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Experimental Gameplay 2009 Call for Participation

Game designer/developer and friend Jonathan Blow would like to remind all of you that the Experimental Gameplay 2009 is now taking submissions:

The Experimental Gameplay Sessions occur every year at the GDC; it’s a two-hour showcase of unusual and cutting-edge game designs. Each designer gives a ten- or fifteen-minute presentation of each game, including a live demo.

We’re now looking for submissions for the 2009 workshop, which will be happening in March. If you make unconventional kinds of games, I encourage you to apply. Our Call for Submissions document discusses everything in more detail:

Experimental Gameplay 2009 Call for Participation

"The Animation Show" Giveaway!

HaHa Hustlers,

Fall's just around the corner and we've got something great for you to cozy up to. Tired of the studio re-runs on television? How about a little independent animation?! Uber comic creator, Mike Judge has released a collection of animated shorts, 'The Animation Show' and we want to share it with you!

Leave a comment with something you found funny recently and we'll pick three winners. The grand prize winner will receive 'The Animation Show' Volumes 1-3 on DVD, and two runners up will receive 'The Animation Show' Volume 3. Enter to win by 5 pm PST, Thursday, September 18, 2008! Good luck everybody!

NEW VIDEOS:

Let's Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApiLrFCHW1s

Psycotown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyl9HgY40c4

Feel Good Film Festival Ticket Giveaway!

Hey Hustlers,

What do you feel good about? Leave a comment and you'll be entered to win one pair (two tickets) of All Access Sunflower passes to the Feel Good Film Festival in Los Angeles. The program will honor comedian Jonathan Winters and will be hosted by the always entertaining and funny Rainn Wilson!

About the Feel Good Film Festival:

The Feel Good Film Festival is a non-profit film showcase encouraging the development, production, and distribution of short or feature length films with happy endings, that make audiences laugh, and that capture the beauty of our world. Live-action or animation, comedies or romantic comedies, fiction or non-fiction and films with happy endings are submitted to the Feel Good Film Festival. The winning projects will be entertaining, optimistic, humorous, or heartwarming and leave the audience feeling good.

The festival runs from August 22 - 24, 2008, so if you want to be sure to go, buy your tickets now! Otherwise, drop us a line to enter the contest. Comments/entries must be submitted by Friday at 12:00 p.m. PST. Good luck to you all!

Mustaches are Infectious!

Attention all car and art enthusiasts! The cool peeps at Infectious are giving away icon-sized pieces of Infectious art to three lucky Hustler of Culture readers. Hit them up at hustlerofculture@infectious.com with subject line: HOC Contest and the randomly selected winners will be notified shortly after the contest ends. BONUS (but not required), if you're macho enough to rock a Burt Reynold's-inspired mustache (can be stuck on, inked, or home-grown) and submit a photo, Infectious will select one mustache entry winner to receive a free piece of hood art! Bonus points for rocking a stance in front of a black Trans-Am. Contest ends Friday, August 15th at 5 pm PST. Good luck!

Related: Buff Your Car

LA - "Simple Pleasures 01" (08.09.08)

Call For Submissions: Five Dollar Comparison

A few friends from Nokia are wondering what $5.00 can buy these days. They started a a public flickr group and a website and are asking people to send in photos of what they've purchased for a Lincoln. If you're out and about spending cash, please take a moment to document your five dollar purchases. Hopefully something cool will come of this.

Call For Entries: Queens International 2008

Queens International 2008
(December 2008 – April 2009)

An invitation to artists of all media, who currently live and/or work in the borough of Queens to have their work reviewed for possible inclusion in the exhibition. Previous incarnations of Queens International can be viewed here.

DEADLINE: August 1, 2008 (postmarked)

Eames Stamps: First Day of Issue Recap

June 17, 2008 - 11:37 a.m. - Santa Monica, CA

I had the pleasure of attending the First Date of Issue for a new pane of stamps by the United States Postal Service celebrating the designs of Charles and Ray Eames. It was a very exciting day filled with media, friends of the organization, Eames enthusiasts, and many family members.

I was honored to be present on such a momentous occasion. The Eames family is kind, sincere, and determined to keep the design duo's history alive. By way of the internet I've become friends with Eames Demetrios and have learned so much about the foundation's mission through his infectious personality. Should you ever find an opportunity to meet an Eames org champion, they'll most likely thank you for your continued support and appreciation of the family legacy.

Congratulations to the Eames family for the historical milestone! Share in the joyous occasion here:

LA - Go Skateboard Day (06.21.08)

Call For Submissions: The Art Parade

Call For Submissions: Graniph T-shirt Design

The Japanese design t-shirt store graniph, is hosting the second international t-shirts design award contest from the February 1, 2008 to March 31, 2008. All young artists, designers, illustrators and photographers are welcomed to send their ideas for t-shirt designs. Everyone is welcomed to apply regardless of age, gender or artistic background. The winners will receive cash prizes, be promoted on the graniph website and the international press and have their design printed on a graniph tee!

The application form and more information can be found at: www.graniph.com/award

Call For Submissions: Experimental Comedy Video

Call For Work Experimental Comedy Video

What would happen when there are art videos and comedy videos together?

