Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Truth be told, I was hoping out of sight, out of mind, and I’d get to keep it. Turns out, I was wrong.
MTV have told me that it’s time that I let go of my Gibson. But they aren’t having it all their way. We’ve agreed that I can give it away to one of you. I know, I know – go ahead, take pleasure in my misery.
It’s pretty unique, one of only 25 ever made and signed by John Legend, Metallica, Macy Gray, Kasabian, Paolo Nutini, Spinal Tap, Russell Brand and more.
So, I don’t just want to give it away. If I’m going to part with it, I want to know it’s going to somewhere it belongs. So, if you want it, you’re going to have to work for it.
Show me an effort you have made to improve the environment around you.
Big, small, a change to a place, or some people – that’s for you to decide. What’s most important to me is that you do it with the imagination and style that I can relate to. My guitar’s a total individual, and its owner needs to be too.
Be inspired, be playful and be smart.
Send me a video, story or image to my blog or via email email
Before submitting your entry be sure to read the competition terms and conditions.
You can go to the MTV website www.mtvcherrygirl.com to find out more soon – but don’t worry I’ll keep you posted.
Surprise me. I look forward to it.
xxx
WOW…I didn’t really think it was true but that’s totally awesome
awesome that you are willing to part with it when it’s such a beautiful thing
can’t wait to see who it will go to.
This is such a great opportunity for every one to make the world a better place. I hope this will inspire more people to do what you do, Cherry Girl. You are an inspiration! I look up to you. I hope very much to win this, but that is not the point! The point is to spread joy and change…. am I right?
that is such a good idea! and it makes sense, instead of giving it away to people who just guess the answer right to a question in competitions
Hi Cherry Girl before one yers and I try to be Rock Stare and all thing is redy to finish my first album in Tunisia but my family sed opposet of that and i have very dispointed for her bucause in Tunisia they have not the Rocker Star like Metallica so I need for somthing I can of her to contineu of my dream to be the First Rock Star in Tunisia (and I hop to reed my comment goodbay)
i speak a quite god english because im peruvian and my official language is spanish so…
xD But i really really think this job you do is amazing.
You have so much hope on your beliefs, and you do what you think is right for you and the environment.
I really admire you and i think is great that Mtv is supporting you
I will think what to do.
I love the idea, and there are so many things to improve our environment
Take care,
keep acting like that 
Keep being yourself.
CHeers xD
this is my email: debbie_146_cs@hotmail.com
This is a great idea, but I’m not sure what the outcome will be, I’m thinking some random people might do something drastic but it wont have been integrated into their everyday lives, just something they’ve done for the guitar.
I however am not going to enter because the most I can offer is putting the right things in the right recycling boxes, using little water when brushing my teeth and turning off the lights.
Good luck to all that enter though!!
But that is exactly the kind of thing I am looking for! Playful, inventive, fun…small can be big. And don’t worry, the guitar will go to the right person x
Here I send you some pictures of our project. We are a group of friends always thinking about what can we do to extend the life of our planet; small or big there’s something always something we can do to help. Here is the link to our blog. Please let me know what you think of it.
Car Tire Recycling Street Woqui Project
http://woqui.blogspot.com/2009/03/garbage-disposal-made-of-car.html
It’s really a garbaga bin not a disposal. Thanks cherry girl. Take care. Saludos from PR, Woqui.
My Entry:
I don’t even play guitar, yet…but my Dad, Brother and Niece do. I’ve been wanting to learn, so WOW, wouldn’t it be something if I could play with them with YOUR guitar! They would be in shock
What have I done for the environment? The biggest thing I have done is buy a Prius, a much more expensive car than I could really afford, but it was important to me to reduce my carbon impact. I also switched to the environmentally friendly light bulbs. I recycle. I have bird houses posted all around my yard, which they occasionally use and I rescue numerous small animals from my cat when I can
I know it’s not much, or unique, but I am always open to more ideas and willing to offer my design services to any non profit organization that is trying to protect wildlife habitat.
I have just sent you an email! Thank you for making us participants of our own future concerning about Global Warming! It is natural to be worry about it, but many people doesn’t catch the idea yet as a priority. Regards.
Hello Cherry Girl!
I read about your project on FACEBOOK today, so here it goes…
‘Ways that I have been trying to help the environment!’:
1) Conserving gas! If I need to drive somewhere, I try & plan the quickest route in advance and run all errands during one trip a day. Better yet, I carpool, walk, or ride a bike if possible.
2) Re-using water bottles! If I purchase a bottle of water, I re-fill the same bottle several times before buying another.
