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01 July 2005

Time to start emcee 3 ! Are you ready to get with our Exquisite Corpse for July? Here's how it's going to work this time: if you want to participate, send an email to the address in my profile (I've changed it for this) and I'll send you your 15-pixel strip as soon as it becomes available. (Be sure to send it from an address you check often!) Once you get your strip, you have two days to create your panel and send it to me (though if you finish sooner, so much the better!). If you are late, you may get skipped over. For the next two weeks ('til July 15), we'll continue to add participants and arrange for as many sets as we need to accommodate everyone who wants to play. After July 15, you'll need to wait for the next one to sign up.→[More:]

Here's the page that explains how the panels work. When you send me your full, complete panel, I'll send along your 15- pixel strip to the next person, though I may ask you to send it directly as well, to make up for time zone differences.

I am going to keep track of everything in a txt file, that you can view here. I will try to update this frequently, so people can see where things stand. I also need to know who is willing to do first panels. If you do a first panel, you don't get to begin with a strip, but if you'd like, you can choose to also do the last panel in another set, so that you get a chance play along.

post by: taz at: 05:49 | 38 comments

And, I've already done the first panel of the first set, so if you're itching to start right away... it's ready to go.

posted by taz 01 July | 05:52

Oh joy of joys! I was hoping we were going to roll out a new corpse soon. (That just sounds weird out of context).

posted by Slack-a-gogo 01 July | 08:09

yay! i'm going away this weekend, but want in--an email's on its way--thanks taz!

posted by amberglow 01 July | 08:17

Sounds excellent. I'm in. taz, you rock.

posted by omiewise 01 July | 08:56

Has anyone else been tempted to want these to be a square grid, not just a rectangular string, so that some of us would have to blend in with panels above and/or below as well as the panel to the left?

C'mon! For Emcee Four! Anyone brave enough? ;-)

posted by shane 01 July | 10:49

I'm rave enough (typo intentional!), but I can't even imagine how to try to administrate that. I think it's probably too much for me to handle... But if someone came up with a cool way to do it, I'd kiss it.

posted by taz 01 July | 11:24

Sounds fun, but I will be on vacation starting July 10, so I guess I'll wait for next time. Can't wait to see the results though.

posted by danostuporstar 01 July | 12:25

Aw. There might be time after you get back, though. If you think you want to try it, send me an email then, and we'll see where we are.

posted by taz 01 July | 12:33

Shane - I also thought about the square grid idea. The corners would be an extreme headache and I think they'd have to be a bit more abstract in content to work. I don't think I graphically man enough to actually try it. But, if someone wants to jump into the water I'll be a square-corpse-lemming and follow along.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 01 July | 12:33

Oh, I misread that...it's July 15th to sign up, which means it doesn't really begin until then? Yeah, I could do that if I was placed near the end of the list.

posted by danostuporstar 01 July | 12:51

Wow, the June ones are great! Having seen them though, I think I'd be out my league.

posted by danostuporstar 01 July | 12:56

dano-I was out of my league, but the panels on either side brought mine up to some kind of par, or something. Mixed metaphors and sincere self-deprecation are getting in the way of saying you should try it. You might like it.

posted by omiewise 01 July | 13:00

You should try it. However:

Signups end July 15, but that doesn't mean it doesn't start 'til then. It started today, when I sent my strip to the second player. The third player is now waiting until the second player finishes his/her piece and sends on his/her strip, and so on...

July 15 is just the last-gasp moment that I can see still adding people to the end of unfinished sets. If a ton of people wait until July 15 to sign up, there's no way we can include them all, and finish in time for this July group, so they'll be bumped forward to August.

posted by taz 01 July | 13:28

Count me in though I'm not promising anything I create will be suitable for framing ;)

posted by squeak 01 July | 13:46

KO. I'll sign up for an august bumpin' when it comes 'round the mountain, when it comes.

posted by danostuporstar 01 July | 13:46

I'd be interested in participating in a bantam emcee. Would that be too much on the administrative side?

posted by Feisty 01 July | 13:56

I'm in. I'll drop you an email. :)

posted by PsychoKitty 01 July | 15:14

I'm in.

posted by me3dia 01 July | 15:19

D'oh...apparently I failed reading comprehension this morning...I thought we were starting right away...never mind my note about being unavailable until Tuesday. :)

posted by PsychoKitty 01 July | 15:20

No, no! We're starting right away! We've already started!

Oi! I have to come up with a better way of explaining this, because too many people are misunderstanding...

It's very time-restrictive, because nobody who is up after you can do anything until you've done your piece. Which means you need to do your piece as soon as possible after you get your strip, so the next person can carry on. I set July 15 as the last date for anyone to join up, which means that almost everything will already be done by then, and that some last few stragglers might still find their way in.

But this project is completely linear; nobody can do their bit until the person before them has finished their bit. July 15 has no significance, except for being the last possible gasp for someone to say that they would like to participate. If everyone waited until July 15 to give me their thing, we would have no uberthing.

So everybody: forget about July 15. Just do your thing when I give you your thing.

posted by taz 01 July | 15:41

well i liked your explanation but i just got up a little bit ago.
i'm in but if i hit a busy patch i hope being skipped puts me back in line

posted by ethylene 01 July | 22:43

Feisty, are you going to play? Lots of people did it for the first time last time...

posted by taz 02 July | 02:50

I sent an email, but it bounced.

posted by ITheCosmos 02 July | 08:40

Really? I wonder why?

I've sent an email to the address in your profile. If you'd like me to use another address, just respond to the message I sent with the other address, and we'll try it that way (I'll send you a mail and put you in my contacts list).

posted by taz 02 July | 08:46

Taz,
Email sent. Shields up. Phasers locked.

posted by Feisty 02 July | 13:56

posted by taz 02 July | 13:59

I already fired off an email, can't wait.

posted by invitapriore 03 July | 17:36

ok, who's next
let's crank this puppy out

posted by ethylene 04 July | 20:37

Back in the saddle, e-mail sent, and fingers crossed that there's still time.

posted by safetyfork 06 July | 10:08

ooh, i checked the text file
baited breathe
side note: this looks so much better in mozilla. hmm

posted by ethylene 12 July | 06:11

Hey Taz, I just realized we have some open spots still on some of the projects. Let me know if you want me to do another. :)

posted by PsychoKitty 12 July | 16:27

Oh, cool! I just realized today that set three didn't have a #7 person - not quite sure how I did that. So I will snatch up your very kind offer! I've put you down for that space, PsychoKitty!

posted by taz 12 July | 16:38

Rock on. :) Will you post something on the sidebar when they are all ready for viewing? I can't wait to see what everyone has done, and I'd hate for it to slip under the fold.

posted by PsychoKitty 13 July | 23:40

Yes, definitely. We're almost finished!

posted by taz 14 July | 00:53

I'm getting anxious here....

posted by Slack-a-gogo 14 July | 08:13

Almost, darling.

posted by taz 14 July | 08:19

i want my MCV!
V for viewing

posted by ethylene 15 July | 06:17

Okay, eth. We'll call this one a preemie. I've put it up - only slightly prematurely!

posted by taz 15 July | 06:49

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