I managed to get the gallery down to a shortlist of six. You can vote below, or visit the gallery to see all the entries. (Highly recommended — there is some incredibly creative and wonderful work there.)
Feel free to tell me what an idiot I am for my choice of six in the comments!
Voting is open until October 11th.
If you haven’t had a chance to check out the gallery of entries yet, you really should. There is some great stuff there. And IO9 just linked to the gallery, and they did a nifty little selection they liked.
Here’s just a taste:
Title: Yes We Can
Based on: The Wizard of Oz
Title: Suk Doctors
Based on: Dune (The Suk Doctors – wiki)
Title: Eloi – The Other White Meat
Based on: The Time Machine
Details on how to enter are at the bottom of the gallery page or below, on The Skwib. You have until October 4th, so there’s still lots of time!
Many art historians believe this to be the famous painting, Luncheon of the Boating Party (Le déjeuner des canotiers) by the French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1881.
They are right on two counts: it was Renoir, and it was in 1881, but the actual title was The Festival of Slorg, and is much more sinister than art historians have always assumed.
According to Brian A. Oard in his essay on this painting, The Lure of Lotus Eating:
It is a scene of the triumphant bourgeoisie celebrating an appropriately commercialized version of the fête champêtre in a place that was once a playground of the aristocracy. By 1880, nearly a century after the Revolution, the French middle classes were comfortable enough to party like aristocrats, and in Renoir they found their Watteau.
But this is what we see on the surface . . . The horrors of the Slorgfest are too much for me to relate to you here, but I would note that while bottles of wine are in evidence aplenty, you will note that all their plates are empty. And what was on those plates? Well, let’s just say the population of homeless people of Chatou, France is smaller by at least two.
A slight deviation from the normal deviancy that goes on here at The Skwib. As you know, I am a writer of novels in addition to this blog, and my second book is now available as a Kindle edition.
As we lead up to the official release of the paper version, I’ve priced the Kindle version at $3.99. (Actually, I priced it at $1.99, but Amazon adds a $2 fee for downloading.) But even at $3.99 it’s a helluva deal. And it’s a limited-time offer!
You can buy it here, and find out more about the book here.
You may not have had a chance to read any of Chevalier’s works, and if you have I am sorry for you. It’s brilliant stuff, particularly his Cyborg Harpies books. (I believe there are three or four trilogies now.)
At any rate, he has joined the league of authors using new media to promote his work, and you can find an excellent excerpt from his latest book in the Cyborg Harpies series: The 8th Chronicle, Bio Wars: A Harpy’s Perspective at his website.
Here is a short excerpt, but please, go check out the
full audio clip at his website:
Gorgana stood in her rejuvachamber, inspecting her left mammary cannon. It had been badly damaged in that afternoon’s melee, and had been misfiring at dinner. Low-level mamablasts were discharging everywhere, causing panic in the lower mess hall, killing a strangeling servile, and even destroying a table of sulokak, a Harpy delicacy similar to biscotti.
Okay, I’ll admit it, I’m a weasel — I couldn’t pick three out of the thirty excellent submissions on the gallery. I had trouble getting it down to ten, and there are still some that I wish I could include. Here is the short list of finalists, and a web thingy you can vote with — remember, you can pick your favourite three! (You can click on the thumbnails for a larger view.)
(And if any of the artists would like to explain why their submission is superior, please feel free to do so in the comments.)
What, pray tell is the prize? Well, if you win, you can choose from:
The second-place winner will choose from the remaining prizes, and the bronze winner gets whatever is left.
Voting ends at 8 am, April 28th!
The full gallery of entries is here. Everyone from humor-blogs.com is invited to vote early and often.