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I threw a chair across a classroom at the University of Southern California tonight. I should throw chairs more often.
posted by Liz at 9:44 PM
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
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7 Comments:
way to go.
(as long as it didn't make any human contact, that is.)
release is good.
hey, Liz...
no cheerleading here....
Runner up... is just a state of mind...
You want to be out in the field then get your ass out there and shoot.... Shoot for yourself.... Make your portfolio... who gives a shit if you are or are not one of the recognized.... Unless that is what you want....
The bottom line is... who are you shooting for and why.... nothing else matters....
throw another chair or two... get over the pitty party... and pick up your camera... and shoot.
It is what we all have to do from time to time.... !
Tanja, yes, I should've mentioned: The room was empty, except for my boyfriend and two dogs, and all three were well out of the way. After I threw the chair, I looked at them to see their response: The dogs were wagging their tails, and my boyfriend was slowly nodding his head.
Anonymous, you thwarted my comments-off on the last post and did it here. ;) Yeah, I know . . . eventually, rejection just motivates me to get better, learn more, push myself harder, that kind of thing. But in the first 24 hours or so, I'm usually a wonderful hostess of a glorious pity party. I wanted to post about how I really felt, because I like to lay it out there. This morning, the sun is shining and I sat up in bed and saw the ocean out my windows and my camera on my desk, and the world seemed pretty good.
By the way, the absolute best post ever on rejection was written by Zoe Strauss here.
did it look anything like this??:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NvRO2GE4x4M
..i feel your pain Liz...i've been thru the ringer too with the whole rejection thing but i'm using it as inspiration. for the time being i've said screw the Colbergs, Haggarts etc.. I've finished one small book and am feverishly working to produce another. in the end it's about the work..so i'll keep shooting and improving until i can't be ignored. hang in there..
Patrick, ha! Oh my god, when I threw that chair, I thought, "I guess Bobby Knight rubbed off on me." (When I was in undergrad at I.U., he was still coaching there.)
For the record, my throw was more dramatic. I lifted the chair up to about eye level and threw it on more of a downward path instead of sliding it. But a chair throw is a chair throw, and Bobby would be proud. :)
I could use a chair to throw, too. And a classroom. I don't want to throw chairs in my home.
Man, I wish I'd done that when I was at USC. Those classrooms in our MPW program were begging to have a good chair thrown across them. I'm glad you made it happen. :)
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