And the Winners Are ...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I have tallied the votes for the three categories of the Rose and Bay Awards that I handled this year: Art, Fiction, and Other Project.

*drumroll*


Best Art Project 2010: "Tod's Icon Days" by djinni (Tod)
"For months now, Tod has been offering free social-networking icons to people; he draws as many as he has time for, but if donations reach a certain cap he does all the requests. While other artists do icon days, Tod's was the first I ever saw; his Icon Days are frequent, he does hundreds of icons and he finishes them all in a timely fashion... and then turns around and does it again! His art is warm and bright and engaging and deserves more attention."

Best Fiction Project 2010: "Daron's Guitar Chronicles" by ceciliatan (Cecilia Tan)
"Daron’s Guitar Chronicles tells the story of a young musician who arrives at music school in the mid-1980s, desperate to leave behind a dysfunctional family in New Jersey’s suburbs and discover himself. It was the advent of MTV, AIDS, and punk versus metal, all of which would affect him on his journey searching for fame, artistic expression, and the courage to seek out the sex and love he needs."

Best Other Project 2010: "Little Tales" little_tales by gen (Genesis Eve Whitmore)
"Little Tales" is a furry webcomic. Updates are posted three days a week with slice-of-life strips on Monday and Friday and a retelling of the classic G.K. Chesterton story, The Man Who Was Thursday, on Wednesdays. (Ah, the irony! ;) The first year of strips has been collected into a printed volume and is available for purchase from the artist."

Congratulations to all the winners!  You folks are wonderful, and your projects are wonderful.
Thanks also to everyone who nominated a project, to all the nominees (your projects are awesome too), and to the folks who voted and helped spread the word.  You have all helped make the Rose and Bay Awards something special from year one!

You can read more about the Rose and Bay Award on the landing page.

Comments

[miintikwa.livejournal.com]

Congrats to the winners! That's wonderful!

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to the winners!

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

*confetti*

I've been pointing people to your icon days. I think ceciliatan is heading your way.

[ceciliatan.livejournal.com]

Yes! What a coincidence! I left you a request from my other journal ravenna_c_tan. Congratulations and thanks for making the Interwebs such a wonderful place to be. :-)

Three cheers!

[zeeth_kyrah]

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

[ceciliatan.livejournal.com]

Yayyyyyy! You have to picture me waving my arms and screaming like Kermit the Frog here... Yes, we writers are such dignified creatures.

But seriously, thank you thank you thank you, for the opportunity to be part of the growth of crowdfunding as a phenomenon, for this comm, and for all you do to create the rising tide that lifts all boats.

And huge thanks to everyone who voted/nominated, not just for me, but for all the projects! Your support (both moral and monetary) is literally what keeps creative folks like me going! Enthusiasm is worth as much as gold!

*grin*

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

>>Yayyyyyy! You have to picture me waving my arms and screaming like Kermit the Frog here... Yes, we writers are such dignified creatures.<<

No problem. I've seen you in a reading, so I know how enthusiastic you can get. Wish I could be there to jump up and down in person!

>>But seriously, thank you thank you thank you, for the opportunity to be part of the growth of crowdfunding as a phenomenon, for this comm, and for all you do to create the rising tide that lifts all boats.<<

*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service. I believe that crowdfunding has a great deal of potential, so I am doing what I can to make that come true. I am really pleased by the response to this award, and the growing community. I have posted a followup report here:
http://community.livejournal.com/crowdfunding/175690.html

[jolantru.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!!

Congrats, Cecilia!

[meilin-miranda.livejournal.com]

Will we ever know the other rankings? :)

Re: Congrats, Cecilia!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I wasn't planning to sort all the nominees into rankings. However, the vote numbers should be visible to everyone on the closed polls, with the comment votes below. If you want to know the rankings, all you have to do is count them up.

Re: Congrats, Cecilia!

[eseme]

Well, that's not true for all of us.

The totals are the end of the red line on the poll, representing the numbers.

Those red lines for some projects (including the winners) do not fit on the space this journal uses. I think it's a result of the layout style being used for the community. The light tan section in the middle displays on about 4 inches in the middle of my screen (I have a 13 inch, diagonal laptop screen).

I am not sure why this style uses less than half my screen real estate for the actual content, but it does. So the results of the poll are not at all visible, to me at least.

I've got a Mac, running Safari 4.0.4 on OS 10.6.2 (the most recent OS).

Re: Congrats, Cecilia!

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Okay, I went back to my 3 categories and edited in the numbers of votes for the bars that don't show their numbers.