my aperturic annual – 07.12.10
July 13th, 2010 | Written by hurricanic
A special thank you goes out to the two of you who very kindly reminded me that I’ve been slacking on my posts as of late. I explained to one of you how annoyed I immediately found myself shooting for this blog instead of for myself. So we’ll have to see where this heads from here. It’s not that I’m unable to follow through with a commitment. I’m actually somewhat freakishly obsessed with being a woman of my word. But I also can’t have the motivation to do this become the very opposite of what this year’s challenge was to myself. I’m working personally on how to make the two marry well.
Today, however, the moment presented itself quite clearly and I took it. I hereby post a very fun image of one of the boys in my neighborhood who stopped by between my shoots today selling art of his in hopes of getting to California. I will share with you he was quite savvy in his salesmanship. He told Sarah, my office manager, his pieces sold for two dollars. When Sarah came downstairs (after answering the doorbell to find him standing there and asked if she could borrow a couple bucks), I headed up to see his work and hoped to surprise him with an unexpected tip when I pulled out a five. Apparently, however, the piece I had chosen was one of his best. It sold for $5, not $2, so I reached back in to literally get the last two dollar bills in my wallet so I could own this.
What you can see is how happy he is holding the last money I have in my wallet. You can also see his sketch. What you can’t see on the sketch, however, is the phrase he wrote in a quote bubble coming out of the man’s head. It says (and I quote), “Tell ‘em to shove off.”
Hilarious.
i’ve been wondering where you’ve been.