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March 2005 after Jeremy and I decided we wanted to self publish a book on my photographs of the
Big Day Out was shook hands and said we were in no matter what happened, no matter how hard
it got, how challenging.. we were going to see it out to the end.
'there are many ways to skin a cat' was our mantra from
John Blondin who mentored us in publishing. |
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| to raise funds we came up with an offer called 'Friends of the Book' it was an offer we sent out to all friends and colleges who might be interested in pre purchasing the book. The outcome of this was that we were able to put down the $10,000 for the printing of the book. |
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| in the studio |
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| the media kit |
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| Jeremy Gordon - the producer |
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| Sending the printer the first round of 'stuff' |
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| December 2005 timeline |
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| the most sleep we got all year |
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| Jeremy and Louise Markey the books technical support |
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| Arriving at Samwha Printing, South Korea December 2005 |
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| choosing the finish for the pages |
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| in the guts of Samwha doing a press check |
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| finished pages 265 sheets |
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| having a snooze we printed around the clock - so jeremy and slept at the printer's - they woke us every 2 hours to do a press check, that's how long it too to print a section |
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| one of the plates that the pages we printed from |
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| the page of that plate |
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| the cover gets the ok |
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| back in Australia - the start of publicity for Peace Love and Brown Rice channel V at the studio |
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| self publishing meant driving books around... |
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| invite to the launch |
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| my Mum!! packaging up books for the post |
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| at the BDO we had a exhibition set and sold books this is Sydney, 2006 |
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| Ken West the Sydney promoter of the BDO launchs 'Peace Love and Brown Rice' at Deus Exmachina in Sydney, we also had a launch at the Esplande Hotel in Melbourne |
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| Me and Jezza at the launch |
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| Some of the works from the book at Deus |
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| was fun to see the PL&BR in bookshop windows! |
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| a very memorable occasion, just because I made this book didn't mean I instantly became a public speaker - after this event at the State Library I did a public speaking course! afterwards I said to Jezza and Mum how terrible I felt it had gone and they agreed outright saying they thought they were going to have to come and save me!!...and the audience no doubt |
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| My sister selling books at the Melbourne Launch |
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| bookmarks |
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| with Zan Roe on triple J after radio interview Run with the Hunted Feb 2006 |
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| sticker |
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| talk I gave to Friends of the Book |
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| Raymond with Weku who appears on the front cover of the slipcase and in the endpapers playing at the Friend of the Book thank you 'do' |
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| that's me saying thanks to friends and family |
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| Special Limited Edition copies for these folk! |
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| '2nd bite of the cherry' as we had missed Christmas sales 2005 we decided at the advice of the distributor to get the book up the front of bookshops again to add a slipcase and another chapter the 2006 Edition - the start nutting out the design |
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| not so cold this time press checking in South Korea |
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| the front cover of Peace Love and Brown Rice 2006 Edition |
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| back in Australia the slipcases arrived so now the task was to slip 6,000 books into their cases!!...no simple task it took us 10 days 15hours a day. We soon realised we needed many hands and in came the voluneeters!! Through Fastlouder.com lots of great people came along and helped out. |
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| Mum has been one of my most supportive volunters..she did ask me to never self publish again though... |
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| Nige and the slipcases or rather the slipcases and Nigel |
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| Tundae from TV on the Radio |
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| people seemed to like the book |
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| the publicity coverage was good - this is the cover of the Entertainment Guide in the Age newspaper, Melbourne |
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| Who Weekely did a 6 page spread |
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| The daily Telegraph picked it up for the 2nd Edition - check out more clippings on the publicity page |
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| Feb 2007 under listings for Readings Events in Melbourne is a talk I gave with Tim Rogers singing a few songs instore and Rebecca McIntosh interviewing me - see Events for the recording |
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| it has been a fun ride sharing these photos signing books and meeting people - I've heard so many great stories |
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| giving a presentaion at McCann Erikson Advertising agency in Sydney |
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| At the Mart Gallery Exhibition 2009 |
