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Legionnaire The Leading Man from Australia Since: Oct, 2010
The Leading Man
#1: Mar 20th 2011 at 11:14:05 PM

...using a complete joke we made.

Basically, we're sitting in IPT and given an hour to churn out a poster for the school's Harmony Week "design-a-poster" competition. So, after booting out the other members in our group for not pulling their head in and after I finally drag myself away from here, we decide just to make a complete joke poster and end up making this piece of rubbish. Done for the day, we print it off and head home.

Fast-forward to today, when they announce the winners. I'm standing there and I think to myself "wouldn't it be funny if we won?" Then my partner walks up there and takes first prize. Our complete joke of a poster, universally-agreed upon by everyone we talked to after to be crap, was not only taken seriously by our teacher and submitted, but it wins. This tells me one (or all) of three things likely happened: there were either very few posters submitted, those posters submitted were even worse than ours, or the person marking it had very poor eyesight.

We spent the day rolling on the ground laughing. But hey, I got lunch out of it.

Against all tyrants.
Deathonabun Bunny from the bedroom Since: Jan, 2001
Bunny
#2: Mar 20th 2011 at 11:19:48 PM

I think there's a very fine line between "Very Obviously Crappy" and "True Art", and you may have just crossed it.

But seriously, I think it looks pretty good. It's simple, but nice to look at. It gives off a very charming "Homemade Arts and Crafts" look.

edited 20th Mar '11 11:21:00 PM by Deathonabun

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dontcallmewave Brony? Moi? surely you jest! from My home Since: Nov, 2013
Brony? Moi? surely you jest!
#3: Mar 20th 2011 at 11:23:19 PM

I think you underestimate yourself. It looks very good.

edited 20th Mar '11 11:23:59 PM by dontcallmewave

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merton defiance from my heart to yours. Since: May, 2009
defiance
newtonthenewt Since: Jul, 2009
#5: Mar 20th 2011 at 11:31:57 PM

WTH is IPT?

(SRSMD)

edited 20th Mar '11 11:32:25 PM by newtonthenewt

She's playing with fire! He's not ready for Nibbly Pig!
Legionnaire The Leading Man from Australia Since: Oct, 2010
The Leading Man
#6: Mar 20th 2011 at 11:34:29 PM

Information & Processing Technology.

Not sure why we spent that lesson doing Photoshop work, but it beats doing The Seven Information Processes any day of the week.

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Gibsgalore Stylin' from Sydney, Australia Since: Mar, 2011
Stylin'
#7: Mar 20th 2011 at 11:34:54 PM

Well, that moment was certainly aweful, pun entirely intended. The poster, speaks for itself.

@newtonthenewt IPT stands for "Information Processes and Technology" - it's like database systems and such. We finished our work so we just whipped this up.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ..muppet.
Legionnaire The Leading Man from Australia Since: Oct, 2010
The Leading Man
#9: Mar 21st 2011 at 12:58:27 AM

We finished our work so we just whipped this up.

Your memory is shot. The poster was the sole purpose of the entire lesson, for everyone.

For some reason.

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Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#10: Mar 21st 2011 at 1:06:32 AM

Random clip art of hands shaking FTW.

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AngryScientist Nostalgia from Russia with Love Since: Nov, 2009
Nostalgia
#11: Mar 21st 2011 at 1:09:00 AM

The best things are always accidental.

Like the time I got an A for an essay I did 20 minutes before it was due.

Legionnaire The Leading Man from Australia Since: Oct, 2010
The Leading Man
#12: Mar 21st 2011 at 1:20:19 AM

[up][up] You see the slightly fuzzy sleeve of the guy reaching down from the top edge of the poster? That wasn't there in the original picture, so we just edited it in.

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Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#13: Mar 22nd 2011 at 10:30:26 AM

True fact. The painting my professors and fellow students liked best last semester was when I realized I needed a 4 foot one direction piece as part of class requirements, had 2 weeks left in the semester, and simply threw something together.

Moral of the story? Sometimes the shittiest ideas are way more awesome than you realize because you arent wasting time overanalyzing or judging yourself.

(incidentally, speaking as an arts major, I think that poster is goddamn awesome looking)

edited 22nd Mar '11 10:33:02 AM by Midgetsnowman

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