TAKE is a bi-annual print zine sponsored by the UofA Sociology Graduate Students' Association and Intermedia Research Studio. It is now entering its 5th year of publication! We welcome open submissions ranging from the very experimental to more traditional academic pieces, with a special theme each issue to generate collective thinking. Next issue: LAUGHTER, share with us! This issue is for Sharon Rosenberg – who reminded us to laugh. Deadline: March 18th, 2011 – email your submissions to takemagazine[at]gmail.com We invite submissions on anything to do with the topic of laughter, from jokes and funny stories, to carefully considered pieces that think about the oppressive or problematic uses of laughter. Possibilities include: -chuckling -nervous laughter -giggling like schoolchildren -everyday life as humourous -the politics of laughter -farce -satire -comedy -irony -grad student jokes | graduate studies between comedy and tragedy -my life as a joke -absence of laughter | seriousness -“that’s not funny” -non-human laughter | interspecies hilarity -laughter as the best medicine -eating while laughing -funny bone | knee slapping | the biology of laughter -comics -mockery -black humour -foolishness -jesters -“I laughed so hard that I _________” -LOL/ROTFLMFAO -gags -canned laughter -laugh track   ----------------------------------------------------------- Mini/miniature! NEW! Download .pdf version here TAKE welcomes your submissions on or playing with the idea of "mini" and/or miniature. As always, we are looking for your photographs, poems, experiments, recipes, articles, reviews, diabolical plans, interviews, comic strips, thought exercises, pirated material, etc. etc! Feel free to experiment with the /style/, /concept/ and /length/ of your submission. Submissions on other topics are welcome as well! Please submit your *tiny* contribution to this issue to takemagazine(at)gmail.com Deadline extension: submissions now due: Nov. 29, 2010 CFP Poster:  Need some ideas for your submission? Here's a list to help you get started: -Miniature, diminish, small-scale, tiny, minute, little, mini, baby, minuscule, diminutive, small, minimal, minimize, minimum, minituarization, petit/e, itty bitty -Morsel, nugget, inkling, iota, glimmer, -Compress, abbreviate, shorten, truncate, summarize, abstract, extract, essentialise, code, model, miniaturization, diorama -Minimize, lesser, least, insignificant, negligible -Everyday life vs. history -The minute vs. the monumental -Small-minded, petty -Bird brain -Teeny weeny, small as cute, adorable, precious, delicate, insubstantial, precarious, fragile, subtle -Children, children's play as life in miniature? Ecosystem as a mini-world -February as the shortest month -Elves, fairies, pixies, brownies, Smurfs -Small animals (mice, robins, geckos) - miniature animals (miniature horses; teacup dogs) - baby animals (300-pound baby elephants) - microscopic (bacteria, viruses) - nanoscience > fractal patterns -Gigantic things that make us mini by comparison -The material world as a mini version of the ideal world -Fortune cookie messages, haiku, tweets -Baby ideas, notes, footnotes > proto-ideas? Thinking that is about to grow? Seeds planted? > beginnings -Models, folding bikes, diagrams, toy cars, lego-sets > smaller versions of things? -Re-conceptualisation of things? -Minimizing (your point of view, the working file on your computer > many ideas, many projects on the go, multitasking) -Mini Nova, Austin Mini, Minitel, Mini Projects, mini golf, mini van, minimum wage, mini-mall, mini-bar, mini-computer, Minnie Mouse, mini-skirt, mini movements, mini-doughnuts, minieggs, Charlie Brown's mini Christmas tree. FP Poste for the Flora and Fauna Issue:Other issues: Vol. 4(2) / Spring 2010 -- The SPACE Issue Check out the archive for previous issues! |