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HAY DERE ALL!
Raise your arm if you're still alive/ active on Minitokyo!
I was just wondering the number of people who are actually still active on Mt in our group.
For those who still remember me, Misa's temporarily back - for those who don't, I'll self intro myself as Misa.
To members who aren't too familiar with the group's history if you've just newly joined or only know as much as you can from the group page, here's a bit of background on the group we referred to as "UA" (TheUnderAppreciated).
The group originally was an idea Teryon came up with, and he went ahead and created the group, and I am more or less the co-creator. We were concerned with the lack of recognition many wallers or artists received in terms of comments and favourites purely because the content of the wallpaper was either not popular, or because the waller didn't have a lot of people watching them. We established this group to get a tightly knit community of wallers who are happy to just keep on walling and improving. We critique works in progress, and we hold competitions as well. As a result, a lot of the members have improved drastically in terms of photoshop skills, and we're quite close in terms of contact.
Trekking back in time, UA has had some really spectacular moments - we participated in a Minitokyo-wide contest named W.A.R in 2005, and won the collaboration round. From memory there was also W.A.R 2 in 2006. Later, a lot of members participated in Arete (Yoshitaka Amano challenge) which although was held by SchattenRand, plenty of UA members participated.
UA held its first Minitokyo-wide competition named "The Rotten Egg Challenge" where members were asked to make anything and everything from DDR backgrounds from listening to a DDR mp3, to wallpapers of particular themes. The competition involved teamwork (pairing), bribing and betting.
Not long after that, areteii was held (Kunie Kanbara challenge) for SchattenRand, again involving UA.
The final project UA ever held was "UA: THE ONE CHALLENGE" where we specify one technique, and you have to wall using only that one technique. It was a difficult project, and it has temporarily halted for... 1.5 years.
My question to you all is: (1) Are you active on Minitokyo? Please leave a reply (2) Who is interested in a competition?
Please leave your responses here and state what you'd perhaps like to see from UA.
If there's a possibility that there are a handful of you still active, and you guys are really keen on having a large scale competition like W.A.R (36 contestants, across 6 groups) EDIT/ this is just as an example, so to speak, please write that down and let me know. I will try my best to come up with a new and exciting competition for you all. I've noticed that a lot of the walling groups such as NewWaveProject, SchattenRand and a-wallpaperrevolution are gone, but I'm sure there are new groups that can fill in those spots. EDIT/ The new competition under way will mostly likely NOT concern grouping of members, so members will represent themselves as individuals, with the choice of a collab competition working in pairs.
And if you're reading this, but you're not a UA member and you're
interested, please post!
I'd love to hear from anyone and everyone :D