August 27

I worked long and hard on the flier for my photo workshop at Dudley Branch Library next month. Fortunately, I finished most of it last night and put the finishing touches on it this morning before work. That was good, because work today was a little like riding a psychotic horse toward a burning stable. It goes to the library tomorrow.

Hopefully this workshop will bring in a few more people than the teen workshop I did in June. It couldn't bring in less people, but I'd like to establish that I'm worth the money they're paying me to teach these things. I'll use the same flier, with different information for place/time, when I go back to the West Roxbury Branch Library to give the class there. By the time I give that workshop, I'll be an old pro at this.

Next goal: Same workshop, but at the Boston Public Library's Main Building at Copley.

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June 06

Anna, my friend and the Young Adult Librarian at the West Roxbury Branch Library, procured an easel to advertise my Photo Workshop on June 24th. Of course, finding something to fill the easel was another issue entirely.

I frankly don't have the money to go have an enlargement of my letter-sized flier made, so I was left with the issue of filling all that space. I considered posting interesting photos around the flier, but that was ... well, boring.

Then I remembered I know how to rasterbate.

The idea of the big poster is to get people's attention, so I looked through my selection of photos for something eye-catching. This photo of Belynda was perfect, and it served as a perfect surround for the flier. Additionally, it's a cheap solution.

I love it when I'm able to come up with a good solution to an unusual problem.

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May 29

Next month, I'm going to be teaching a photography workshop for teens at the West Roxbury Branch Library.

My friend Anna is the Young Adult Librarian there, and in response to a request from one of her students, she asked if I could present this workshop. Originally, it was going to be in the fall, but for budgetary reasons (their fiscal year ends June 30th), they were able to bring me in much earlier.

Above is the flier I've been working on to advertise the event. The library -- read, Anna -- offered to do one for me, but I'm so particular about these kind of things, I thought it best to take care of the design myself. And I'm nearly happy with this one (as you might be able to tell from the scribbled notes in Sharpie all over it). I have a little less than a month to get the workshop materials together, so it should make for an interesting experience.

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