11-12-2014, 02:54 PM
Lexington Wrote:I worked at a huge art event last week. I did my thing in one of the rooms while other things happened all through the night. I was just a small adjunct to the big event, but the museum folks said I did a great job, and were very happy with how it all worked out.
The next day, I was asked by an online publication if I would write a blog about working the event. So I wrote a longish piece about the event, what I did, and how it all fit together. The person wrote back saying they loved the piece. "That's exactly what I was hoping for!" Then he asked if I could send a picture of me with the main artist to run with the piece I had written. I wrote back and said "Actually, I don't have a picture with the artist. In fact, I hardly saw the artist at all." He wrote back and said the piece wasn't worth running without a photo, so that's that, I guess. I wish he'd told me that before so I could've skipped writing this long thing.
Lex
Ugh. They couldn't contact the artist or their publicist for a photo?
Some of these people are too much. I have allowed some things I've written to be republished by other blogs and they really do expect you to jump through hoops so that they can re-use your work for free.