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Welcome! Are you a someone who likes the idea of things that remain yet change, having something solid and set that moves on constantly? Do you like the passing of time? Do you like to pass your time with art?

Well, you'd better, since you're here.

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This is a monthly contest about the months.
I want your artistic interpretation about the current month

January

be it writing (on their separate wikis please), visual art, music or anything you can imagine. Be creative, and remember, most of the stuff you do on Elftown is actually art. For example, role-playing is a form of art.

Deadline is always the end of the month in question.

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Rules, we gotsa have rules!
1. I am the over-lord of this particular wiki here. So what I say, goes. On the positive side, I'm Finnish, so I don't talk much! :P
2. Remember the uploading art rules. And just be nice in general. Unless rudeness is what you are after in your work... O_o
3. I'm not fust about nudity or gory stuff or anything, so run rampant.

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Thumbnails
~Visual Artists:
I want a small max 150 x 150 pixel sized thumbnail that is a piece of the artwork. Not a clickable ET-thumbnail but the sort you see in professional art-pages. Under it I want the link to your artwork (uploaded to ET or anywhere - as long as it works - I hate broken links!) that is to be clicked in order to view the full thing.

~Literary Artists:
I want a link to your writing (a wiki-link or any other where it is and where it will stay - I hate broken links!) and hopefully an except from the story/poem/script/whatever it is, max 2 lines in the page (about 4-5 lines in the edit-form). I'll let you do the choosing, so I won't enforce it.

~Something else Artists:
A link to your work and a description of what it is if you wish. If it is a Flash-thing, a thumbnail of a screenshot will be welcome.

Now the reason for thumbnailing like this is a silly one: it's more exciting this way! Sides, we avoid the annoying long load of this page and it's fairer for those entries that can't be entered into Elftown and need to be link-clicked anyway. So everybody gets a tiny spotlight for their entry in here - even the writings do (I want samples, short passages) - and then visitors can just click the links to the ones they find interesting, or click all of them and see their computer die with shame. So the thumbnail will be your advertisement for your entry.

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Unclear? Good. Ask me questions, and I shall tell you no lies!

Suggestion of the moment:
If you find one month too short a time for your exceptionally excellent piece, then think ahead. Start your submission ahead of time and submit it by the appropriate month. Or if you miss the deadline, then keep working over the year and submit it the next time around we get to that month.

Thus endeth this long ramble by your local [iippo].
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Past Months:
TMMC - Nov05 - Winner: [Linderel] - SiP - November
TMMC - Dec05 - Judging

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Related wikis
The Four Seasons - An on-going photography contest
What if... - *cough* O_O;;; Just go there... :P

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Dividers by [Lerune].




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2005-10-26 [RoyDante]: lol.. go go :)

2005-10-26 [Aradon Templar]: Your rambles tend to be unpredictable, iippo. It's most definately a good thing, and makes long narratives interesting. Oh, and I may be participating, if Terragen 2 comes in. But not for November, I don't think. Maybe January.

2005-10-27 [iippo]: Goodness. And suggestions are mostly welcome.

2005-10-27 [Aradon Templar]: Remove the under construction bracket up at the top? People might not try to enter, yet.

2005-10-27 [iippo]: xD fair enough.

2005-10-27 [Aradon Templar]: *lubs pages made by teh iippo* They get the point across in a slightly round-about ish manner, but short and humorous. With unexpected phrasings, such as "Unclear? Good" :D

2005-10-28 [Mom]: Hmmm...Looks most interesting.*Rubs chin*

2005-11-03 [iippo]: Bwee, so many entries. So now's the time to become a thumbnail-bastard... I want those partial thumbnails that you see in professional art pages. If anyone has objection on me thumbnailing their piece, then feel free to do that yourself, but I'm going to use the three first entries as examplary ones for now. And make it clearer on the actual page itself.

2005-11-03 [Lerune]: I think the thumbnails help to make the page look neater, it cuts down on loading time, and people can always click on the image to see it in more detail, so don't fret. I can't see why anyone would object to thumbnails. *wishes large contests would always do thumbnails*

2005-11-03 [Skydancer]: I absolutely agree, it makes for a much neater and more pleasing presentation.

2005-11-11 [Stephen]: I third that. It helps to reduce loading time, and gives the contest a more perfessional feel.

