What is the American Pig Challenge? It is a contest that American Pig is running to see who can come up with the best t-shirt design. When it comes to designer clothing submissions this is a place where you as a designer can voice your opinion and even submit your own work at a chance of winning $250! If you are an opinionated person you have the option of writing comments about other peoples designs and voting for which design you think is the best.

I like that they show how many votes each design currently has. As shown in the picture below. If you look closely you can see which design has the most votes and which designs are close runners up for being chosen. I think it is a great way to bring people together in an online community and also inspire clothing designers to show case there work.

If you are a clothing designer and you have a clever idea that you think is good enough to win the American Pig Challenge, I suggest you submit your work and have the chance to walk away with an extra $250. This could be a great start to getting your creativity out there and showing the community your talents!

Once again we used Drupal as the backend Content Management System which is quickly becoming our CMS of choice. He has complete control over the website from navigation to blog updates. If you ever need some graphic design work done for a youth oriented product line - he is your man!

I met some great people like Gord and Rene, RegX Gary, Gregory, Arthur, Scott and so many more. I hope to stay in touch with them as we are frequently in Seattle vising clients and friends.

You can check out some of the  video presentations on Blip.tv

photo taken by SEADUG member - taken from Flickr.

This is the crunch time for winter sports websites and marketing so we might have to say good bye for a little while as we go into project mode hibernation. Relax, relax - we will be back and full of surprises from todays leading snow sports companies.

Stay tuned.

It is OFFICIAL - the new Definitive Jux Records is live and direct 24 hours a day 7 days a week filling your gullet with top notch news, artist blogs, tour dates, clothing, digital downloads and so much more. If you are not familiar with Definitive Jux - they are one of the most influential indepedent music labels in the business. With headline hip hop artists like Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Mr. Lif, Murs, Cage, El-P, and just too many more to list here-  click for the full list of Def Jux Jukies

Dont’ forget to stream some music and buy some digital downloads too:

For those of you who don’t know yet - Drupal is an open source content management system perfect for small profile site as well as high profile media websites such as MTV, Def Jux Records, The Onion, Sony and many more.

I took some video using a Direct to DVD burner and a Mini DV Camcorder. I had to fool the camera by letting the current tape think it had run out of recording room - then the camera stays in preview mode waiting for a new tape - all the while I was still recording directly to the DVD burner - pretty cool trick! I later processed the video to my computer via a program called HandBrake for MAC - then resized it to fit on my iPhone. I also uploaded the video to www.blip.tv

You can watch the embedded Blip TV segement here:

Drupal CCK Video

Drupal Panels 2 and Views in Drupal 6 Video

Drupal Scaling

Here is what we saw:

The Face To Face tour will be the first of its kind in water skiing. For three months, beginning May 2008, Marcus and his crew will travel coast to coast in a custom Peterbuilt towing a 40th Anniversary MasterCraft boat. The tour will offer top notch water ski clinics, training programs, free ski days with a Pro, charity benefit days, public outreach days, celebrity appearances, gear demos, autographed posters, magazines, DVDs, film premieres and more. The tour will hit up four pro events throughout the summer and will travel over 12,000 miles bringing extreme slalom to the masses, on the lakes, rivers and swamps of the United States. Make sure you poke around the site, click the “Tour” link for specific dates and locations, and don’t miss a chance to catch the Tour this summer!

For those of you who don’t know, Def Jux Records is the home to some of the most amazing talent in the underground hip hop music scene. Sharing the ranks with Aesop Rock, Cage, RJD2, El-P, Murs and many more super gifted artists. I can’t wait to share more, but things will have to wait.