~~HPB Log, Cube Sector ff25c4~~
In October Odd-yssey, Part 3, hot-pink makeover successfully applied to employment location of GAPA RC. See report. Phase I accomplished.
Phase II. As our legions of invaders decorators swarmed into the interior to implement our plot measure the windows for draperies, encountered unknown alien force which continues to elude us.
Hahaha, I love the pictures in the back ground. They don’t catch your attention right away, but there they are. I like the colors in them.
And I am envious of Koko’s mad sliding skills. How can a stick figre balence so well?
hahaha, yesss
Love the pictures, didn’t even notice that until i saw JS’s post.
Those’re awesome.
Hooray for Koko!
And, yes, it is quite possibly my dream to be able to slide down stair railings (especially awesome glass/metal ones like those) that well.
This is awesome! I can remember at least a similar spot in the AAAS building, and it is looking better by the minute! Keep it up, koko!
Red-tailed HAWK
(4) I know what you mean, purplefinch. I can’t look at a lovely, long railing like this one without dreaming of sliding down it. And don’t you think such a nice, big, open atrium should have trapezes or at least a rope so one could swing across?
*sigh* Guess I have to settle for tap-dancing in the lobbies.
Here’s a closer look at the background posters. For the graficionados out there: I retained the lighting effects from the originals and used them to overlay the revised contents. There’s also a touch of Bo on the far left poster in the close-up. (The wide view comes from an earlier version. I didn’t think to go back and change it.)
I’ve been campaigning for a zipline myself. I went down one last week at the company picnic. Great fun!
(7) *envies*
I think, at minimum, offices should offer the basic amenities one finds in a bird cage.
I’ve always admired hamster cages. Has anyone been to the City Museum in St. Louis? It’s like a hamster palace for human beings. I ran wild in there when the AAAS met in St. Louis a couple of years ago. There are some narrow tunnels hidden up above the ceiling tiles where I was sure I’d get stuck and turn into a pile of bleaching bones…
Should anyone wish to document their own Kokopelli sightings, this might come in handy.
Should you need something larger to work with, try this one.
I sent one!
Kiki the Great points out that Koko is very fond of sliding. I’ll keep a closer eye on rainbows from now on.
ha ha that’s hilariouse! I love you rebecca!
Yeah this is great! I may try to send something c00l soon…I have a zillion pictures, many of which are blurry or distorted-seeming just because I can’t keep the camera straight, not becuase I was having any big ideas when pushing the shutter!
Red-tailed HAWK
I sent the GAPAs’ just now, pictures of Canadian landmarks being terrorize/ seneraded by Koko. pleas GAPA’s if you could post them. I got the photos off the internet and added Koko myself.
BAHAHAHA!!
I must try somthing. Curse not having photoshop. *opens MS Paint grudgingly*
I FIGURED OUT HOW TO USE THE GIMP!
TREMBLE, WORLD!
17- i don’t have photoshop, i do everything on paint. paint is cruel but once you tame it you can do wonders. I can’t wait till my stuff goes up.
Wah hahahahahaha!
I just sent in a picture.
These are AMAZING!!
I really wish I could do one. I guess I could draw one by hand and scan it in. Or does anyone know of photo editing software that is free for macs, besides GIMP, which doesn’t work on my computer for some reason?
22-the GIMP is the pwn. it just is. do you have x11 properly installed? really. try again. or, torrent photoshop.
Kokopelli moves fast. This report from Kagcomix:
But before he crossed the border, he left his mark on Washington, D.C., as recorded here by Beavo the Online Stalker:
ha! I will find a picture, and make his mark.
Cool! Amazing!
I want PHOTOSHOP!!!!!!!!What? Oh, no, no I didn’t just say something.
maybe.
I meant 25.
Heh heh. Sent one.
This is addicting as the bunny pictures. *rushes off to make summore*
Remember that time where people were finding stores and stuff
named aftersharing the names of muses? I found a Mimi Restaurant. I have no picture, but would a brouchure suffice?This one by agagabagabag is titled “invasion of Koko.
