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Cynthia

Excellent read! The brat should have been a little more humble and courteous enough to realize a compliment. Cheers to your patience and intelligence!

posted by firahz on July 28, 2003 at 4:48 PM | link to this | reply

Thank you Cynthia.

Unfortunately MOH didn't have time to show me the memorial - he forgot to photgraph it as we were kind of busy at the time - but I will email you a picture of the little one

posted by beachbelle on July 28, 2003 at 4:09 AM | link to this | reply

That's dedication

I'd love to see a picture of the memorial and the child.

posted by Cynthia on July 28, 2003 at 3:46 AM | link to this | reply

Yes Cynthia that would help many people although it sounds like the

photographer has other issues to deal with first. He clearly thinks the world owes him...When I think of the cross-town and cross-country deliveries MOH has made. The most remarkable was a rushed commission to make something for a memorial for a very famous person by a famous person. The fame thing was not the issue - it was that MOH fulfilled the commission at midnight , 7 hours before I was due to give birth to my daughter. He then arranged the item to be delivered while he was with me as I was delivering. He did all of that without a deposit and thought nothing of it - he was paid promptly.

posted by beachbelle on July 27, 2003 at 3:34 PM | link to this | reply

I teach a financing and selling course at this school

for the filmmakers. For 3 years I've been telling the school director that they need the same thing for the photographers and he pays no attention. (I think all art schools need a course like this. I went to art school and was totally clueless after 6 years and 2 degrees.

posted by Cynthia on July 27, 2003 at 3:18 PM | link to this | reply

You try to give someone a break.

My other half (MOH) is an artist and one time a young woman who was doing an art course asked if she could come for work experience for a week. MOH was underwhelmed about what she had learned at the school but he is a good teacher and was keen to help even though it was taking his time. After one day the girl's mother called to say that her daugher would not be returning because this wasn't quite what she wanted to do. I said to MOH that if it were my child I would advise them to stick with the agreement for the the week and add it to their experience and if it wasn't what she wanted too out it down to experience.

MOH thought that the selection process at the school was flawed.

A few lessons in commerce wouldn't go amiss