Romanian NIN tribute night

On 12th February at Club Fabrica in Bucharest, Romania, almost 600 people will be able to experience a high-quality Nine Inch Nails tribute concert: lights, sound, visuals and show, all combined for this unique project.



Branding contest winners

We've had a variety of entries for taglines and logos over the past few weeks - from the stunning, to the absurd, and the downright hilarious

Thanks to your feedback in the final stages, we can now confirm that the winning design belongs to OwentheOwen, and we're putting the tagline on hold for now, as many of you said that there was no better way to say it than "This One Is On Us". We are sticking to our promise of rewarding the best entries, however, so the three most popular public-submitted entries - who will be receiving shiny AVOTT leftovers - are:

- (@Nattie_Jo‎) Dissolving the line between fans and artists.
- (@sara_shortcake) by the fans, for the fans
- (@amps210) film, music, art: it keeps on giving

Stay tuned for a new website and more exciting treats to come! Now back to that Dresden Dolls project....



Shortlist: TOIOU branding and taglines

We've had a week or so of submissions, a few days' in-group discussion, but we'll need your help to make the final decision.

Below are the taglines and logos submitted to the group - let us know what you think of them in the comments section of this post!



Cleaning out remaining Gift DVDs

While waiting for the next batch of The Gift digipaks to arrive, I've been cleaning out the over-prints to collate some multiple sets.

Each set consists of a Gift DVD, a DVD case wrap (not pictured), a postcard, a sticker and a 16 page booklet.

All you need to do is buy single DVD cases for a nice Gift only set, or buy triple cases and burn Las Vegas/Bonus discs to make up sets equivalent to the free ones we've been mailing.



Rebranding in progress - win bright, shiny objects...

Hopefully DNS will have sorted itself out by morning. 'til then, you can always see the branding notice here or here (depending on where the DNS) .

As we grow and embrace other bands, we need to change our image to better suit our goals and aspirations. If you're artistic or a wordsmith, you can help us to do that and maybe win a LTD EDITION boxed set of Another Version Of The Truth - the last one I have, and one of only 25 ever made!



Update on The Gift orders

Well, back from a week in AZ with my daughter, to find that the printer has flaked a little on shipping.

The first batch had a cutoff date of "Oct 25, 2010 08:45:00 PDT". If you ordered before then, the following refers to you.



Ash512 made a video for Justin

Artist posts on message board seeking recordings of his work, explaining that it is for charity
Fans respond with YouTube links and suggestions
Artist thanks fans, calling them "the shit".
Fan is compelled to make a promo video of recordings by other fans for artist.

The artist has inspired creativity in his fans, a charity receives free media, and the community is rewarded by the selflessness of all parties involved. Why is the industry fighting against this, again?

Click through for Ash512's edit.



Dresden Dolls NYC shoot update

Finally decompressed enough from my trip to NYC and back to put this brief writeup together.

We took NYC by storm on Sunday with a team of 6 of us shooting video of the Dresden Dolls for our next project. With 7 cameras rolling (3 in the photo pit, 3 in the balcony, 1 roaming) and a good shooting strategy in mind, we've acquired the footage necessary to put together a solid edit of the show.

In addition, we also broke in our newly purchased Alesis HD24 recording 20 tracks of 24-bit 48kHz audio direct from the soundboard. This will be mixed to both stereo and 5.1.



Winners of the Twitter competition

Sorry I'm running late on this - only finished work 1/2 hour ago :D

The following have won a DVD or BD of The Gift:

  • Best Imagery: @LamdaLamdaLamda: Tony is telling Danny Torrance to check out thegift.thisoneis... (expand) to keep his angry daddy Jack away... #ningift
  • Most likely to be turned into a movie trailer: @greglyon: A shadowy group of subversives emerges.... with a Blu Ray of Nine Inch Nails' Lights In The Sky tour thegift.thisoneis... (expand) #ningift
  • Best Complimentary Insult: @Bloopy5000: #ningift How dare NIN crush my dreams by selling out of The Gift 3-disc set? Single disc edition looks good, though. thegift.thisoneis... (expand)
  • Biggest Lie @x8NiteHawk8x: thegift.thisoneis... (expand) Better than porn... and cheaper! #ningift
  • Worst Pun: @BaldishGuy: Wish to get closer to NIN? Buy a DVD thegift.thisoneis... (expand) to witness them that will leave your head like a hole #ningift

And, the GRAND PRIZE winner (drawn randomly from all entries) of the Ltd Edition Box Set is...



Update on sales, charity auction and how to WIN a FREE Ltd Edition boxed set

It's been a crazy week. We started taking orders for the new discs last Wednesday (1,000 DVD, 1,000 BluRay), and the BluRays sold out at the weekend, and the DVDs are nearly sold out (don't worry, I'm in the process of commissioning another run on the BluRays. Those of you that ordered by Saturday should get fulfilled in this first run though.

The Charity Auction is going strong. If you're interested, you still have a day to try and win the only Limited Edition Box Set we are selling - only 25 were made, mainly to send as gifts to people who put in the most effort into making this project happen. DonorsChoose.org is going to get a hefty donation by the end of the week. THANK YOU to everyone bidding this item up a storm! Sold to lpcollector78 on eBay. Thanks to all for bidding it up so high. Since we've had so many donations, I've added to this and donated $1,000 to donorschoose.org on behalf of thisoneisonus.org - more on what we're doing with the remaining donations later...

Finally, for those of you on a budget, there's still a chance for you to WIN a box set similar to the one that is up for auction above. All you have to do is tell the world about the new release on twitter and we'll enter you in for a free drawing (Thursday 28th, cutoff: noon EDT) and will announce the winner later that day. To be eligible for the drawing, your tweet must include:

  • a link to the gift web site - we suggest this bit.ly one: http://bit.ly/94HoGI
  • the hashtag #ningift

5 other prizes of individual DVDs or BDs will be sent to the people whose tweets about this release we really like (completely subjective, so be creative). Cut off time for this part of the competition is 6pm EDT Wednesday so we can review and judge the tweets before the drawing)



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