Tuesday, February 28, 2012

The compilation is BUILDING!

The compilation of the Collected Works of Awesome is being built as we speak! Thus far one piece of work (poem attached to art) is already in place. A second poem has been submitted and will be matched  with art to accompany it tonight. A third poem is being written for submission as we speak! Further a photographer will be submitting some work tomorrow. So the compilation is building!

I look forward to making this e-zine for 3/10/2012 a success. I hope you will participate in the creation of it and celebrate the work when it is complete-for it will celebrate YOU!

If you have a submission-email me at rascals@jurascals.com
or tweet me first at @jtimothyquirk or @AwesomeDayFan

Finally, a caveat to the submission process-don't send any political essays about a particular candidate for any upcoming election. I know this is an election year and primaries are going on for one of the parties in the US. There is a special place for political consideration and this isn't one of them. That doesn't mean ART can't be made that has political tones but I don't want this e-zine to be a non-paid political advertisement.

More updates as we go! This is exciting. I am also thinking we may want to have a different name than the "collected works of awesome" for this one-shot "e-zine". I'm open to suggestions from the Awesomeclub!

Sunday, February 26, 2012

To Celebrate International Day of Awesome on 3/10/2012

Ok, first things first.  I didn't create "awesome day". I thought it would be a great idea to create an awesome day, I googled it and found that someone else had already done that task. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I have adopted the idea.
Second, there are a number of friends who also enjoy that idea of celebrating each other's "awesomeness" so with that in mind, I've created this blog for one purpose: to promote the awesomeness of others and to do so in a collected work which can be put up on a platform like "scribd.com" and could be downloaded for free.
From this group of unique artists/authors/poets/painters/photographers their work can be submitted and then put into a collection which can be shared in multiple formats. Here's some of the ground rules
1) submission does not equal inclusion. I have no idea how many folks will submit something and I can't promise that your something submitted will be included. But just because it doesnt get included, it doesnt mean it isn't "awesome" it just means it didn't fit in right then at that time. There may be some work which is super awesome but due to my limited time, I may not be able to get to it.
2) no money is intended to have anything to do with this project. Nothing is charged to submit your creative work here. Nothing will be paid if it is included in the collection. Nothing in this collection will be sold and no ad space will be sold in conjunction with your work. If you as the creator are able to promote your own work here-awesome. That's it.
3) gotta keep it rated "g" for all audiences. There's awesome artwork and awesome stories that have adult language and situations and there are other places where that work can shine. But this place is going to be for all audiences. If that upsets you creatively, I understand and still celebrate your awesomeness, I just can't celebrate it here.

I think that's it but I'll come up with other ideas and clarifications later.

I plan on "e=publishing" the collection on 3/10/2012