Update: The Haikus are starting to roll in!
Introducing the first Jonny’s Par-tay contest! The contest is to raise awareness about the importance of adopting puppies from shelters. The prize, a collectible Mimobot a designer collectible USB flash drive, generously donated by Mimoco, pictured below:
This one of their latest fromt he tokidoki line of Mimobots. Renowned Italian artist Simone Legno’s tokidoki brand is crossing over to the fashion tech world with the introduction of the tokidoki for MIMOBOT® collection of designer USB flash drives, the latest entry into the MIMOBOT Artist Series. The Pastaio Mimobot comes preloaded with awesome audio, video, and graphic fantasticness. You can learn more about this hungry little Mimobot here. You will love it. Here is a sample:
Here is how you participate in the contest:
1. Write a haiku poem. It must have the word “Puppy” and “Shelter” in it, and encourage people to adopt a puppy from a shelter. A haiku is a poem with three lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables.
Here is a sample haiku: Puppies are four legged/joy dispensers, find delight/at local shelter
2.Then you need to record yourself reciting the haiku onto
3. Once you have written and recorded the poem, send Jonny an email with the link to your poem on utterz at jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com by Sunday, May 18, 10PM Eastern.
4. People will vote on their favorite poems here on jonnyspartay.com starting from 10 AM Monday, May 19 jonnyspartay.com website until 5 PM Eastern Wednesday, May 21. The winner will receive a designer collectible Pastaio Tokidoki Series USB flash drive generously donated by the fine folks at mimoco.com All particants have will their poem displayed on jonnyspartay.com. If you have a blog post with the poem, send that and we’ll link to that too.
Thanks for participating! And thanks for helping raise awareness around the issue of puppy adoption from shelters. Here are some reasons to get your puppy from a shelter if you are looking for a canine companion. And thanks again to mimoco for supporting puppy adoption from shelters.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Fname Lname // May 15, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Throwing the gauntlet,
Jonny shelters the puppies,
and everyone wins.
2 Do yourself and an animal a favor, adopt your next pet from a shelter. : The Mind of Tefft // May 16, 2008 at 12:53 pm
[...] the adoption of pets from local shelters by having a Mimbot Giveaway. Details can be found at Johnny’s Partay. Our current dog Max is a purebred golden retriever that we adopted from our local animal shelter. [...]
3 Steve Bull // May 16, 2008 at 1:10 pm
classically the haiku also includes a ‘kigo’ seasonal word
4 Howard Greenstein // May 16, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Save the little ones
Puppies are so very cute
Empty the shelters
5 Steve Bull // May 16, 2008 at 1:49 pm
puppy licks my hand
cherry blossom petal kiss
girls smile leaving shelter
6 admin // May 16, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Thanks very much for the Haikus folks.
To be eligible for the contest, you need to also record yourself reading the poem using the free service, Utterz.com.
If you sign up for a free account there, you can record your reading of the haiku to the web via your cell phone.
Then send me the link to the recorded poem (which will appear on the utterz site). Send link to jonny.goldstein@gmail(dot)com.
Very excited to receive your poems!
7 Mimobots, DC Blogging and Puppies… Oh My! | mobile web & digital lifestyle news // May 19, 2008 at 11:58 am
[...] announced the competition over at Jonny’s Partay to give away a Tokidoki Mimobot. The competition involves writing a haiku about why adopting puppies from local shelters. The only [...]
8 Do yourself and an animal a favor, adopt your next pet from a shelter. // Jul 8, 2008 at 10:25 am
[...] the adoption of pets from local shelters by having a Mimbot Giveaway. Details can be found at Johnny’s Partay. Our current dog Max is a purebred golden retriever that we adopted from our local animal shelter. [...]
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