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Due to serious amounts of spam that was not getting caught by my spam filter I have decided to put to rest the Monthly Design Competitions.  I am going to investigate why there was so much spam on these posts but I suspect it was something to do with the links in the main posts.

Although the spam filter was blocking them I was still having to manually sift through 100′s of comments everyday to make sure I was not deleting any legitimate comments.

If I manage to sort this out the competitions will return.

Thanks to everyone who sent in their entries and I hope for the competitions to return in the future… maybe even with prizes this time.

UPDATE 19/06/2010: Due to a ridiculous amount of spam on this post I have had to close the comments early. If you still want to make a submission send me the link throught the contacts page and I will post your link myself. Thanks… Barry

Here is this months design challenge. Once again I would like to apologize for the lack of a competition last month, Like I said in my previous post I was really busy in May.

This month I am looking for your entries for “Your First Movie Poster”

Here are the rules:

1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your movie.

2 – Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations”
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the forth quote on the page is the tag line for your movie.

3 – Go to Flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Sixth picture, no matter what it is, will be your poster image (you can manipulate it a little if you want to.)

4- Go to IMDB http://www.imdb.com/ and from the “Born Today” box at the top right of the site, take the 1st & 2nd (click next) actors who come up and these will be the main actors to go on the poster. You can have “Starring – ‘insret names here’” or you can put in pics of them if you like.

5 – Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.

6- Upload your image to Flickr, Facebook, or wherever you want to store your image then post a link in the comments of this post.

Here is my Album cover for this months challenge.

“Note: This is not a competition. There will be NO Prize, this is just a bit of fun!”