some calendar progress

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

took yesterday off work to focus on the calendar:

• called the printer to discuss requirements.  calendar will be 11x17 (he said: "for a job like this you can't afford our larger press", an assertion I saw no reason to challenge). 
  detailed proposal is on its way in the mail. 
• downloaded 234 Mb of Adobe bloatware; installed it and and its updates and mocked up a trial in order to work through the initial exasperation factor inevitable with any new-and-different software, particularly if it's been ported from planet Mac. 
• deleted the mockup and started over, completing basic layout and typography. 

still to do:

• verify 2007 lunar phase dates -- some of the ones in the initial boilerplate don't look right.  done. 
• install higher end photo software (images so far have all been destined for the web, but now it's time to get serious and work with the raw image data)
• review/tweak/accept proposal from printer.  unit cost and size of press run remain undetermined. 
• add images and captions, getting things just right. 
• ship it off, having scraped up a few kilobucks to pay for the press run.  unfortunately the recently-upgraded sofa hasn't accumulated any coins under its cushions. 

and then, of course, hurry up and wait. 
during which time, figure out distribution.  folks have indicated interest but it has to have a way to get into their hands. 

how obvious it must be that I've never done this before. 

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[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

yesterday's light was intermittently good, tending toward excellent in the afternoon but I resolved to stay on task and didn't let it lure me out.  I did, however, take the time to clean some filth out of the camera innards.  dust spots are software correctible but prevention is a better strategy. 

comic relief came in the form of two calls from the office.

• in the (late) morning, from Rockville: "where's the light switch?  it's dark here. "
• in the afternoon, from corporate HQ in New Jersey: my boss calling; he hadn't seen the email in which I advised him I would be out for the day.  that was OK, though, I didn't mind, and anyway we have needed to Have A Talk about planning the details of closing the Rockville office.  no point in trying to do it all at the last minute, which seems to be our preferred method.  I told him I'd give him a good transition, and I will.  we didn't discuss my own departure but that's obvious. 

[szap.livejournal.com]

Calendar? What calendar? Is this the much anticipated "Hot Bods of Washington Grove?" spread fans have been demanding?

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

uh, no. 
in, I guess, the spirit of the film Calendar Girls (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337909/), the Woman's Club has been talking about publishing a calendar featuring their husbands and SOs in various Grove settings.  there is historical precedent: years ago, long before I ever got here, there was a Playgirl calendar with some (or all?) months shot in the Grove.  I have actually agreed to do the photography for this iteration of it but the project doesn't seem to have gotten much of anywhere. 

so I guess the Bittersweet Cottage 2007 Grove calendar will be a disappointment: just botanical subjects, most of which have already appeared in this space over the past year or so at a much lower resolution. 

Circle Calendar

[m-lightfoot.livejournal.com]

Delighted to hear the work is going well. Once you have a 'final' mock-up and a quote from the printer, you could ask for firm commitments (via the yahoo site?) from interested parties? Would it help to have the money upfront? I'd be happy to get my 'order' and $ in early...