Summer Challenge - HOT

I haven't gotten word from the previous winner, so I have chosen a topic from a suggestions list I have been keeping.  I think everyone can get involved with this one.  It's simply... HOT.  You can choose to portray a temperature or any of the slang meanings of the word, a feeling, lust, anger... I think this suits the season (in the northern hemisphere anyway, lol)

Let's run this until the third week of August, I will give you a day or so heads up and if anyone needs more time they can let me know.  You may enter an existing work if you like, but we would prefer to see a new work created for this challenge... it IS a challenge after all, lol!  You may enter more than one work, but remember that in the voting, each entry will be judged separately.  Please, please, please put titles on your entries, especially if you have more than one.

Get out there and CREATE!!!

~Viv
 

Attached Link: hot dog haiku

Maybe I ought to try for an image, lest the poetic spirit overcomes my good manners and more haiku (or gasp limericks) emerge from the keyboard.  Anything has to be better than the hot dog haiku I wrote for another challenge a long summer ago.

Ackkkkkkkk!!!   Noooooooooooooo... please no more hot dog haiku!!!  I am sure you can find something equally (?) fascinating to do for 'HOT"!  :b_funny:

Can't wait to see what you come up with, LOL!

~Viv

THAT bad, huh?

blush

:rolleyes: :lol:  Well.... maybe not quite THAT bad!

I am copying and pasting an short prose that I wrote earlier in July in the Writer's Forum...

**Sticky, the air hums,
Violent thunder rent the stillness;
The dogs are laying in air cooled palaces
While the masters toil in the foul heavy hot air.

Not even the eighth month on my calendar,
That month of ancient dog days;
Nor the sixth,
when all the school buildings began to vacate and bake;
Somewhere in between, I am lost in the mist of  my mindscape;
as I sit here on the sandy blanket, looking out at the green water
under my little round shaped shade.**

I hope this will do instead of graphics...

ok, i made this in 2006 on the old computer and cleaned it up last year.
http://www.spiritbones.org/cat/day_at_the_beach07.jpg
the background is my cognito painting (which is in my gallery) and the foreground is a photo i took and composited/cloned in in ulead. it was for a contest in a doll group back then. it did not win but people liked it :)
i will try to make something new but i thought i'd share this for now. :)
~^..^~

"Desert Pool"

Glad that you can...

I decided that there was little hotter than a total solar eclipse (flares, surges, beads, glows) involving our very own bubbling hot sun.  So I tracked down a webcam/telescope clinging to a peak on the border of Mongolia offering what was to be the clearest weather.  Totality was set for a bit after 4 a.m. my time, but that wasn't a real problem.  I can stay up.  The telescope operator was from the Exploratorium, working with NASA, and quite professional with his/her filters (stopping down when the glare was too great, or narrowing in on prominent flares).  Safe viewing for both viewers and lenses. ;)

So I sat for a couple of hours, hitting the "print screen" button when really nice bits came into view. 

My intention was to take screen captures into Photoshop and play with them, giving NASA credit for providing the basics, as always.

On my other PC, a screen capture sits on the desktop and I can move it to the Mac for processing.  On this PC?  I have no flibertigibben idea where those screengrabs went.  Both beasties are running XP, so I have no clue why they behave differently, or where those images disappeared.  (If any reader knows where XP hides such things, please tell me.)

I'm so frustrated.  I nabbed a couple dozen nice images of a wonderful eclipse... something should have been workable. 

:(

At least when our caveman ancestors pecked out eclipse images with soot and red ocher, the image didn't vanish into the ether before it could be shared.  Harumph!

Carolly

I never knew you could make multiple screen prints without clearing the clipboard by putting the file in a graphics program!  I thought that was the only way to do it, one at a time.  I will have to look into this!  I'm so sorry that something that works on one of your computers doesn't work on the other.  Is one running a home version and the other a 'pro' version?  Are there options in the Administrator setup?  If you find out more, please keep us informed?  Maybe you can do something with the Perseid meteor shower next week!

~Viv

PS... The rest of you... I know it's HOT, but we want to see more, more, more!!

So what's the latest??? When is this Challenge over and the winner announced???

This inquiring mind wants to know....

Soooo..... This is it??!!!??? The challenge is over???? Nothing is going on in here any more????

Ooookkkkkay.... I'll just stop peeking in here and let the deafening silence along with the rambling weed over there take over...

