Hey Mirror Dash....
 

Did the font work?

nahh... no big deal.

it is frustrating that as a sometime graphic designer with close to 9,000 fonts on my hard drive, i still can't get the shit to display correctly.... but i'm not about to lose any sleep over it....

Oh ok, I always wonder if I should have been a graphic designer.

well, what are you up to with yr bad self anyway?

Studying, I have two midterms next week, and you?

mucking about in grad school... supposedly working on a Masters in Architecture... thesis currently kicking my ass.

Ugh, that sucks. I have three midterm essays to write this semester, ugh I feel like I want to throw up.

what sort of stuff to you study? declared a major?

I declared photojournalism, with a minor in art history. However, I am thinking of doing art concentrating on photography.

no shit.

<--- sometime freelance photographer.

Cool, how does freelancing work? Sorry for my naive question?

<--- all the time art history nut.

no such thing as a stupid question, imo.



freelancing = industry jargon for "i don't have a job, but i'll sell you these photos."

So paparazzi?

So what era do you like in Art? Or movement?

ha. no... i don't know anything about celebrity chasers. though i guess they do generally work freelance. i could never make a living snapping embarassing photos of famous people.

i did read an article in the ny times about a paparazzo who refuses to take compromising shots and ALWAYS gives his subjects final approval before publishing. consequently he actually gets invited to the hollywood parties, gets behind the scenes access on movie sets and is close friends many of his subjects. forgot what his name was. but basically somewhere midway between high-end portait photographers

http://72.5.117.144/fif=fpx/c/CR2850...d=400&cvt=jpeg

and the slime in the street with the scooters who take this crap






....anyway. if i was going to do the celbrity circuit, that's how i'd swing it.









what i did was architectural photography for architects i knew. i did it for way below cost because i was trying to build a portfolio and i had a day job as a draftsman at the time.

Oh I see, I find architechture to be intriguing but I feel kind of intimidated by it.

it's actually far less of a pretentious field than the "art world." unless you want to be an "architectural historian" or "architecture critic" you've got to be able to gain the respect of a pick-up driving contractor, cause he's the one who will actually be building yr "masterpiece."


apologies if you were planning on buying a scooter and chasing celebrities.

Damn, now I need to do a Business major.

please don't let me scare you out of art with a concentration in photography... it is in the top three on the list of things to do with my life. but if yr serious about it you should know that the "art world" is a cutthoat nasty place. i know many people who had huge dreams and now shoot weddings to pay the bills.