Kid Power Xchange, the leading information resource for youth marketers, is hosting the 11th annual Kid Power Awards. The awards program honors, recognizes and promotes the most innovative kids marketing campaigns in the U.S. and worldwide. All entries will be judged anonymously by a panel of senior-level marketing professionals who represent the youth marketing industry.

The eight entry categories are as follows: Breakout of the Year (campaign for the best new product), Best Campaign in Food and Beverage, Best Campaign in Toy and Games, Best Campaign in Entertainment and Sports, Best Campaign in Media and Publishing, Best Campaign in Non-profit, Best International Campaign and Best Campaign in "Other." The following five criteria will be considered when evaluating the submissions: Objective, Strategy, Creativity, Implementation and Overall Campaign Effectiveness. For more information, visit www.kidpowerx.com.

COMMUNICATION ARTS ILLUSTRATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITIONS

Now is the time to promote your talent to the creative community and potential clients worldwide by having your work selected for the largest and most important juried competitions for illustration and photography.

Communication Arts invites you to enter your work in the 45th Annual Illustration and Photography competitions.

Selected, award-winning pieces will appear in Communication Arts magazine, in either the July Illustration Annual or August Photography Annual. More than 72,000 copies of each Annual will be distributed worldwide, assuring the selected entries important exposure to professionals in the fields of advertising and design.

The deadline for both competitions is March 15, 2004.

For submission guidelines, PDF entry forms and FAQs, visit:
http://www.commarts.com/competition

Photography is a fixed picture and cinema's norm is 24 pictures per second. Ouvrir /fermer tries to look at the line between these two media by experimenting an inter-media-te projection. The form we look for is visual aphorism which contains between 2 and 23 pictures (computer-designed works- gif, flash, png...) This competition will take place at Paris

EndGame Tournaments will take video game competition to new heights with T-MODE 2004 which is scheduled for April 2-3, 2004. This milestone in video gaming competition will be held at the Holiday Inn, Washington Dulles International Airport.

First of its kind, T-Mode or (Tournament Mode) is gunning to be the premiere event in video gaming where the most elite of players compete in an all-out-melee of video game competition complete with smoke, spotlights, entrance music and entourage

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Science

Presented by Industrial Development Bureau, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan R.O.C in the public art festival "Techno Dream Sphere" in Taiwan Nankang Software Park, Future Imprint is an international animation competition for all who are interested in forwarding future to the world of animation. With the ever-updating technological media, our dreams and imagination are easier to visualize with the extension of virtual reality. Our depictions of the future may welcome true possibilities to alter tomorrow's world. Future Imprint aims to trace our ultimate fantasy, and cluster the best imagery of our time. For more information, contact Acer Digital Art Center: 8F, No. 88 Sec 1, Hsin Tai Wu Rd, Hsichih, Taipei Hsien 221, Taiwan.

scr(i)pt magazine and Writers and Artists Group Intl. will be sponsoring the next Open Door Contest. The winner receives $3,000, consideration for literary representation by Writers and Artists Group Intl., screenwriting software provided by Final Draft, a $200 gift certificate from The Writers Store, a two-year membership to Script P.I.M.P.'s Writer's Database and a copy of DR. FORMAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS. Also provided by The Writers' Script Network for second and third-place winners: An e-mail announcement sent to about 6,500 industry professionals, placement of your winning script on their password-protected Website, placement of a second script on the site and a logline for your winning screenplay in their publication. Second and third-place winners also receive software provided by Final Draft and a copy of DR. FORMAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS. Entry fee is $45. For more information, visit http://scriptmag.com/contests/index.htm.

SIGGRAPH is the world

The 11th Flashforward conference and Flash Film Festival, the oldest and largest Flash user conference in the world, shares the latest in design, development, education and inspiration. Confirmed speakers include: Beau Ambur, Bill Buxton, Mike Chambers, Jeremy Clark, Brendan Dawes, Marcus Dickinson, Kelly Goto, Branden Hall, Kristin Henry, Sas Jacobs, Brad Johnson, Phillip Kerman, Joey Lott, Nader Nejat, Erik Natzke, Andries Odendaal, Tim O'Reilly, Robert Penner, Rich Shupe, Craig Swann, Josh Ulm, Samuel Wan, Guy Watson and many more. Flashforward 2004 features: four half-day in-depth Flash workshops, 24 one-hour seminars, 20 Q&A sessions, 17 "Ask the Experts" sessions and 11 technology showcase seminars. The Flash Film Festival will feature a Macromedia keynote, exhibition area, Flash authors' book signing, networking receptions and exclusive conference workbook with speaker notes. For more information, visit http://www.flashforward2004.com.

Linden Lab, creator of online world Second Life, and The Game Initiative, an organization that supports game developers worldwide, announced the Second Life Game Developer