Freedom Fingers
A somewhat misguided competition entry, based around the emancipation potential of Three Mobile's 3G usb modem things.
I found this competition through Don't Panic. It was supposed to be an ad for a modem in a 'street art' style but I got carried away and did a bit of a 2001 Starchild-holding-a-planet thing. Somehow it managed to get into the final 8 (I think my Mum voted for it loads of times, thanks Mum), but something much better won. If I had won, I think I would have had to recreate it live in Shoreditch using only spraypaint or something. So it all turned out for the best really.
Although the entry obviously didn't really answer the brief, what with not being 'street art' (whatever that is) and all, I was a bit disappointed not to win. I thought maybe I'd be able to subvert the growing graffiti cultural hegemony from within. Why does everything that's 'edgy' and 'youth' have to be either (a) pretend graffiti or (b) Helvetica with the holes in the letters filled in? Anyway, I was fortunately able to sidestep my vague feelings of inadequacy/irrelevance by reusing the planet and some of the nebulas in Literal Kid 1988. What a laugh.