hen t h e e r the blender welcome one and all to yet another HENNIFER-BRAND(tM) infofile with additions and changes by the ever so silly warpus the electron g e n e r a l c r a p in the tradition of the very successful joint and swap(tM) irc activities comes a third ultimate idea yes if you can read ( !) you ve guessed by now THE BLENDER!!!!!!!!! p r o c e d u r e s quickly! before time runs out this how a blender(tM) event will be run 1 - everyone will gather in #blender (on EFnet) 2 - at whatever time we will explain how the blender works 3 - each person will come up with ONE idea it can be in one of three categories thing (ie horse) action (ie fishing) and place (ie white house) 4 - everyone will submit their ONE idea to the organizer who will make a list this organizer currently is warpus msg your words to him writing down of the words might take up to 5 minutes so please be patient 5 - the organizer will randomly pick THREE of the ideas (one thing one action and one place) these three ideas will be announced and put in the topic 6 - your mission is to create a masterpiece about the three picked ideas there are a couple restrictions - no submission may be bigger than 150k zipped - no more than four people may work on one joint - a person may submit no more than three entries (solo or joint) your masterpiece may be pretty much anything ansi ascii music lit vga etc everything is allowed as long as the rules are followed 7 - at the end of the funpo all the work is collected you will usually submit to hennifer or warpus check the topic line to see who is collecting just to be sure you *may* submit early if you wish 8 - first second and third place winners are picked 1st place winner(s) get three points for their group 2nd place gets two points 3rd gets one all winners are placed in the hall of fame artist(s) of the week list all other participants are placed on the main list of blender participants 9 - the pack is then released so that it can be downloaded by hordes of eager blenderers blender supporters fans fanatics dentists and communists a d v a n t a g e s hopefully you get an idea of the fun involved here but along with that blender(tM) has numerous advantages over the other irc events INFINITE PLAYERS - yes this means never having to turn eager blendeners away PREFAB INSPIRATION - for those of you that can t think of anything to draw here other people will do most of the work for you! ORIGINALITY - finally something other to draw than breasts =) just imagine a pack with 20 different interpretations of a horse fishing!! NO QUALITY CONTROL - it doesn t matter how well you do how silly or serious you are because you won t be messing up anyone s work except your own =) EASY TO RUN - no messy file exchanges + no hard-to-enforce rules = a smooth- running operation with no annoying delays COOL ORGANIZERS - yes finally a compo that is ran by really cool people ) - hennifer & warpus