My Nissan Cube - Hyper Cube Contest - Brain Riff

The Nissan Cube’s Hyper Cube (HyperCube?) contest in underway and I’ve finally found 2 hours of quiet time away from the kids to get going on my online campaign to win one of 50 of these little beauties.

You can go here to find all the details on the official Nissan Cube “Hyper Cube” Contest page. Tell ‘em Kevin sent you.

Here’s a photo of the Nissan Cube I have my eye on:

Now I just have to convince Nissan that I am Cube Worthy. The way I see it, and being the practical thinker that I am, my best tactic is to use all the skills I’ve learned over the years from blogging, social media marketing and search engine optimization to show Nissan the value of giving one of these to me.

It’s a classic “I scratch your back, you give me a car” scenario.

So the first step in any good campaign is to just creatively splurge ideas on paper (or in this case in a blog post) - except for the one time we did it on pieces of a cardboard box, which by the way is an excellent medium for creativity. In my circles this creative splurge is referred to as a “brain riff” because it makes it sound like we’re doing something cool.

So here I go, a little Nissan Cube HyperCube brain riff.

QBert, remember that cute little video game guy?

Maybe I could dress up like QBert and drive up and down Vancouver’s Robson Street in a Nissan Cube!

Or even better I could build a video game, where it’s litte Nissan Cubes hopping around on blocks instead of QBert!

The there’s the gangsta’ rapper Ice Cube:

Maybe Ice Cube and I could go roll with the homies in my Nissan Cube. Or, he could do a rap song all about me winning a Nissan Cube. And sticking with the whole “ice” and “cube” theme maybe we could kick it in the music video with Vanilla Ice:

Hmmm…. all good and very doable ideas, but I’m going to switch gears a bit here.

What is everyone’s favorite type of cube? I would have to say without a doubt it would be the 1997 Canadian psychological thriller/horror/science fiction movie “CUBE” directed by Vincenzo Natali.

Here’s a trailer:

I GOT IT!

We recreate the cube from the Cube Movie - 26 rooms high, 126 rooms across, 17,576 rooms - all of them blasting renditions of Vanilla Ice songs by a 7th grade band class. With you wearing a Q Bert costume and chased from room to room by Ice Cube the goal is to escape the Cube. Make it out alive and I win a Nissan Cube! You will, of course, win my undying gratitude for doing such a completely random thing solely for my benefit.

It’s a win-win AND the perfect publicity stunt.

Any volunteers?