For Lovers of Leather and Maps

...and book binding :)

Check out this site: linenLAID&felt for the full directions.
It is a blog completely dedicated to bookbinding! The creator of the site, Katie Gonzalez, started her own book making business. All links to her info, prodcuts, etc can be found here: linedLAID&felt

Summer Thoughts....

...and I could pay a little more attention to my spelling :)

I stumbled upon these today. Some of them are pretty clever.

Contest for Fun

Hello. Since we have all done children's books, we may have things already done to submit to this contest...

About and Rules

The rules are simple; create artwork based on Brothers Grimms fairytale; Little Red Riding Hood.
The theme can be done in many ways, and I hope to see a lot of interesting artwork.
You can choose to portray it in different ways, in a traditional way, a sweet way or perhaps a dark Gothic way? Anything creative is welcome, only your imagination sets the limit.

Both digital(photomanips as well), photography and traditional artwork is welcome.
You can submit up to 3 artworks, all should be new artworks and not previously submitted work.

Submitting:
You can submit your entries in either a Note or through email (contact @ zindy-zone.dk) with a link to the deviation. I will put them in the contest folder as they come along. Please write Red Riding Hood Contest in the subject field as I might not see it otherwise due to many notes a day.
All entries will be located in this folder: [link]
Please state in the comment field your artwork is for this contest.

Deadline:
June 14th 2011


It's just a fun little contest that devianART's Zindy has created.
See her page and the full description here: http://zindy.deviantart.com/

haha...

Free Ai Weiwei

Attention to the disappearance of contemporary chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Last sunday, april 3rd, 2011, Ai Weiwei and his friend Wan Tao were stopped and detained by police authorities, from boarding a flight from beijing airport. They were then escorted away.

Since then, there has been no word as to their whereabouts until now. A statement was released this afternoon from a state-run global times newspaper breaking China’s media silence on the situation, stating that ai weiwei has no respect for the laws of his country, and that he is on the verge of pushing the limits of legal tolerance. for this, Ai Weiwei’s behaviour will be evaluated and he will pay a price for his actions.

The artist is best known for his political activism revolving around the earthquake that hit china’s sichuan province in 2008. Since then he has faced physical abuse from authorities, his new studio was recently demolished and his name and work

has been censored throughout china among other events and incidents.

Ai Weiwei’s work ‘sunflower seeds’ is currently on show at the tate modern in london. In may his ‘cirlce of animals / zodiac heads’ world tour will begin in the grand army play near central park in new york.

Full Blog Here

With finals coming, I know I am in need of some serious zzzzzz's . Check out these weird beds. One's even a book!

Beautiful Pot holes

Come on Fiber people
get on this!
fix up the shitty roads in Kutztown

read here

I think I remember talking to someone about this is class at one point, or maybe I posted about it before, so sorry if I did. I thought this was pretty cool. www.petapixel.com/2010/11/01/working-medium-format-camera-created-with-lego-blocks/

Happy Earth Day!

Starburst wrapper Dress

Some girl's mom took 6 years to create this prom dress for her daughter made out of starburst candy wrappers.

Video     Full story with pictures

Movie Barcodes

Check out these absolutely wonderful 

images that portray movies into one squished image.

they squish all the colors of a movie

and put it into one bar code.

ali and i did a lesson plan yesterday and got the other group

looking at these,

and i think it's really interesting to see moods conveyed within a movie just through color.

enjoy!

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LION KING

SOCIAL NETWORK

Grandma becomes a super hero

GRANDMOM SUPERHERO

(photographs)

Paul Fusco // Chernobyl

This is a chilling photo essay by photographer Paul Fusco centered around the children of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown (1986/Ukraine). It's graphic, disturbing, surreal, and REAL.

With the recent disaster in Japan, there has been a bit more talk about Chernobyl lately and I found this pretty intriguing... if you have a few minutes, read this article and then watch and listen as Fusco talks about his experience working on such an assignment as photographing the victims of Chernobyl. Pretty powerful...

Read about it first here // then, view it here

GO GREEN

Bag Exposure

Bag Exposure: Helping photographers with the endless pursuit of the perfect camera bag....

Final Presentation Methods for Ritual and Practices Project.

There are a few ways you can go about this...
print your images via machine print at CVS
make a video slide show on imovie or with a flash template websiteComplex online slide show editor
or virtual flip book flip book 'e-book'
have a small commercial book printed...
3.5x2.6 books my iphoto thru apple
5"x7" $13 book shutterfly
flip books (convert to movie and upload to this site)

and this is not photography- but allows you to make virtual flip books of drawings using this neat freewear
benettonplay flip books

Crane Arts ! !!

Not sure how many of you all are Philadelphians or may end up there, but regardless, you should check our the Crane Building in North Philly. Besides being a really great old building, it is home to an unbelievable community of all things art. From galleries and private studios to a sweet printshop (BIG ART DAY!'s Zach Lindenberger runs Second State Press. which is located in the basement of the Crane), there's a lot to check out. /// CRANE ARTS

It's also home to the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, which is a great resource for workshops, visiting artist lectures, exhibitions, and competitions to enter. And even better, it's nonprofit. >>> You would be CRAZY not to check it out here.

Be sure to read the info on the open call for their 2nd Annual Contemporary Photography Competition & Exhibition. The juror is Peter Barberie, who happens to be the curator of photography at the Philadelphia Museum of Art -- not a bad guy to have look at your work. DO IT!

Over and out.

ECKHAUS

Just an FYI..

ECKHAUS is having an art auction tomorrow from 5-7!!!

Peters Valley Craft Center

I am currently in the running for the assistantship in the photography department at Peters Valley this summer. They teach classes to aspiring (and successful) artists and craftspeople. I would be in charge of the darkroom and digital lab, while taking classes. I took a blacksmithing class last summer. It was a wonderful experience and I highly recommend it. There is a work-study program to bring the cost of classes way down.

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