Steve Buchanan Fundraiser and Art Auction @ Burrito Gallery 3/26/11

CLick image to see the photo set. Photos by Tom P.

Thrilla In Manila A Versus Gallery Project

Taken from the Versus Gallery Facebook
The next Versus project is a open call project for anyone that likes to create. Every month we will be putting together a 50 plus manilla envelope style magazine. We are asking anyone that wants to participate to send in or drop off any number of small things you made that will fit in a 8.5" by 11" manilla envelope. (keeping in mind you will be sharing the envelope with others) you can make a button, a postcard, a print, a photograph, sticker, a poem anything you made by hand. The idea is to make something you can reproduce 50 of. We will have a deadline date and everything submitted by this date will be put in these envelopes and given away in a way not yet decided.


The idea:The idea is to get people to create something that is no bigger the a letter size sheet of paper. if can be anything as long as it can't be crushed. It must be handmade, stickers are acceptable. Everyone turns in these items contributing to a envelope style magazine with everyone contributions. Within these contributions will be articles, interviews or write up based on some of the contributors to help tie the magazine together. It is encouraged that you create something you find beautiful and encouraging to others. It will have no binding.


The benefits: This can be used a way to show people your talents. You get to show your work with people you might never have shown your work with but would like to. People will get a change to physically hold something you made and see how it interacts with their lives rather then just see it on a shelf or wall. If you ever wanted to help contribute to a art project/magazine you can.


How to be part: Create something. The ideal number is to create fifty of this something. You can create 50 unique items if you like, so each package is also one of a kind. If you can not create fifty create what you can. Send it in or drop it off before the set deadline and we will take care of the rest.


When: Thrilla In Manilla will be released (if everything goes as planned) every month for free. How it is released will be determined.

Link to Folio article by Dan Brown

New Eyes Wide Awake Blog Illustration

Yesterday Chad Landenberger had finished and posted a new illustration called "Jacksonville Bums" baseball team parody. It's hilarious and note worthy.

OK, so I’m not a huge baseball fan but I love my home team, the Jacksonville Suns. They’re the AA feeder team for the Florida Marlins and were the Southern League Champs last year. I really enjoying biking up to the games with friends and having some ice cold beers while watching baseball. Well, I always thought their old colors (Blue, Red and Yellow) were .....

READ THE REST AND SEE FULL ILLUSTRATION HERE

The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival Info

A bit of inspiration for anyone with a creative spark for film and animation.

From April 9th to the 11th is the The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival celebrating animation as a cultural and commercial medium. It will feature Student short films, Movie and TV title sequences Broadcast Advertisements, Animated music videos, Visual effects, Classic animation, Experimental and mixed media, 2D animation, 3D animation, Stop motion, Gaming animation, and Shorts for kids.

The Citrus Cel Animation Film Festival (Citrus Cel) celebrates animation as a cultural and commercial medium with three days of screenings, parties and panels in Jacksonville, Florida. Citrus Cel will act as a hub for students and professionals from the fields of animation, design, illustration, and film, as well as add to the growing cultural landscape of festivals and events in northeast Florida. Why an animation film festival? Showcases animation’s amazing diversity as a creative vehicle, from features to advertising to music videos to title sequences Provides an annual forum for Northeast Florida design professionals, filmmakers and students who use animation in their work Allows local and regional design-related businesses and colleges to recruit and network Builds Jacksonville’s identity as a regional cultural tourism destination, exposing audiences to a different kind of film festival. Offers unique sponsorship opportunities for area and regional businesses and corporations.

To learn more and program information visit http://citruscel.com

SKETCH NOIR: DR. SKETCHY’S ANTI-ART SCHOOL CABARET LIFE DRAWING CLASS TOMORROW

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School is an international art revolution! Founded by model/ burlesque star/ art school dropout, Molly Crabapple in 2005, Dr. Sketchy's alternative approach to life drawing classes has taken the world by storm. Dr. Sketchy's has been featured on NPR, BBC, The L.A. Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Playboy, and hundreds of publications, radio, & TV shows. With over 3,500 artists attending a Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art class monthly around the globe, cities clamor to bring this irreverent life drawing class with drinking to their regional artists! Dr. Sketchy's can be found in New York, Hollywood, Singapore, London, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Paris, and Jacksonville, Florida.
FACEBOOK RSVP:

Look out, gumshoe! A poor, little rich girl has offered you a sweet deal and won't take 'no' for an answer! Daddy's been slipping you the green-backs to find her and now she's in the last place you expected...your bed! This dame is a doozy, with not much under that trench-coat she sporting. Watch this hard-boiled socialite strip and seduce you as we keep the contests and drinks coming!

A three-hour burlesque life drawing class and liberal helpings of art, music, entertainments, sketching, free sake shots, contests, corsets, double entendre, and the lovely and sinister pairing of Edward Mourningwood & Anita Nightcap!

Hot cups of joe served by Professor X and his demonic device, The Florence Siphon Brewing & Extraction Device! Bottom-less cups of coffee for $10!

If you are a local visual artist, attendance is mandatory!

If you desire the company of bohemians, you must be here!

Tickets:
ArtMonkeys: $6 Bring sketchpad and art supplies!
Voyeurs: $8 You're coming just to lasciviously stare!

Dr. Sketchy's JAX is proudly sponsored by Bold City Brewery and BabyTattoo Books!

http://www.thesinclairjax.com

Photos of last Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School by haikubirdie:

Click image to see set.

"Broken Places" Project Concluded!

David W.

A photography and art project I called "broken places" that challenged several photographers to search out and photograph Jacksonville's abandoned, lost, rare, eerie, broken, or drab places and things, has concluded.

This project was about discovery and fun as we took to different areas and snapped photos of some not so known places - then adding our last finishing touches.

More team photography projects are to come. If you would like to be notified for the next project; email me at jaxscenedavid@gmail.com

Click Thumbnails to see each gallery.

Liam Happenstance

Zachariah De Camp

Alex Martinez

Mandi Outlaw

THANKS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED AND WORKED WITH THE DEADLINE ON YOUR BUSY SCHEDULES.