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| Monday, August 3rd, 2009 | 11:13 am
[ani_bester]
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A Quick Account of WTF is taking So long
Hey gang, I know it's been a while, but something kinda happened that shattered my confidence in this and I spent a few months reeling from it. Here's a quick sum up, I'll provide links when I can. Also, some of you may already know this if you are a member of Hp_Fringeart Basically one HP fan did illustrations for every chapter in the first book. They were phenomenal and you need to see them (again I'll get links when I have more time, because yeah if you've not seen this HOLY COW! It's awesome!). Anyway, right he collected these illustrations into a very nice hard cover book and sent it to JKR. She sent it back.Or rather her agents did. And from the note he got, there's no indication she ever even saw it. It was something like blah blah blah very busy blah blah blah no room blah blha blah we thought you'd want your gift back. You can maybe kinda see where this might cause me some pause, yes? ^^;; Here someone did basically what we are doing and JKR didn't, as far as I can tell, even see it let alone accept it. Now, yes I realize she gets lots of fan mail and probably does get lots of gifts, so I'm not trying to be bitter here, BUT I'm putting a lot of work into this, you guys are putting a lot of work into this. Having the book mailed back to me without JKR even seeing it would be . . . . well I'd be crushed. Actually crushed probably doesn't even cover it. Plus I'd feel like I cheated you guys because you gave money to this with a specific end result in mind and I can no longer say that end result will happen (see this is why god prevented me from taking up money YAY) SO WHAT IM DOING ABOUT IT! Currently, I'm trying to contact Mellissa and just see if there's maybe a better place to send it or if perhaps his attempt was viewed as a commercial endeavor or if the whole Lexicon thing soured her to fandom books. Who knows. Once I either hear from her or give up trying to contact her, I'll open this up to discussions on what we want to do based on the info I've gathered. For right now, because as I said, I can't promise the end result y'all were willing to pay for, I'm further putting on held taking up money until I get this sorted out (One solution, should it be determined that she will not accept or keep a book as been to create a website and send the link to her in a letter). But like I said I want to try and contact Mellissa (of TLC) first and hopefully find a way to still make this work as planned. So yeah, that's a bit disappointing for me, but that's where things stand. I will keep you guys updated as I learn things. | | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | 11:15 am
[ani_bester]
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HP Art Project: WTF Is Going ON
In case anyone wondered. Yes I'm dead. No wait, not really. Basically my life is still in serious flux from the moving and the wedding such that I do not wish to try and take up money right now. I'm shooting for, at latest Starting that in August. I am trying to get all the art submissions sorted and organized and ready to go, so that as soon as I do start getting money I can send them to be fomatted and bound and such. So I will hopefully start going through that asap, and contacting people if I find gaps. So that's where things stand. I'm so sorry RL came up and attacke,d but I jsut wanted to assure everyone yes I'm still going forward with this, no it is not abandoned, I just you know, had a real life attack ^^;; | | Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | 12:43 pm
[ani_bester]
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Preping to get things going again
Hello there! First off, thank you all so much for your understanding about my need to push back on this project so I could concentrate on my wedding. I'm now happily married (yay) and moving into a new place. Currently, we do not have the internet set up at home, so I feel like formally restarting the art submissions and starting the art submissions would be premature as I'd have no way to get to them (work blocks e-mails, of course and even then, can't DL and save here!) and they'd just build up. But, as soon as I'm connected at home again I will let everyone know, re-check what art I still need, and get going on collecting payments and getting this art printed and bound! Yay! -Ani, ye newly married project coordinator. | | Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 | 10:44 am
[ani_bester]
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Project Delayed Until After March 14th
If you've sent me an e-mail in the past two weeks you probably already know this, but here goes. I'm behind. I don't see my catching up in the next week. I hate to do this but after looking at what all I need to do to make sure my wedding is ready by March 14th, I need to hold off on the Project until after my wedding. At this point, I can't handle both because they are both huge a time consuming and errors make things go really wrong. At obviously, my wedding kinda takes priority. I am not cancelling the project or anything, but I need to push things back because right now I know I could not handle money intake. There's no way. Especially now, because I'm going to try and sell of some art to help fund the wedding, I don't think I'm up to handling a wedding, money from the HP_Art_Project, and money + shipping for art. Something would go horribly wrong. So yeah. I really think holding off on the next Art Project stage until after the wedding will save my sanity. On the other hand ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) tudorpot and those who may help lay pages out. I will have a finalized page count and page breakdown to you so you can workout how what needs to go where. That I am working on as I can. Let me know if you need any other information. Thank you so much for understanding and I promise after March 14th this will get my undivided attention again ^__^ -Ani | | Saturday, January 31st, 2009 | 7:07 pm
[venturous1]
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| | Thursday, January 29th, 2009 | 6:56 pm
[gega_cai]
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| | Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 | 11:09 pm
[ani_bester]
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EEEK Failure on my part!
