Okay, I added a blog category today–Links I Love. I trip across them and have them sent to me all the time. Here’s one that made me smile–the Alphabet Soup Work Generator. Thanks to Toni Turbeville for this one.
Send me the links that YOU love!
–R.L. Gibson
As many of you know, this blog as well as ArtAndArtDeadlines.com are produced via a wordpress.org platform. I am a wordpress devotee, and I successfully made the transition from wordpress.com to wordpress.org despite my limited knowledge of CSS and such.
I still use wordpress.com for my work blog www.ADayInTheSmokies.com, and today I ran across a official wordpress.com logo contest that looks like alot of fun. There is nothing like a side project to get the creative juices flowing. I don’t believe my blogs qualify because they are wordpress.org platforms, but I’m going to participate anyway. Click Here to visit the full post. Here’s a cut and paste version of the WordPress Logo Fun post:
While we’re away, we’ll be running a contest to see who can use the WordPress logo in the most creative way. Take advantage of your camera, graphics applications, crayons, and anything else you have at your disposal. Create a post on your WordPress.com blog, upload your image or images, and leave a comment here with the URL of your post. Please make sure to leave the URL to your post in the comment text or the entry will not be accepted.
We’ll get you started by providing some official WordPress logos, but the rest is up to you. I’m sure you can do better than the photos I’ve included here. We’ll keep an eye on submissions and post some of them to the @wordpressdotcom Twitter account during the week.
The deadline for submissions will be 4 p.m. EST on Monday, October 19.
We’ll create categories based on the best submissions and run polls to let you select the winners. Prizes will include WordPress.com upgrades, swag, and maybe other surprises. Good luck!
Although I’m hard at work on Psychomachia with my friend Jerry Portelli, I can’t afford not to be showing work in the meantime.
I’m thinking about entering the notBig show in the Chicago Arts District. All works must be 12″ or smaller–which means they are inexpensive to ship via Priority Mail Insured. Plus, the entry fee is only $20 for up to 3 images.
The call can be found at Art & Art Deadlines.com ; however, I have also re-posted the Call below. The deadline is October 31st, 2009. Hmmm…what should I enter? Most of the Pieces of Me series is 12″x12″. I’ll have to give it some thought.
SHOW: notBig: A Small Works Competition in the Chicago Arts District
ENTRY DEADLINE: October 31, 2009
EXHIBIT TYPE: Gallery Exhibit
MEDIA: This is an open call for any medium including painting, sculpture, ceramics, collage, mixed media, photography and glass.
DESCRIPTION: The Logsdon 1909 Gallery in Chicago, Illinois announces a call to artists for a juried show, December 11, 2009 to January 2, 2010, that is open to all individual artists working in the contemporary arts. $500 first. $200 for second. $100 for third. +Purchase Awards. Juror: Doug Stapleton. There is no intended theme for the work; it just needs to fit the criteria of being “small art”. No works over 12 inches in any direction. $20 for 3 images. Visit http://www.logsdongallery.jimdo.com for prospectus.
CONTACT: Marco Logsdon at logsdongallery@gmail.com or call 312-666-8966.