Urban Outfitters
From Australia 04/16/08
Skull Drawing Contest permalinkThe inaugural International Skull Drawing Competition is coming to a close. Entries are due by Friday, April 18. All you skull-obsessed, notebook and toe-of-your-Chucks scribblers get your work in! (Via NowNow.) |
From Elsewhere 03/21/08
Peeps® Video Contest permalinkMarshmallow PEEPS®: Easter icons for decades and now, sugar-coated stars. Direct a video featuring the technicolor treats and enter the PEEPS® Video Contest - one Grand Prize winner will walk away with a year’s supply of candy, a Flip Video Camera, a $100 UO gift certificate and an autographed copy of PEEPS®! Recipes and Crafts to Make with Your Favorite Marshmallow Treat. Check out the official contest blog for more info, and to get a look at the competition - entries will be posted as they’re submitted. In need of inspiration? Look no further than Project PEEPway, a Project Runway-style spoof starring marshmallows.
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From London 03/14/08
Our Lomo Contest Winner In London permalinkWith 120 other winners vying for the top spot, Tommy B was crowned the Grand Prize Winner of our Lomo Contest back in August. We flew him to London for the Lomography World Congress and once he hit the city he never put his camera down. He sent us over 500 images of his London jaunt and you can check out a handful of them here. Speaking of never putting his camera down, he’s also down in Austin this week, shooting the SXSW festivities for us. Stay up on his Flickr sets here. |
From New York 03/07/08
Stamina 2008 permalinkThis is amazing. Stamina 2008 is Agathe Snow’s entry to the 2008 Whitney Biennial. It’s an open, free, 8-day Dance-A-Thon. There are daily dance sessions throughout the Park Avenue Armory over the course of a week, culminating in a twentyfour- hour dance marathon on the last day. Dancers are issued time cards to record their participation, and at the end of the week the winner—whoever has danced the longest—is announced. All are welcome to particpate and you can sign up here. Also, check out the list of djs. It’s crazy long!
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From Los Angeles 02/07/08
Soap Boxin’ permalinkThe San Fernando Valley Illegal Soap Box Federation just posted their 2008 schedule and they are not messing around. Their flyer boldly taunts, “The Valley Rocks Echo Park...KNOW this Hipster” and “Action, Danger, Mayhem, Destruction, Bodily Harm...All For Free!” Sounds like guaranteed good times to us. |
From Elsewhere 01/21/08
TXTEES Winner! permalinkAnd the winner is...right here! Over the summer, we held a TXTEES contest here on the blog, asking you to text in your ideas for a limited edition graphic tee. We got over 3,500 submissions, lots of super great ideas, and after a whole lot of thinking, we finally picked a winner! Adam J. Kurtz, from Baltimore, created and designed the t-shirt pictured here. As mentioned, this is a collectible limited edition - so get it while it’s hot! |
From Los Angeles 12/31/07
Where Are You Dancing Tonite? permalinkA crazy amount of events going on tonite...lookee here: The Rub will be doing their thing in NYC, Diplo and Catchdubs are at Temple in San Francisco, and Guns’N’Bombs will be in Montreal with Curses! But downtown LA might be the place to be: I Heart Comix is going big with Mstrkrft, Z-trip, LA Riots, and Lasaro Casanova. And Dim Mak might have them beat with a line-up that includes Justice, Busy P, 2 Live Crew, Peaches, A-Trak, Whitey, and every DJ in LA.
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From Elsewhere 11/30/07
Evel Knievel - R.I.P. permalinkWe bid adieu to one of the ballsiest and ornery daredevils ever - the legendary Evel Knievel.
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From Elsewhere 11/20/07
SCADshorts permalinkBrought to you by the creative minds at the Savannah College of Art and Design, each month SCADshorts.com will release a brand new video short and it’s up to you to give it a creative S-C-A-D title. Use the right combo of wit and grey matter and you could win yourself an iPod.
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From London 11/06/07
Win A Trip To London permalinkOn the occasion of the release of CONTROL, the Ian Curtis/Joy Division biopic, Urban and Filter Magazine are offering you the chance to win a 5-day trip to London. Includes airfare for two from the US to the UK, a CONTROL movie poster signed by the director, the official movie sdtk and some awesome Joy Division swag. Sign up here. Also, don’t miss our interview with CONTROL director Anton Corbijn.
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From Philadelphia 11/05/07
Urban Renewal Contest WINNER! permalinkChloe Schempf is the first of 3 designers selected to be featured exclusively on UO.com in the Urban Renewal boutique. Chloe was one of hundreds of submissions we received this June when we posted the Urban Renewal Artist Customized Sweater Project on the blog. This year’s item is a super fine gauge boyfriend cardigan which was embellished, appliqued, screen printed, hand dyed, reconstructed and embroidered in an array of styles. Look for the other two winners’ sweaters here on the blog soon!
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From Elsewhere 10/31/07
Happy Halloween Part 2 permalinkYes, you heard us correctly. They assembled this unbelievable feat of engineering specifically to hurl pumpkins long distances. The 2007 World Championship Punkin Chunkin starts Friday.
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From New York 08/17/07
Women’s Alleycat - Sunday! permalinkThis Sunday Susan B. Cruisin is hosting a Women only Alleycat race. Starts in Morningside Heights and heads all the way around Manhattan. Details here. (Via Missbehave.)
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From Elsewhere 08/06/07
Who The Hell Are You? permalinkFor the past month Urban Outfitters and The Lomographic Society have been running this wicked photo competition. Four weeks and thousands of entries later we are proud to announce our Grand Prize Winner. Tom Bagel’s winning shot was taken in the Dead Sea in Israel using a Horizon Kompakt camera, but all of the images in his gallery are amazing. (Check out his shots from Coachellla). He truly answered the question Who The Hell Are You? Congratulations to Tom and thanks to all of you who participated.
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