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NEWS
RELEASES - 2006 | 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival LUSTS FOR
ORIGINAL SKIN, issues WORLDWIDE CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF SNOW AND SKATE
BOARD ART
3RD Annual Masterpiece in Motion – Snow & Skate
Board Art Competition offers $1000 purse to winning designer of snowboard
TopSkin™ graphic
WHISTLER, B.C., January 17, 2007 – The world’s best
designers of snowboard art are summonsed to the ultimate showcase of
shred at Whistler’s 2007 TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival.
Masterpiece in Motion (MIM) continues its hunt for the best original snowboard
and skateboard art in the world, with a worldwide call for submissions.
Artists have until March 16 2007 to submit their original visual
art and graphic designs for snowboard and skateboard canvasses. 30 finalists
will have their designs showcased at the ten day TELUS World Ski & Snowboard
Festival, putting the most fresh innovative street art directly before a tidal
wave of street-savvy viewers.
In 2006, the exposure launched MIM finalist Zak Wilson towards commercial success.
When Togo’s Sandwich shops of California ran a promo based on Snowboard
Art, they hooked up with Wilson, and commissioned him to produce a series of
designs that became part of a winterlong traveling roadshow that
hits North and SoCal skateparks, Rail Jams, gear shops, sweet surf breaks and
will be at Snow Summit/Bear Mountain and Sierra Summit throughout January and
February.
The 2007 Masterpiece in Motion Champion will walk away with US$1000, an Ascension
snowboard featuring their winning art, and the opportunity to work with Ascension
Snowboards to develop a line of boards featuring their Snowboard Art.
The top three winners, as chosen by a jury of industry leaders, will take home
a cash purse, and the top 3 honourable mentions will receive Original Snowboard
Art Top Skin(™). A People’s Choice award will be elected on-line
at www.whistler2007.com < http://www.whistler2007.com/ > and
announced at the Festival.
Says contest founder, Bob Lutnicki of US-based OriginalSnowboardArt.com, the
world’s source for original snowboard and skateboard art, “Entrants
over the past 2 years have made MIM the biggest and most prestigious board art
competition in the world. The Masterpiece In Motion Snowboard Art Competition
is truly a shout-out to the culture – the individual voices expressed
on the snowboard canvasses are amplified into a roof-busting chant for our way
of life when they’re all brought together at the Festival.”
Whistler suffers no shortage of advocates for lifestyle. TELUS World Ski & Snowboard
Festival Managing Director Sue Eckersley says, “The Festival is built
on three pillars of sport, music and arts, and it’s where those mingle
and intersect that the energy really gets exciting. The Festival has become the
epicenter for showcasing art that is inspired by the action sports world. On
the hill, we have the world’s best riders throwing down tricks, and at
the base of the mountain, their tools displayed as canvasses. This is not your
ordinary art exhibit. It’s a showcase of creativity that pulses with energy
and relevance and the crowds love it.”
Masterpiece in Motion is produced by OriginalSnowboardArt.com and sponsored
by Ascension Snowboards, in association with the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard
Festival, the largest annual winter sports festival in North America held each
April in Whistler, Canada.
The TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival is produced by Watermark
Communications, a Whistler sports & entertainment marketing company, and
presented in partnership with Tourism Whistler and Whistler Blackcomb. Founded
by W1’s Doug Perry twelve years ago, and now the largest annual winter
sports and music festival in North America, the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard
Festival is a high-octane 10 day and night showcase of the best of snowsports,
music, arts and mountain life. Featuring major professional ski and snowboarding
competitions, the largest free outdoor concert series in Canada, the legendary
Pro Photographer and Filmmaker Showdowns, and many more unique art and cultural
showcases, the Festival is the ultimate wrap party to the ultimate winter season. For
information on the 2007 TELUS World Ski and Snowboard Festival , this
year from April 13-22, visit whistler2007.com < http://www.whistler2006.com/ >
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Contact:
Contest Information: please visit originalsnowboardart.com
Festival Information: please visit whistler2007.com
Media Inquiries:
Lisa Richardson
Communications Manager
Watermark Communications Inc.
10-1006 Lynham Road
Whistler, BC
V0N 1B1
whistler2007.com
p. 604.938.3399 ext 21
f. 604 938 3398
lrichardson@watermarkinc.ca
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