Mental Magma

So MM user Brendan finally gets recognition for his unfathomably immense creativity.  Brendan has been in the finals for every contest thus far and has, at last, received the most votes for his entry.

The entry that finally did it was this caption for the picture of the statue with the lad fending off the babies:

Tenacity: Because even an army of flying babies can’t stop you today.

Brendan receives a very nice $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com for his troubles and his caption will be used for several products in our soon-to-launch online store.  He will be joined in the store by the work of several other MM users.  Keep an eye out midweek for the Mental Magma store announcement along with the names of the users who are having their entries turned into merch.

This week MM had its largest contest yet; over 100 captions were submitted.  I’m not sure if it was the $50 Amazon gift certificate, the chance at eternal fame in the form of MM merch, or if the contest idea just hooked directly into your neural pleasure center.

There were an enormous number of REALLY GOOD ENTRIES.  This made it very difficult to select the finalists.  Actually, it’s always hard, I should just stop mentioning it.

Keep in mind that winning the contest is not the same thing as the merch ideas.  We may make entries that weren’t finalists into real items and may choose to not even use the winner of the contest.  We may use the winner, I’m just saying they’re two separate things.  We’ll have an announcement sometime next week with the captions we’re using for merch.

This week is MM’s very first merch contest, where we turn your ideas into real-world items at our online store. In recognition of the momentousness of this week’s contest in MM history, first place will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate.

Also, any entry that is sold in our online store will earn its creator $1 for each item bought during the first month it’s available. We’re projecting somewhere between zero and positive infinity units to sell.

This week’s contest was inspired by the folks over at Despair.com. They make parodies of those inspirational posters you see in locker rooms and teachers’ offices. For this contest, you’ll be writing captions for one of the following photos: (click on thumbnail to see larger version):