Reason why I should win.

First off, I want to congratulate all the hyper-cubists that participated. The myriad of eclectic skill sets merged to create a mish-mosh of inspiration that challenged me to raise my creativity to a level I haven’t been at in a while. I’ve built relationships with genuinely kind people who’ve served as encouragement especially in the face of such impassioned competition (you know who you are).

From the energy and aura surrounding this contest I managed to produce nine (9) videos in line with my themed “moods while driving” and an additional six (6) videos helping to promote the Cube to the legendary status it deserves. Each one began with a “C” for the Cube and had it’s own vanity license plate doubling as the theme for it’s own video. My Canvassing for votes stretched from downtown Toronto to the East side of Trenton (where I filmed the video for “Charitable”).

I’ve been a Nissan ambassador for a while now (my household’s current vehicle is a 93’ Nissan Sentra and my previous car was a 89’ of the same make). In search of a car, I’ve been transformed into a Cubie for life and win or lose I’m indebted to you for this opportunity to hone my own talents and to have discovered a bit more of Julie. Thank you Nissan and equally as important thank you my Cubie comrades.

P.S.
I didn’t really state why I should win because it’s so difficult to justify why I should when there are so many other phenomenal contestants. With that said, I gave it my all and I hope that I managed to inspire someone in the same vein that I’ve been throughout this process

THANK YOU NISSAN CANADA, CAPITAL C & HYPERCUBISTS

CUBE TWEET UP #4

Here's last nights photos from a few sources. I had a blast with all my Hypercubists!

Shouts to Sean Williams (Cube Man) for making the "official" Hypercube Contest Poster!


http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanemu/3529559475/in/set-72157618032226631/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/sixpistolsunder/sets/72157618188283114/


http://www.flickr.com/photos/willeagle/sets/72157618188975398/

FINAL DAY OR SHOULD I SAY NIGHT?

It seems as thought days turn into nights, nights turn into days and after all this its the end of the road. Well hopefully not literally. I just returned back from the 4th Cube TweetUp with (might I add) an exceptional turnout from our Toronto Cubies. I'm in awe at all the team players and genuine participants who just wanted to get to know each other and have a good time. It's been such an interesting collaboration of minds and personalities that a common thread like the Cube has brought us there to share ourselves with each other. It's not everyday you can surround yourself with creative people.

Creative people who have such an enthusiasm for a goal and a passion to take a risk and invest so much time and effort without any real guarantee that they'll make it to the finish line. When it's all said and done, none of us really know what they will be judging to make the final decisions. However I hope everyone has felt appreciated and has grown from this experience, so that win or lose they leave with something much greater than a car. I hope they value this time spent on themselves and pushing limits they never thought they'd reach. Myself I never planned on ever being on youtube, however here I am with more than nine videos posted up. I don't regret a thing about this contest and I'm glad I entered and stuck it out with full force.

Here's my photo from yesterday of the Balloon Animal Nissan Cube! Thanks to Andy the Clown.

Cheers.

Julie

ONTARIO

Soon enough this wonderful contest will be all over and I will hopefully be eligible to order myself a vanity plate for my brand new 09' Nissan Cube. Here is a snappy of the license plates that started it all. My nine "C's" for the mood and personalities I will have when driving my Cube. "C" is for Cube and "C" is for CHOOSE ME TO WIN :) If i didn't make a sneaky plug somewhere this wouldn't be a contest LOL.

Thanks again to everyone who put this competition together and the judges for their time and effort.

MAY THE LOVE FOR THE CUBE BUILD BRIDGES AND BREAK BARRIERS.

QBANISTA DOWNTOWN

MODEL CUBE

So I spent the day making myself a Hot Wheels size version of the Nissan Cube. Might give her a cameo in one of my next videos LOL but more importantly it's a healthy reminder of why I entered this competition. That being hard work and determination, it's been the longest competition I've ever entered and the most rewarding. It's given me a chance to be back outside of the "cube" way of thinking. Sometimes as a designer we are placed in a situation where we get "designers block". You're constantly working on other peoples projects with other peoples vision because at the end of the day they're paying the bucks for what they want. So it's nice to finally have a chance again to work on a project with my own vision and direction and no one can Vito my ideas except well...maybe you know copyright infringement laws LOL! But other than that this competition has worth the labor of love.

WHERE IT ALL STARTED

How many weeks ago did myself plus 499 talented cubies get selected to be a part of one of the most influential social marketing projects we've ever seen. I remember brainstorming all night before our canvases had to be up on April 16th. Here's a flash back photo of my thumb sketches for the infamous "Julie's Dollhouse".

Hypercube Finalists Vie for Votes to Win One of 50 Nissan Cubes

70,000 votes cast in first two weeks of audition phase

MISSISSAUGA, ON, May 1 /CNW/ - Five hundred finalists are battling for votes to win one of fifty all-new 2009 Nissan cubes in Nissan's Hypercube campaign, a unique social media campaign rewarding social creativity in Canada. Launched on February 27, Hypercube engaged creative Canadians to utilize social networking tools to express their unique side, and on April 15th, 500 finalists were selected from over 7,000 registrants, to audition to win a Nissan cube of their own.

The finalists represent regions from across Canada and each has an online platform at www.hypercube.ca where they can illustrate their unique talents and skills, competing for votes from the public. Competition is fierce with competitors pulling out all the stops including cube songs, unique artwork and videos and many more off-the-wall tactics that must be seen to believed.

click link for full article http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2009/01/c7410.html

MUCH NEEDED CUBE PROTECTION

So I'm on the 401 driving to 8 WING Trenton Air Force Base to pick up my husband on Thursday April 30th. For those of you not in the GTA and surrounding area it was horrible outside, monster rain and slippery roads. My husband and I share a 93' Nissan Sentra and as amazing as it is to have that baby still making long distances from Toronto to Trenton with more than 280,000km I was terrified.

The Sentra was great but it was the playground bully MAC TRUCKS trying to pressure me off the road. You'd be surprised what those big guns try to do to us little guys on the road... and if your in their way look out baby!

Here's a photo from my iphone documenting some of my bullies that evening!

No lie, once I got off the highway I was shaking for a good 45 minutes after :(