Ashton has laid down a really luscious challenge and we’ve matched it with a truly delicious prize! For the next eleven hours—until the end of Ashton’s shift at 10am—get to work on your very best fan art inspired by the video game Journey! He’s interested in stuff that not only captures the visuals, but also the spirit of the game. If you win, you will receive a gift certificate for two dozen custom made cookies from Rocky Mountain Cookies! They’ve made our amazing Desert Bus cookies and you know they’ll do a great job on whatever art you send them.
So get to work and email us your most beautiful and evocative Journey fan art!
I think we’re on to something here!
Around the beginning of her turn in the driver’s seat, Kathleen issued a challenge to draw her lovely felines, and gave everyone the entire remainder of her shift. The result was some sensational production from all of you!
Tahki was our winner with this exceptional piece!
Here we have 2nd and 3rd place, courtesy of Rose Nightshade and Trudi Castle!
Some lovely honourable mentions, and the rest of the submissions below the cut!
Ashton Cummings
Driving: Monday, Nov 17 10pm – Tuesday, Nov 18 10am
Driving since: 2012
Points: 1
Crashes: 1
Editors Note: Ashton is incredibly busy and did not fill out his profile information. So we had other people, who happened to be around the Lunar Module answer for him.
When not at Desert Bus, he can be found:
The bowels of engineering – Dix
Special Skills:
Ashton is as comfortable behind an ASCII keyboard as he is behind the wheel of the Desert Bus. Thankfully, his code crashes much less than his bus does. While not its biological father, he participates in the DB Chat in a combination Paternal/Management role, imparting all to “Work with Daddy”. At any rate, he can nod down any epic sax guy video, ten hours or more. – Ian
He’s a total geek for:
18th century Russian Faberge eggs – Thomas
Claim to Fame:
Travelled back in time and wrote “Baby Got Back” and he’s been trying to get it back ever since. He can also convincingly fake being South African. – Jordan
Biggest fear about Driving for DB8:
The Dark – Beej
If he was reincarnated as a fruit or vegetable he would want to be:
Durian – Alex
Favourite Cheese:
Head cheese – Johnny
Doesn’t want you to know he listens to:
Math Rap – Pika
His “moves like Jagger” are more like:
coding skills like Bill Gates – Mia
To prepare for driving the bus he is:
He is eating a bus load of pizza. – Simon
What symbol does your superhero cape have on it?
An “A” made of lightning bolts. – Kelly
The Ken “Value Added” Steacy Effect
So, Ken Steacy came in and did his Ken Steacy thing. If you don’t know what that means, well, it goes like this: Ken Steacy, father to LRR stalwart Alex Steacy, is a longtime supporter of Desert Bus For Hope, and each year comes in with a caravan of treasures from his storied career in art and illustration. We auction them all off, and when the dust settles, somehow that number in the top-left corner of the screen has increased by a cool 40,000 or so.
Yes, that number up there
Huge thanks again to Ken Steacy for helping us once again!
Ocean Island Inn
It may not seem like it, but did you know that all your favourite Desert Bus for Hope volunteers sleep sometimes? It’s true!
Friends of Desert Bus For Hope rest their weary heads at Victoria’s Ocean Island Inn! Located in the heart of downtown, just blocks from both the Lunar Module and the old Moonbase, Ocean Island has rooms and amenities to suit all tastes and price-ranges! Head to the in-house cafe for something to eat and drink, and stick around for the live entertainment!
BLACK & AXE
DONATION DRIVE
We know you guys love your special Magic: The Gathering items, so we’ve got another Donation Drive just for you! The “Black and Axe” package includes not only a replica of Garruk’s mighty waraxe, but also a ultra-rare set of the San Diego Comic Con Planeswalkers cards in a luxurious black-on-black finish!
Want to get in on this action? No problem! Just donate a whole number multiple of $8.28 before 6:00pm — each donation gets you another entry in the draw!
Guess whose back? That’s right Ken “Value Added” Steacy from Ken Steacy Publishing, of course, .
For those of you new to Desert Bus Ken Steacy has been supporting us for practically forever. He is a member of the Canadian Comic Book Creator’s Hall of Fame, won a Shuster Award, and is Alex’s dad!
In fact, his nickname of “Value Added” came about because of all the wonderful contributions and time he has spent with us, and for the children on Desert Bus. Every year with Ken has been full of surprises and delight and we’re sure this year will be no different.
So after we ROCKED our way to 2 Million Lifetime this morning, we started to get a tad bit silly.
This….this was terrifying to behold. The anglerfish is unbelievably well crafted, but is a scare at 10 AM!
Yeah, this happened…
Tara rocked in the walk off between her and Serge, and is now immortalized in GIF form. Welcome to Desert Bus Tara!
Being Kathleen’s shift, it wouldn’t be the same without some Caramell Dansen!
We are running a donation drive for this wonderful Espionage Cosmetics pack! Any donation of $5.27 or multiples thereof until 2:14 pm will get you an entry.
Scottgoblue314 threw his weight into the fold of our live auction with his winning bid of $3500.00!!! Congratulations!