Pandora has a contest going on right now to find out what does the new American Music look like? This is Pandora's 3rd Annual Poster Contest with the help of Levi's® Company.

The goal was pretty simple: create a poster about Pandora - the rest is up to your imagination. So I thought why the hell not. I wanted to give this a shot and see what my imagination had in store for me. Plus it had cash involved as well but that was not my main motivation.
It will take some time for my profile to get setup and my entry validated. Then you the public will have a chance to vote. Here is how the contest will be judged.

• Editor's Choice Award Winner – Selected by the In-House Pandora Panel.
• Viewer's Choice Award Winner – The entrant whose eligible Entry receives the highest number of eligible votes in the Second Judging Period.
• Viewer's Choice Runner-up Award Winner – The entrant whose eligible Entry receives the second-highest number of eligible votes in the Second Judging Period.

Grand prize: $500 cash prize.
Runner-up: $250 cash prize.
Editor's Choice: $500 cash prize.

Here is my final poster design

HTC Tattoo is an HTC phone designed for a wider market for the Android platform with a lower cost associated with it. It is expected to be released sometime in October of 2009.

In the product tour of this phone you can express yourself with changeable covers and customization possibilities that make your phone say hey this is who I am. You can stay close to your peeps with Facebook, Twitter and Flickr built into the heart of your phone. Create and save different screen arrangements for different shades of your life. HTC Tattoo has the android platform but it also has the touch flo operating system of HTC to give it a different feel. If you want to know more about specifications watch the video below.

While Sony's OLED TV is little more than a beautiful, 11-inch novelty, LG is swaggering dangerously close to a respectable kitchen TV with this 15-inch AMOLED TV prototype.

OLED displays (organic light emitting diode) are the wave of the future. Even with this economic downturn that we are facing, manufacturers are working hard at providing these elusive screens to consumers. Recently, Samsung announced that they aren't planning on creating large OLED displays yet while Sony jumped on the 3D bandwagon.

LG Electronics plans to make its OLED television available for commercial sale in Korea in November and elsewhere early next year. According to Reuters, LG is also planning to launch a 40-inch OLED television "in the not too distant future." By 2013 production of OLED TVs is predicted to reach 2.33 million units, according to the research company DisplaySearch.

OLED is an emerging flat-panel display technology that uses an organic material in the pixels that emits its own light, so a backlight isn't needed. That helps make the displays thinner and much less power-hungry. OLED screens also handle fast-moving images better and offer richer color reproduction than current LCDs (liquid crystal displays) and PDPs (plasma display panels).

Charged up

(Tribune photo by Ernie Cox Jr.)

Electric automobiles have been around since the beginning of cars and only made periodic comeback attempts until recently. Here, Tracy Myers, president of Seaway Engineering Supply of Oak Park, shows of the Comuta-Car, which cost $4,995 in 1981 and could go 40 miles on a single charge.

Walkman generation

(Tribune photo by Michael Fryer)

When music first became portable and cool. Here, two Sony vice presidents show off different models of the Walkman, the original on the left and the other Tiffany silver-plated.

What will they think of next?

(Tribune archive photo)

If you were trying to find a Father's Day present in 1987 for the dad who has everything, you may have been tempted by the pocket ticker. The $435 beeper, plus a $60 monthly service, provided up-to-the-minute sports scores plus results from the local race tracks.

Home computer

(Tribune archive photo)

The cost of setting up a home computer in 1983 was, from left: printer $499, cassette recorder $59, central processing unit $1,000, modem $149 and graphics printer $995.

Cell phones getting smaller

(Tribune photo by Gerald West)

A poster the recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster. This is the first of a series of posters. Roland Tiangco’s dirt poster is a brilliant piece of print work that can be appreciated by both design and conceptual advertising minds alike. I don't think I would be happy if someone sent me that poster and didn't tell me about the concept. I do however think that the concept is a great idea.

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Here is the TCL Playlist-02 mixed by Damion. I decided for this Playlist that I would mix this set instead of just playing track by track to give it that continuous feel. Go ahead and take a listen to this mix. It has a nice flow that will bring you up and down throughout this mix. Leave a comment and let me know what you think.


Cover Art By Damion

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