You might have seen some more of artist Eric Johnson’s GORGEOUS work as he won Ashton’s Journey Challenge with an ENTIRELY different piece. This one however was made special for us. This beautiful watercolour painting titled “Ochre and Umber” can be yours! Donate $10.10 or multiples thereof until 1:00 PM PST for your chance to win!
I’m not sure if it came off on camera just how difficult a job it was to judge these entries. We couldn’t even give a shortlist to Ashton everything was just too good. I’m going to use not a lot of words and just let you see the insane quality of this art.
The rest are pictured below the break
We’ve got a donation drive running that I think any art fan will appreciate. Chris Avellone has sent us an awesome Desert Bus doodle, but if that wasn’t enough he will also do a CUSTOM DOODLE just for you! Until 11:15 donate $7.55 or multiples thereof for your chance to win!
Tally Heilke PetterDriving since: 2012
Points: 1
Crashes: 3
When not at Desert Bus, she can be found:
Crafting, crafting, and wishing I was crafting! By day I work at a non-profit and a retail consulting company, and by night I make my own clothing, write craft tutorials, take on crafting commissions, make hordes of plushies and also organize events, from Desert Bus to convention craft panels. I post my craft stuff on tallystreasury.com. I own 20-some pairs of scissors, 2 cat dresses and a LOT of fabric.
I also play D&D, board games and – when I can squeeze in the time – video/computer games. Sometimes I stream Minecraft, where I delight in creating totally impractical glass structures and ferrying rabbits to my island.
Rules I live by: Scissors are the best tool ever. Glitter is evil. Sunshine makes everything better (wine helps too). Puns. Are. Fabulous.
Special Skills:
I sing (I love singing, I will sing or try to sing just about anything), I dance very awkwardly, I bounce a lot, once up on a time I played the recorder (sopranino, soprano & alto – I still own all 3) quite well but I haven’t practiced in aaaages, I occasionally craft things on screen (cat ears, piggy ears, Bidbot) & I’m always up for talking about crafting (giving advice, brainstorming projects, mocking Pinterest & Craftgawker, ranting against the use of glitter), I make terrible puns, I squee, I try to convince other DB members that we should do dramatic readings of embarrassing excerpts from our high school journals, and I do enjoy being asked to try doing something new and unexpected, or that isn’t an obvious fit my past profile of challenge performances.
She’s a total geek for:
Claim to Fame:
I craft things. So many things. Including a ton of little Creepy Dolls (who consumed me that one time – I guess I’m actually just a ghost now) and Harry the Giant Creepy Doll, who you’ll be seeing on Desert Bus.
And I dated a piece of toast once.
Editor’s Note: I’m sorry… what?!?!
Biggest fear about Driving for DB8:
I fear I will not get a bug splat. I won’t feel fulfilled without that bug splat. And yet, if I /do/ achieve this, I worry that the bug will come to haunt me. Poor bug! His name was Arnold, and he just wanted to travel a bit, see the desert sunset from the road, find out where the bus would take him…
If she was reincarnated as a fruit or vegetable she would want to be:
A kumquat, because it is SO delightfully ridiculous to say.
Favourite Cheese:
Goat Gouda. But actually just all of them.
Doesn’t want you to know she listens to:
Raise Your Glass, Starships, a cappella pop covers
Her “moves like Jagger” are more like:
An intoxicated toddler.
To prepare for driving the bus she is:
Wouldn’t you like to know? *Rubs hands together* Sewing a secret something, obviously. And losing my mind – it’s an annual tradition.
What symbol does your superhero cape have on it?
Scissors, well sharpened and gleaming in the moonlight!
Okay I stayed away from the puns for ONE WHOLE POST. I am happy to announce that we received $7181.46 in donations for this drive! Our winners were, Swashbuckler Jim, Jiopur, and No Donor Account (we love those folks!)
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Kris Straub will be calling into Desert Bus at 11am PST on Tuesday, November 18th.
Kris is a writer, web cartoonist, and a podcaster. He is the creator of chainsawsuit, Checkerboard Nightmare, Starslip, F Cords, and BroodHollow. Kris is the co-founder of the wecomics collectives Blank Label Checkerboard Nightmare Comics and Halfpixel.
In 2006, Kris became the co-writer and co-producer of PvP: The Series, alongside Scott Kurtz. From there, he and Scott went on to create Blamimation, Kris and Scott’s Scott and Kris Show, and Mappy: The Beat.
He also hosts chainsawsuit the podcast with Mikey Neumann. And is the creator of the awesome creepypasta Candle Cove, which if you’re into spooky stuff you should check out.
Have a question for Kris? Leave them in the comments below!
I have been doing my very best to make my posts have puns in the titles, I can’t do that for this one. WE ARE GIVING AWAY THREE PAIRS OF PAX PASSES AT ONCE! For the next hour until 9:20 AM PST you can donate $12.09 or multiples thereof for your chance to win! We will draw THREE WINNERS who will each receive a pair of PAX passes to the show of their choice in 2015.
Quick quick quick! Donate a multiple of $10.08 in the next 20 minutes for a chance to win some truly gorgeous old-fashioned Desert Bus logos drawn on authentic 100-year-old paper! These logos are signed by the staff and volunteers of Desert Bus and are a unique and memorable souvenir.
Oh, man, did we have fun on tonight’s shift. Yes we did.
While we didn’t do anything really specific, we gave away some outrageously good prizes and just generally had tons of fun!
We spun a chair around. We got the idea to put a wig on Anglerfish Kathleen and then this happened:
And a lot of dance parties. So many dance parties. This is Desert Bus, and we dance dance dance and we dance dance dance.
Cam wrote an MSDS for us, which you can find HERE. It’s hysterical!
