SLIDELUCK POTSHOW: the blog

*Season’s Greetings*

Amid the holiday madness, we bring you a few exciting announcements.

For one, we have updated the Slideluck Potshow website with the latest slideshows, photos from the event, recipes and feedback. In addition, we have added a gallery of images from the Nikon Photobooth and a short video from the evening.

The theme of Slideluck Potshow XI is “Patterns” and the show is scheduled to take place on March 29th, in conjunction with The Armory Show. We look forward to seeing some creative and thoughtful observations on the patterns– textural, structural, behavioral, societal or otherwise– that color our world.

As previously mentioned, Slideluck Potshow has begun offering membership with levels from $25 (Peeps) to $2500 (Ballers) for a one-year membership. So far the response and generosity has far exceeded our expectations! Please consider making your tax-deductible contribution and become a Founding Member today, or better yet: give the gift of a Slideluck Potshow Membership!

We had our first members-only event on Sunday, December 16th. We got together for an intimate dinner and slideshow of selected works from all of the shows outside of New York. It was just like the good old days! We have another member-event planned for January as well.

We have an exciting opportunity for members: Nikon has generously lent three DSLR camera set-ups to three individuals to create a submission for SLPS XI! We are currently seeking individuals that are in need of a digital camera and are eager to take this opportunity to create a body of work to be considered for the the next Slideluck. This hot little kit includes a Nikon D80, an 18-50mm lens, a 50mm f/1.4 lens, and an SB-800 flash.

Next, we are teaming up with Redux Pictures, an independent photo agency based in New York, to help produce a photo story. Redux will review all photo story submissions for SLPS XI and choose one to represent. They will work with the photographer on editing and packaging the story, and if needed, split expenses with the photographer to go out and do more shooting. Once the story is complete, Redux will syndicate it worldwide and pitch it to photo editors at appropriate publications.

That’s all the good news for now. We will also be posting a revised SLPS Schedule for 2008 on the blog. Next on deck: Detroit, Chicago, Sao Paolo, Rio, and Acarigua! We hope this message finds you both happy and healthy and we wish you all of the best for the year ahead.

Happy Holidays

We’ve been up to lots since the last time this blog was updated. A calendar of events has been made! It is still in development and there may be some changes but this is the gist of it. Be prepared and be involved!

SLIDELUCK POTSHOW
2008 CALENDAR

JANUARY

31: Detroit, Michigan

FEBRUARY

2: Chicago, Illinois
9: Los Angeles, California
15: Sao Paolo, Brazil
16: Washington, DC
22: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
29: Bogota, Colombia

MARCH

1: Acarigua, Venezuela
6: Panama City, Panama
8: Mexico City, Mexico
8: Minneapolis, Minnesota
13: Portland, Maine
14: Portland, Oregon
15: Buffalo, New York
15: Seattle, Washington
29: New York, New York

APRIL

10: Barcelona, Spain
12: Madrid, Spain
17: Milan, Italy
11: Columbus, Ohio
19: Rome, Italy
22: Florence, Italy
18: San Francisco, California
24: Copenhagen, Denmark
26: Stockholm, Sweden
30: Oslo, Norway

MAY

3: Berlin, Germany
8: Paris, France
10: London, England
14: Moscow, Russia
15: Seville, Spain
21: Montreal, Quebec
24: Toronto, Canada

JUNE

4: Asheville, North Carolina
7: Austin, Texas
20: Mexico City, Mexico
23: Washington, DC
27: New York, New York

JULY

12: Cape Town, South Africa
17: Nairobi, Kenya
18: Portland, Oregon
19: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
23: Seattle, Washington

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

10: Istanbul, Turkey
10: Buffalo, New York
12: Minneapolis, Minnesota
13: Beirut, Lebanon
17: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
18: San Francisco, California
18: Antwerp, Belgium
19: Barcelona, Spain
19: Panama City, Panama
20: Chicago, Illinois
20: Tel Aviv, Israel
25: Jerusalem, Israel
25: Sao Paolo, Brazil
27: Detroit, Michigan
27: Stockholm, Sweden

OCTOBER

2: Mumbai, India
3: Columbus, Ohio
3: Mexico City, Mexico
8: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9: New Dehli, India
9: Milan, Italy
10: Rome, Italy
9: Madras, India
15: Hong Kong, China
15: Berlin, Germany
16: Paris, France
16: Washington, DC
16: Portland, Maine
17: Ann Arbor, Michigan
17: Florence, Italy
18: Oslo, Norway
19: Shanghai, China
22: Portland, Oregon
22: Asheville, North Carolina
22: Madrid, Spain
24: Los Angeles, California
25: Atlanta, Georgia

NOVEMBER

6: Denver, Colorado
7: Austin, Texas
8: Boulder, Colorado
8: Moscow, Russia
8: London, England
8: Toronto, Canada
12: Santa Fe, New Mexico
13: Capetown, South Africa
13: Seville, Spain
15: Bogota, Colombia
15: Seattle, Washington
20: Nairobi, Kenya
20: Berlin, Germany
22: New York, NY
28: Copenhagen, Denmark

DECEMBER

4: Miami, Florida

* Cities in Bold represent launches, or shows to which we will be traveling.
* Cities in Red represent shows that are less certain.

