CALL FOR ENTRIES – SKYWARD, A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

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Submission Deadline: Monday, March 12, 2012

OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
SATURDAY, March 31, 2012
7:30 – 10:30pm

If you love photographing the sky, this is the contest for you! Good luck .

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The Leprecaun

by William Allingham

I

Newborn Leprecaun Hat and Booties

Little Cowboy, what have you heard,
Up on the lonely rath’s green mound?
Only the plaintive yellow bird*
Sighing in sultry fields around,
Chary, chary, chary, chee-ee!

Only the grasshopper and the bee? -
“Tip-tap, rip-rap,
tick-a-tack-too!
Scarlet leather, sewn together,
This will make a shoe.
Left, right, pull it tight;
Summer days are warm;
Underground in winter,
Laughing at the storm!”
Lay your ear close to the hill.
Do you not catch the tiny clamour,
Busy click of an elfin hammer,
Voice of the Lepracaun singing shrill
As he merrily plies his trade?
He’s a span
And a quarter in height.
Get him in sight, hold him tight,
And you’re a made
Man!

II

Newborn Crochet Shamrock Ball Cap

You watch your cattle the summer day,
Sup on potatoes, sleep in the hay;
How would you like to roll in your carriage
Look for a duchess’s daughter in marriage?
Seize the Shoemaker – then you may!
“Big boots a-hunting,
Sandals in the hall,
White for a wedding-feast,
Pink for a ball.
This way, that way,
So we make a shoe;
Getting rich every stitch,
Tick-tack-too!”
Nine-and-ninety treasure-crocks
This keen miser fairy hath,
Hid in mountains, woods, and rocks,
Ruin and round tow’r, cave and rath,
And where the comorants build;
From times of old
Guarded by him;
Each of them fill’d
Full to brim
With gold!

III

Newborn Leprechaun Pullover with Hat

I caught him at work one day, myself,
In the castle-ditch, where foxglove grows, -
A wrinkled, wizen’d and bearded Elf,
Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose,
Silver buckles to his hose,
Leather apron – shoe in his lap -
“Rip-rap, tip-tap,
Tick-tack-too!
(A grasshopper on my cap!
Away the moth flew!)
Buskins for his son, -
Pay me well, pay me well,
When the job is done!”
The rogue was mine, beyond a doubt.
I stared at him; he stared at me;
“Servant, Sir!” “Humph!” says he,
And pull’d a snuff-box out.
He took a long pinch, look’d better pleased
The queer little Lepracaun;
Offer’d the box with a whimsical grace, -
Pouf! he flung the dust in my face,
And, while I sneezed,
Was gone!

*“yellow bird,” the yellow-bunting, or yorlin.

Honeymoon Tag

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Here’s a terrific tutorial by Fairy Mist for you to use this Valentine’s Day. If you know how to create a tube from one of your photographs, you could even replace the couple with a picture of you and you’re Valentine . If you don’t know how, you could try learning with this tutorial on how to make tubes in PSP.

Whatever you decide, may your holiday be filled with love.

Om Shanti,
Hafapea
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Tag Mascarade

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Another beautiful sigtag tutorial from Fairy Mist. Enjoy .

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Hafapea
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You Know Someone Brilliant

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Do you know someone brilliant? Help us invite creative people to apply for a chance at over $50,000 in grants and awards in Artists Wanted’s annual Year in Review Competition.

Artists Wanted is a New York City arts organization formed a few years ago as a new way to cultivate creative talent. What started as a modest idea from two Brooklyn artists has grown into an international phenomenon, awarding over $1.2 million in prizes and grants and hosting over a dozen major exhibitions and special events.

You can enter for a chance to win a share of $50,000 and help to spread the word for a chance to win $3,000. Good luck !

Om Shanti,
Hafapea
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You Know Someone Brilliant

via youknowsomeonebrilliant.com

Do you know someone brilliant? Help us invite creative people to apply for a chance at over $50,000 in grants and awards in Artists Wanted’s annual Year in Review Competition.

Artists Wanted is a New York City arts organization formed a few years ago as a new way to cultivate creative talent. What started as a modest idea from two Brooklyn artists has grown into an international phenomenon, awarding over $1.2 million in prizes and grants and hosting over a dozen major exhibitions and special events.

You can enter for a chance to win a share of $50,000 and help to spread the word for a chance to win $3,000. Good luck !

Om Shanti,
Hafapea
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CALL FOR ENTRIES – WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT?: PHOTOS FROM THE WORLD OF CATS

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Juried Photography Exhibition:
WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT?
Photos from the World of Cats
Submission Deadline: Monday, February 13, 2012

OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION:
SATURDAY, March 3, 2012
7:30 – 10:30pm

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