"The Journey Begins" Challenge Entry
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Things to know before reading the “poetic” backstory (backstory to the backstory):
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"Space X" is a real privately operated commercial space exploration company; Point Magoo is a satellite launch facility in Southern California. Boxx is a computer manufacturer sponsoring this CG Society Challenge (of course); Boxx makes an ultra-highend line of computers called Apexxes. Additional sponsors are the makers of the design tools: Maya, Z Brush, and Painter.
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Meant to be read in Seussian-like anapestic tetrameter verse (or as close as possible given I wrote this without adaquate sleep...will update later):
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From the cherry gardens of Kyoto,
to the launching pads of Point Magoo,
one hundred and twenty wise butterflies set off
to see what they could do!
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They watched many Space X launches,
from here to Timbuktu;
on napkins, dried leaves, and blackboards,
outlandish concepts grew!
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Optimistic with their hunches,
a little nutty too,
they joined CG Society,
to see their concepts through!
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Studying design at breakfast,
dreaming of Apexxes at lunch,
they searched the world for sponsors:
Z Brush, Maya, Painter
with Boxx, the best of the bunch.
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They were joined by little bees who could
Barb and Bob Woowhoo,
and set off on their journey
to Valbo, Hjo, and Manacapuru.
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"Where do they come from?" people would say.
"I don't know -- but they've come a long way!"
Places you might know:
Brazil France and Sweden,
Örsundsbro Värnamo, Fitou Örebro.
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Some say Saint-Cloud, others Chateauroux.
They spread their message joyfully
from Honolulu to Woolloomooloo,
from Nogent Le Retrou to Kalamazoo.
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What do they sound like flying?
Can you say?
Like Talmudic pages turning,
in an old fashioned way.
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What do they say when you hear them?
They say, "I wish,
I wish, I wish, I wish -- I wish I were a kish!
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Tell people you love, you love them
before it is too late.
Set a date to tell them
to set the matter straight!"
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Oh!
This is something new!
I wish I were a kish too!!
I would spread lots of kishes
in Kathmandu and Xanadu
from Aracaçu to Pacaembu.
I would spread many kisses
for me
and also
for
you.
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Congratulate yourselves if you have done
something strange and extravagant and
broken the monotony of a decorous age.
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-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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! :: C R E D I T S :: !
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Very briefly...will write more after catching up on sleep...roughly in the order of your posts to this thread:
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Efcharisto! Antonis Papantoniou
Danke schön Torsten Thuenen!
Khawp khun! Kanokporn Mahaek!
Thanks Andrew Kinabrew!
Thanks Selina Moore!
Gracias Mario Antonini!
Tack så mycket Gunie Elam!
Thank you Adrienne Donatelli! (MT Cup whoowhoo!)
Merci Michel Cavro!
Danke schön Matt Benya!
Lee Niven, thanks!
Dank je Nico Strobbe!
Mark David! Thanks mate!
Thanks Jacques Pena!
Hey Michael Burburan thanks mate!
Tesekkür ederim, Ozan Çivit!
Muchas Gracias Jorge Lescale!
Thanks Matt Jones!
Takk Mathias!
Thanks Alvin!
Terima kasih banyak-banyak, Vincent Wan!
Thanks Grant Warwick!
Merci, Mamnoon! Mohammad Coochaki!
Tack så mycket Mona Eriksson!
Thanks John Shakespeare!
Merci Thierry Schiel!
Takk Per Trystad!
Dank je Job v Linden vd Heuvell!
Hey Alex Voznesenski, thanks mate!
Muchas gracias Richard Suarez!
Thanks Nathan S (or NDS)!
Thanks Glenn Dean!
Merci Derferic!
Gracias Omar Carias!
Efcharisto! Dimitris Liatsos!
Hey Paul Riess, thanks mate!
Thanks Debbie Overstreet!
Grazie Marco Fantechi!
Gracias Giovanni Castro!
Doh je! Kreuz Chang!
Merci Olivier Ponsonnet!
Obrigado Carlos Bernardo Junior!
Dakujem ti Juraj Molcak!
Doh je! Qian Jin!
Mnogo blagodarya Sergio Ghazarian!
Gracias Omar Carias!
Hey thanks James H. Genius!
Thanks Mike Moir!
Gracias Fernando Aracena!
Thanks Jack zhang!
Merci, Mamnoon! Ali Jalali!
Thanks Eric Maslowski!
Sayol Timur Kiryashov!
Thanks Ed Parkinson!
Thanks to you and your hot fairy Mauro Bonelli!
Merci Laurent Antoine Lemog!
Multumesc Ioan Dumitrescu!
Tesekkür ederim Berkay Dincman!
Mark Endre Seljan Hungary
Gracias Stéphane Chasseloup!
Hey thanks David Russell!
Tesekkür ederim Soner Yurtseven!
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Thanks to all who participated in this Challenge and enabled the CG Society to thrive as a community of support, learning, and wonder (in addition to being a generous purveyour of BoxxTech goodies!) Nice meeting you all! Such a wonderful supportive creative bunch of artists...it is humbling and breathtaking to have conversed with and learned from you! Have a good summer!