Hey there I goofed up and forgot to assign out some chapters for pinch hitting *head desk* dfhsklfhsa I'm so sorry about this ^^ I don't suppose anyone has any pre-made art for any of the open chapters listed below? The trick is though, it needs to be close enough to the book requirements in size and DPI to work. If so let me know which chapters you have covered and I'll see what works. OR does anyone think they could cover these by the end of Jan? If so, pick your top 3 or 4 and I'll see what needs covering. Anyway the chapters I failed to get filled are: Book 3 11, 17, 21 Book 4 22, 26, 34 Book 5 8, 13, 33, 36 Book 6 21 Book 7 3, 17, 25 And yes you can put this in comments here. ^^ | | Friday, January 9th, 2009 | 8:09 am
[ani_bester]
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HP Art Update
Here's the latest update: I've should have gotten through all the e-mails I've been sent up to 7:00 am on 1/9/2009. Also, with the exception of some thank you notes and responses along those lines, I should have responded to everything (and it's not that I don't appreciate the thanks yous and well wishes, I just don't always have time to respond to them). If you sent me an e-mail and wanted a response/confirmation and still don’t have one from me, you probably need to resend it because I somehow missed it. I've also started contacting pinch hitters to fill in gaps. I still need to make sure the spreadsheet of finished art matches the actual art that I have and I want to double check that all the files are correct, working, and properly labeled. I'll also try and update the gallery next week sometime. The hard part of that is simply labeling everything ^^;;; That will come only after I finally start collecting money Arghh. Sorry you guys are more eager to send me money than I am to collect. Of course I need to because I've not yet won any lotteries (will no, according to my psm box I win one the UK daily *L*) It's just the part of the project I'm the most scared of botching. I swear i will stop dragging my feet now that I pretty much know who is sending my artwork and who isn't. | | Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 | 2:25 pm
[ani_bester]
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Update Again
Again, just so everyone knows where I am: As of 7:00 am this morning (central time) I had 11 e-mails left to sort through. These are not necessarily the most recent but the ones that I had to pay the most attention to. After about midnight last night, anything not 100% straight forward I shelved until I was more awake, which left 11. Thus far I have 6 chapters that I know for sure are open because I received drop notifications from those who formerly had those chapters. I also sent out WTF notes to people last night when I didn't have the art and I'll start removing people over this week. One reason it will take a week though is that I don't want to drop a person who is just incorrectly listed, so I like to give a warning before I start removing people and take my time double checking I'm right in that they've neither turned in art not notified me to let me know their scanner blew up or something. Sorting through this is proving to be a bigger chore than I first thought however, so pinch hitters coming on after 1/1 may have the 1/17 due date pushed back a week just so I can have all of this week to sort through info and make absolutely sure I'm not removing anyone who did turn in artwork or something like that. Haste makes waste and I really don't want to jack things up. I've already got three minor issues I'm dealing with from earlier mistakes ^^ | | Monday, January 5th, 2009 | 11:47 am
[ani_bester]
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YAY!
