A lot of work goes into producing our videos every week, and we always like to give you the opportunity to take a look at our process.
This Loading Time has a slightly different format from others in the past. I hope you enjoy it!
You can comment on the Loading Time in the forums.
Calling all craftsy, artistic and creatively inclined people: the Desert Bus 2010 Craft-Along is here! Desert Bus 2010 starts November 19, 2010, and it’s time to start preparing.
That’s right, in this blog post you’ll find Craft-Along guidelines, contact information and even an instructional video from the Desert Bus cat-girls themselves. Can you handle it?
Here is how you can participate, in three easy steps!
1) Make your craft. Please email [email protected] to let us know what you’re making though. If you have any questions or concerns about what to make, the appropriateness of a particular craft or idea, or anything else you wish to discuss with us, we’d be happy to discuss it with you. We’ll also provide you the address you can send your craft to when it’s done!
2) Ship your craft in recursive packaging. We want to minimize the time we have to spend packaging and shipping prizes, in order to maximize the time we can spend on camera during Desert Bus, entertaining you with silly songs and crazy dances. To this end, we ask that you double wrap your stuff before shipping it to us. For example, put your craft in an unaddressed, unsealed envelope. Then put that envelope into a larger envelope on which you will write our address and your return address. Then ship it. Or, put your craft in a box that has plenty of blank space for us to write on, then wrap the box up in paper and write our address on that. This way, all we have to do is remove the outer layer of packaging, address the inner packaging to the auction winner and ship it. Then we can get right back to the business of making you laugh at our outrageous antics.
3) Once you have shipped your item, go home and send us another email. In this email please include:
Send this email to [email protected]
DEADLINE: Your Craft-Along item must be received by us no later than NOVEMBER 1, 2010 in order to be included in the Craft-Along. We strongly recommend that you mail your item several weeks ahead of time, in case of delays or general post office screw-ups. Stuff happens.
Points of Interest:
The Craft-Along will function a little bit differently this year. All but a few Craft-Along items (selected by intensive review and several committees – which really means selected by the illustrious Rosco P. Jangles IV, possessor of Canard Knowledge) will be displayed in silent online auctions over the course of Desert Bus.
All Craft-Along items, along with all other Desert Bus prizes and auction items, will appear on www.desertbus.org a couple weeks before the start of Desert Bus, for your perusal and to build drooling anticipation.
With Gratitude:
We’d like to say a special thank you to all the wonderful LoadingReadyRun fans and forumites who, entirely of their own volition, began the wonderful Craft-Along tradition last year. You guys are awesome! We absolutely cannot wait to see what amazing arts and crafts you will come up with this year!
That’s everything – now go get crafting!
Tune in at 1:00 PM PST (8 PM GMT) tomorrow, Friday, May 14, for Inside the Moon, your live window into the world of LRR!
On this week’s show, we’ll hear backstage impressions from LRR’s participation in w00tstock, premiere a new Loading Time, run some Q&A, and give you a sneak peek into the next Runners operation!
If you have questions about w00tstock or anything else related to LRR that you’d like to have answered, leave them in a comment on this blog post.
You can watch recordings of past shows on the show page.
Clocking in at four minutes and twenty six seconds, with a history of leaving people crippled with laughter, providing you with nothing but sheer entertainment, it’s…. THIS WEEK’S VIDEO!
As mentioned by Tim in the forum thread for this video, the concept finds its origins among some work we did with our good friend Woody Tondorf while we were in Boston for PAX East. We spent an evening filming with him for a project he was making, and the idea became something we just had to run with. I don’t want to say too much, but I can tell you that the video we were involved with will be online in about 2 weeks. In the meantime, you can catch some of the other videos that Woody’s been making as a part of this project right here. Foursquare Cops gets my:
Cheers!
Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry to Operation: I’m With the Band!
The winner and runners-up have been chosen, and the prize emails have been sent. The results were announced on Inside the Moon earlier today, and here they are for everyone to see:
Congratulations to AGloriousCuppa for winning a Desert Bus, Rejected WiiPlay Games, or How To Talk Like a Pirate t-shirt, and to Mad Madam Mimm and Katie Cook for winning a free button with their next purchase from the LRR Store!
Here are the winning entries, along with some honourable mentions:
