Working virtually involves a keyboard, computer and an internet connection. No face to face, no seeing that I am wearing the same work out outfit since 6 am. Or the bird's nest on the top of my head. Or the the fact that I have a half eaten bowl of oatmeal by my keyboard.
Now I have flipped the coin and spend most of my time in clothes devoid of zippers and buttons. I could dress myself like a fireman, 30 seconds and I was ready to put out the next fire. However, I have been caught by surprise by Skype. Skype is an application that allows you to IM, voice and video chat. A client requested a video chat to go over a whiteboard, I snuffled a low "okay", and quickly fixed my hair (which was really not that fixable). I think I looked passable, but I was caught red-handed, I was caught being a virtual slob.
Now, I fix my hair, regardless, and I wear clothes above the waist that doesn't say "I'm With Stupid" or "Oaktree Gun Range, We Aim to Please." My secret is that I go for the Anchorwoman look, all business above, all party below. Virtual meetings? I am ready and waiting.
Image: Ophelia Chong / Ooops
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An excellent reminder that one never knows what meeting / opportunity is around the corner (at a brick and morter or virtually)--- Prepared and ready for it to hit!
Hey stephanie!
so right. we have to be prepared with that bag of magic potions and our super wizard garb for that surprise meeting. :O) thanks for commenting and visiting kcet local! :O) ophelia
Hey stephanie!
so right. we have to be prepared with that bag of magic potions and our super wizard garb for that surprise meeting. :O) thanks for commenting and visiting kcet local! :O) ophelia
Hey baby, I like your just-crawled-out-from-under-the-covers look..... honestly I wasn't sure it was you at first! LOL!!!!! But yeah if you're gonna work from home and use Skype ya gotta look 'business-ready', not 'rough-and-ready'...... LMAO!!!!! Watch out coz Clinton and Stacey might be lurking in the oleander....
xoxoxo
Calvin in Toronto
Hey baby, I like your just-crawled-out-from-under-the-covers look..... honestly I wasn't sure it was you at first! LOL!!!!! But yeah if you're gonna work from home and use Skype ya gotta look 'business-ready', not 'rough-and-ready'...... LMAO!!!!! Watch out coz Clinton and Stacey might be lurking in the oleander....
xoxoxo
Calvin in Toronto
Hi Ophelia, Ramone here...
Love your blogs,
The other day a package arrived in the mail. I purchase almost all of my books and stuff on-line like everyone else. I had received the FULL collection of 'Famous Artists Course" FAC notebooks. Not cheap but worth it to see how people in the 40's studied art and design if they could not afford the time or tuition to go the a real, bricks and mortar art school.
The FAC was, and still is, famous, in a way, because it still functions. In the good old days students would receive instructional notebooks, they would produce prescribed assignments, and then professionals like Norman Rockwell would review their work which the student would mail to some sort of Valhala where famous artists like Norman Rockwell gathered to make notations on assignments. This work was then send back to the student for review. It was a form of virtual college.
I assume that Student's rarely meet their critics but the process seemed to work.
I'm sure that students of FAC imagined a place resembling the executive board room of N.Y. Ayer in Chicago as the place where their work was reviewed and then shipped back to Hot Coffee Mississippi where the student lived.
I would recommend that individuals like yourself who use televisual devices at their home office to consider the following.
1. Buy a silver jump suit. A silver Jump suit always has that "Klatu" look, like a combination of Mao and Man from Mars.
2. You should make a large pull-down blow-up of the war room from Kubricks "Dr. Strangelove" to put behind yourself so your viewers think your home office is not a woman's bedroom which we all know is a war room of sorts but does not leave the same impression.
3. Then record the quiet chatter one hears on CNN during election nights so that your viewer imagines a cast of hundreds assisting you as soon as you hang up on your overly impressed client.
Sound good? Thank you FAMOUS ARTISTS SCHOOL. Another lesson learned from afar.
Keep up the good, and always funny work Ophelia.
Your friend, who is not on face book thank you...
Ramone Munoz
Forgive my sins and dyslexia i.e. spelling!
Hi Ophelia, Ramone here...
Love your blogs,
The other day a package arrived in the mail. I purchase almost all of my books and stuff on-line like everyone else. I had received the FULL collection of 'Famous Artists Course" FAC notebooks. Not cheap but worth it to see how people in the 40's studied art and design if they could not afford the time or tuition to go the a real, bricks and mortar art school.
The FAC was, and still is, famous, in a way, because it still functions. In the good old days students would receive instructional notebooks, they would produce prescribed assignments, and then professionals like Norman Rockwell would review their work which the student would mail to some sort of Valhala where famous artists like Norman Rockwell gathered to make notations on assignments. This work was then send back to the student for review. It was a form of virtual college.
I assume that Student's rarely meet their critics but the process seemed to work.
I'm sure that students of FAC imagined a place resembling the executive board room of N.Y. Ayer in Chicago as the place where their work was reviewed and then shipped back to Hot Coffee Mississippi where the student lived.
I would recommend that individuals like yourself who use televisual devices at their home office to consider the following.
1. Buy a silver jump suit. A silver Jump suit always has that "Klatu" look, like a combination of Mao and Man from Mars.
2. You should make a large pull-down blow-up of the war room from Kubricks "Dr. Strangelove" to put behind yourself so your viewers think your home office is not a woman's bedroom which we all know is a war room of sorts but does not leave the same impression.
3. Then record the quiet chatter one hears on CNN during election nights so that your viewer imagines a cast of hundreds assisting you as soon as you hang up on your overly impressed client.
Sound good? Thank you FAMOUS ARTISTS SCHOOL. Another lesson learned from afar.
Keep up the good, and always funny work Ophelia.
Your friend, who is not on face book thank you...
Ramone Munoz
Forgive my sins and dyslexia i.e. spelling!
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Stephanie says :
An excellent reminder that one never knows what meeting / opportunity is around the corner (at a brick and morter or virtually)--- Prepared and ready for it to hit!