Prospects
I must admit, this seasonal light shift is throwing me off kilter a wee bit. The walk home from work is in twilight. By the time I get up to our apartment the sky is already black. And it will continue to get darker earlier for another month...
Paradise spoiled me.
So now in the evenings I find myself fighting off that unsettling ennui as my brain thinks its past my bedtime and my body screams to do something. With a three week layoff right around the corner, I need to find ways to occupy my time, or at least distract my brain from the impending darkness.
Two potential projects drifted across my plate this week...both through the site I have my portfolio posted on. (Please do visit coroflot again. I still haven't updated my profile picture as some suggested, but I have been adding to my portfolio. That and I like to try to keep the web traffic up...give the profile, a high profile).
The first email was from, in a bizarre coincidence, a bride to be looking for a custom wedding dress. I cringed at first. Having heard horror from both friends who have worked with brides and colleagues how have created even the 'simplest' custom piece for a client, I was wary about how much I might regret taking this task on. So I emailed her my price quote. She barely squawked at the prices (I was not being cheap, either). So this is a woman who was serious about getting something special for her day, while fully aware she may have to spend a premium. And from our intial discussions, the dress she was hoping for was much simper than many of the bridal and ball gowns out there. She actually wanted something formal, but more summery. Details in the pleats and gathers...not in the beading or embellishments. So far the whole idea seems much more feasible, though after a week I have not heard back from her.
The second email came from a children's theatre in St. Paul. Not a children's theatre in the sense that HTY was a children's theatre...preforming theatre for children. No, this is a children's theatre that seems to be the sterotype for the vast majority of the population...theatre that present plays preformed by youth. It is an educational based theatre company, whose mission revolves around developing self coinfidence and skills in children and young adults.
Some of my fondest memories from Hawaii came from working with the high school students. I was very intrigued.
I had an interview today. And called up one of my contacts and good friends (the woman who orchestraed the whole Hawaii Young Actor's Ensemble) to give her the heads up on a potential reference check. All in all, I am very optimistic about getting this design job...and the timing fits right with the down times at my full time job. And if this particular show doesn't work out, the artistic director was very eager to meet me...it looks as though I've been added to their list of area designers.
I would love to design a show or two again. This is certainly a small step in that direction.
Paradise spoiled me.
So now in the evenings I find myself fighting off that unsettling ennui as my brain thinks its past my bedtime and my body screams to do something. With a three week layoff right around the corner, I need to find ways to occupy my time, or at least distract my brain from the impending darkness.
Two potential projects drifted across my plate this week...both through the site I have my portfolio posted on. (Please do visit coroflot again. I still haven't updated my profile picture as some suggested, but I have been adding to my portfolio. That and I like to try to keep the web traffic up...give the profile, a high profile).
The first email was from, in a bizarre coincidence, a bride to be looking for a custom wedding dress. I cringed at first. Having heard horror from both friends who have worked with brides and colleagues how have created even the 'simplest' custom piece for a client, I was wary about how much I might regret taking this task on. So I emailed her my price quote. She barely squawked at the prices (I was not being cheap, either). So this is a woman who was serious about getting something special for her day, while fully aware she may have to spend a premium. And from our intial discussions, the dress she was hoping for was much simper than many of the bridal and ball gowns out there. She actually wanted something formal, but more summery. Details in the pleats and gathers...not in the beading or embellishments. So far the whole idea seems much more feasible, though after a week I have not heard back from her.
The second email came from a children's theatre in St. Paul. Not a children's theatre in the sense that HTY was a children's theatre...preforming theatre for children. No, this is a children's theatre that seems to be the sterotype for the vast majority of the population...theatre that present plays preformed by youth. It is an educational based theatre company, whose mission revolves around developing self coinfidence and skills in children and young adults.
Some of my fondest memories from Hawaii came from working with the high school students. I was very intrigued.
I had an interview today. And called up one of my contacts and good friends (the woman who orchestraed the whole Hawaii Young Actor's Ensemble) to give her the heads up on a potential reference check. All in all, I am very optimistic about getting this design job...and the timing fits right with the down times at my full time job. And if this particular show doesn't work out, the artistic director was very eager to meet me...it looks as though I've been added to their list of area designers.
I would love to design a show or two again. This is certainly a small step in that direction.
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