Humor in Craft (Book Project)

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"Humor in Craft"
Author: Brigitte Martin

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Humor in Craft

Schiffer Publishing officially released the cover and other information regarding the Humor in Craft book:

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing (Release date: April 28, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 076434059X
ISBN-13: 978-0764340598

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?

Started by Brigitte Martin Aug 29, 2011. 0 Replies 2 Likes

"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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Comment by Brigitte Martin on September 18, 2010 at 8:32am: Dearest Humor in Craft group members :-)
I thought it might be a good time now to open the mike here and to let you all chime in. Feel free to post funny pics (keep it "clean", please), as well as audio and video of craft artwork that YOU think is humorous. Why should I have all the fun? And maybe some of it will even make it into the book, who knows ?
Let the fun and games begin! I am curious to see your ideas!

Comment by Brigitte Martin on September 15, 2010 at 2:31pm: Anyone remember this ? Not REALLY crafts related but funny then. Funny now :-)

REM on the Muppets show! Can't stop giggling.

Comment by Brigitte Martin on September 13, 2010 at 10:37am: While researching suitable pieces for inclusion in my book, I came across this wonderful little video WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO, performed and choreographed by two dancers (see info in the link.) My thanks go to Kristin Beeler who posted this a few days back on facebook. I love this piece and wanted to share it with you all. Ok, so technically speaking this is not "craft", well, enjoy regardless. It's funny as hell.
We no Speak Americano

Comment by 2Roses on September 7, 2010 at 4:13pm: It great to see a project really take off like this. Tomi and 2Roses must be in a turtle race to see who will tick this off their list first.

Comment by Brigitte Martin on September 7, 2010 at 2:00pm: I hope it's actually NOT going to be "serious" at all ;-)

Comment by Thomasin Durgin on September 7, 2010 at 1:02pm: I am planning to submit - thanks for the reminder! It's been on my never-ending list since the call came out, sounds like a fun publication.

Comment by Brigitte Martin on September 7, 2010 at 12:59pm: UPDATE:
I am very pleased to let you know that Andrew Wagner, Editor of ReadyMade magazine and former editor of American Craft Magazine has agreed to write the foreword to this book. You can definitely count on this being an awesome contribution, equal parts informative and humorous :-)

I look forward to your submissions too! Let it rip!

Comment by Brigitte Martin on August 20, 2010 at 2:15pm: "Humor in Craft" is all grown up: The book has its own facebook page !

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=149658458394106&v=wall

Comment by Anthony Scheffler on August 15, 2010 at 3:11pm: Great idea! My submission will soon be on the way.

Comment by Kelly (Robinson) Miller on August 4, 2010 at 7:46pm: Can't wait to see the final choices, glad I already submitted! It will be a great collection.