Pin the Tail on the Culture, Inc. announces a contest to find the most beautiful walker in the USA.

 

Pin The Tail On The Culture, Inc.[]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Photograph a Woman Walking Beautifully—

You could Win $1000

Beautiful Movements Contest

EUGENE, Oregon, September 28, 2006

Pin the Tail on the Culture, Inc. announces a contest to find the most beautiful walker in the USA.

In an effort to support and promote the aesthetics of curvaceous beautifully walking women, the company will award three prizes to the best entries. (Note that we’re NOT saying beautiful walking women, but beautifully walking women—the face is irrelevant, only the walk is important.) The company will showcase all acceptable entries on the company’s contest website, http://www.poetryinmotion.info along with links to the contestant’s web address or email. When winners are picked in January 2007, they’ll be announced on the site.

"You don’t have to be pretty to win," says spokesperson Michelle Taylor, "like you do in most contests for women. You just need to walk really nicely. And we’re not looking for skinny models—we consider them bad role models. You can win even if your face doesn’t show on the video you send in. This contest is about the beauty of a yummy walk. Poetry in motion. It helps if you have the right body type to really look beautiful when you walk."

Taylor goes on to say that "An important reason to call attention to shapely females and their beautiful walks is to help fight the tyranny of the skinny fashion model body role model that’s being drilled daily into the heads of this country’s females. The young are especially vulnerable to the media’s portrayal of emaciated females as ‘attractive.’ The media has created unhealthy, unrealistic standards that are dangerous (and even fatal), as well as oppressive and psychologically damaging."

The prizes to be awarded are:

First Prize: $1000, second prize: $250, and third prize: $100. The prizes will be awarded to either the contestant or the photographer, or it may be shared by the two if they enter jointly.

No purchase is necessary and no entry fee is required. The contest ends at 11:59 PM (PT) on December 31, 2006.

Contestants should mail AVI DV files, WMV files, MOV files, or MPEG files on a CD or DVD. These must be data files for PCs, not files for TV set-top DVD players. Detailed entry information is available at the contest website at http://poetryinmotion.info —note this is NOT a .com address.

Contestants and their photographers must be 18 years or older, US citizens from any state except Florida, Rhode Island, or Arizona, or where prohibited.

Details

Contestants can go to the http://poetryinmotion.info site and watch the hostess demonstrate a pretty walk. They’ll see that she just lets her backside’s muscles relax so her walk isn't tight and plastic and guarded and uninteresting. Uninteresting walking is perfect for ladies walking in public. It’s part of what's called street smarts. But uninteresting walking is NOT poetry in motion!

Photographers should design their camerawork to pay attention to and focus on beautiful movement. They can see examples both at http://poetryinmotion.info as well as another Pin the Tail On The Culture site: http://fannyandtheassets.com , where five different exercise videos emphasize the beauty of BOOTY-full curves.

About Pin The Tail On The Culture, Inc.

Pin the Tail on the Culture, Inc.’s mission is to challenge the prevailing dominance of the skinny clothing model, which is the body role model that is constantly pounded into women and girls by the media. Medical advice says that women should have 20% to 27% body fat. Models and movie stars’ starving themselves to the point of skin and bones is unhealthy and portray harmful examples for young women. Approximately 1000 women a year DIE from disorders like anorexia and bulimia. The media’s obsession with body fat being bad and evil and ugly is often a significant factor in these deaths. It’s also a factor in the obesity epidemic, since it’s easy for dieters to give up and go in the direction of overeating when they’re taunted by impossible standards.

Of Special Interest to photographers and videographers

Pin the Tail on the Culture also provides an inexpensive Video Backgrounds and Photos product for photographers and editors to integrate into backgrounds or green/blue screen projects. Only $19.95 for 8.5 gigabytes of AVIs and JPEGs with a 17-page tutorial--including how to edit with optional tools like Ulead Media Studio Pro 7 or 8, Serious Magic's Ultra 2, and green screens. Includes an abundance of good, clear examples: http://www.freeandcheapvideobackgroundsandphotos.com/

Exercise Videos with Healthy Images and Healthy Messages

Pin the Tail on the Culture’s exercise videos (available at http://fannyandtheassets.com) have no skinny ladies (and skinny ladies won't win the walking contest either) and no adamant instructions on losing fat or getting skinny, just encouragement to be healthy with regular exercise done to pleasant music.

Agenda

The exercise videos and walking contest both tell women they're okay as they are and needn't starve themselves to conform to the prevailing skin and bones fad. The videos provide better and healthier body role models for women to exercise with. And the contest tells women that no matter whether they’re pretty or homely, and whether they have large sized backsides, thighs, or chests or just average, they can be very beautiful walkers that are truly poetry in motion to watch.

Why Is This Newsworthy?

  • totally unique type of contest—it truly is new, therefore real News

  • eye candy

  • opportunity for viewers to do something simple and have a chance to win one of 3 different cash prizes

  • entertaining

  • new market window for all things that relate to beautiful walking—nothing like this exists in the media or ever has

  • accepted entries get to post a photo and walking clip and two free links on http://poetryinmotion.info, so the site serves as a talent search database

  • Oregon media outlets, especially Eugene ones, can note that the host and hostess of http://poetryinmotion.info are both Eugene residents and the contest is being run from Eugene as well


About the Contest Sponsor
 

Pin the Tail on the Culture, Inc. is committed to providing alternative images of women in the media. It can be found on the web at:

 

http://www.poetryinmotion.info

 

http://www.fannyandtheassets.com

 

http://www.backsideblessed.com

 

http://www.freeandcheapvideobackgroundsandphotos.com

 

Contact: PO Box 26401, Eugene, OR 97402.

 

Email: presscontact@poetryinmotion.info

 

Voice: 541-543-1691 (9:30 AM – 7:30 PM PT)

 

This release is available online at: http://poetryinmotion.info/press.html