Post Fest

I just want to begin by thanking all our sponsors. Thanks to the kind donations from Seagull Bags, Roll, Paradise Garage, Cafe Brioso, Midwest Photo, Drexel Theaters, Starbucks, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Hard Labor shirt design, Element, Spindle Studios and Wild Goose Creative we had a great year! And as for the money we raised for Asia's Hope, we may pass the $2,000 mark after we sell off the rest of our shirt supply! That said, buy more shirts! I am ordering more smalls and mediums as they went much quicker than I anticipated. They will be in stock in about two weeks or so. We currently have large and x-large shirts.

We had 45 people come out this year! This is a BIG jump from last years 18. The gold medal goes to the trio who came all the way from New York. The silver medal goes to our new friends from Pittsburgh. We also had people come from all over Ohio including Kent, Cleveland and Cincinnati. It is so cool to see how people are embracing this fest!

The rides went well despite us being pulled over by Worthington Police. Yes, that's right. They pulled over all 45 of us. After a brief public service announcement by the kind and forgiving officers (they just didn't want to have to scrape any of us off the road, understandably so) we were on the way.

The films started off with a bang with the first Jaws film. They limped on with 2, 3 and 4 (bad, BAD sequels). The tattooing also went GREAT thanks to all the kind folks at Evolved. They had seven artists on deck to ink us. They tattooed over 15 of us and had us wrapped up in about 3-4 hours!

The afternoon was filled out with bike polo. Minus a few scrapes everyone had a good time. Thank you to Caleb and David for heading up that part of the day. And lastly, Rad Dog hot dog cart hooked us up with a fantastic dinner. Thanks Tawd!

I will have a video of the days events edited and posted in the next few weeks so keep your eyes peeled for that. And start getting your Awesome recharged for next year. DIRTY HARRY is coming for Ohio in 2010.

-Nick

A Few More Tattoo Sketches

Here is another batch of tattoo designs that are available. There will also be one last sketch that will be available. It is a coat of arms that will be a bit larger in scale. That is the piece I will be getting. Jay (the co-creator of AF) actually came up with the idea for the piece and Andy Ringo is developing the sketch.

Also, though it isn't yet official, its looks like PBR will be sponsoring Awesomefest 2009! I think it is a great fit. After all, free beer is pretty awesome.

Finally, keep an eye open to our media coverage over the next couple weeks as Awesomefest has write-ups in the Columbus Dispatch, 614 Magazine as well as an interview on WDEM TV!

A Few Updates

First off, Jeremy Slagle , Meg Russell and the crew at Element designed us the above, super rad poster. We will get them printed up here soon so let me know if you want a few to hang up around town. Also, they designed a spoke card:

I will have the spoke cards to pass out here in the next week or two, so again, let me know if you need some. We need to spread the word!

Second, we have a modified date and tattoo artists. The event will be on August 8th and Evolved is giving us SIX artists! Each artist is going to
come up with a couple sketches based on this years themes so there will be plenty to choose from. There will be variations in size as well for those who want more ink than the average fella. And to coincide with these changes we are modifying the fee format as well. There will be one flat fee of $25 that includes your shirt, meals, energy drinks, prizes, etc. If you are one of the riders getting a tattoo, you will pay the artist at the time of your tattoo (the average tattoo will cost around $50). I will have all the sketches live on the site as I get them from the artists. Friday, June 19th is the final deadline for the artists to have their sketches in to me. Each artist will have a list of times available and after they fill up they will be unavailable. You will then need to pick a piece from a different artist. So check back here often and pick your design quickly!

Third, we have settled on a new charitable organization for this year: Asia's Hope. The money we raise from the silent auction and any extra money from this years fees will go directly to this organization. Our actions will help save these orphans. Pretty rad.

Finally, Seagull bags will be making an Awesomefest Jaws themed bag for our auction so BRING MONEY!

Contact me if you have any questions. See you soon!

Nick
614-507-7954

We have a date!

August 8th will be the date for this years Awesomefest. And this time we will have a slightly different format. In order to be able to grow we needed to add more tattoo artists. For those of you who participated in last years event you may remember that it took our sole artist a while to tattoo the 15 riders. So this year we will have as many as Six artists from Evolved! I will have their sketches live on this site shortly.

Early bird registration is also live. The discounted rate is good through July 11th. The price will then go up for the last month. Both fees include meals, a shirt, a photo, prizes and more!

Feel free to email me at fancher8@yahoo.com with any questions. And spread the word! I want this thing to spread like panic at the beach in shark infested waters.