I’m re-working my marketing/sales kit with the goal of actually actively selling my stuff again. It’s been a few months since I made an effort and I feel slack.
Upon checking out the interview I used to send around, I am appalled at the boring and irrelevant questions I asked myself. And at my boring and irrelevant answers.
Can you think of some better/cooler/funnier/more useful questions I can interview myself with? Or even just some completely random questions or facts I could throw in for the heck of it?
My brain is too fizzled to think for myself this afternoon. Must be Friday :)
sjem, 3 months ago
quack
sjem, 3 months ago
?
Danny Minisrty...
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3 months ago
moo… coff coff….......quack
BrainCandy, 3 months ago
can you link to that interview?
Danny Minisrty...
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3 months ago
coff …coofff quack?.... sorry
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Danny Minisrty of bad spelling’s comment,
3 months ago
My mind was fizzled enough before all that! gah… I need a cup of tea
Danny Minisrty...
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3 months ago
you must have me confused with duck wit
quack
Rocketchook, 3 months ago
Do an Abou Grave Iraqui prison style interveiw , Interveiwee held in shackles standing on a tin can.
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Danny Minisrty of bad spelling’s comment,
3 months ago
Moo?
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Rocketchook’s comment,
3 months ago
now there’s an idea worth stealing… yoink!
Erin Lyall, 3 months ago
Do you have a version of the old one? Who do you send the kit to and what else is in it?
Happy to help with some of my PR knowledge if you like.
Rocketchook, 3 months ago
Of course a black hood over the head and electric wires stuck to the body , It could be a hardcore military style ….........................if you throw the ball to someone and they catch it , they are expected to run.
Watertoy, 3 months ago
i have a Grad Dip in Marketing and am happy to help out…
BigFatRobot, 3 months ago
do you like stuff?
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Erin Lyall’s comment,
3 months ago
Ah, the old one is full of all the usual crap about getting into photography, what inspires me, goals and ambitions.. blah blah blah. I’m embarrassed to even admit to it!
Jo O'Brien
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3 months ago
One time I accidentally gave a gallery my measurements (that at the time were printed out for modeling jobs) They thought it was the best part of the kit. This leads me to think that people don’t really care about things that have zero entertainment value.
sjem, 3 months ago
quack
Jo O'Brien
in reply to sjem’s comment,
3 months ago
:) many hugs and happy thoughts being beamed your way riiiiiight… now.
sjem, 3 months ago
I’d smile at you but I’m a duck. So i can’t.
Erin Lyall, 3 months ago
Well I guess it depends what the purpose of having an interview in there is, but generally if it’s to sell work or get people interested in hiring you for shoots (whether modeling or shooting) my guess is they’d care more about your capabilities and seeing your work than other stuff that isn’t entirely relevant. Oh, and short and sweet is best so I’ve been taught. Don’t know if that helps… good luck with it though! =)
Faith Hunter, 3 months ago
Maybe if you can find some examples of interviews that you felt enabled you to really connect with someone creative? There must a few online lying around?
Ok I don’t know that these are especially interesting but they might be useful as a starting point to get you somewhere more interesting? ;
-who are your creative ‘heroes’ and why?
-if you could invite any six people throughout history to a dinner party who would you choose and what would you ask them?
-if you had to be stuck on a desert island without access to any of your normal ‘creative’ tools what would you do to fulfill your creative urges?
-given the opportunity to shoot a tableau of six famous people from history who would it be, how would you shoot them, what would the story tell?
-think of the most boring/uninspiring thing you can (possibly Brendan Nelson?) and then explain how you would photograph them/it .
Jo O'Brien
in reply to sjem’s comment,
3 months ago
Good point – no lips
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Faith Hunter’s comment,
3 months ago
Thanks for this, it’s waking my 4pm Friday brain from it’s slumber. I may even be capable of independent thought after some caffeine!
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Erin Lyall’s comment,
3 months ago
Yep, typically the interview is something that customers want (not really the gallery or agent) It’s just a way of personalising the experience and has received a lot of positive feedback in the past… even with the boring crappy questions.
Faith Hunter, 3 months ago
iIve given up on caffeine and started on pinot noir. It IS Friday after all and the 4-year old is at grandma’s place. lots of solutions in a glass of pinot noir…....
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Faith Hunter’s comment,
3 months ago
pinot noir! You’re speaking my language. With a nice piece of Camembert please :)
Lucan Industri..., 3 months ago
This doesn’t seem to be going very well does it.
