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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 âHow Toâ â effectively offering an example for the Green Your Music Habit Contest. Itâs 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 donât 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, weâve got a great surprise band signed on to do their version of a Bumbershoot theme song. Iâm not going to say too much, other than Iâm 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 youâre 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. Youâre 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 youâre 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 itâs the winner, you get to interview bands backstage at Bumbershoot with SPINâs editorial staff. I donât even get to do that. If I could win this prize, youâd better believe Iâd be all up in this contest.
Weâve 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 (theyâll think youâre so cool!)
Weâve 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 youâre 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 âShoot. And, my favorite, our Teen Angst Poetry contest, where you submit your most embarrassing/hilarious piece of poetry, written during your emotional youth. Itâs totally worth the cringing, though, since itâs 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, Iâve been pretty contest-oriented lately. But Iâm 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 sheâs doing it way wrong. Sheâs 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⦠sheâs basically writing the book on how not to submit your haiku. Otherwise, sheâd be a shoe-in for those 3-day passes (that is, if Bumbershoot employeesâ family members were allowed to enter. Which theyâre not. Sorry, Mom. DISQUALIFIED!)
So basically we have a contest for everyone (except for my Mom). Theyâre 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, contests, intern, myspace, readymade, spin, video
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