Back in the Saddle (for the time being)

I wanted to post a pic from the latest spot that we have completed here at the shop. Office.
(that confuses people sometimes, calling the lab a shop. Or a lab for that matter, they think I am a mechanic ..Or a scientist).
Anywho.
I managed to get an old client back the other day, which is good. He also happens to run about 6 spots a month, which is very good. He is the type of client that I need 5 of, consistent projects and a fast pay.
I hadn't lost him because of bad manners or lousy manners, but because he was choosing his production house based solely on a price point. Bad Idea. In our meeting the other day he showed me his latest spots.
He said ..."I gave some of the spots that you did for me and told them to do something like it. Well this is what I got out of it." The spots were like bad cover songs of the work I did for him. I don't claim to be the greatest at what I do, but I do know how to compose a picture and what I was viewing was not a picture but the warmed over abortion of A...
Fuck it, you know what I mean. Here is a still. Gas monster by Mike Mikalski




Times have been very hard here at Studio 5 for the last 2-3 months. The work hasn't rained down out of the sky like it did earlier this year. I know that all businesses have low points and high points. The ebb and flow of the markets as they say. This low tide nearly shut me down. It is a very special thing to live like this. It is very stressful and I worry more than can be healthy. Knowing how close to end of your figurative rope can be exciting and troubling as well as liberating. Some days you bound out of bed bright and early ready to conquer the world and others you the sun is an enemy to be scorned and railed against. The feeling you get when you know that there is no one else that can make the business work. The sense of being David with a giant out to stomp you. It fills you with a sense of accomplishment when you begin to win again that I have never experienced in any other endeavor. This is what is good about life, overcoming whatever is in your path. Being able to say, I do what I want to do. And then life is good.

I am not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination, but work is beginning to pick back up and the holidays are always a good time for advertising.
Also , Karen finished my website. Check it out.
www.s5p.us

I'm going to try to post from France, so maybe you'll see a pic or two.