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Lucan Industries Unlimited’s comment,
3 months ago
No, not at all. Must be Friday. Everyone’s brain is fizzled :)
Rocketchook, 3 months ago
Do like the pensioners did today in Melbourne , a strip in the middle of the intersection in front of Flinders St station. That will get everyones attention to you , you very well might make the nightly news and be broadcast through out the world….........Jo takes over the world
C.C. Arshagra, 3 months ago
Hi Jo, I love questions, here are few? I think the answers hold the key to how funny or cool the questions are, or not.
What is love? What does it mean to me?
What is soul? What does it mean to me?
What is survival? What does it mean to me?
What is death? What does it mean to me?
What is the point of my life?
What is the point of others lives relative to my own?
What is the point of life?
Do I have a soul?
What does “God” mean?
What is spirit?
What does fear have to do with belief?
Do I have any rights that others do not have?
Is my life more important than any other life?
Does the last thing I think each night have anything to do with the rest of my life when it comes time to wake again the next day?
What do I believe?
Do I fear being right or wrong?
Do I live my life as if I must win it or be lost to it?
Are there any question I fear asking my self?
Will I live through the death of all I fear true?
Is there any thing or one I feel I must destroy if it exists to wake a question in me, a thought or feeling that reels within me an experience equal to my being being threatened, to the point that the soundness of my mind’s ability to contain a reality of understanding my life is unearthed at its core?
What do I know?
What is knowing?
Do I love having fun?
Jo O'Brien
in reply to C.C. Arshagra’s comment,
3 months ago
Thanks so much :) That will keep me going for a while
Krisso, 3 months ago
Jo… you can’t interview yourself because your allways anticipating the awnser before you hear the question, therefore in your subconsious you are altering your questions in a way you can better answer them. (I hope you are able to follow this?) This also means your answers aren’t spontanious and become somewhat coersed. What you should really be doing is asking someone to interview you, and all your problems will be solved!... I do hope all that made some sense…
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Krisso’s comment,
3 months ago
So, will you interview me?
Krisso, 3 months ago
Oh… A cheeky but clever response.. nice! Ok, yes I will! But… there is a catch! Are you ready for it?.... We cant do it on line for similar reasons to the above mentioned and I will need a day or two to write some questions… I’d be happy to do it early next week over a coffee if your comfortable to do that?
Peter Evans, 3 months ago
I agree with Krisso Jo.
But the questions depend on what your selling and you haven’t really given us a good indication on what that might be.
Usually there’s technical questions which you should already know the answer to and then there’s the more personal questions that are better answered honestly and maybe then is the time for some witty examples, even if they stretch the truth a little.
Good luck :-)
BlaizerB, 3 months ago
i had a few questions but most were covered by C.C. Arshagra, hope you have found your inspiration – cheers
Bevsimages, 3 months ago
Its only 8.55am here, so my brain is very slow this morning lol…& no sun in the UK today so even worse without solar power lol :D
As an outsider looking in…If I was buying art from someone ( & I am a very curios person) I would want to know the following (for no particular reason…) :
What image or piece of art made you passionate to get into this world?
What drives you when the sun goes in & the ideas aren’t flowing?
What tips & hints can you give to people starting off in photography?
Besdies art / photography what else makes you happy?
Hope these few scant questions help…
Cheers,
Bev Cumbria, UK x :))
Bevsimages, 3 months ago
few spelling mistakes sorry lol ;D
LostBoy, 3 months ago
Krisso is such a geek.
earthairfire, 3 months ago
“I think the answers hold the key to how funny or cool the questions are”
This totally sums it up for me.
I remember asking someone once “are you a daredevil?” and got the response “maybe a devil who dares…” Took me totally by surprise and I loved it :)
Maybe it was just me though….
Tim
Col Finnie, 3 months ago
Here’s on for you J. : “The 50’s pin-up girl in a contemporary setting is a feature of your work. Tell us how that came about.”
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Krisso’s comment,
3 months ago
Yep, shall make time.
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Bevsimages’s comment,
3 months ago
Great questions. Thanks
Jo O'Brien
in reply to Col Finnie’s comment,
3 months ago
Nice one :)
Outdoors2, 3 months ago
My favorite Laundry “Deter” gent...;)
Marketing commercial? if so your laundromat scenarios open a vast window for props.
Nostalgia sells just as sex. So, You have possession of explosive ideas combining the two…Could have any number of products as back drops also..The male side too..
pinkstinks, 3 months ago
Why does nudity sell?
Krisso, 3 months ago
Cool, I will get back to you in a day or two! I have to go watch some Andrew denton…. Yes Lost Boy, I am a geek!