We’re heading back to Europe! Since we had such a blast in Madrid in April, we had to spread the love in Spain to both Seville, Barcelona, and Madrid again! So come and join us! Bring a tasty dish, bring friends, and you’ll sure to be entertained throughout the night with art, food, and friends!

Slideluck Potshow Seville, Spain
*first time launch!
Date: September 12, 2007
Location: Cobertura Photo
Narciso Campillo 4
41001 Sevilla
Spain

Another first launch is in the city of Barcelona. Celebrate the diverse artwork that will be presented at our event. Mingle with photo enthusiasts, professionals, and everyone in between.

Slideluck Potshow Barcelona, Spain
*first time launch!
Date: September 15, 2007
Location: To Be Announced

We’re heading back to Madrid for Slideluck Potshow II on September 22, 2007! Take a look back at our first launch back in April, 20007 with these photos from the event! If you had fun at that event, do come again! As with every event, we will be presenting a wide variety of artwork.

Slideluck Potshow II Madrid, Spain
Date: September 22, 2007
Location: To Be Announced
Theme: Open

The Slideluck Potshow San Francisco event will be held at the SandBox Studio on Saturday, August 11, 2007! The potluck begins at 7pm and from 9pm, we begin the creative art-viewing! We held our SLPS IX in March at Sandbox Studio in New York City. Since then, the studio have been interested in bringing the fun event to the west coast, so voila! We will be presenting a wide variety of work, from photojournalism to fashion photography, portraiture, installation and painting— each presentation lasting no longer than five minutes.

We hope you and yours are able to join us for what promises to be memorable evening!
rsvp: sf@slideluckpotshow.com

SandBox Studio
535 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
Google Map & Directions

Slideluck Potshow is going to Columbus, Ohio! On Friday, August 3rd, head down to the Wexner Center for the Arts for a night of great shows, great food, and great people. So come enjoy the shows, show off your homemade lasagna, and mingle with the creative folks. Potluck starts at 6:30pm; the lights are dimmed at 8:30pm for the shows to begin. We hope you and yours are able to join us for what promises to be memorable evening!

rsvp: edweb@wexarts.org , recommended but not required.

Wexner Center for the Arts
1871 North High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1393
Google Map & Directions

#11, July 2003 (from The White Board Project, Bangkok, Thailand)
©Michael Itkoff

I was looking through slideshows of SLPS VIII and came upon Michael Itkoff’s show titled,”The White Board.” It is an interesting look into photographers that create situations, rather than photographers that observe. Rather than composing a portrait within the white board, the sight of it makes you wonder how awkward it is to be in the subject’s shoes. Create your own situation, like Zach Klein and Youngna Park’s collaboration, “Candy Cane for Your Portrait.”

Well, it’s about time this blog get an update eh? Our team have been busy preparing a major web update in the coming weeks, with many events from all around the globe. So keep your eyes peels, subscribe to our blog, and be prepared!

Greetings LA!

Ok, so there have been many rumblings and rumors about having another Slideluck Potshow in LA. We feel that there is now sufficient momentum from people based in the area to effectively pull it together. There have been a number of new people that have expressed interest in getting involved, and it seems like making it happen should be very manageable.

Brief, incomplete introductions:

Sarah Poust is the Business Manager of the prestigious photojournalism agency VII. She is probably pretty absorbed with planning of the VII seminar in London. We are working together to do our first SLPS London in conjunction with it. Morgan Hagar is an LA-based photojournalist, who heard about us through Lightstalkers and has been aggressive about getting involved. Kim Lansill is a rep that has worked in LA for many years, and has access to talented photographers and possibly studio spaces. Monica Anchin is an Assignment Editor at Wire Image and attended the first SLPS LA. Rebecca Shulman was a classmate of Alys Kenny’s (Producer of SLPS) at SVA and is the Regional Director of APA (Advertising Photographers of America.) Natalie Obermaier is a fine-art photographer and has been involved in Slideluck, both in LA and Seattle. Kaycee Olsen is the Gallery Director of the Paul Kopeikin Gallery and might have some leads on spaces. Darcy Bartoletti is an artist, old friend of Alys’, and is involved in the LA arts scene.

If that ain’t a superstar line-up, I don’t know what is. It looks like we’ve got a lot of bases covered here. In any case, the first step to putting together another Slideluck is finding an appropriate space. Photo studios, art spaces, and galleries have always worked well for us. We did the first one in LA at a beautiful studio right on Venice Beach, but it seemed to be too far out of the way for many people. It’s very important that the space allows food and alcohol and that there is a large, open space for viewing slides. I’m guessing that if this event is well-publicized and planned, we should expect 150-200 people, so the space should be spacious enough to accommodate that many people. Once we find a space, everything else should fall into place and we can provide more details for proceeding.

