Okay, these clothes are total K-Pop and look AMAZING. You may have seen Tally sporting some of the leggings they offer throughout the run. Now with this donation drive you can take a gander at their shop with a $100.00 Giftcard to Nuvango.
All you need to do is donate $6.42 or multiples thereof until 5:15 PM PST for your chance to win!
Ken “Value Added” Steacy will be joining us at the Lunar Module Mk. 3 on Monday, November 14th at 6:00pm.
Known around Desert Bus as Ken “Value Added” Steacy thanks to his legacy of creating some of the most exciting live auctions we’ve seen, Ken decided at age eleven to become a professional comic book writer/artist, a dream he realized in 1974. Since then, he has chronicled the exploits of Spider-Man, Harry Potter, and the Star Wars gang, to name but a few. In addition to creating his own intellectual property, he has collaborated with Harlan Ellison, Dean Motter, and Douglas Coupland. The recipient of an Eisner and an Inkpot award, Ken was inducted into the Joe Shuster Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, a lifetime achievement award honouring Canadian comic book creators for their contributions to the industry. Alongside his wonderful wife, graphic novelist Joan Steacy, Ken is currently teaching Comics & Graphic Novels in a program they created at Camosun College here in Victoria.
Have a question for Ken Steacy? Leave it in the comments below.
Coming this week to a Desert Bus near you, the hit blockbuster Ash Cubed! Here’s the problem, we don’t have a promotional poster! This is where you will all come in.
Until 5:30 PM PST Ash wants you to try your hand at creating a movie poster of Ash Cubed, starring Ashley, Ashton and Ash. Please send your entries to contest@desertbus.org with the subject line, “Ash Movie Poster” or “Ash Cubed”. The subject can be whatever you want but should feature all three of our protagonists.
The prize for this, in a very cinematic fashion, is this Batman Props lot. I can’t recommend trying to use the Grapnel launcher, but it’s going to definitely be a conversation starter.
LOOK AT THESE PUPS!
Ashley asked you to send these two on a journey through your art, and boy did you deliver. It was tough to decide on a singular adventure for them, but in the end it came down to one winner!
A congratulations to our winner, Temrin!
We have so many amazing entries, you’d be doing yourselves a disservice if you didn’t check out the rest below the break!
Ash brought her makeup bag, Kathleen is at the co-pilot reigns, it’s time to get dark.
In similar fashion to the Bus King pageant we are having a donation drive with a bit of artistic flair.
Vote with your donations to see who gets the Goth Makeup treatment from our crew!
ALL donations will enter you for a chance to win the delightful D6 Cat Cube!
Your votes can go as follows!
- Andy – $5.01
- Cullen – $5.02
- Johnny – $5.03
- Sarah – $5.04
- Emily – $5.05
- Tally – $5.06
- Kathleen – $5.07
- Liz – $5.08
This drive will run until 3:30 PM PST!
Crusaders of the Lost Idols, the award-winning web/Steam/mobile clicker idle game of heroic awesomeness, has partnered with Desert Bus for Hope for a special DLC offer!
Make a donation of $10 or more and you’ll receive an exclusive DLC code to unlock the “Graham the Driver” character for Crusaders of the Lost Idols! Not available anywhere else! How cool are you gonna feel laying the smackdown on your opponents as Graham in Desert Bus garb?
WE’RE LIVE LIVE LIVE with another DONATION DRIVE!
Until 2pm today, donate whole number multiples of $7.77 to be entered to win a Limited Edition Desert Bus Flame Boxelder Bug Box.
This box was carved from a hunk of recently dried flame boxelder which was further stabilized with polyester resin. It is held together with hefty brass over steel hinge and neodymium magnet clasp. Hand finished using traditional methods of sanding with ever finer grains and layers of tung oil before a final buff of natural bees wax was applied, this box is built to age beautifully.
The Adventures of Jade and Buster Return!!
You know them, you love them, and they’re BACK! Those fine, fun-loving dogs Jade and Buster have returned after starring in an art contest last year, and we want you to show us what they’ve been up to since then!
Ashley has provided these up-to-date photos of Desert Bus’s favourite canine duo! Send us your best artwork of Jade & Buster and their exciting adventures!
Get your submissions in to contests@desertbus.org by 3:00pm Pacific!
Use the subject line “Jade & Buster Adventures”
The winning entry will receive a totally sweet FanGamer Desert Bus for Hope X T-shirt!
We welcome back The Six Mile Pub as a sponsor for Desert Bus 10.