Just so everyone knows where I am on e-mails. I've got three e-mails from 1/3 I need to respond to and then all of 1/4. This is a total of 8 pages worth of e-mails btw. I'm on the last two, or at least they were the last two this morning. Not sure if they still will be tonight ^^;; But it's great because GUYS! OMG THE ART!!! As soon as I hit a lull, I'll update the gallery so you can all see. Looking for suggestionsCan anyway think of a good way I can confirm the info I have. I don't want to publically poast real names/ages/locations on the net so I'm trying to think of a way to confirm all the info. I'm thinking I may poke for more volunteers and just have one or two people per book sending out the info I'm gonna be putting in the book for each person. -Ani | | Monday, December 8th, 2008 | 7:50 am
[ani_bester]
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PSA
A quick PSA please DO NOT send finished art to my gmail accountplease please please do not. I know I used gmail a few times for public announcements but only because it was time sensitive and I maxed out the number of e-mails I can send in a 24 hour period on hotmail. But check the FaQ that is not the e-mail I say to send the art to and I do that for a reason. All my LJ notifications, wedding notificatons, and several other automatic things are set up to go that account. Hp_Art_project stuffs gets buried fast and I may not see it, nor do I really understand gmail as well as I understand hotmail so I do not search it or store things as effectively there as I can in hotmail. To date, I have missed/lost maybe 5 pieces of art, all of which went to my gmail account and one in which resulted in the person accidently being dropped, so I get to work out how to fix that. So again, Please DO NOT send finished art to my gmail account. It's not a safe account. | | Friday, December 5th, 2008 | 8:56 am
[ani_bester]
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State of the Project
The deadline for Artwork in the Hp_Art_project is 1/1/2009
with a two day grace period given the holiday but seriously tell me *something* on 1/1/2009
Ok, so state of the Project Updates on the WebsiteThe website is mostly up to date;. It actually has been for a about a week or so, but I think I forgot to announce that. I have gotten some art sent in and some pinch hitter offers so I have a few thing to add, but it is not in huge desperate need of an overhaul as it had been. The Assignment List especially should be up to date. E-mails and DA ResponsesI am somewhat behind on e-mails on Deviantart. There's not a good excuse on that other than my brain imploded during the holidays and I did other things, so to everyone I owe e-mail response to, I apologize for that. I played catch up this morning, but I've still got a few. The Upcoming PlansI'm gonna be sending out "you owe me art" reminder soon. Also "Are you still in" questions. I've got people willing to fill in, including a few new people so if anyone can't make the 1/1/2009 deadline I'd love to know before that date. PaymentI know I keep saying starting soon and I keep failing to get something coherent set up. It is coming. I apologize for the delay. So that's where we are. | | Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | 12:50 pm
[ani_bester]
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State of the project
First, yes I still need pinch hitters willing to fill in at the last minute. As always, e-mail me ^__^ Ok with things somewhat stabilized now, I've been working on getting the website caught back up with reality. Here is the WebsiteAs you can see, only two sections are caught back up. (and I mean as of 6:00 this morning, I suspect I'll be adding to the waiting list and I'll try and stay on top of that) Most likely I'll get the assignment list updated next. Following that will be the extension list and the finished art list. Those two lists need a lot of cross referencing work given that I forgot to take people who turned in art off the extension list *head desk* Took 'em off everything else, but not that, so that's why those two lists are saved for last. Once I get it sorted, I'm sending out reminders to everyone on the extension list, probably with an attachment listing the art I still think you owe me. And that won't (or shouldn't) include pinch hitters, which are on their own list and I'll contact y'all via form latter separately. And then . . . money stuff shall start going out. I hope. I'm not 100% sure when all this will happen. I have early Thanksgiving festivities this weekend as well as 150 wedding cards to get out, but it will happen ASAP. -Ani | | Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 | 3:13 pm
[ani_bester]
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YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!