Administrative note: This officially fulfills our quota of George Bush pictures.
l sent another! l’m on fire!
I sent a second picture. This one took considerably longer, but just because my hands are always all shaky.
31-Aw, man! I was gonna have so much fun!
Kokopelli has entirely too much publicity.
23 (dark duke) – I don’t have x11, and haven’t had any success in downloading it. Suggestions?
These are flamablamablous!
Rebecca – I really like how you put the reflections back on the pictures, it makes them look even flamablamablouser (ha! I invented a new word!)
*fine.* more flamablamablous
(35) Thanks, Purple Panda. Those are the kinds of details I love to discover and figure out. They can make a big difference in the whole effect, too.
(33) Yes, somehow I anticipated that.
A GAPA used a smiley? *perishes*
Apropos of which, I need to come up with a new term for GAPA.
(36) We use them sparingly to great effect.
Why a new term? We’re quite fond of GAPA.
38- Great effect indeed.
I want to use a new term in order to set myself apart from the crowd. (Although the mere fact of being a Muser sets me apart from the crowd plenty…)
I sent one.
I think I’m going to draw (literally) a koko on the top of my hockey stick, on the tape, because that’d be awesome. And the stick itself is flamablamablous and pretty but could e a tad better with that.
Plus, an excuse to send in pictures! Whee!
6-oh, yes. Brilliant plan!
9-No, although that sounds so much fun… But I was talking to people, and somebody brought up the subject of a human-sized hampster ball for humans that sent on water. I don’t know if it’s true…
I
“Went” on water.
Excuse my post-sloppiness, I was rushing off to jazz band…
Maybe I’ll do one!
35-yeah… that would be why GIMP doesnt work. im fairly sure that osx comes with it, so if you have your cd, you can boot from it and like select to install it. or, the mac tech people are ridiculously helpful and im sure there is a tutorial somewhere on teh internets.
yeah. *decides to utilize his photoshop.*
o snap! the pictures on the top! the blur isnt a filter, right? thats umm…. smudge or something, right?
26- HEY! how are you? i’ve been worried!
anyways, i love the “uh.. sir.. there’s been a change of decoration” *laughs histaricaly, on another note, I got my 2 resistance is museless t-shirts today!
46-Thank you.
GAPAs, did you get our pictures? *worried*
(45) Some of both, ddod. Kokopelli consists of three layers. I applied radial blur to the first two, with slightly different strengths, on zoom, with the angle offset. These were assigned the “overlay” blending mode. After selectively blurring edges of the third Koko, I used the Liquify filter to stretch his hair, matching the angle with the other two.
(47) Thanks for reminding me, Beavo.
From agagabagabag:
TNÖ reports: “The infamous trickster was recently photographed playing his flute as he leaned against the feet of the Lincoln Memorial.”
In related news, we hear from Beavo the Online Stalker that “once again, the HPB’s hit the street with spray cans/pies in hand.”
35- A) get the cd, and find x11 (look on apple website for details) or B) wait two days. OS X 10.5 leopard is coming! hurrah!
Please note that I used a picture from Quinn’s 5th grade Washington trip. (Sure, they sent US to Salt Lake, but nooo, two years later they’re sending their 5th graders to WASHINTON. Geez…)
Oooooh! Those are so awesome!!!!! I’m going to make one!
48-cooooooool. and you have a tablet. lucky you.
(53) Yeah, tablets are the pwnage. I’m so attached to it — the other day I noticed I no longer put the pen down when I type.
hmm… me should do some more Canadian ones. I wore my resistance is museless t-shirt today. people were all like “you’re bunnies scare me” and i was all like “they’re supposed to” hah! even the obliviouse are scared!!!!!!!
GAPAs’, I sent mune a couple of minutes ago.
Any acronym I come up with turns out to have an obscene meaning. I guess we stick with GAPAs.
Kagcomix brings us this interesting bit of news:
The U.S.-Canadian border seems to be the center of activity at present. Purple Panda send us this view of the Niagara Falls.