3) Recycling! When I had my own place (everything’s in storage now…that’s another story!), I separated the plastic and paper from the other waste and took it to the recycling bin in the building where I lived at the time.
4) Turning off lights! Whenever I leave a room, I always try and remember to turn off the lights on my way out. Same goes for computers and other electronics. This helps keep the electric bill low and also cools off the place in the heat of summer.
5) Singing & Playing Guitar! When I’m stressed out or want to improve the *mood* of the environment, I’ve found that playing music helps me relax and often times puts others at ease as well.
Thanks for your time and all you’re doing to help bring awareness to improving our environment! I hope you will consider me for the gorgeous guitar you are giving away, I would treat it with great love and respect and shower it with ‘Sweet Kisses’! xoxoxoxo
Sincerely,
Melissa Rose
So this is my entry to the contest. I am someone who is very big on saving the enviroment and doing everything I can to do so, for example I have convinced my family to stop using the dryer for the entire summer and only hanging our laundry on the clothes line. That helped the enviroment and saved us some money.
Also my friend and I go around town sometimes and pick up as much garbage as we can, on Earth Day we ended up going around for three hours and had almost five garbage bags full.
I also walk to dance, or take the bus to work and just try to use a vehicle as little as possible.
And that is what I have been doing in order to save the enviroment, because I am still very young and would love to live my life to it’s fullest!
I made a short video on sustainability. I’d like to submit it for consideation. You can see it in my website link posted or go to this Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6TNeNVcT5U&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fncwildlife%2Ening%2Ecom%2Fvideo%2F2110095%3AVideo%3A260&feature=player_embedded
Ernie McLaney
North Carolina
Hello SISTER,s
My age is 15years.I am Reading in 9th class.but i want to recive more education.I am from pakistan.N.W.F.P.Distt.mardan.Teh.Takhttabhai.Mahalla,Easakhil.VILL&P.O.Tazagram.can you invite me sister.And i like to send me letter on Post office.
THANK,YOUR,s NAEEM ULLAH MUSLIM
So I do not know if this is big or small, but I am still young to give much more that I would like to give like to take part in an organization… But I encourage those that I know… as my family, my friends and everyone I know; to recycle, take care, not to abuse the power and keep small movements that they can do to protect nature… Also make sure the environment not only through our daily routine and taking care of plants and animals… So much and I look after the garden because we live in town and the green set is not enough. Not wasting water to water the plants but the need for to grow and produce oxygen, we also reduce the movement of our car k choose public transportation … I have changed the bags of rubbish to degradation, mash the fruit peel and recycle as much as we can with the garbage to have significantly reduced .. Let us respect the nature because we live through it…
I’m a one person library staff in a very small Maine town. I’ve worked very hard to educate the community on how many innovative ways there are to re-use unwanted books. In addition to swapping over 2000 on Bookmooch, Paperbackswap and Swaptree.com, including sending books to over 25 foreign countries, I (and the community members) have shipped another 200+ boxes to Betterworld Books who sell them, give us 15% and donate another 15% to organizations who promote literacy in areas around the world. I also have a swap box for paperbacks and a free book box for little ones who are coming to the library for the first time. Little kids love taking books home to keep (sorta like Christmas over and over) The library benefits as well as we add close to 4000 new items a year, mostly from stuff received in trades. All this makes plenty of people happy and saves a lot of good books from ending up in the landfill.
Dear Cherry Girl,
Please don’t tease me! I really want that guitar. I lhink I could love that guitar. It would make me ecstatic to have it. Playing it would be like therapy. I play my dreadnought every day, and it’s therapy.
As to the environment – if a person is truly environmentally conscious, they have many stories. It’s second nature to remain aware. Okay, here’s one of my many, really little, tiniest of stories.
I am one of the few people at my office with an ergonomic keyboard and an ergonomic mouse. They are wireless and use batteries. I hate that! I would love to have a wired ergonomic keyboard and mouse. That is not an option here. Anyway, my office provided no environmentally correct way to recycle the used batteries. I saved them not knowing how I would dispose of them.
Enter my friend Barbara, who teaches me more about being environmentally correct every day than I learned while living in California (she’s from California, too). Barbara collected my spent batteries, took them home, then lugged them on the subway to an appropriate recycling site (like Whole Foods). Now, that shows serious love for the environment. In my book, she gets a gold star!
Oh, but in our daily lives we do so much environmentally correct stuff! So many tales to tell. Go Green!