You guys ROCK!! All chapter spots are currently filled. Of course . . . Key word here is "currently." We've all seen how that works for me ^^;; I still desperately need people willing to be on the waiting list to fill in for people who will drop out. And I'm sure a few will. Heck, just this morning, not 5 minutes after I told someone all spots were filled, I got a drop out notice and re-emailed the person with an open spot offer. I'm not kidding. Preferably on this waiting list, I'm looking for is people who can draw fast, so I can get replacement art within 15 days after the finale deadline lapses. BUT, even if you do not think you can make something in 15 days, if you want to be on the waiting list, e-mail me with the minimum amount of time you need and I'll mark that down and if someone drops out early I can notify you if it fits your time frame. As always e-mail me at anakinbester @ hotmail (dot) come. . . . Now that things my stabilize here, I'll work on getting the website updated and the art site updated. ^^ | | Monday, November 17th, 2008 | 9:44 am
[ani_bester]
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Remaining Open Chapters
I got the open HP chapters down to this. You guys are awesome ^__^ Book 2 Chapter 14 Book 4 Chapter 18 Book 5 Chapter 13 Book 7 Chapter 5 Book 7 Chapter 23 Book 7 Chapter 27 Possibly Book 7 Chapter 34 Checking on the possible this morning. I think maybe wires got crossed on it. Anyway, I'll be giving out Third Chapters tomorrow in the morning SO if you want a first or second chapter this would pretty much be the last chance. | | Thursday, November 13th, 2008 | 6:53 am
[ani_bester]
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Remaining Open Chpaters
Book 2 Chapter 14 Book 4 Chapter 5 Book 4 Chapter 24 Book 4 chapter 27 Book 4 Chapter 31 Book 5 Chapter 7 Book 5 Chapter 13 Book 5 Chapter 22 Book 5 Chapter 29 Book 5 Chapter 30 Book 6 Chapter 13 Book 7 Chapter 5 Book 7 Chapter 27 Guys when you send me chapter requests PLEASE PLEASE list more than one chapter. I promise you, you are not the only person asking for that chapter and I need second choices to give you. Possibly third. No matter how I do this, first come first serve (which I'm trying not to do) or drawing names, if you don't have a back up, I'll have to pick something random if the chapter you requested goes to someone else who also requested it. The only time someone gets a chapter they request without a drawing is if no one else has requested said chapter (which has happened only twice btw) Also, I haven’t gotten through 100% of all the e-mails, only about 90%. Just so you know where I am on answer ^^ Also if you submitted art, that's part of the 10% I haven't gotten do, since the assignments I feel, are more time sensitive, they have answering priority | | Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 | 2:23 pm
[ani_bester]
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Chapters are filling up YAY
Just FYI these are the chapters that are still opened as of 6:00 this morning. Again, thank you everyone for your interest. Book 2 Chapter 14 Book 4 chapter 5 Book 4 Chapter 24 Book 4 Chapter 26 Book 4 Chapter 27 Book 4 Chapter 31 Book 5 chapter 4 Book 5 Chapter 7 Book 5 Chapter 22 Book 5 Chapter 27 Book 5 Chapter 29 Book 5 chapter 30 Book 6 chapter 13 Book 6 Chapter 23 Book 7 chapter 5 and POSSIBLY Book 7 Chapter 34 my open. | | Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 | 6:39 am
[ani_bester]
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OK! I just got Pinch Hitter assignments out to everyone requesting either a First or Second Chapter. Yes yeah I'm still dragging on giving out third assignments. I'm sure it's gonna have to happen, but right now, even if I gave everyone offering to do a third chapter a chapter, I *still* can't cover all the open chapters. Because I'm gonna be listing spots and begging for more new people anyway, so I thought I'd hold out just a bit longer in the hopes of assigning as few triplicate chapters as possible. I will breakdown and use y'all by the end of this week. I promise. Again, it's not that I don't appreciate you, you guys are amazingly awesome