Capricious #11 Call for Submissions

Artist Brief – Capricious #11 – The Fashion Issue
Guest Editor, JOFF

As we approach the production of our 11th issue of Capricious, it seems like an appropriate time for a little retrospective viewing on our behalf. As far as we are concerned, we have always been far from addressing “fashion” as most of us know it. Fashion photography has received a lot of space within mainstream printed media and even though we love fashion, we have always made a clear point of not being a fashion magazine.

Fashion photography is dictated within certain parameters wherein the Capricious mindset cannot have its freedom to flourish. We aim to showcase emerging artists whose work falls within the space between fashion photography and fine art photography. However, when we take a step outside of what we typically understand to be the definition of “fashion,” we may reframe it as a whimsical phenomenon that touches and seduces our hearts by creating the illusion of an alternate world. In that sense, “fashion” actually comes very close to the thoughts and visions we represent in the pages of Capricious.

Here, we are interested in fashion as the illusion or dream, which touches our hearts, as the representation of the body and all it’s forms and interpretations, and as the composition of the elements that create that image.

Capricious #11: “The Fashion Issue” will present work of selected photographers who address fashion not as we know it to be represented within the strict rules of editorial fashion photography, but as the larger phenomena of fashion.

**PLEASE NOTE: Credits for clothing design, models, stylists etc. will NOT be included – in keeping with the notion that the selected work is not for fashion advertisement.

We want you to submit 6-12 photographs (more will not be viewed). We accept all formats and all colors. Email your submission (images should be approximately 8x10 inches @ 72 dpi) to: submit@capriciousmagazine.com
Not all submissions will be guaranteed a spot in the coming issue yet capricious will consider your submission for future issues. Please make sure you have model (or any other legally necessary) releases for all submitted work. Capricious has the right to use published material in promotional matters.
Deadline: JULY 5, 2010
Capricious mailing: 302 Bedford Ave #114, Brooklyn, NY 11211
For further questions, please email submit@capriciousmagazine.com

The Scholars of Mental Faxing

Call for Submissions to Mental Fax

Our dear friend, Militia Shimkovitz from Voodoo-Eros label sent us this little message:

"Spring is sauntering in like a lamb-- a lamb bearing yet another enthusiastic enterprise.... MENTAL FAX.

MENTAL FAX is a drawing digest dedicated to drawings. Lots of drawings. An abundance of drawings. Mountains and plains and prairies of drawings.
Like, 10 drawings from everyone. Everywhere.

This is the initial call out for submissions.
Once we have compiled a good sum, we'll feature selected works first on our web gallery, then in our inaugural paper digest, followed up with the possibility of presenting them at various MENTAL FAX curated gallery expositions.


Please feel free to peruse the submission guidelines at www.MentalFax.us www.MentalFax.Us
Please feel free to submit as many drawings as you desire.
Please feel free to pass this note on to friends.
Please feel free to Mental Fax Us at this MachoMel@MentalFax.Us
Please feel free.

Humble thank yous,

The Scholars of Mental Faxing

More here:
www.VoodooEROS.com
www.SHIM-CO.com
www.MentalFax.us
www.SLO-TECH.us

442-D Lorimer Street #122
Brooklyn, NY 11206 USA

Vent des forÊts Appel à Projets

Un espace rural d'art contemporain

Le Vent des ForÊts est un espace rural d’art contemporain de 5000 hectares, qui développe des projets artistiques en lien avec la nature, le paysage et les habitants. En ce sens, Le Vent des ForÊts offre aux artistes d’aujourd’hui une alchimie unique propre à la production d’œuvres et d’actions artistiques sur son site et sur un territoire plus élargi.
Lors du Festival annuel, six villages forestiers accueillent des artistes plasticiens en résidence estivale au cœur de la Meuse, en Lorraine. A cette occasion, monde rural et artistes se rencontrent durant deux semaines d’échanges permanents. Fruits de ces séjours, plus de cent quarante œuvres ont été créées depuis douze ans le long des 45 kilomètres de sentiers spécifiquement balisés et librement accessibles de mars à fin septembre.
L’esprit du Vent des ForÊts place chaque année les artistes et le public dans une relation de convivialité. Dans ce cadre, les artistes sont logés au sein de familles d’accueil bénévoles et sont aidés dans leurs réalisations par des habitants désireux d’être impliqués dans la recherche de création.
A partir du 19 mai, les huit artistes sélectionnés sont accompagnés par l’équipe du Vent des ForÊts qui les aide dans leurs recherches et leurs préparations afin qu’ils soient capables d'assurer la réalisation de leur projet et permettre au Festival (du 9 au 20 juillet) d’être en permanence l’expression de leur résidence et de leurs choix.

