Tuesday, August 30, 2005

rory and mr spin

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send me lawyers guns and money




Could this be my last year. I said and thought it was, Will I be around next year, I'd hope so. If I was how do I keep the standard as high as only I can perceive. What do I expect of myself, as much as I can give. Did I deliver this year, no. Why? to much pressure. Pressure from who? Only me.

I was invited places I didn't go to. Because my place was in the exhibition space at night. I invited people along, but they were tempted by the Speigletent and it's 3am licence. The uniqueness of it's apperance during the festival outshawn even my photographic reputation.

Next year to make it happen to really rock. Open till 3am is the key. Good looking girls flyering. Every trick in the promotions book. Entry in the fringe guide. A venue number and a place on the map. Even a bad review is better than no review.
Buy one get one free, everybody does that at Festival time, bums on seats and people through the door.

Next year who knows how things will go.

"Send me Lawyers, guns and money, the Shit has hit the fan."
Warren Zevon forever.

When the work begins




The planning that gets put into putting on my exhibition, is not something that starts in August. In reality it starts in September as the Festival is being disassembled on the High Street.

To take the sting out of the cost of stageing such an event. I normally start buying film, batteries everything I need on the street in bit's from then right up till the event.

Then there is the small matter of designing flyers. Ok for photoshop wiz kids, but for me I don't do digital manipulation, don't like digital photography and where it's taking the industry. But that's another story.
The closest I get to digital manipulation is resizing images to use on my blog.
So once again if you got this far it's time to move on to the third section of my blog world.
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