Head On Alternative Portraits invites photographers to submit works to the 2007 photographic portrait exhibition, to be held at Australian Centre for Photography between 19 April - 25 May 2007 and in June 2007 in Daylesford Foto Biennale. Three prizes will be awarded for the best images. Prizes include state of the art digital SLR Canon 5D (x2) plus a lens each, ACDSee Pro Digital Asset Management software (x3) and books from Focal Press. Total value of prizes is about $13000.

Head On represents a vibrant, diverse cross section of new and traditional photographic practices. Images could range from film to digitally produced using any photographic technique in colour and/or black & white. The exhibition is open to all artists residing in Australia. Deadline: Sunday 18 March 2007; Visit the sitetitle for details and entry form.

The 13th annual San Antonio Underground Film Festival is currently taking submissions. Submit DVD or VHS tape with two-sentence synposis. The deadline for entries is 21 April 2007. Visit the sitetitle= for details and entry form.

Cartoonists are invited to submit their work (or the work of someone else) for consideration for one or more of the following Division Awards, which include advertising, illustration, greeting cards, and more. National Cartoonists Society (NCS) members, and non-members alike, are eligible. You will need an NCS Division Awards Entry Form. Contact information is below.

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The 40th Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival invites the public to participate in the return of the Festival’s Poster Contest. The winning entry will earn a $500 grand prize, and the artist’s design will be used in posters, souvenir T-shirts and commemorative booklet covers to help promote Northern California’s largest Japanese American community festival.

The design should emphasize the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival’s 40th Anniversary, and reflect the spirit of the Matsuri (festival) season. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts is pleased to announce that REVEAL, our national 3D Animation Showdown for graduating Canadian art students, is back for its third year. The grand prize for the Best Short Digital Animation will be $20,000 to the winning student, along with a $20,000 matching grant to that student’s institution. One additionall innovation his year is a new Level/Design category to recognize the excellent work that Canadian students are doing in the various Game Design programs across the country.

Entrants must be graduating between September 1st, 2006 and August 31st, 2007. Visit the site to view the full contest rules, and last year’s winners. All entries must be submitted in their entirety by 11:59 p.m. PST on 6 April 2007.

And - ta-da - we now have the world’s first dissolvable dress, the culmination of a creative partnership at the University of Sheffield between the award-winning designer Prof Helen Storey and Prof Tony Ryan, a leading chemist, to show off new materials that can make consumer products less environmentally harmful. The question I have is this: Why did they make a dress? Why didn’t they produce a jock strap? This, and a woman on board the design team. Shocking. Read more at either The Telegraph or at fashion.psfk. Yes, there’s a photo. I just won’t reproduce it here. I’d rather look at Fang.

Have a great weekend!