Icelantic '6th Sense' Design Contest - Winner! - Ski Gabber

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It’s been decided!

First off, we’d like to give a huge shout out to everybody who entered a design for the “Design the 6th Sense” contest! The response to this was phenomenal and the caliber and creativity of the entries blew our expectations out of the water.

Good thing we had your input because we would have never been able to choose just one winner. But you did, and we listened.

So, the winner, by popular vote, goes to….. Drum Roll Please……..

hiro.hero – “The After Life”

Here’s what hiro.hero has to say about his design, and his take on what the “6th Sense” is:

“Death is life's ultimate mystery- it is inherently impossible to understand. I designed this ski with this paradox in mind, and it shows the impossibility of the 6th sense of the afterlife. It combines elements of extreme order (fractals) with elements of entropy and disorder (dissolving skeletons)- although the skeletons seem to be looking upwards, back towards mortal life. They have the sixth sense of the knowledge of what comes next, after we die.”

Awesome.

So, congrats, hiro.hero - nice work.

Now, to the real meat…

We will be offering this ski as a Limited Edition Ski, EXCLUSIVE to NewSchooler’s Members only – More details on that to come.

Thanks again for all of your creativity and enthusiasm in this contest – get ready for next year….

-Icelantic

Feb 17 2010 4:00PM

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Caleb.E

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these are pretty dope, are they soposed to go tyhe other way for the skelitons to fit together?

Feb 17 2010 4:10PM

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VT_scratch

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congrats!

Feb 17 2010 4:16PM

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Freeskim@n

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cool design and congrats!

Feb 17 2010 4:17PM

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RJD2

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sickkkkkkk

Feb 17 2010 4:21PM

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Zoro

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then the other graphics wouldnt work. i like it how it is

Feb 17 2010 4:41PM

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Scrambles

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Is this the da'nollie with a new topsheet? Or a brand new ski?

Feb 17 2010 5:48PM

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Tyrone

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Feb 17 2010 5:58PM

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Franny

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Feb 17 2010 7:24PM

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Jahaws

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So dope, Icelantics are a nice ski, lots of fresh designs, this fits in perfectly. Idea of making death the 6th sense thing is brilliant

Feb 17 2010 7:31PM

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brosif

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Congrats! I can't wait to see them in production

Feb 17 2010 7:34PM

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MANDER

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are these going to be put onto the 10/11 da'nollie? if so I would hope on this.

Feb 17 2010 7:45PM

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PE_cw

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They'll be 11/12 won't they? Icelantics theme for 10/11 is music (from sia video)...

Feb 18 2010 6:18AM

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MacMahoooon

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More details to come soon, but these graphics will be pressed onto a model of hiro.hero's choice, then released exclusively to the NS community over the next few months. Keep an eye out for how to pick these up and rock some NS branded skis next season.

Feb 18 2010 7:46AM

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TimmyK

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Congrats! But I preferred the other two designs.

Feb 18 2010 10:06AM

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MANDER

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i would have preferred you doing it on next years skis because if i remember correctly, some skis changed a bit. i also think it would be smartest that if this ski is only available to NS members, make it on the da'nollie because most kids here are park rats. i know there are still alot of backcountry junkies but i would same they are a minority. if it was next years da nollie i would buy them.

Feb 18 2010 4:44PM

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powday

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Nice design and explanation of your 6th sense, congrats.

Feb 18 2010 10:15PM

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GreenHorn

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woah those are awesome
congrats

Feb 19 2010 10:15AM

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Tatutu

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looks good

Feb 19 2010 1:50PM

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Legion

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NS skis = dope

Feb 19 2010 3:01PM

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closeyetfar11

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Dayuuumm dude, awesome looking design, seriously, congrats. Will these be displayed in Icy's gallery downtown? because they freakin should be.

Feb 19 2010 4:17PM

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Joshua.

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I want these soooo bad, god theyre sick. i cant wait til they're available!!!! NS members only deal is awesome, hope i get my hands on some

Feb 19 2010 10:02PM

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304NordMan

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super awsome, cant wait to rock some ns skis. please make them in a 159. please please please

Feb 20 2010 11:02PM

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leahey

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Amazing job, I fucking <3 them.

Feb 21 2010 6:47PM

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AEROPLAEHN

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Love the fractal top sheet, congrats! I'd imagine seeing those skis on acid would be pretty awesome.

