Giveaway! Sponsored by Cornerstone Promotions: Win a 4 gig Nano, a pair of Nike+ shoes, and the iPod sport kit.

As for the exciting new release behind this contest ~ Aesop Rock has done a pretty sweet original composition for the Nike+Original Run Series (this is the 3rd, the first two being LCD Soundsystem and Crystal Method). Also if you haven’t checked out the Nike+ site lately, go look, i’m impressed with how much they worked in new ways of motivation (beautiful design, great use of social and tech) ~ they have everything from widgets to track your progress, to special workout compilations like this one! (see below for the sweet cover art, and clips to listen)… anyhow, this seemed like a good enough reason to help get us all out and about and away from our screens more.

How do you win? Email me your 3 (or more) favorite workout songs at contest@notcot.com and a winner will be picked on Wednesday, March 28th.

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It’s that time of year again - a chance to take on the Diesel Walls in Milan and Berlin. The one in Milan brings me back to the first time they did it down at Porta Chinese - my favorite one (the soccer one) you can see below. ALSO - there is now a BOOK! Need to get my hands on this…

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Diesel is sponsoring another brilliant design competition - the DNA Competition. You can submit to the Denmark, Sweden, Norway, or Austria panel of judges, and the categories are Action, Digital, Draw, and Photo. It’s unique in that you can show the progression of your works development through uploads until the deadline… fun layout of the site too.

Grazie mille to all who entered to win Aural Headphones, and to the 5 winners (you know who you are!) CONGRATS! The envelopes have been sealed, adressed, and off they go! So enjoy them, and drop me a line with a pic and some thoughts about them… as i’m sure the rest of the readers (and Aural too!) are curious to hear what you think of them.

Aural New York has designed some playful headphones to “flavor your ears” - nearly identical in design to those original iPod headphones, these come in Pink, Black, and Blue - and they have sent a few sets of these to share with YOU! I have 3 sets of Pink, and 2 sets of Black to giveaway, and this being the innaugural NOTCOT GIVEAWAY - the procedure will be as follows…

NOTE:: I will pick the winners Midnight tonight Pacific Time!

Aural wanted us to do a review on the headphones, but we thought it might be nice to let the readers help us review - from sound quality, to design, to simple “why i like it” - we want to hear from you. So send me an email/comment (with a color preference) and from the pink and black submissions i will randomly pick on Monday people to send them out to.

Keep in mind everyone that if we do this one well - maybe you will get an opportunity to review more products and designs in the near future!

Good luck!