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Deadline extended for Oz's sake. Post again if you can't get around to it.

This is her pencil sketch, called, simply, 'Earth'. She'd muchly appreciate feedback, if you wouldn't mind giving some. Bear in mind if I get no replies you're UPSETTING AN INNOCENT GIRL and I might eat you.

Ta muchly,

-Flippy.

Not bad for a first MIDI, Nil.

Yay, an entry. Looks like it might be defaulting again, though...

lol... just tunes to fit them.

Fairy Fountain sample.

Overworld is the map screen, essentially. It can be pretty much any tune you want to be honest

[GO!]

Okay, disappointing that I won Homer-in-space style last time, especially seeing it was a brilliant concept (compose to a painting). He didn't really deserve just me entering to be honest.

SO WE HAVE ZE VARIATIONS (yes).

1. Fairy fountain!
-OR-
2. Sewer!
-OR-
3. Overworld!

GO!

Incidentally, I can totally appreciate MIDI more because I know how the stuff works and how hard it is. All tunes will be judged out of twenty with four catagories (suitability, compositional acumen (controllers/effects, instrument choice etc), imagination and damage just plain How Much I Like It), with each catagory scored out of five. MIDI will score one bonus point because it's just harder to make it sound really good.

However, I'm not going to just *dismiss* MP3s. Just send anything you like in. If you deserve to win, you will.

Get going already.

Ah, the two sweetest words in the English language...

Super. Now I really do have to play Terrawhatsit sometime. I've heard it too often to not have any info on it!

A little dark, maybe, and the kerb is slightly too broad - you want it more bunched, or - if you keep that width - you want to redo the perspective of the cracks/seperations. The fishtanks are kind of contrary to the style otherwise, and the sky has too bright a light source at the centre there. Is the grey a cloud? That's unclear.

Otherwise, solid, if a little empty - no random litter, or posters on the news shack. Nice subtle texturing. The 'JOE'S PETS' sign could do with a different font IMHO. But yeah, nice.

Also, is artgem like paint with layers? I wouldn't mind knowing.

Yeah, it's not as good as I'd like, but it becomes tricky...

Anyway. Regarding continuing the tremelo, I know exactly what you mean, but I had lifted so many ideas from the few classical guitar tracks I know that I was becoming worried I'd have nothing of my own in there - hence the not-quite-genuine feel (it's more like a lullaby, as someone said).

Ta for feedback.

Not bad, as a piece, although I see some flaws, the only one which hasn't been mentioned (from this aspect) is:

It's kind of upbeat for a prison, although ironically the really high notes work very well.

Right Click Save As.

Ta ^^

I used cakewalk. If you want a copy (it's circa 1992) then add me on msn, I have a pre-zipped file for anyone who asks. Unfortunately, it takes a-g-e-s until you get them to sound anywhere near acceptable. You really have to master controllers before you can truely get a decent sound.

And even then, it's nowhere near what I'd like it to sound like. But thanks!

/Every time I do this I vow to learn mp3...

Italia.mid made for the competition over in t'other board.

Here we go. I recommend you RCSA, for Quicktime, though being an admirable player of internet movies, dothn't half fark up MIDI files.

What the fruits? Heh.

Have it your way, Billy  O_o

Very nice! I'll enter this one. Hopefully.

...you can't defend yourself.

I disagree. Whilst you certainly can't - and shouldn't attempt to - say that someone is wrong for not liking something you write, you can clarify what you were saying. Whether that changes their reaction or not isn't important. Most likely they will still dislike the poem, and that's fine! But when people get the wrong idea, I think it's up to the poet to tell them what it means. Only he knows for sure.

Fine by me etc. That's a reason I can understand

I'd like to publish poetry, but I've only written about 18, about of which 10 I'm happy with as they stand. I developed pretty fast, but that meant stuff I did only a few months ago no longer matches standards I set for myself

I might try and contact Bloodaxe books once I have a few more.

Hmm. Odd. I got pretty positive responses elsewhere... but okay.

Insofar as having a point:
The poem is nebulous, yes, but the clue is in the title - and you have to work at it. Nor does it have one singular meaning.

Specifics...

"If his shoes are clean, why bother wiping them on a mat?" Act of nervousness? Trepidation? Having come all this way, he's at the door, unsure of himself.

"It's pretty sappy." Can't say I agree with that, but that's more a matter of opinion than something I can argue.

"more structured (a rhyme pattern or rhythm)..." I dislike working in rhyme. Yes, the occasional  partnership of lines, for emphasis (as Shakespeare did) is fine, and very useful at points, and I don't shirk that. However, rhyming poems often get very 'cutesy', and I'm surprised you then raised the point about classical writing, when often it doesn't rhyme all the way through. As for rhythm, you've got a much better point here. The piece DOES lack rhythm. And yes, the triple 'and' IS awkward, which is the entire point.

"[The poem]... is set along a misty road." No, it's not. It's set at the end of it.

"...a not so excellent poem, with a great meaning, to one well written but meaningless." I'd prefer the opposite, but this is your view. It has sense, but it needs to be found - and I don't believe that it is too obscure.

Oh, and to Babar: Yes it is.

Andail: Now there's a response I don't particuarly mind. But if I wrote just from experience, I would have written... two poems, ever. Including this one. The first three lines are purely from my experience and I never copy anything from anyone. If you find it bland and unoriginal, though, that's fine. Certainly it's a bit nasty to hear, but ultimately this is one work among many. I just don't want people, um, writing it off too easily. Get me?

I sound like I've had a hissy fit because you guys don't like it, but I don't mind - as long as you don't like it for the right reasons. If it's just misunderstanding (egh, way to make myself sound pretentious) then that's not grounds enough to not like it. If it's stylistic, there's usually a point to it. If you just don't like it 'cause it's 'sappy'... well. I can't really influence you there.

It's a harsh irony that my best stuff goes relatively unnoticed, whilst something that people may not, in general, like so much gets five replies overnight.

I once turned,
And looked over my shoulder,
And saw the grey road stretching into the mists behind.
And I thought:
"How far have I come?"
As I stood there,
An unexpected visitor,
Scuffing my clean shoes on the wire mat,
Peering into the dark hallways.