Sunday, August 21, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Paul Budnitz of Kidrobot
Paul Budnitz is the founder of Kidrobot in New York, which produces limited-edition toys and apparel, fusing graphic design, fine art, illustration, industrial design, graffiti, and music. Over the past five years, he has launched a Kidrobot store and gallery in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
read more: graphics.com/modules
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
5 Rules for a Creative Culture
Ben Chestnut, founder of MailChimp shares his views on what it takes to create a creative environment:
- Avoid rules. Avoid order. Don't just embrace chaos, but create a little bit of it. Constant change, from the top-down, keeps people nimble and flexible (and shows that you want constant change).
- Give yourself and your team permission to be creative. Permission to try something new, permission to fail, permission to embarrass yourself, permission to have crazy ideas.
- Hire weird people. Not just the tattoo'd and pierced-in-strange-places kind, but people from outside your industry who would approach problems in different ways than you and your normal competitors.
- Meetings are a necessary evil, but you can avoid the conference room and meet people in the halls, the water cooler, or their desks. Make meetings less about delegation and task management and more about cross-pollination of ideas (especially the weird ideas). This is a lot harder than centralized, top-down meetings. But this is your job -- deal with it.
- Structure your company to be flexible. Creativity is often spontaneous, so the whole company needs to be able to pivot quickly and execute on them (see #1).
source: http://creativebits.org/inspiration/5_rules_creative_culture
Friday, August 12, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
hugh jackman
Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters. He is known for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men series, as well as for his leads in Kate & Leopold, Van Helsing, The Prestige, and Australia. Jackman is a singer, dancer, and actor in stage musicals, and won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
In November 2008, Open Salon named Jackman one of the sexiest men alive. Later that same month, People magazine named Jackman "Sexiest Man Alive.
A three-time host of the Tony Awards, winning an Emmy Award for one of these appearances, Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.
source: wikipedia
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Seoul International Design Competition
As an effort to make Seoul an attractive place to visit, work, live and invest, the 2011 Public Design Competition has been organized. Your sparkling idea will contribute to establishing an enjoyable urban environment.
Theme: design that offers pleasure and convenience for users.
There are two categories:
• Bench or chair
• Any other public facilities that citizens encounter in their daily routines, including sculptures and recreational and sports amenities
There is no entry fee.
Eligibility
Anyone with an interest in Seoul, regardless of nationality or residence is eligible.
Prize
The following prizes will be awarded in both official categories:
• Grand Prize (1) - approx. 4,500 USD, Trophy, certificate
• Gold Prize (2) - approx. 2,200 USD, Certificate
• Silver Prize (4) - approx. 900 USD, Certificate
• Bronze Prize (5) - approx. 450 USD, Certificate
• Runner-up (10) - approx. 270 USD, Certificate
• Honorable Mention (30) - approx. 90 USD, Certificate
Join here: http://design.seoul.go.kr/citizen/noti_eng.php
Sunday, July 3, 2011
A Logo for Human Rights
There is finally to be a symbol for human rights – show us your human rights logo!
Background
At present there is no internationally recognized symbol for human rights. The “Logo for Human Rights” initiative wants to change that! Logos win people over through their symbolic power, distinctiveness, clarity and universal applicability. The initiative was established out of conviction that a human rights logo will make a peaceful contribution towards the global spread and implementation of human rights. In order to find this logo, a global creative online competition with cash prizes and open to everyone is to be launched. The initiative has the support of renowned stakeholders, supporters and partners from all walks of life.
Aim
The aim of the initiative is to create a human rights logo “by people for people”, thus making a contribution towards the global spread and implementation of human rights with the support of a large public.
Task
Show the world your logo for human rights!
What do you have to do?
Show the world your logo idea, whether it’s a sketch or a complicated design. What matters is that the symbolism is convincing.
How can you take part?
Upload your logo on to www.humanrightslogo.net. Discuss and assess the logo competition entries with people from all over the world, supported by a team of experts. A prominent jury will make a pre-selection from all the entries. In a global public online ballot, the winner will be chosen from among the top 10.
