Well I finally got around to leveraging Jonas' photos and throwing them together in a semi cohesive set of wizard con pages. Thanks to everyone that flew/drove in and supported the site. Next stop, San Diego Comic Con!

Secondly, in my previous post, I mentioned that I had 5 blank skateboard decks that i would be sending off to various users to customize and send back. Most of them are already spoken for but if you have any interest in possibly being part of that project, drop me a PM.

This is my favorite photo from wizard world.

Wizard World Photo Hub

One of my friends runs or used to run a small skate shop nearby. It recently went out of business and or my friend got sick of it, I dont exactly know which but anyway he was getting rid of all the merch dirt cheap. SO, im not really a skater by any stretch of the imagination but i thought it would be a neat mini-project to buy up blank decks and mail one out to some artists with strong illustration/paint backgrounds, have them do some sort of NG-themed piece and see what they come up with. Afterwards, they'd package the board back up and mail it over to the NG office where we could hang em up on the wall or something.

Anyway, I bought up the last 5 decks my friend had available, well the last 5 that had no designs on them. 2 are black, one is blue and 2 are white. I'll probably formally introduce this project on my next fp post or i'll have Tom make some sort of small one liner in his next post. If this seems like something youd be interested let me know. I'd like to not make it a contest because I hate competitive shit, in a perfect world, I'd just be able to find 4 competent artists that could do them justice and then make a post in the fall as to what people came up with.

Btw they arent actually as glossy as they seem on the photo. The reason they look that way is because they still have the plastic covering on them. I imagine they are more subdued. Anyway since they are never going to actually be used for skating on Im not terribly concerned about what you use to paint on it, as long as it doesnt degrade heavily over the years.

Okay thats alllllll

I noticed alot of people making their epic Summer news posts of projects we know they wont finish so I thought I'd do the same!

Had a fairly busy June so far with Montreal meet going on the first week, and the Philly Wizard Con Thing going on this past weekend. Its always pretty inspiring to go to any sort of NG gathering so the investment of time and money to attend shit like that is worthwhile. Plus I'm told its good to go outside once in awhile. Comic Con in San Diego is next on the queue.

Between the gap in events I'm going to go into a rathole and get back to working on my projects, on my visit up to the office I had a chance to bring home a boxful of mail from the sketchbook tour and I have to process and scan em and all that... I also have 3 power of 3 games that I need to get back to. Thats the one thing about programmers, you ease the leash and they wander offff. zrb and Unknownfury are good examples. But I'm back now, and I'm gonna put the spurs back on and get their shit back on track.

ALSO, Afro-Ninja mopped it up over at WizCon as the undisputed worlddd heavyweight champion of Smash Bros Brawl Tourney. Egoraptor wasnt too shabby also.

I think thats it, no giveaways or other sideshow anticssss in this post. Heres a photo of a monkey I saw down in the storage room of the NG office.

I've been taking a break from animation this week and I've been playing Fallout 3 instead and drawing picturez. I made this small run through of a series of newgrounds themed Vault Boy's i've been working on. I'll do all 60 this week. Eventually will be in the art portal but for now you can track them all via the art forum thread HERE

CIAO.

*ignore that i had ie open as my browser. lmao

Happy birthday!

Lets giveaway another set of soapy brass knuckles in his name!

Same deal as before, just get your one post in and on friday i'll punch you into the random name generator 2000 and see what happens. Fallensoul289 won last time.

You can be whatever level you want this time.

**** THE WINNER OF THE SECOND SET OF SOAP KNUCKLES IS Paperbat

CONTEST OVER. Winner was/is fallensoul289

for thefogerty! (no not for me)

***I REPEAT, IM NOT LOOKING FOR A TEAM FOR MYSELF***

thefogerty is looking for a programmer and I was intruiged by his little demo on his userpage and he needs someone to digest it with some akshinskript 3.0 (or 2.0!).

I've had a few people asking me if i know of someone who would code their idea and im tryin to hook people up the best I can. It DOES help if you have atleast a general idea of what you want to do though. There are some people that are looking to be on a team just for the sake of being on a team.

The idea of this project isnt to just find a team and make it on that ugly roster page. You actually gotta do shit, like make a flash game

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Secondly, I figured I'd plug some newgrounds-related events that are coming up this summer. It may be your chance to mingle with other NG folks in the flesh, or at the very least buy me a beer.
I would list all the newgrounds events but I'm not going to all of them and this is my userpage so its all about me. Oh speaking of being selfish, ill be giving away a new prize on my next fp post. It wont be a money bag, but itll be something equally silly hopefully.

June
Montreal Meet 09:
I think this is the 4th one now, its thrown together by Pox and usually draws 15-20 people. For the first time its being done during summarrrr
when: June 5-7

Philly Wizardcon 09:
First time theres a ng booth in its own state. Should have a good turnout, you can touch toms beard.
when: June 19-21

July
San Diego Comic Con 09:
Yearly gathering on the west coast for this totally crowded convention. Atleast the weather is nice and theres alot of NG people. Oh yeah behemoth is there too. Maybe tom will have an awesum party again. NUDGE.
When: July 23-26

August
London Summer Fling 09:
Bid the last month of summer goodbye and breathe in the fresh smells of day old piss as you walk through lovely London. again. We'll be celebrating some birthdays and havin fun in the su... err overcast weather.
When: August 6-10

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Theres some other events coming up in the fall, but i'll plug those later in the summerrrr. I think theres events in Denver, Iceland and Atlanta.

*PS this is from australia meet.

Well, I redesigned my website, cause everyone else was doing it. I hadnt updated my site since October so it was much needed. I simplified the whole thing so its just a big feed of things. I got tired of commenting systems and all that shit. I dont think people visit personal websites to hang out anyway, they just want to know if you've done something new and what else of interest you may have done. My site does that, and only that.

++++ The winner of the Money Bag was DanMasterFlash ++++

So 2 weeks ago we had a competition of who could make the best lookin edible Pink Castle crasher. Today is the day we announced the winners so check them out HERE.

Alternatively you can also view/comment on em via the discussion thread @ general forum

Huge THANK YOU to everyone who made something, kind of a new type of contest and we werent sure how successful/unsuccessful it would be. I mean asking NG forum users to trade their spam gloves for kitchen mitts. Anyway needless to say it was awesome and we'll have to do more of those kinds of things in the future. Whether you won or not I hope you had fun with it and enjoyed eating whatever you made.

CIAO.

You may have seen Tom's post on creative folks... he mentioned someone who created a tray of castle crashers sushi

Well as is always the case, they left out the pink one. So this is where you come in:

All you need to do is create an edible pink castle crasher. It could be the whole body, it could just be the head like the example below. It could be made of sushi, it could be candy, baked, whatever you want. The point is you have to be able to eat it.

Once you finish, you snap a picture and post it in this thread. The most creative one(s) will get a Pink Castle Crasher as seen below. I gave a few away a few months ago and they are kinda rare because theres only like 12 or so floating around.

So if you're the only one who ends up making something then you are an easy winnar.
Go put on your apron, gogogogo

Deadline is Sunday April 26th