Two music-loving winners of Wired.com's Outside Lands giveaway will be heading to the San Francisco music festival with video cameras and a mandate to document the three-day event.
Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival starts Aug. 28, but we we sent out a call weeks ago looking for music fans handy with digicams. At stake? Two media passes and two free Kodak Pocket HD cameras.
Would-be documentarians were asked to tell us what bands they were looking forward to seeing, and why they would be able to see them through the camera's eye better than anyone else. The results not only made for good reading, but showed that Wired.com's readers have the media skills to pay the bills.
Our first winner, Wwhsf13 — known to the IRS as Wade Highen — stepped up to the plate with a resume that included footage of Bad Religion, Bad Brains and other good punks. A San Francisco resident, he's also schooled in the city and its angles. And the Outside Lands bands he chose run the gamut from surround-sound winners to Wired favorites: M.I.A. and The Mars Volta to TV On the Radio and Street Sweeper Social Club.
Our second winner has a solid rep as well. An old-school Lollapalooza lover, Xkursion (aka Joshua Kanies) was psyched for the same bands, as well as left-field indie standouts like Thievery Corporation and Dengue Fever. He also boasts a BFA in visual studies and an MFA in cinematography, teaches video production in San Francisco and has jobbed for Pixar, Lucasfilm and other Bay Area media titans.
Done and done. Thanks to everyone that entered, and to our winners.
Images courtesy Outside Lands
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