ti2gr
- dorkus1218
  
  My tinyurl link from the other day seems to be hitting and missing, so just to be safe, here’s a direct one:
  http://picasaweb.google.com/105635061770396100099/BoingBoingDeCGIContest
Rob Beschizza

Thank you all for your entries! Submissions are now closed!
- glatt1
  
  Hi Rob,
  so who won?
steotch

Look at our entry: http://steotch.com/2010/09/06/its-boing-boing-competition-time/

Just look at it.

We started this the day the competition was posted, and finished it late last night.

For more handmade stuff you’re sure to grok, see our whole newly-revealed online gallery at http://steotch.com.
Anonymous

I would like to take a stab at this. Fun.
steotch

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y276/mlezjello/kitteh.jpg

The suspenz! Iz killing us!
edgore

http://www.no-spec.com/
- edgore
  
  Okay, if HP is not the sponsor, then it’s less evil.
Luna21

I feel dumb for asking but how/where do we submit entries? I can’t figure it out.
TotoroJoe

I demand somebody produce a landscape from the world of Pandora, using genetically engineered flora and fauna. Please.
Rob Beschizza

ATTENTION! HP has graciously agreed to ship prizes to Canada also. I’ve updated the rules to reflect that. (However, please note that the published contest rules are Boing Boing’s, not HP’s.)
GarageDragon

Man, this was a fun project to work on!

I present my submission: animated Paper Tetris!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31372149@N06/4966305420/

(The animated version is the original size version.)
- robohobo
  
  How do I look at the animated version? There is no link to “original size” and you have downloads turned off. I’d love to see it!
technoplastique

I’ve been doing some paintings of space, and since I’m pretty sure they aren’t actually making movies/tv shows on location in space yet (though I’m sure it will happen eventually) I think this probably qualifies. Thanks for taking a look!

http://technoplastique.squarespace.com/journal/2010/9/6/new-paintings.html
fergus1948

Hmm!

“You retain the copyright in your entries.”

Seeing as how BoingBoing (and Cory in particular) are always lambasting people who protect their creative work by evil legal means such as copyright, shouldn’t this say…

“Your submissions belong to everyone, not you. Anyone can use them in any way for any reason. Stop trying to protect your own work, you jerks!”
- agger
  
  Boing Boing has never, to my knowledge, written anything negative about the concept of copyright as such. They have been applauding people who have used novel ways to let people access and use copyrighted materials. As Cory does with his novels, or as we do when we use free software.
  - fergus1948
    
    I stand corrected.
agger

One more question, mainly from puzzlement: If this is Boing Boing’s contest, not HP’s, then why limit participants to US residents? This is a strange behaviour in a blog one of whose partners is a Canadian resident in London. Why exclude the rest of the world?
- Rob Beschizza
  
  You can *participate* anywhere, but HP can only *ship prizes* to certain places. The bottom line is that you will official not win a prize if you are abroad, but we’ll see if we can donate it on your behalf (so long as it is legal for us to do so) to a charity here in the U.S.
Sillybicycle

My piece is a sound waveform recreated to be tangible.

Link to my Facebook album!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2415810&id=30825552&l=1ef03ed011
LupinFan

I’m definitely doing this. I haven’t done an art project since high school.
rubirubi

Here is my entry, a QR code quilt made from recycled clothes.

http://rubistudios.com/blog/2010/09/05/boingboing-competition-qr-code-quilt/
glatt1

This is my entry into Boing Boing’s Back To School Art Competition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6N2n-Z6oJs

This stop motion animation pays homage to the CGI that Pixar did in its famous first all CGI film, Luxo Jr. back in 1986.

Boing Boing fans will recognize Jackhammer Jill and the Unicorn Chaser.

The animation consists of 194 individual still shots that I took with my still camera and joined together into an animation. Jackhammer Jill and the unicorn were drawn by me in crayon and Sharpie.
RogueEntomologist

Here is my entry, an analog robot finds kitten: http://photos.staticfree.info/projects/Judith/rfk/
simon_for_hire

Here is matix done in macaroni!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/53781898@N08/4966087387/
Clemoh

Blame Canada :D
robohobo

I made the 3d pipes screen saver from windows out of pvc. Check it out. :)

http://hoboprojects.blogspot.com/2010/09/project-2.html