Hi guys... OK, first resist the urge to throw a brick through the monitor. Then look and see what we can get/learn from this: Amano's contest has been announced. I have put a link to it on the AGA page (with offhand snide editorial comment about them calling it the "First International Aquatic Layout Contest"). So, first the catty "we're better" impressions: Personally, looking at their rules, I think they have not thought it through nearly as well as we did, and they're going to run into trouble with their extremely vague guidelines. They only require one slide, and ask for ONLY slides... they're clearly looking for pub-quality stuff. Definitely a different angle than ours. My guess is they won't have this stuff available on their website the way we have. Probably publish it in a book or magazine. OK, but: First prize is 1 million yen, nothing to sneer about. They have a LOT of judges all over the world, though their choice of old guys is interesting, perhaps a Japanese "respect" thing (Notice the choice of the elder and bigger-name Windelov instead of Christensen, and Herbert R. Axelrod for the US, who IMO is nothing but a name). Only overlap is Kaspar Horst. Note from Neil's forwarded message, they do acknowledge our contest and send us congratulations. I still wonder if Amano even got our request for him to be a judge. - Erik -- Erik Olson erik at thekrib dot com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:27:55 -0500 From: Neil Frank <nfrank@mindspring.com> Subject: Amano's International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2001. I received this information from Nozomi Hayakawa of ADA. It contains information about Amano's International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest 2001. http://www.adana.co.jp/contest.html If you do not have any objections (and despite the fact that he claims his was first :-), I suggest that our webmaster Erik announce it on the AGA page. Notice that the prize is JPY1,000,000 (~$10,000(US)). Also notice that the only US magazine said to "introduce" the winners is TFH and Axelrod is the US judge. Also, no magazine in the UK. Neil Hope you all have a happy new year! ============================================================================ ============ I have seen your aquarium layout contest on your web-site. Congratulations for the success of the contest! Our company is now hosting international aquatic plants layout contest. The closing date for entry is March 31, 2001, and we will award grand prize winner, cash prize of JPY1,000,000- We wish to have as many applicant from the U.S. as possible. I really appreciate if you could cooperate for this event. We wish you could appeal this event to your AGA club members through e-mail, or on your AGA web-site. We also would like to ask you to set up the link to our contest site from your homepage. Of course you can send your aquarium layout pictures for the contest. If necessary, we also have English handbill for free distribution. If you have any questions, please let me know. Best regards, Nozomi Hayakawa Aqua Design Amano Co., Ltd. THE INTERNATIONAL AQUATIC PLANTS LAYOUT CONTEST 2001 Content-Location: http://www.adana.co.jp/images/the_cont.jpg ============================================================================ = ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-sc" in the body of the message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-sc When asked, log in as username is "aga-sc", and password "showy". ------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, e-mail majordomo@thekrib.com with "unsubscribe aga-contest" in the body of the message. To subscribe to the digest version, add "subscribe aga-contest-digest" in the same message. Old messages are available at http://lists.thekrib.com/aga-contest When asked, log in as username is "aga-contest", and password "lookie-loo".