Reflections #1: A Mixed Media Collaboration Contest. How to Wow The Judges (2nd pre-announcement, 50 SBD prize pool)

in #contest6 years ago (edited)

This is the second of a series of three posts reminding you about my upcoming collaborations contest. Why am I doing three reminders first? The same reason as I’m announcing the whole thing three weeks before it opens. I want you all to have plenty of time to look for partners to collaborate with.

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The judges, so far, will be myself and @sunravelme (unless she has changed her mind), and I believe we already covered this, but I want you to make our lives very, very difficult. We would love nothing more than to have a number of amazing submissions we have to agonise over before we can agree on the winner.

How It Works

Every entry must comprise of two posts that complement each other. They need to fit together. Like peas and carrots. The two posts can be made by two different people, or they can be made by the same person.

One post will focus on writing, and one post will focus on art.

The two posts must contain links to each other.

How to Wow the Judges

Writers

Your part of the post focuses on writing. You can write whatever you want to write, but write with passion--with feeling. It doesn’t matter if you write a poem, a story, or an autobiographical piece about the birth of your child. We want your words to touch something inside of us.

We also want your writing to be high quality, polished work. Grammar or spelling slips can really distract your reader, and we want to love your words. That’s why @sunravelme and I strongly advise you to pay a visit to The Writer’s Block and let your work run the gauntlet of one of the workshops there. You will find all the help you need to polish your piece of writing until it shines.

Artists

Your part of the post focuses on art that in some way reflects the writing. Your work can be musical, or visual.

Musicians

We would love to discover new work. And we would love to learn more about how you work, how you compose or create your music.

Photographers

You, too, can take part in the contest. But we want to see you test the limits of your chosen medium. Experiment with unconventional lighting and angles. Have a go at light graffiti. Whatever you do, think outside the box and surprise us.

Visual artists

Whether you sculpt, paint, draw or work in a digital medium doesn’t matter to us. Just wow us. Challenge yourself and create something new. And please do show us how you did what you did.

Save The Dates

The contest will open two weeks from now. You’ll be able to submit from December 16th, which is, I believe, a Saturday, at 20.00 CET (Central European Time). Submissions will close one week later, on the 23rd, at 20.00 CET.
I will be posting weekly reminders, with some extra tips on how to wow the judges, as well as more details about those judges.

The Prizes

Thanks to very generous donations from @tanglebranch and @plushzilla, the prize pool is currently at 50 SBD. The exact division of this pool will depend on the number of entries received.

I am very excited to see what you will come up with.
Stay tuned for more details!


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@bleedpoet ---- You want to work our dark magick for Christmas? Bet you and me could come up with something reeeeaal nice. Come on poet, lets dance.

Takes two to tango, so let's juice some mangos and make a sweet treat that's nutritious and such as well😄

Oooooooooooh!

This is gonna be some nice moves. Watch out folks - shits about to get real fun.

Do you want to lead or follow?

Looks to me we have two weeks to flip coins and hone skill. If we bring more into the collaboration do we score more gold or just take smaller cuts🤔

Who would you like to bring into this den of creative debauchery with us? Yeah, smaller cuts I am assuming, but we can kill them off and take their cut in the end. Easy PEasy... oh wait, that's something I shouldn't say out loud.

Kill two 'birds' with one stone?🤔

HEy - you kill me and all your crazy shit gets leaked to the press. I aint no fool, I got security measures in place. I have a kill switch that burns everybody. Bwahahahahaha.

Everything I die with dies with me. Easy target. Was referring to a duo of 'birds' who sing... But good to know your just bracing for the day to destroy me Dr. Claw.

@tinypaleokitchen - I love nothing more than a good collaboration, and I applaud the initiative to encourage it by any members of the steemit community. I would like to donate the 10 BSD I won from the Steemitbc Rant competition to this cause, please let me know how. Thanks.

Thank you very much! You can transfer it to my account if you want, and it will be added to the prize pool. Your name will be added to this post as a donor. Will you be entering as well? Looking for a partner perhaps?
Hugs

Done. I couldn't quite match @tanglebranch's generous donation but I thought I could at least round it up to 50 SBD for you.

Are you organizing for people to partner up? I have dabbled in a few things in the past but not nearly as talented as people like @marty-arts, @vermillionfox, @jungwatercolor, @carrieallen, @chrisroberts and many more. I'd love to see them in the competition though :)

I didn't think of organising, but if artists are looking for a writing partner, I advise a visit to The Writer's Block. And you actually matched her donation, I think. 30SBD was already offered by me. ;-)

I've received your transfer and updated the post. Thank you again for your generosity!

Oh, the anticipation! It's great how you are building this and giving everyone time to plan and collaborate. I can't wait to see what comes of it, @tinypaleokitchen!

I can't either, Jayna. There are some artists whose work I would love to see but I feel like it would be rude to tag them in here and prod them into forming a team. 😂

Well you could DM me, and I could prod them. Or ask if they would like to collaborate...!

Congrats on your effort @tinypaleokitchen! That's probably a good chance for me to make something different. I'd join as a writer.

I look forward to it. Do you need help finding an art partner?

Definitely yes. I'm still a newbie in participating in contests... especially writing contests. I feel much more confident as the contest organizer. So, go ahead - I'm ready to accept any suggestion.

After taking a look at what's she's doing, I'd like to suggest @merej99 as my art partner. She's recently practicing black & white photography. It might be a cool idea uniting with her.

Well contact her and I wish you both happy brainstormings and good luck!

When is the deadline to submit our entries?

Contest closes on the 23rd, as mentioned in the post.

Thanks Tiny! Good luck to everyone!

Hey @alcibiades ... Feel like collaborating with me for this contest? Any interest?

I don't know if I will get as far as participating, but I certainly want to.... It's the art side especially that makes me nervous. That plus all the other stuff that is already not getting enough attention...

That is cool as hell

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