Hi everyone!

I'm sorry about the lack of content and contact from WLTF, but these last couple of months have been very busy. I have moved to Europe to start a Phd course at www.egs.edu which starts this week, and because of that I have been unable to keep things active on WLTF. However, everything is coming into place now and after mid June I will be able to re-start activities.

The next issue of WLTF will be published in July, but I'm not sure if it will be in the beginning or at the end of the month. A brief and an open call will be published here and via the newsletter, so please keep checking.

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Hi everyone! For the next edition of WLTF we will start an exciting new phase of the project with a line-up of Guest Editors to bring some fresh ideas and approaches to WLTF.

The Deadline for WLTF #4 is 25 MARCH 2009!

Title: ME: MUSCLES & I

Brief by guest Editor: Stéphane Malysse

Between the “body-sign” and the “instrumental body”, between what we can do with our body (visible on TV, beach and other public spaces), and what we have to do with our body (body manner), considering our free will, the “body-ego” seems to have stimulated several personalities, which incorporate individually the identity images of others bodies...

“Change your body, change your life” or “ You can have the body you want”... in its shape, as well as in its gender. By means of complex mechanisms of body stereotype assimilation, the body becomes a virtual surface, a place where sexual and social identities are nurtured. Saturated of stereotypes the body seems like an unfinished painting, and becomes an auto-plastic object. What is the body capable of? What can I do to be who I want to be? What muscles have to do with me?

WLTF is open to you, yes YOU. It doesn’t matter who you are, all we care about is what you yearn for, deep down inside, in those hard to reach places. And if you can interpret that in images, then that is what we want from you.

We want images of anything that turns you on and for WLTF #4 you can interpret “ME: MUSCLES AND I” in whichever way you like. Think literal or lateral, go off on a tangent, you decide.

It doesn’t matter if they are not perfect photographs, with perfect lighting and exemplary post-production, WE WANT IMAGES, because images are more interesting than photographs. Images are ultimately about you, and that is what turns us ON.

It can be old, published and re-published, or something new, fresh from the camera, as long as you think fits to the theme “ME: MUSCLES AND I”

Between 1 to 6 images by 25 March 2009 to

WLTF Loves you!

Specs:

Images should be low res at 72dpi. To be published only online.

Horizontal images should be:
600px tall by 900px wide or larger.

Vertical images should be:
600px tall by 450px wide or larger.

Images may be cropped and will be edited in juxtaposition to other images, please look at other WLTF issues and you’ll get the idea.

Legal:

All images should be your own work and you should be the copyright holder. WLTF cannot be responsible for the content of the images, so any content that could be deemed illegal or grossly offensive will not be accepted. All else is fair game.

Your images will be used for one online edition and WLTF will not hold copyright of your image and will not use any of the images for any other purposes without your full prior consent.

WLTF is a non-profit, independent project run by independently minded people, so unfortunately at the moment we cannot offer payment for the use of your work.

Stéphane Malysse is Anthropologist, Visual Artist and Art critic and teaches Art and Antropology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. After a Phd in Social Anthropology at the E.H.E.S.S (Paris), he published a post-doctoral research at the Multimidia Department of the UNICAMP Art Institute (SP), as the Opus Corpus website http://opuscorpus.incubadora.fapesp.br. He lives and works in São Paulo (Brazil) and has just published his first book on muscle culture: Diário Acadêmico.

WLTF #3 is the most popular and successful one to date:
30,000 unique visits in one week and a massive 100gb of data transferred.

Well done everyone and thanks for all the support during our first year of life!

This year there will be some innovations for WLTF, so watch this space.

The new issue of WLTF will soon be online! We are working on it right now.

So keep an eye out!

WLTF JUST PURE AND SIMPLE

To mark one full year of WLTF we are looking for your best images! Let's make this one a bumper edition. The deadline is 02 January so that you can use the coming holiday season to exercise your creative muscle.

WLTF is open to you, yes YOU. It doesn’t matter who you are, all we care about is what you yearn for, deep down inside, in those hard to reach places. And if you can interpret that in images, then that is what we want from you.

We want images of anything that turns you on and for WLTF #3 you can interpret “WLTF JUST PURE AND SIMPLE” in whichever way you like. Think literal or lateral, go off on a tangent, you decide.

It doesn’t matter if they are not perfect photographs, with perfect lighting and exemplary post-production, WE WANT IMAGES, because images are more interesting than photographs. Images are ultimately about you, and that is what turns us ON.

It can be old, published and re-published, or something new, fresh from the camera, as long as you think fits to the theme “WLTF JUST PURE AND SIMPLE”

Between 1 to 6 images by 02 January 2009 to

WLTF Loves you!

Specs:

Images should be low res at 72dpi. To be published only online.

Horizontal images should be:
600px tall by 900px wide or larger.

Vertical images should be:
600px tall by 450px wide or larger.

Images may be cropped and will be edited in juxtaposition to other images, please look at other WLTF issues and you’ll get the idea.

Legal:

All images should be your own work and you should be the copyright holder. WLTF cannot be responsible for the content of the images, so any content that could be deemed illegal or grossly offensive will not be accepted. All else is fair game.

Your images will be used for one online edition and WLTF will not hold copyright of your image and will not use any of the images for any other purposes without your full prior consent.

WLTF is a non-profit, independent project run by independently minded people, so unfortunately at the moment we cannot offer payment for the use of your work.