Sam B. rolls into town tomorrow. Good times will undoubtedly ensue. Incidentally, there are also grips of art shows going on this week. I will be covering nearly all of them for Curated/HS. So, sorry if you hate visual art. Because, hey, there are going to be some photos of art shows on here for the next few days.
On an entirely different note. I just wanted to say how much I love the readers of JNB. Yeah, all 12 a of ya’ll (did I spell “ya’ll” right, Kelvis?). Even the crazy ones (you know who you are). To show a little bit of that love, I’m going to start doing some giveaways. Basically just whenever I feel like it. I might make up some fake reason or milestone to try to justify it. But in reality it is just that I’m trying to unload some (debatably) cool swag (of which I have amassed shload of in my fake-line of work)(I’ll try to cut down on the parentheticals in the rest of this post, I promise). Winning it might entail some sort of lame contest that I invent.
As a matter of fact, I have already come up with a contest, as I was typing the stuff above. I guess that I should announce the goods up for grabs, first. The item that will first be given away via Jake’s New Blog is none other than a Flud Turntable watch. Peep the images below of the actual watch that will be given away:
from a slightly different angle–
These images are just to whet the appetites of those possible 4 of the 12 JNB readers who might be interested. The contest won’t actually start until probably sometime next week. The awesome thing about blogging for free is that there are no rules…. ever. But here is some insider information on what the contest will entail. I recently did a video for Curated and PF Flyers in which we featured various pieces of street art around the city. The contest will be something like “who will be the first person to name 5 artists whose works appear in the vid.” So– if you are perving on that turntable watch for your aspiring rapper boyfriend/husband (because let’s be honest mostly girls read this page), or even possibly for yourself, study up on your art. At least two of the artists have been heavily featured on JNB. Spoiler alert, one of them is not Banksy.
So, yeah. There is all of that. This might get embarrassing when I actually start the contest. But until then, happy hump day.
[top img: Curated, Juxtapoz, Highsnobiety]
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13 responses to “Visita de familia, e exposicioes de arte”
Holy hell, Jake! Can’t I just leave a comment saying why I want it and what fabulous things I would do with it? I’m heading over to facebook to like it immediately.
@Aubrey: Hahahahaha. Thanks, Aub. I should wrap up this watch and post it to you preemptively, just out of principle.
Olá é sempre bom ler a nossa língua. Tens familiares portugueses? I use to read both your blogs, yours and Reagan, and I like your writings and photos. Take care, Rita from all the way from the other side of the ocean :).
Uh. I love the bright map paintings. Who’s the artist?
@Rita: Tenho sim! Obrigado 🙂
@jackie: The artist is ZEVS. You can follow any of the three links at the bottom of the post for more details on his work.
I am a crazy reader!
Sorry Jake! It’s “y’all” because you are making a contraction with “you” and “all” by leaving out the “-ou”. The apostrophe is a stand-in for the missing letters. The end!
Also, yay giveaways! I never even knew I needed a turntable watch until just now.
As I was reading this post, I was thinking to myself, Jake had better make this giveaway/contest thing girl-friendly, because we all know your demographic. And booyah, you nailed it with the study tips. (With which I will still have exactly zero chance of winning.)
While I’m at it with the overcommentification, might I suggest some giveaway items:
1. Faucets. (Duh.)
2. Camera stuff. (You know you have some laying around.) Not to get too specific or bossy, but, oh, I don’t know, just off the top of my head: SanDisk 16BM Extreme CompactFlash memory card, Canon 430EX II Speedlite, camera bag to accommodate a Canon DSLR and two lenses, tripod, Lightroom 3, and your brain.
Again, these are just *suggestions*.
Sincerely,
A Crazy Reader
I think this is cool! I’m so in. I never win anything so my chances are a lot better when I’m one of 12. woohoo!
@Alison of a Gun: Hahaha. That is what I thought, too. But then a guy from Texas once told me that the apostrophe goes in the other spot. I forgot what the reason was. I guess it depends on where you are from in the south.
I knew it!! You do a giveaway and suddenly the loyal 12 of us grows in number!!!
Did banksey ever go to the oscars? Last I heard he wanted to come in disguise and the powers that be put the kaibosh on it??
You rock, giveaway or not!!
You said you had 12 followers and I noticed you had only 11 comments, then I realized I must be number 12.
@Bob: Thanks, man. To be fair, I padded the stats a bit with my replies. But I appreciate you lookin’ out.