I didn't have any good ideas for this challenge and then I looked at these Kirk & Spock figures on my desk. It occurred to me that Spam could make a good Horta and Spock's hand was outstretched just right for this scene from "Devil in the Dark".
I scraped the Spam™ with a spoon while looking at a picture of the Horta. My "Horta" ended up being not quite as lumpy as in the show, but, hey, it's Spam™! The cave wall is a crumpled paper bag, and the ground is potting soil on top of a pizza box. (I should have packed the soil down some, but I'm not going to redo the shot for that) I wanted to find some ball bearings to use as the Horta's eggs, but could not find any around the house.
This turned out pretty close to what I had visualized.
Pre-challenge notes:
My humorous entries in serious challenges tend to bomb, so I'll see how it goes when people are expecting humor. It's totally ridiculous, and I have no idea how this will do in voting, but I love it.
Post-challenge notes:
Placed respectably, especially for one of my weird humorous entries. I attribute this to the Spam challenge being one where humor was already expected. 3 faves in a challenge (a record for me) and Liberty's award makes this one of my most successful entries. This entry hit it's target audience.
Statistics
Place: 19 out of 53 Avg (all users): 5.7411 Avg (commenters): 7.0714 Avg (participants): 5.6250 Avg (non-participants): 5.7550 Views since voting: 1811 Views during voting: 446 Votes: 224 Comments: 24 Favorites: 5 (view)
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