P.S., I Love You – Part 1

I have a confession. I’ve been making other people laugh. But don’t worry, baby. It didn’t mean anything. In fact, I don’t even remember their names. Wait, yes I do. It was Cracked.com. If you know me, you’ve probably heard me talked about Cracked.com an unhealthy amount of times. And if you’re mad about my lack of posting over basically the entire summer, you can blame it all on Cracked’s weekly Photoshop contests. That and Tetris, actually. So basically what happens each week is this: Cracked’s Editor starts a forum thread with a theme for the week, and it’s up to the readers to submit their best entry. At the end of the week, winners are chosen by I-have-no-idea-who and posted as an article on the homepage. Only 1st place wins anything, but there are usually 20 pages worth of entries, so to make the final 15 or 20 (the number of finalists varies) feels pretty damn good. Since I know most of you don’t spend any time on Cracked.com (shame, shame), I decided to share my Photoshop entries with both of you here. Here’s what I’ve been doing all this time:

A year ago one of the themes was “Campaign Ads if the Legal Voting Age Was Six.” Here are my two entries:






I know this was way before I failed to update my blog frequently, but there’s a reason I’m showing you these. The second one actually made it to the finals! 20th place, but still. Actually, I thought the first one was funnier, but as long as one of my entries made it, who gives a shit's fuck, right?

Click here to see all of the finalists.

After this contest, I was hooked. I submitted entries whenever I thought of a good idea, but I spent most of the next several months making an image and then deleting it at the last second. A few months ago, though, I got brave and started submitting more regularly. The week before July 4th, the theme was “Ill-conceived Patriotic Displays.” I submitted another couple of entries for this one:






The RealDoll entry actually ended up in third, the highest I’ve placed ever. I felt really good about that entry, but goddamn if the winner wasn’t one of the best entries I’ve seen in any of the contests.

Click here to see all of the finalists.

The next contest I entered was “Inventions We Badly Need at the Office (or Workplace).” If you’re reading this blog at work (I’m lookin’ at you, Sir Fats), this should be right up your alley. Here are my two entries:






Neither of them were finalists, but I still really enjoyed making both of them. Also, they got a good amount of love from some people in the forum, so I'm happy.

Click here to see all the finalists.

Well, I know we just got started, but this took way longer than I thought it would to track everything down, so that's it for now. Oh, and sorry I just posted the internet version of a clip-show, but at least there's something to look forward to!