WeSC x Karmaloop Contest
Staying true to the motto of the Superlative Conspiracy, everyone is welcome and strongly recommended to participate in the WeSC x Karmaloop contest. Everyone certainly includes you.
Guidelines:
-While some rules are meant to be broken, others are not: WeSC is the name and has to be spelled as such. Capital, lower-case, capital, capital. Got it?
-Be sure that all of the info that you submit is legit because you dont want to be disqualified from this give away! We also dont accept multiple e-mail addresses or designs from the same person. Fair play!
-ALL designs must be completed and submitted NO LATER than April 28, 2010!
Heres how it works:
Creativity is king and WeSC strongly encourages you to be just that. You are to create the official WeSC x Karmaloop collaboration t-shirt come up with a design youd like to see on the t-shirt and enter the contest!
The winner of the WeSC x Karmaloop contest will not only receive a $500 shopping spree on Karmaloop.com, but the design will also be featured widely on the Karmaloop and WeSC websites! AND the design will be made into an official WeSC x Karmaloop t-shirt for the Fall 2010 drop, exclusively on Karmaloop.com.
The 10 best entries in the contest, i.e The Finalists, will be judged by WeActivists and all-around stellar human beings Alex Prager, Sage Vaughn, Barry Schlosser, Clint Peterson, Mercedes Helnwein and Stash!
WeSC would like to wish you the best of luck, may the best man (or woman) win and let creativity rule out the common sense on this one!
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Official Rules
Term:
The Contest begins Monday, March 29, 2010 at 12:01pm and ends Wednesday April 28, 2010, at 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time (EST). By submitting an entry, each contestant agrees to the rules of the contest and states that they are 18 years old and older. Void where prohibited. By Entering the contest, each contestant agrees to Karmaloop's Privacy Policy and to receiving Karmaloop's weekly E-mail Newsletter
Who may enter:
Designers (professional or amateur) ages 18 and overexcept for individuals affiliated with Karmaloop.com or WeSC.
How to enter:
Graphics & Silhouette for a Mens T-Shirt, submitted on the submit a design page, along with your full name, mailing address, day/night phone number. All designs to be submitted as .jpg or .gif format. Incomplete entries will be automatically disqualified.
By entering the contest, entrants grant Karmaloop, LLC a royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive license to display, distribute, reproduce, and create derivative works of the entries, in whole or in part, in any media now existing or subsequently developed, for any purpose, including, but not limited to advertising and promotion of the WeSC brand and its Web site and commercial products. Karmaloop will not be required to pay any additional consideration or seek any additional approval in connection with such uses. By entering the contest you further represent that the designs are original and do not infringe upon any statutory or common law copyright, trademark, contractual, proprietary right, right of publicity or privacy, or any other right of any other person or entity.
Judging:
Judging will be conducted by the WeActivists of WeSC, based on the originality and creativity of the submitted designs. Decision of the judges will be final.
Karmaloop.com and WeSC reserve the right to cancel the contest or modify these rules at its discretion. Decisions of the judges will be final. Winners name and design to be posted on Karmaloop.com.
Prizes:
1 Grand Prize Winner: The inclusion of your design on an WeSC T-shirt, sold exclusively through Karmaloop.com and $500 Shopping Spree.
About the Judges: Stash:
Stash was born in Long Island, New York in 1967. He is considered one of New Yorks graffiti legends, pivotal to the East Village scene of the early 1980s. He exhibited his first canvases alongside pop art pioneers Keith Haring and Jean-Michael Basquiat when he was only 17.
While his contemporaries turned to Pop Art, Stash stayed true to the subway, working on trains until 1987 when he created his last underground piece alongside Zephyr. His early works on canvas demonstrate a loyalty to his early career in the use of subway map collages and signature bold outlines and clean shapes. By the late 1990s, Stash had pioneered the use of graphic elements of graffiti on street wear through high-profile collaborations with companies such as Nike and Bathing Ape , as well as his own brands Recon and Subware.
The move ensured his work reached a much wider audience than the gallery visitor and played a key role in the widespread understanding of and eventual public acceptance of graffiti. Stash is now widely regarded as an innovator in the world of urban design. His fascination with the urban environment is evident in his perfectly executed photographic work, which features a combination of city motifs alongside the latest lighting and printing techniques.
Sage Vaughn:
Born in Oregon, artist Sage Vaughn lives in Los Angeles, California. His works propose a heavy dichotomy of beauty, violence and urban melancholy, packaged in a technicolor, sugary surface. His Wildlives series shows children dressed as Spiderman or with swords amongst scenes of firefighters or run-down, graffitied buildings, whilst another key work, An Overreaction to Beauty, studs a line-up of baseball bats with rusty nails and butterflies. A keen fisherman, Vaughn has collaborated with N.A.S.A on the music video Way Down, featuring RZA, Barbie Hatch and John Frusciante, both co-directing and contributing artwork to the clip.
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Alex Prager:
Self-taught photographer Alex Prager has been widely exhibited since 2001, in cities such as Los Angeles, New York, London and Miami. Born and still based in the City of Angels, though splitting her childhood between Florida, California and Switzerland, she came to photography through the work of William Eggleston; her pictures too showing eye-popping saturated colour, narratives broken and snatched moments in time. Having contributed to publications including Details, i-D and Elle Japan, Prager won the London Photographic Award in 2006, with her first, 2007 solo show earning front page status of the LA Times Arts and Entertainment section.
Mercedes:
Mercedes Helnwein is a fine-artist, writer and video artist born in Vienna, Austria. Daughter to celebrated artist Gottfried Helnwein, Mercedes spent her teens in Ireland, recently adding Los Angeles as a second home. Jason Lee was an early supporter of her work, both collecting as well as hosting a number of her exhibitions.
He has said of her "...she's gone on to become one of the most respected and intriguing young artists of our time... Mercedes epitomizes the true pursuance of art ...sincerity and purity."
Her detailed drawings have been described by the press as "photo-realistic delicacies", "lucid fairy-tales," "haunting," "southern Gothic,""evocative" and "unexpected". Her self-portraits have been compared to Cindy Sherman and her sense of quiet drama to Alfred Hitchcock and Edgart Allen Poe.
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Clint Peterson:
Skater, Artist, Rambling Man of Mystery. Compensator, Deceiver, Handler of Fragile Goods, Servicer of Inspiration
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