the POP BOX!

What the hell is a Pop Box?

Glad you asked.

Let’s start with a bit of history and inspiration.
The Warhol Time Capsules

What you should do is get a box for a month, and drop everything in it and lock it up. Then date it and send it over to Jersey…
andy warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Fun, huh?

Or, you could get such a box and send it to the randomly selected winner of a contest.

What might end up in the box?

Certainly books, random trinkets and toys found in a days wandering, things that make me think of Pop Art, Music, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Candy, Posters, Makeup, things my friends might want to put in a box, handwritten notes, photographs, postcards… the list goes on. For the most part it will be things that remind me of all that inspired the novel Pop Salvation. Those of you that have already read it can surely imagine what kind of treats that might net the lucky winner. A bit of glam and glitter brought to your doorstep via the US Mail.

And it’s even possible that if there is a large turnout of entries as the days get closer to the deadline the stakes might get higher and I’ll find myself giddy and generous… who knows… It’s all a gamble, eh?

How will all of you see the progress of filling this POP BOX?

Twitter, of course! Daily photos of the additions to the POP BOX will be posted to my twitter profile found at

http://twitter.com/LanceRey

Now certainly this isn’t going to be so easy as sending me your name and email addy, not for such a bountiful prize. We’re making art together here!

Because really, audience participation is what makes the best shows great. Just like The Rocky Horror Picture Show!

So, what kind of art can we make together?

Photostrips.



You can still find locations for Photobooths at
http://photobooth.net/locations/

For a few bucks you should get one beautiful photostrip that you can scan into an email and write a few words about your day, your feelings, the friend you took with you and how you came to get the photostrip. To get an idea of what I might be looking for go to eightinchstripper.blogspot.com , you following me?

Once you have that strip and a few words email them scanned to actual size to eightinchstripper@gmail.com

As those strips and stories come in, I’ll assign each one a number and at the end of the contest I’ll draw the number from a hat or something of the sorts so we get a winner in a totally random way.

Deadline for this is August 1, 2009. Tell friends, ReTweet it, Blog it, get the word out… because like I said, the number of entries will probably influence the stuff that makes it into the box. And… as long as you send a different photostrip with each entry, you can enter as many times as you like. But it must be a photostrip scanned from a booth. As much as I love all things Apple, snapshots from your webcam in the Photobooth program isn’t what I want to see here. (And no porn, that’s just dull.)
Ok Superstars, get yourselves out to those photobooths and let’s start collaborating on some art!

Xoxo! LR.