2005-11-25 [Skydancer]: {Is waiting on December to get here.. :) }

2005-11-25 [iippo]: Hehehe. I'm dreading the end of November: means I need to get judging. >.O

2005-11-30 [O'saku]: Where do you enter written stories?

2005-11-30 [Aradon Templar]: Put them on a separate wiki, then place a link to them here, with a two-line sample. Kind of like how Entry 9 was done.

2005-12-01 [duckofdoom]: I must say entry 9 rocks. lol. : )

2005-12-01 [iippo]: DECEMBER NOW!

2005-12-01 [Mom]: Beautiful Banner [Lerune] =}

2005-12-01 [Skydancer]: Lerune {Banner Queen} {grin} absolutely fabulous stuff

2005-12-01 [Skydancer]: How many entries per person?

2005-12-01 [Lerune]: I am loving Photoshop -- I keep making all kinds of little things. =oP I hope [iippo] likes it. =o) I could make dividers that match...

2005-12-02 [iippo]: Brilliant work yet again :) And I'd justy die if you made dividers that match... :) // As many entries as you want, Skydancer, I'm not fust.

2005-12-02 [Mom]: Gorgeous entries [Skydancer]...=}

2005-12-02 [Skydancer]: thank you.. I tend to get a little carried away when I start shooting for a set. chuckle..

2005-12-02 [Lerune]: I'll get on making some dividers today. ^^

2005-12-02 [spincrus]: [Skydancer] strikes again! I need to top his entries though.

2005-12-02 [Lerune]: How do the dividers look? Should they be thinner? It is no problem to make them thinner if need be...I am wondering if they are too tall...

2005-12-02 [Mom]: OOO...pretty. I think abit thinner but it's not my wiki. =D

2005-12-02 [Lerune]: I agree. =oP I made thinner ones. =oP [iippo] can see the previous version to decide which she likes best. =o)

2005-12-02 [Mom]: Much better...damn you're good. =}

2005-12-02 [Lerune]: No way. =oP It is really, really easy. ;o) I have found some really pretty, swirly brushes for download and I have been able to make some really soft, billowy designs. Thing is, after a while, all my banners will start looking the same. =oP I'll have to come up with another design to work on. =oP

2005-12-02 [Charybdis]: Oooh! *loves the dividers* Any chance of older ones being retired to Elftown Graphics? ;) Or are they meant solely for this page (which is perfectly understandable)?

2005-12-03 [Lerune]: Oh, I could add them to Elftown graphics, I suppose. You can use any of the ones that I made if you like -- I'd actually be flattered if you did. =o)

2005-12-04 [iippo]: Gorgeous work *hugs Lerune*

2005-12-05 [Lerune]: ^_^ I am so glad you like them! *hugs back*

2005-12-12 [Jitter]: Thanks for making me a thumbnail [iippo] ;) *huggles*

2005-12-20 [Elmiira]: And so I have entered. :)

2005-12-20 [iippo]: There's a problem with the link [Elmiira]... O_o

2005-12-20 [Elmiira]: now it should work

2005-12-29 [Jitter]: [madmal] you need a thumbnail!

2005-12-30 [.|| Edd ||.]: do i send my entry to [iippo] - im confused

2005-12-31 [Linn Scarlett]: you know, i saw a chance to post something snowy and viking like :p but december is all but over and i havent started yet X_X

2006-01-01 [iippo]: Well there's snow and stuff in January as well...

2006-01-01 [nokaredes]: Even February and March in some places...

2006-01-01 [Lerune]: Hmmmmm...what do you want on a January banner? If you'll give me an idea, I'll whip up a banner and some matching dividers. ;o) I have been thinking on it ever since I made the December one. =oP 

2006-01-01 [iippo]: How about a white and grey colour-scheme? As it is the middle of the winter for most. *hates january*

2006-01-01 [iippo]: Winner of TMMC - Nov05: [Linderel] with the poem SiP - November! Congratulations!

2006-01-01 [Lerune]: I hate January as well. =o( January always makes me a little sad. I'll see what I can come up with. =o)

2006-01-01 [iippo]: Excellent work. :)

2006-01-01 [Lerune]: I am glad you like. I always feel like the dividers are too fat, though...if you want me to make them just a tad thinner, it isn't a problem. :D

2006-01-01 [iippo]: They're not fat. >.O

2006-01-01 [Lerune]: Okay then. =oP I can't wait until February, I have an idea for it, and March will be very easy. As long as you don't get tired of my banners. ;o)

2006-01-01 [iippo]: No worries there. :)

2006-01-01 [Linn Scarlett]: I *love* januari! It's the month-of-cuddling-up-with-bf-because-its-effing-cold

2006-01-01 [Jitter]: In 11th January I will be with [Rochala] for two years ^_^ I'll probably do something on it!

