The "Guess the Artist" contest is now running. Please note that this is not an official caedes contest, just a bit of fun. The mystery artists will begin uploading their images shortly, under the username "guesstheartist" please go here to veiw the images. Once all eights images are uploaded, they will be allocated a number 1 - 8. On the profile page, you may leave your guesses by simply matching the images to the artist's name. If it is a success, we may have another round after someone guesses all eight correctly.
Contributing artists note: Upload images to the "Etc" gallery... Please refrain from leaving any comments on the images as this may give the game away. Also, don't make any guesses yourselves! Remember, mum's the word! Anyone caught accepting bribes will be severely punished in the form of a fine, comprising 50% of the bribe amount, paid directly to myself...
Meh... suit yourself. I doubt I'm going to be able to stop comments now, so there's probably no point trying. As to whether you're correct, at this point your guess is as good as mine.. ;-)
Remember though, that it's the first person to guess ALL images correctly... so by letting people know what your thoughts are, you may inadvertantly assist them in beating you!
Klas, I did the same thing. First image that came up I thought it was a "test". Didn't think to come here first and check. But, Sam's right. We better have all 8 images under our belt or we'll assist someone else in their guessing, or completely throw them off track one. Lots of curve balls could certainly be thrown here.
Hehe... Excactly my thought BJ. I guess I was a bit uncertain too about at least one of the three pieces that were up at that moment. It's going ot be fun to see if one is good enough to tell who made a certain piece. It happens all the time when you watch the new image gallery that you think "That has just got to be a shot from Joost" or Pierre or a piece from Sam... Sometimes you get surprised when you click for a closer view, but oftenly it's not all that wrong first impression one gets...
Were there any rules the authors themselves had to follow? Such as not getting help from another author, or anything along those lines or other lines for that matter?
Okay, can all the artists PM me with a the numbers of their images so I know who did what (I'm going to have a look first and see if I can get them right myself).
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
Well we have an excellent selection so far; Depending on how quickly this one is solved, we may include more artists this time to make it harder, say about 12; so if anyone else is interested, please say so.
Newsflash: The first round has been won by CaptainHero!! (some of you may disagree, but hey, I can make up the rules as I go along...) The correct answer was:
Wow. Congrats Captain!! I thought there were more tricks being played here than there actually were. lol. Whoever made Sam's image (which turned out to be Sam himself) I was going to strongly encourage more in that direction as I felt the talent was quite comparable to Sam's. Same with Mary's but I thought it was a "spoof". A couple of other surprises and another couple that made me kick myself for not going with first instinct. This was fun. Thanks Sam.
Thanks everyone. I am feeling lazy, so I have pasted the response that I put on the guesstheartist user profile below:
I had good fun trying to guess them all - I think I had repositioned bigjon three times before I settled on my final list! I was scrutinising the artists galleries to try and find similar images.
Some of them I got straight away - Samatar, Marideath, Cain - and I just knew Pierre had to have taken that excellent picture. The others I just played around with until it looked right.
Oh, and congrats to Pim, who also got the right answers.
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
Kudos to CaptainHero on a great job, and I'll also add my congratulations for Samatar to those of Pierre and Joost. Thanks for a really fun idea, Sam! :)
Contributing artists note: Upload images to the "Etc" gallery... Please refrain from leaving any comments on the images as this may give the game away. Also, don't make any guesses yourselves! Remember, mum's the word! Anyone caught accepting bribes will be severely punished in the form of a fine, comprising 50% of the bribe amount, paid directly to myself...