[Update: Check out the latest entries in the contest below! Keep them coming, and we'll keep posting]
[Update II: One more entry just added from Elliott; keep 'em coming folks, we'll keep updating this post]
We only had a few entries for our Bomomo contest, but they’re not too bad! It’s never too late to create some designs and send them in. In the meantime, though, here’s what some people came up with. Feel free to leave comments about your favorites!
“Stained Glass” by Taylor
“Untitled” by Bruce
“Walk of Shame” by Craig
“Aww yee” by Jarred
“Teh Interwebs” by Taylor
“Here Comes The Flood” by Sam
“Bomomomomomomo” by Gregory Lent
“A Bunch of Bike Wheels” by Taylor
Bomomo is a really fun, addictive tool created by Philip Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped. It’s an interesting mix of Spirograph, Etch-a-Sketch, and MS Paint… all in a web app. It only works in Firefox for now, but IE users can perhaps look forward to a version for them soon.
Bomomo is pretty self-explanatory, but basically you choose a tool, move your mouse around, and click/hold to paint. Here’s an example of what I came up with about a minute of effort and, obviously, minimal artistic talent. Click on it for a full-resolution view:
Obviously, y’all can do better. To see how creative some of you are, we’re going to run a fun little competition. Create an awesome sketch on Bomono, save it (you’ll see how, it’s the little disk), and e-mail it to us here. Depending on the number we receive, we’ll post either all the entries or just the “best of”, and then get some voting going.
So download Firefox if you don’t use it already, head to Bomomo, and get creative!
We’re not sure what this means (though if the editors of SMITH magazine are reading this, we’d still love those Planet Earth DVDs…), but Jarred’s entry in TreeHugger/SMITH Magazine’s six-word essay contest on “The Green Life” is currently featured prominently on the contest’s site. In case you missed these in the comments of my previous post:
Jarred: Kermit’s Right, Being Green Ain’t Easy.
Taylor: Don’t act in isolation; isolate inaction.
While it’s too late to enter the contest, I wanted to highlight this topic again because apparently six-word writing is all the rage. Rachel enlightened us in the comments of my previous post:
“Someone once bet that Hemingway that he couldn’t tell a story using only six words. And he came up with the following: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Is it a story? No. Is it compelling as hell? Yeeeeeah.”
Just today I saw that the Freakonomics blog is hosting its own “six-word motto for the U.S.” contest. My favorites so far are:
Our Worst Critics Prefer to Stay
AND
Just Like Canada, With Better Bacon
Is a new art form emerging, or are our attention spans so limited that we can’t handle longer prose…..
TreeHugger and SMITH magazine (I’d never heard of it either…) are hosting a contest called “Six Word Memoirs: The Green Life.” Basically, the challenge is to summarize your philosophy on environmental issues in 6 words or less:
“Got a swell philosophy? Traveled a strange path? Fall off the eco-wagon often? Lay your tiny tale on us [...] Everyone on this big blue marble has a green story. So, what’s yours?”
Let me warn you, it’s a challenge. Maybe you, dear reader, are less verbose than I am, but six words is a limited canvass for anyone. The contest hosts are offering great prizes (my fingers are crossed for the Planet Earth DVDs), so you should give it a shot. And be sure to add your submission to the comments here as well. In a few days, I’ll share my submission–though if you’re clever you can probably find it on the contest site. Good luck!
