iPod Giveaway #1: We Have a Winner
He entered early. He entered often. He is Davin Risk, master food sculptor and photographer from Toronto, Canada, and he is the winner of the Mike Industries “Make a Meatspace Shuffle” creativity competition.
Davin’s first entry, made entirely of goat butter, arrived only hours after the contest began and set the pace for a field of over 40 excellent “interpretations of iPod Shuffle as food”. Davin followed up his well received goat butter creation with a Parsnip Shuffle, a Tofu Shuffle, and the eventual winner: The Banana/Apple/Spaghetti Shuffle (shown above as the first piece in our honor roll slideshow).
Davin’s winning entry was both creatively assembled and brilliantly photographed, which helped it withstand the onslaught of entries throughout April. Stephen Lodefink’s Spam Shuffle garnered the most attention around the web and gave Davin a run for his money, but the toughest test came only 90 minutes before the contest closed when iPod case designer extraordinaire Nikki Sevcik submitted her tantalizing “Morning Shuffle”, consisting of a frothy espresso drink, chocolate covered strawberry, and exquisitely placed “Shuffle wafer”. Nikki’s entry is the second in the slideshow.
The Mike Industries staff (me) thought long and hard about how to pick the winner, but in the end, there was no perfect solution. At least 12 entries were award-worthy, but since Davin had four of them, his food sculpting prowess was the most clearly established of all the contestants.
I’ve provided an honor roll of 20 of the most worthy entries above and I thank everyone for participating in this first of 9 contests. Besides the first two slides, the honor roll is in no particular order. Enjoy.
Thanks also to Jason Anderson for concocting the first competition. His baby boy is already enjoying his Shuffle. Remember, the submission pool is open until the end of the year.
And finally, although I can’t award a second place prize, I’m happy to point readers in the direction of Nikki’s portfolio of custom iPod cases. They’re one of a kind.
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These are spectacular. They are almost enough to prompt regret for not entering in an obsessive-compulsive who never touches his food (that’s me). Congrats to Davin and everyone for their great work. Color me impressed.
If anyone knows free iPods, it’s Croftie…
Davin, it might as well be Ansel Adams complimenting your photography. Seriously… this is an honor. :)
Can you make the images available to the readers who don’t worship Flash, too?
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I’d like to thank the Academy of Amateur Food Sculpters and my partner Gayla (simply because it’s our 12th anniversary today).
Many thanks to Mike for doing fun and generous things with his site on top of the already amazing work he and mark have done with sIFR.
I promise not to mix-up my new iPod with any food that happens to be lying around.
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Abc, you lazy turd,
Go download the player. It isn’t that difficult.
Mike: Kiss it. :)
Davin: Don’t forget to wash your hands after playing with your food. :)
this is amazing
stuff like this on the internet reminds me that it’s not all just a bunch of angry people arguing on forums :D
Flash sucks, there is no precompiled plugin for my OS.
are you sure it’s flash that sucks, and not your os?
but don’t worry abc and anon, i’m sure mike will come out with a univac and pet version.
plus, his non flash version is here.
:)
Anon Amous, our love is like red hot steel but youre a lazy turd too. Go download the player.
abc, his non flash version is here.
:)
sorry about the double post.
there was some error.
Great pictures and Congrats to Davin and everyone’s work!
Very nice photography on some of those. I think #6 is my favorite.
This is all sorts of tasty. I really like the sushi and spam ones.
Nicely done, and congratulations, David! I enjoyed looking at the other’s Mike posted too …
Unfortunately, i never got inspired by anything I ate over the past month. Sad… very sad …
Nice work Davin. However, I think you just may have a little too much free time on your hands. Someone send this boy some work.
Who wants to eat my ipod white chocolate?
It’s still in my freezer.
Sob. I didn’t win.
:(
pearly is sad
Hey I thought I was the only Davin on the internets…
That is very very cool, great idea for a blog and great results. Lovin Slide show pro!
I don´t understand #6. What is it?
(Editor’s Note: It’s a picture of an iPod made out of little pictures of food.)
Thanks for the props Mike! Fun contest–everyone’s food looked great. I especially love the earphones made from squid! I was having trouble deciding what to make my ‘pod out of until I found that green mug & saucer (just a few hours before the deadline even)! Then it all fell into place.
**In appreciation to everyone here, I would like to extend special thank you (for all those interested): mention Mike Industries at Nikkipod.com and I will take off $2 or 15% (which ever is greater) on any shuffle case order. New cases are coming soon!**
Thanks again, & we are all looking forward to whats next!
By saying the submission pools are still open are you saying that the contest ideas are still open? or that we can still put food pictures in?
(Editor’s Note: Yep, contest ideas only.)
Oh man…so fun…I’m brazilian…I really like it…
In the nexy championchip I’ll send you a picture…
Bye…BRAZIL!
Congratulations on your win, Davin! When can we expect the information for the May contest? I can’t wait to see and then try my hand at it (if my limited skills can help me).
The May contest will be announced in the next 7-10 days. The contests will last about 2 weeks from here on out. A month is a bit too long.
Great work in there to all!
Congrats davin!
Congratulations Davin and Nikki those ipods were great.
I can’t wait for the next contest.
I stumbled on to this from gizmodo.com.
You people seriously need an outdoor hobby. I thought the butter sculptors were far out.
Of course I’m jealous.
You lot didn’t pay attention, did you? Do not eat iPod shuffle! >.
Great first contest idea and winning entry.
I enjoyed all the entries, good stuff.
I assume most of you ate your food shuffle? ;-)
Looking forward to your other contest picks Mike.
Impressive use of the Flash component. Make it so it reads from an XML file (not sure if it does it now) and I will be willing to pay $20 for it. I dont have Flash MX 2004, nor know how to use it, so I would appreciated a “finished” product.
(Editor’s Note: It does. It reads XML as well as Flickr RSS.)
This looks deliciouse
Wow!, I know i am a little late, but coudn’t resist appreciating such a good flash.
Well done
Very nice. 100% creative, 100% inspired.
I have a granddaughter that wants a iPod for Christmas and her Dad could use it too. He’s a cook at the Air Base. But Britney wants it for songs, as she sings at her church.
Hi, very interesting image there. My husband is a process server for a private investagation company, he travels all day by train anywhere from the bonx to downtown brooklyn. he’s on the train reading doing puzzles and games on the newspaper. He comes home with The daily news, The NewYork Tmes, The Metro News, and The Post almost everyday. He loves music, once he gets home he puts on music from 5-10pm. He talked to me about getting an i-pod but we can’t afford it. he said” it’s ok maybe after Chrismas when the prices go down we’ll get a nano for $200 i think it holds up to a thousand songs.” the look on his face was so sad because i know he wants one really bad. i would love to give him one for chrismas, i just wish i could afford it. My parent told me about Santa when i was young now that i’m older idon’t have them to actually buy me the prasents anymore. we’ve been married for three years and he is the love of my life i would love to see his face light up on chrismas when i give him that i-pod.
haha.. he deserves that prize
These are very nice pictures… Interesting what you can make with food. I’ll try something similar in my kitchen!!!!
haha nice hardware…
nice and funny pictures, this idea is great :)
I would love to win this ipod