Plus d'informations: Le Vent des forÊts

Le Vent des ForÊts reçoit le soutien du MinistÈre de la Culture et de la Communication – DRAC Lorraine, du Conseil Régional de Lorraine, du Conseil Général de la Meuse, de la Communauté de Communes entre Aire et Meuse, des communes de Dompcevrin, Fresnes-au-Mont, Lahaymeix, Pierrefitte-sur-Aire, Nicey-sur-Aire et de Ville-devant-Belrain.

Submission Call: JHON MAGAZINE

JHON renews from next issue, n°21.
Therefore 2 versions will be presented; web portfolio (html & pdf file ) & printed issue.

1. It will be directed by a theme; the confusion of types.
Today, everything blends, art, music, fashion, mass media…
What is the consequence and the position of artist?

If it inspires you, please send your contribution to:jhon_contribution@yahoo.fr

• low definition ; 150-220 dpi, 15 x 21 cm minimum, JPG, RVB
• Artists full name, website, myspace or blog adress.

2. JHON n°21 will be printed in 100 copies, in colour.
Only 4 artists will be selected.

Deadline : March 30th
John Magazine

Open Call for Peeping Tom's first Publication

BERLIN - Chain Letter (Chaine de l'Espoir)
Curated and designed by Peeping Tom

If you are an artist participating to today's Berlin art scene this open call is for you !
You are eligible if you have worked/performed/exhibited in Berlin in recent years or will in a near future,if you are not an artist but know someone who might be interested , please forward this info: you will be credited as curator if your choice is selected.

Deadline: May 1st 2008

The complete submission information here:
www.peepingtomgalerie.com

CAPRICIOUS magazine: CALL FOR ENTRIES

Artist Brief - Capricious #9
The ANIMAL issue
An ode to Animals, Thank you Animal

Capricious #9 continues to challenge the traditional journal presentation, by making our next issue a collection of POSTERS. The use of the perforated pages has become somewhat capricious signature, and to continuing to question traditional journal making, the poster issue will take it a step further.

The Animal issue is a tribute to the Animal world, but also an examination of how we exist with Animals today.
They were our beginnings. They were the first. We owe them our bodies and the structure of our minds; prove us wrong, if you don’t agree. They are a remedy to our terrible loneliness. Where do we belong in nature now? Where do they belong?
This is a research of your best friend, your fear, your dinner, or desire. You tell us your story.

National Geographic, in and around the home, Animal dreams, Animal architects, Animal tracks, Animal love, Animal evolution, Animal labor, human Animals, animal humans, stuffed animals, mythology, Animal truth, taxidermy, Arabians, breathing underwater, Animal hero’s, Animal healings, hibernation, reproduction, the man and the dog, starvation, Suffering, astrology, Animals and plants, pollination, Animal gardeners, Animals in the zoo, Nightlife, Man's most important friend, Respect and Animals, Wisdom and Animals, Animal therapy, Animal teachers, palomino, dressage, strays, betting, Animal spirits, wisdom and Animals, unicorns, narwhales, centaurs, mermaids, Anthropomorphism, Animal warmth.

We want you to submit 2-5 photographs (more will not be viewed). We accept all formats and all colors. We also want you to tell us your story with the animal. Write an informal text about your thoughts, visions, dreams, on animals, or about the photographs you submitted, max 400 words, work submitted without text will not be considered. Email us your submission; 8x10 inches at 72 dpi at submit@capriciousmagazine.com
Or you can also send your submission by mail: Send photo prints (8x10 inches, A4) or CD-ROM scanned 8x10 inches (A4) 300 dpi. Please attach color proofs of every photograph if you submit on a CD.
One poster per selected artist! Not all submissions will be guaranteed a spot in the coming issue, yet capricious will consider your submission for future issues. Please make sure you have model releases for all submitted work.
Capricious has the right to use published material in promotional matters.

Deadline: March 1st
Capricious, 302 Bedford Ave #114, Brooklyn, NY 11211, USA
For further questions, please email submit@capriciousmagazine.com

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