2006-01-01 [iippo]: Good plan Jitter! Make it personal.

2006-01-01 [Jitter]: Thankies [iippo]!

2006-01-01 [Linn Scarlett]: i was one year with [zepher] dec 17th ^_^

2006-01-01 [Jitter]: Oh congratulations!

2006-01-01 [Linderel]: Whoaa, this boggles my mind. Thanks. Now, something for January...humm...

2006-01-01 [Linn Scarlett]: thanks *hands out cookies*

2006-01-02 [StonedPoet]: Where do you send the thingys you want to enter?

2006-01-02 [.|| Edd ||.]: i think you send them in a note to [iippo] - thats what i did n it worked :)

2006-01-02 [iippo]: You can also edit straight to the page if you don't trust that I won't horribly mutilate your entry by touching them... <.<

2006-01-13 [Skydancer]: Hmm. no entries yet.. wow.. that is surprising.

2006-01-13 [Linn Scarlett]: you know... i dont know anything to draw X_X

2006-01-13 [Skydancer]: It is a bit of a difficult theme in someways. In most places I have lived, January is sort of a greyish blank of a month.

2006-01-13 [iippo]: It's the middle of winter, people should get something out of that... o.O

2006-01-13 [Sunrose]: [iippo]: it is where you live, but not everywhere :P

2006-01-13 [iippo]: Heh, fair play. ^_^;;; How about... horrible post-holiday depression?

2006-01-13 [Sunrose]: If you have any holidays this time of year :p

2006-01-13 [iippo]: Well how horribly depressing would it be not to have? X_x :P

2006-01-13 [Sunrose]: I think holidays cause more stress than normal days :p

2006-01-13 [Jitter]: I think I'll do mine after Monday. And hopefully find a way to upload it here before the month ends :p

2006-01-13 [iippo]: I think Monday is a good word to describe January. :P *isn not a friend of the cold months*

2006-01-13 [Jitter]: /me on the contrary loves winter

2006-01-13 [Linn Scarlett]: *grumbles* if i lived in norway i could submit barbarians all the year round (its always cold there anyways X_X) and i havent seen a snowflake all freakin winter here (netherlands) it kinda sucks >_< the main things here in january is: COLD WINDY and of course RAIN lots and lots of RAIN

2006-01-13 [Skydancer]: well, how about a sodden, dripping hulk of a man with red eyes and a really big axe

2006-01-13 [Linn Scarlett]: ...been there done that ... his name is Beowulf X_X *chuckles* he looked like a drowned kitten in that drawing :p twas kinda cute

2006-02-12 [gone from elftown. deleted.]: when is someone gonna judge december?

2006-02-12 [iippo]: Sorry, everything's been so... hectic.

2006-02-13 [Stephen]: It's not January anymore...

2006-02-13 [gone from elftown. deleted.]: Yes.. I'd say its... February now? :P

2006-02-13 [Stephen]: Nearly halfway through the month.

2006-02-13 [nokaredes]: But February is so short! :P

2006-02-13 [iippo]: I'm so sorry about neglegting this wiki, but as some might know, the Role-play tournment has now stopped accepting entries and starting judging, so that (and real life work) has been keeping me a bit busy.

2006-02-14 [Linn Scarlett]: omg indeed X_X

2006-06-11 [gone from elftown. deleted.]: Still nothing happened... and it's like.. June..

2006-06-11 [iippo]: I'm sorry, this died indeed didn't it :( I'll go for a revival at some point.

2006-06-11 [Stephen]: It's hard to keep something like this active all the time, I know from experience.

2006-06-11 [gone from elftown. deleted.]: Yeah... I know... It's a shame though..

2006-06-12 [.|| Edd ||.]: hmm i forgot about this contest... how long does the judging usually take?

2006-06-12 [iippo]: Holy crap I didn't do the December judging! X_X *dies a very painful shameful death*

2006-06-12 [gone from elftown. deleted.]: Hahaha well.. better late then never right?

2006-06-13 [Kiddalee]: *throws a rose at [iippo]*

2006-06-14 [iippo]: *stem of rose hits a critical point and revives iippo* Hokae, judging now... X_x

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