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.

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

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.

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.

I have a friend who is in need of a student wedding photographer on 7/10/10 on a boat in the gulf off of Seabrook, TX. If you’re interested and have a portfolio of previous wedding work shoot me an email at cwpphoto {at} gmail.com.

Sad and disappointing news. At yesterday’s meeting there were only three students and two faculty. Not enough people to help plan the launch party, which is Tuesday March 9th 4-6 pm.

In order for this party to happen, students are needed to step up and volunteer. This is your club and your party, not faculty. As a club you wanted to start doing events but in order to do so, you need to help plan these events.

An emergency meeting has been called for next Thursday (March 4) at 5-6 pm in the photo studio. Walker and I will not be there as we are going to be at SPE. However Walker will try to video conference.

I am looking for a volunteer to run the meeting. I have an agenda and sign up sheet for the party. Let me know if you are available and I’ll get the agenda to you.

If not enough students come to this next meeting, the launch party will be postponed until next quarter.

From ACP:

Come help us with the David Alan Harvey lecture

The time is here for us to fill up our volunteer roster for the lecture by David Alan Harvey. Our volunteers fill a special role in helping us build our community.

We look forward to your participation. This lecture is scheduled for the week of spring break and also during SXSW. So, please consult your calendar before committing to a volunteer position. If you are unavailable for this event, please consider working with us in the future.

Icons of Photography No.5 with David Alan Harvey, March 17th 2010

ACP also is sponsoring his amazing Photographic Essay workshop that week. Just a few spots still available.

Event day volunteer roles available:

• Ticket Table
• Greeter
• Usher
• Book Signing

If you are interested in helping with these tasks please send me an email listing your first and second choice to the e-mail address below or reply to this message.

Thanks for supporting ACP.

Melissa Prado Little
2010 ACP Staffing Coordinator
mlittle@visitacp.org

PS. We will also need a few volunteers for the membership party on Saturday March 20th. Please let me know if you are available for that date.

PPS. One last thing, we are looking for a videographer to add to our Coordinator Team. Please let me know if you are available for this more involved task.

UPDATE: This event has been canceled.

Just received an email about this lecture at the Harry Ransom Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus at 7pm on February 25, 2010:

The University Co-op presents a Harry Ransom Lectures event with Sarah Greenough, Senior Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art. She presents the lecture “Transforming Destiny into Awareness: Robert Frank’s The Americans, 1959.”

Sarah Greenough was the founding curator of the National Gallery of Art’s department of photographs in 1990. Since that time she has organized numerous exhibitions at the National Gallery that have traveled to museums around the world.

The 25th is a Thursday, and I teach until 5pm that night. We are supposed to have a meeting that same evening from 5-6pm. Would anyone be interested in driving down after the meeting? Feel free to leave feedback in the comments or email me.

Harry Ransom Center
21st and Guadalupe Streets
Austin, Texas 78712
Phone: 512-471-8944

The next Shudder Budder meeting will be this Thursday, February 25 from 5-6pm in the photo studio. From Jen:

We’ll be finalizing our plans for our website launch party by selecting a new logo, food and drinks.

In addition, the last 10-15 minutes of the meeting will be dedicated to critiquing photos. So if you have some photos that you would like us to look at, please come.

Keep you eyes out for a poster and info about Shudder Budder’s launch party.

I have just created accounts for a number of students who attended the second meeting of ShudderBudder today. Those of you who are interested in being able to post to this blog need to find me (Walker), Jen, Leigh or Meg and give us your full name, preferred username (most people are simply using their first name), and email address.

If you have any questions about how to use WordPress (the blogging system we use on ShudderBudder) or even what’s appropriate to post, please leave a comment on this post and I’ll do my best to get back to you in a timely manner.

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