EDIT: The Fukushima requirement has been removed.

Today I figured, what the hell, I’ll run a contest. Some guy I know is running one, and I must say something rubbed off on me. Unfortunately it seemed like some sort of pustule excretion and was kinda disgusting, so I took a shower and scrubbed it off.

So first off, what it’s actually about.

What You Must Do

1. Create something using any visual medium (photo, picture, video, etc) that is about, a derivation of, or what you would do with whatever you’d like to win. If you don’t know what you want, just use Pockey.
2. So I know that it was created for this contest, you must mention Fukushima (the place I live) in some semi-obvious manner.
3. All entries must be posted in the comments of this original entry.
4. You must link back to this contest in your blog. When you enter the contest by commenting on this entry, please provide a link to your linkage. If I’m going to be giving away stuff I might as well get some backlinks for it.
5. I will be the sole judge. If I feel that everything is absolutely and amazingly crappy (or if nothing is entered at all) I’m going to declare everyone a loser and will treat my girlfriend and myself to a nice night on the town with the money I would have spent on this.
6. Conversely, if the winner goes above and beyond, I may give him/her more shit than promised.
7. The deadline for entries is 11:57pm on March 18th (JST). That gives you about two weeks.

Prizes

1st Prize
Anything from Japan under ¥7,000 (about $65 US) that you want, with these exceptions:

1. It must cost ¥7,000 or less.
2. It can’t be an absurdly obscure thing, even in Japan. In other words, I must be able to go to the relevant brick-and-mortar store and easily purchase it.
3. It must be of a reasonable size to ship for a reasonable amount of money.
4. You may apply it to more than one item, but keep it to a reasonable number of things
5. If I deem your request to break any of these rules, I reserve the right to say fuck it and buy you whatever I want. Whatever I end up getting you will still be worth close to ¥7,000.
6. You may also request me to send you whatever I want, in which case I’ll buy you whatever I want. I’ll surprise you.

2nd - 5th Prizes
Something of my choosing that will be relatively cheap. It’ll be Japan-related in some way.

So then, go out… be free… create!

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