Top 5 Mixes (Best Overall)
1)Show Your Scars: A portrait of a relationship in Song (60 points)
2)Pushin' 30 (34 points)
3)Lance Armstrong (30 points)
tie:
4)Hockney's Canyon (28 points)
4)I'll Be Leaving My Heart in San Francisco (28 points)

Best Individual Songs
There was a 4-way 2-vote tie for best individual songs:
*All These Things that I've Done - The Killers (Pushin 30’)
* Llorando - Rebekah Del Rio (Hockney’s Canyon)
* Romulus - Sufjan Stevens (I’ll Be Leaving My Heart in SF)
* there's never enough time - postal service (Show Your Scars)

Best Theme Idea
1)Hockney's Canyon (6 votes)

Best Art & Packaging
1)Show Your Scars and Freak! (both with 5 votes)

... please vote for the following by WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 29.....

Top 5 Mixes (Best Overall)
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--> Combining song selection with adherence to theme and title. packaging can also be considered, but fancy artwork wasn't required...so use your own judgment.
[1st place = 5 points, 2nd = 4, 3rd = 3 etc....]

Best Individual Songs
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---> a particular song from one of the mixes which struck a chord. maybe it was an artist you'd never heard before and were introduced to through the mix contest, or a song you use to love but hadn't heard in years. whatever you want to interpret this vote as...
---> please supply song name/artist and Mix from where it came.
[1 point each for the mix]

Best Theme Idea
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---> regardless of songs selected, the most creative and interesting theme idea/solution to Portrait/Self-Portrait
[1 point]

Best Art & Packaging
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---> Give some props for mixers putting in the effort and making the mixes look cool.
[1 point]

Participants in the challenge each create one mix CD. Participants then are responsible for burning multiple copies of that CD, one copy for each of the other participants. Those CDs are then delivered to the organizer (me). Once I received all the copies of all the discs, one copy of each mix is redistributed to all the participants.

Participants listen to all the CDs and then rank those CDs (excluding their own). A winner is decided based on the votes.

---> Portrait or Self-Portrait <---

Well.... My idea for this theme was inspired by Johnny Depp's performance in Pirates of the Caribbean. He's said that he used Keith Richards as his "muse" for his character in the movie. That, and too many hours watching Behind the Actor's Studio w/ James Lipton, got me thinking about the actor's process and music. I don't act, but the idea of creating a character and living them interests me.... as does a writer's process of creating a complete full character or an artist's process of making a portrait of someone.

I hope you see where I'm going with this.... It's been mentioned to me that in essence,aren't all mixes self-portraits in a way? Why specify? Well, while making a mix that represents oneself is almost unavoidable, I think it would be fun and a challenge to yee hearty mix makers (arrrrrghhhh) to do this kind of personality swap or projection with a collection of music.

DON'T FREAK! The mix doesn't have to be about pirates!

It can be about yourself. It can be about an imagined character or a fictional character or your mom or your boyfriend or girlfriend or your dog or the guy who you buy beer from at the corner store. Skies the limit! - Or your imagination is, at least.

We have 15 participants, so you will need to make 14 copies of your CD, keep one and get them to me by the due date: August 23, 2004

Discs Due: Friday, August 23, 2004. Disc should be delivered to me on or before the 12th.

Listen by/Vote by Date: TBD

Mix Title: A Mix title is required. No "Untitled"'s will be allowed.

No Names: Don't include your first or last names in the Mix title or notes or subliminally.

Packaging: Each mix must have its own packaging with its own tracklist. You can package your mix however you want (case, sleeve, origami) but they should be packaged, with no loose discs.

Format: CD Must be in Audio format, no CDs in data format.

Length: You can use either 80m/700MB or 74m/650MB CDs. No cassette tape mixes.

Track information: Needs to be included with the discs.

• Song Title - required
• Artist - required

• Once I've processed and delivered all the CDs, I'll post playlists on this site for reference.