THANK YOU KATHRYN & SPENCE

was what the google group post was supposed to say....Thank you to Kathryn and her husband Spence for opening up their home and giving us the resources to have a longer more natural discussion in light of starting to work on this first project. Thank you for coming and bringing good stuff to eat and drink. Thank you for being interesting and engaged and giving a damn.

To get the ball rolling on a ‘slide show’ to submit to E32. To get the ball rolling fairly quickly we have two ACTION items for the next meeting.

1-a private flickr group was created for everyone to load 10 to 20 slides on before the next meeting on March 10. I sent you all an invite emails, but if you want to go and set up an account with another email the url is: http://www.flickr.com/groups/dcacsparkplug/

The work you put on flickr should be your best foot forward, best slides you have and remember final submission needs to be projected at 40” x 60” so make sure you have a high quality image available for all the images in case it is chosen-(the whole product here is of the reproduced images.)

Here is a link on how to post photos to the groups photo “pool” (I am a first time flickr user so those with more experience feel free to give some pointers)

http://www.flickr.com/help/groups/#57


2- think of themes that might interesting for this slide show to talk about at the meeting
After discussion of themes at the next meeting, Lea Ann has agreed to help with crafting the short curatorial statement and picking work from the slides loaded on flickr and Lisa has agreed to work on finding the 3 minute musical accompaniment.

Other stuff we talked about 'in group' ...

In putting together the raw material for E32 there was then interest 
in putting the presentation into a power point or other similar 
software and setting up a similar slide program at a local venue, like 
The Diner or projecting along (or on) a band or at other event in DC 
to promote Sparkplug and DCAC. There are probably other venues 
outside of DC that project artists works that we can seek out locally 
and far afield so keep your eyes peeled for similar opportunities.

some other stuff I thought of ....

I think we may have 1-2 more simple questions for Linda Griggs (who 
runs E32) like can they accept video snips, how much can she let us 
know about any local group she might match us with and how much notice 
we will have about when the work might be presented. I will work on 
that with Kathryn. let me know if you think of anything else we need 
to ask.
Also we started trying to figure out about how long each slide was 
projected (which seems like about 6 seconds) Figuring out in advance 
how many images v. description slides fit into a 3 minute presentation 
may be helpful if someone has the time to look at the archived 
presentations on the E32 website and do the math.