We had a video show at Doug Lussenhop's comedy night in LA and our cinematic alchemy turned out pretty well. We're going to play this show in Chicago AND put out a call for work.

The Heaven screening series showcases shortform experimental work. For this show we are looking for short form experimental comedy videos.

Heaven Gallery is currently accepting submissions for an Experimental Comedy show

Deadline is January 31st, 2008

Please send or drop off to

Attn: Clara Alcott
Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. 2nd Flr.
Chicago, Il 60622

contact: clara@heavengallery.com

Eye Spy 2007

A year in pictures! Eye Spy 2007 slideshow. Almost a photo a day by Hustler of Culture and Silvio. Thanks to Diego Bauducco for PictoBrowser! Eye Spy 2006 here.

Remembering Nike's "Art of Speed" The Shortest Race

In January of 2004, I competed in Nike's "Art of Speed", The Shortest Race. The foot race was 39.9 inches from start to finish! That day was most excellent day and a highlight of the cool things one gets to do while living in Manhattan (thanks again, Honest). Aside from messing around all day with my peeps, I made some solid friends including before-then-TED-prize-winner, Cameron Sinclair and artist, Max Fenton. I discovered this video on YouTube while Googling the race for Facebook purposes. I heart the internets!

CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine

From 1969 to 1988, CREEM produced celebrated writers, honored rock gods, and wrote about rock music like no other. The namesake book, CREEM: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine is the anthology for all the music that mattered in those ear-shattering decades. Jam-packed with selected interviews and photographs, turning the pages of CREEM is like delving into a music encyclopedia of pop culture. Before Bowie, Iggy, and Lou were icons, they were in CREEM. Before MTV’s ‘Cribs: Whips, Rides, & Dubs’ there was CREEM’s “Star’s Cars”. Before he was really famous, Cameron Crowe was typing for CREEM.

Thanks to video games, anyone today can be a Guitar Hero or Rock Band. But we all know, nothing beats the real deal. And thank CREEM for being there to record the stuff that legends are made of. To all the fans, this book's for you.

Leave a comment stating your fondest rock-related memory and win a chance to own a copy of CREEM, courtesy of HaperCollins. The contest ends on Thursday at 5 pm PST. A winner will be selected at random and contacted shortly after.

"Work it Out" B-side.

Okay so Joey Garfield's still feeling pretty, pretty good about his MTV award nomination and winning the Emerging Director award at Swerve Fest. To celebrate, Joey's released the "B-side" of his clever music video for RJD2's "Work it Out".

I hope Joey takes home another prize for something soon 'cause when that man wins, he motors on about how good "it" feels. Like, from the heart. And it's kind of sweet.

Swerve Festival 1-Hour Special Screening.

November 9, 2007 - 11:35 p.m. - Santa Monica, CA

A lot of friends were involved with the inaugural film, music, and art festival, Swerve Fest. I was chuffed to participate on the jury. And a lot of talented peers showcased their work to the public.

We hosted a dinner and screening of the SwerveFest 1-Hour Special and spent part of the night pointing to our telly, laughing at insane misspellings of names of peeps we knew. Fuel TV's insistence on spelling names phonetically was pretty damn hilarious. Winner of the grossest name butchering goes to Geoff McFetridge! Congrats to all!

UPDATE: The fine folks at Fuel TV have corrected the misspellings of names and will be airing the special again on the following dates:

Delay Eastern FUEL TV Sat - 12/01/2007 12:00 PM
Delay Eastern FUEL TV Sat - 12/01/2007 03:00 PM

Delay Eastern FUEL TV Fri - 12/07/2007 12:00 PM
Delay Eastern FUEL TV Fri - 12/07/2007 04:00 PM

Delay Eastern FUEL TV Mon - 12/10/2007 08:00 PM
Delay Eastern FUEL TV Mon - 12/10/2007 11:00 PM

Delay Eastern FUEL TV Sun - 12/23/2007 11:30 AM
Delay Eastern FUEL TV Sun - 12/23/2007 02:30 PM

The special's definitely worth seeing as it showcases a lot of hard work from many of our friends. Pelase support our friends!

Spend the Turkey Hols With Ozzy!

Heavy thanks to the metal world for giving us this opportunity to break bread with the Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne. My friends are running a contest to give a lucky soul a chance to win Thanksgiving dinner with the Osbournes! Good luck and if you win, I want to go to the concert with you!

SF - "Best Friends Forever" (09/22/07)

Hey, Hot Shot! Contest.

Image Credit: Aspiring Hot Shot Carlo Van de Roer

The deadline for the Summer Edition of Hey, Hot Shot! is just two short days from now:

Tuesday (8/14) @ 11AM is your last chance to get your entry in for the season.

Want to dive in? Apply now.

Not quite ready to take the plunge? Size up the competition: The Hey, Hot Shot! blog has been featuring contenders 7 days a week, recently ramping up to 2 per day.

Summer interns Marina and Mike are in charge of the Contenders Series for this edition, and they've been writing great posts - using contenders' entries as a springboard, they've gone off the deep end and into waters previously uncharted by the HHS! blog.