Everyone came up with some great, awful examples of cell phone product placement, but only Mia came up with one that we could have never thought of. In this Korean series, Anycall (TV, movie … we’re not quite sure what it is to be honest episodic commercial), some J-Pop boys and screaming girls get stuck in an elevator — but not to worry, they have a mobile!
Thanks again readers. More prizes next week.
[ED NOTE: So, due to a gracious Mia and a few readers who filled us in on what exactly Anycall is, the only fair thing to do is give the prize to the runner up, Chuck, who reminded us that before Instinct, there was the 90 minute Motorola commercial, Cellular.]
Greetings. Salutations. Time to win some free #$#% again!
If you’ve kept up with the site, you know about Hulger and their desire to see the whole mobile phone carrying world go retro. This week we’re giving you the opportunity to take home any of their chunky, corded handsets that connect to your slim, cellular phone.
The Prize: One Hulger handset of your choice (retail value, from $39 – $190)
This Week’s Rules: We’re feeling a little jaunty this week, so here’s a pop culture themed phone question: What is the worst cell phone product placement in a movie? Everyone has seen a flick that either puts the brand name front and center, uses the phone as a major plot device, or — if you’ve been out recently, as we have — just puts a whole f-ing commercial before the film. Point these out to us, and the one that makes us groan the loudest wins. Winners announced on Friday.
Congratulations to Alan, who went above and beyond the call of duty by not only making clever acronyms, but also created some banner art to go along with them.
It was so good that I was momentarily fooled into believing this was part of the conference.
Thanks, as always, to everyone who came up with an ATEAM (That’s Acronym To Excel Above Mediocrity). We’ll see you next week.
Science, Nature, Art, People: It’s Boulder’s newest intellectual get together and it’s called SNAP! Yet another acronym with a great purpose, the conference joins TED and PopTech! as an excellent place to go get inspired, educated, and network — and it’s invite only as well, and at $1500 a ticket it’s still a little spendy but on the brighter side, it’s just fraction of the price of TED.
Speakers like Daniel Pink, Author Naomi Wolf and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis and many more interesting folks will be telling their stories September 23rd to 25th at the Boulder Theater. Michael Franti and Spearhead will be on stage as well, for the musical and film portions of the program.
Oh, wait, did I mention we’ve got a ticket to give away?
The Prize: A ticket to the festivities in Boulder, with hosted receptions and meals (retail value $1500; travel and hotel not included).
This Week’s Rules: Make an acronym like SNAP! of your own. Come on, you can do it. Make it good, make us laugh, make it matter, and relate it to changing the world for the better through science, nature, art, and people. Politics, too. We’ll choose winners next week. Comment away!
This is him on Rano Raraku volcano crater on Easter Island. It’s pretty damn far, and pretty damn exotic — and for that he will receive two pairs of Alex & Chloe sunglasses. Time to find a travel companion Greg!
Tune in next week for another exiciting episode in expensive win-ables on Big Ticket Tuesday.
Cheer up. According our watch, it’s still summer for another month (it’s a really big watch). That means you’re going to need some fashionable shades for the late season sun. How about a pair of Alex & Chloe sunglasses? We’ll assume you said yes.
The Prize: A set of Alex & Chloe sunglasses, one Santa Cruz style and one Cape Town (est. retail value, $190 each)
This Week’s Rules: We know our readers are savvy world travelers. For this Big Ticket Tuesday, we’re asking you to submit one pic of yourself wearing sunglasses in an exotic location. It can be a link on Flickr, Shutterfly, Picasa, et al., or you can send it directly to feedback [AT] joshspear.com. Also, provide a quick caption of where you are (we’re not frickin’ Carmen Sandiego over here). The reader with the farthest traveled specs will get two new pairs to continue the trek.
It was a tough decision … so many sweet rides to choose from. So we deferred to our benefactor: Puma USA. We realize there were a few of you who brought us wooden bikes, but Klee got there first by finding this uniquely intricate and amazing cycle. Our man over at the Puma says, “I would have taken a wood-burning pen and drawn some cool #@&$ on it.” Agreed. Congrats Klee, you’re going to be one bad-ass riding through town on this new bike.
