First of all this video is the best video of the last 30 years. Its got all the great epic shit you want : making out on the beach, caves, mountain screams, fire, curly hair blowin’, eagles in the sky. Oh, and fucking horses on the beach splashin’ up waves! YES PLEASE. Can you find a more metal video?

So. New NTH contest. Can you find a better epic light rock video that has more epic as fuck shit in it? Prize? This awesome Michael Bolton poster, signed by the bombastic motherfucker himself : link !

We have a winner!

Congratulations to Milton Wamswell from Wyoming! Keep an eye on your mailbox for your official Nixon The Hand prize package.

Click below for our other amazing entries!

Dr Zizza MD from Wisconsin:

Deathmobile from Iowa:

and

Spangled Manny Coon from North Dakota:

Great job everyone! High fives all around! Thanks for entering and better luck next year!

You have one more week to submit entries to the Nixon The Hand Ultimate Animated GIF Challenge 2009. The 1st place winner will win an original NTH T-shirt and some rad buttons. As of now we only have one submission (and it’s not the one above). You have a good chance of winning if you enter something. Make us some sweet GIFs!

Please send your entries attached to an email with the subject “GIF” to NixonGIF {at} gmail.com by noon on Friday, May 15.
In the email include:
1. your name
2. a nickname if you don’t want your real name to appear on Nixonthehand.com
3. what state you live in

Do not post entries in the comments. Entries will be posted on the site after May 15 and a winner will be announced.

Contest rules and other helpful information can be found here.

Hey kids! We’re giving you two weeks to whip up the most amazing animated GIF on the planet. This is a contest! The winner gets an awesome prize!

Click below for contest rules and some excellent tools to help you make your animated gif.

Please send your entries attached to an email with the subject “GIF” to NixonGIF {at} gmail.com by Friday, May 15.
In the email include:
1. your name
2. a nickname if you don’t want your real name to appear on Nixonthehand.com
3. what state you live in

Do not post entries in the comments. Entries will be posted on the site after May 15 and a winner will be announced.

Some Help:

Here are some resources that will help you make the best damn GIF ever. There’s no reason not to enter. Some of these methods are extremely easy to use.

These Youtube tutorials for making GIFs with Photoshop or GIMP should help those of you who have either program. In earlier versions of Photoshop you have to use Image Ready to make animations but in newer versions animation capabilities are built in. one two three four

Here are a few free programs that should be pretty easy to use:
Microsoft GIF Animator
Easy GIF Animator
Smart GIF Creator

Bilingee is a great website for making horrid sparkly GIFs perfect for myspace comments.

Gickr is a clean and easy to use site for making GIF animations.

Prizes:

One Nixon The Hand T-shirt

Two hand-made 1in buttons

Official Rules:

No purchase necessary.

Must be a legal US resident. (contest laws in other countries are too confusing)

Must be 13 or older.

Entries must be in .gif format. GIFs must also have at least two frames of animation. Static images will be disqualified from the contest.

The content of your entries must be appropriate. Appropriateness will be determined by the judges.

Entries must be received by 12:00pm central time on Friday, May 15, 2009.

By submitting any photo or information to Nixonthehand.com, you hereby grant to Nixonthehand.com and its affiliates, subsidiaries, licensees and assigns, an irrevocable, perpetual and royalty-free right to use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, prepare derivative works of, modify, publish and otherwise make use of the submitted photo or other information in any and all media, whether now known or hereinafter created, throughout the world and for any purpose. In addition to other things, the rights granted to Nixonthehand.com includes but is not limited to the right to resize, crop, censor, compress, edit, feature, caption, affix logos to, and to otherwise alter or make use of the submitted photo.

By submitting an image you confirm that said image is your original creation and is not anyone else’s copyrighted material.

Entries will be viewed for judging in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer for maximum clarity and smoothest playback.

Limit 2 entries per person.

Winners of all contests will be contacted at the “sender” email address used to enter the contest, and the person receiving and replying to the winner announcement email will be considered the winner unless they specify another person within the reply email as the winner. Nixonthehand.com will mail the contest prize to the address supplied by the recipient of the winner announcement email.

Claiming of prizes requires an email response to Nixonthehand.com from the winning sender email address within 30 days of being notified of winning at the email address used to enter. Failure to respond shall mean that the winner forfeits the prize. Nixonthehand.com is not required to award elsewhere any prizes forfeited by the chosen winner(s).

Each prizewinner must supply Nixonthehand.com with his/her legal name, mailing address, birth date, daytime and nighttime telephone numbers.

Neither Nixonthehand.com, Nixonthehand.com sponsors, nor employees of Nixonthehand.com or sponsors may be held liable for any warranty, costs, damage, injury, or any other claims incurred as a result of usage of any winners of a prize once possession has been taken of the product by winner. Nixonthehand.com is not liable for any loss arising out of or in connection with or resulting from any contest promoted by Nixonthehand.com.

In other words, WHO’S GONNA WIN!?

That’s right, you!

Nixon The Hand will be hosting its very own Oscar The Award Contest via the august New Yorker Times.  I believe I’ve sent most everyone an email invitation, but if you did not receive one and would like to participate, please zap some emails out to other contributors and they will some how find me.  (I refuse to put my email on the internet for spamming reasons; I know you understand).  Trust me, it will work out fine.

Fast Oscar facts:

-Hugh Jackman won the prize of hosting this year’s  Oscars for portraying the most savage character in an upcoming feature film, which is how the host is traditionally decided.
-An Oscar weighs nearly 14 pounds and was the inspiration for many foil-wrapped chocolate Easter bunnies.
-No one has won fewer Oscars than Jeffrey Jones.
-Long ago, audiences were allowed to vocalize their displeasure with the Academy’s selections, leading Halle Berry to break into tears when the crowd mercilessly booed her selection over Nicole Kidman for Best Actress during the 2002 ceremony.
-There have been four fictitious Oscar winners.
-The nickname for the Academy Award, the “Oscar”, is a playful reference to the type of fish that director Steven Spielberg keeps on his award mantle at home.

So register, participate, and win!  As they say on the red carpet, “You’ll know when you’ve broken a leg!”

What movie is this picture from? Don’t look on google, but if you can come up with the answer first – you’ll win a prize. You can use IMDB, but I must stress – DO NOT CHEAT and google it with obvious clues. IMDB only.

So post your answers in the comments : Biggest Nerd Wins.