Land
of Odds :
Fifth
Annual, 2006
The
Ugly Necklace Contest
A
Jewelry Design Competition
With A Twist
The 10 Semi-Finalists'
Page
VOTING ENDS 7/15/07
How well do you think the
jewelry-making artist achieves "Ugly"? The "Ugliest Necklace",
of course,
will be by the artist with the most
jewelry-making design talent.
Winner will receive
$992.93 shopping spree at www.landofodds.com
Runner Up will receive $399.07 shopping spree at www.landofodds.com
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The
2006 Fifth Annual The Ugly Necklace Contest
Final
Scores, representing the combined
Judges (75%) and on-line (25%) voting tallies
Artist Mean
Score
Choose
the UGLIEST!
1=Thumbs
Fully Up
(REALLY UGLY!!!)
7=Thumbs Fully Down
(NOT UGLY AT ALL!)
7/16/07
Tamara
Allison
"Ill Intent"
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2.096
(91 votes)
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Nancy
Barnes
"A Beachin' Bead Tale"
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2.364
(158 votes)
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Lynn
Margaret Davy
"Candy Girl"
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1.962
(276 votes)
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Sarah
Feingold
"News?"
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1.807
(362 votes)
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Cyndi
Lavin
"Queasy"
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2.535
(456 votes)
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Paula
Papp Martini
"Nurses are Curses......."
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1.667
(580 votes)
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Maggie
Ollove
"Art Student"
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1.701
(163 votes)
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Emily
Perillo
"FIASCO"
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2.025
(93 votes)
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Hillary
Schmeichel
"Break Up"
RUNNER-UP
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1.400
(239 votes)
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Julia
Vogl and
Maggie Ollove
"To Do List"
WINNER
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0.859
(359 votes) |
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#1
byJulia Vogl
and Maggie Ollove
Oberlin,
OH
via Washington, DC
and Baltimore, MD
To Do List
"1.
Pass classes
2. Eat Food
3. Get sleep Sometime
4. Stay away from the booze
5. Submit ugly necklace
6. Graduate on time
7. Figure out future
8. Learn not to be stressed out"
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#2 by Nancy
Barnes
Warren, OH
A
Beachin' Bead Tale
"As I walked along
the beach,
My lover hopped beyond my reach.
Perhaps a stolen kiss was greed,
That cowboy prince became a bead!"
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#3
by Emily
Perillo
Buffalo,
NY
FIASCO
"A
girl with big dreams is born.
She learns to love everything that comes her way,
She wants to be a star on the stage,
She loves to dance and make "decent" beads.
She has a fetish for shoes but you probably can't see,
She is an animal lover and has a warmth towards the sea,
But her fears make it hard to find what to be." |
#4 by Hillary
Schmeichel
Long
Beach, CA
Break
Up
"Break
Up Haiku
you're driving me nuts
at
one time you had me hooked"
shame, your crusty butt!"
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#5 by Paula Papp Martini, RN
West Hempstead, NY
Nurses are Curses.......
"Nurses
are curses, they often appear from a pain in the head, to a
pain in the rear.
We come when you call, as fast as we can-- scurrying down the hallway with needle
in hand."
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#6 by Tamara Allison
Primm Srpings, TN
Ill
Intent
"She must have
been a beauty,
He a ruthless man."
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#7 by Sarah Feingold
Rochester, NY
News?
"There
once was a girl in a play.
With dreams of getting famous one day.
As the curtain came down,
A film crew came 'round.
And followed her family at bay.
There
once was a girl on TV.
All the world wanted to see.
Her loves, clothes, and hair,
The world seemed to care.
From the grasp she could never get free."
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#8 by Lynn Margaret Davy
Colehill, Wimborne,
Dorset, United Kingdom
Candy Girl
"There
once was an Ugly Necklace,
A portrait in pretty pale pink,
But in ev'ry place, attached to her face
Was stuff that made you think:
'Girl -- You're fat -- your diet's crap-- you're gross -- you suck -- you stink!'
How she tries, how she cries, as another button flies
Off and makes the poor girl's heart sink!"
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#9 by Cyndi Lavin
Ayer, MA
Queasy
"There
once was an old beader chick
Whose designs just never did click.
She glanced down and heaved
In a voice most bereaved, said,
" I told you my work makes me sick!" "
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Fifth
Annual, 2006
The Ugly
Necklace Contest
A
Jewelry Design Competition
With A Twist
When
voting closes, voting logs will be reviewed
for any duplicate or otherwise illegitimate votes
(for example, those from the same IP or email address),
and these will be deleted. The on-line votes will be
tallied and used to adjust the original votes of
the Panel of Judges at CBJA, in the selection of a winner.
The public's votes will weigh towards 25% of the
final tally in selecting the Winner and Runner-Up.
And
consider submitting an entry to next
year's
The Sixth Annual Ugly Necklace Contest!
Entries accepted beginning Sept 1, 2006,
with
the final entry submission date of Mar 15, 2008.
Now
entries open to both US and International submissions as well.
There are talented Ugly-Necklace Jewelry Designers everywhere!
JOIN
our On-Line
Forum
Share your reactions, opinions
and thoughts about our Ugly Necklace entries,
or about the Contest as a whole.
ABOUT
THE JEWELRY DESIGN CRITERIA USED TO EVALUATE THE ENTRIES IN
THE UGLY NECKLACE CONTEST - It Ain't Easy Doing Ugly,
or as my momma says, "Ugly is as Ugly does."
Summary
of Adjusted Judges Scoring Criteria
ABOUT
GOOD JEWELRY DESIGN
- Principles of Composition
by Warren Feld
If
you would like us to forward your comments
to any of our semi-finalists, we will be happy to do so.
You can send your comments to:
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and Write "Ugly Necklace Email List" in the subject line.
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#10 by Maggie Ollove
Oberlin,
OH
via Baltimore, MD,
and Julia Vogl
Oberlin, OH
via Washington, DC
Art Student
"Crackle, crackle, spray
spray,
Shake and oozee that paint
Wrap it up and squeeze it out
Protect your skin, and lungs
Engage in the process
Deadlines, screw them, have fun!"
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It's not easy to do Ugly!
Our
5 distinguished judges associated with
The Center for Beadwork & Jewelry Arts reviewed
37 Ugly Necklace submissions to our contest,
and selected 10 semi-finalists.
They rated each necklace using
10 jewelry design criteria. They examined the
overall
hideousness of the necklace,
how
clever were the materials used,
how
the design of the necklace violated
good jewelry design rules associated with color, form,
balance, distribution of the elements, and focus.
They
also looked at issues of
how the necklace was constructed
and its wearability, and
how
well the accompanying poem
elaborated on the necklace and its ugliness.
MORE
ABOUT THE JEWELRY DESIGN CRITERIA
USED TO EVALUATE THE ENTRIES
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