The Six Mile Pub has been a Victoria institution for over a century. Holding the title of British Columbia’s oldest pub, Six Mile has endeavored to use as many locally sourced ingredients in order to bring the flavor of Victoria to bear.
Six Mile has provided us with great food over the past years and kept us sane on clean-up day with a delicious pancake breakfast – thank you for your continued support of Desert Bus for Hope.
Cam asked you viewers to share with us your vision of the Future of Humanity, and as usual you blew us away! We received loads of entries in the form of poems, literature, music, art, and more!!
Our winning entry was this masterpiece by antoinedi_art!
Check out our other finalists here! First, the image entries:
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- KV1NN4
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- Lauran and James
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- damn_i_am_pretty
A couple song/music finalists:
June – “Open the Pod Bay Doors”
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Elah806 “How We Became”
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And some text finalists below the cut:
C St George
A trolley speeds along a track, to which 6 people have been tied. On another fork in the track is a single man. The track, which is made of tiny robots, reconfigures itself in an instant, freeing the men and allowing the trolley to pass safely. The track-robots then apprehend the criminals responsible for tying the men to the tracks, and in a few short weeks rehabilitate them.
sarcasticKatt
Never looking back but never forgetting.
Going ever forward,
To places none had dreamed.
“Give thanks to the past, but look ahead” are the watchwords.
You, yes you, are the hope.
Up to the redshifting stars,
Never alone again, but so far apart.
Going there was hard, but not impossible.
To one end to another, finding new beginnings.
Let it not discourage you, to find the empty places.
You fill it with hope.
Down to our own world,
Never empty now that we found each other.
Going away, but always returning
To a place we now call home.
Run, dance, sing out loud
Around the spirals of civilization we’re heard
And forever echo in time.
Desert not the dreams you have now
You only have to look ahead.
Now read the first word of each line for an inspiring message.
“Jumper” by Othelbark
Zaffrom took a deep breath of the fresh Venusian air as she opened the eyes of her new physical vessel. ‘Here I go again.’ She thought to herself as she stepped forward pulling her head off the rail and another humanoid vessel moved up to take her place.
She briefly glanced at the trees that towered around her before heading for the launch zone that took up most of the small clearing. Zaffrom checked that the new iteration had been properly applied before clambering into the capsule. As soon as the hatch was locked she jumped into orbit.
She took a moment to adsorb the view with her perfectly engineered eyes. On the dark side of the planet the emerald-green forests that covered most of the surface transitioned from total darkness in the west to glowing with a soft white light in the east. The sliver of lit surface on the western side that Zaffrom could see from the capsule was a specific hue of green that she recognised as the signature of a closed canopy. In stark contrast to that bioengineered system perfectly timed to simulate an earth day in the forest cities and wilds of Venus-Middle the hexagonal city of Venus-North was a patchwork of light and dark zones. The perfectly straight borders between emerald-green forests and the silver-grey spires holding testament to the days when the (then experimental) anarchy of Venus-Middle and Venus-South still needed protection. Zaffrom’s eyes began to flicker between detecting different wavelengths of light in a manner that tricked her consciousness into “seeing” the full width of colours that danced across her view of Venus and the galaxy beyond. She smiled as she jumped out to orbit Earth.
The capsule didn’t shake on the first jump today. ‘This seems to be my lucky day.’ Zaffrom thought to herself as she saw that she had such a clear view of the surface. Only one orbital city blocked her view, it was rare to see less than five. The re-formation of a super-continent was about to begin and Zaffrom wondered whether that might eventually lead to an end for the last few permanent settlements on the surface as she jumped out to Saturn.
Zaffrom felt a slight jolt this time but nothing too worrying. If she used her unnatural zoom she could just make out the two research stations and one hotel that orbited with the the rings. The gas-giant and its rings never seemed to lose its power over her. As she looked upon them once again she felt a magnificent sense of awe, wonder, and insignificance wash over her. Zaffrom paused to pay attention to her own mind as she once again forged meaning out of atoms before jumping to the way-station.
The capsule shuddered violently but suffered little damage. From here the sun was just another star. Zaffrom took just one more moment to take in the enormity of the galaxy before jumping to Proxima Centauri.
Zaffrom saw a mere glimpse of the star before the capsule tore itself apart.
For the first time Zaffrom awoke in the servers of Proxima Station.
“The capsule failed 180 milliseconds after that last jump. An improvement of nearly 300 milliseconds.” She reported to the Proxima team with an almost manic grin on her face. “I’m Zaffrom, it’s good to meet you all finally. Let’s get the next one to survive the return trip.”