Get ready viewers, it’s time for another art challenge!
For this one, Ash has asked that you take a photo of your favourite LRR Crew Member (or Desert Bus volunteer) and give them some makeup via the magic of Photoshop (or any image editor of your choice!)
Send your entries to contest@desertbus.org and use the subject line “Makeup“! If you need some source material/photos of the crew, feel free to browse photos.desertbus.org! You have until 9pm Victoria time to get your entry in!
The winner will receive our Cosmetics of Ice and Fire Prize Pack!
Featuring 3 sets of nail wraps (Cunning, Tentacles, and Nebulae), and four pots of high quality Everything Shadow in shades inspired by George R.R. Martin’s epic series. The powders come in generous portions that may even last you until the next book comes out!
Generously donated by Espionage Cosmetics, a #ForNerdsByNerds company dedicated to making quality, fandom inspired products, because of course you are going to kick butt all day while wearing Venom Lip Serum!
Certainly the biggest change to Desert Bus for Hope this year has been the move to the Lunar Module! More than just a change in scenery, our new venue is a giant leap in the way we broadcast — it’s bigger, it’s brighter, it’s better appointed, and best of all, as Victoria’s preeminent technology space, it’s got everything a live-streaming web charity-thon (like us!) could possibly want for pushing our signal out to all corners of the globe!
VIATeC, the Victoria Advanced Technology Council, has generously provided this broadcast space, so we want to extend a huge thanks to them!
VIATeC serves as the one-stop hub that connects people, knowledge and resources to grow and promote the Greater Victoria technology sector. Fort Tectoria is VIATeC’s latest initiative to support the growth of the tech sector. It provides affordable space to local tech companies that require flexible terms and recognize the value of being close to other entrepreneurs and innovators on a daily basis.
So, huge thanks to VIATec!
Ash Vickers
Driving: Sunday, Nov 16 7pm – 10pm
Driving since: 2014
Points: 0
Crashes: 0
When not at Desert Bus, she can be found:
Lead Artist and Lead Writer for MegaCynics webcomic
Horror movie enthusiast
Crazy pug lady
Special Skills:
uuuhhhhh I can draw pretty pictures? Not sure I could do that while driving the bus though :/
She’s a total geek for:
- Metalocalypse
- Horror Movies
- Pugs
- Final Fantasy 10
- The Riddler
Claim to Fame:
This one time, I drew a picture of the Ghostbusters…
Biggest fear about Driving for DB8:
That I’ll crash the bus more than Matt.
If she was reincarnated as a fruit or vegetable she would want to be:
Grapes… Because that’s where wine comes from. Wine is fantastic.
Favourite Cheese:
Camembert
Doesn’t want you to know she listens to:
Doomstar Requiem soundtrack
Her “moves like Jagger” are more like:
No rhythm wigglin’
To prepare for driving the bus she is:
Stocking up on shame tickets.
What symbol does your superhero cape have on it?
a wine glass
Another Donation Drive is underway! Until the end of Liz’s driving shift — 7pm Victoria time — donate increments of $6.20 for a chance to win an incredible Rainbow Dash embroidered hooded towel!
AND we’ve sweetened the pig: our winner will also get a silica gel packet, a Desert Bus keychain, a Desert Bus d6, and a limited edition CAHzoo from Liz’s Cards Against Humanity event at PAX!
It brought the house down last year, so we’re bringing it out again!
It’s The Newlywed Game!
With Kate back in the emcee’s seat, we’ve got six couples this year, putting their love on the line to see how well they really know each other!
Sounds simple, but if last year is any indicator it’s less fuzzy-wuzzy love-in and more unlicensed carnival knife-throwing act. In other words: get ready for 30 minutes of very carefully-chosen words and hair-raising near-catastrophes as we recreate our own little version of the Cuban Missile Crisis!
Our courageous contestants are:
- James & Ashely
- Graham & Kathleen
- Beej & Heather
- Ian & Cori
- Jer & Tally, and
- Ashton & Kara
The show starts at 5pm local time!
Liz “Dammit Liz” Smith
Driving: Sunday, Nov 16 4pm – 7pm
Driving since: 2014
Points: 0
Crashes: 1
When not at Desert Bus, she can be found:
Being Dammit Liz!
I like to produce geeky events and attend way too many conventions. I enjoy video games that are not Desert Bus. Am I fully enjoying my new position as Event Design Manager at Wizards of the the Coast!
Special Skills:
I have a super secret special sexy dance.
