Paper Hat - Flockflockflock Call For Contributors

There’s an old saying… he who wears many hats is last to lose his head. It’s supposed to mean that cultivating a variety of skills ensures longevity. Or maybe it means that guillotine greedy mobs are easily fooled by a quick change of chapeau. Either way, words to live by.

So far Flockflockflock has been a webzine, a culture blog, a t-shirt foundry and an online vintage store. The way we figure it, paper is the only medium we haven’t dabbled in… hence the need to ZINE! That’s right, we’re cutting and pasting for the newest edition of Flockflockflock, a print and bind paper version of our online awesomeness.

Here’s where you come in. We need single page contributions in all shapes and forms. Pictures, poems, snide asides, scans of your belly button lint fashioned into a miniature sculpture of the Statue of Liberty, a rant, a doodle, a few bars of a song you wrote on your recorder in 3rd grade, a Photoshop experiment gone very very wrong. Whatever.

Seriously, whatever you want to submit, do. Chances are we’ll love it. And if we don’t, we’ll publish it on the web. If you still need a bit of guidance, the zine theme is “annum rasa.” It’s Latin. “Annum” = year/a year’s time/the period between now and the next time it’s now. “Rasa” = blank/empty/new/unused/ripe with potential.

If we print your submission in the zine, you’ll get an annum rasa issue t-shirt, our undying appreciation and bragging rights. If we pub your submission on the web, you get a free issue of the zine. If you don’t submit anything, you get nothing, except yet another opportunity to feel sorry for yourself. Them are the breaks.

Deadline: January 5th, 2009
Email all submissions to: jenhen@flockflockflock.com
Or if it’s not email-able, email jenhen@flockflockflock.com for further instructions
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If you don't know, now you know... CPOPpor2nity

Visual artists of all disciplines, this is your chance to be discovered by the international arts community!
No, seriously. This isn't just another call for artists, this is Detroit's CPop Gallery annual CPOPportunity.
If you don't already know, CPop has been breaking big names (such as Glenn Barr) and dominating the pages of outsider art mags (such as Juxtapoz) since 1995.
Email 3 jpegs of your latest work to rick@cpop.us and if selected, you'll have your chance to show in the CPop annual juried show for a small registration fee ($150-225, depending).
CPop's jury of visual arts luminaries will choose the gallery's 2009 roster of exhibitors from the juried show.
Translation: if they like your juried show submission, you get to share the space with 3 other artists sometime next year.
Read between the lines: This is an opportunity of a lifetime and all you need to do is send an email.
Deadline is DECEMBER 2nd! Get on it.
more info here: www.myspace.com/cpopgallery

FREE SHIPPING!

That's right, we're shipping sweaters for FREE at the Flockflockflock Etsy store!

genuine 80s vintage ski sweaters

glitter yarn tunics in classic 80s patterns

First Lady brass button up cardigans

and so much more.

Go see for yourself: www.flockflockflock.etsy.com

Free shipping on sweaters ends December 1st!

Hipster Made - AVAZAVA

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Mickey Mao?!

We heart it so much.

more to love here: http://www.avazava.etsy.com/

Yes! and No.

NO MATTER WHICH GUY WINS
THE QUESTION IS
DID WE?

Vintage Sale! Vegas...

What's better than beautifully crafted clothes and accessories?

Beautifully crafted and still pristine vintage clothes and accessories. And if your appetite for fine wares from previous eras is anything like ours, finding a genuine vintage piece from a coveted design house in perfect condition can more than make your outfit, it can totally make your day (or week, or month, or entire existence, depending on whether it's 90s, 80s or 70s Chanel).

Which is why we love Annie Creamcheese in the Palazzo Las Vegas and their collection of fabulous designer vintage. And did we mention they're having a sale? Buy 2 items and get 1 free! Three outfit making designer vintage pieces might just make your afterlife. (Halloween weekend pun required.)

join the email list at http://www.anniecreamcheese.com/ for more sale info!

Kendall Abbott - Shops But Never Drops

FRANIKE SAYS JUST DO IT!

Flockflockflock knows times are hard in the world economy...
Just today we saw some guy trying to sell the front wheel of his bike (we hope it was his bike), our 401K statement came in with lots of little red dashes all over it (we're not sure what that means but it doesn't seem promising), and unless the guy in the Wendy's drive-thru pulled a fast one on us, what used to be a 99¢ chocolate Frosty is now a $1.15 chocolate Frosty (still delicious however disappointingly inflated in price).

So we've decided to do our part to ease the economic pressures by giving away t-shirts! It's a radical plan but we really think it's going to work. Visit our friend local Las Vegas vintage store/art gallery The Gypsy Den and pick up your free FRANIKE SAYS JUST DO IT t-shirt! Supplies are limited, as is our gracious host's counter space, so boogie in this weekend and ask for your Flockflockflock t-shirt!

we nicked this pic from www.indiekrush.com

We're only promising to fix the global economic crisis, whether you look as good as DJs Remy the Restless and MDY while doing it is up to you...

P.S. Contribute to the Flockflockflock economic stimulus plan by purchasing a t-shirt or a piece of vintage from our Flockflockflock Etsy store, unless you blew all your allowance on expensive Frosties.