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Maker Faire Bay Area This Weekend!
posted by Anthony
If you’re in the Bay Area this weekend, consider attending the Maker Faire in San Mateo. Featuring Arts, Crafts, Electronics, Engineering, Food / Beverage, Health, Music, Science, Sustainability. Things to mesmerize you and pick your brain. A great way to support local designers and artists by buying local too.
humanitarian photography
posted by Anthony
Recently discovered this portfolio of George Hsia while browsing blogs. An engineer turned humanitarian photographer, he partners with NGOs to capture images of life in adversely impacted locales worldwide. Peru, Haiti and Afghanistan to name a few. Poignant and moving - definitely worth a look!
posted by Hatty
So our Creative Editor Mr. Lam has been taking a series of awesomely gorgeous pictures throughout his backpacking adventure in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. I’m still jealous and don’t want to share all of his photos. But this one reminds me why it’s better to have friends bring back beautiful things from places you have yet to see for yourself than to not see them at all.
Routine is the habit of renouncing to think.
Word.
It’s coming!!!
The Peel Pages promo video is soon coming to a laptop (or an iPhone, an iPad, I guess an Android too) near you.
Remember our casting call awhile back for hats, obnoxious glasses, pastels, yellow, orange, earth tones? An Afternoon at Tea. Something along the lines of Wes Anderson meets Portlandia.
With the help from our great friends, a few of the staff had a blast shooting the video for our Kickstarter fundraising page this past Sunday.
Thanks to Matilda, Dorian, Sam, Jed, and our one and only Anthony! Creativity is our currency.
#getexcited
Casting Call for The Peel Pages Kickstarter Flick
Peel Pages is now casting for our first promotional video for use on our Kickstarter fundraising page. You might be wondering… casting? We’re aiming for something a bit more interesting than the cut-and-dry infomercial, so the idea is to nest that very useful information within some creative flare. Say, with the feel of a short entitled An Afternoon at Tea. As for atmosphere, think something along the lines of Wes Anderson meets Portlandia.
We’re looking for 4 cast-members. If you are can play hipster, stare into a camera and deliver lines without continuously cracking up, we’d love to hear from you. This is a ‘trade-for-print’ project — that is, name in credits, a copy of the finished piece, and a copy of our first few print magazines. Hey, at the very least it’ll be good fun.
Think hats, obnoxious glasses… pastels pastels pastels. Yellow. Orange. Earth tones. Email peelpages [at] gmail [dot] com.
The Decline of Chinatown
posted by Anthony
As an inhabitant of the city that claims North America’s largest Chinatown, I’m not exactly sure how to feel about this. Let’s be honest, Chinatowns are characteristically overcrowded, noisy and run a’muck with all sorts of unsavory smells. They are an odd mix of the non-homogenized immigrant types who actually live there and the out-of-town tourists who venture in to dabble at the oriental exotic. The slow exodus can be a good thing — a sign that barriers towards upwards mobility have ceded — as the article mentions. But does this also mean the decline of the safe haven motif for the elderly and culturally Chinese? Probably, although it’s safe to say this process is slow and that Chinatown isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. There remains some sentiment and heritage tied to the place, but I do tend to avoid it these days.
posted by Anthony
For me, home is only a symbol — a symbol for a state of being in which mind, body and soul are finally at peace. Home itself isn’t tangible but can exist among tangible things. Being at home can be an experience shared with people — whether family, friends, or acquaintances — but also one that can be experienced alone in solitude. Home is not found without but within, in the space where resolution and restoration take place. Home is not where I was born, where I grew up, where I went to school, where I worked, where I have traveled, or even a locale of respite. It can be associated with these things, but they are only illusions for something more profound. In many senses, the home I seek today is not the one I sought in years past; neither will it be the one I shall press for in the years to come. I am not sure if home is a permanent fixture or only some passing figment; but one thing I am sure of: it is subject to metamorphosis.
This bench, glimpsed through the viewfinder of my father’s Olympus OM camera, is a portrait of where I have been home — a yard in Minnesota.
Call for Submissions — April Print Issue
Humanity cannot help but be contoured by where and how it finds itself. How do our surroundings and attendant circumstances exert influence in our shaping as individuals? Collectively as a society? There are ways too, in which we reciprocate this pattern by turning the tables back on our milieu to define it. We pin sentiments of all kinds to the places of our abode and the spaces through which we travel. There are the associations of quaint nostalgia and others of pained numbness. One finds that conversations on SPACE AND PLACE are broader than that of spatial concept and personal reflection. Indeed, it proves to be a diverse topic that can engage symbolic ideas like discovery and pilgrimage, but also tangible ones like displacement amidst urban gentrification. We at Peel Pages would like to invite you — the creative, the performer, the artist — to join us as we ponder the significance of SPACE AND PLACE.
Peel Pages is now accepting submissions for its April 2012 print issue. Please send your pieces, along with a short bio, to peelpages@gmail.com for review. All entries must be received by January 23rd 2012. We hope to hear from you shortly!
SUBMISSION SPECIFICATIONS
Visual Submissions
- Resolution of 300DPI and a minimum of 1200 pixels on the shortest edge
- In CMYK color space preferred
- Preferably in .TIF or .PNG format but .JPEG will do if it must
- Include an artist statement of 150 words or less subject to condensation for strictly visual pieces
- For other pieces requisite of textual accompaniments, 1200 words (as upper limit) pending exception upon review
Written Submissions
- 1200-1800 words (as upper limit) for formatted poetry / free verse, etc
- no more than 3 poems per issue, regardless of length
- 1200-2400 words (as upper limit) for prose, short stories, pending exception upon review
- Excepting poetry submissions, format double spaced for review, preferably in MS Word or compatible format
HOW TO SUBMIT & DEADLINE
- Submissions must be received by January 23rd, 2012 at peelpages@gmail.com
- Include an artist profile of 100 words or less subject to condensation
- Include ‘SUBMISSION FOR REVIEW’ in subject
- Complete and submit the follow-up Submission Release form
QUESTIONS
- Please direct questions to peelpages@gmail.com
- Include ‘SUBMISSION QUERY’ in subject
Virtuous Analog
posted by Anthony
In a culture where instant gratification has become the norm, it is a relief to see that some things have yet to succumb to the impetuous razing of technology. This is for the better. Analog delights like vinyl music and film photography will never grow to obsolescence — unless we want them to. But why would we? Why should we ever forfeit the more tasteful, more romantic ways of engaging art? It’s true, in many ways old fashioned means less reliable. A scratched LP requires a replacement. A mishandled roll of film is lost forever. I’ve lost a roll of 36 exposures spanning eight months of work to either personal negligence or lab error (we never could pinpoint the blame). But risk of failure, spontaneity and experimentation are all integral to the process of creating.
I can snap hundreds of photos and review them instantly in an afternoon on digital equipment. Unfortunately, the anticipatory enthusiasm is all but absent. Picking up film from my developer is an entirely different experience. Many times I have no recollection of what will appear on the roll. As a photographer, the pleasant surprises make the uncertain process worth it. The frame above was one such accident; the combination of using a mid-twentieth century Argus C3 with manual advance and shooting on the partially exposed opening leaf of ten-year-old film. A beautifully done low-tech multiple exposure. We at Peel Pages find that exploring art the slow, analog way can better than good. Patiently virtuous maybe?
Fine art photographer, Brooke Shaden, is talented beyond her years and calls her ethereal works, dark art. Dark indeed, also spooky and other worldly, her images are of a great inspiration to other photographers and her down-to-earth approachable personality is evident in her detailed Flickr posts…
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