For the past year or more I've accumulated quite a few somewhat R-rated type pieces -- poems, short stories, free verses -- like the Thickness poem I posted last month. Because they don't fit into the theme of this blog or any of my other blogs and I can't post them on Facebook cos' let's face it those folks are just some insane type of puritans, I've just had them stored on my computer waiting to be shared. But the material is so good, at least to me, and it deserves to be shared, as a release, a new beginning, just as an awakening. Love needs a release, an escape after all. It inspires us to feel, touch and create and when we do, we have to share it, release it and let it breathe so it can spread its love tentacles to the world.
So for the past 2 weeks, I decided to create a new blog - yes another one - to house these pieces. Also, I decided to share them somewhat anonymously without using my pictures like I do on this blog. I chose this artist, photographer based in Atlanta that does very provocative but yet artistic nude shots.
I went on to contact him seeking permission (for copyright reasons) to use his images in some of my pieces on the new blog. He asked me to pay a fee per image and to sign a license agreement, which he didn't have. So I quickly chimed in that I am a lawyer and can prepare an Artist License Agreement for him in exchange for use of his images on the new blog. Fair tradeoff. Possibly win me some new clients with his other artist friends.
I provided him with the agreement sometime last week but he never responded but I still went on to pull his images and finalize the template for the blog - which people don't realize takes a lot of work. I must have gone through about 4 or 5 templates on a trial run until I found the one that worked for me, tweaked the colors, settings, layout, all that HTML stuff. It's super intense. There were many a late nights and viewing on different platforms to ensure that it looked right. Considering this is just a pet project, you'd start wondering why am I taking it that seriously? I guess I'm a perfectionist with my blogs and I've been doing this online thing for awhile so I didn't want my blog to have a newbie unprofessional look. I see 18 year olds with superb looking blogs. Superb, layout, everything.
Anyway, so late last night, the artist finally responded acknowledging receipt of the license agreement. He went on to take a quick look at the blog to get an assessment of how I would be using his images. His response almost immediately was:
So for the past 2 weeks, I decided to create a new blog - yes another one - to house these pieces. Also, I decided to share them somewhat anonymously without using my pictures like I do on this blog. I chose this artist, photographer based in Atlanta that does very provocative but yet artistic nude shots.
I went on to contact him seeking permission (for copyright reasons) to use his images in some of my pieces on the new blog. He asked me to pay a fee per image and to sign a license agreement, which he didn't have. So I quickly chimed in that I am a lawyer and can prepare an Artist License Agreement for him in exchange for use of his images on the new blog. Fair tradeoff. Possibly win me some new clients with his other artist friends.
I provided him with the agreement sometime last week but he never responded but I still went on to pull his images and finalize the template for the blog - which people don't realize takes a lot of work. I must have gone through about 4 or 5 templates on a trial run until I found the one that worked for me, tweaked the colors, settings, layout, all that HTML stuff. It's super intense. There were many a late nights and viewing on different platforms to ensure that it looked right. Considering this is just a pet project, you'd start wondering why am I taking it that seriously? I guess I'm a perfectionist with my blogs and I've been doing this online thing for awhile so I didn't want my blog to have a newbie unprofessional look. I see 18 year olds with superb looking blogs. Superb, layout, everything.
Anyway, so late last night, the artist finally responded acknowledging receipt of the license agreement. He went on to take a quick look at the blog to get an assessment of how I would be using his images. His response almost immediately was:
Your site is curated beautifully.
That just made my night. When an artist tells you that your little pet project blog is beautiful, you feel a little sense of accomplishment with your non-artistic self. I'm sure he'd be wondering, this girl is a lawyer and an artist...oh well...we thank God.
Just thought I'd share this slight bit of good news as to what I've been working on. I will not share the site address on this blog. I've shared with a couple of my artist friends and they've shown me some love on it. But if you happen to bump into it courtesy of Google...that's your luck but I will deny all involvement.
I guess the morale of the story is...whatever you do, do it well. And for me, you never know where your clients will come from. I scored a client from an online query.
And I finally have somewhere to store my inspired pieces. All is well.
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