Why should you take part?
Your logo can become the global symbol for human rights and be used wherever the focus is on human rights. What’s more, the winner will be awarded €5000, the runner-up €3000 and the third-placed entrant €1000.
Rules
The way you produce your logo is up to you: sketch the logo with a pencil on paper, paint it on a canvas, design it with the computer, draw it with a stick in the sand, etc.
It must be possible to understand the logo without a text.
The only words that may be used with the logo are “Human Rights”.
Purely text entries will not be accepted.
It’s not possible to upload video or audio files.
Dates
Starting May 3rd 2011 12:00 CET
Submission Deadline July 31st 2011
Tips: What makes a good logo?
• Above all, a good logo is based on a good idea.
• A good logo is simple and instantly recognizable.
• A good logo can be reproduced using many different media.
• A good logo can be reproduced in different sizes.
• A good logo can be reproduced in colour or in black and white.
Join here: http://humanrightslogo.net/
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Piracicaba International Humor Illustration Contest
Join here: http://salaodehumor.piracicaba.sp.gov.br/humor/
Friday, July 1, 2011
Billboard Art Competition Art Moves 2011
„Reality or fiction? Let’s pretend it’s not there”
There is no entry fee. The Competition is open and all artists interested in billboard art are invited to take part. The works should be submitted by the 20th July, 2011 via electronic mail to the address: artmoves@tlen.pl
10 most interesting works will be displayed on billboards in the city space during the Art Moves Festival in September /October 2011 in Torun, Poland. The author of the most interesting work will receive the Main Award in the amount of PLN 10.000 [about EUR 2.540, USD 3.770].
Artists are invited to prepare an artwork in response to this year’s competition theme „Reality or fiction? Let’s pretend it’s not there”.
This slogan can serve as a kind of a metaphor of the processes taking place in the contemporary world.
The slogan concerns daily matters and questions whether the things/situations in our daily life are real or fictional and how can we distinguish one from the other. Simultaneously, the slogan also raises a question what we, as individuals or as a community, are trying to hide. Are there any specific phenomena, processes or events we tend to intentionally ignore and pretend “it’s not there”?
Can we say that such social processes as: growing level of fear and alienation or breakdown of interpersonal relationships are real or fictional? However, negative aspects of life are not the only matter we can pretend to ignore. The positive aspects of human life also can be overlooked. Media informs us mainly about negative events and treats the positive ones as mundane and less exciting. By doing so, do they present a real version of the world or rather create a fictional picture? Do the Internet help us to reach something which is real or rather drags us into the world of fiction? Do the hi-tech forms of communication help or hinder our contact with reality? There could be a lot of different interpretations like these above and there are many different answers as well. We think that the question of what is real and what is fictional has a deeper meaning… If we stop asking ourselves what is real and what is not, what we discern and what we overlook, will we be able to say who we are and what world we really live in?
Join here: http://www.artmovesfestival.org/
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
ogie alcasid
Alcasid debuted as a singer in 1989 with the release of his self-titled album. Ogie Alcasid reached gold record status, while his debut single "Nandito Ako" [I Am Here] was awarded "Song of the Year" by local radio station Magic 89.9. He has since released 18 albums, including a Christmas album [Larawan ng Pasko/ Images of Christmas, 1994], a live album [OA sa Hits [Live], 2002], and four greatest hits albums.
He has received a total of five gold records, three platinum records, and three double platinum records.
Alcasid's television career started as one of the hosts of comedy show Small Brothers on ABS-CBN on 1992. He also appeared on other comedy programs such as ABS-CBN's Mana Mana [from 1991 to 1992], ABC's Tropang Trumpo [from 1994 to 1995], GMA Network's Bubble Gang [from 1995 to present], QTV's Ay, Robot! [from 2005 to 2007], and his recent current sitcom on GMA Network, Show Me Da Manny [from 2010 to present].
