Submission Form – Top Ten Records Polaroid Show

The submission form for the Top Ten Records Polaroid show has been slightly modified. Please download it here:

Submission Form – Top Ten Records – Polaroid Show

Thanks!

Polaroid Show – Q & A

Questions about the upcoming Top Ten Records Polaroid show

i) I have a book of my Polaroids that I published. Can it be in the show?
>> Sure. We will have a mock retail store the night of the opening, and as long as the price is clearly marked on your books, we will be happy to sell them. Make sure you indicate which portion of the proceeds you will donate to VSW.

ii) Wait, I have to donate a part of the proceeds?! Why?
>> Our host, the Visual Studies Workshop, is a non-profit arts center that has been bringing artists, bookmakers, photographers, and big thinkers together since 1969. This institution depends upon fund raising support to keep on keepin on. For more about this insanely great school & arts center, see VSW.org

iii) I have a stack of old Polaroids that are pretty great. Can I submit them?
>> Sure. As long as they can be arranged in a Top Ten list of some sort.

iv) I have a huge collection of older Polaroid cameras and other cool Polaroid-related things. Can they be in the show too?
>> Absolutely. We will have a display case for housing anything Polaroid-related. Kodak’s short-lived competitor “The Handle” will be making an appearance. Email robyn to make any special arrangements for your objects.

v) I am extremely prolific and want to enter 10 Top Ten lists. Is that allowed?
>> You can enter as many lists as you want, but make sure to enclose a submission form and an entry fee for each list.

vi) What is this business about RSVPing to get a spot? I thought this was non-juried.
>> The show is non-juried, and as long as there is nothing illegal in your Polaroids, they will be displayed. An RSVP to robynyork AT gmail DOT com will assign you an order number for your entry. Your order number will correspond to the order the lists are hung in. So if you want to be close to the front, email soon!

P.S. The competitive part

If you want to participate in Top Ten Records, send me an email to get your name on the list. The exhibition will be installed according to the time stamp on your email. (Spots 1-17 have already been filled, as of 10:24pm, July 21, 2008 )

robyn york AT gmail DOT com

Top Ten Records – Call for Polaroids

Top Ten Records is a large scale installation of Polaroid Top Ten lists submitted from an international selection of Polaroid makers. The show will open September 5th, at the Visual Studies Workshop Print Loft Gallery in Rochester, NY. Please mail your entries now.

Submit ten Polaroids (with or without captions) in the form of a top ten list (i.e. Top Ten Pictures of My Feet). You are welcome to use any type of Polaroid film. Please email (see below) if you need help finding a camera.

Submissions due:
Friday, August 22nd, 2008.
Show opens September 5th, 6–9pm (First Friday).

Mail or hand deliver to:
Top Ten Records
c/o Robyn York
Visual Studies Workshop
31 Prince Street
Rochester, NY, 14607

More info:
iheartpolaroid.wordpress.com
robynyork AT gmail DOT com

Submission form available in pdf format here

I am gonna make it through this [week] if it kills me.

Workshop = whoa.
“I gotta get my shit together, gotta gather my shit”
(National, Slow Show)

Here’s some Cancon to keep you feeling up to date with the Great White North goings on. Oh Steven Page, why would you associate with coke heads? Not smart. {I saw Page, his two kids (doppelgangers) and his lovely wife snaking through the customs line in front of me in the Toronto airport one Christmas. First real ’star’ sighting I had experienced, and I just kept staring shyly at the suitcase in front of me, as I passed the family over, and over, and over. I love and dread those amusement park customs queues.}

Title credit: Mountain Goats, This Year (paraphrased). I fought the urge not to title this ‘but not a real green dress, that’s cruel’

The best cure for a homesick dork

“Not so. Meet high octane Rita Cruise” (4:06)

Hilarious and educational.

Just ’cause we use cheats doesn’t mean we’re not smart

Back from Northborough, MA, now holed up at the family cottage with wifi and a rotary dial phone (okay, the wifi belongs to the neighbours and i’m *borrowing* it).

Way more interested in taking pictures this trip home, and have lots of other junk to get done on top of it (website, photo-retouching, window display proposal, polaroid show invite and submission info (any day now), polaroid website)

Hard to get motivated when it’s so frickin nice out. Yeah for America’s birthday, celebrated from Canada.
Title Credit: The Moldy Peaches, Anyone Else But You