Cam’s Dapper Shift ended with an AMAZING donation total of $65,000; after 24 hours of Desert Bus 7, we have surpassed where we were at this time last year. Needless to say we are VERY pleased.

It’s been an awesome shift of art contests, auctions, and challenges. We had the live auctions for the Warhammer 40k custom painted fantasy army and a signed Normandy model from Mass Effect. We still have some great silent auctions running, so make sure you get a donor account to bid while you still can!

Andrew has been hard at work taking amazing photos, which you can go see at our Flickr photo stream. And viewer CantWearHats made us some awesome James Bond posters!

We ALMOST triggered an achievement for “Bid for Power” for the signed Normandy model, but alas we needed just one more cent to push us over $5000. But in consolation, we did put a whole lot of hats on Paul, we got a visit from Dale and his deep, deep voice, Takahata is visiting (ask him about his DragonBall Z thingy!) and we had the resurgence of the mysterious 4:3 aspect ratio.

So we continue to go, round and round, heading into the prime time hours of Day 2 of DB007. I’ve been awake since 4:30 and unexpected sounds are starting to make me twitch, so I am handing things over to Mike and going home to SLEEP. Ta!

It was a tight competition, but the winner of Jer’s maniacal competition is Artsygrrl!

We also have two awesome runners-up under the cut!

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Another driver, another few hours, and another rad set of silent auctions counting down!

The following auctions are ending in about 3 hours, at 1pm:

These amazing Assassin’s Creed mugs!

 Hipster Boyfriend Super Mario Vine Scarf!

The Defense Grid Pack!

And these auctions will be ending at 7pm:

Magic Moxen pins!

An uncut sheet of Joe Vollan Card Kingdom playing cards!

Mother 2 Starman Jr Figurine!

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So exciting!

At the start of his shift, Cam challenged viewers to submit art of someone who inspires them, for the sweet sweet prize of a signed Oatmeal poster. We had lots of great entries–enough that the shortlist was actually pretty long–but the winner is Jesse Juniper for their drawing of Immanuel Kant! Congratulations!

It was a reeeaaalllly tough decision, and honourable mentions go to Aurelia Keating for her drawing of her dad (left) and Featherweight for the drawing of Jim Henson (right)

The rest of the shortlist entries are below the cut!

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First of all, we’re running a giveaway for the next hour, until 8am: donate increments of $20 for a chance to win this sweet Exiled foil cards.

But also: Desert Bus viewer Will was kind enough to make these absolutely AMAZING DB007 James Bond posters. My favourite is Graham’s Qwoptum of Solace; what do you guys think? Thank you so much, Will!

Our viewers are rad.

Mia here, fresh off 4 hours of sleep for my shift. Your humble redheaded blogger snapped awake to find her cat sitting right beside her face and purring like a huge ball of pudgy kitty fluff. It was tough to get out of bed, but here I am. It is EARLY.

I searched the gif database for “early” and this happened.

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Anyway!! The amazing Warhammer 40k custom-painted fantasy army live auction will begin at 7am.

Cam’s Inspiration Challenge runs until the end of his shift at 10; send us original art of someone who inspires you to [email protected], for a chance to win a signed Oatmeal Edison’s Nightmare poster.

Silent Auctions Galore!

We have an outrageous amount of silent auctions going for the next few hours. The following three are running until 10 am:

World 1-1 Mario Mugs

Needle Felted Journey Characters

Litany Against Fear Calligraphy

And these auctions will end at 2pm (so keep an eye out and make sure you aren’t outbid!):

Assassin’s Creed Mug Set

Super Mario Vine Scarf

Defense Grid Pack

So now I’m off downstairs to hang out for a while. Cheerio!

Cam’s ongoing inspiration art challenge ends at 10am (the end of his shift!). For a chance to win this super sweet signed “Edison’s Nightmare” poster from the Oatmeal send a picture of your inspiration to [email protected].

To celebrate Cam’s Dapper outfit we had a best dressed contest! Above you can see the winner Jack Daly, or you can click here and see all the entries!

Andy! Everybody loves Andy!

Oh gods, what did we do to Pika?

Lots more photos on the Flickr stream!

Cam is known for his dapper driving clothing, and so we challenged the viewers to show off their best duds!

The winner is Jack Daly, and he will get a Desert Bus 6 poster!

Runner up was Geoff Goehle!

And here are the rest of the entries! (more…)

Check out these super rad images from SchmoopyTheSpy! If you have any fan art, music, or anything else you want to send out please email  it to [email protected].

You might not be aware but our awesome photographer Andrew Ferguson has been documenting Desert Bus and uploading the photos to our Flickr stream! Relive the magic! Or see it again for the first time. Here are some of our favourites so far.

Plus there are lots more! Check them out!