Jungle News 08

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

I didn't think there would be something to post tonight from my side again, but guess what there is :)

First, big thanks to Fireant for offering his translation help of our articles to polish. The first polish article is now in our library and you can find him here via link or just check the country flags in the article overview. Thumbs up for Robert aka muhani of the Jungle Crew for helping me a lot keeping this updated.

Another big thanks goes out to everyone who supports the jungle via a donation. Robert and I had the idea to make a list to have these marvellous contributors carved in wood forever in the big banana tree near the monkeys lair. I am not sure if anyone wants his real name in there so i have decided to show the date and the country where the donation came from. Many, many thanks to the following (there have been some before this date but i could not reconstruct them, sorry if you are one of those affected by this fail of mine, you can always email me to tell me about):

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16.07.2010 Weilerswist, Germany, 20,00 $
30.08.2010 Denville, USA, 20,00 $
31.08.2010 Buchenberg, Germany, 10,00 $
24.10.2010 Buchenberg, Germany 10,00 $
07.11.2010 Rueil Malmaison, France, 20,00 $
09.11.2010 Darmstadt, Germany, 20,00 $
19.11.2010 K?ln, Germany, 13,29 $
28.11.2010 Moscow, Russia, 5,00 $
28.11.2010 Mandaluyong City, Phillipines 10,00 $
01.12.2010 Ratingen, Germany, 10,00 $
29.12.2010 Southampton, Great Britian, 20,00 $


06.01.2011 Bergamo, Italy, 10,00 $
02.02.2011 Geilston Bay Tasmania, Australia, 20,00 $
04.02.2011 Denver, USA, 20,00 $
17.02. 2011 Munich, Germany, 4,00 $
22.02. 2011 Colorado Springs, USA, 25,00 $
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This list will be forever carved in wood in this place here!
Many thanks for your support!! I hope everyone is ok with this decision?

Something completly different now:
There have been the inaugural WAMP Awards of the year 2010.
Really intresting and really , i allow myself to quote Mr. Johnson aka Darklord here:

"It gives me great pleasure to announce the results of the inaugural Wamp Awards. We started with initial nominations for several categories and from those nominations we came to a final short-list of 10 for each category. Each shortlist was then opened up for voting and after weeks of voting we now have our winners."

Check out the link above to see all the other cool winners and big time congratulations to all the winners. If you are intrested you can also download actual Wamp's Portal Issue in PDF to see an exclusive overview on the winners! Wamp rules!

I want to say congratz to my monkeybrother Ben for being voted 2nd place in best painted miniature in 2010 with his "Terror of Fortriu", monkeybrother Raffa won 1st place in best Base of 2010 with his "Hunter or Hunted". I also did recieve a bronze in best Base of 2010 with my "Butterfly" and feel very honoured about it. As we got a video of that here it is again - if you want to watch it in good quality follow the youtube link and switch to HD quality:




Darklord of Wamp sent me a medal i am free to use - many thanks and again many congratz to all who have been nominated and hours of thundering monkey applause to those who have won. Here is my medal - many thanks! Yippie!

Something else inspirational:
Adam showed me this cool site via email, many thanks for that - the Ruins of Detroit,
where you can find great photos of ruins and old theaters in Detroit. Many thanks, Adam!

Another great blog was shown to me from Luovahulluus via comment - a collection of great inspirational art collected by 3 Germans, that is why the text is all in german, but i think the pictures speak for itself: http://www.ignant.de

Not again more music - but there is no way to resisit music here you go with some crazy italian hip hop mix kinda i don't know what it is or what he is saying but i love the vibe and the athmosphere of this one:

Sometimes i don't know some Kong Fu. This time is one of those times, or? Ahhhh my fingers hit the keyboard without my brain allowing it... aaaaahhhhh....  Time is always running and sometimes you are running with it, but believe me it is great to stop running for a while and just stand and watch and listen and smell and feel. Don't fear there is still enough time left to run wildly.

Keep on happy painting!
Best Regards
Roman

Jungle News No07

posted by roman, jarhead, kong

2011... wow, time runs so fast...

A new year again, a year that will bring changes to myself - but more to this later on. I guess writing some jungle news again would be a good start into this new year. Information about mostly everything that hits my mind will be included. I hope you have a joyful read.

First, there will be the News around Massive Voodoo.
As most of you did see in the last months the Jungle family grew again with Matt Cexwish and Palak, two extraordinary people who are very welcome to contribute into the jungle whenever they want to. Also we got another change - Vhaidra left the jungle for private reasons - may she be blessed with good painting water.

