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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.

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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).

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

And the Winners Are ...

Re: Congrats, Cecilia!

Re: Congrats, Cecilia!