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[elizalavelle]

Full out SQUEE!

While life is insanely busy and getting busier by the day, there are pockets of joy that keep popping up. Currently in Slean mode:

1. Warner has bought two of my photos of Sarah Slean for use on her upcoming album! I have no idea if they'll make the final edit, but as the album is out in less than a month I don't have too long to be curious about it :)

2. The new live (and Bside) Sarah Slean album, Orphan Music, is coming out on Hallowe'en. I love Hallowe'en and last years' got to be a Slean holiday (in NYC no less!) and apparently so does this year!) No complaints here :)

3. I have tickets to this show in the spring: http://littleslean.blogspot.com/2006/10/slean-tickets-on-sale-toronto-art-of.html To anyone who is going to order tickets. Harbourfront is apparently saying that row 7 is the best available. That's not so. They have this deal with Ticketmaster which in the long run I think hurts the Harbourfront box office, but that's just my opinion. Anyways, Ticketmaster has the rights to sell those first few rows of tickets when sales go online. However if you talk nicely to the box office people and let them know that you're fairly sure that there are better seats available then you should be able to swing a better seat. If anyone remembers reading my drama with getting tickets from this venue last winter it's exactly the same thing. I really did love the theatre but their ticket sale policy is definitely not my favourite.

But back to the good, add to this crazy fun that it's a lovely holiday weekend. I had a great homecooked meal and got a massage for my strained neck, and I plan to sleep in like woah tomorrow. It's all good :)

Comments

[vintagejoy.livejournal.com]

Wow! Congratulations on your photos!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) Like I say I have no clue if they'll make it in there in the end, in comparison to the quality of some of the other photos which were submitted for the website mine aren't good at all, they were just a little quirky :) Or if they're there they could be super tiny or in a collage or something, no one knows what the album art looks like yet... still *yay*

[vintagejoy.livejournal.com]

Still. That's quite an achievement. Are they photos you posted here?

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I don't think I ever posted them here, they're up on www.sarahslean.com in the live photos section :) Credited to Elizabeth :) I have 3 up there, no idea which two got chosen.

1. Dude!

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

That is such great news! Sarah Slean wold be crazy not to use you.

Re: 1. Dude!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

lol well as I said in the comment above there are pictures that were submitted that were far better quality, I didn't even have a digital at the time lol, so I'm not counting on seeing them in the album. But I'll be thrilled if they're there :)

thrilled to be nominated

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

But aren't we all terrible judges of our own work? Anyway, it's still an honor just to get that close. I still get a thrill just to get a hand written rejection letter from an editor, because that means you at least rose above most of the other stuff on the slush pile.

Re: thrilled to be nominated

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

lol in this case they really weren't great shots, just different than most live photos which is what I think got them through :) But yes to have them being considered is plenty honour enough for me :)

[amy_vic.livejournal.com]

YAY! *makes note to buy album*

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

It should be a fabulous album. I think the live material from TO that's going on there is from last December's Harbourfront shows which featured the Blue Spruce Quartet and Sarah Slean playing with a string quartet was amazing!

[bcboy.livejournal.com]

congrats on the photos! That would be so cool to have your photos in the cd booklet.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Says the award winning photographer ;)

Thanks :) I hope they end up being used. I'm trying not to count on it because who knows what the final edit of the booklet will be but if they end up in there you'll be able to hear my squee all of the way out west ;)

[(Anonymous)]

well, my photos didn't even make the first cut so you're doing better than me!

[bcboy.livejournal.com]

sorry that ^--- was me!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

:)

My guess would be that some of the really professional looking photos got chosen, I remember seeing some great ones taken while Sarah was in France, could be those are going to comprise the majority of the booklet, I have no clue at all.