Tuesday May 4th is Shudder Budder’s launch party in the AI student lounge from 4:30-6:30 pm.

There will be a photo booth with funny props and pizza after you get your picture taken.

Hope to see you there!

Hello all! Just wanted to let everyone know that a group of us are going to be meeting up at the school around 1:30pm to go west to Bertram, Texas this Saturday (5/1). This small town is a little slice of Americana and gives you plenty of opportunities to brush up on those photo skills. If you’re into very old and rustic Texas buildings then this will be the trip for you. Our goal is to get out there around 2:30pm and stick around for a good four or five hours. We’ll plan on carpooling if people wanted to save on gas, but it’s bound to be a lot of fun. I know that there were some expressed interests from some people about how we should go on some photo outings and I thought I would take it upon myself to get it started. So far I know that Walker will be joining me. How about you come too?

For more info on the city visit: http://www.bertramtx.com/ and comment if you plan on attending. Remember we’ll be leaving the student parking lot around 1:30pm!

Shudder Budderers: You should notice we’ve deployed a new design incorporating the use of (one of) our logo(s). It’s a spare design, but it will allow the content of your posts to take center stage, including photos and videos.

Also note that we are now listing the authors on this here blog on the right-hand side. Your name becomes an active link once you’ve posted something to the site, and the link goes directly to your author page. That page features a link to your web site (if you entered on in your profile), a photo of you and information about you. All of this information can be updated by changing it once you’ve logged in to WordPress.

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There is a cool photo show, Explore Creativity in Digital Space this Thursday from 5:30-7:30 pm.  It is in the ACES building on UTs campus. Several photographers will be showing their work in the awesome Visualization Lab with the highest resolution tiled display in the world! Tre Ratcliff who came to the school to talk about his super cool HDR photos will be there as will Lawrence McFarland who received a Guggenheim fellowship for his photography this year.

We will leave from the school this Thurs at 5:00pm to caravan down to UT.  Click here to RSVP

Hope to see you there!

At the end of the Fall 2009 quarter, I made some stop motion videos with my students. I did the same at the end of Winter 2010, but I only now got to compiling the footage. Here it is:

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Shudder Budder Meeting is tomorrow to discuss finalizing plans of having a website and club launch party next week on Tuesday May 4th from 4:30-6:30.

The meeting is 5-6 pm Tuesday in the Photo Studio. If you can’t make the meeting but want to get involved with the party, please let Walker or Jen know.

Meg Mulloy and I took 9 students down to San Marcos for the opening of ¡Viva México! this past Saturday. Fun was had by all.

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On Saturday, April 17, 2010, Meg Mulloy and I took a group of 9 students down to San Marcos, TX for the reception and lecture associated with two exhibitions: ¡Viva México!: Celebrating the country in photographs; and Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy, photographs by Bill Wittliff.

The lecture was given by Connie Todd, recently retired Curator of The Wittliff Collection of Southwestern & Mexican Photography. The exhibition took advantage of the newly remodeled and expanded Wittliff Collection space, which appears to have roughly doubled its area on the 7th floor of the Alkek Library at Texas State University—San Marcos.

Students from Shudder Budder—the student photography group at The Art Institute of Austin—interviewed one another in their first trip to The Wittliff Collection.

Last Thursday Shudder Budder had a Rockin’ Roll Photo Booth at the Battle of Bands event at AI. Please click on the link below to watch future Texas Rockers!

Rockin Booth

For those of you interested in doing fashion photography, check out the recent winners of W: The Art Project:

http://theartcontest.wdesires.com/winner.php

Fuzebox is April 21-May 2nd and had lots of cool art projects around Austin to see and participate in.  Including a Video collective I am a part of, Austin Video Bee.  We are hosting the second Exquisite Bee at U.S. Art Authority where you make videos that combine to make a bigger story and then we screen it!  Email austinvideobee@gmail.com if you want to reserve a spot.

The Austin Art Allicance has volunteer opportunities so you can go to Art City Austin for  free. Art City Austin is 2-day Austin-style celebration of art April 24 and 25. check out info here for Art City Austin

This Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 7:00pm – 9:30pm there will be an opening at the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern & Mexican Photography on the campus of Texas State University-San Marcos. The collection will be featuring a show called ¡Viva México!, as well as Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy by my friend Bill Wittliff.

I printed for Bill (founder of the collection) a few years ago, and he is fascinating guy to know. I would like a group of students and faculty to join me in traveling down to San Marcos for this opening; I’d like to get a chance to introduce you all to Bill, assuming he’ll be in attendance. There will be a talk by recently retired Wittliff Collections curator/director Connie Todd as well. It should be a fun evening.

If you are planning to attend, please RSVP: thewittliffcollections@txstate.edu OR 512-245-2313

Directions: thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu

Let’s meet at the AIA student parking lot at 6:15pm and caravan/carpool down to San Marcos. Dinner afterwards.

The first Shudder Budder Meeting of the quarter is this Tuesday from 5-6 pm in the Photo Studio. The main topic of the meeting will be planning the first photo booth event. Due to popular demand, Shudder Budder will be hosting a “rocking” photo booth at the Battle of the Bands this Thursday at 6 pm. Admissions will supply inflatable instruments for students to pose with.

Please come to the meeting and learn more about the photo booth and other upcoming photo adventures.

“THE PORTRAIT”
Open call for submissions:

L. Nowlin Gallery presents “The Portrait”, a group exhibition exploring unique and inspiring interpretations of the portrait, while combining the talents of new and established photographers. All photographic interpretations of portraiture are welcome.

Exhibition Date: July 6^th – August 14^th, 2010
Opening Reception: July 10^th

Guidelines:  Photographers may submit up to 5 images in JPG format, 72 dpi, and no larger than 800 pix. Please send submissions via email to lesley@lnowlingallery.com Accepted photographers will be notified by June 5, 2010. Accepted work should be framed by the artist, and only reimbursed if photograph is sold. Print size can range from 5″ x 7″ to 12″ x 18″ (largest side of frame = 26″)

Starting date: April 8, 2010

Deadline: May 15, 2010

Submissions entered after deadline will not be considered.
Selected photographs will be represented by L. Nowlin Gallery for one year.
Gallery has rights to use selected images for marketing purposes.
If already represented by L. Nowlin Gallery, only new work will be considered.

This Thursday (April 8th) from 6-8 pm is the general public opening for “Unassigned” personal work from 5 working Austin photographers. This opening is the AI gallery (near the receptionist).

The five featured photographers are Randal Ford, Will van Overbeek, Adam Voorhes, Matt Rainwaters and Ryann Ford.

Please come out and meet the photographers and other working professionals. There will be food provided by AI Culinary.

My Editorial Photography class shot a video on our last day of class. It’s stop-motion. Check it out.

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We will meet at the AIA student parking lot this afternoon at 4:30pm to carpool/caravan down to San Antonio for the First Friday Art Walk. We will be having dinner at Rosario’s (most likely) at first, then we will walk to the local galleries in Southtown.

Sorry that this came up so last minute. Hopefully you can make it.