During the colder months, I plug the tub to catch the hot shower water until it cools down to room temperature, thus saving the energy used to heat it by using it again to heat the inside of my flat. Why warm the septic/sewer system? Then, I use the cooled down water to flush the toidee.
xo, Johnny
Hi! cherry girl, you are an inspiration.Iam a poor chap and donot know how to play a guitar,but want one because iam a songwriter,a poet and western dancer and a singer.But iam not an amatuer or a professional because i poor and poor people hardly get any chances,So whenever i have somer extra money in my pockets,i usually go to a bird store in my city and purchase some birds,the maximum i can and then release them in some natural habitat or parks where the bird catchers normally don’t go.So that they can live their life as they want in freedom as a part of nature.Moreover there is one more thing i do,i spread enviornmental awareness among people so that they respect nature and donot interfere in its natural working.This i started doing around eight years back when i discovered that due to my stars in my horoscope,i can put influence over the masses just like planet pluto.I had discovered that many people were unconsiously following , and doing what i have done in the past and what iam doing in present.I ‘ll explain in detail look its like that iam a shadow celebrity,i have seen that what i have done and have been doing in my life is some recorded by nature and intutively delivered as ideas and thoughts to intellectuals and artists,because most of my life story what i have been through till now ,all different aspects and phases like my love life,my professional life,my personal life etc has been brought to life onscreen as block buster movies in hollywood and even in my country in bollywood.i sometimes feel like iam living a recording of some old blockbuster movie.
So what i did was that i started to telepathically influence people i wherever i went,i made people feel that trees and plants are a part of human body and nature.Like i put telepathic thoughts in their brain that trees are like the bronchioles in both the lungs and are their representation in nature.So what has happenend in some years that people in my vincity and many other places have started being more enviornmental friendly and protect and enhance the greenery around by planting more trees and plants around their residences.
Hi Cherry Girl,
My brother is a huge fan of Metallica, Foo Fighters, Keane and Kasabian and when we found out that there was an oppurtunity to win this guitar signed by both these bands he was very happy and he plays the guitar really well, infact he’s playing it right now, literally.
I really wish I can win this Gibson for him but i’m quite young and I can’t really take part in more serious business but I did every little thing that I could do to like recycling, and getting recycling bins in my school, I always follow the three R’s rule and I do the basic things to help the environment. It’s very important for us because it’s the our generation that’s going to live through it very long.
There’s nothing more but I really hope that I can win this guitar for my brother.
Thanks for you time
I’m sorry hat you have to be giving away something that is so priceless that you really value away, but you will be giving it to good hands
Dear Cherry girl,
I loves the Gibson guitar that you’re offering, and guess what, i’m just planning where to get a guitar because i decided to take up guitar classes… until i saw this great news! I really wich to own this amazing guitar!!!
What had i done to help the environment? Well, sometimes when there’s always raining, i collects the rain water into a pail and used it to water the plants to save water resources. Besides, my family and i always packed our rubbish accordingly so that can be used to recycle… I think so far our biggest help is we always pack all our alluminium cans from can-drinks and can-foods and brings them to recycle station.
Well.. i hope everyone can start loving the environment. We must view from a different perspective, which is to preserve the environment so that our future generation will have the opportunity to see forests, clean seas and enjoy unpolluted air.
Love,
Vittoria.
Hi Cherry Girl. You wanted to know how I made efforts to save the environment right? I would normally recycle unwanted newspaper, plastic bottles, and empty can drinks at the recycling center. I also try my best to do gardening so that the air will be fresher =D..although I don’t enjoy it.Thank You for your time.
