Congratulations to all that entered this most esteemed of Illustrator competitions. I loved each and every one of your entries. To those who didn’t win, you will have the chance to battle again next month in a new challenge. A bigger and better challenge to test your skills and will power to turn off the Xbox and do something productive with your time.

If you have a contest idea contact me and maybe, just maybe your idea won’t totally suck and I’ll put it on my blog.

To Vector-sized Glory! Hizzah Hizzah!

Independent Thought:
For last minute travel option, do not look for cheap airline tickets or a cheap hotel individually. Try to pick something like an all inclusive resorts deal. Thinking about options like to travel by train are not right for this time.

Oh boy, the Vectorama contest heating up. I must say it’s the most inspirational fun time i’ve had in some time. I’ve got a sweet Viking themed video to announce the winner tomorrow. I’m just gonna give you peeps a little more time to break some of the ties. Remember to vote if you haven’t.

In other news, I did not go to SxSW. I stayed at home and had a private dance party with my iTunes hallucinogenic visualizer and then ate the remainder of my M&S biscuits that I brought back from the UK. So, obviously I did not have an awesome time at the Bigg Digg Shindig with Kevin Rose. I thought since I was one of his 12653 pownce fans, we had some kind of special connection. I guess he thought otherwise.

Oh whoops, I think I just accidentally delete this week’s diggnation podcast. Oops. I’m not bitter or anything. That’s a lie. I am bitter and spiteful and jealous of all their fun stories, networking ops, uber parties, and schwag. Why don’t you just cut down more trees and displace entire colonies of squirrels to make more SxSW schwag?

Best not to leave on such a bitter note. Point taken. According to lastfm, I’m really digging Andrew Bird this week. His music is ace. Check him out.

“Snasserson” by Captain Sweatpants”

“Vectorama!!” by Gerlof Van Ek

“Adobe O’s” by Tommy Day.

“Blog Cat” by HyperGraphik Design.

“It Started as a Self-Portrait” by Dennis Bjorn Peterson.

“S-Car-Go” by Composeanalysis.

“Not the Fish” by Swaymedia.

“Ups and Downs” by Devon Ash.

“RAM” by Anie.

“Jerkface” by DarkMotion.

“Piggie” by August

Thanks to the uber illustrator masters who entered their sweet Vectorama. I guess they’re pretty good. But still, take a quick look at my spider/caterpillar design, before you go choosing the winner. I mean this Vector carries a powerful message.

Who do you think should win? Leave a comment below and let me know who you think should win the accolades of the first Mostly Lisa Vectorama champion!

ziiiiiiiiing!

Currently sorting through all the wikkid Vectorama entries listening to MJ’s “History”. It’s actually kind of awesome. He may be one crazy dude, but damn, was he ever funky. “Don’t stop til you get enough.” Does anyone know the “Thriller” dance? That’s something worth putting your time into.

Sorry for the delay in getting the entries up, but I had a wee bit of a late start today and actually had to do some work. Lame. And then there was the “flaming hot cross bun in toaster” incident. *sucks burnt finger*

I’ve already received some uber design entries for the First Annual Mostly Lisa Illustrator Vectorama Contest. In fact, I’ve almost snorted milk out of my nose because of one of the entries.

But I have to admit, nothing really holds a candle to my 5 legged spider. Oh he’s cunning that one. Well, he really has to be, with only 5 legs to scuttle aboot.

So get you’re act together! Open Illustrator and get your Adobe-on. You have until Sunday, March 9th at midnight (-8 GMT) to get your entries to me:
mostlylisa *at* gmail *dot* com.

Mostly Lisa’s Illustrator Vectorama Entry Rules:

1. You must use Illustrator (obviously)
2. Your design must not scare small children or warp the minds of impressionable youth
3. You must include some kind of text that encapsulates the meaning of your illustration

The Vector-sized glory and a spot on my advertising gold mine of a sidebar could be yours. It’s only a few clicks away.

If the iPhone Software has a roadmap, why can’t it find Canada? We’re like the second biggest country in the world.

Lo-5,

Mostly Lisa

PS. The Green Arrow is Vancouver, where I am. Feel free to send the first Canadian iPhone there. Much Love.

Opera T-shirt provided by Startup Schwag.

Captions for these photo are welcome.

PS. I already thought of “Horny for Opera”

In the last year, I have been on a quest to find an application that will allow me to upload and organize my flickr photos from my desktop. I’ll be honest, I hate the navigation and homepage on Flickr. I just don’t vibe with the work flow. It’s just not instinctive to me and I find myself constantly backtracking and fiddling with tags and sets and clicking on avatars and drop down menus… Uh. Enough!

Today, my quest finally ended when I met: Photonic: Flickr Client for Mac OS X.

Looks nice. Uploading, tagging, setting privacy, and adding photos to sets and groups is easy peasy. You can even view your contacts photos and explore the flickr universe all from the comfort of your desktop. And after playing around with it for several hours, I can find no real fault with it. Also, it appears to run smoothly with Leopard. Yeah! That’s some good news.

I met a squeaking fish at a Dollar store on West Broadway. He had many tales to tell me. Some were somewhat avant garde. We went on a short journey and I learnt many things.

What did you learn from the dollar store fish?

NB. This is possibly the weirdest video I’ve ever made.