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August 17, 2005
Updates
Comments system still not fully fixed. Havn't had time to do the reinstall. See previous post for more details.
The awards were for an opinion page illustration I did (shown here, 6th from the top) and another which I havn't uploaded yet, for a features page: sort of an annual thing the paper does highlighting stupid crooks.
In October there's a big press convention in Springfield Illinois, where, among other things, two press associations present their awards, one of which being the Illinois Press Association. It is at that awards ceremony that I'll find out what my position was (1st, 2nd, 3rd, or Honorable Mention). It's a big social hobnob event, and winners get to stand up and be clapped at, with their work shown on a big screen. Sounds fun. I'm actually going to have to dress up. How.. scary.
I imagine that I get a certificate for anything below first. First maybe gets a plaque or something. No idea.
Apparently, though I havn't had official word on this, the two awards are from different categories: editorial cartoon and features illustration. Last year, the same guy won both categories. He's at a much larger paper than mine. Papers like mine don't usually have someone like me.
That's where it stand right now. I'm going to see if there's a way I can get the pages those illustrations were on available for viewing here. Unlike photos, Illustrations are judged at these competitions as they look on the whole page (photos are shown by themselves, without the rest of the page). So essentially the whole design of the page comes into play. I'd like to show them that way here.
Update: I won third place and honorable mention in the illustration category. Not bad.
Posted by Eric Chapman at 03:35 PM | Comments (0)
August 11, 2005
Illinois Press Association
I just found out that I've apparently won two awards from the Illinois Press Association for my illustration work at The Pantagraph.
So, um, hooray!
I have no idea what place I won or what illustrations got the awards specifically. But I know I got the awards.
More as I learn it.
(very flatered and happy)
Posted by Eric Chapman at 04:02 PM | Comments (1)
August 09, 2005
Comment problems
it got called to my attention that the commenting system wasn't working right. I figured it out, it's because I screwed up when I upgraded Movable Type and the blacklist software at the same time.
It's been causing problems ever since then, really, but they were ignorable for me, and invisible to you.. or so I thought.
I've done some mucking around and I got the comments to work right.. sorta. Okay you can leave comments now but it doesn't look like it works.. even though it does. Basically, you post the comment, and it looks like it boots you out to the entry you were posting the comment in.. to see your comment, scroll down to the bottom of that screen and click on comments again. You still wont see it what you just posted. Hit refresh. NOW it should appear.
No this is not an ideal situation. I'm going to back up my blog entries and comments tomorrow night, then KILL movable type and KILL the blacklist software (again) and start over. Then reimport and we should be back to normal.
Should be.
Posted by Editor at 01:04 AM | Comments (0)