He also branched out as a game show host, beginning in ABS-CBN's Game Na Game Na on 1995 and the Philippine version of Family Feud on ABC-5 in 2001. He also hosted Fastbreak, a former basketball game show on IBC 13 in 2002. Alcasid also recently hosted Celebrity Duets: Philippine Edition on GMA with Regine Velasquez and is currently one of the main hosts on musical variety show SOP Rules. Alcasid had his own break in a GMA Primetime drama Hanggang Kailan opposite Lorna Tolentino and Christopher de Leon. This was Alcasid's first drama show and he also sung its main theme with Aiza Seguerra.
Alcasid is recently the judge in Pinoy Idol and hosted in his former game shows Da Big Show and Hole In The Wall [with his fellow co-host, Michael V]. He played a spoiled brat Angelina in "Ang Spoiled" segment on Bubble Gang.
Alcasid returned to sitcom via "Show Me Da Manny", playing "Manny Pa-Cute".
Alcasid also hosted a kids documentary show on GMA, "Kap's Amazing Stories Kids Edition: Featuring Wild Animals", with co-hosts Ramboy Revilla and Jayda Avanzado.
He was married to Australian beauty queen Michelle van Eimeren but eventually divorced. He re-married to Regine Velasquez on December 22, 2010.
source: wikipedia
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
chito miranda
Miranda attended grade school and high school in the Ateneo de Manila University when he met Gab Chee Kee, Vinci Montaner, Jeric Estaco, and Miko Yap. They formed a garage band during their high school years.
The group was known in school to be class clowns. Normally in shows, they would show up in women’s clothing to entertain victims of earthquakes and typhoons and sing off-key in poetry readings.
They eventually landed the role as front act band for the locally well-known Filipino alternative rock band The Eraserheads. Later on, Buwi Meneses and Dindin Moreno joined as bassist and drummer, respectively. When they graduated high school, Jeric and Miko decided to leave the group to pursue other interests. Shortly thereafter, Darius Semaña [lead guitar] joined to complete the sextet.
Originally, Parokya ni Edgar was called "Comic Relief". However, they decided to change the name in homage to an ancient Noli Me Tangere joke in their student days.
Later on, Parokya ni Edgar performed regularly in Club Dredd, one of the famous clubs in Manila during that time. The band slowly gained popularity during the height of the Filipino rock explosion, with the local rock community opening up to the influence of foreign grunge acts such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
Eventually, the late managing director of Universal Records, Bella Dy Tan, signed them as contract artists after witnessing one of their performances at Club Dredd. The band garnered a triple platinum award for their first album Khangkhungkherrnitz.
One of the band's songs, "Buloy", has lyrics inspired by a friend Miranda met in Batangas. He was a Fine Arts student at Far Eastern University and committed suicide some time after "Buloy" was released and this caused some controversy among fans and non-fans.
Miranda is a member of Alpha Kappa Rho fraternity in the Philippines. He is good friends with fellow Filipino artists, the late Francis Magalona, and rapper Gloc9. Miranda dated actress Kaye Abad for a long period of time from the early 2000's until their breakup in 2009.
source: wikipedia
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Lifebuoy
1st Prize: USD 5,000
2nd Prize: USD 3,000
3rd Prize: USD 2,000
Germs cause illnesses as they have a simple way into our bodies: from our hands to our mouths. Unknowingly, most people do not wash their hands often enough and long enough to kill germs and to keep their hands clean. Understanding this, Lifebuoy has created a Superfast Handwash that kills 99.9% of the germs in just 10 seconds.
Your Challenge
Convince mums who want to improve their family’s life of using Lifebuoy Handwash by bringing to life our proposition: “Lifebuoy Handwash kills 99.9% germs in 10 seconds”, keeping hands clean and safe. Don’t make a boring scientific video or yet another typical TV commercial we have seen before. Be creative, convincing and innovative.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until July the 24th.
