[Clipart] [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine issue 1.1 call for proposals

jon at rejon.org jon at rejon.org
Tue Sep 14 17:23:12 PDT 2010


Ok, by help out I meant...point them towards aiki...no more bandwidth.

Jon

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM, jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> BTW, this is very cool! We should help out with this!
>
> Jon
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: ginger coons <ginger at adaptstudio.ca>
> Date: Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:42 AM
> Subject: [CREATE] Libre Graphics Magazine issue 1.1 call for proposals
> To: create <create at lists.freedesktop.org>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> The call for proposals for Libre Graphics Magazine issue 1.1 is below.
> Please feel free to cross-post to any related lists blogs, or your
> medium of choice.
>
> Libre Graphics Magazine is seeking submissions for its first numbered
> issue, which loosely follows the theme First Encounters/Taking Flight.
> Submissions can range from the written, to the visual, to the
> interactive. If it can be flattened and printed, it could appear in
> our print edition. If it moves or requires user input to be seen
> properly, it might just be a good fit for our web edition. Proposals
> for articles or works (or even already completed works), may be
> submitted until October 3, 11:59 Eastern time. Proposals for articles
> should be no more than 100 words, although the articles themselves may
> be up to 1000 words. Proposals and work may be sent to
> submissions at libregraphicsmag.com
>
> First times are seen as momentous events in our lives. The first time
> away from home, first job, first kiss, all are seen as seminal events,
> meant to be packed up and remembered, fondly or not. The first,
> narratively, carries a heavier weight in our memories than so many
> subsequent events. After the first time, you start getting used to it,
> you become proficient, the magic and mystery start to wear off.
>
> This issue, we're talking about firsts. We're talking about first
> experiences, first efforts, first anythings, about the liberation of
> letting go and trying something new, and the terror that sometimes
> comes with it. Firsts are about taking flight, about leaving behind
> the things you know and embracing something else.
>
> That's where our second theme, Taking Flight, comes in. Taking flight,
> leaving behind, in a physical and a metaphorical sense, carries with
> it that sense of liberation and trepidation, that change of
> perspective. Lifting off of our metaphorical ground and looking down
> from above packs the power to change our perspective, to let us a
> little bit out of ourselves. In the same way that seeing your own city
> from above can completely change your conception of it, seeing your
> own possibility and creative process from above has the power to make
> you stop and think again about the elements of process, style or
> workflow that you take for granted.
>
> Taken together, the ideas of First Encounters and Taking Flight are
> all about discovering the new, the momentous, the big and the
> unexpected that you never even thought you possessed. These things, in
> your own head, in your own possibility, unlocked if only you give them
> a chance and break from the norm. That's why, this month, we're
> talking about firsts and flights, about the magic, the mystery, the
> revelation of doing something new and discovering what you never even
> suspected you possessed.
>
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