Entries into the 12th Annual Webby Awards will now be accepted. With expanded categories and incredible new judges, this is your opportunity to be crowned the best of the Web. Save money by entering before the Early Entry Deadline of 26 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Download the template and go wild, you dope designer, you. Grand Prize winner will receive $2,000 in cold hard cash and $1,000 in gift certificate for use at Karmaloop.com, 5 free t-shirts printed with their winning design, and the opportunity to have their credited design sold on Karmaloop.

5 Runners-up will receive $200 in cash and $300 in gift certificates for use at Karmaloop.com, 2 free t-shirts printed with their winning design and the opportunity to have their credited design sold on Karmaloop.

All winning designs will be printed and sold on Karmaloop. Contest winners will be chosen Friday, 19 October 2007, so I guess you need to get your design in well before that date. Visit the site to learn more.

DBSA (Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance) is launching the Facing Us campaign to highlight the face of bipolar disorder and depression and to supply tools to those ‘facing’ the challenges of living with these illnesses. There is an intentional, multi-layered meaning to the program’s title: bringing mood disorders out of the shadows; creating a better understanding of what it’s like to live with depression or bipolar disorder, and; helping those diagnosed to create a reality where they face a better future.

This is your chance to let the world know your perspectives on:

• Facing Depression
• Facing Bipolar Disorder
• Facing Relationships
• Facing Recovery

Entrants must have the lived experience of living with a mood disorder. Deadline for video clips (no longer than 9 minutes in length) or artwork is 24 October 2007. PSAs are due on/before 1 November 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Internet video upstarts and Hollywood heavyweights alike can start practicing their five-word speeches and preparing for their moment in the global Webby spotlight.

The Webby Film and Video Awards, the leading international honors for original film and video premiering on the Internet, today kicked-off its call for entries with 19 new categories including Music, Sports, Technology, and Travel, as well new technical categories recognizing excellence in editing, sound design, writing, and use of animation.

To enter work in The Webby Film & Video Awards, visit www.webbyawards.com. The early entry deadline is 26 October 2007.
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This one-time only event aims to document the wide spectrum of peoples’ ways of life around the world. Entries may showcase daily experiences and encounters involving people from any walk of life. Rich to poor, from the West to the Third World, from joyful celebration to global expressions of sorrow. $6,000 in awards. 25 chosen photographers will be exhibited at an as-yet unannounced gallery in Paris, and published in a high quality catalogue. Entry fees are $20 for each photograph, and $30 for each series of 2-5 images. Entries from certain countries will enjoy fee discounts.

The Deadline is 1 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: Camera Arts Blog

A working penal and rehabilitation farm until the 1960s, subsequently chosen by the Shelby County Commission for future public recreational use, the 4,500-acre Shelby Farms site some 10 miles east of Memphis will soon reassert its status as one of the nation’s premier urban parks, with the nonprofit Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, which manages 2,900 acres of the site, inviting local, national and international architectural and planning firms to seek a $450,000 contract for a park improvement master plan.

The response deadline, writes Conservancy spokeswoman Pamela Perkins in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, is 10 October, with three top firms selected by 12 November to enter an ”Innovative Design Competition,” and their plans exhibited between 6-26 March at the city’s central library.
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