Friday, June 10, 2011
TAG Heuer Link watch
Your challenge
Create a 30 to 60 seconds video/animation that establish the Link watch, with its iconic S shape bracelet link as the epitome of modern elegance and style among successful, sophisticated urban consumers.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until July the 31th.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Hyundai Veloster
1st Prize:USD 2,000
2nd Prize:USD 1,000
3rd - 5th Prize: USD 500 each
As part of its commitment to creating New Thinking, New Possibilities for people and the planet, Hyundai is unveiling Veloster, a groundbreaking coupe that challenges all preconceived notions of what a coupe should be. With Veloster, you can expect the unexpected.
Your challenge: Create a teaser to introduce the Veloster by showing how new thinking can challenge conventions for the better and how new possibilities can be created in life. It can be in the form of an ad showing how Veloster is challenging conventions with its groundbreaking technology. Or it could be an inspirational video showing how men have created new possibilities in life [e.g. they said man would never fly and now you can even enjoy bars and private cabins on board aircrafts...] and Veloster exemplifies challenging conventions, for the better.
Format: 30 to 60 seconds video, animation or illustration.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until June the 26th.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Lenovo – The Doer’s Story
With the help of technology as an enabler of turning dreams into reality, doers can create something extraordinary than dreamers can only...dream of.
Lenovo wants to celebrate those who do and invites you to share your doer story through a 30 to 60s video/animation that will show how an ordinary person can create extraordinary things, by doing.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until July the 31th.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
XYZ Drink
I am XYZ, I am a delicious water based drink that restores your body, mind and mood. I come in a uniquely shaped, cool, light blue bottle. You’ll want to drink me anytime, anywhere.
Show us how XYZ can be your reliable companion to go through the day, anytime, anywhere to fully replenished you so you will always be ready, in a 30 to 45 sec TVC.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until July the 26th.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Earthtalent
Earthtalent is a network that encourages local initiatives of united creativity in favor of women.
Through a video/animation (30 sec - 1.30 min), photo, poster, painting, text, installation, poem, sculpture, or any other form that you see fit, illustrate how creativity can help solidarity, or help to be united.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until 19th of July.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Chivas
Introducing Chivas J&J, a special, premium edition especially made in honor of the pioneering brothers James & John. Chivas J&J is a blend of 2 rare, precious malts. It is exclusively distributed in selected bars/KTVs in T1 and T2 cities in China and is sure to become a trendsetter.
Think about new drinking experiences, new drinking games, new rituals around serving or drinking... Your ideas should emphasize the premium, pioneering and trendsetting aspect of this unique whiskey and appeal to our target audience.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until July the 6th.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
How we would like to move around in 10 years?
As you all deal with these situations every day, we know you can help a major automotive brand find pragmatic ideas and thoughts to re-invent private mobility for years to come.
Through either a short video, a comic, a short text, a PowerPoint…express the way you see the future based on your present experiences and expectations.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until July the 5th.
Friday, June 3, 2011
Home & outdoor exercise
We're in a time nowadays where healthiness has regained its pride, where organic meets superfoods, where lean cuisine rimes with gym memberships, jogging, and yoga.
Illustrate through a short video, design, sketch, scrapbook, PowerPoint presentation, storyboard, what's awaiting for us in terms of physical workout in the near future.
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until 5th of July.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
What is the future of digital scent?
The future is already here. If I told you that a major global consumer products company has achieved a breakthrough and has been able to blend fragrance and the digital world you might not believe me, but it is indeed very true.
Through short videos/animations, pictures, designs, collages, Powerpoint presentations, text, sketches...imagine and illustrate what the next wave in digital scent will be!
Follow this link to participate!
Contest runs until June the 30th.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Unibail La Maquinista contest
Hurry to participate!
Contest runs until 20th of June.
