the deadline is september 1st for the second annual HBML shoebox diorama competition. last year ruled, and in an effort to up the ante, this year the winner gets a $200 cash prize. as the gif above clearly states, “no joke”.
as in last year’s competition, the dioramas will be stacked one on top of another in our windows, in a brick wall fashion. bearing this in mind, remember that all dioramas must be in a box the size of a shoebox, they should be side- and not top-view, they must be totally contained within the box (nothing on the sides or top, or jutting out in front, or dripping underneath). heavier entries will be stacked towards the bottom so please try to make them structurally sound. batteries are ok, wall plugs are not. there will be glass between the viewer (on the street) and the diorama (inside, in the window), so nothing interactive in a button-pushing way. also, i cannot be expected to turn things on and off every day. also, really glue everything down solid- if something falls we won’t know how to put it back together- we are idiots.
we will be collecting dioramas from now until september first, which is a serious deadline. in addition to the grand prize, there will be silver and bronze prizes, and lesser (or “booby”) prizes, including famousest entrant and best bribe. if you are shipping us your diorama please realize that we probably can’t ship them back, but we will try to hold them for pickup until well after the competition ends. or you can authorize us to sell them and keep the money.
any other questions leave a comment or email jacob at fujichia dot crom
UGG. about the same time the city put in the bench outside our window, they dropped off this shitty planter full of dead plants. everyone from the bus stop has been unloading their discreet trash into it and it really stinks incredibly bad. “like an 18th century hospital” as dad smith once said. it’s true, i put a slice of pizza in it– my hands are not clean on the “making the thing that smells bad smell worse” angle. if anyone has a truck and wants to get something really smelly to ruin a bad neighbor’s barbeque, please wing on by.
i need dead incandescent lightbulbs (not flourescent) to drawn on, as shown (sort of), and fill up a glass case or glue to hooks and hang from the ceiling. i have some, need more. i’m trying to construct a lightbulb ossuary. anyway if you bring three dead lightbulbs to the store i will give you a special handdrawn pin.
hey everyone, HBML is hosting a shoebox diorama exhibit in february 2007. depending on how many we get they will either be on display on the wall in the store or in the windows facing out. if you want to make a diorama for the show, let’s do it! full info…
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in-store filesharing setup- a bunch of blank cassettes for sale, a double cassette deck (or tape duplicator, a library of mixtapes with xeroxable liner notes. mix tapes should be thematic, along a theme you are enthusastic and knowledgeable about. purpose of the tapes should be to educate and guide people by the hand along a musical path that maybe they wouldn’t tread unguided. a good example (just an example) would be the tape you give a kid who is just getting into punk and only knows about mall punk, so you make a broad general view of things, covering as many bases and including as many anthems as possible along the varying sub genres. tapes can also be just a good time, or songs linked by topic, or cross-genre examinations. now accepting tapes. tapes must be 90 minutes long and must include photocopiable liner notes on one or two sides of 8.5″ x 11″ paper, that include at least the band name, the song name and the album name (if applicable) for each song. no cds. mail tapes to the store or hand off in person. stop chumpin’. donation of a working high-speed tape duplicator totally welcome.
