Preserved Topic: October Sig Contest, FREAK OUT!

Power to the People! Give me Disco! Give me Groovy. Give me Afros. Give me Disco balls. Give me Retro. Give me the attitude. The Dance scene. Bell Bottoms and all. Play that funky music White boy! Lets get some FUNK!

No sig that I have seen before will count. So if its old and I have not seen it yet you have a loophole... but if I have seen b4 I will delete it. Dig?

Now, perfection is not what I am aiming at here. Give me the wildest thing you can possibly dig out of your soul. Make it trippy, make it swimmy... make it totally bizarre.

Oh, one last thing. If Disco makes you think of some other seemingly unrelated wacky sig, by all means, go for it! This is very very loose! Interpret it any way you want... The Judge is crazy. Rock it Baybee!

~Kicks Izzy~

Wtf were you thinking?

*ouch*

*punches Insider*

Disco baybe. Have a problem with it?

edit... *gives insider the chair*

[This message has been edited by eyezaer (edited 10-02-2002).]

Yeah baby, yeah! Come on, InSiDeR! Grooooove with me!

Ahem. Yes, back to the sigs.

I'm loving this topic. Too bad media photons take hours.

That's called a "teaser," by the way. =)

Yah Got a month Slime! Cant wait!

pears.
dead.
all.

oh this should be fun!

Kind of like the dot matrix graphics on pinball machines.

Ehh... the animation turned out clunky... I might have another shot at it.

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[This message has been edited by fraxyl (edited 10-02-2002).]

heh
still a nice try, fraxyl!

Oh my gosh he's serious...

Wow for an October SIG contest this really is scary!

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Say, now would Stevie Wonder be considered retro?

Im always serious.

and, sure maaan, most anything/anyone from the time period... But the stronger the disco theme the bettah!

Now... Shake it and Get to Work!!

Fraxyl, thas fun to watch!

gotta remember, ya gotta think Crazy for this contest!!!!

I like how this one turned out/

How about a trippy hair covered pill?? Anyone up for one?

*dumps black pills on floor and reaches for an Indus brand Fuzzy Pill*

*i am seeing strang lights tooo.... yeaaaah!*

<img src="http://www.blackbrain.net/img/Dirtydancing3.gif">
dirty dancing alive

Hey, that's pretty cool Blacknight. Simple, yet it speaks volumes.

The hairy pill also definitely qualifies as freaky. Good work, Indus.

Here's my humble entry for this month. It took me forever to get it right, mostly because I was just being incredibly stupid the day I whipped it up.

[Edit: Linked to explanation of stupidity...]



Cell 270

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 10-08-2002).]

Very cool Suho. Me likes! :thumbsup:

Maybe if I get away from this interface I'll give this one a go..

Very nice work, Suho1004.

Nice one master suho....I like that

Blacknight that reminds me of that dancing part of Pulp Fiction..

I can't wait to see more sigs

hmm i think i meant pulp fiction ..but brain and hands dont cooperta properly .hmmm

Ok.

Grumble the lighting on that sig is quite off geometricaly and isometricaly. Unless you intened on the text being a 3 dimensional trapazoid.

It would make the text appear like this:
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When it should be like this:
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Black Night Break it Down!

SuhoPsychodellic! woo!

*dances around a pickes up a foldering chair*

*gives insider the chair again*

*and again*

I love the funny PILL!!! HEHEH!

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edit: cutting this out due to filesize. please see http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum14/HTML/001064.html

[This message has been edited by GRUMBLE (edited 10-09-2002).]

Insider: you're sort of correct. Your eyes are just misunderstanding the image. What you're seeing as the text moving backwards is really not a solid object; it's just the shadow of the text in the fog. The text itself is actually very thin.

If that darkness were caused by the text extending backwards, then you'd be absolutely right. But it's just a shadow, which explains why it points away from the light source.

Could use some transparency help... trying other background color..

Re: GRUMBLE's sig being correct or not...

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Now, perfection is not what I am aiming at here.

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and my submission...



edit to remove spaghetti sig posted by accident

[This message has been edited by Moth (edited 10-09-2002).]

Hehe... that 70s sig... hehe.

I wonder what this thread would be like if one were actually stoned. Not that I'm planning on getting stoned, of course.

