TAKE ME BACK HOME

Hey Everyone!

It’s been a while since i’ve blogged… i’ve been trying to keep as calm as possible since the voting has ended. The funny thing is, i’ve been trying to do things that would take my mind off the Cube, but it’s soooo ingrained in my life now that i just can’t stop thinking about it. It’s quite wierd! lol

Yesterday, we all got an email from The Hypercube stating that everyone, and i mean everyone, will find out who the 50 winners are during events that are being help simultaneously in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. It sounds like it’s gonna be a TON of fun… here’s an excerpt from the email:

Here’s the catch: We can’t tell you who the winners are just yet. Sorry, but an email isn’t nearly awesome enough to drop that kind of bomb. Which is why we’re throwing THREE MASSIVE EVENTS. ACROSS THE COUNTRY. AT THE SAME TIME!

We’re announcing the winners and giving away the 50 cubes at simultaneous events in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. It’s a chance for all our cubers to meet each other, see live music, art and lots more. The date is set for June 23rd, so mark that down in your calendars and start figuring out how you’re getting there – we suggest car pooling with other cubies. Road trip!

Now, that’s not to say you HAVE to be there to win, you’re just not gonna want to miss this. And neither will your friends, so by all means, bring ‘em. And if you really, truly, honestly can’t make it, don’t sweat it, if you won you still get your cube®.

Pretty cool huh?!?!?! Now, the only thing on my mind is “omg must sit tight till the 23rd AND what am i going to wear?!” Anna and I started talking about wearing ball gowns… that would be pretty ridiculous… but now i’m thinking i want to wear something that i would never usually wear. something fun! i saw some cute half dress things at Forever 21 the other day, kinda like these:

What dress do you guys like??

Now the thing is, i’m wearing my Chucks. I love my chucks. And i know it will probably be more lady like if i were to wear heels or something… but i just cant. i’ve got to be me! lol

So needles to say, I’M STOKED!!!!!!!!!

In other news, Jasin and Rannie, did the most awesome rad thing EVER! They Got their hands on a Cube and drove it up to the Universal Office!!! The first thing i did was run around and tell everyone that the Cube was coming! It was soooo awesome.

here’s a Pano that Rannie took of Jasin and I:

And here’s a video that Jasin put together!!!

AND!!!

yes, this is a long post! lol We had our 5th tweetup last night in Toronto!!! It was so good to see everyone. It couldn’t have happened on a better day seeing as well all had just received our emails from The Hypercube!!! 2 of my most memorable things from the night have to be… something that had to do with a spider… but that’s all i’m gonna say AND the fact that my husband finally came out! Him and Chris (musina) bonded over alien and dinosaur sculptures! it was awesome.

here’s some pics!!!!

I LOVE CUBIES!!! Stay tuned for more tweetups!!!

Well, it’s now been roughly 3 months since i embarked on my “Quest To Win A Cube”… and let me tell you… it’s been quite the ride. The voting portion of this adventure ended last friday. It’s now been 2 days of waiting and not panicing over what to do to my canvas! lol

I wanted to recap what my life has been like over the last 3 months for everyone. Mostly because i think it would be fun, but also because i want to document it. I still have moments where i think to myself “did all this just really happen??”

About 3 months ago, i saw a ReTweet from Michael Banovsky stating that Nissan was giving away 50 Cubes. The first thing i did was click on it, think it was too good to be true… then registered on hypercube.ca. It was all very surreal because this whole campaign was mostly on Twitter and i think that that’s what made it all too good to be true.

** note: i had been off of twitter for a few months, went dark after my wedding and my new position at work. i got back on twitter literally weeks before i say the above mentioned tweet. Lucky for me huh? **

This was all very interesting to me because it was the first time i saw a contest/promo being done this way. I was now communicating with this person called TheHyperCube on twitter and had no idea what i was doing or what i was supposed to be doing. It didnt take long for me to realize that “spreading the word” about the contest was the first goal. Now, this is a tricky thing because the more people you tell, the less your chances of winning are! BUT everyone who was then (about 100 or so of us) went to town… we all ReTweeted, Facebooked, made posters, flyers… you name it, we did it.

