Seeds of Fire in Dream

The short:

Sub­mis­sions Are OPEN! Alexan­der Basiat is Reg­is­tra­tions Officer

Sub­mis­sions Close: mid­night, Mon­day July 2nd, 2007, SLT

Fan Favorite VOTING and Entry Dis­play Begins: Wednes­day July 4th

Fan Favorite Vot­ing Closes: mid­night Sat­ur­day, July 7th, SLT 

Awards Cer­e­mony: Sun­day, July 8th at 4p.m. SLT, at the Cha­trez Sci Fi Gallery. Sci Fi Gallery, Cha­trez <115.219.301>

Want to know more? Read on:

Show Us The Worlds of Tomor­row in your World, Sec­ond Life

The Sci­ence Fic­tion Rangers and the Friends of Liad groups in Sec­ond Life have announced an in-world sci­ence fic­tion pho­tog­ra­phy con­test in cel­e­bra­tion of Sec­ond Life’s Fourth Birth­day. This con­test will show­case the width, breadth, and depth of inno­va­tion in images that are pos­si­ble using Sec­ond Life. 

The theme of the con­test is “Light, Shadow, and Color: the Full Spec­trum of Sci­ence Fic­tion in Sec­ond Life”. Par­tic­i­pants will sub­mit orig­i­nal in-world snap­shot pho­tog­ra­phy that take full advan­tage of the light­ing, back­grounds, cos­tum­ing, avatars, and cam­era angles that Sec­ond Life offers to cap­ture a stun­ning sci­ence fiction-themed image. 

The judg­ing will be con­ducted by award-winning Sci­ence Fic­tion authors and art scouts Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. 

There will be one prize pack­age awarded for each of the fol­low­ing categories:

Lit­er­ary Sci-Fi
For images inspired by writ­ten sci­ence fic­tion (nov­els or short stories).

TV / Movie Sci-Fi
For images inspired by visual media sci­ence fiction

Anime Sci-Fi
For images inspired by anime 

Spec­u­la­tive / Orig­i­nal Work
For images that are a result of the creator’s orig­i­nal cre­ative vision

In addi­tion, there will be a “Fan Favorite” award and a “Best in Show” award given. 

All par­tic­i­pants will receive an original-design t-shirt (copy, no trans­fer, no mod­ify) to honor their con­tri­bu­tion, regard­less of whether they win a prize.

Last year’s win­ning entries and this year’s entries will be on dis­play at the Cha­trez Sci Fi Gallery. The show­ing will begin on July 4th, and will con­tinue until July 15th. 

“Fan Favorite” will be cho­sen by vote through­out the show­ing at the Cha­trez Sci Fi Gallery. The vot­ing will con­tinue until 11:59 p.m. July 7th, SL time. 

All sub­mis­sions must be in to Alexan­der Basiat by 11:59 p.m. July 2nd, SLT

The Awards Cer­e­mony will be on Sun­day, July 8th, at 4 PM SL time. Cha­trez Sci Fi Gallery, Cha­trez <115.219.310>

Avoid your entry being dis­qual­i­fied, please review the Sub­mis­sion Require­ments!
All sub­mis­sions must be in to Alexan­der Basiat by 11:59 p.m. July 2nd 

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Sub­mis­sion Rules:

A max­i­mum of 2 Entries per Res­i­dent will be accepted.

Enter by send­ing their sub­mis­sions to Alexan­der Basiat, Reg­is­tra­tion Offi­cer. He will reply acknowl­edg­ing receipt. If he does not reply, Please IM him directly. Or if the dead­line is close, also send it to Shawna Mont­gomery, and IM her to look for it. 

Every photo you sub­mit should be set “Next owner can Mod­ify, Copy, and Resell/Give Away” This is so that we can pro­vide your photo to our judges. 

All snap­shots must come to us with a Snap­shot Icon attached. If you send one with a tex­ture icon attached, it will not be accepted. 

In the descrip­tion of the snap­shot, please include both the exact loca­tion where the snap­shot was taken and also the cat­e­gory for the sub­mis­sion. The snap­shot should be named with the name of the piece and the cat­e­gory, like this: 

“Cyber­netic Dragon in Flight — Spec­u­la­tive / Orig­i­nal”
“Cap­tain Riker’s Tragic Death — TV / Movie”
“Honor Har­ring­ton ver­sus Cirocco Jones — Lit­er­ary Sci Fi”
“Akira Reborn — Anime” 

Items sub­mit­ted with­out a cat­e­gory will be placed in a cat­e­gory at Mr. Basiat’s discretion.

Con­tent should be in keep­ing with PG sim guide­lines and all SL con­tent guide­lines. Any item not meet­ing these require­ments will not be con­sid­ered for the contest. 

You may NOT use photo edit­ing or retouch­ing soft­ware in the cre­ation of your snapshot.

Every photo you cre­ate for this con­test will be under­stood to be cov­ered under a Cre­ative Com­mons license 2.5, attri­bu­tion, no deriv­a­tives, no com­mer­cial use. 

You will not use any rec­og­niz­able trade­mark of a com­mer­cial entity when mak­ing the snap­shot. While it is fine to show two peo­ple dressed in what appears to be Star Trek uni­forms, it is NOT okay to have them stand­ing in front of the Star Trek logo 

For more infor­ma­tion about how to do snap­shots, check out: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Help:Snapshots

If you have any ques­tions please con­tact Alexan­der Basiat in world, or you may email him at sam@samchupp.com
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The con­test is spon­sored by both the Sci­ence Fic­tion Rangers group and the Friends of Liad group and and is being funded through dona­tions. Those who have donated will be hon­ored dur­ing the dis­play period and at the Awards Cer­e­mony. Please take a look at the Com­pany Bios below. If you hap­pen to deal with them, please men­tion the con­test and their gen­er­ous donations! 

