Mailing List Archive/2014-02-12

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Announcing the "Am I Awake?" video contest!
 
Hear the song on soundcloud! http://bit.ly/1evUfSB
 
They Might Be Giants is making a new compilation album called Idlewild
and it includes the magnificent, but often overlooked track "Am I Awake?" 
To help raise awareness of this great song we’re going to have a 
video contest open to all video people, film people and general 
visually-minded people who are open 
to the challenge! Possibly including YOU!
 
PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD. IF YOU KNOW 
CREATIVE PEOPLE PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM TO 
TAKE PART IN THIS EXPERIMENT IN GOOD TIMES!
 
There will be 3 winners. $1000 cash prize to each winner. 
 
These are the rules: Awesomeness required. 
Originality a must. DEADLINE IS APRIL 7th.
 
What we’d suggest to anyone about to embark on 
participating in this contest: Poetry, not prose. No see/say. 
Please make it beautiful, bold, stylish, contemporary, psychedelic, 
mind-bending. Transparency effects are nice; startling and beautiful 
imagery is nice; motion graphics can be exciting. Live action, 
animation, multi-media –- anything is possible. If there is any humor 
we would suggest it should be the deadest of the deadpan. 
The topic should not be John and John, 
and representations of the band are discouraged.
 
All imagery must be original. Incorporating copyrighted images will disqualify your work.
 
HOW IT’S JUDGED
All submissions must be uploaded in HD on Vimeo.com
with password protection before the contest deadline. 
You must then send us a message via email to  videocontest@tmbg.com
and be sure to include a direct link and a password along with your 
full name, email address, and phone number (strictly for contact purposes 
should you be chosen as the winner — we promise not to telemarket our t-shirt collection to you).
 
All judging will be done by the great Judge John Hodgman 
 
GOOD LUCK TO ALL PARTICIPANTS! EXPRESS YOURSELF THROUGH THE MAGIC OF ROCK VIDEO!
 
 
 
ROAD TRIP! TMBG perform 2 free all ages sets in WASHINGTON, DC
 
TMBG is FREE in DC! April 26! They Might Be Giants are doing only 2 shows
in the foreseeable future and they are both FREE! USA Science & Engineering Festival at 1pm and 4pm
The first set is more for kids, the second set not really, but both are all ages.
 
    
 
 
 
GET TMBGs FREE MUSIC APP!
 
The free iPhone app is at http://bit.ly/1dY2JAa (works great on iPads too)
and the free android app is here http://bit.ly/17xjrVd!