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STATS UPDATED
Reminders sent, slices assigned. Nothing new to report.
Posted by Shae 6/27/2008
THERE'S A BIG YELLOW CORPSE in the hizzouse.
Posted by Shae 6/21/2008
THIS NEW CORPSE has the bling, yo.
Posted by Shae 6/19/2008
THE NEW CORPSE is a thing of great whimsy! Sorry it took me so long to post it.
The house is mine! I'll endeavor to keep up with corpse tasks while moving my stuff into it and fixing my bathtub leak.
Posted by Shae 5/18/2008
ng finished to post lately.There have also been some no-show players of late, which slows things down -- not only because of the slices they neglect but because of the difficulty of finding suitable replacements who haven't already been asked. If you're very interested in corpsing right now, please let me know. I'll send you extra slices and I'll keep you in mind for corpses that keep getting passed on and are taking forever to close.
Thanks for your patience while I experience the joys of homeownership, and all the trips to the hardware store that that entails.
Posted by Shae 5/27/2008
THE NEW CORPSE is a thing of great whimsy! Sorry it took me so long to post it.
The house is mine! I'll endeavor to keep up with corpse tasks while moving my stuff into it and fixing my bathtub leak.
Posted by Shae 5/18/2008
NEW CORPSE full of surrealist dreams.
Posted by Shae 5/08/2008
I'M TRYING something new. I'm going to do one or two corpse tasks every day or two, rather than large batches on Wednesdays and Sundays. With this I hope to both save my sanity and give you more to look at. Soon I'll take advantage of the offers of the many fine folks who have offered to help. And thanks to those of you who have followed my naming conventions and/or sent your 15 pixel slices along with your finished slices. It's a huge help!
Check out the new corpse!
Posted by Shae 5/08/2008
NEW CORPSITUDE for your viewing pleasure.
Posted by Shae 5/05/2008
JUST AN UPDATE
because I know I don't keep in touch enough.
I'm buying a house and I've been busy, but I want you all to know that I'm endeavoring to do corpse business at least twice a week, and if I'm snowed under, at least once a week on Sundays. That isn't as good as the everyday schedule I'd like to keep, but it's what I can do until things slow down a bit.
If you're a PHP whiz, and/or you'd like to help out, please see the forum post What You Can Do To Help.
And a great big giant thank you to all who have helped, who have offered to help, and to all of you, for sticking around and playing even as things are not running quite as smoothly as they did over at the old hangout. You're all helping to keep the community and the corpse dream alive!
Posted by Shae 4/27/2008
NEW BIZNESS
First, I'm sorry for my egregious lateness in corpse business, including not sooner posting this supernaturally good new corpse. It is STELLAR. Get it? Ha ha.
Second, I can't find SuperMouseWonder! I seem to have lost his (her?) email address, and can't find an email or a signup to even clue me in as to how I ever had it in the first place. Super Mouse Wonder -- if you're there, drop me an email! Or if you're someone else who knows Super Mouse Wonder, let him know I need his email address.
That Is All.
Posted by Shae 4/21/2008
BEHOLD A beautiful new corpse is here!
Posted by Shae 4/13/2008
I AM FILLED WITH GUILT for the amount of time I've been away. Please forgive me and do not leave. And check out the new corpse!
Posted by Shae 4/6/2008
THIS IS JUST A SHORT NOTE
to say that I may be buying a house, and consequently I've been running my butt off every day for the past week or two. I promise to attend to corpse posting and assignment soon!
Posted by Shae 4/2/2008
NEW CORPSE!
And another in the wings. Looks like the pace is quickening around here!
Posted by Shae 3/24/2008
NEW CORPSE from folks seriously tuned in to the Universal Consciousness.
Posted by Shae 3/23/2008
NEW CORPSE for your viewing pleasure.
Posted by Shae 3/17/2008
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT
We have new signups. Yay!
We haven't had a new corpse posted in a while. This isn't because I'm not assigning them like crazy, it's just because everyone has been going out of town or taking their sweet time. I just sent some reminders and reassigned some slices, so maybe that will help. And I'm continuing to start new corpses at the usual pace.
Or maybe participation is slow because people are having so much fun in the Start Your Own Corpse section of the forum. There are several inventive corpses brewing there, including a choose-your-own-adventure corpse which I think is particularly cool. If everyone is corpsing and everyone is happy, then I'm happy.
Posted by Shae 3/09/2008
NEW CORPSE
Check it out!
Posted by Shae 3/09/2008
OOPS, I almost forgot this one was in the oven.
Posted by Shae 3/05/2008
THERE ARE not one but two new corpses finished! Darned nice ones, too. They'll be posted one at a time so that everyone may have his or her proverbial day in the sun.
In other news, some languishing slices were finally finished. Please don't blame your fellow corpskateers for their tardiness this time; in some cases they told me they wouldn't make deadline and I gave them extra time because I didn't have time to do reassignments anyway. I've got a fancy new job with a long commute, and have not attended to the site with utmost promptness lately. I apologize.
And lastly, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to the last group of signups!
Posted by Shae 3/02/2008
VOILA
New blood, new corpse.
