On Wednesday, the UC Irvine Black Student Union held a silent rally. I heard about it the night before, and like every other day, I packed up my gear the night before in preparation (PCC/PCI). And I kicked ass.
After class, I walked to the Student Center and took some pictures with the Rollei and the D700. They turned out fantastic. My Flickr statistics jumped from more than 150-200 views a day to 1000-1500 views. The OC Weekly, a regional publication, began using one of my photos, as did another popular college website with heavy traffic.
The next day was the big statewide education walkout protest. Of course, I followed every waking moment of the young radicals. They walked out of their classrooms! They yelled into their bullhorns! They disrupted the library! They really rebelled, man!
Anyway, my photos continued to gain some press across the county (3+ million), and on Friday, the OC Weekly purchased some of my photos. My Flickr has had 1000+ views for the last 3 days and the streak isn’t slowing. A writer at the OC Weekly alerted me to available internships, for both writing and photo, at his rag. And, on Friday night, I covered the UCI baseball game for the school paper and got to schmuck it up with the OC Register (numero uno en el county) writer and photographer in the press box.
Not only that, but I’m being wooed to apply for editorial positions at the school paper. The two good photographers on staff are graduating and I’m scared of what will happen with someone else at the helm…
In the meantime, I have two big papers to write this week while my mind wanders off to photographic possibilities…
5 comments:
Congratulations, making the space for opportunity, priceless!!!
Sweet!!!! z
2 cewl 4 school
Congrats on the good news....any paper (school, county or otherwise) would be lucky to have you aboard. Keep up the good work!
Shall I be trite and say its always darkest before the dawn?
Nah - APPLAUSE! APPLAUSE!! HUGE PROPS to you Jason :-))
Time to make your bones is now. Take the position -- you're not considering turning it down are you?? Take it - then set up your Wicki page and make sure you're in Who's Who when you graduate, you certainly qualify -- do they still do that? Who's Who in American Colleges or something like that...
Love the pic BTW, you have a built-in model with a talent for mugging it - the granny in me just wants to hug him and smother him with kisses -- which I'm thinking he'd hate ;)
PS: here's a tip if you have to interview -- be respectful of the "gatekeeper" - while working in sales and marketing my desk was at the front, with nice comfy sofas for the visitors. I saw everybody who came for an interview, chatted them up while they waited and sometimes made notes on their application.....ya never know who's watchin'......
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