[photography things]

[minervacat]

Hello, LiveJournal. I had today off, and I am grateful for that. I am not grateful to Columbus, just that I didn't have to go to work today. Tasks today alternately involved photo business work and cleaning the house in preparation for lovely nerdcore hiphop artist houseguests. Personally, I have had some bumps in the last six weeks (some big ones, some really devastating ones) but I am trying to stay buried in work and I'm mostly pretty happy.

Here is photo business stuff that I want your opinions on, if that is okay with you!

1. I am trying to work up a couple of pitches for bands, and I am just stymied creatively. What do you do to jump start your creativity?
   
   
2. I have a couple of basic research jobs -- looking for images, mostly -- that I don't have the time or the focus to do. Anybody interested in taking them on? I couldn't pay much, but I could probably swing $20 for one or $35 for both; I can PayPal it to you when the job's done. Email me with Photo Research as the subject at minervacat AT gmail if you're interested. ETA: Thanks, y'all! Got a couple responses and will work through them; feel free to email me if you're still interested, but I should be okay.
   
   
3. Those of you who are creative pros or semi-pros who have a non-creative day job, how do you balance your creative work with your day job? My photo work is taking up more and more time, which is great, but there are only so many hours in the day and only so much time I can sneak at work-work for handling photo business.
   
   
4. Does anyone in the Triangle area have a claw foot bathtub I can borrow for two hours on a weekend afternoon for a photo shoot? Non-destructive, I just want to fill it with a musician and popcorn. Time negotiable based on your schedule; I can pay in gratitude and beer, or food items if you don't drink beer.
   

I totally thought I had more things to say, but I guess not! What's up with you guys? What amazing things are you making these days?