Oh, man, I’ll make one of these at some point…
LoL. We need to petition for a flag change…
I am in the process of creating a new one.
Hey, what are Koko’s views on HPBs?
61- *splat* is what i’m sure he’d say.
i do everything on paint so i’m sorry that the smiles are a little weird.
62-I copied Alice’s wanted poster on the Bevy of Bunnies thread, erased (tediously) all the wanted things and the color (cept the pink) and saved it. Now I can just copy and paste from my own. Or Rebecca can post a big one *wink*.
(63) Beavo, or anyone else who needs a nice, big HPB graphic to work with, take a look here.
I sent another picture
because I’m special.64-Ohmygoodness that’s big.
Did you get my picture?
News bulletins continue to pour in from around the nation.
From TNÖ:
From Lady Cinnamon Moon:
These developments are encouraging renewed activity among supporters of Mostly Harmless. This just in from Beavo the Online Stalker, reporting from Somewhere-Over-The-Rainbow:
Mom got mad at me for the last one because “it looks emo.”. (?) DId I mention she’s insane?
Ooh, I did draw a small koko on my hocket stick. On the tape at the top. It looks pretty cool, I should take a picture…
69-Yea, you should. That makes you unbeatable, because you can pie people in Hockey. Yeah.
68-……. teall your mom that emo is a-#@%$&^%& and b-not pertaining to pink.
71- did you just choose random symbols or if i replace them with letters will it spell a word… because non of the words i can think of fit….?
72-used obscure evil profanities. j/k, random shift+number keys.
73- *fake exasperation* I was trying all the ones i knew but that one is longer than most! kidding ofcourse.
Well, I have no problem with being emo, I rather like black and skulls and such. I was just saying it’s stupid that she’s mad at me. *im making another*
75- she should love you for who you are. i’m prety sure my parents would stil love me if i turned emo or goth.
I’m so eville. I made another. I’m on fiiiiiiiiiiiiire!
76-Mine would totally disown me.
78- aw. beavo. but we (me) will always love you!
79-lol. I’ve thought about it an awful lot.
You know, the thing is, I’m always, jumpy and funny and happy with my friends. But I don’t think they would belive the way I am on MuseBlog. And I don’t think MuseBloggers would belive the way I am at home. And I don’t think my parents would belive the way I am when I’m alone. I guess when I’m alone, it’s my real personality. I have so many different masks, it’s creepy.
Did that sound horribly weird and ADD? :blush:
*heart is poured out*
Conclusion: I’m like, mega emo minus the cutting.
80- you don’t seem ADD. mostly you just seem sincere. i now what you mean by the masks. MB is my true self. my self at school is all laughy and friendly. with kids at my old school it’s trying to show them i’m not a coplete idiot. with Mlee it’s my true me. with Josephine it’s my true me. basicaly with almost everything i feel like i’m wearing a happy mask over my tired tired self. so i can believe you’re different everywhere. but underneath there’s part of the beavo i think i know.
81-*gasp* You think you know the real Beavo! St-st-stalker! Oh, wait. That’s me. Oh well.
Agh! See what I mean by masks! I don’t even feel like making a joke, but somehow my natural instinct is to seem cool with everything.
I think that if I were someone else looking at me, I wouldn’t be my friend.
I don’t even like the real me. It’s so, I don’t know, setimental. Mushy. Mush mush.
Can I ask y’all a question? Do I sound emo? PLEASE answer this truthfully, because I can’t.
82- no. not at all. and i am being completely truthful. and could you eplain the first part of your post please?
83-You said you knew the real Beavo, implying that you had stalked me and you actually know who I am and where I live and all. It’s just that all with me not being my friend sounds kinda dark.
We should probably move this conversation to Just Friends…
Robert, did you get my new picture?
84- i get it now. we probably should move the conversation but its so much fun to have it here!
85-Yeah, moving stuff gets confusing. I guess we should stay until *ahem* new pictures *ahem* get *ahem* posted. Scuse me, I had a slight scone stuck in my throat.