“Best In Show” prize will be 3 items:
1) $30 gift cer­tifi­cate donated by http://Geeklabel.com Yep, that’s a RL Dol­lar sign peo­ple! Thank you Geeklabel.com!
2) A lim­ited edi­tion proof copy of The Dream­ing Void, by Peter F. Hamili­ton
3) The Tomor­row Log by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, mass mar­ket edition 

“Fan Favorite” prizes are 

1) $30 gift cer­tifi­cate donated by Geeklabel.com Yep, that’s a RL Dol­lar sign peo­ple! Thank you Geeklabel.com!
2) The Tomor­row Log by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, mass mar­ket edi­tion with media shipping 

Prizes for remain­ing cat­e­gories will be 2 books each from Pan Macmil­lan, and The Tomor­row Log from SRM Pub­lisher. Please take a look at the Com­pany Bios and prize details. 

Spe­cial thanks to Anhayla Lycia, owner of TreeSong Designs in Sec­ond Life. In addi­tion to her many duties as an Offi­cer in The Sci­ence Fic­tion Rangers, she has designed and built the Sci Fi Gallery at Cha­trez. TreeSong Designs has loca­tions in sev­eral sims in SL, and has it’s Main Store on Cha­trez. Please check out her fine line of emit­ters, tex­ture chang­ing water­falls, foun­tains, murals, tex­tures, wind­chines, bird houses, and more… 

TreeSong Designs, Cha­trez <229.8.25>

About our Cor­po­rate Spon­sors:
Geeklabel.com is “T-shirts by geeks for geeks.” Cus­tom made t-shirts and other items are their stock in trade: you pick a design you like: color, insignia, and style of shirt and they do the rest. They’re not just t-shirt print­ers, they’re also a com­mu­nity of geeks: they have a forum and a pod­cast at http://geeklabel.com

Pan Macmil­lan pub­lish­ers are donat­ing books from their list, please see the titles below. Thank you Pan Macmil­lan!
(Pan Macmil­lan will need winner’s RL name and address for deliv­ery, but we’ll sup­ply Pan Macmillan’s con­tact infor­ma­tion to the win­ners so they may deal with them directly.) 

Pan Macmil­lan are UK based pub­lish­ers of a wide range of fic­tion and non fic­tion, includ­ing authors such as Wilbur Smith, Helen Field­ing and James Her­bert. They are also the pub­lish­ers of a range of sci­ence fic­tion and fan­tasy titles under the Tor UK imprint, includ­ing Peter F Hamil­ton, Neal Asher, Alan Camp­bell and Jeff Van­der­Meer. Recent inworld activ­ity included the launch of The Unof­fi­cial Tourists’ Guide to Sec­ond Life at the SL Book Fair. Pan Macmil­lan are cur­rently in the process of build­ing our SL pres­ence, and we will be hold­ing all sorts of events at our base on Book Island, so look out for us in the near future at: Media World <138,115,36> You can visit their web­site at www.panmacmillan.com. For more infor­ma­tion IM Diet Coakes. 

Future home of Pan MacMil­lan in SL: Media World <138.115.35>

Pan Macmillan/Tor UK are donat­ing the fol­low­ing prizes: A lim­ited edi­tion proof copy of The Dream­ing Void, the first in the new tril­ogy by best­selling SF writer Peter F Hamil­ton; a first edi­tion hard­back of Neal Asher’s new book, Hilldig­gers; a col­lec­tion of our finest fan­tasy nov­els, Scar Night by Alan Camp­bell, Shriek by Jeff Van­der­Meer in paper­back, and not yet pub­lished, The Wanderer’s Tale by David Bils­bor­ough; the two lat­est nov­els by Liz Williams, Dark­land and Blood­mind; and two great nov­els from up and com­ing UK SF writ­ers, Diver­gence by Tony Bal­lan­tyne and Steal­ing Light by Gary Gibson. 

SRM Pub­lisher is donat­ing 6 copies of The Tomor­row Log by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, mass mar­ket edi­tion (SRM will need winner’s RL name and address for deliv­ery, but we’ll sup­ply SRM’s con­tact infor­ma­tion to the win­ners so they may deal with them directly.) 

SRM Pub­lisher is a real-world, Maine-based com­pany sell­ing adven­ture, mys­tery, sci­ence fic­tion, and fan­tasy and related books and chap­books. Orig­i­nally cre­ated to bring a few short sto­ries in the Liaden Uni­verse™ to a a small group of online fans of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s nov­els, SRM has grown into a small press pub­lish­ing chap­books, trade paper­packs, and even hard­back edi­tions of work by Lee and Miller as well as a num­ber of other respected writ­ers like Ru Emer­son, Lawrence Schoen, Mark Tei­de­mann, and others. 

Forth­com­ing projects include the pub­li­ca­tion of Liaden Uni­verse® Com­pan­ion Vol­ume Two, slated for August and the thir­teenth “Adven­tures in the Liaden Uni­verse®” chap­book, to be pub­lished in time for Christ­mas 2007. 

For more infor­ma­tion about SRM Pub­lisher, go to http://www.korval.com/srmcat2.htm and for spe­cial book offers go to: http://www.korval.com/specialbooks.htm. Don’t for­get to visit the SRM Sec­ond Life retail loca­tions in Clay and on Cha­trez Island.

Friends of Liad Park, Clay <15.223.130>
Friends of Liad Island Out­post, Cha­trez <144.143.24>