Discussion Art Contest Discussion Thread

[downright]

or if the author has some sort of underlying message which you didn't catch or whatever. In the end, you vote for the one you like most, If I have to explain that the feelings in the story are based on real feelings for it not to feel like "cheap emotions" then I have failed in making it real/believable enough. Simple as that.

Not catching the underlying message is what i saw as priority, and i can't decide is it writters or my fault so i didn't vote.

In the end, you vote for the one you like most, the one which appeals to you or makes you feel something, makes you laugh etc.

Then i vote for the un-talented writing boy Darky.
I went for to make some feels too, any feels i could, so i tried to make people feel disgusted.

Granted, it's hard to really expand on things when there's such a low character limit.. would have wanted to explain a bit more and not just sort of go "and then she died at sea". Give more depth to that part of the story and so on. But rules are rules I guess.

Yea my thoughts were the same, this takes the A out of art, there's no liberty, like really no liberty. You finally find an idea and then you can't show what you wanted. But make it bigger then who would read it..

 

[Battou]

Congrats @riki

- goldb

 

[Shobu_Yoruichi]

Congrats @riki , Turtles are like Pandas, is hard not to love them.

I voted for my work and @ad31 work, because were kind of unique... Ad's work was like someone asked him about what memories has about beach... and says it's boring but family is there so do i. @WithYouInSpirit was my competition on the theme of the story and he's was like Life of Pi storytelling while i wanted to make a timeskip learning story , just for that i chose my work, you have challenge to think in order to grow, and Sea's waves are a challenge to me. @Organizized is a great anti-poet, he's just out of the league, but this is story contest, that's why i didn't choose him. @hecatoncheir was like Iggy Azalea or Nicky Minaj xD i just read rhymes, awesome but i couldn't enjoy the story because i was thinking in Hip-Hop. I didn't check @Darky work xD and Riki wasn't my choice because despite is hard to not love turtles... i don't love them xD

 

[downright]

@hecatoncheir was like Iggy Azalea or Nicky Minaj xD i just read rhymes, awesome but i couldn't enjoy the story because i was thinking in Hip-Hop.

You gotten rhymes from my story? how the hell did i do that, i don't even know who they are...

 

[goldb]

Granted, it's hard to really expand on things when there's such a low character limit.. would have wanted to explain a bit more and not just sort of go "and then she died at sea". Give more depth to that part of the story and so on. But rules are rules I guess.

The rules on that aren't likely to change I'm afraid; it's a SHORT story contest after all.

You can always do what @riki does sometimes; which is linking to a longer/complete version of the story elsewhere, if you feel like expanding on what you have already written. For example the "beach" story could be part of a larger tale/theme.

 

[Spirit]

Dammit @hecatoncheir I couldn't ignore the focus issue after you pointed it out
I didn't manage to get a hole of another chick but my sister was kind enough to help me snap a shot of the baby wabbit :]]

Yeah, we're cute animal crazy in our household.

 

[Charlie]

OMG - I'm sure this contest hit some kind of violation in entries.


Good luck to everyone - and btw when it comes to bribing votes, I have to figure out some bribes.

 

[goldb]

@hecatoncheir I'm afraid you'll have to re-submit another piece of work as this one doesn't qualify. There needs to be an animal visible in the shot and yours doesn't, however intriguing your idea behind this was.

 

[downright]

It's time to write your own short story for this round of the art contest. This time the theme is Beach! Every once in a while, most of us go to the beach to have fun and simply relax. Channel those experience into a story and share with us!


Hi, everyone! It's the first photography contest for the year and this time it's Animal Photography.There are different animals interwoven in the society. We see and interact with various ones everyday. The task is to capture these beautiful creatures and showcase them here!

I think it should be payed attention on the sole description of what the contest is. By this words beach short story was supposed to be true and not fictional story, yet we shared fictional. In the photography contest am expected to follow exact words. Not to go into detail about what's art's definition, but isn't it's purpose to tell a story? There's an animal interwoven into society, and that's her story.

 

[goldb]

I think it should be payed attention on the sole description of what the contest is

Sure, we'll bare that in mind for future contests. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[downright]

Disqualify if, this is ridiculous, you're taking freestyle out of art, you didn't even think about it.

 

[Spirit]

I think the point of the art contest parameters are to show off your skills in working with a set of limits. It does show skill to be able to make the best of what you can with what you're provided. Besides, there are plently of Freestyle contests throughout the year.

 

[Holt]

Disqualify if, this is ridiculous, you're taking freestyle out of art, you didn't even think about it.

The entry will remain in the spirit of giving everyone a chance and keeping things fair, and also in part due to the misunderstanding being a result of the rules not being explicit. This would be officially addressed (and for all the categories) but just as a pointer, such entries will not be allowed going forward.

 

[Charlie]

I think that is a wise - fair and good choice.
Great decision guys.

Definitely an interesting concept for the contest and idea.

 

[downright]

To invest thoughts and time into something to just get the usual moderators silent treatment from another part of the world, yea that makes you bitter. My gist was escaped, but handled very diplomatic. At least it's fair, but not for my cat, she's dead now.

So you opened through box to end the experiment huh?

@Charlie yea, curiosity killed the cat i wasn't sure if i have one anymore.

 

[Charlie]

To invest thougts and time into something to just get the usual moderators silent treatment from another part of the world, yea that makes you bitter. My gist was escaped, but handled very diplomatic. At least it's fair, but not for my cat, she's dead now.

So you opened the box to end the experiment huh?

 

[Temperance]

To invest thoughts and time into something to just get the usual moderators silent treatment from another part of the world, yea that makes you bitter. My gist was escaped, but handled very diplomatic. At least it's fair, but not for my cat, she's dead now.



@Charlie yea, curiosity killed the cat i wasn't sure if i have one anymore.

Wait, you really done the experiment?

 

[Holt]

The new contests are up. The Spring Contest this time is Forum Badge Creation. Voting for the Animal Photography contest has also begun. We had an amazing amount of entries and as such, everyone is entitled to 4 votes for this contest!

Spoiler: Side-note

On a side note, for anyone willing to promote the Spring seasonal contest, we have a sig to use

 

[Spirit]

The new contests are up. The Spring Contest this time is Forum Badge Creation. Voting for the Animal Photography contest has also begun. We had an amazing amount of entries and as such, everyone is entitled to 4 votes for this contest!

Spoiler: Side-note

On a side note, for anyone willing to promote the Spring seasonal contest, we have a sig to use

No problem
Glad to see my Idea in a contest. I might actually try and participate, contrary to my feelings at the time.

 

[Holt]

Yes, it was a pretty good idea, allows for creativity and basically allows a chance for a custom (or self-made) badge when you look at it the other way. Hoping to see a lot of great entries