WT Update: Selection of Chris Pommier’s freelance clips online
I wrote for Lavender Magazine, a local gay/lesbian/queer focused print magazine in 2006-2007. However, in February 2007, they rolled out a new draconian contract for freelancers that would have forced me to give up all future rights to my work, and would have held me liable for future litigation against the magazine. I refused to sign it because of that, so they couldn’t give me any more work.
I really enjoyed working for them, and their wonderful editor at that time, Michael Moeglin. Though the magazine is rightfully critiqued as a glorified advertising pamphlet within the community, it does support good work, and some wonderful talent. Unfortunately, for some reason the publisher of Lavender has never archived the magazine’s content online. So, for about a year now, I’ve had physical clips sitting in my file drawer waiting to be released online to prospective editors and employers.
I finally made the time to scan, and place, those clips as pdfs on this blog. It took most of Saturday morning, but it was worth it.
With some help from a Brother MFC-440CN USB printer and a little, but incredibly useful program that came bundled with the printer, SanSoft PaperPort 9.0 I managed to get those pages online as pdfs, and the covers as jpgs. I highly recommend a printer with a feeder tray like the Brother for scanning and faxing. Also, I can’t say enough good things about the ScanSoft software I used. Every time I needed a tool to, say, reorder pages, or unstack pages and rearrange them into two separate files, it was right there. It even ported the scanned files out to Paint.Net so I could make the small cover buttons.
Let me know what you think about having your clips, or portfolio, online and what tools you’ve used in the comments section below. Thanks!
