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I went to a seminar the other day, on social media for business, my loving mother signed us both up. "You don't have to go if you don't want to!" Ofc I want to! It was useful and informative but I am sad to report that I've yet to put anything into action lol. I have such little interest in the "business" aspect of photography, I just want to shoot and make beautiful things. I don't want to fuck around with, you know, tweeting x times a week, ~building relationships~ with print houses, renting a studio, all of that shit.
IDEALLY, I'd have an adorable little studio apartment and I know it was something Lindsey mentioned; which would be perfect, a couple/few little artist friends having a studio apartment in LA that we could all use for our shit. IDK.
Speaking of, it is looking more and more likely that I will move to LA in the coming months. Lindsey got me an internship at the production company she works for, and I'd get to do everything I love - press kits, making posters/photoshop work, helping out with their blogs and social media pages, editing behind-the-scenes footage, etc, basically everything. I emailed her producer kind of introducing myself, just told her what I loved and also explained my super serious relationship with television. They do webseries work mostly, I believe. ANYWAY, she seemed super nice and said she'd CC their marketing guy because most of what I listed falls under his domain. I think I'm going to go out for the last two weeks of January, just to see how well I get along with them and make sure it's a cultural fit. This is my choice - she made it sound like I'd start full-off in January and that felt a bit soon because I had mentally been planning for March and just sort of freaked out. SO, we are going to test drive first if I can (need to email her after this) because, lol, that's super important to me. HOWEVER, I have been assured that everyone is really smart and nerdy and in love with the internet and geeks in general so I suspect it will not be a problem. I mean, they do The Guild, if that's any indication.
The only thing that sucks about it is that it's unpaid to start (except the editing, which she said she could pay me for - um, awesome). It's scary but I feel like being unemployed in LA is a hell of a lot better than being unemployed here, especially because there are so many creative/film jobs there, and also SO many fucking people who need headshots and things. It's scary but there's so much more work there in general. PLUS, so much to do - like one of my LA friends the other day was like, "I have tickets to the Price is Right tomorrow, who wants them?" I, *IIIII* want them! And X-Factor, or anything else fun! And conventions and speakers and panels galore, lots more of the things that I love. Hopefully I will meet people who are tied into events because I think that's what I really want to be, an events (and fine arts) photographer. I just feel like there's so much more color there.
IDEALLY, I'd have an adorable little studio apartment and I know it was something Lindsey mentioned; which would be perfect, a couple/few little artist friends having a studio apartment in LA that we could all use for our shit. IDK.
Speaking of, it is looking more and more likely that I will move to LA in the coming months. Lindsey got me an internship at the production company she works for, and I'd get to do everything I love - press kits, making posters/photoshop work, helping out with their blogs and social media pages, editing behind-the-scenes footage, etc, basically everything. I emailed her producer kind of introducing myself, just told her what I loved and also explained my super serious relationship with television. They do webseries work mostly, I believe. ANYWAY, she seemed super nice and said she'd CC their marketing guy because most of what I listed falls under his domain. I think I'm going to go out for the last two weeks of January, just to see how well I get along with them and make sure it's a cultural fit. This is my choice - she made it sound like I'd start full-off in January and that felt a bit soon because I had mentally been planning for March and just sort of freaked out. SO, we are going to test drive first if I can (need to email her after this) because, lol, that's super important to me. HOWEVER, I have been assured that everyone is really smart and nerdy and in love with the internet and geeks in general so I suspect it will not be a problem. I mean, they do The Guild, if that's any indication.
The only thing that sucks about it is that it's unpaid to start (except the editing, which she said she could pay me for - um, awesome). It's scary but I feel like being unemployed in LA is a hell of a lot better than being unemployed here, especially because there are so many creative/film jobs there, and also SO many fucking people who need headshots and things. It's scary but there's so much more work there in general. PLUS, so much to do - like one of my LA friends the other day was like, "I have tickets to the Price is Right tomorrow, who wants them?" I, *IIIII* want them! And X-Factor, or anything else fun! And conventions and speakers and panels galore, lots more of the things that I love. Hopefully I will meet people who are tied into events because I think that's what I really want to be, an events (and fine arts) photographer. I just feel like there's so much more color there.