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Thursday 26 July 2001
Last night I had an anxiety dream about
Fray Day. I was responsible
for looking after Naomi Klein, who was going to do a reading
of a personal and true nature. However, I lost her somewhere
in the streets of Melbourne. I was mostly concerned that she
would miss the Fray Day Parade at 10am where she had to sit
aboard the No
Logo float and wave to the crowds... Ben,
who was tired and grumpy due to it being 6am (we had to get
up early to get organised for the day of events), just
shook his head in disbelief at my incompetence and left me
running down some cobbled lane near Melbourne Uni shouting
"NAOMIII??".
This was closely followed by a anxiety
dream about the wedding where a friend of Lil'bro's showed
a home movie at the registry office as part of the ceremony.
The movie started with me sitting on a couch in my pjs waving
to the camera, followed by a pan around our back yard where
we had a huge cage full of scrawny, featherless chickens running
about in a kind of stir-crazy way. I turned to Phil who sat
beside me and said "Oh my god! We forgot all about those
chickens!"
I woke up this morning feeling absolutely
exhausted... I am truly looking forward to my yoga class today.
Deep breathing exercises are definitely in order.
Before I went to bed last night I sat down
with the scarily chubby Artists
& Graphic Designer's Market 2001 and started marking out
publications to send my illustration folio and samples to.
It's quite clear to me why I had all those anxiety dreams.
One "tip" from an art director
that made me feel a little discouraged about the whole thing
was; "[our] Magazine readers and contributors are highly
sophisticated and educated... really, [insert wanky magazine
name] is part of the New York art world. We publish art,
not 'illustration'". Eh, whatever...
However, it isn't all bad. I like the one
(and only) that said "We encourage freelancers to send
in their work." - Horray!
Another favourite, from a Grateful Dead
mag; "Looking for skeleton artwork - happy, not gorey"...
Also noticed that Playboy Magazine
pays a bomb. Hmmm... interesting... but Naturally Magazine,
who "prefers nudism/naturism", does not.
Magazines that I probably will avoid unless
really desperate for cash:
North American Whitetail Magazine
"designed for serious hunters
who pursue whitetail deer" (although I supposed I could
very quickly customise my folio to their requirements by adding
crosshairs over all my existing pictures)
National Dragster
"looks for realistic automotive renderings"
Modern Drummer
"We want strictly drummer-oriented gags" -- many
come to mind, but most are pretty offensive to their particular
readership...
Oxygen
"Artists should have a working knowledge of women's fitness"
Trains
"Quick turnaround and accurately built files a must"
-- I would have also thought that the ability to draw a train
would be essential which would count me out. (err... though
if you are a potential client and are reading this and need
a picture of a train I am sure I could give it a bloody good
go!).
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