How to Submit Your Work

We’d love to have you!

Send as many works as you like! All submissions are moderated under high-tech microscopes.

(NEW) Want to be an Art Curator?!

It’s super easy. Email chris@nonsensesociety.com with as many submissions as you’d like using this template.

So you’re an artist?! Here’s what to do:

Want to be part of this movement? Want your work showcased to the world? Send an email to submissions@nonsensesociety.com and we’ll talk. Please include the following

  • A picture of yourself.
  • Your work in the highest quality you have!
  • Your full name.
  • Who are you?
  • What do you do?
  • Why do you do it?
  • Links to things you do.

A Bad Submission:

Hi. This is bill. I want to be on this site, please. Here are my photo: http://www.deviantart.com/sexybear36xx

(Yes, you used please, but come on. Who the heck are you? Do you even care?)

A Good Submission:

Hi, my name is Christy Trapp. I am your atypical fifteen-year-old girl. I like pictures and words. I like sugarcoated lullabies and thousand dollar heartache. I like disasters and impossible things that make you dream. I like things that don’t exist yet. I like the smell of coffee in the morning and crooked smiles. I believe in freedom and that everyone is born with a pair of wings upon their back. My love glides from room to room and I am not afraid to shine. I am forever infinite. I am restless in the way your bones always ache, and I store my heart in a jar for safekeeping. I am lights you turn out at night and sounds you only hear in the dark. I am a fan of cliches.

There is nothing that means more to me then pressing the shutter release on a camera. I want to make someone actually feel something when they look at my pictures. I want their breath to catch in their throat. I want to leave them speechless. I want them to wonder not what the concept in mind was, but to be able to associate their own experiences with it. And I prefer to use sewing lamps, overhead projectors, flashlights, and Christmas tree lights to do so. In more than one way photography is the perfect way for me to embrace every creative aspect of myself, and that in it’s self is reason enough to make it my life long ambition.

flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44146610@N06/
deviantart: http://www.haytraveler.deviantart.com
carbonmade: http://christytrapp.carbonmade.com/
modelmayhem: http://www.modelmayhem.com/1475115

    ~Christy

(All the information I want. Also you have a kick-ass personality?! I’m listening.)

But What About Copyright?

Here’s the deal with copyright. You can be scared of someone stealing your work for your whole life. The best that will do is help you remain in the shadows. I’ve found that the more you put yourself out there, the more you succeed. If you have something to show, show it!

There’s something called fair-use. If you put your art online, I can post it on my blog if I want! That doesn’t make it mine. It just gives you free publicity.

When you make something, you own it. You can slap “Copyright 2010″ all over everything you own, but it doesn’t really make too much of a difference. I suppose you could spend a couple months registering every single haiku you have ever written with the Copyright Office. However, it’s that kind of attitude that limits your potential to grow. I’ve seen it time and time again with artists I have met.

Do you think the numa numa guy was worried about registering his video with the Copyright Office? …and wasn’t he on Oprah or something? I don’t know. The point is:

Share your work. That’s what it’s meant for.

Terms and Concerns

By submitting your work, you are agreeing to certain things. So listen up:

  • I can publish it
  • I can reformat it
  • I can use it (and your likeness) in other publications, advertisements, projects, and merchandise.
  • I can edit and proof-read the text you provide me.

These terms may change at times, so stay up to date!

I have no desire to steal anything from you. If anything I do bothers you, drop me a line so we can talk about it. No problem.