If Drawings Were Photographs

I love this project by Tom Edwards/ Rob Matthews. Tom first created the drawings, and then Rob re-created the drawings as photos. Its a great illustration of how media changes one's perspective completely, and how we've come to expect certain things within the constructs of one media (for example here, drawing), that seem completely unexpected within another medium (here, photography). You can check this out at Rob Matthews' website. Also, there is a book of the images available at It's Nice That.

Issuu

So... this is the best thing ever.

Issuu.com is a website where you can self-publish online magazine-style documents for free. It is SO freaking easy to work. You just compile a multi-page document- (illustrator, photoshop, indesign, whatever...), upload it, and the website immediately automatically formats the document into a flash presentation like the ones posted here. You can zoom in for high res detail, "flip" through pages like an actual magazine, even sell ad space if you want... and there are really no design limitations at all. You can embed them to your website (facebook, whatever) and they are also published through Issuu's website, and where you can browse tons of internationally published magazines for free, including some actual print magazines that are now using Issuu.

Look no further for great self-promotion pieces or for publishing exhibition catalogs. I mean... the possibilities are endless. I'm still not sure how I'm going to use this. But I know I'm absolutely going to use this.

Artist Opportunities

LUDWIG VOGELSTEIN FOUNDATION GRANT
One-time grants to fine artists (no photography or film). No StatedDeadline. Award is $1000-$3000 based on merit and need. For submissionguidelines, email request to lvf@earthlink.net

LIGHTON INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS EXCHANGE
Maximum grant of $5000, applications made 6-12 months in advance of planned travel. Two annual deadlines, in March and August (annually).

KU ART & DESIGN GALLERY (Lawrence, Kansas)
Seeking proposals for Fall 2010 calender. Gallery dimensions- 2000 sq ft. Deadline: April 23, 2010. Provide a CD of 20 images (jpeg or pdf format, 1 MB max), with corresponding image list, CV, and hard copies of a 1 pg exhibition proposal. Mail to:Shannon Bybee, 1467 Jayhawk Blvd, Art & Design Bldg, Room 300, Lawrence, KS 66045. Label package “Attention: KY Art & Design Gallery Proposal”

ARTPRIZE 2010
“part festival/ part social experiment” Winners chosen by public voting.$50 registration fee, ($449,000 prize, $250000 for 1st place). Top tenentries receive a prize. Artists can submit one entry. Registration from April 19-May 27.

Isaac Tobin

These sketchbooks by award winning designer & Chicagoan Isaac Tobin are inspired in their beautifully formal exploration of field and layout. Check out more pages in his books at -you guessed it- IsaacTobin.com.

Maya Bloch

Maya Bloch's work, according to her artists statement, attempt to achieve a marriage of "fictional and real" biographies, often relating images of strangers in certain familiar situations and positions that feel like those one might experience as a member of a family. The manner of painting these figures lend to a sense of distortion and distress that bring a kind of anxiety to the work, which speak to a certain kind of isolation reserved for societal situations in which one is supposed to feel the most close.
More of her work can be viewed here