for offering, it's just I feel its best for the sprite of the project to use as few triplicates as possible ^^;; CHAPTERS THE REMAIN OPEN:If you want to fill any of these spots please contact anakinbester (at) hotmail (dot) com Book 1:Chapter 7 Chapter 10 Book 2Chapter 9 Chapter 14 Book 3Totally Filled! OMG YAY! Book 4Chapter 5 Chapter 24 Chapter 26 Chapter 27 Chapter 31 Book 5Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Chapter 7 Chapter 15 Chapter 22 Chapter 27 Chapter 29 Chapter 30 Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Book 6Chapter 13 Chapter 16 Chapter 20 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Book 7Chapter 1 Chapter 5 Chapter 23 PS: A few of you commented directly on my LJ but I don't think ever e-mail me. E-MAIL m *bats eyelashes* Please. LJ responses get lost and overlooked and forgotten so easily. | | Monday, November 10th, 2008 | 12:53 pm
[ani_bester]
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Where I am
The below does not mean I sent out Chapter Assignments. Those are happening tonight and tomorrow morning probably around 5:00 am ^^;;But you should have an e-mail saying I got your Pinch hitting requests OK! As of 6:50 this morning US Central time, I have, to the best of my knowledge, answered every e-mail I got about the project. This should include things sent to either my hotmail or gmail account as well as LJ and DA, though those are gonna mostly be notes telling you to e-mail me. This should include e-mails about Dropping Pinch Hitting Turning in Art Running Late Questions This does not include things that are thanking me or responding in a way that is not a question. I love the support and it's wonderful to read, but I didn't have time to respond to it this weekend ^^ So If you sent me an e-mail about: Dropping Not Dropping Me Making a mistake Pinch Hitting Turning in Art Offering ready-made art Running Late Questions And haven't heard from me, e-mail me again and spork me 0.o It means something is amiss. | | Thursday, November 6th, 2008 | 10:43 am
[ani_bester]
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Open Chapter List: Pinch Hitters still needed
Some statistics on Open Chapters versus People offering to fill open chapters: Total Needed Chapters: 25 Total Possibly Open Chapters: 77 Possible Total: 102 New to the project Pinch Hitters: 8 People willing to Pinch Hit a second chapter: 23 People willing to Pinch Hit a third Chapter: 15 Total: 46 Clearly, I need Pinch Hitters still. Again, I prefer new people, mostly because I want as many artists as possible, but also because of the 5.00 fee. I feel bad charging people extra for helping out, but if I keep doubling (and tripling!) chapters, there are less and less funds for this project, which could cause an issue down the road. The Deadline For Pinch Hitters: It has ExtendedInitially I was trying to get all art in by two weeks into November. I've had some amazing Pinch Hitters who actually met that crazy deadline earlier than needed. You guys are made of awesome. However, Tudorpot (AKA she who is binding the book) says at this point nothing will happen until January, SO that means the Art project Deadline can be extended to 1/1/2009 with a 15 day buffer for me to track you down or replace you. So if you want to pinch hit, please let me know. Also if you think you can produce art in 15 days let me know because I'll put you down as able to cover anything that is not done by 1/1/2009. Email: anakinbester @ hotmail (dot) com ( Here is the list of open chapters and possibly open chapters ) Due to the large number of open chapter I makle the following alloance: you can list your top TEN (10)choices HOWEVER, if you do this, please specify if you are open to anything or only those 10 I know the chapter can matter, but I can't have single chapter requests because everyone tends to want the same 5 or so chapters. Keep in mind I can also accept pre-made art for open chapters:It helps though if the art is close to the art-project size specifications: Portrait Orientation = 6.5 X 9.5 inches 350 DPI Landscape Orientation = 9.5 X 6 inches 350 DPI |
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