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Win Your Way into Bumbershoot
Right now at Bumbershoot, we have eight contests going on. Yeah, even I was surprised at that number when I just checked it. Of the eight contests, my level of involvement ranges from getting every individual entry in my personal email to notifying winners.
But the contests are becoming a bigger part of my job now. My good friend Mike (from the Sponsorship and Marketing InternViews) asked me to make a video as a “How To” – effectively offering an example for the Green Your Music Habit Contest. It’s a cringe-worthy public service announcement to give you all a good* idea of what we here at the Bumbershoot office are doing to green our daily lives as we prep for the Festival (*incredibly inaccurate statement). Pay close attention to this one by the way, because in addition to Bumbershoot Gold passes, you can win a bike (and bikes rule because they don’t use gas and you can take them off jumps, which is more than I can say for my station wagon).
Next, for the BumberTheme video, wherein you can write and perform your own Bumbershoot theme song. To help provide a good example of this, we’ve got a great surprise band signed on to do their version of a Bumbershoot theme song. I’m not going to say too much, other than I’m really glad we got an awesome band, and you should be too. Otherwise I was going to have to perform a song, and that would have been brutal for all of us.
If you’re not the PSA filming or songwriting type, Bumbershoot has plenty of other contests for you. You can get your hands dirty in the ReadyMade MacGyver Challenge, which is almost exactly the way it sounds: you take a CD jewel case and make something useful or artful out of it, then detail the steps of how to replicate your creation, so that others might learn from your example. (And seriously, I know you guys can do better than turning CD cases into coasters. You’re better than that.) The winner of this contest also picks up a pair of Gold Passes and will pedal to Bumbershoot on a sweet new bike.
Or if you’re like me and you think of yourself as quite the blogger, the SPIN Video Blogger Contest is pitch perfect for you. You interview a local band on video and send it in. If it’s the winner, you get to interview bands backstage at Bumbershoot with SPIN’s editorial staff. I don’t even get to do that. If I could win this prize, you’d better believe I’d be all up in this contest.
We’ve even got a new contest called the Ultimate CD Design Competition, where you make your own mix CD of Bumbershoot artists, then make the artwork, and have it judged online by fans. The winner gets some serious spoils on this one, with some crazy VIP treatment (like guaranteed entry to basically everything at the Festival). And three runners-up of our choosing get a couple of three-day passes for their awesome work. So if you miss that wonderful high school anxiety of trying to make a mix for your new crush of two weeks, get mixing, and maybe you can take them to Bumbershoot for some VIP treatment (they’ll think you’re so cool!)
We’ve also got our MySpace Top 4 Friends contest (where you just have to make us one of your top 4 friends on MySpace (duh), register with our website, and you’re done. Super easy!) Or you could give our Bumbershoot Haiku contest a go and write yourself a summer-themed haiku, so you can win a limited edition Bumbershoot poster, and qualify to win 3 day passes to the ‘Shoot. And, my favorite, our Teen Angst Poetry contest, where you submit your most embarrassing/hilarious piece of poetry, written during your emotional youth. It’s totally worth the cringing, though, since it’s for a chance to win tickets AND have your entry read live by Sarah Bynoe, the inspiration for (and judge of) the contest, at her show F**k Off and Die: Tales in Teen Angst Poetry at the Festival!
So with all that swirling around in my head, I’ve been pretty contest-oriented lately. But I’m not the only Stewart getting in on the action. While going through haiku entries, I found my own mom has entered (several times, actually). And she’s doing it way wrong. She’s been posting them to the wrong Facebook wall (actual submissions go here, btw) not registering them on the entry form, emailing them to us instead of posting them… she’s basically writing the book on how not to submit your haiku. Otherwise, she’d be a shoe-in for those 3-day passes (that is, if Bumbershoot employees’ family members were allowed to enter. Which they’re not. Sorry, Mom. DISQUALIFIED!)
So basically we have a contest for everyone (except for my Mom). They’re fun, and best of all, you could win tickets to Bumbershoot (and sometimes bikes)!
posted July 17 '08 at 03:14PM by Evan in blog, competition, contests, intern, myspace, readymade, spin, video
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Evan's Mom said…
Dang it!
on Jul 19, 09:42 AM