the jackassworld art competition
After much tooling around the jackassworld community it has become apparent to the staff here that we’ve got a number of creative members on-board. So many, in fact, that it has inspired us to host an art competition. Before getting into any of the arty details, though, I’d first like to spotlight a few pieces currently found in the community.
Here we have a “fully flared” graphite and prisma rendition of “Gloria the 90-Year-Old Slut,” by Ashley, from Somers, CT. I particularly enjoyed her attention to detail with the subtle stretch marks on Spike’s saggy, old, prosthetic boobs.
This next one, a pencil drawing inspired by the highly controversial “Noodling With Wolfie,” was uploaded by Got Me?, from Livonia, MI, and voted straight to the top of the photo ranks following a ferociously aggressive marketing campaign by The Wolf Den®.
And lastly, a faithful—if not slightly more sober in appearance—take on my sweaty self in graphite and prisma by Vanessa, from Somers, CT (yeah, I’m guessing there’s something in the water around Somers, too, what with them being upstream from Mianus and all).
Now onto this art competition. We first came up with the idea a few months back during one of those more serious jackassworld meetings where David Gale, the head of MTV New Media, comes in and asks us what the fuck is going on here. This was an exceptionally serious meeting (and probably one we should have been paying more attention to), but while talking about the community section of the site someone said, “Hey, have you seen some of the art they’re posting in there? It’s pretty good.” To which someone else responded, “Hey, let’s do an art competition and have ‘em draw Kosick.” “Yeah, we can have them draw Kosick with Tremaine eating out his ass!” piped up Knoxville, as he never tires of seeing Tremaine in a compromising position. We all had a good laugh, but were then sternly redirected to pay attention to the more pressing matters at hand.
Only we didn’t. David Harris, a freelance “digital content producer” or whatever the fuck he is, knocked out a cartoon-ish drawing of the aforementioned ass-eating scenario and slipped it to Knoxville. From there, Tremaine made me whip out my sketchy take on it and then Dave Carnie put his crude vision down on paper, too. The next day we looked at the sketches and everyone thought they’d be funny to post up along with the art competition announcement—well, everyone except Kosick, that is. He was “not into” the idea of doing that at all.
Despite numerous attempts at explaining how Tremaine was clearly the one getting the shit end of the deal with his face buried nose-deep in ass, Kosick simply wasn’t having it. Not even the vaunted “used car salesman” techniques of Tremaine could convince him otherwise. So, sorry kids, but the art competition must go on, so here are the details:
1. While art has no boundaries, we are imposing this one: the final submitted work must be jackass-oriented, meaning that is your theme and subject matter to draw from. If it helps, all of the pictured examples above fall within this boundary.
2. We don’t give a good goddamn how you go about choosing the medium in which to create the art (pen, pencil, crayon, Photochop, etc), but it ultimately must be an original work and uploaded as a scanned image to the “art contest” category on the community home page (you’ll also have to agree to some legal mumbo-jumbo terms, as well). The reason for this is forthcoming.
3. And the reason is, we’re not responsible for choosing the winners: you are, meaning the jackassworld community is going to do all the judging work for us by using the “vote” function seen on the detail page of an uploaded image (that would be the tiny “thumbs up” icon, for all you Knoxvilles out there). To be eligible for voting, you must be a registered member—just something to keep in mind if you want to run out and have friends and family vote for your piece of art (kind of like what we did recently with Jason Taylor and Dave England). Just don’t pull a Luca England and create a bunch of fake profiles strictly for voting purposes, as this will get your pee-pee slapped.
4. All entries must be uploaded to jackassworld by June 25, 2008, with the competition officially ending on June 30, 2008. In addition to the formal community results, the jackassworld crew will hold its own “jury selection” process to spotlight pieces that may or may not have found their way to the top through natural selection. All of this shit will then be announced on July 2, 2008, during a special jackassworld live presentation.
5. So what’s in it for you? Crappy prizes. Here’s the rundown: First Place will receive a custom one-off T-shirt created by Johnny Knoxville with an accompanying letter of authenticity (not only that, but we’ll spotlight the winner on the home page with an interview about their arty life). Second, Third, and Fourth Places will each receive one of the original aforementioned ass-eating sketches of Kosick and Tremaine done by Cliver, Carnie, and Harris, in respective awarded order. Fifth Place will receive something taken at random off Wolfie’s desk with no intrinsic or worthwhile value whatsoever.
6. You can submit as many pieces as you would like, however, only one “prize” will be awarded at contest’s end. So, for example, if you have two pieces of art that finish in the official top five, you would only receive one award. Whoever took Sixth Place would then be bumped up to the Fifth place award. Confused? Good. Now go start scribbling…