Feb 22 2010 12:14PM

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hael

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ooh, i like those.

Feb 22 2010 10:18PM

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HIRO

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Yo NS,

I've made my decision, and I'm gonna stick my design on the Da'nollies. I'm in the final stages of working things out with Icelantic, and you should be hearing more on how to get your hands on a pair of these NS park skis soon!

Best,

Hiro

Feb 23 2010 6:22PM

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MANDER

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sick! do you know if they will be on this years or next years?

Feb 23 2010 6:32PM

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HIRO

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^ wow, fuck off.

Feb 23 2010 10:24PM

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HIRO

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I'm not sure..what's the difference?

Feb 23 2010 10:24PM

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MANDER

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something small. it makes them better for landing jumps or something. its in the sia video for icelantic.

Feb 23 2010 10:51PM

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tinn

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those ski's are sick. i've always liked icelantic, but no stores around me sell them and i never end up at the mountain on the right demo days haha

Feb 24 2010 12:10AM

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SEABURN

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haha

nice "design"

http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tutorials-effects/how-to-simulate-fractals-in-photoshop/

Feb 25 2010 1:38PM

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MANDER

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RUH ROH

Feb 25 2010 5:51PM

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HIRO

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they taught me well, and I paid for that tutorial.

Feb 25 2010 6:41PM

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MANDER

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sounds perfectly fair to me.

Feb 25 2010 7:15PM

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Feb 28 2010 1:28AM

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ankhou

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Did you pay for the Vesalius skeleton anatomy drawing as well?

[IMG]

http://www.ankhou.com/images/vesaliusskeleton.jpg[/IMG]

http://fog.its.uiowa.edu/~c016136/CourseImages/Anatomy/VesaliusSkeleton.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1044220/?page=11

Feb 28 2010 2:57AM

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ankhou

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Images don't embed with quotes I guess?

Feb 28 2010 2:58AM

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look at the hand and arm positioning, its not quite the same, maybe the same concept, but that doesnt seem so wrong, he didnt just copy and paste

Feb 28 2010 3:37AM

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ankhou

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He did just copy and paste, because each ski is just the right side of the skeleton - the image is mirrored on the right ski. The skeletons' hands wrap over to the other ski. It's a completely ripped image, meaning the ski is essentially just a photoshop tutorial (copied without any variation or imagination I might add) and an image he pulled off Google.

I didn't even enter this competition so I don't have any investment myself, but I don't think it's fair that he beat out other people who actually tried to do something original. I don't have a problem with his concept, but it should have been his own work. Newschoolers needs to get out of the mindset that it's OK to just copy other people's work and throw it out there as your own, because it's absolutely not OK to do that.

Feb 28 2010 3:57AM

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I'm not going to lie, I liked the other two much better.

Feb 28 2010 9:10AM

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HIRO

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In response to the skeleton, I did make use of Vesalius' drawing. Legally speaking, Vesalius' anatomy drawings (of which there are many) were made in 1538, making them around 322 years past copyright date. I do agree with you guys that in principle it's not great to pull things from different places and amalgamate them into a single design, and frankly, this design is not my personal favorite because of that. That said, art is a lot about intent, and not just about the finished product. Take for example Duchamp's "Fountain". He took a urinal, signed it, and it was labeled as contemporary art. Now, at face value that seems like a cop out, right? I mean, he took something that already existed, and made it into his own art. But the thing about the "Fountain" is that it was only Duchamp who thought of making art out of already existing things, and it was only he who had the intent to do so. So, to bring this back full circle, I get why some of you are pissed that I made use of existing materials and synthesized them into a consolidated whole. But before you start harping with "I could do that" or "that's bullshit it's just copy and paste any idiot could do that", consider that no one else did, because no one else thought of doing so. In other words, I had the intent of making a design with specific themes, and carried out my intent via the combinations of copyright-free, readily available materials.

Feb 28 2010 12:16PM

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if you got the image of the internet you broke copyright

Feb 28 2010 12:37PM

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HIRO

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This is not true. As I said in my previous response, the Vesalius drawing which I made use of is in the public domain. In other words, its copyright has expired. Likewise, the digital replica of the original image which I based the skeleton in the design on is also in the public domain.

Feb 28 2010 12:53PM

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When they comin out? this yr?

Feb 28 2010 2:56PM

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