You’re watching the Olympics in China. The Chinese ride a lot of bicycles. You think to yourself, “I need a new bike.” Then some other things happen and you find yourself on this website, just in time for a stupendous Big Ticket Tuesday prize. You may have read our previous post about the Puma-branded Biomega bicycle — well, it can now be yours for the low, low price of free.
THE PRIZE: The Puma Glow Rider urban mobility device. (It’s a bike. Est. retail – $1200, courtesy of Puma.)
THIS WEEK’S RULES: We have another Interweb scavenger hunt for you. This velocipede is the cat’s pajamas, but there are probably hundreds of bikes out there that have been tricked (we’re trying real hard not to use pimped) out for people’s riding pleasure. Find us the most inspired two-wheeler (and it has to be a bicycle — no mopeds, scooters, motorcycles … anything with an engine). Just paste the link in the comment field. The best entry will get our biggest prize yet. And remember: One entry per reader.
The correct amount in the wallet? $109 … which apparently was all blown at the tables in Las Vegas last Friday. Thanks again to everyone for taking a second to participate in our little Tuesday giveaway.
Just a quick heads up that nobody has hit the magic number yet, so two brand new, handmade, fresh leather smelling Makr wallets are up for grabs. And, just to give everyone a sporting chance, we’re going to extend the contest through the weekend (last entries in before midnight Monday). We’re also going to give you a hint: It’s more than $1. Alas, we’ve said too much!
Is it Tuesday already? While we’re busy devising ways to get you into first class seats, front row concerts, digitized gadgets and limited edition schwag, we thought you might like a nice amuse-gueules prize. We’ve been ranting about Makr brand leather goods, and now we want to put one in your pocket — wait, that didn’t come out right. Choose from all of their excellent lines, including the Lace (above, left) for the ladies.
THE PRIZE: A lovely Makr wallet (est. retail, $120).
THIS WEEK’S RULES: We have another simple challenge. Last week we wanted to know what Mr. Spear had in his bag. This week, we just want to know how much money you think he has in his wallet (at the time of this post). First two readers to get closest without going over … you know the drill.
Austin got there first with the correct guess of a mimobot (honestly, who travels without one of these?). Our runners-up also guessed that Josh carries around a charger (of the Blackberry variety — some of you said Blackberry, but everyone knows the actual device surgically attached to his palm) and a bottle of OTC pills (Melatonin for the jet lag). Again, thanks for playing and try again next week. There are some huge prizes coming up.
Time is running out to submit your guess for this week’s Big Ticket Tuesday. What does Josh have in his bag? A laptop? A change of clothes? Jars of his own urine? Your guess is as good as mine. And we have some good news. Although only one of you is going to be getting the Timbuk2 by Threadless bag, the two runners up (we did say there were three items in the bag) will get Threadless tees.
[ED NOTE: Yes, threatening Josh on the street and stealing his bag is a disqualification.]
It’s time again for another edition of Big Ticket Tuesday. This week we’re featuring one of the items we were high on a few weeks ago: Timbuk2 by Threadless collaboration
THE PRIZE: You’ll receive one of the three T-shirt inspired bags plus the matching shirt.
THIS WEEK’S RULES: What’s in the bag? The first person to correctly guess one of the three items that Josh has in his bag (excluding bag components like straps, zippers, etc.) at this moment wins. Fast, simple, and totally random. And, one guess per poster. The winner will be revealed Friday.
Although we would love to give prizes to everyone who gave us camo colored thongs, tampon holders, nutsacks, wedding dresses, condoms, and Ted Nuget’s hat, we find this homage to Dali’s “Lobster Phone” to be the most original, most disturbing — frankly we feel that Bryan deserves the prize because we can’t ask the artist why this exists. Thanks again to everyone this week for sending your submissions. Try again next Tuesday!
Congratulations to Alan, who went above and beyond the call of duty by not only making clever acronyms, but also created some banner art to go along with them.
Congratulations Klee.
Congratulations to Bryan.