I started this blog so that i could document everything i was doing… i also started a youtube channel so i could post little videos to. When i started this blog, i had NO idea that i would end up doing what i did, or that my life would shortly change.

Leading up to when the top 500 were to be chosen, TheHypercube’s followers went from 100 – well over 1500. It almost seemed like it all happened really fast! I’ll never forget seeing Andre’s blog… i think we were some of the first to start blogs… i remember sitting there thinking “Oh man, this is all about to get very very interesting!!” When he posted his animation of the Cube driving along a cityscape, i pretty well had a panic attack thinking “this is it, i’m a goner… now what am i going to do?!” The same is to be said for when i saw Will’s blog. To this day, i still dont know what wordpress theme he’s using but what i DO know is that when i did see his blog, i almost gave up. In my mind there was no way i could compete!!! (luckily Will and Andre are 2 of the radest dude’s i’ve ever met!!!)

Before the top 500 were officially announced.. (well i think it was before, it’s all a blur!) I organized the first of 4 tweetups. This was the first tweetup i had every organized and been to! i had NO idea what i was doing… BUT none the less… it went off without a hitch. The first cubies i met were, Will, Chris, Julie and Daniela. We all imediately were knee deep in conversations about what we should be doing, what we thought Nissan was looking for and we even got into singing a bit of Eddie Murphy!

Shortly there after the top 500 were announced. I still remember getting the email and feeling like i had consumed about 10 pounds of sugar. It was at that moment that i completely went into overdrive and officially started my campaign.

I made buttons, little flyers to attach the buttons to, i handed those out, i made a purse, i made a necklace, i facebooked, i tweeted, i told just about anyone who would listen about what i was doing. I woke in the morning thinking “what am i going to do now” i went to bed thinking, “what should i do tomorrow?” My life had become consumed by the Cube.

Every night i would sit with my laptop on the couch. Lucky for me my husband is very understanding and put up with all this! I had tweetdeck at home and at work set up like it was no one’s business so i could keep track of what was going on. There were moments where i would hit creative block with my canvas. Many a nights i would get really bummed out because i felt i wasnt doing enough. There were day’s where i felt like i was on cloud 9 because of all the kind words from everyone…. it was the biggest emotional rollercoaster i had ever been on. Thanks so people like Anne and Will, i came out of it alive….

Fast forward to last thursday and friday… last thursday was the “final” tweetup before voting ended. Everyone had the same sorta look on their faces… we were all exhausted and in disbelief that in a few short hours, all of this would end… we threw done like it was no one’s business. It was the best tweetup yet. When it was that time where everyone starts to part ways to head home, there were many hugs, but not he usual hugs… hugs like we had all just gone to war and now it was over. Everyone kept wishing everyone luck, we all kept telling each other how much the other person should win. I heard some of the nicest things ever that night… it was unreal.

Friday at noon hit. that’s when the voting ended. For me, it was like a wierd eerie silence had hit… twitter got really quiet… we all proceeded to thank everyone, to wish everyone luck… i know this sounds really dumb, but at one moment, i was so overwhelmed with joy that i made it out alive… at the same tile i had just finished looking at Sean’s photos from the tweetup and then proceeded to read Will’s Thank You to me on his blog. No joke, i shed a few tears. it was the wierdest feeling ever.

I’ve entered a lot of “fill out this ballot” “sign up here for a chance” contests… i’ve NEVER been part of a contest like this. I’ve made so many friends. Met so many cool people. I feel like win or no win, i was a part of something big. To some people, that is the most ludacris thing to say. But unless you were in it, and i mean really in it… you won’t understand. This was very much a life changing thing.

Now, i’m sitting here at 1 am on a sunday night, recapping my story, (well, the coles notes version of it cause really, i could keep going on forever!) because i feel that i can’t stop. We’re all now waiting for “the” email which will tell us whether we made it or not. I’m still obsesively hiting refresh on my email… But to me now, it’s almost like… I’ve done all that i could with the time that i had. I tried. Now, it’s up to the judges to determine everyone’s fate. I dunno… i just cant shake the feeling that i should be doing something… it’s very strange.

