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  <body>It's official... My &lt;i&gt;Intrusion&lt;/i&gt; design is the Grand Prize Winner of the 1800 Tequila Essential Artists 2009 competition!  Over 15,000 designs were submitted and my design was picked as the best one to represent the upcoming series.

The design is currently being placed on limited edition bottles of 1800 Silver Tequila that will be sold in stores across the nation in November 2009.  Thank you to all of the people that voted on 1800tequila.com.

Click the picture below to go to my online portfolio for images and video:&lt;a href="http://www.behance.net/Gallery/1800-Tequila-Essential-Artists-Grand-Prize-Winner/313091"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn204/SteveOramA82/BlogOramA/1800_tequila_announcement2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
Stay tuned for more coming soon!
&lt;a href="http://steveorama.info"&gt;&lt;img src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn204/SteveOramA82/signature.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</body>
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  <title>And the 1800 Tequila Grand Prize Winner is...</title>
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      <body>That's crazy, dude! Congrats!</body>
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      <body>thats killer, if i see that im buying it.</body>
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      <body>thanks guys.  they have a store locator function on their website that shows you places nearby where you get them.

shepard fairey's studio did one too.  it's gonna be cool seeing all of them in stores soon.</body>
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      <body>Sweet action!!!</body>
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      <body>I knew it would be one of use emptees dudes. Just had a hunch, I'm glad it was you. Well done, this is huge.</body>
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      <body>having a design on a tequilla bottle sounds awesome! Congrats</body>
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      <body>that is sick dude congrats</body>
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      <body>whoa I thought that contest was never gonna end.....AWESOME MAN</body>
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      <body>good work mate!!</body>
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      <body>congrats! thats insanee</body>
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      <body>congrats dude!! Was there a money prize too?</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;collisiontheory said:&lt;/cite&gt; congrats dude!! Was there a money prize too?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

plus, I'm so buying this!  That's the best work I've seen of yours in my opinion!</body>
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      <body>That's neat, congrats man!</body>
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      <body>that's crazy to win with that many submissions...
congrats...</body>
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      <body>Congrats bro, I&#180;d be proud of having my own booze.</body>
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      <body>Damn, nice!

I picked this one up a few weeks ago actually.

&lt;img src="http://intoxicologist.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/chris-dean1.jpg" /&gt;</body>
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      <body>That's too awesome!</body>
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      <body>nice one man!</body>
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      <body>awesome man just another reason to go buy some tequila!</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;thechef said:&lt;/cite&gt; awesome man just another reason to go buy some tequila!&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Like we NEED a reason! :D</body>
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      <body>10k richer huh! :D</body>
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      <body>10k and all the tequila you can drink</body>
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      <body>i shall be buying that</body>
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      <body>Whoa, congrats!! How exciting!</body>
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      <body>Thanks everyone!  They started the contest last year and then notified me in March.  It's been a long time coming!</body>
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      <body>aw man, congrats! thats the greatest thing ever. and 10K? nice!</body>
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      <body>Just received mine in the mail today:

&lt;img src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn204/SteveOramA82/sneakpreview.jpg"&gt;</body>
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      <body>When they available? Gonna start looking soon as I know when to.

Congrats again. Such a huge honor. I'm sure you're grinning ear to ear when you type such a thing on a resume or portfolio.</body>
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      <body>So rad definitely grabbing a bottle!</body>
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      <body>AWESOME!!!!!</body>
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      <body>I haven't had a sip of alcohol since I was 15, but after seeing that bottle its tempting as shit to break "edge". Maybe I will just buy a bottle pour it all out and fill it with some ice cold mexican crystal pepsi.</body>
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      <body>so sweet!
congratulations! </body>
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      <body>I volunteer the drink the contents for any straight edge people that want to keep the bottle.</body>
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      <body>haha crystal pepsi!
i'll keep that in mind for family members quaker!?
statik, they say late october / early november so very soon.</body>
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      <body>hey quaker, if you get so many requests to drink peoples alcohol that you dont think you can handle i could always help you out. </body>
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      <body>i will remember both of you now if i know someone that needs help with the drinking.</body>
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      <body>Just wondering... has anyone seen a commercial on TV for this (other than the attack on Patron ones) ? </body>
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      <body>http://lovelypackage.com/1800&#174;-tequila-essential-artists-series-2/</body>
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      <body>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;cite&gt;SteveOramA said:&lt;/cite&gt; Just received mine in the mail today:

&lt;img src="http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn204/SteveOramA82/sneakpreview.jpg"&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

awesome, its even got your logo on it.
congrats man, it looks awesome.</body>
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