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Hey you! Dude with the shining light bulb above your head! Check it: here's a chance to put all those shiny ideas to work-- and it involves Radiohead.

London-based "educational charity" D&AD (Design & Art Direction) has announced the 29th edition of its Global Student Awards design competition, and among the "briefs" (i.e., prompts): a Radiohead-sponsored challenge to create a music video for Thom Yorke's "The Clock", from the man's 2006 debut solo disc The Eraser. Apparently there are some other categories and it's a prestigious contest or whatever, but holy shit! Radiohead!!

According to the contest website, "All full or part time students enrolled on higher education courses anywhere in the world (HND, BTEC, BA, BSc, MA, MSc, MD or equivalent) can enter" and participants "don't necessarily need to be studying a creative course to enter." So hop to it, young scholars-- the final deadline is March 23, and winners receive money, honor, and cute, stubby pencil statues. Contest details are linked below in stunning .pdf format.

And speaking of bright folks, hats off to Radiohead's own lead guitarist, Jonny Greenwood, who picked up the Listeners' Award at BBC Radio 3's British Composer Awards last Friday, November 24 in London. As previously reported, Greenwood's BBC-commissioned composition Popcorn Superhet Receiver (stream it by clicking below) was nominated for the prize back in October. The people voted for this one, and selected Greenwood's piece over two concertos, possibly because people like popcorn more than violas.

As part of the honor, lucky Jonny gets a whopping £10,000 from the PRS Foundation, to use toward his next composition. Jonny's award-funded opus will premiere in 2007, according to the PRS website. The BBC, meanwhile, named Greenwood composer in residence back in 2004.

And finally, it wouldn't be a Radiohead-related story without another cryptically exciting snippet from the band's blog, Dead Air Space. This time, from Thom Yorke's November 20 post: "we had a good week in the studio last week. finally things are growing".

We may interpret this to mean Radiohead may in fact possibly record and/or release an article of music in or around the near future, potentially for sure.