Ahh! I haven’t been on this thread in a couple of days, but look! Great shots! yay for Koko!
I’m about to send something: Koko tries the other worlds!
87-
indeed.
Eh, stupid computers. Haven’t changed my name on this one for forever.
Hm… I have an idea… Pity I don’t have PhotoShop. *grr*
90- MS Paint can do wonders!
wow. i should make some ore stuff this weekend. watching this thread die… *tear*
Did the GAPAs get out stuff anyway? *is worried that Beavo has to resend*
68- what’s wrong with emo?
Beavo, you don’t sound emo.
The mask thing I totally agree with.
At school, in classes, I am a really nice, happy, cheery girl who does good in school. At lunch/anytime I actually talk to someone I bring out the sarcastic-but-otherwise-nice girl. Talking with one specific group of friends I use the skater/emo personality. On the MB I switch between all of my personalities depending on how I’m feeling. By myself, I’m sightly emo but otherwise a nice girl who gets good grades.
94-Did I SAY there was anything wrong with emo? NOOOO.
I’ll resend. I’m worried now.
Okay, I sent it. GAPAs, please let me know if you got it!?
From Beavo the Online Stalker, who says:
99- lol.
99-hahah! C00l.
Did mine ever get there, GAPAs? *worried*
Red-tailed HAWK
(101) Thanks for the reminder, RtH.
The caption for this is “Koko in space — Houston, we have a problem.”
102-Thanks for posting! I just wondered if I sent it wrong and you didn’t know how to break it to me that I’m no good with computers!
/ 
No, I’m not too bad. 
Yup, somehow koko got up there, and got it to move, probably threatened it with a pie.
If you're wondering how I really did it, all you have to do is have a shaky hand while taking the picture!Red-tailed HAWK
Yay! Koko takes a dinasaur and space!
Rebecca – I sent something awhile ago, but you don’t have to put it up until you’re completely caught up with NaNo and have absolutely nothing to do. Which basically means never, but that’s okay because you already spent enough time on the Pumpkin Drop pictures.
Oh, dear, I did get behind. Here you go, Purple Panda.
“Kokopelli creates a new kind of penguin–the Kokemperor penguin!”
(103) A shaky camera can be an art tool. All these “light painting” effects were made by moving a digital camera around in various patterns while shooting pictures of portico lights.
102-Moon: “Get him off! Get him OFF!”
105-And then the mutations of Kokopelli took over the world. Bwahahaha.
105- NATIONAL ENQUIRER: News Flash! Emperor Penguin claims her Hatchling is Famous Muse Kokopelli’s! Can Koko’s reputation survi*SPLAT*
Now taking over the Harry Potter franchise:
Thank you, Beavo for reporting on this latest development of Mostly Harmless.
Boogity boogity boogity!
tis very funny! Harry Potter and the Order of the Musers!
I went and sent another. Yes, I’m addicted.
From Beavo, with his transcription:
“Hey yo! Dis band is rockin’, yo! Wazzit called, yo? Black Eyed Muses? Sumptin like dat, yo. Yo, their song goes like, lemme see, uh, ‘Yo, have a pie, yo, I’m gonna give you a pie, yo, have a pie, have a pie, have a pie!’ Dude, that’s the awesomest song, yo! It’s better n’ dat Souja Boy song, yo! Who needsa ‘Crank Dat’ when you can ‘Have a Pie’, yo?”
If you turn it upside down and squint and filter it thorough unrefined oil you can tell that on the right it says “Have a pie, Have a pie, have a pie…”
104 – Ack, I spelled dinosaur wrong. *dies*
106 (Rebecca) – Those are cool!
Beavo – what program do you use to make your pictures?
115- i think i recognise the tell tale signs of MS paint
As do l. The spray paint, the shape and texture of the yellow object, the text box…
OMG! I want to spot Kokopeli too!
Yup, MS Paint. Hail the day that I get Photoshop.
It looks like it can do a fair amount, though.