Friday, May 20, 2011
steven tyler
He completed drug rehabilitation in 1986 and has subsequently maintained sobriety for over 20 years, aside from a painkiller addiction in the late 2000s, for which he successfully received treatment in 2009. After Aerosmith launched a remarkable comeback in the late 1980s and early 1990s with the albums Permanent Vacation, Pump, and Get a Grip, Tyler became a household name and has remained a relevant rock icon. As a result, he has since embarked on several solo endeavors including guest appearances on other artists' music as well as film and TV roles [including as a judge on American Idol]. However, he has continued to record music and perform with Aerosmith, after more than 41 years in the band. He recently was included among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers. He was also ranked 3rd on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. In 2001 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Aerosmith, and he was the presenter when AC/DC was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2003.
Steven Victor Tallarico was born March 26, 1948 in Yonkers, New York, the son of Susan [née Blancha], a secretary, and Victor A. Tallarico, a classical musician and pianist. His father was of Italian and German descent and his mother was of Polish, Russian and English ancestry [his maternal grandfather had changed his surname from "Czarnyszewicz" to "Blancha"]. Tyler has stated that he grew up "under his father's piano", and that from what his father played, he got "that emotional thing" that he has with music. When he was sixteen, he formed his first band, called The Strangeurs, later changed to Chain Reaction, where he was the drummer, and later the lead singer. Tyler also had been part of a few local bands, like William Proud and The Left Banke. He was expelled from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers due to his drug use. He graduated from the Leonard Quintano for Young Professionals School in 1967. He attended Woodstock with Joe Perry and Joey Kramer, his future Aerosmith band - mates.
source: wikipedia
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
manny pacman pacquiao
Thursday, May 5, 2011
natalie portman
In 2001, Portman opened in New York City's Public Theater production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull. In 2005, Portman received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture for the drama Closer. She shaved her head and learned to speak with a British accent for her starring role in V for Vendetta [2006], for which she won a Constellation Award for Best Female Performance, and a Saturn Award for Best Actress. She played leading roles in the historical dramas Goya's Ghosts [2006] and The Other Boleyn Girl [2008]. In May 2008, she served as the youngest member of the 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman's directorial debut, Eve, opened the 65th Venice International Film Festival's shorts competition in 2008.
In 2011, Portman won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, and the BAFTA Award for her lead performance as Nina in Black Swan.
Portman was born in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Shelley [née Stevens], an American homemaker who works as Portman's agent, and Avner Hershlag, an Israeli citizen who is a fertility specialist and gynecologist. Portman's maternal ancestors were Jewish immigrants to the United States, from Austria and Russia [her mother's family had changed their surname from "Edelstein" to "Stevens"]. Her paternal ancestors were Jews who moved to Israel from Poland and Romania. Her paternal grandfather, whose parents died at Auschwitz, was an economics professor in Israel, and her Romanian-born great-grandmother was a spy for British Intelligence during World War II.
Portman's parents met at a Jewish student center at Ohio State University, where her mother was selling tickets. They corresponded after her father returned to Israel, and were married when her mother visited a few years later. In 1984, when Portman was three years old, the family moved to the United States, where her father received his medical training. Portman, a dual citizen of the United States and Israel, has said that although she "really love[s] the States... my heart's in Jerusalem. That's where I feel at home."
Portman and her family first lived in Washington, D.C., but relocated to Connecticut in 1988, and then settled on Long Island, New York, in 1990.
source: wikipedia
Sunday, May 1, 2011
apl.de.ap
Apl.de.ap was born in Sapang Bato, Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines, to a Filipino mother and an African-American father. His father, a U.S. airman stationed at Clark Air Base, abandoned the family shortly after his birth; his mother, Cristina Pineda, raised him and his six younger siblings as a single mother.
As a child, apl.de.ap would make an hour-long jeepney trip to and from school, and helped his family subsist by farming sweet potatoes, corn, sugar cane and rice.[citation needed] The Pearl S. Buck Foundation, an organization that finds healthier living environments for young abandoned or orphaned Amerasian children, matched him with a sponsor named Joe Ben Hudgens through a dollar-a-day program. He initially came to the United States at the age of 11 to treat nystagmus, an involuntary movement of the eyes. During a trip to Disneyland, Apl expressed his interest in staying in the United States. It would take another three years for Hudgens to officially adopt him, but at fourteen he moved permanently to the United States to live with Hudgens.
