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December 08, 2006
Any Thing, Any Time, Anywhere
Basically, I can be had. For the right price. For basically any price. My time these days is available for purchase, and the menu of offerings is limited only by a) your imagination, and b) my very low personal standards.
In the past 6 days I have:
a) spent a day insulating the kitchen addition being built by Uncle Ken and Miss Betty, for which I earned a delicioius plate of seafood pasta.
b) spent a day in Baltimore at the North Charles Street Design Organization writing a brochure for Williams College with my good friend and master writer/editor Matt Westbrook.
c) traveled to Massachusetts to consult on the ongoing development of Quest for College, a new nonprofit devoted to stimulating early awareness of the opportunties offered by a college education to students in underserved communities.
(In spite of what you might think, Quest for College is not about eating burritos, though its founder and president, Gina Coleman, does enjoy eating them.)
Next week it's back to North Charles Street for another consulting junket.
All of this is on top of the bookmaking, of course. And on top of my responsibilities to wash dishes, do laundry, and please Robbi with frequent compliments. I'm kind of like James Bond except instead of killing people, I do a lot of freelance jobs.
Robbi's recent extracurricular portfolio is similarly diverse. In the past few weeks she has completed freelance commissions for Washington College and the Carla Massoni Gallery and is gearing up for a new project for Williams College. (Per our power-sharing agreement, she also scoops the cat litter.)
And we're both getting ready for the Next Generation show, which will open January 13 at the Carla Massoni Gallery. Robbi will be showing some clay monoprints, and Idiots'Books will be represented by high-end limited edition versions of our books, framed original illustrations from the books, and a spectacular (we hope) mural/wall painting thing in which a new illustrated book of ours will be presented in five dimensions (meaning the five walls of an alcove, meaning five adjacent two-dimensional surfaces).
All of which is to say that my dreams of sitting around in my boxers all day playing Nintendo and watching reruns of 24 have not panned out. We're doing something here. Lots of things. But, by god, if it means that we can keep making our books, we welcome all takers.
What odd, uncomfortable task would you like to hire me to do? Try me.
Posted by bogenamp at December 8, 2006 08:30 AM
Comments
Could I hire you to do the cat litter?
Posted by: ribbu at December 8, 2006 10:27 AM