Its the asylum disco

it was quite big so i made it smaler ..perhaps a little to small
<img src="http://www.blackbrain.net/img/Disco.gif">




[This message has been edited by Blacknight (edited 10-09-2002).]

money makin' money money makin' super disco disco breakin' !!!!!
weeeheeee

*l0l*...mas

beastie boys still rocki'n

no sigs

[This message has been edited by Emperor (edited 10-10-2002).]

exactly, dreamer =)

I keep on saying I'm going to enter one of these contests some day .. and I have great ideas but never get around to doing it .. or I start them but never finish .. I'm going to see what I can do to get myself involved this month .. because I have the perfect idea for this contest

btw .. I like everyone's entries so far!

Well, RammStein, you've still got two-thirds of the month left. I'd love to see your idea!

I am glad you like the tag line, Suho1004

I love all of the sigs. I can't wait to see what this thread will look like a the end of the month. I think Eyezaer is going to have some tough choices at that time. By the way, what is the font you used in your submission? I used Sand.

Blacknight, cool sig. very disco.



[This message has been edited by Moth (edited 10-10-2002).]

The font in my sig is none other than Bellbottom Laser. I don't know why, but I've always kind of liked that font, and it fit this month's theme perfectly.

Further explanation for GRUMBLE's sig:

The SIG is more "correct" than you may think InSiDeR...In a foggy environment (such as a sweaty 70's disco joint), rays of light can and will be seen behind an object opposite its light source. When there are more particles in the air for light to reflect off of (fog), there is mirroring upon mirroring of light which causes those particles to become more visible. This is why it is dangerous to turn on your car's bright headlamps where fog has settled on roadways. Diffracted light (basically light that manages to make its way around corners) may also be seen more vividly in a foggy atmosphere.

Diffraction experiment: Find a door in your home that has been hung level and plumb. Place a bright lamp just outside the door of the room. Now go into the room and shut off the lights. Close the door so that it is only open a hair. Walk away from the door and keep your eye on the lamp (outside now) through the slit of the door. You will notice that there is a wider appearance of light nearer to the bulb even though the slit is the same width all the way up and down. Pinhole cameras are based upon this idea. And it is also the reason some people require glasses...misshapen lens...

Perhaps GRUMBLE'S SIG would be more convincing if the rays were narrowed slightly, but my monitor isn't the best either...But that would really depend on where the light is on the Z-axis, and that is hard to tell as well.



[This message has been edited by Thumper (edited 10-10-2002).]

I think you're all looking at GRUMBLE's Sig wrong. Turn your monitor upside down and look at it. It changes. It has Escher written all over it. If you know how to look at it it lays out fine with a radial expression of shadows beyond the letters. If you look at it the other way it looks like the light comes from behind the letters. Makes for a great optical illusion. Of course... he may have wanted it to appear that way.

Either way, Nice Job GRUMBLE

GrythusDraconis
"Be careful not to anger the Great Dragon for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup" T-Shirt Somewhere

[This message has been edited by GrythusDraconis (edited 10-10-2002).]

wow, thanks for all the flowers, people!
and btw: ive made an extra thread for that: http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum14/HTML/001064.html

Moth correct me if I'm wrong, and I may very well be, but wasn't the 60's the tie die generation? I love the tagline it is very off of creative but I am not sure your decade is absolutely correct.

here's my entry. Couldn't get the text how i wanted it, but i'm tired of working on it. So here it is...

Have you ever seen a blacklight poster, Insider? It's about as seventies as you can get.

As a matter of fact I have 1 of a multi colored ying-yang on my wall . But my point is, tie-die came from the 60's to my knowlege.

as a tie-dye connoisseur I would say that it does not even make me think of tie-dye.

It is very psychedelic though. An excellent addition to this months sigs!

*Sigh*

InSiDeR: Scroll back up to the top of the thread. Now read the part where izzay mentions a specific decade. Yes, I know you're trying to pin Moth's sig as a 60s sig even though it says 70s, but who cares?

My point is that izzay left this pretty wide open, and he specifically said that he was looking for creativity and craziness over perfection.

