Since you heard from me last I have been up on stage at The Open Stage, gone to A-Kon handing out about 200+ business cards, gone to a new Egyptian based circle that I plan on attending again in the future, have began cooking more at home to eat out less, on my 4th week of summer camp, & have learned so much more about the world then I can begin to explain.
Getting up on Open Stage was quite a whim but, as you all know, I have been wanting to do that for quite a while now. There was a small audience due to other happenings in the area so I took my chance when I could. It. Felt. Great. The best part is that I want to do it again but with something much more light hearted. I originally wanted to read off the poem I had written not to long ago I Have Died but I'm not too comfortable getting up in front of people & reading something I haven't memorized due to my Dyslexia. I would rather not make an ass out of myself my first time on stage at a place I would like to be respected for who & what I am. So I went up & talked about something that was much closer to my heart. The good times & how we need to remember them more then the bad because they will get you through no matter what. Because the reason I am a photographer is because of the good times. Because of this one photo that I always remember seeing that has been burned into my mind now of a photograph of my mother & I at our first house front yard smiling like nothing else matter. It's the best memory I have sometimes. Of my mother & I. seeing how we don't exactly get along now.
I guess you could say it's my personal creation story to my business, if that makes sense.
When I go up on stage next I think I am going to get everyone to do a summer camp song. Should be fun!
A-Kon...every year I saw after the passing weekend that it takes place I say that next year that "I'm not going next year!" but when time comes...there I am. Standing there wondering what the fuck is wrong with me to keep me coming back. This year it was all business though.
I handed out 200+ business cards this convention to everyone that I took a photo of in Cosplay & since A-Kon my business' Facebook page has 17 more so likes then it did before & it's still counting! I'm I have a bit of the photos I have edited up from A-kon but I'm no where near done with them all. I actually have about 200+ photos to still edit after three different files dumps. We will see what happens when I get them all done. I am hoping to have 100+ likes by the end of it & have a big client base in the Cosplay world. The other exciting thing about A-kon was that I was on press staff! One of the people that volunteered got sick & wasn't able to make it, so I was given the spot. The lighting arrangement in the Sheraton was a challenge with no other light source, I know I did my best with what I had though & I will get the best results that I can out of them. Next year will be better for sure in that area!
I will be doing the same thing at A-fest with my business cards as well! Anytime I take someone's photo I hand them a card. Then more people will come to me for their photo needs! It would be even more amazing to be invited to a con as a photographer. That is a long ways off though.
The last day of Kon however, was not so pleasant.
Saturday night Girlfriend & I were getting ready to go to the rave when I received a text from a mutual friend of my ex-roommate & I saying that she needed to talk to me ASAP, she had something on her chest she needed to get off about ex-roommate that impacted Girlfriend & I in a big way. Girlfriend finished getting ready after we both kinda rolled our eyes at it thinking that it was the ex-roommate pulling shit again & strutted our way down to meet Mutual friend.
Needless to say, when we got there, it wasn't the ex-roommate pulling crap. Mutual friend told us that she had stolen 300+ dollars from the dealers & that she had been barging about the things that she had stolen from me along with purposefully over charging me on rent because "I don't like her." Needless to say I was not okay. I CAN NOT wrap my mind around that. Doing something like that to someone because you simply "don't like them"... You know what? I don't fucking like you either but I would never over charge you on things that you couldn't afford to begin with. I would never go into your personal space & take things that didn't belong to me because I wanted to "get back at you" or what every. The only reason I can that that she doesn't like me is because I didn't do exactly what she wanted me to at one point & pushed away from her. I had other things in my life besides her & she didn't fucking like that.
Needless to say I am still fairly angry & upset by this because I just don't understand it. I don't understand the though process, or the actions of it. I don't understand how you can live with yourself knowing what you can you have that isn't fair, or right to others.
We tried to make something happen that night to get her booted out, but we had to wait until the next morning. By the end of it all, from what I know, she is now black listed from A-kon AND Ikki-con. We are also going to take actions at AnimeFest when we go this year to make sure this doesn't happen again.
After all of this though I will say that I have gotten a much large back bone. I don't put up with much of anything unless I HAVE TO for some reason. I've even stopped putting up with things from Girlfriend.
Sunday was also the day that Girlfriend's ex decided to cause whatever drama she wanted. It has finally gotten Girlfriend to agree not to talk to her at all anymore which makes me more then beyond happy, but that's another story for another day.
The summer camp job is going over swimmingly! I love being with the kids & having such a strong influence on their life. I love walking into the buildings in the morning & have 5-10 different kids run up to me screaming my name while telling me how much they missed me. Even the camp songs are pretty awesome! It's all a joy, though the main boss is still a pain (the one above my site director.) but I only have to deal with her once in a while, so it's not so bad.
My most recent holiday was Midsummer in which Bitfrost is celebrating today, but last night I went to a circle that I had been trying to go to for MONTHS now & it finally all lined up. I loved it. I made some new friends & it was Egyptian based. They also do full moon circles with I am excited to attend in the next months. Today I am actually acting as High Priest of Bitfrost & calling down the sun energy then giving it to the circle. One BIG step for me. Here's to having the faith that I don't fuck it up.
Over all I am well~ish..I am taking some me time out of life to get some of my personal internal issues settled after A-kon's drama. (You can never get away from it free.) I may post up a story or too soon once I get a clear vision of what I want in my head. It will be a Kradonous story because his thoughts just don't sound good written like a journal.
Hats to you until then.
~Cyran J. Harrington~
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