Posted by Shae 2/24/2008
WELCOME new signups!
Posted by Shae 2/24/2008
NEWS
By way of a little routine news.
I reassigned some slices that were past due and sent out some reminders.
I went over to the old site and emailed a few members there, to see if they'd like to play here. Some have already responded. Thanks for joining us, old comrades!
New players are still needed and welcome, so please invite anyone you please!
And as always, if you're itching for extra corpsing, you may send me a starter slice at any time without invitation.
Posted by Shae 2/22/2008
NEW CORPSE
Check it out.
Incidentally, I just reassigned all the slices that were languishing with slackers. Hopefully that will pick up the pace a bit around here.
Posted by Shae 2/11/2008
Volunteer for Extra Corpsing
A few slices have been sitting in the queue for a while. A couple of these were reassigned today, and reminders were sent out for the others.
Now that we have thirty-something members, and around a dozen corpses simmering at any given time, everyone is basically playing all the time. This is great fun for some people, but a bit much for others. Some people, who were accustomed to the pace over at www.anexquisitecorpse.net, are probably getting more slices than they can handle.
So if you're one of the people who would like to corpse as much as possible, email me and let me know.
Posted by Shae 2/9/2008
NEW CORPSE
Comfort zone screaming, skin deep he dreamed of.
Posted by Shae 2/6/2008
I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND my exquisite apologies if I have done any of the following annoying things. Sent you two slices within a short time frame. Skipped you when it seems that people before and after you were assigned slices recently. Caused you to play with the same people you played with in a prior corpse. Sent you a slice in the wrong resolution.
This whole process is becoming exquisitely complicated. It was easy the first round through, when I could say, there's someone who hasn't gotten a slice yet. Done. But now with subsequent passes, and various people on hold, and various corpses taking way longer than others, and other such events that are difficult to keep record of, it's not as easy to do things in the best possible fashion. Not to mention the fact that I'm now getting several corpse-related emails a day plus their associated re-assignment tasks. It can be confusing.
However, I hope to work the kinks out of this in time. Hang tight, and send me an email if I've done anything annoying.
Posted by Shae 2/4/2008
NEW CORPSE
Take a look, it's a beauty! Nice title too.
Posted by Shae 2/2/2008
RESOLUTION REMINDER
Just a reminder, folks! Recently I have gotten three corpse slices in the wrong resolution. The resolution should be 72 dpi. Working at a different resolution could cause a seam with the slices before and/or after yours (even if you didn't see it while working). This is because all slices have to be the same resolution before they are tacked together, and if one has to be increased or reduced, pixels could move around and not line up properly.
If you have any questions about how to get the resolution at 72dpi, email me or ask for help in the forums. Thanks!
Posted by Shae 1/29/2008
MORE CORPSING AVAILABLE!
So the time has come in which everyone has been offered at least one slice (though they may have declined it). My next course of action is to offer slices to the few people who didn't have time the first time, and then we'll start seeing second-time corpsers around here.
Since some people have nothing but time on their hands and others can barely squeeze in a day to play, this is your chance to volunteer. If you'd like to start a corpse, you can do so without ado and send it to me at shae
newexquisitecorpse.net when you're finished. I posted this in the forum but I don't know if it was seen since activity over there is low. Anyway, if you'd like to continue a corpse, simply email me at the same address and let me know. You'll be considered for the next batch of slices that go out.
Also, remember how over at www.anexquisitecorpse.net y'all were always like, Let's make a hand-drawn corpse! Let's make a landscape corpse! Let's thwart all the rules and do needlessly complicated things! Well, now's your chance. You can start your own alternative corpse in the forums here.
For example, Fiddler has started an accordion corpse (and it doesn't have anything to do with the oft-maligned cut-and-paste technique of the same name). It's cool! It's new! It's weird! Go over there and volunteer to be a part of this bleeding-edge, next-generation corpsing phenomenon!
And speaking of the forums, maybe you aren't talking much because there have been some posting problems. In my zeal to block porn spam, I inadvertantly stopped some people from posting some legitimate and interesting things. Now registrations have been tightened (to keep bots out) and post content by registered users has been loosened. If you're a real human, you can now go over there and discuss Viagra to your heart's content. And if you've had trouble registering, please email me and let me know. I want to keep out bots, but I don't want to keep out players.
Posted by Shae 1/28/2008
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
It's a bouncing baby corpse.
Posted by Shae 1/25/2008
NEW EMAIL ADDRESS
Please send any communication to me regarding corpsishness to shaenewexquisitecorpse.net.
I may respond to you from another address, but at least I won't overlook your email in the bloated inbox of my previously-published mostly-spam-gathering address. Thanks!
Posted by Shae 1/24/2008
YO
Thank you new sign-ups for joining us!
Thank you bloggers for blogging about us!
Thanks to the 33 of you who have signed up and the 19 of you who have registered in the forums.
And the... uh, like five of you who are talking there.
So I know I can't force people to hang out and talk and have a good time, or anything, but it would be cool nonetheless.
