{"id":113,"date":"2005-08-04T19:44:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T03:44:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:36","slug":"ipod-winner-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/08\/ipod-winner-4","title":{"rendered":"iPod Giveaway #4: We Have a Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"John Whittet<\/a> (whose illustration is to the right) said it best when he clarified the purpose of the 4th Monthly Mike Industries iPod-A-Monthly Creativity Competition:<\/p>\n

“This particular contest is about telling a story, not writing one.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With 60-some entries to read through over the last week, I encountered a great many well-written ones, but none told the story of a lost iPod more creatively and convincingly than the audio-blog-umentary<\/a> by Ohio State University’s very own Josh Schoenwald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You see Josh bought a very special iPod Shuffle about a month ago; one that not only had a personality but was also smart enough to set up its own account on Blogger, keep an audio diary<\/a>, and even fade U2 songs into the ends of its blog posts. “Flit”, as Josh calls him, is no ordinary Shuffle.<\/p>\n

As of today, I’m happy to say that Flit is indeed in my possession and will be returned to Josh first thing tomorrow morning along with a pair of $150 Etymolic earbuds<\/a> courtesy of iLounge.com<\/a> (formerly iPodLounge). Congratulations Josh!<\/p>\n

I also want to draw attention to a few other spectacular entries of note, the first one being John Whittet’s<\/a> amazingly well illustrated animated docudrama entitled “Little White Cookbook”<\/a>. John produced some amazing visual effects by overlaying his own hand drawn figures against a backdrop of photos pulled from Google Images and then Gaussian blurred. It’s a really cool effect and one I’d never seen before… you can read more about it here<\/a>, and perhaps hire John for any illustration projects which require such awesomeness.<\/p>\n

Another standout was Paul Santolaria’s take-off<\/a> on one of my favorite films “A Shot in the Dark” starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau. Very creative and extremely well done.<\/p>\n

My favorite two pure text entries (which each were worthy of first prize) were David Barrett’s account of his iPod-Shuffle-turned-pregnancy-test<\/a> and Kat’s hilarious yet tragic home mugging<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were five others I found very amusing as well, but I’ll leave those a mystery.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everyone for entering, and the next contest will launch around the middle of this month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Whittet said it best when he clarified the purpose of the 4th Monthly Mike Industries iPod-A-Monthly Creativity Competition: “This particular contest is about telling a story, not writing one.” With 60-some entries to read through over the last week, I encountered a great many well-written ones, but none told the story of a lost iPod more creatively and convincingly than the audio-blog-umentary by…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}