In Los Angeles, he attended John Marshall High School where he befriended William Adams [stage name will.i.am], the nephew of Hudgens' roommate. He went to college at Holy Angel University. Apl.de.ap's early musical influences were Stevie Wonder, The Eagles, The Beatles, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Leaders of the New School and the popular Filipino rock/folk group, Asin. Apl was introduced to hip-hop by break dancing. "I would take the jeepney all the way to Angeles City, and that's how I got introduced to break dancing," he said. "I would see kids at the corner break-dancing and I'm like, 'I wanna do that.'"
He revealed to People Magazine in 2011 that he is legally blind in both of his eyes, suffering from nystagmus and has this condition his entire career. "I'm good at shapes. If I'm not close, even if it's big, I can't read it. I doubted myself for a long time," apl.de.ap said. "I'm comfortable not using my vision. I weave around my problems." He went on to say in the same article that "Until I discovered hip-hop, I felt I wasn't going to accomplish anything."
Two of his siblings are dead: his younger brother Arnel committed suicide [this is referenced in The Apl Song in the lines "I guess sometimes life's stresses get you down/Oh brother, wish I could have helped you out"]. His youngest brother, Joven Pineda Deala, was murdered at the age of 22 in February 2009 in Porac, Pampanga.
He and will.i.am formed a break-dancing crew called Tribal Nation and performed regularly at Southern California parties and events. From 1992–1995, their crew was re-named Atban Klann [ATBAN stands for "A Tribe Beyond a Nation"] and included MC Mookie Mook, performer Dante Santiago and producer DJ Motiv8. Atban Klann was eventually signed onto Eazy-E's label, Ruthless Records but Eazy-E's death put an end to their debut album Grass Roots.
Allan has brought his Filipino culture into his collaboration with The Black Eyed Peas. He explains his life story in a song called "The Apl Song" on the Peas' 2003 album Elephunk, which includes a full chorus in Tagalog sampled from the Asin song "Balita." The accompanying video, which includes cameos by fellow Filipino-Americans Dante Basco and Chad Hugo, is also a tribute to the Filipinos who fought for the U.S. in World War II; the song reached number one in the Philippines.
"Bebot" [which is Filipino slang for pretty woman] is another all-Tagalog song on 2005's Monkey Business album. A music video for "Bebot" was filmed in and around Los Angeles in early July 2006, including in Kenneth Hahn Park, where Dr. Dre's "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang" video was also filmed; the video features primarily Filipinos, Filipino Americans and other Asian-Americans from the Los Angeles area. The video was directed by Patricio Ginelsa who also directed "The Apl Song" and produced the Filipino-American coming of age movie The Debut. The single was not released in the US but was in the Philippines and several other Asian countries.
Apl.de.ap is working on a solo album. He recently disclosed in an interview that he would be collaborating with fellow Filipino-American Chad Hugo of The Neptunes and Illmind from G-Unit to incorporate traditional Filipino instruments into his songs. Some of his songs are uploaded on his MySpace page. On January 3, 2009, he debuted the first single, You Can Dream featuring Billy Crawford, from his upcoming album on the internationally broadcast Philippine variety/game show Wowowee. In August, he released a music video for his second single named Mama Filipina.
Apl.de.ap started the Apl Foundation. It is committed in giving back to communities and children within the Philippines and throughout Asia. He also started his own music company called Jeepney Music, Inc. It is currently based in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California. It currently handles DJs such as Free School, DJ Rockyrock, DJ MIA, and PoetNameLife.
Apl.de.ap recorded another Tagalog song for The Black Eyed Peas' fifth studio album, "The E.N.D.", the song is called "Mare". In 2009, he also had a song entitled "Take Me to The Philippines", in partnership with the Department of Tourism of the Philippines.
source: wikipedia
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