OK Go + Amanda Palmer: The Kings & Queen Of Modern D.I.Y. Join Forces
Two of the most visible proponents of modern music marketing, Amanda Palmer and OK Go are joining forces for both a design contest and live concert webcast this Monday ,May 24th. Broadcast at 6p.m. PST/9 p.m. EST, the webcast is hosted by Ustream and Creative Allies, a growing online art and design web community that also hosts contests bringing artists and musicians together.
Both the live webcast and fan art contest are free. (Details here.) The actual concert, broadcast from the soundstage of Ex’pression
College for Digital Arts near San Francisco, is by invitation only.
One winner will receive a picture hand drawn by Palmer on the back of the webcast setlist. Twelve selected fan artworks, including the winning submission, will be exhibited in September/October at a venue TBA. The deadline to submit artwork is August 31.
OK Go’s contest lets artists and designers create a new logo for a content filled USB drive the band distributes at concerts. One winner receives $100. The deadline to submit a design is August 1.
I’m working on a piece about multimedia collaborations. I can find multiple examples of fan contributions where they submit art or video and win some sort of recognition or a prize of some sort. But I’m not finding a lot of discussion about situations where people collaborate and then share generated income in some fashion. Have anyone of you done this? If so, how did you structure it and how did it work out?