Creativity Competition
COMPETITION
**Running from 12 July - 31 December 2008**
Are you creatively talented? Are you poverty stricken? Do you ever think that you could make something of yourself if someone gave you a kick up the ass to do it? This competition is aimed at you!
Competition Rules: Each competitor must keep a daily blog, related to their work. A good option for photographers is BlipPhoto, for writers just use your normal blog from any provider and make your posts public. Your posts can be related to your craft, to the piece you’re working on at the moment, to themes that interest you in the business - as long as they’re related to working and thinking, anything goes.
The blog posts won’t make up the body of your work to be judged, but it is a requirement to make sure you’re being active every day and to help you keep on track. You want to be famous someday, right? Having a work oriented website is a good place for people to find you.
From July to December there will be six themes, and your creative output should be based around them. They are as follows:
July - Finish Shit. For what is left of July, tidy up the loose ends in your life. Finish knitting the scarf, writing the story, painting your miniature army. Whatever thing you started and drifted off on. You have a month to do it, and be finished by 31 July. This is so you don’t have any threads hanging over you for the rest of the year.
August - Water
September - Tactile
October - Summer
November - Colour
December - Steampunk
Within these categories you can make any damn thing you want to. Bonus points for creativity.
Multiple entries are permitted - you want to do a whole smorgasbord of water pictures, all good. You think you can get multiple projects finished in July, go for it.
There is a secondary aspect to this competition - MONEY. Not our money, yours. I want you to get your work published.
Right then. Water is the theme for August. In some way or form, it must be shown or alluded to or the basis of your photo for August, which you then need to sell.
So you can take a picture of an algae filled pond and sell it to a newspaper, take a portait of a family sitting by the lake and offer it to them, print out a picture and get it framed and give it to a gallery. Write a newspaper article, a short story for a magazine, make a sculpture. Get your products and your name out there in the public eye - even if it doesn’t sell, make an effort at it.
Put up a post that you’re doing this competition and copy out the rules - make sure you put a link back to your original competition post in every future blog post you have.
PRIZES: $500 to the overall winner, with smaller prizes awarded after December to the Independent Judge’s decision for the best piece of each month.
Judging criteria -
1) How much money you made
2) Visitor votes, ranking what they like best
3) How far your work spreads - if you can talk others into putting up your photos on their pages, if you can graffiti your work and show it's out in public. Number of hits for how many times your name is spotted
4) Outrageousness.
Further prizes to be added as sponsors are confirmed.
Any questions in the comments. Good luck!