Michael, and to all the newcomers, it's very nice to have you with us. Welcome to the uwol friendship!
We are a bunch of people in addition to Meryem who can answer any questions you might have.
The most important is to get out in the nature, and follow rule #11, "Have fun"!

Good Morning,

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO # 7.


I AM GOING TO BE A CONFORMIST AND EVEN GET THE NAMING CONVENTION RIGHT THIS TIME!!!

i HAVE A FEW IDEAS IN MIND, NOW JUST HOPE i CAN FIT THEM TO THE THEME!!!

I AM IN!!!

..."in addition to Meryem",

--who only masqerades as a person but is actually an alien life form from planet Q in a distant galaxy far away, sent to planet E to test the players with bizarre theme ideas and study their responses--

Michael, check the first paragraph on our website: www.uwolchallenge.com--that should help a little...

we conceived this as a "nature and outdoors" contest and then learned that even our core concept can have a very broad, unanticipated interpretation (right, Steven? our Disney World shooter-in-residence...).

"Our world, your vision".....from anywhere and everywhere on the planet.

Count me in.

I will get this one completed

I imagine I stretch the concept about as far as it can be stretched. You bet. My idea of the "Great Outdoors" is probably pretty warped, but they treat me nice around here anyway! ;-)

Well I'm glad you're around Steven, seeing as how I'm going to be shooting all that "outdoor wildlife" here in Central Park in the middle of February. Technically I call the following photo a "canyon", but let me tell you, being a native Californian, it probably hurts me more than it hurts you.

Here, present and ready to go

This is so exciting :)


I'm in.

_____Present.

There a first time for everything, count me in.

Please may i be added to the list!

signing up
 

This is my first uwol :)
Count me in!

i hope i have the time to get it done before deadline. hehe

Hi, my first post here will be to say count me in (as long as i can actually get my camera before the contest is over!!). looking forward to contributing more on here.

im in
Dave Trainer

I'm in
 

Happy new year 2008

I'm ready, but only for animals subject and without great choice. But i'm ready.

Gilles

IMPORTANT: if you're a first time player, you need to send me an e-mail at uwol@comcast.net

just signing up here won't do it, because i need to be able to send you the uploading password.

I'm up for a challenge too.

Hi

I'd like to give it a go if I'm not too late doing this

Cheers

David

It's not too late, you have several days left until the theme is announced:

Me too
 

OK... I'm in.

I'm in
I'm in
I'm in

Oh Don't forget me!
 

I am in too. Hope can finish this one in time.

I´m in...
 

I´m a complete rookie when it comes to film making, but hopefully this can be an educational experience...? :o)

I would like to give it a go!

Espen

COME ON! its got to be the 1st somewhere in the world - I can't stand the suspense!!!!!

erm, it's still the 30th - even in your TZ - Jan has 31 days ;-)

I know the feeling though ;-)

Yes, and maybe Meryem is still at sleep for now. Boulder Colorado time is about Wednesday 6.30 am and Newcastle Australia is Thursday 0.30 am. So we're living in the same world, but not at the same time? :)

By the way, today I was down in the worlds deepest undersea road tunnel doing an interview with the project leader. Amazing! But not for uwol :(
The tunnel will be opening at February 23.

That's the UNDER WATER part of uwol, Geir Inge. :)
Sounds like a cool project you have there. Good luck!
But make sure you have time for the very important and amazing uwol 7! :)

I'm up for the task! :)

uh...just to clarify for everyone, the DEADLINE applies to "anywhere in the world" but the actual theme announcement will happen on February 1, Colorado time (Mountain Standard Time), typically after my coffee and after schlepping my daughter to school (she has an 8 am start time).


SO...typically i get the theme out there between 8:30-10 am MST. It's too much for me to over-think these things and play international timekeeper as well!

on those periodic occasions when I'm suffering an attack of insomnia, the theme goes out while I'm prowling around the house in the middle of the night, prior to the coffee and schlepping...

so, you folks in Oz, think 24 hours from right now...

and this thread will be considered closed at midnight tonight, MST...in case anyone is left to sign up...

Meryem,
this seem to be new all time high in sign-up numbers of challengers?! How many are there now? I'm too lazy to count through all the threads!
Seems like Norway has got some new challengers too!

My unofficial count puts us at 54 contestants.

Austrailia: 4
Belgium: 1
Canada: 4
France: 1
Norway: 8
South Africa: 2
Sweden: 1
Turkey: 1
UK: 11
US: 19
Wales: 2

Forgive me if I combined geographic regions that are considered independent entities. Geography has never been my strong suit.

my official count has 53 sign-ups. per, this puts us at our largest number of sign-ups since our very first Challenge (when we had 72, before anyone, including me, really knew what the heck we were doing...). but you're right, we sure have a crazy Viking invasion going on...Team Viking is really putting up strong numbers, although look at the bloody numbers posted by those Brits! (Mat has been coaching me in how to swear in British, i need to add a few norvegian svear vords to my growing collection....)

but signing up is easy! costs nothing!

getting your film completed and posted and chattering with new friends all over the world: priceless!

we'll know in 3 weeks...i think our current posted film record stands at 30 for WATER. let's see if, er ah, NOT TELLING can bust it open....

and Andrew, thanks for the stats...quite interesting!

I'll give this one a try
 

Hey, sign me up sounds like a fun challenge!

I'm signing up Howard Bourne, pending Chris' activation of his account.

This also goes for any other new player trying to get on board the Challenge who might be new to DVinfo. When the new accounts stack up, sometimes it takes awhile to be able to post--just shoot me an e-mail at uwol@comcast.net to let me know your intent, and I'll get you signed up.

Count me in. I've been wanting to do one of these for a while now.

[QUOTE=Meryem Ersoz;817073] i need to add a few norvegian svear vords to my growing collection....)

That we can fix in a hurry ;)

try using "forbannade hæstkuk"
the next time your angry at someone. hehe

Hope the theme on the next comp will do us norwegians vikings well.
We currently have a big badass storm called "Tuva" here now.
So rough weather would have been a nice theme. hehe

hm, lots of syllables in that swear word. i'm not sure i can wrap my lazy yankee mouth around the load!

signing up Mihali Moore, pending DVinfo account activation...

Good evening,

56 contestants, WOW!!! we are going to have to work hard to get something competitive!!!

We have a couple hours left for sign ups too!!!

It will be fun to see how many of us can finish it out!!

Both my cameras need to get into the shop, going to have to wait till after!!!!

May end up in my old digital 8!!!!

Hope they hold up!!!

Tomarrow is the day to start!!! anxiously waiting!! may have a hard time sleeping tonight!!

It's 1:40 in the morning here. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning.

Come on Meryem, we want to start unwrapping presents! :)