Speakers: Graydon Carter (Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair), Luke Hayman (Designer of Pentagram), Danyel Smith (Editor-in-Chief of Vibe), Will Dana (Managing Editor of RollingStone)
While things may be fast and hectic in the magazine business, the talks sure aren’t reflecting it. Or maybe it’s just getting back to this 3-a-day lecture schedule that’s making time go by so slowly. If this were any day last week, I would be re-adjusting sub-rights numbers and writing more pitch letters to potential rights licensees. (Man, was I bad at the latter part.)
At the beginning of this course, I though that I didn’t have enough time to type my posts, but turns out (after having survived the workshop) that I was just lazy. Now that I’m not staying up all night trying to catch up on subsidiary rights stuff, I find myself with a whole lot of time on my hands. That will mean only one thing: CONSISTENT BLOGGING. (Unless I fall back into a rut of laziness, which might likely be the case.)
Magazine Keynote
an in-and-out biz
Alright, so when I mentioned that the talks didn’t reflect the hectic pace in magazines, I was somewhat lying. Graydon Carter, editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair and our keynote speaker for the magazine portion of our course, was literally in, and then out. He did speak to us for a fair amount of time (maybe an hour or so), but it was mostly about his life and how he got to where he is today. **(en:book) After his speech was over, I believe he signed a few books and left in a rush, leaving his assistant, Julie, to give an impromptu talk about her own life and career.
Jen, a workshop partner of mine, felt bad for her, as did I after it was pointed out that Julie probably didn’t expect to speak.
