The live show blog for the veteran live shower. We'll talk about the haps in Region 10. We'll talk about issues around live showing and NAMHSA. We'll dip into my big box of ancient photos and discuss history. It will be a grand old time.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Moving Forward

I am really not sure why this blog has been in my brain lately. I kinda wanted bigger/better things for it when I started it, and it fizzed a bit. I think it was just One More Project I Didn't Really Have Time For when I started it. The fun of the Internet is continual re-invention, right?

So, I do most of my model horse gossip on Facebook these days--I do not Blab, and I am done paying for it, so I no longer have access to what would interest me anyway. There are a TON of great blogs out there about model horses, many that don't update often, but they are amazing when they do, and some are pretty specialized, so they go deep in a subject that gets surface treatment, or just retreads on Blab or other groups. And I forget where exactly I read it, but a comment was made over the weekend about a person who isn't in the hobby any more, but is still sort of around, and how it was a pity she left because she really had insight on how shows worked.

And this made me think.

Would you guys be interested in reading interviews with other hobbyists, sort of how the Old Skool publications did it? I will warn you, I would tend to skew away from artists. I think that our artists are absolutely vital, but many have their own blogs, and often they are very celebrated, whereas the people who are a lot of the meat and bones of live showing are not. You may be able to look at a photo of a NAN Top Ten and know who did it in an instant, but I wonder if you could name your own Regional Rep (or really, what they do), or why your local show holder even puts on a qualifier. There are a ton of people who are silent and almost unknown, and yet, without them, we would not have shows. We'd probably still have horses. I am pretty sure I'd still collect horses and tack and props without the ability to show them (well, maybe not props) but I am also pretty sure I would miss showing--I really enjoy competition, as unfashionable as it may be to admit that.

So what do you think? Worth pursuing? Who do you want to know about?

3 comments:

  1. I would love that! You'd have to do it via snail mail, but it would be really cool to interview Linda Walters. Visiting her home and talking to her about her magazine - which got many of us started - is still one of my favorite hobby memories.

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    1. Linda is a great idea! She's been to Breyerfest for several years in a row. Perhaps you can interview her there.

      Laurie Jo Jensen has been around since the late 1960s, and was Ellen Hitchen's right hand gal and apprentice. I don't know if Simmie Smiljanic is also still around.

      Ellen and Simmie came to Michigan in 1971 to judge a live show we held in Southfield, MI, that Marney Walerius and Bonnie Sumser (now Elber) attended. Marney considered that the 1st Congress, and of course she moved it on to bigger and better things in a northwest Chicago suburb.

      Are you looking for historical perspective, or more of a how-to course? History is fascinating to us "oldies", but not sure if the current showers would care much.

      Thanks! :)
      --NancyK

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  2. Well, I'm not Über old timer, I think of myself as more a second generation (maybe third) hobbyist--my first real live show was 1991--and I like the history. I am definitely NOT looking for a how to course, as there is plenty of that already out there, and I kinda do this because I find it entertaining. Just kinda looking for some interesting stuff to talk about, really!

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