Title: SP0OF - Special Project 0: Obviously Fun!
Theme: Humor (news)
Media: Photography (WITHOUT manipulations)

ON YOUR MARK? READY? SET… SP0OF!

Starting date: August 1st
NEW Ending date: 30 of September


JUDGES:
^Helewidis (PJ WEIRDO)
*Basistka (HUMOUR CONNOISSEUR)
=JacquiJax (SOMEONE WITH LOTS OF TIME LATELY)


The point of the contest is to take a given news, from whatever source you want, that's currently somehow relevant, and change it in some way (through it's context, or something else, without changing the actual news) that would manage to make me and some other judges laugh.




TEH RULEZZZ:

Entries should preferably be sent AFTER the start date but BEFORE the end date. (Just in case you are new to this contest thingy).

For entering the contest your deviation should be on dA (lol), should be new (taken on June 23 or after that day) and on photography/humor category!

1 entry per clown! Ehm… I mean, account! So be SURE about what you are going to send BEFORE sending it!

I would LOVE to receive your entries through my brand new smoke signal decoder, BUT… some friends suggested we should use our old but reliable NOTES, send to =JacquiJax with SP0OF as the subject and, of course, your artwork.

Entries will be added on SP0OF CONTEST Collection

You may submit ANY types of photographs in this contest… BUT… as you may or may not know, the prizes usually consists of journal features, some artist have expressed concerns about featuring images that include GORE, NUDITY or other OFFENSIVE themes. So, if you want to be sure you’ll get your feature…avoid those themes. You could still win with these though!

How much freedom! You are free to use any type of humor (sarcasm, pun, cynicism, sillycism, take your share) on any type of news, but it would work a lot better if it’s a REALLY WELL KNOWN NEWS so a lot of people will get what you mean.

The description of your artwork must include its meaning or any other information / context needed to get the joke.

Hate art won’t be accepted. (Ok I know I said we’d accept ANY kind of photo, but I just thought about avoiding hate art and I’m too lazy to go up and erase what I wrote earlier). So, refrain from using it. For example, I AM Latin, so I’ll definitely won’t accept anything that’s highly offensive toward Latin-Americans.

For those not participating but viewing the entries: DON’T TAKE THEM PERSONALLY. Every person always has something they hate to joke about (sickness, deaths, religion, take your choice), but you must learn to RELAX and TAKE IT EASY. Remember: laughing is as good as any way to deal with difficult experiences. Sometimes it’s even the best way to deal with them.

Topic examples : A H1N1, Global Warming, Economic Crisis, Drug Dealers, Eating Disorders, Wars, Terrorism, Migration Policies, Weird News, Famous People… those are just some examples that everyone can relate to, YOUR CHOICE, YOUR BRAIN, YOUR ART.

Judges will sit on the courtroom and judge. Like, your artwork. Oh yes, criteria, well, important things will be :
- Quality,
- Cleverness,
- Creativity, and
- Average amount of giggles provoked!




PRIZES:

1st Place:
A 3 months Subscription by the amazing and fun `tracie76
Original 5x5 watercolor of the grand prize (or 1st place's subject choice.) by the great `Doubtful-Della made with lots of love!
a pack of stress balls (emoticons) from Community Relations
Surprise gift (package) from =JacquiJax


2nd Place:
A 1 month Subscription by the amazing and fun *meppol
A pack of dA buttons (emoticons) from Community Relations
Surprise gift (package) from =JacquiJax


3rd Place:
A pack of dA stickers from Community Relations
Surprise gift (package) from =JacquiJax


Features for the top 3 winners by:


If you can donate prizes just note me, pls!






Thanks to ~Miharu-Marshmallow and `FaMz for all the help and great ideas!
Thanks to *Basistka and ^Helewidis for all the inspiration