Home Work Assignment- Cover Letter

2/24/14

Dear Mr. Smith,

I am interested in submitting my application for the Vogue glamour photographer that was listed in job listing on vogue.com. It was stated that the job would open April 12^th of this year and it asked for applicants to submit their resume and portfolios at least a month prior to this date.

            As a graduate of Memphis College of Art I know that I now hold the key to the success of your business. I have obtained complete knowledge and wisdom in the art of photographing beautiful looking people and smart looking products. I have learned to work along side a great class of bright students and wonderful professors,  pursuing goals and impacting the field of modern photography. Spending quality time in the lighting studio standing next to studio lights, strobes, meters, hot lights, and partially clean back drops has given me the confidence and energy of ten strong lads and a young pup. Just a few of my maturing lighting skills are:

Plugging in chords,

Turning things on,

Holding stuff,

Looking busy,

Sweeping,

Venturing suggestions, and

Locking doors (most the time).

These skills, have allowed me to confidently photograph, specifically, head-shots, sample, products, Band-Aids and perhaps an orange or two.  As a graduate of Memphis College of Art, I feel capable in assisting any kind of art director or photographer of Vogue who is in need of said skills above.

I will be contacting you in two weeks to discuss my application and portfolio. I look forward to discussing my qualifications as a future employee and possible business partner. Thank you for your time!

Best,

Signe Johnson

Today's lessons at school told me:
I still can't draw, (There have been long discussions with my teacher, listening to her trying to convince me that I am like a lame person walking around without my cane. Because I am not using tracing paper, I am showing the world my faults). At first I found this nearly humorous but now I am just tired.

Using prominent watercolor edges with prints is very boastful. (I thought it was pretty).

My photography is not quite stock photo quality, nor quite fine art quality.

And I am not capable of photographing events.

I'm durable folks, but everyday life becomes more and more like a marathon. I'm at mile twenty-three. I was talking to a friend a couple days ago about this. We both know what its like to feel the last few miles of a race. "No emotion, no thinking, just a lot of pain and noise."

I feel like I have abandoned what is important in life,
God-
Finances-
Exercise-
A steady job-
Family..

Should I embrace oxidation?

Don't ask--

scanning today

There's Beauty in the Dirt

"When in doubt, cut things out."

That was the motto in class this morning! After each critique in 3d, we are given another assignment with a hefty hour of class left to go along side it. And time seems to drag ever so slowly at ten thirty in the morning..

 But Sasha and I have become very genius at looking like we are working by slowly and with precision, cutting out the assignment sheets out and taping them into the almighty sketchbook.

 This makes Du'mont think we are working...right?  Or so he lets us think.


I guess I don't doodle enough in printmaking. Enough for me to be called into the teachers office and reprimanded with intense kindness. But I swear it will be a cold day in hell before I start wasting expensive copper plates for the sake of hidden emotions.

Another coat of paint..

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