Reston: The Video Contest

What, with all the exciting new retail opportunities in our earth-toned community, you, like us, are probably wondering how you can pick up a little extra "scratch," as the kids today certainly no longer say, to get yourself a marginally improved cellular telephone or a sweeeet underbed storage solution, or a baker's dozen of artisanal cupcakes, or what have you. Fortunately, our BFFs at the Reston Association are Here to Help! You see, they're holding a fancy video contest, with $1,000 as the top prize. (For us, that's the equivalent of someone clicking on the "Are You The Baby Daddy?" ad at the top of this filthy "web log" approximately 4.2 million times, so that's real money!)

But we digress. Alls you have to do is create a video "showing why you love to Live, Work, Play or Get Involved in Reston." Our BFFs at the RA posted one (seriously) cool example on the YouTubes featuring a counselor at the (seriously) awesome RA Camps:



That's going to be hard to top, but we came up with a humble entry of our own, inspired by the lively discourse that makes our community what it is. Not to brag or anything, but we spent hours picking just the right shade of DRB Beige for the stucco walls in the background:



We'll be waiting for the check to arrive in the mail, the end.