She’s a total geek for:
Star Wars for sure!
Assassin’s Creed
Marvel anything
Claim to Fame:
My super secret sexy dance…I guess.
Biggest fear about Driving for DB8:
I have crashed the bus MULTIPLE times and I haven’t even been an “official” driver. I REALLY hope I don’t crash it this time…oh god…
Editor’s Note: Our official record of official records only credits her with 1 crash thusfar. Has she been cheating on us with another Desert Bus? Where are all these crashes coming from?
If she was reincarnated as a fruit or vegetable she would want to be:
Editor’s Note: No response. Does Dammit Liz have something against healthy living?
Favourite Cheese:
Tillamook Sharp Cheddar
Doesn’t want you to know she listens to:
Spice Girls
Her “moves like Jagger” are more like:
Octopus Mating Dance
To prepare for driving the bus she is:
I am playing A LOT of Borderlands Prequel… to get used to being in front of the TV for hours at a time.
I am taking the bus everywhere I go, not just because my car broke, but to really get into the mindset of the ‘bus’, you know?
What symbol does your superhero cape have on it?
gin & tonic (plus lime)- is that bad? That sounds bad.
MovieBob will be calling into Desert Bus at 6pm 7:15pm PST on Sunday, November 16th.
Writer, film reviewer and host of Escape to the Movies, The Big Picture, and MovieBob: Intermission on The Escapist. He has a love for early 80’s and 90’s video games and ripping apart bad movies. A focus of his is to give analysis of gaming culture and the industry in a style that is similar to a college-lit-class style know as “close reading”, also using overlaid imagery to support his points.
Along with his work on the Escapist, Bob also hosts The Adventures of Game OverThinker, a comedic series that combines video game news and commentary. Blurring the lines between reality and video games, OverThinker is a story driven analysis of gaming culture. This series led to the creation of Overbytes on ScrewAttack, with more of a focus on culture and tropes.
Bob has also written a book titled “Super Mario Bros. 3: Brick-by-Brick“, in which he deconstructs the game in the form of a “novelized Let’s Play” while analyzing the cultural significance and history of the Mario Bros. franchise.
He is also very active on his blog and twitter.
Have a question for MovieBob? Leave them in the comments below!
It’s another donation drive!
Get in before 4pm Victoria Time with a donation multiple of $10.23 for a chance at this magnificent Paper Mario Set!
Straight from the colorful world of Paper Mario come five real life sprite figures! Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Princess Peach, and Bowser are recreated from vibrant precision cut cardstock in all their 2D glory. The characters match their in-game scale, ranging from an adorable palm-sized Mario to an impressive nearly one foot tall Bowser. True to the series’ stylized graphics, all the characters feature the same pose on both sides so they can easily be flipped to face either direction. In addition to the figures themselves, you also receive custom-made easy-to-assemble display stands so you can show them off with pride. And all of it comes in a box decorated with hand-drawn Paper Mario themed marker illustrations.
Calling all media and movie fans!
MovieBob’s call-in has been rescheduled to 7:15pm (local time) tonight, so make sure to tune in!
For those who don’t know, Bob “MovieBob” Chipman is a media critic, author, and gamer whose work appears on a number of sites including The Escapist and Screw Attack. Make sure you’re on the stream tonight at 7:15pm as we pick MovieBob’s brain about all things pop culture!
Good afternoon everyone! Let me fill you in on what you might have missed this morning on Desert Bus for Hope!
Ian and Johnny did a very Strip Search art challenge judging where the lesser entries were thrown to the ground and THEY ATE THE WINNERS!!! Poor Desert Bus-Tan, being forced to be in a 4koma and then EATEN!
Johnny was on the warpath with art challenges and put forth the call for our photoshop wizards to put him into places he really should remember being in. Cultist Rat took the victory with his great shop of Dr. Strangelove. Riding it seemed very in spirit of this GIF,
where Johnny doesn’t remember any of this happening from last years Desert Bus!
For some truly bizarre reason James required all of our belts. We were then belted together and forced to dance as one, it was…a thing?
We had to say goodbye to Jamie from Child’s Play so she gave the chat a galaxy hug! It was so cuuuuuuuuuute!
Jordan was challenged to do a monologue from Monty Python. It wouldn’t be Desert Bus without making things silly so it became a dialogue!
Continuing the trend from last year for people to get poked in uncomfortable places (Kathleen poking Cam right in the brain) LeeLee decided to make sure that James’ eye was still squishy.