One disclaimer that I should mention is that I don’t want Alys and I’s preoccupation with SLPS New York (March 24th— all are welcome!) or our upcoming string of 5 back-to-back Slidelucks in Europe (see blog for schedule, http://slideluckpotshow.com/blog/ — all are welcome!) to slow your preparations down. We are so over-stretched right now, it’s a little hard to fathom. However, we both really, really want to attend and be a part of Slideluck Potshow LA. It would mean a lot and I think we could bring some valuable experience if we could be there. Right now, we are basically booked up for a few months. Which may not be entirely a bad thing. It takes a little time to garner submissions and momentum.

One open date might be Friday June 29th, because Alys has to be out there that weekend anyway. Other than that, there might be some other possibilities in May or June, but we are pretty booked prior to that. It’s sort of up to you all.

I’m going to post this email to the blog and then invite you all to join it. It is meant to be a place to centralize communication, so that people don’t have to cover the same ground more than once. You can also pick things up from other cities, etc.

That’s all for now. I hope you are basking in Southern California sunshine as you read this.

Best,
Casey

Greetings Friends, New and Old!

As you may or may not know, aside from being a photographer, I am also the founder and director of Slideluck Potshow. What is Slideluck Potshow? It’s a slideshow and a potluck. Basically, people bring food, drink, and up to five minutes worth of slides. We do the show three times a year in NYC, in large photo studios, where we show between 30-40 artists for a crowd of 500-800 people. It’s quite a popular event here among photographers, artists, curators, reps, ad agency people, magazine editors, architects, designers, and other creative types. The whole thing operates on the participation of the attendees themselves— bringing home-cooked dishes, or picking up food from restaurants, and bringing a bottle of wine or a six pack of beer. It has been a very successful model in NYC, Seattle, LA and DC, where we are currently running slideshows.

This April and May, we are launching a number of Slidelucks in Europe. We will be in London April 14th (in conjunction with VII seminar,) Madrid on April 21st, Berlin on April 28th, Milan on May 5th, and Paris sometime in between. I am familiar with the quality of photography coming out of Denmark, and am a big fan of Copenhagen in general, and having talked to some others, feel that it would be a great place to start a Slideluck Potshow. We are thinking that perhaps, on the Thursday before Berlin, April 26th, we could do the first one in Copenhagen!

The most important part is to find a place to host it. Generally photo studios and art galleries are the most conducive. Bars and Clubs change the feel of it, and often have conflicts with the food and drink aspect of the potluck. We have been able to have (huge) spaces donated in every other city, including NYC. We are estimating that the first time shows will draw between 100-150 people. It is important for there to be some kind of an open viewing space as well. We are a non-profit, so the donation should be considered a tax write-off, though I don’t know how that works internationally. Whomever chooses to host the space will be rewarded with a lot of positive association, potential clients, and PR and very likely some good press. We have been treated kindly by the press here and I’m guessing the same will hold true in Europe.

If we can indeed find a space for April 26th, then getting the word out to photographers and artists for submissions will be the next step. I know BJ, from Magnum, knows a lot of photographers and is excited to get involved. Others have expressed interest, and I would like to just start the conversation. I am also going to post this email on our blog, which we use to centralize communication when starting a new Slideluck, so that we don’t go over the same information repeatedly. I will send an invitation to the blog shortly. Here is the link: http://slideluckpotshow.com/blog/blog.html

To get more of an idea what SLPS is, I invite you to our website. There you will see pictures from the events, archived slideshows, recipes, feedback, and more. We will soon be having pages for each city involved, so that one can look at recipes from Madrid and slideshows from Minneapolis.

I hope this message finds you well. If this is a project you would be interested in helping with planning, execution, or contributing artwork, please let us know!

Warm regards,
Casey

Hi Everyone.

I just wanted to let you know where we are at in terms of planning. This is the schedule we have worked out so far. Some of this is subject to change. The most important thing is that we need to find spaces in all of the places that are not yet booked.

April 14th: London (not booked yet)
April 21st: Madrid (booked)
April 26th: Copenhagen (booked)
April 28th: Berlin (not booked)
May 5th: Milan (not booked)

(These can also perhaps happen mid-week during April. We probably don’t want to spread ourselves too thin. Five slidelucks on this trip is probably sufficient.)

Here is what we are have in the works domestically:

March 23rd: Bend, OR (booked)
March 24th: NYC (DEADLINE EXTENDED! See site for details)
March 30th: Seattle (booked)
May 19th: Minneapolis (booked)
June 16th: NYC? (not booked)

(Should we look at doing LA, SF, and Portland sometime in late May, June, or July? Alys and I would really like to be a part of these shows as well.)

The other cities that we are currently working with are as follows: San Francisco, Portland, LA, DC, Bend (OR,) Spokane (WA,) etc. Other cities that are have shown interest, but are farther behind in development: Chicago, Boston, Milwaukee, Little Rock, Buffalo, Santa Fe, etc. Internationally, there has also been some interest in Tel Aviv and Mexico City.

We are currently working with teams of people in all of these cities. If you are interested in getting involved in the planning and execution of these, or any other cities, feel free to get in touch with us!

I am going to Haiti this week to shooting a story, so I may not have much email or blog access. If that is the case, please feel free to contact Alys Kenny for any urgent matters: alys@slideluckpotshow.com

Thanks!
Casey