I really want to learn how to use Photoshop, because I think it would be really fun, but there’s a very very very slim chance that I’ll ever get it. And it’s a bit difficult to learn how to use it if you don’t have it.
Just in, this report from kiwimuncher: “I was looking through my sister’s random microscope this morning and amazingly saw Kokopeli consulting with microscopic organisms! Yet another attempt of Koko’s in his upcoming election………..”
Or would that be mikroskokopic?
121- that is preetty skillful! i am laughing quite hard right now!
Maybe Koko is planning on poisining thousands into voting for him, not that he needs to. He’s got me.
Awesome! It’s almost as scary as that HPB cell culture last April 1st.
I schall make one of these prontissimo.
Yes, that was extremely fast. An invisible HPB? Who knew?
I said Make. Not Send.
Ooh! Ooh! Do send!
Sent.
Ah, I sent another one yesterday and forgot to say it. Sorry about that…
In ANY case…
GAPAs, should I send it again? *worried* It might have gotten lost…
(131) Here you are, Beavo. Apologies for the delay.
Beavo wrote: “Well, you know it had to happen at one point or another. Kokopelli has invaded the famous work of art, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci.
Next thing you know, he’s gonna be, like, taking over the world or something! *scoff*”
Ah, thank you. *relief*
Hmm. It turned out better than I expected, but you can’t see the UFP.
that is why we love beavo. because he is so hilariouse. hm… perhaps i should do some more… mabe spike up someinterest in this thread.
I made one. Can I send it as a PDF?
(136, speller73) Yes.
I’ve sent one too. Have you got it yet?
(138, ¡Ã߀ƒ! ) Yes, we did get it and will put it up tomorrow. I’ve been trying to give my eyes a break from graphics the last couple of days after a bit of overindulgence.
Speaking of which…*skips over to birthday thread*
Is a GAPA lurking around right now?
I’m lurking, but only for a few seconds at a time!
Generally, when does Lady Bunniful start moderating?
General Bunniful might have a general answer. But only Lady Bunniful knows for sure.
(142) Generally, I’m on and off throughout the day, but I had to be wrenched away from the computer for most of the afternoon. I got back just in time to moderate comment #140.
¡Ã߀ƒ! brought us this example of the process of bunnification and says, “Now we know why the person is screaming.”
And a poster from speller73, who gives it this caption: “The pie will come out tomorrow.”
145- *heeheeheehee*
Sigh, you can still see a bit of the shoes in mine. Maybe next time I’ll use Appleworks. (I’m not even going to say what I used this time in fear of being laughed at a lot.
147- I didn’t even see the shoes; I thought it was cool. It’s mine that should be laughed at. The only work I did was add HPBs to the person’s head and adjust their hue a little. *sigh*
148 – Yes, but the idea for yours was so good that it looked good in the end.
150- Yes.
150 – Yes, I’m such a perfectionist.
Hey speller, bet you used windows paint.
*snicker*
*tee hee*
You are laughed at. that wasn’t so bad was it?
Speller: *boo hoo*
153 – No, I have a Mac. I used something even less hi-tech than Paint.
154- that would be tough.
I have a mac too. what program do you have?
156-Macs are great for pretty much every thing except games. Now I’m using boot camp and running OS X and XP on a mac laptop.
whoops. didn’t mean to hit submit. My favorite mac program is garage band. Which program are you using to edit the photos?
157- are you lifewithoutanipod but then got an ipod? I guess so, since it says that that is you on the who’s here. I don’t have an editing program
. and imovie will not open. needs an update.
158-Yes. I actually like iPods, but I felt like I needed I new name.
That sucks about iMovie. I’ve never encountered a single problem with OS X. What version are you running?
159- 10.5.0 or 10.5.1 I’m not sure. but I can’t update intill I have high-speed internet. oh, and iMovie ’08.
144-THAT IS A SCREAM!!!
That’s really good. I saw it days ago and then forgot to come back to post about it!!!