This is just my personal philosophy, of course, but I don't usually consider myself eligible to comment on other people's sigs until I've entered my own. I noticed that you have no sig this month.... Now, I'm not saying that you should stay out of the thread, I'm just saying that maybe you should spend less time criticizing other people's sigs and get off your butt and make your own. You obviously have a lot of creative energy at the moment--why not channel that into a killer entry?

>>It is very psychedelic though. An excellent addition to this months sigs! <<

Thank you Eyezaer.

I just don't get Insider initially thinking it's tie-dye. And I really, really don't get why he thinks it's a tie-die after I told him it was a black light poster.

Oh well, to each his own.


[This message has been edited by Moth (edited 10-11-2002).]

[This message has been edited by Moth (edited 10-11-2002).]

There is a lot I would like to say now. But I will just hold it in.

Don't ruin this thread, insider - if you're not posting a sig for this months comp (and this is directed towards everybody) then please just don't bother posting.

YES! That is the key to life! Holding things in that will only cause conflict!

One becomes a master of that art when he actually avoids saying even that he *is* holding something in.

quote:

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One becomes a master of that art when he actually avoids saying even that he *is* holding something in.

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Amen, brother.

Now let's see some funky sigs!

[Edit: As for the "key to life" thing, some would say that the key to life is discarding the passions and desires that lead to one wanting to say things that will cause conflict. If you say these things, they will cause conflict between you and others, but if you hold them in, they will cause inner turmoil--it's a no win situation. Thus, the true answer is to eliminate the problem at its source. I'll let you all know once I actually figure out how to do that...]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 10-11-2002).]

Have something to say about the meaning of life? Post it here .

Don't start with me, InSiDeR. I am seriously not in the mood today.

I'm still waiting for your sig, by the way...

[Edit: Apologies to all for this tangent. Since it is pointless to continue in this vein, I am just going to ignore anything else that InSiDeR says in this thread. I will limit myself to comments on new sigs. Again, apologies all around, and happy sigging.]

[This message has been edited by Suho1004 (edited 10-11-2002).]

wisdom in threads is always welcome, suho.

now, let's get FUNKY!

--- norty adam! NO siggah! ---

[This message has been edited by reitsma (edited 10-11-2002).]

Yea, I had a sig IP, but then PS crashed.

**PRE SIG POST**

insider: please bear the following in mind...

Point 1

The 70s was a decade of turmoil.
It began with reflection of what had preceded (the birth and death of rock and roll, the rise and fall of the hippies).
The use of psychedelic drugs such as LSD had begun to wan by this time, and new avenues of mind bending were sought.

A new age of dark 'Hard Rock' begun to creep across the world. A theme adopted by many who were increasingly disillusioned with the love&peace dictated by earlier generations. Generations who had begun to recognis the fruitless nature of their obsession, and became increasingly depressed with the shape of the world.

At this time, Heroin became the drug of choice, since for many, there was a perception that there was in fact, 'no future' for the world.

Then, in the middle of this decadence and depression came DISCO!

A whole new generation realised that you can't change the world with marches and slogans, so they declared - "What the hell... let's just get down and enjoy what we've got"

DISCO was little more than a concoction of musical styles.

Caribbean beats met rock and roll guitars, and a whole new generation was born... free to plagiarise all that had gone before, as long as a funky back beat was applied.

The theme of this months sig contest is then clear - recycle recycle recycle.
Do what you like, borrow from where you like, as long as the result takes your work in a new direction. But possibly more importantly, ensure that it's FUNKY!!!

Point 2

I've not been here that long, but there's one constant theme which I've picked up from the Asylum.

People generally don't give a rats a$$ what you think or say.

You speak before thinking, and you react without considering.

You're infantile, and insolent, believe that the world revolves around you, and get stroppy when you feel that you aren't the centre of attention.

insider - you have a whole lot of growing up to do - so please,,, go and do it.

Point 3

An apology, to everyone else, for being so blatant with my opinions, and for going off topic, but I've needed to say this for some time, and since the thread was already hijacked, I figured - what the heck.

p.s. a sig WILL be following shortly ? how could I resist such a theme!

Izzy or someone could you please lock this one up and start a new thread as this one is going off on a wierd tangent and we have to scroll through crap to find the real entries, thanks.

sig to follow

Sadly... locked.

Go and play nice somewhere else... will ya.