So, on that note… i say goodnight. It’s now time for me to hit the sack and wait some more…

hopefully, my next post will be “OMFG I WON!!!” … can you imagine… i still can’t.

xo. T

ok, so i was sitting here thinking about REALLY how many people “i’ve told” and i put that in quotations because “I” am including ReTweets in my math…

ok, so let’s take a look at twitter. I quicky skimmed through my most recent ReTweets in order to get these numbers… there’s probably more, but for the purpose of this experiment, these will do

Ok, I myself have 850 followers
Via people’s followers who have ReTweeted me, i’ve reached another 10,365 people

so twitter alone, my campaign has reached (approx) 11,215 people.

Facebook, now, i’ve taken a quick look to see who has posted “vote for my friend here” on their status’ plus my friends…

My friends who i’ve told: 481
How many ppl were reached thanks to my awesome friends: 4,693
Grand total (approx) for Facebook: 5174

Non Social methods ie. email, message boards… roughly 538 people

i’ve handed out about 100 pins… so… people that MY message has reached weighs in at….

TOTAL: 17,027

pretty cool huh??? ok, here’s where it gets fun, let’s say… and i will keep it SUPER low… 5% of those people told 1 other person… then that would bring the total up to: 17,878

so, let’s take that number as an example for say (keeping it low again) half the 500 finalists…

the grand total for that: 4,469,600 crazy huh

Now, here’s where it gets fun… these numbers are a rough estimate of course… BUT does not include and TV/Radio interviews, magazine/newspaper interviews, posters, flyers, stickers etc that hypercubers have made…. imagine those numbers!!!!

Who says Word Of Mouth Marketing doesn’t work??

Ok, so the first video went up last night. I must say, dancing by yourself as opposed to say… a club… is WAY harder than i thought! BUT, a deal is a deal! So here’s the first video.

Telma VS Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s Baby’s Got Back

I’m now up to almost 1300 votes, so i need to post 2 more videos… so, please vote for what song you would like to see me humiliate myself to

So, after having knitted (is that even a word?!) this while spending the whole day in waiting rooms with no BB or iPhone:

I went into overdrive “i must do something” when i got home. So i decided to make something new to wear to the tweetup on Thursday. I seem to be favoring “accessories” when it comes time to make stuff for tweetup, it makes me laugh… so anyhoo… i made a PURSE! I’m calling it my “Beetle Juice I <3 Cube” purse… oh wait, maybe it should just be “Beetle Cube”!!!! Done, there you go folks, changed it… just like that! lol

So, the striped fabric is some left ofter curtain fabric that was laying around, and the pink fabric was… well.. i’m not sure, i just know i have a TON of it! I literally just started cutting fabric with no rhyme or reason, all i knew is that i wanted it to be square (cube…. lol) and i knew it had to fit my laptop! Surprisingly, it didnt turn out bad at all! i actually over impressed myself considering how late it was and how tired i was Hubby suggested having a “pinned on” piece, so i grabbed some easter egg blue vinyl, and asked him to do the honors… once i pinned it on, i nearly squealed! Not only is it the perfect “telma” purse… but it’s my new CUBE purse!!!!!! The beauty of it is that now i can swap out what’s on it! so if i make it into the top 500, you KNOW i’m gonna be telling people to vote for me on my bag! lol

ok, enough rambling… here’s a few of my fave’s, you can see the rest of the photos on my flickr page…

So, it dawned on me today, that as much as creating this blog, designing it etc, may be creative… i haven’t showcased any of my other stuff! So i’ve been digging around to find some stuff i’ve done in the past. More to come!!!

This is a piece I shot and edited a while back. It’s the Towers Of London when they came to Toronto for the first time. I love these guys so much!

This is a music video that myself and my good friend Mark shot on one fine rainy day in London Ontario. 1 camera, 2 of us, and Chad (the artist). This i co-shot with Mark and edited myself.

This is a “cribs” segment that i edited for Chad as well:

And THIS, this my friends, was the trailer for quite possibly the most scarring DVD project i’ve ever worked on! lol, if you are all familiar with Hedley, the you know how much these boys like to take their clothes off! lol NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE BARE BOTTOMS, PEEING IN PUBLIC, AND PUKING, THEN DO NOT WATCH!

Ok, so i’ll leave you with those for now… more to come! and not just video stuff!