Speller-No need to feel bad, I have a mac too and so cannot produce astounding things either. Sometimes the quality of a picture can depend on the quality of what one has to work with picture-wise!! And of course special programs, which I don’t have either…
Red-tailed HAWK
I have a PC *ignores boos*
Midnight Fiddler reports: ” I was reading when dad pointed out that a certain leaf out the window sure looked a whole lot like Kokopelli. Not only am I obsessed with Muse, but it now appears that I’ve passed it on to my parents as well.”
Good work, Agent Fiddler.
163-Whoa!!!!!!! That’s amazing! I wonder if he will stop in to my house. Or anyone else’s!?!
Erp, I have to go now. I may be able to come back this evening, I have many threads to visit. Prepare!!
Red-tailed HAWK
164~It was about a week ago, but keep an eye out, he might just!
163 – Wow! It looks a lot like Koko.
By the way, for those of you who were wondering, I actually made my poster in Microsoft Word. It sounds very unimpressive, but you can actually do quite a bit if you master the drawing tools.
These are really cool. I’m going to make one now!
166~ Yes, at first I thought dad was crazy, but then I got my but off the couch and looked. I took a billion pictures, but only these two turned out.
Wow, awesome! (I mean, flamablamablous!)
I’m sorry if this is really impatient, I just can’t wait for the one I sent to be posted!
This isn’t pointless, I swear. Is #FF00FF a good color? I was thinking it would make a good coded message or something to include hidden in ‘shoped pictures.
From Vendaval, who says: “using Gimp, I meshed a screenshot of Google with a home-made Muse “logoogle.”
And Unintended Pun reports: “Kokopelli has been seen bursting from flames like a phoenix. Rumors have been heard that he is a distant relative of a family of firebirds in Arizona.”
Another sighting by Unintended Pun, who reports “Kokopelli has been showing up in many garden flowers. This may prove the old wives tale that playing music to plants affects their growth, as Koko has been seen playing his flute in many gardens recently.”
These are great.
that last one looks the most like him ever
Hahahaha!
I am the master of the clone stamp!
Sweet. I just sent mine in, however, as I literally post this 24 hours after the last post, who knows who might read/see it?!
176 – I will! Probably. I read pretty much any post that shows up.
176- me, 55 miuntes after that was posted.
This just in from Red Hed Em:
“Koko was sighted over several fishing boats off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. ‘It was like a sign!’ one awed fisherman said.”
179- Ah, pareidolia.
(180) With a little digital assist….
179- That is really pretty!
181 – You’re completely right… it seemed to look better in photoshop… Koko looks kind of… flat, and not aligned with the sky. Eh, it doesn’t matter too much.
182 – Thank you!
(183) You’re close, though, and you don’t get better without trying. What tools did you use?
181- Yay! Somebody else knows what pareidolia is!
I’m sending in, like, two or three. Soon.
From TNÖ, with her captions, a flurry of sightings as grass roots support for Kokopelli’s presidential campaign appears to be building.
The infamous trickster recently returned to D.C, accompanied by a Hot
Pink Bunny and its two unfortunate victims.
Good heavens, he’s even taking over the muppets!
And here koko and 18 masked followers pose for a quick picture
outside the White House.
Ohmigosh! Run for your lives!
AAAA! They’re close, I can feel it!
That is the second stage of bunnification process.
wat’s up with the koko and hpb’s?
by the way, “we’re all musers he-pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff!”
i cant help it i love pies, hpbs and koko! cya l8r alig8r!
:mr. green:
sweet pic of the flower!
how the heck do you put pics on? I gotta know NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
193-You e-mail them to gapa@musefanpage.com and the GAPAs put them on. We mere bloggers don’t have the administrating power to insert pictures in posts on our own.
The other day I looked out the window and that leaf was still there.
Maybe I’ll think of another picture to make and send in…..
Something wicked this way comes…
i wonder why this is still open. it’s really quite ancient.
Haha, I was looking through the bunny threads and found this again…
Wow. I just read my old posts. I sound so different. I guess I’ve changed a lot since then. And I had a fricked up concept of emo lol
As a side note, Kokopelli will kill you.