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To celebrate the life of the late Tupac Shakur and the November release of his new album Pac's Life, the rapper's mother, Afeni Shakur, has created a set of video, art, essay and poetry contests designed to bring together the Tupac community.
Launched November 4th by Amaru/Interscope and technology partner KickApps, TupacContests.com is hosting the competitions, inviting fans to submit entries in four categories: music video (creating a clip for the album's "Untouchable" track), artwork, essay and poetry.
"With Tupac as our inspiration, the goal is to spark creativity and stimulate conversation," said Afeni Shakur, founder of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, "as well as to continue to develop, expand and interact with the extraordinary community of Tupac fans."
Fans are urged to upload their submissions to TupacContests.com. After being reviewed by the rapper's label, those accepted into the competition will be displayed on the site and will contend for the final selection (to be made in early 2007). The submissions will then be judged on creativity, originality, vision, clarity, passion, personality, inspiration, artistic merit and the ability to capture the essence of the theme, according to a press release.
The winner in each category will have his/her work displayed at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and will receive a commemorative plaque of the release of Pac's Life.
In addition, the music video winner will be invited to submit a treatment for (and will appear in) a subsequent Tupac or other Interscope video. The artwork, essay and poetry winners will each have his or her work published in the upcoming Tupac Interview book to be published in 2007 by Atria Books and will be interviewed for the book as well.
The artwork winner will also be invited to submit the winning drawing or another piece for a subsequent Tupac album, while the essay and poetry winners will have their work published in a forthcoming textbook about Tupac.
Source: ballerstatus.net
Launched November 4th by Amaru/Interscope and technology partner KickApps, TupacContests.com is hosting the competitions, inviting fans to submit entries in four categories: music video (creating a clip for the album's "Untouchable" track), artwork, essay and poetry.
"With Tupac as our inspiration, the goal is to spark creativity and stimulate conversation," said Afeni Shakur, founder of the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, "as well as to continue to develop, expand and interact with the extraordinary community of Tupac fans."
Fans are urged to upload their submissions to TupacContests.com. After being reviewed by the rapper's label, those accepted into the competition will be displayed on the site and will contend for the final selection (to be made in early 2007). The submissions will then be judged on creativity, originality, vision, clarity, passion, personality, inspiration, artistic merit and the ability to capture the essence of the theme, according to a press release.
The winner in each category will have his/her work displayed at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation in Stone Mountain, Georgia, and will receive a commemorative plaque of the release of Pac's Life.
In addition, the music video winner will be invited to submit a treatment for (and will appear in) a subsequent Tupac or other Interscope video. The artwork, essay and poetry winners will each have his or her work published in the upcoming Tupac Interview book to be published in 2007 by Atria Books and will be interviewed for the book as well.
The artwork winner will also be invited to submit the winning drawing or another piece for a subsequent Tupac album, while the essay and poetry winners will have their work published in a forthcoming textbook about Tupac.
Source: ballerstatus.net