UPDATE ON THE GODS MUST BE CANINE CARCANIS CONTEST
STATUS: NOW CLOSED
Thanks to the kindness of the magic community, a special extra supplement will be added to the project!
Here is the specialized breakdown:
CARCANIS SUPPLEMENT – for the MYTHODOGICAL DECK / GODS MUST BE CANINE PROJECT
Visual Art
• A Series of Canines in Yellow & an Anubis - Nestor
• “Hungry Pup” Card Art – Mysto-Xeno
Poetry
• A Collection of Poetry from Ron Dayton, I will compile into a “A Ballad of Barks” barklette.
Magic Effects & Reading Approaches
• FIDO – Chris Handa
• DOG READINGS – Scott Baird
• THE BLUE DOG – Bob Clayton
• THE BLACK DOG – Cody Nicols
All the entries were so great, it was hard to choose a winner –as the entries were so varied it was like comparing a Shih Tzu to a Great Dane!!! When it comes down to it, Chris’s FIDO makes the most use of the specifics of the Mythodogical Deck, that I’d say his is “Best in Show” by a fur stand! So, I will be sending him one of the last KING IN YELLOW books I have, and everyone else I will make sure gets the full manual book I’m working on for free, along with the specialized supplement, and at the least arrange that any deck you want to get is at cost once they are created. I’m planning to run a Kickstarter ~ October for this project that hopefully will raise $ for a support puppy training program, then everything will be put on DTCards where profits will go to the Doctors without Borders.
UPDATE ON THE ARCANA CARCOSA CONTEST - ON HOLD
This is due to a) I need to work some more on the project before I can give more specifics for the contest and b) evaluating if it is worthwhile holding another contest as the amount of entries for the first one was quite low. It may mean there is not much interest in these contests, and so I wish to investigate the situation further.
Background
About a decade ago, Bruce started up an initiative called the “Carcosa Collection” to inspire fellow magi to collaborate and share their ideas for theatrical bizarre magic. This developed into a regular contest of sorts, where Bruce would pick a topic/theme and people would share their concepts in the form of a written piece of theatrical magic. Then he would award the winner with a magic prop he created related to the theme (usually everyone who actually did participate got a goodie). As with all things, the vagaries of life resulted in the Carcosa Collection transitioning back into the shadows…“And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth….” And for over a decade, all the wonderful submissions that had been accumulated “passed out of all knowledge.”
You can see Bruce also went to the dogs so to speak and launched the Hounds and Jackals Games and Magic. However, this also let him start looking over his past endeavours in the field of mystery…. Including the old Carcosa Collection contests…. exclaiming “wow, these were great!!! We got to release them again on the world!!!” He reached out to those who submitted their amazing theatrical pieces to get their permission to re-release their materials in this project, “ALL MANNER OF MYSTERIES.” See below for further details.
The Carcanis Contests are an experiment to see if the fun of the old days can be resurrected.
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