After months of intensely scrutinising (and being kinda jealous of) hundreds of impeccable, beautiful and innovative blogs, we partied like crazy professionally crowned the all too-deserving winners of the 2013 Ultrabook Pedestrian Blogsters Awards. The competition was fierce, the sleek typefaces we were subtly comparing from blog to blog were even fiercer; but in the end, out of a veritable avalanche of terrific contenders, one from each of our 9 categories emerged bloody and victorious, the odds forever in their favour. That’s right, the Blogsters are actually *exactly* like the Hunger Games. Alas, I elaborately digress.
Let’s take a look and clamour our hands together in a raucous applause for our winners from each category, as decided by your 30,000 votes, Team Pedestrian and our panel of media partners:
Rdio, Vogue Australia, Time Out, Inside Out Magazine, Desktop Magazine, TIME magazine and
Nadine Von Cohen.
The Bonafide Bedfellows profile cutting-edge creatives who inspire them in the fashion, music, food, design and photography industries. As well as taking home a snazzy Toshiba KIRA, the Bonafide Bedfellows will undergo a mentorship with Inside Out Magazine.
Repeat button was founded by Jess Nicks, has a global audience and writers across Sydney, Melbourne and London. They describe themselves as good people that love good music. We’ll drink to that. As well as taking home a snazzy Toshiba KIRA, Repeat Button will undergo a mentorship with Rdio.
20 year old twins Fabliha and Tasfia Reza from Brisbane, documenting their daily lives, travels and outfits. They are essentially a factory of good looks, immaculate style and their blog will make you insanely jealous of their picturesque lives. As well as taking home a snazzy Toshiba KIRA, Inside In, Inside Out will undergo a mentorship with Vogue Australia.
Built for savvy food lovers and travelholics, the site started in 2006 as ‘Jenius’ and showcases the best restaurants, cafes and hot spots in Sydney and beyond. #FOODPORN. As well as taking home a snazzy Toshiba KIRA, I Ate My Way Through will undergo a mentorship with Time Out.
Started in July 2012, with over 50 contributors donating their time and talent to recount film, music, fashion, art and culture news. As well as taking home a snazzy Toshiba KIRA, Something You Said will undergo a mentorship with Desktop Magazine.
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Started in 2010 by Brisbane based Chris Proud, Hamish Laing and Lawrie Vonhoff. Xray Machines profiles their original photography and focuses largely on old surfboards, Volkswagens and burritos. As well as taking home a snazzy Toshiba KIRA, Xray Machines will undergo a mentorship with TIME Magazine.
Troye Sivan is an 18 year old, Perth based Youtube super-boy, actor and musician. He boasts over 930,000 subscribers and has had more than 31, 185, 000 views!
Over 62,000 followers, sisters Jess and Stef from Melbourne share their travels across the globe in perfectly #filtered glory. As well as taking home a snazzy Toshiba KIRA, How To Live will undergo a mentorship with STAB Magazine. Here’s the girls looking way cute last night:
KING/QUEEN OF THE TWEET WINNER: PAUL VERHOEVEN
Paul is a bonafide twitter connaisseur, a gentleman and a scholar of the humble tweet. His audience of <140 characters is a staggering 37,000+. Paul is also a broadcaster, writer, blogger and comedian, and the host of Steam Punks on ABC3.
Judging by a tweet Paul posted in the wee hours of this morning, he celebrated appropriately, bless:
AND NOW FOR THE BIG ONE, THE 2013 INTEL BLOGGER OF THE YEAR GOES TO…
TROYE SIVAN!
Troye started by posting one singing video in 2007 and got serious about vlogging in September 2012, describes his followers as “Hilarious, witty and sassy” and would never use #swag unless he’s being ironic. Aside from winning the bragging rights of both the Vlog category and the BLOGGER OF THE YEAR category, Troye will also win a trip for two to the USA where he’ll get to tour Twitter HQ (!!) and have a beer on the rooftop with other bloggin’ geeks coolcats. *weeps of jealousy*
And look here, if you want to be him like the rest of us do, he’s made a handy guide for you right here:
Congratulations to all our fabulous winners, everyone that partied with us last night and our amazing sponsors, Intel, Corona, SKYY Vodka and Toshiba.
