Welcome to blog post #3. So far I'm running a month between posts. Things will be ramping up soon, I promise.
As a reminder, if you haven't read the original backstory to this whole thing, check out www.movementcolor.com. There's a couple earlier blog posts, too, if you're really suffering from insomnia...
So tomorrow morning...middle aged banker guy gets on a plane by himself, leaves the family at home and flies to Denver for a couple days. I'm planning on being all young and cool, too - staying in my first Airbnb!
The #1 purpose of the trip is to have a meeting with the Clyfford Still Museum folks on Tuesday to see if I can get permission to shoot some pictures in their place. While I am there, I am going to work HARD to see as many other buildings as I can, meet other people and hopefully walk away with a plan on where I can shoot this project later in the year.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: If you know anyone associated with museums, interesting public buildings or other arts-related things in Denver...let me know, like soon, will ya? Thanks.
PSA #2: this seems like the right place to once again thank the best wife in the history of wives. Like...what spouse is completely cool with their significant other doing stuff like this, really? My wife, that's who! Big fat kiss emoji right atcha, babe.
It should be a fantastic few days. It looks like my Airbnb hosts have some gallery space and are artist. Meeting them, the Clifford Still folks and anyone else I can connect with should hopefully provide some good leads for locations. And Denver's a pretty great city, so I might sneak in a little fun as well. My hope is that I will post another update in a few days with good news and keep this project moving.
Other associated random tidbits include:
- Met up in NYC a few weeks back with previously mentioned magical helper architect Katie. That provided some good juice for my motivation. I looked under 'real deal' in the dictionary and there she was.
- Hopefully close to finding out soon if choice #1 (The Lageret in Stoughton) will be the spot for the show in April 2018. I'm being patient and hoping that some folks contemplating it for their wedding decide to go somewhere else.
And that's it for now. I really want to get this location thing settled. The planning and structure of the project has been motivating and interesting, but I am getting increasingly itchy to start the actual creative photographic part of the project. I have been consciously not allowing myself to start on the 'fun' part (shooting the pictures) to keep myself motivated to finish the logistics. It's just now starting to drag because I have SO MANY IDEAS, MAN! Power through. Do the work. Stay true to the vision. Work the process.
More soon, thank for reading.
- Jim