The year 2010 was really cool in the jungle and i hope i speak to most of you when i say, the jungle really kept rocking further with more articles, more Work in Progress, more finished Miniatures, a Slayersword by Raffa, Painters meetings, Painting Classes, hints and tips, articles in different magazines and so on. We want to thank everyone who helped and supported us over the year 2010 to make all these things happen. So let's go...

COMPETITIONS

In this place there got to be a little review on the funny contests we had in 2010:
It was all about "showing some balls" in early March 2010.
Some brave folks did participate in the "Show your booty!-Contest".
On Massive Voodoo's 1 year birthday we partied up with the big Workbench gallery!

Not to forget our small "Win a miniature" celebration once in a while when the blog hit another 100 subscribers. We hope we made some of you happy with all this and remember it is your support and participation that keeps such things rolling.

IMPORTANT:
There is already the next competition in planning phase. Surprise to everyone will be its theme. It is about Mad Max and your imagination of the car you would be driving in a post-apocalyptic desert. Pimp your Fallout-Car! There will be more information soon, everyone is invited to take part, except me - Scale will be 1:35 ... you can win my "Renegade" which is already in build up progress, muahaha...

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ARTICLE SECTION

The last year pushed the article section to 113 articles and close to its limits. We think that we can't offer a very good navigation through this banner system anymore and are planning some changes. What do you think about that? Is the article section still enjoyable to use or do you strengthen our thought of pimping it up?

Many thanks to those who helped us with the translating work and many thanks to those who clicked at the support banner and did support us during the last year.

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MASSIVE VOODOO TV
Big time review on the Duke of Bavaria Contest was the main thing in 2010 over on our youtube Channel and we are really looking forward to the next one. We know we are really slow when it comes to update this part of the jungle, but making videos takes a lot of time that we mostly don't have. So i was very happy as Raffa did start the main focus over on the channel by bringing up the first big and free videotutorial about weathering. Next step is still planned to have it in english language - you see we are a bunch of slow dirt bugs.

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MASSIVE VOODOO WEAR
There is nothing new about it. Thanks to those who did buy there MVWear Outfit. We recieved this question lately by David and will work on it, maybe:

"Hi-

I was wondering if there's any chance of you opening a US version of your massivevoodoowear store on spreadshirt. For some reason, if you have a German spreadshirt store, it ships from Germany, but you can also open a US version, in which case products will be priced in dollars and ship from the US, which would save US customers a lot of money. I ask because I'd really like a massive voodoo t-shirt, but am unwilling to pay the expensive shipping from Germany, which adds more than 50% to the price.

Thanks,
David"

Let us know what you think - are there more people intrested in this idea?

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MASSIVE VOODOO PAINTING CLASSES
At the moment there are 3 classes coming up in the early months of 2011. German language so far only. Munich twice and one deluxe class deep in the Black Forests or close to it. I will add an area about actual classes to the blog in the next days after someone helped my brain with this great idea :)

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THANK YOU

Coming to an end during this part of the News i have to say Muchas Gracias to all our readers and supporters for their help in motivation, navigation and inspiration. We try to give it back as good as we can.

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There is one blog i want to mention - it appeared suddenly in our blog list and is called "Pony Cock", don't ask me why. I love the blog for daily inspiration. Between Hip Hop Stuff, Basketball and Fun there are also sometimes photos showing naked persons there, mostly ladies and i hope that doesn't bother any of our readers.

Another blog who has to be mentioned is the one by BlackDagger. Great models and a pretty cool blog to read. Give it a try - highly recommanded! You will also find this one linked up our blog scroll.

The BIG Picture also got included, but i guess you might have seen that already :)

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Music. Man, we did post so much music lately on the blog that it feels more like a music blog than a miniature related site. Whatever, Music is essential to mostly everything - so here comes a little musical addition to this posting:

Eric Clapton - I shot the Sheriff (thanks to Adrian)
Mike Oldfield - Muse
Battlefield 2142 Soundtrack
Battlefield Bad Company OST

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Inspirational means something that inspires you. Lately i felt lost about inspiration somewhere in my own. I still do. So i only got one thing to show you which Raffa showed me yesterday - that's it about inspiration:

The Beard Master

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"Time is a gift of gods, use it wisely" shall be my first word of wisdom for 2011 which i burn into my skin for myself. Too much time is spent completly lost with nothing in the end. That shall change as i go forth, finding my mojo again, collect my discipline and become one with my muse.

Thanks for reading - I hope you have enjoyed another issue of Jungle News!
Read you soon or maybe not - only the gods know :)

Keep on happy painting!
Best Regards
Roman