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[challenge entry] Possibly too big for the compo
..and even the 'thumbnail' is a funny shape, and bound to annoy.

However:



Click picture for honking great 474k full-sized version. Doubleplusunwoo.

I didn't want to cut it down, because I like the picture too much, sorry.

Note: The guy in the foreground (of the full version) really exists, and he was really there. I asked for his permission before taking his picture, and he kindly gave it, with a big grin. He also plays a mean blues geetar. If you ever come across him busking in Wimbledon, be nice!

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(ancipital, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 14:59, archived)
# That's really rather good.
(I helped save b3ta! supermoore: HUNG, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 15:01, archived)
# That's very well executed
good work sir/madam*




*delete as appropriate
(generalname, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 15:05, archived)
# nice,
three shops for the price of one
(I helped save b3ta! MrSanity has maybe kicked the WoW habit forever, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 15:06, archived)
# yay! i love that a huuuuge amount
woo! nice photo
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 15:10, archived)
# The story of the pitchur, for anyone who cares
Thanks for all the seductive noises...

The picture was an accident, in the camera-fresh one, there was a lamp post coming out of the busker. I started editing it out, and didn't notice that photoshop saved changes directly back to my camera (unnh, spacker, don't leave it mounted, you know you'll screw it up). Having lost the original, I was obliged to finish it.

I deleted a bus, all other passers-by, most of the rubbish (it was 7 pm on a friday, busy day) . Took ages to draw in fake shop windows that looked almost convincing.

"Damnit, Jim, I'm an engineer, not an artist"
(ancipital, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 15:36, archived)
# Ahhh
That'd be why there's a backwards we will rock you in the shop window...I DID wonder...
Bloody good job tho, I noticed the bus reflection but not the lack of bus...
Woo yay to you!
(I helped save b3ta! GigerPunk has, hopefully, slept since, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 15:45, archived)
# You have leveled up!
Ah, zis is der cunning joke, yes?

Someone asked (at the time) why I left the bus reflection there, obviously I fed them to the slightly angry sea bass.

My ego is now the size of Vanessa Feltz. Hardly anyone ever groks the bus thing.
(ancipital, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 17:52, archived)
# haha
that is brilliant
(I helped save b3ta! SarahRatt, Sun 13 Jun 2004, 15:13, archived)