Call for submissions: Photographers!

Megabolt is currently planning our first photography book. The book will be in the same form as our sketchbooks. 30 photographers will be showcased. One photograph per photographer. The best part is that for every photography book sold we will donate a sketchbook to a child in a hospital! ( Just like our normal sketchbooks)
Think you have a photo to make the cut?
Send a max of five (5) photographs to info@megabolt.org
Photos must be B&W, 300 dpi or higher and at least 5×5 inches
Include your name, city and state, and website or online contact in the email

Megabolt holds the right to publish any photographs submitted.
This is project has no compensation to the photographers.
Full credit will be given.

Note: Photography is photography. We don’t care if you went to school for it or love taking photos with your phone. Good photos are everywhere! So don’t be shy!

Early sketchbook press

The Megabolt Sketchbook has now been around for about 72 hours. Here’s a roundup of just a couple of the blog write-ups that I’m particularly excited about:
OMG POSTERS
Smonk You
Quipsologies

Let’s keep it going!

The Making of the Megabolt Sketchbook

The Megabolt Sketchbook has been in existence for about 30 hours now. Before we launched this project though myself and the other four heavy hitters of the family (Brett Stenson, Justin Van Laeken, Andy Oldenburg, and Andrew Hermann) brainstormed and worked out the details of this project for about 3 months. Back in January I had the idea for a Megabolt sketchbook. So I went to the store and bought a book, stamped it with an old MB stamp and then embossed it (oh how my mom would be proud).

So after we started brainstorming on how we wanted the books to look Brett suggested doing small sketchbooks from Scout Books. Instantly everyone loved the idea and it worked out even better with Scout Books being in Portland (where I am currently). So with myself in Portland, Justin and Brett in Milwaukee and now Andy and Andrew in Minneapolis we started doing video chats to figure out all the details. Then finally with the skilled hand of Brett we had the design of both the book and the website done. With the plan to do art workshops with kids it just seemed like a good fit. We can’t always be around doing workshops with kids so why not give them something to do. Trust me I’m sure T.V. and video games can get very old very quick. So basically with a $7 purchase you’re giving a child 32 pages to have fun and forget about their crummy situations even if it is just for a little bit. Like I’ve said before…I’m not a doctor and I certainly am not going to cure any diseases anytime soon, however that doesn’t mean that I can’t help out a child in a hospital! Thanks for all the support on our first launch in quite some time. Expect more soon!

It’s not the most exciting post but I thought you guys and gals might be interested in how this all came to be. Enjoy your books and lets keep the momentum going!