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That's a ceramic Walt Whitman TV. Can you do better?
For you, “Pottery Barn” means rural clay studio, and “throwing pots” has nothing to do with domestic violence. Get your big break (ha?) and a shot at ceramics stardom with UncommonGoods’ ceramics design challenge, the latest installment of their periodic contest series. You can submit up to five of your favorite clay pieces, and the Uncommon folks will choose a spread of top picks before turning final decisions over to their customers (via community voting) and a panel of guest judges. Winner gets $500 plus a vendor contract to hawk their wares on UncommonGoods.com. There’s not much time left — contest closes 10/31 — so get your entries in to ceramics@uncommongoods.com ASAP.
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Instagram is a great if you want to make the photos taken with your cutting-edge spacephone look like they were taken by your amateur wedding photographer uncle in 1981. Brooklyn Bowl is giving you another reason to use/abuse the faux-vintage photo sharing: winning tickets! Says the ‘Bowl: “From now on, when you take Instagram photos at Brooklyn Bowl (be it of your bowling shoes, Blue Ribbon fried chicken, or your best electric slide) and tag them with #brooklynbowl, you’ll be entered to win 2 FREE TICKETS to any upcoming show of your choice.” Best photos win, so remember: never look modern.
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Practice your moves; the talent show is soon!
Our budget blogging buddies at the skint are hosting a big ass talent show next month, and they are giving $150 in cash to the winner! On Sept. 8 at the Bell House, the skint presents So-You-Think-You’ve-Got-Talent Idol with the Stars to show off some of the most magnificent talent this side of Manhattan. Says the skint: ”Have people other than your mom praised your singing voice? Are you a bendy contortionist with a knack for celebrity impressions? Can you juggle bagpipes and train puppies to dance while riding a unicycle that has been set on fire? (Don’t worry, no one can do that last one!)” 
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Pia Toscano sang the anthem in '03 and was recently an American Idol finalist.
For aspiring baseballers, the minors are where it all begins. Whipper-snappin’ pros take endless grounders, bust their chops, hone their skills, all in the hope of climbing the ladder to the game’s biggest stage. And by biggest stage… we mean American Idol. The Brooklyn Cyclones, the Mets’ local farm team, are looking for future idols to sing (or otherwise perform) the national anthem at this season’s home games in Coney Island. Open auditions are next Thursday, May 19, and if you’re feeling at all musically-patriotic, you might want to try your chords. This local girl did back when, and it worked out pretty well for her.
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Sixpoint contest entry, submitted by Barclay Douglas
If you’re feeling a little in touch with your artistic side after a few Sweet Actions, you’re not the only one. Presumably because the last call for artist submissions for the Red Hook brewery was a huge success, Sixpoint Craft Ales is again summoning would-be beer culture experts to create inspired posters and upload them to the brewery’s Facebook page (the winner will be chosen by “Likes”). The theme is “Beer is Culture”, and any medium is acceptable, so all you mixed-media mavens, rejoice! Six finalists will win gift baskets with customized apparel, goodies from Sixpoint and other local artisans and (to emphasize the “culture”) a free year-long membership to a local art museum of their choosing.
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Work by previous winner Surabhi Saraf
Via 3rd Ward we heard the Artists Wanted: A Year in Review contest has extended its deadline through Friday. The contest is a free-for-all for the best art of last year: all mediums, techniques, styles and narratives.The top prize is a featured spot at the SCOPE show in the city March 2-6 next to” top figures” in the art scene, a $10,000 grant ($5,000 to create new art, the rest to spend on whatevs), a publicity campaign and star treatment at the after party. Judging is underway, but you have until midnight Friday to enter for your big break. Judges include luminaries of the art world and … Topher Grace.
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It’s not even winter, and one of the thrills of next summer is already knocking on the door. Celebrate Brooklyn!, the summer-long concert series that’s the reason to spend a warm evening in Prospect Park in recent years, is looking for a new t-shirt design for 2011. The series’ organizer, BRIC Arts/Media, is holding a t-shirt design contest between now and Jan. 31, 2011. Whether you’re “an aspiring artist or designer squatting in Bushwick… or just a constant doodler in your 9-5 cubicle,” submit a design, get chosen by the judges at BRIC, and you’ll win a “Friend” summer-long membership that includes four reserved seats and tent-access for every regular show, plus two comp tickets to a benefit show and more.
We know you guys have strong feelings about supermarket coffee, wifi bars and eyebrow waxings. Now you can put those opinions to work for fun and prizes. Brokelyn is partnering with Zagat and Google New York to offer three ace reviewers spa packages to Tres Belle Petite Medi-Spa in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. And we’re not talking just a lash tint here: the prizes are worth $500, $1000 and $1,500 in goods and services.
