Studio Notes: September 25th, 2021
In this episode I discuss Artist’s Sunday, how to give someone your phone number, and lavalier microphones.
Transcript:
I'm Brandon Woods and this is Studio Notes for Saturday, September 25th, 2021. I'm going to make this one really short because I have a lot to do today and because I've made the past couple of videos a little bit longer. The one that I made the 21st was like 40 minutes long or something. So kudos to any of you who campaigned through that one. I am varnishing some pieces that I had in my "Spatium" exhibition, and I am also getting ready for "Artists Sunday".
So, Artists Sunday is going to be the Sunday after Black Friday, so it's Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Artists Sunday—which kind of seems like if you're an artist, then you're also kind of a small business—and then I guess, is it Cyber Monday after that. So, yeah. Artists Sunday is your third day? Don't don't shop online until you buy from an artist. No, I, I think I think the idea of Artists Sunday is really cool because that's the day set aside for everybody who is in the shopping mood to buy something either for themselves or for a loved one, that is going to last hopefully for centuries, if not longer. I mean, we have we have artworks that go back to ancient Greece and Rome. Back to ancient Egypt. And. And really, even earlier, like. Indeed, the drawing found in Blombos Cave, South Africa, that's 72,000 years old. So if you want to buy something for someone you love that will last 72,000 years, then buy, buy, buy artwork.
So I have this stack of panels, these are all cut offs from, from whenever I've cut bracing cut dimensional panels, everything like that. And these are just great shapes that I am ready to turn them into panels. I want to have the same same kind of thing happening as what is happening with all these golden rectangle panels. I want to have a wall full of these shaped panels. They're just going to be standard shaped panels in that they're not in vary in depth. They're not going to vary in pitch at all. It's just going to be roughly 1.618 inches deep, I think. Or. Well, actually, no, now that I think about it, I might aim for one and a half inches deep, just so they are...it's kind of a nice, nice standard. We'll see about that. That's one of the things that I'm going to have to decide that I... whenever I am on here, I'm just kind of riffing. I mean, part of it is a little bit of me just kind of thinking out loud.
So, two sort of, I guess, professional practices things: Yesterday, I had to run a million errands. And one of the errands that I that I ran was I went to the Gap and I had to return some pants. And the cashier had to get my phone number twice. And she complimented me on just how well I gave it. And that's something I've been practicing for a long time that I feel like I haven't heard anywhere in professional practices talks, anyone talking about just how to give someone your phone number and how that's just another one of those kind of small but important things. So, the cadence. I think that's the right term for it, should be bomp bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp, bomp bomp. It be one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, four. So you're going to leave just a little pause there between the first two in the last two digits of that, like four block of four numbers there. This is, this is for people in the US who are giving them their phone number to someone else in the US. If you if you're abroad, if you're in. Morocco or Mozambique or England. You would just, Americans would just say "plus one" and then have that same. I'm going to stick with cadence. So, don't put numbers together. It's not one twenty-three. It's one, two, three. And say zero instead of "oh". It just makes it a little bit more clear. And you want people to be able to call you or to be able to use your phone number, probably, and so that just helps.
It also helps just to have business cards where it's already written down. You don't have to, you don't have to even really worry about that so much when it comes to business cards, that's another thing. Just to keep in mind, make sure that you get business cards where you can write on them. That way that you can if you're talking to someone about a specific work of art or just to remind them who you are, or even just if you prefer text over phone calls or something like that, you can write on the business card. And that's really helpful.
Second, professional practices—and I'm tired of holding these panels, they're really heavy—so now I have to, to different lav mics that I'm trying out here. I have the Tascam. DR-10L or DL-10R—I don't know what any of those letters or numbers mean, so so I don't really know, it's hard for me to remember what, what that sequence is—and then the Saramonic Blink 500. And so I'm going to find out tonight which one of these sounds best and probably stick with one of these. The Tascam is nice because it records on me instead of having to be connected to the camera, and then that way, if I wanted to put a shotgun mike or something on the camera, then I would have that option. The Saramonic is nice because it, for one, it's smaller than the Tascam. So here, here's the Tascam. And here's the sermonic. Saramonic obviously also has a shorter court, that's why I'm kind of here. So I'm leaning towards probably the Saramonic because it also comes with a second transmitter. And that would be good, you know, so I recorded another video with Caitlin or for a host of a host of different reasons. And the clip, the weird thing with the clip, on the Saramonic is just easier to use. And the screen is a little bit better, too. I felt like the Tascam was giving me a lot of sound around me like it was just kind of picking up absolutely everything and the Saramonic, I have, I have yet to see. We'll find out. So. So I'm going to go cut some wood and try and get some of these panels put together and, well, I'll talk to you later. So until next time, do what you love, make good work. I'll talk to you soon.