{"id":687,"date":"2012-02-26T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/?p=687"},"modified":"2012-02-26T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T00:37:07","slug":"magnetic-business-cards-some-getty-images-and-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/2012\/02\/magnetic-business-cards-some-getty-images-and-a-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic business cards, some Getty Images and a weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a Flickr mail this week saying Getty has picked 17 of your photos for their collection. Most of those they picked were at least 5 years old. What did they do, go one by one through 5,300 photos and 7 years?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2012-02-23-at-11.17.24-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-690\" title=\"the selections\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2012-02-23-at-11.17.24-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2012-02-23-at-11.17.24-PM.png 573w, https:\/\/www.swardraws.com\/chatter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-Shot-2012-02-23-at-11.17.24-PM-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a>There were a few popular ones including Toby the beer drinking cat (I had to decline that one because of its previous commitment), Jillian&#8217;s first birthday which was featured on a bag of coffee, and fried egg on green plate which was Utata Front Page and earned me $25 Blick gift card after winning honorable mention at CLC&#8217;s member show.<\/p>\n<p>The ones that are scratching my head are the multicolored streamers and toothpicks. And I wonder if they know that there is a baby cow coming out of that cow in the background of the cow picture? Whatever, if any of those can make me some moolah, all the merrier.<\/p>\n<p>After posting about the Getty thing on Facebook, a friend who works for a frame company emailed me that they might be interested in some of my fine art. We will see if anything comes out of that. Probably not, I have no idea what I would charge if it comes down to that.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure why I titled this post with magnetic business cards. Sure I just made a few with my new magnetic laminating machine but not really a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday we went out to Barnes and Nobel (proceeded by eating out at Red Robin). Hollace had a GC to spend and some manga to fill her bookcase with. We all went our separate ways. I seen Stephen Colbert&#8217;s book and then remembered I had some gift money myself to spend so I bought it and a book on photo craft and cookbook. Even RAW came home\u00a0 with a book on boats or something or other.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of RAW, poor guy, I just won&#8217;t cut him a break. He can&#8217;t do anything right and everything he does is bugging the shit out of me. It all started (well it really has been going on for a while) when he was looking for a new toothbrush and picked the one in storage that is so different that it is always mine. I am still pissed about this. I can only get this unique toothbrush in November during the work benefit&#8217;s fair at the dental insurance table. This year I finally had the forethought to pick up an extra and that idiot just used it! I am now convinced that he is clueless and doesn&#8217;t notice detail. Like the fact he keeps calling Verizon, Horizon. Really? And that he calls Vitamin D, Calcium. When filling the butter dish, he grabbed the unsalted stick I was saving for our next batch of Brioche, which is different then the regular stick&#8211;never noticed. I know, I know, get over it bitch. Maybe I will, maybe I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I picked me up a beautiful and clean Polaroid SX-70 on Amazon.com. It worked but the Impossible film I had didn&#8217;t (I knowingly bought their bad packs for a discount). With the film, normally, you have to keep light from it the first minute. But I never would do that. I finally bought a frog tongue that would help with that but right before I put it on the camera broke. It just whirrs and whirrs until I take the film out. A quick internet search found my problem and fix. Very common problem for these 30 year old problems. In order to fix it I have to rip off the bottom leather skin which was bumming me out since it was in good shape. I eventually found a guy out of Japan who sells new skins for a reasonable price (I am getting red cowhide) so now I am waiting on that.<\/p>\n<p>My weekend is wrapping up and I am sad because I always overextend my to-do list and feel unachieved. I did clean off my desk and am about to update my password list so that might make me feel better. Tonight is Oscar night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a Flickr mail this week saying Getty has picked 17 of your photos for their collection. Most of those they picked were at least 5 years old. 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