and for you creative types -- a creativity contest . . . :)

[OneBlueSky]

been away from the Lounge for some time now (trying to limit my time online) . . . but I ran across this little tidbit and thought it might be of interest to some DUers . . . not knowing where else to post it, I offer it here for your amusement . . . fyi, until reading this, I'd never heard of the author . . . haven't read the stories, so no clue as to quality . . .

http://www.metafilter.com/74992/Rosenbaum-The-PlausibleFabulist

Rosenbaum, The Plausible-Fabulist
September 19, 2008 7:13 AM

Like others before him Benjamin Rosenbaum is making his debut short story collection, The Ant King And Other Stories, available from his publishers, Small Beer, as a free download. More than this though, he is holding a competition to find the best derivative work inspired by it. These include "translations, plays, movies, radio plays, audiobooks, flashmob happenings, horticultural installations, visual artworks, slash fanfic epics, robot operas, sequels, webcomics, ASCII art, text adventure games, roleplaying campaigns, knitting projects, handmade shoes, or anything else you feel like."

Benjamin Rosenbaum is not a character from The Scarlett Pimpernel, a poet or a writer of children's books as 'Biographical Notes to 'A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes', by Benjamin Rosenbaum' makes clear.
posted by ninebelow (6 comments total)

http://www.metafilter.com/74992/Rosenbaum-The-PlausibleFabulist

and here's the link to the competition itself . . .

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=5032

Benjamin Rosenbaum’s Derivative Works Contest
Kathryn Cramer

Benjamin Rosenbaum has come up with a clever way to promote his short story collection The Ant King and Other Stories (Small Beer, 2008). Not content just to offer it for download under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, he is holding a contest to see who can create the best works derivative of the stories in the book:

Contest Rules

1. Create a derivative work of any story in The Ant King and Other Stories.

2. Place it under the same license (you do this just by including a declaration to that effect on the work in its published form).

3. Post a link to the work (or some kind of recording or representation of the work, like a youtube video if it’s a live performance, or a picture of it if it’s, like, a vase or something) in the comments to this blog entry.

4. Derivative works can be translations, plays, movies, radio plays, audiobooks, flashmob happenings, horticultural installations, visual artworks, slash fanfic epics, robot operas, sequels, webcomics, ASCII art, text adventure games, roleplaying campaigns, knitting projects, handmade shoes, or anything else you feel like.

5. On March 3, 2009 (that gives you six months), I will send signed (and extensively doodled-upon) hardcover copies of The Ant King and Other Stories to the creators of the three derivative works that I like the best.

6. Obviously, other than what’s covered in the CC license, you retain all rights to your works, so if you’ve made, you know, House-Beyond-Your-Sky-themed coasters, you get to sell them or put drinks on them to keep rings off your coffee table or whatever. And if you want to actually sell the rights to reproduce the derivative work commercially, I will in all probability tell you that you can, unless you’re, like, a Hollywood studio. :-)

- more . . .

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=5032

to anyone who may be interested . . . have fun! . . .:hi: