Monday, February 21, 2011
Friday, February 18, 2011
N.H. Salesman
Yet another new addition to an old series, this time the Neko House series.
(On a completely unrelated note, the caption challenge blog I suggested in my previous post is now live at http://animetgcaptionchallenge.blogspot.com/)
(On a completely unrelated note, the caption challenge blog I suggested in my previous post is now live at http://animetgcaptionchallenge.blogspot.com/)
Monday, February 14, 2011
A Query: Caption Challenge Blog?
I'm kind of breaking my own rules with this post, specifically the ones where every post is supposed to be either a caption or a story written by me, but I think it's an important or at least interesting enough topic for me to devote a post to it.
The process I use when making captions comes in three separate parts: The first part is finding images and collecting them; the second part is finding inspiration from specific images; the third part is turning that inspiration into a caption or story. I am way faster at the first part than I am at the other two, which means I have a lot of images. So many, in fact, that there is probably no way I'll make a caption for every one of them.
There's another issue I've noticed: When you look around, there really aren't very many active captioners of relatively clean anime pics (that is, the sort I use) about these days. Or if there are, I don't know where they're hiding. So..what if I were to make a second blog where I post pictures, and other people, in comments, make captions out of those pictures? I would consider it a "caption challenge blog", and perhaps some pictures would have optional special conditions to meet with the caption (like, "use this kind of situation" or such). I can't make it contests, because (1) I would not be up to the task of judging, nor do I know anyone who would; and (2) I have nothing to offer as a prize to the "winner".
Anyway, with this idea, I'm just curious..who would be willing to try responding to such challenges? If there's not enough interest I won't bother, obviously.
EDIT: Okay, there was enough support of the idea so I did it. The new challenge blog is at:
http://animetgcaptionchallenge.blogspot.com/
The process I use when making captions comes in three separate parts: The first part is finding images and collecting them; the second part is finding inspiration from specific images; the third part is turning that inspiration into a caption or story. I am way faster at the first part than I am at the other two, which means I have a lot of images. So many, in fact, that there is probably no way I'll make a caption for every one of them.
There's another issue I've noticed: When you look around, there really aren't very many active captioners of relatively clean anime pics (that is, the sort I use) about these days. Or if there are, I don't know where they're hiding. So..what if I were to make a second blog where I post pictures, and other people, in comments, make captions out of those pictures? I would consider it a "caption challenge blog", and perhaps some pictures would have optional special conditions to meet with the caption (like, "use this kind of situation" or such). I can't make it contests, because (1) I would not be up to the task of judging, nor do I know anyone who would; and (2) I have nothing to offer as a prize to the "winner".
Anyway, with this idea, I'm just curious..who would be willing to try responding to such challenges? If there's not enough interest I won't bother, obviously.
EDIT: Okay, there was enough support of the idea so I did it. The new challenge blog is at:
http://animetgcaptionchallenge.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Beauty in the Beast
A new caption. I tried something a little different with this one.
(Text altered to be easier to read)
(Text altered to be easier to read)
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