Bye 4ever!!!

:b_upset:

Attached Link: black rose

michael

artwork note:  drawn free-hand in powerpoint

Is there still time to post for the HOT contest or no? And where do we go to post a new entry?
Thanks for any input.
Rita

I'm sorry for not getting back to all of you sooner, but it's been HOT!  I will be closing the entries on Monday, August 25 at 23:59 Renderosity time (US Central time).  This will give us time for voting and announcing the winner, and hopefully for a new theme to be announced  in the first few days of September.

Rita, just post your entry in this thread,  using 'Attach a File' to upload an image and/or 'Link Name & URL' to provide a link to your gallery or another site.

There are some terrific and very HOT works here!   Keep them coming :)

~Viv

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1684764

Just found this contest and it looks I am on time.
Here is my entry for the contest and it's called "Delicious!!!"
What you see here on the picture is the thumbnail.

Here's my second one .. Apo again. I just can't seem to get the hang of any other fractal programs. Just in case anyone's interested, both uploads used Bunny's (our very own bpclarke) scripts, tweaked and twisted and mangled a bit.
This one ist titled SaH'Ara. Real original, huh?
Rita

AAAAAaaaaackkkkk! Second posting didnt work ..  
Okay .. maybe I can only post one a day. I'll try again tomorrow.
Thanks Viv, for letting me know I still had time. Just got back from camping and found the sitemail.
Rita

I've just seen that I have forgotten to title my entry.
So the title for my image is "Hiao" (sounds not very hot ;))

What an incredible group of entries we have this month!  Thanks for making this a great challenge.  It's now time to close the entries and let the voting begin!  The voting will be in this thread, after this entry.  You get to choose your 3 favorite entries, giving each of them 3, 2 or 1 points.  Remember, you are choosing an entry, not an artist.  If someone has posted more than one entry, you need to indicate which is your choice. 

Your vote should look something like this:

Hot - "Stuff" - 3 points
Catona - "Tin Roof" - 2 points
100 - "Degrees" - 1 point

Feel free to nominate Honorable Mentions or make comments.

~Viv

Hotter then Hades - 3 points
Fractasia flame burst - 2 points
Desert Pool - 1 point

Honorable Mention:
Hiao
Delicious
black rose

Is it too late to vote?
Rocserum - "Fractasia flame burst" - 3
bangonthedrums - "Black Rose" -2
hauksdottir - "hotdog haiku" - 1

just loved the haiku, LOL!!!
Rita

This is my vote for the contest:

Bangonthedrums - "Black Rose" - 3 points.
Rich2 - "Desert Pool" - 2 points.
Hauksdottir - "hotdog haiku" - 1 point.

Loved that Hotdog to, very good idea!
Claudia

here are my votes...

rich2 - desert pool - 3 pts.
three_grrr - hotter than hades - 2 pts.
x-pax - hiao - 1 pt.

nicely done, all who entered... good luck!  :)

michael

Not to much competitors, but this are my votes
Hotter then Hades 3
points Hiao 2 points
**Desert pool  1 point
RS
**

3 pt.  ...Hotter than Hades ...three-grrr
2 pt.  ...Desert Pool  ...rich2
1pt.  ...prose piece  ...ThunderStone

Honorable Mentions to x-pax for Hiao and rocserum for Fractasia Flame Burst.

These were ALL quite hot.

3 points to " Hotter Than Hades"
2 points to "Hiao"
1 point to "Fractal Flame Burst"

Good luck to all!

Summer is always a challenge, so many people are away from home, enjoying other things that making art.  It was great seeing so many unusual ideas depicting HOT!  Every entry was terrific, I am sure it was difficult to choose.

Here is the count:

In fifth place, with 1 point:  Thunderstone's prose piece

Tied for fourth place, with 5 points each:  bangonthedrums' "Black Rose" and X-PaX's "Hiao"

In third place, with 6 points:  rocserum's "Fractasia flame burst"

In second place, with 9 points: Rich2's "Desert Pool"

In first place, with 14 points:  three_grrr's "Hotter then Hades"

Thanks to all who entered!  You all did a marvelous job.  Congratulations to three_grrr for that great entry! Rita, please let me know what you want to challenge for September.

I am looking forward to what you will all come up with for this new challenge!

~Viv
 

Attached Link: September Challenge