Justin Kosman Photography

Monroe Calendar

Monroe+Kansas=???

So two months ago I broke my left hand and I have been spending a lot more time reading and listening to audiobooks when normally I would be out surfing or riding my bike.  I really don’t watch a lot of TV unless it is Thursday night and The Office is on NBC. Anyway, one day a couple weeks ago I decided to make a promo book featuring two photo shoots from the Harveyville School (http://harveyvilleproject.com/).  I had two short runs of the book printed up by Blurb and I sent a few out to agencies and the original companies that commissioned the shoots a couple years ago.  And I also sent one to my dad’s office in Illinois.  Well my mom got a hols of the book and was psyched as usual and brought it to work to show her co-workers at the hospital. To make a long story longer, one of the head doctors took a look at it and was most interested in one of the environment photos in the book that depicted a collection of random stuff that the Harveyville School has in every room. Not the armless Barbie dolls, not the creepy plastic cat, but the Marilyn Monroe topless calendar caught his eye. From what he said, one of his friends bought a similar calendar at auction for a couple mill.  Wow.  So I made a quick call to Ron at Harveyville to get Nikol on the investigation.  Ron and Nikol write grants to get their grass roots art projects off the ground and this would be sweet if the calendar turns out to be an original.