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Live Auction: Glass Blown Pac-Man Ghosts
November 21, 2012 at 02:30 AM PST
Posted by Ashton

Only 30 short minutes until the live auction for this amazing set of sparkling, colorful, masterfully blown set of four glass Pac-Man ghosts  by Paul Roberts! Each figure has a diameter of approximately three inches and the heights vary from roughly five to seven inches.

The auction starts on Nov 21st, 2012 at 4:00am PST

Sponsor Thank You: SEGA
November 21, 2012 at 12:00 AM PST
Posted by Ashton

Sega have been producing popular video games (Sonic the Hedgehog, Virtua Fighter) and systems for decades, and without Sega we’d never have been able to run this event! The unreleased Sega CD game Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors is where the Desert Bus minigame was originally found. This year they’ve donated a bunch of download codes for much better games.

New Live Auction: Original Magic Card Art
November 20, 2012 at 09:08 PM PST
Posted by Kara

Apparently the father of the man who has been delivering our food all week is an AMAZING ARTIST by the name of Iain McCaig and he has, spur-of-the-moment, donated an original piece of art from the “Fleeting Aven” card from Onslaught. This is beautiful. I don’t know anything about Magic, but I know that this is beautiful.

Iain McCaig is best known for his cover art for Jethro Tull’s ‘Broadsword and the Beast’ and for his Star Wars designs for Queen Amidala and Darth Maul. His other films include ‘Interview With the Vampire’, ‘Dracula’, ‘Terminator 2’, ‘Hook’, ‘Peter Pan’, ‘Charlotte’s Web’, ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’, ‘John Carter’, ‘Jack the Giant Killer’, and ‘The Avengers’. He is also a Chesley nominated illustrator, having illustrated books ranging from ‘Fighting Fantasy’ to J.R.R.Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’.

In October 2008, Palace Press International published ‘Shadowline-the Art of Iain McCaig’, a 28 year retrospective of his film and publishing work.

Currently, McCaig is developing an original live-action feature film, ‘The Book of Secrets’.

This auction will be held live at 2pm on Thursday, November 22.

Make sure you have a donor account and are logged in. You can bid on this through our chat.

Holy Magic Foil Sheet - DONATION DRIVE
November 20, 2012 at 08:52 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

Want to win this AMAZING uncut foil sheet of Return to Ravnica commons?

Last year we auctioned off the uncut foils for thousands! But you can to enter to win this for as little as $27!

If you donate $27 (and increments of $27) by 10:40pm PST you are entered to win! Go! Go!

Bill with wings art challenge!
November 20, 2012 at 07:43 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

Bill’s mom has once again busted out another embarrassing Bill story, which we decided to turn into an art challenge. Turns out when Bill was a kid, he wanted his mom to buy him some maxi pads since he’d heard they come with “wings”.

We challenged our Desert Bus viewers to draw Bill with wings and he picked his favourite. Congrats Jason!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the rest of our entries!

Live Auction: Guest Appearance in PvP!
November 20, 2012 at 07:30 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

That’s right!

In just thirty minutes we’re opening bidding on a live auction to be drawn into an episode of PvP Online by Scott Kurtz’s PvP!

Once again: Nov 20th, 2012 9:00pm PST! Be there!

Desert Bus Gives You Wings! - ART CHALLENGE
November 20, 2012 at 06:41 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

In honor of Bill’s Mom’s story we have an art challenge for you!

Submit a picture of Bill with wings!

Please send your submissions to contests@desertbus.org. Subject: Wings

Deadline: 8pm!

Win this Cthulu necklace http://desertbus.org/giveaway/180