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We love your love!
November 18, 2012 at 12:38 AM PST
Posted by Ashton

Desert Bus has the best fans. When you’re not keeping those wheels spinning and helping children with your amazing acts of charity you take the time to send us awesome milestone pictures, doodles, memes, and so much more!

Here’s another dose of Magic cards, milestones, and stuff that’s just awesome and weird (I’m looking at you, Dengler & Butts). Keep ’em coming!

Please make your pictures no larger than 1000 x 1000 pixels wide (and 640 wide is great because we don’t have to resize!), and use the following file formats: JPG, PNG, GIF.

Hello, I'm your driver.
November 17, 2012 at 11:10 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

It takes a very special kind of person to drive the Desert Bus. We received a lot of great art for this contest but only one truly encompassed all of the traits we require from our drivers.

Ladies and Gentlemen, please meet Matt’s favorite from the draw the Desert Bus Driver contest: Mr. QWOP, drawn by Simon Sweetman:

 

 

Here’s our runner up (and backup driver) Rainbow Crash pony, drawn by Ash Vickers of MegaCynics!

 

And here’s a gallery of some of our awesome entries!

 

Incoming: Silent Auctions at 10:00!
November 17, 2012 at 08:59 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

In just one minute’s time we have some fantastic items going up for auction that you do not want to miss out on!

 

*No, the answer isn’t R; they love the C!

They Keep on Coming!
November 17, 2012 at 05:00 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

Everyone get your hands on your wallets, because four more amazing silent auctions have just opened up!

Feast your eyes on the following items, available NOW:

Let the bids begin!

Sponsor Thank You: Michael Lunsford
November 17, 2012 at 04:00 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

Michael Lunsford is the artist behind for the webcomic Supernormal Step. After he drew an amazing poster for Desert Bus for Hope 3, we realized we could never let him go, and signed him up for Desert Bus 4 and 5 as well! We’re lucky to have him back again doing this year’s poster and we can’t wait to see what he does for Desert Bus 6.

Best of all, dear Bus-fan, you will be not only be able to purchase that soon to be legendary poster from the LoadingReadyRun store but you’ll also be able to sleep sweetly in the knowledge that a portion of the proceeds will go to Child’s Play.

Be sure to check out Supernormal Step and Michael’s DeviantArt page to get a taste of how absolutely awesome his art is!

Guest Call: Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse
November 17, 2012 at 02:00 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse is an author, w00tstock Performer, game industry policy consultant, and Former Xbox LIVE Enforcement Director. Stephen’s impressive eighteen year tenure at Microsoft began in April 1994 and culminated in his position as Director of Xbox LIVE Policy and Enforcement. W00tstock attendees will also recognize him from several guest appearances and readings.

During his call will be auctioning off as super sweet “Stepto Lot“, which features an  Assassin’s Creed Statue, Stepto’s book, and more!

Stephen will be calling on Saturday at 6:00 PM PST, 9:00 PM EST, 2:00 AM GMT, so if you have any questions for him, leave them in the comments!

Sponsor Thank You: God Save the Queen Fashions
November 17, 2012 at 02:00 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

God Save the Queen Fashions LLC is a fantastic sponsor that has volunteered their amazing skill and craftsmanship to Desert Bus 6.

The company was founded with the intent to deliver a quality, stress-free service to those with unique lifestyle choices and the innate fashion difficulties that accompany. From drag queens to cosplayers, if costumes are your game God Save the Queen Fashions has you covered—literally!

You can find them on Facebook and Flickr and absolutely should take the time to browse their galleries. Their work is phenomenal.

And speaking of their work, this year God Save the Queen Fashions has given us one of the absolute COOLEST prizes ever: a custom-made to your body’s specifications Mass Effect N7 Leather Jacket.

See the pictures of this beauty on our live auctions page, and remember, you can bid on it on Sunday!

We <3 Your Stuff!
November 17, 2012 at 01:44 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

All of you viewers are so talented that even when we’re not running contests (the entries for which are blowing us away), you’re sending us amazing drawings, music, photos, song lyrics, and who knows what else!

This time we’ve got cakes, posters, creepy dolls, Magic cards, pumpkins, Minecraft skins, animated gifs, and something written in Circular Gallifreyan!

If you have something neat you’d like us to see send it to stuff (at) desertbus.org

Please make your pictures no larger than 1000 x 1000 pixels wide (and 640 wide is great because we don’t have to resize!), and use the following file formats: JPG, PNG, GIF.

 

All Hail our Glorious Dictator! Glory to the Cammunist Cause!
November 17, 2012 at 01:27 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

There are only a few people who can look good while crushing a popular uprising. In fact, I can only really think of one guy who could do that. In honor of the Glorious Leader of Camnada, the Great and Mighty Cam, we challenged our viewers to submit a propaganda poster honoring him.

Here’s Cam’s pick for his favourite poster, made by Jeroen! He wins this great Awesomeness prize pack, very generously donated by Fangamer.

And here’s the runner up, submitted by Caitlin:

And here is the gallery of all the other awesome propaganda posters!

Spectacular Silent Auctions!
November 17, 2012 at 01:01 PM PST
Posted by Ashton

While watching all the action happening on our live stream, you might forget that we have some amazing silent auctions going on all the time! There are four hours left for you to bid on.

 

Bidding has also just gone live on a Creepy Doll sweatshirt, a Desert Bus Fleece Hat, a Signed Copy of Battlefield 3 with Child’s Play Dogtags, and a Signed Hildebrandt Hobbit Print!

And remember kids: Stop, Drop, and Bid.