Specifically, it would be nice to see some comments on the finished corpses that come from people other than the four who worked on them. One of my favorite parts of completing a corpse over at the old site was seeing what other people would say. Did the corpse look pretty? Was my slice too dark? Too gawdy? Too weird? It must be a little dissappointing to finish a corpse and only see comments from your three collaborators.
Also, feel free to talk about whatever else over there, too. Corpse techniques. Site ideas. Interesting stories from Slashdot. Funny things your toddler said. Recipes for miso soup. That sort of thing.
Thank you for listening.
Posted by Shae 1/23/2008
NEW CORPSE! Click here or on the thumbnail to see!
Posted by Shae 1/19/2008
BITS 'N PIECES OF NEWS
First of all, if you've looked at the stats recently, you'll notice something interesting: at this point, almost all 30 of us have been offered a slice (most of whom accepted it). That means that before we all know what happened, corpses will be published and new ones will need to be started and completed. By the same 30 of us. That's cool for those of us who love to play and don't mind being bombarded with slices, but it does mean that soon we'll wish we had some fresh blood.
So do me a favor. If this is working out for you, and you find it a fun and reasonable substitute for our dearly departed anexquisitecorspe, and you have a blog or you talk on forums or otherwise have yourself a Web Presence, please spread the word. Where appropriate, of course. New people would be more than welcome.
OH -- and for those of you have already spread the word on your blogs, thank you.
And speaking of forums, if you haven't visited ours, please do drop by. It's a way of letting me know if you have a good idea for the site, or if something sucks or is broken, and it's a way of bonding with your fellow corpskateers.
Posted by Shae 1/16/2008
NEW EXQUISITE CORPSE GOES PORN FREE
My sincere apologies to those whose retinas were seared by a recent spate of hardcore porn spam in the forums. How embarrassing. Spam prevention measures are now in place.
Posted by Shae 1/13/2008
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
First, new and improved stats! Click here to see them. Now you can tell not only who's holding us up, but how long they've had their slice.
As an aside, work on making this and the rest of the site dynamic is still underway.
Next, NEW CORPSES ON THE WAY! As you can see by the aforementioned stats, at least two corpses are perilously close to being finished. And I know I'm not supposed to say so, but they're darn good looking ones too.
Finally, if you're too impatient to wait for those corpses, you can volunteer for a starting slice here or start your own corpse here with my blessing and minimal assistance. Here's your chance to make landscape corpses, square corpses, all-purple corpses, or whatever idea is brewing in your little heads. Stine has already started one for your extra-cirricular corpsing pleasure.
Oh -- and one more thing. Speaking of square corpses, our cohort Skunks Are Cool has set one up that's now finished. You can see it here and discuss it here.
That is all.
Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Posted by Shae 1/2/2008
YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED an "under construction" sign or two around here. That's because the site is under construction.
I'm looking for that perfect blend of beauty and functionality. I'm researching some junk. Anyone around here a php expert?
Meanwhile, I shall try to keep slice distribution up to date and make a stats page that more accurately reflects what's going on.
Also, HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Posted by Shae 1/2/2008
THE RUMORS of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
I know what ya'll are thinking. Shae! Where's my slice? Where's the site updates? Where's the next corpse? I thought you were going to make a cool new corpsing site, you big poser.
Well, it's like this. Thanksgiving happened, and then Christmas, and it seems that the tryptophan from the turkey sent me into a temporary coma.
But I'm ok now. I'll get it together. I'll fix things. I'll send out slices. Please don't go away.
Posted by Shae 12/28/07
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN, WE HAVE A CORPSE.
Click on the thumbnail to see.
Posted by Shae 12/14/07
A BIT OF NEWS to keep you all in the loop. First of all, I use Mozilla, and I didn't know that this site is WACK in Internet Explorer. Bad Web Designer! Bad! Bad!
Even worse, I don't have time to do anything about it right now. I'm going out of town for a day or two, and there's some finals to study for, and other stuff you don't care about.
However, here's something you should know. Three corpses are simmering, and all the peices I have received thus far are just LOVELY. Perhaps I shouldn't say anything. Perhaps I should be more stoic, like Phineas. But alas. I can't seem to stop myself from telling you that wonderful corpses are on the way! They'll be worth the wait.
Oh yeah, and there is now a very simple forum. Discuss amongst yourselves!
I'll try to post a little something here now and then to let you know I'm alive. Thanks for participating!
Posted by Shae 12/6/07
New Exquisite Corpse was inspired by http://www.anexquisitecorpse.net and by Phineas and Jima, the very talented and amusing folk who kept it running for many years before placing it on "indefinite pause."
If this site looks familiar, it's because I didn't want to fix what wasn't broke and I didn't want y'all to get lost. Same rules, similar navigation, less functionality... for now... because I'm not a coding genius just yet, until I graduate the Universitary a whole two and a half weeks from now.
If you're brand new and you've stumbled upon this site by some strange twist of fate, read the "about" and "rules" page.
Corpses are in the pipeline. Volunteers are standing by. This sucker will run manually until my old man and I can whip up some sort of content management system and hopefully make it all robotic like Phineas' site.
Please sign up, and forgive the low-tech signup process.
Posted by Shae 11/30/07