Some comments from around the World
BUeNa lA giBson!!! dice: 23 de Mayo, 2009 a las 8:51
wua0o0..! ia kiero saber kiern eres..! x3 dice: 5 de Junio, 2009 a las 17:00
hola xd kien eres ……….. esta bin = ok dice: 7 de Junio, 2009 a las 16:19
Dejame decirte que ees bastante linda y podria decirte mas pero no esoy seguro de que esto caerá en tus manos…Debo dcir que MTV esta hacieno un buen trabajo guardando tu misterioso misterio, y pues la verdad todo estará perfectamente bien mientras no seas algo imilar a tila tequila o paris hilton, asi millone de fans te lo agradeceran, sin nada mas que decir, se despide Kalistracko. Kalistracko Rulez!!! gibson for grabs dice: 28 de Mayo, 2009 a las 17:58
Seu pensamento é incrível! Continuo a me apaixonar! lucas // 04.05.09 às 14h12
Os comerciais da MTV não são ridículos, você só tem que juntá-los (am alguns casos) e eles ganham sentido. E quando às orelhas, todos temos defeitos. Você não tem não? Luiz // 07.06.09 às 17h14
VOLTEI DE FÉRIAS ESSE DIAS,FUI VER A MTV E ME DEPEREI COM ESSA “COISA”.. CHAMADA CHERRY GIRL.. DÁ PRA ALGUÉM ME DIZER O QUE SÃO AQUELA “ORELHAS DE ABANAR CHURRASCO”? QUE COISA MAIS TOSCA! REALMENTE A MTV ESTÁ FICANDO CAMPEÃ EM COLOCAR COMERCIAIS RIDÍCULOS NO AR,PARABÉNS.. César // 14.05.09 às 10h26
liinda a gibson! e ecologicamente correta, o mais importante
Luiza // 12.05.09 às 14h12
Eu queria uma GIBSON…mas ñ precisa de assinatura de ninguém, ter uma me basta! isa // 10.05.09 às 19h48
Nuss! xD Sortuda! Eu ficaria feliz até com um Banjo! D: Lacerda // 09.05.09 às 17h08
HOLY SHIT!!!!!! lucas mariano // 09.05.09 às 16h51
bah! que feliz! ana // 09.05.09 às 14h37
conic tarafından 19.08.2009′de gönderildi:
Şu kazananın Yazısınıda Eklersın Burda dimi Kiraz Dudaklım Ben Kiraz kabuğunada razıyım
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Tenzen_ tarafından 15.06.2009′de gönderildi:
Ben nasıl görmedim bu blog sayfasını yaaa !! Opsss =) Yaklaşık yani şöyle demek gerekirse MTV Türkiyeye Anime blog sayfası için üye oldum
İyi kide olmuşum =) bu haziranın 19unda blogdaki 1. yaş günüm olucak 
Yaklaşık olarak 1 senedir yazıyorum 
Ama ama burayı daha yeni gördüm 
MTV ana sayfasında ki sekmelere bakıyorum 
Ya Orda Bloglar yerine”Anime” yazıyordu şimdi Bloglar diye sekmenina dı değiştirilmiş 
Opsss Birde bi baktım bir blog sayfamız daha olmuş 
Geç gördüm blog sayfasını ama yazılarını felan okudum 
Çok güzel çok içten 
ohohoho 
Ne güzel ya 2 blog sayfamız oldu 
Blog sayfanın sürekli takipçisiyim şu andan itibaren 
Gibson hakkında bişeyler söylemek gerekirse 
Bakalım kime gidicek 
MysTiC_ tarafından 19.06.2009′de gönderildi:
gibson mıı??? xS Tanrığğmmm!! xS xS En büyük hayalimmm!!! xS xS
mrvdfnbrc tarafından 23.06.2009′de gönderildi:
cherry 1+ katılım olabiliyor mu?* bu benim ufkumu genişletecektir emin ol ((: hemen çalışmalara başlıyorum..anladığın kadarıyla sen sadece kendin gibi birini arıyorsun ve gitar sende duramıcaksa bari kişiliğinle en çok özdeşleşen kişiye gitsin istiyorsun(: merak etme o benim (:
ustunyasar tarafından 26.06.2009′de gönderildi:
hımm gibson marka bi gitar ha gerçekten güzel bi gitar bir gibsona hakkettiği saygıyı ancak gitar virtüözleri verebilir umarım gerçekten hakeden birine verirsin içten içe keşke benim olsa diyorum ama ben ona layık değilim hani ayrılan sevgili yalanıdır ya bu söz benim için ise şuan platonik bi sevgilinin kendini avutma çabasının klavyenin tuşlarına vurarak yazıya dökülen bi göstergesi =)
hayq0cu tarafından 27.06.2009′de gönderildi:
trash metal oof süper bir gitar olmalı
Iconic tarafından 05.07.2009′de gönderildi:
Ne istersen yaparım cherry gırl um benım
:D yeterki gibson benım olsun :d
[...] as a great incentive for others to be eco-conscious, she’s giving away a friggin’ Gibson guitar (1 of 25 made of this model) autographed by John Legend, Metallica, Macy Gray, Kasabian, Paolo [...]
Another day, walking to the beach, I found a tiny dragonfly…almost dead in the street, I picked it up and and after a while he recovers in my hands, and try to fly again…
Hey hey,Is this competition still on?
First off,I won’t lie and say Environment is #1 for me-it’s #2!
Music is #1 {yeah,MTV,you ARE the reason I still own a tv!}
I do recycle and help clean the beach near by and I even followed the Copenhagen treaty-which I should say was a little saddening!
So all I need to know is this thing still on?
And what can I do to help?
This is why I keep going to this place. I can not believe I missed so many posts since the last time!
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