Quenby

Thursday, October 31, 2013

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Thursday was a bit of a road trip to Daytona Beach where I spoke at the Student Photography Association at my alma mater. I was one of the first members of SPA because it started while I was a student. I was there to talk about Curating the Unseen.

Brian came with and on the way we dropped off Ghost with his Dad so she wasnt home alone all day.

Denny's breakfast.

On the way, the car hit a landmark of 200,000 miles!

I was too nervous to take any pictures at the actual event, but it went well. Brian got to see me in "professional mode" which he often misses out on. Afterward he admitted he was super nervous for me but was really impressed. I'm not all that comfortable speaking in front of groups, but I can fake it in front of other photographers.

Afterward we went to the beach!

And then Brian lost our car keys in the ocean! Oops! At least being stranded at the beach was better then on the side of the road? Brian is mad at himself while the locksmith makes us a new key. Luckily the window was cracked open and I was able to unlock the door with a stick so we could get our stuff.

Glass Noodles at my favorite Thai place and then it was time to collect Ghost and relax with some beer in front of the tv.

Sunday, August 25, 2013

This Blog

I have no idea what to do with this blog.
Curating the Unseen is doing great, especially for how new it is. I have plenty of photographers participating and with This feature in Fluster Magazine we are getting a little bit of real attention.
Fluster is great and I am really looking forward to working with them. After they interviewed me and showed my No Shelter Here portfolio I got this email from Luca:

"Hello Quenby

Thank you very much for accepting to be featured on FM, we really like your work and the message with it.

Sonia told me you might be able to pass to FM submissions that do not fit CtU, we would be happy to consider them and publish them. Thank you!

We like CtU and we are open to any suggestions of collaboration between Ctu and FM and, if you wanted, we would love to have you as guest blogger on FM, let me know what you think.

Cheers!

Luca"

and I replied in full weird mode with:

"Luca,

I was thrilled to hear from you and have been joking all morning about the art empire we will make together calling it "Fluster the Unseen" and then doing a super villain laugh. I am going to consider ways of collaboration and if you have any- please suggest them. At the moment though I could certainly benefit from the impressive number of followers you guys have on a facebook. I am going to post a link to your facebook page on ours and if you could do the same I'm sure it would help our numbers.

Speaking of numbers, I notice you guys don't have a big presence on Bloglovin at all. I am convinced this is the next social media hurtle. Are you familiar with the site and have thoughts on it? It's actually just great talking about this stuff with people that have been doing it longer lol

As for guest blogging, I would love to. What do you have in mind?

Thank you so much for your interest and I really look forward to working with you guys."

So...

So?

So Curating the Unseen is doing great. I just need to keep this ball rolling. But as for this blog? I'm not totally sure what I am doing here and I need to define that before I can get anywhere. What I really need is inspiration. I am tired of "lifestyle" blogs. There are far too many showing the same baking/crotchet/ unoriginal outfit/ stuff I'm eating/ photos of stuff on my back thing that everyone is doing to death.