Interdisciplinary. Community. Advocacy. Humor.
Schiffer Publishing officially released the cover and other information regarding the Humor in Craft book:
Foreword by Andrew Wagner.
Essays:
Gail M. Brown: "You must be kidding...",
Garth Johnson: "Funk's Not Dead",
Kathryn A. Lichti-Harriman: "Taking the Piss: Mistakes and Irony in Scottish Craft Groups",
Marjorie Simon: "Wandering Thoughts: What's so funny?"
Additional information about the book: www.humorincraft.com !
Please note:
The deadline for submissions to the first edition of this book has passed. However, if you are interested to submit images, videos, short blurbs, and essays for considerationfor the next book in this series, please email the following to humorincraft [ at] yahoo.com anytime:
Artists:
- High Resolution Image(s) of your work in tiff format (preferred) or jpg.
The absolut minimum size of a digital photograph should be 1400 x 2100 pixels. Larger images require more pixels. (8 1/2" x 11" = 2975 x 3850 pixels)
- Media descriptions and measurements (in inches preferably).
- Photographer's name (I will email you a release form).
- A short text from you (500 words max., written in "plain English") about the role that humor plays in your work, or how you view the topic of Humor in Craft in general. Can be anything from a one sentence statement to a multi-paragraph essay but should be written in first person singular. Please send in as word files and keep in mind that they may be edited for clarity and space.
- Audio/Video artists:
Please email an excerpt of your piece or direct me to a website where your work can be heard/seen.
Essayists:
Please send in your text (about 1000 words).
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"So when will the book be out?" I get that question every day now, people are quite excited to get their hands on this book. Trust me, I can barely wait myself. Well, to answer the question: On this…Continue
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Book Update: Just so that you know I am not sitting on my hands these days... Had a nice chat with my editor this past week to update him on where I am in the process and to ask some questions regarding manuscript formatting. I have to confess that this step is currently really freaking me out quite a bit, because HIC is turning out to be such a CHUNK of a book ... LOADS of work and checking of stuff, lots of t's crossing and i dotting and whatnot... whoa. (Those of you who have done this already - any consoling words for me ? - Misery loves company.)
So, while you guys are being turned loose on your vacations, I am STILL chained to the pc every day to get this done by deadline. The nice part is though the revisiting of all the artists' work and putting it in a somewhat consecutive order, after all, I will need to put up a content page so that people can find stuff ... :-)
Tudelu for now.
Update: The deadline for entries has now passed and I am currently wading through the hundreds of images and interesting texts that have come in from all over the world. Thanks to all who submitted!
Expect this to be a fun and unusual book. I will keep you updated as things progress.
An entry just really cracked me up: "Bloody Rotten Metal Class", a poem/folk song about metalsmith students and the things they mess up and ruin in a studio...that's all I am going to say for now....but I do hope to be able to share some "visual spoilers" with you as I go along. The work is un.be.lie.va.ble.
It's been a tsunami of entries since Friday. I am having a blast!
Even with multiple pieces you can submit 2 different ways, and both are fine with me:
- via email (low res images): Either send that to humorincraft@yahoo.com OR if the files get too big for regular email use a free web uploader like yousendit or sendspace. If you have a dropbox account, I can get the files from there too. I reconfirm receipt of every submission, so if you don't hear from me that means I haven't received your files. In that case check back, please.
- via snail mail: Send to
crafthaus
461 Cochran Rd # 103
Pittsburgh, PA 15228 (Home of the Steelers)
OK, you don't HAVE to add the Steelers' name but it will get there quicker. Just kidding. :-))
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