Interview with Heesche

First of all, thanks for taking time away for this interview. And congratz to the CL win.

Who are you? What are you doing in your spare time? Interests etc?
My name is Simon. I’m 21 years old and come from a town called Slagelse in denmark. I’m a bricklayer, so in my spare time I just relax and hang out with my girlfriend or by myself. I also play some handball, to keep me in shape

At least for me, this gold came pretty unexpected. Why do you think you won?
A mix of luck and good preparation I think

Is this win your biggest moment in your CSM career?
ofc it is I’ve always dreamed of winning an int. tournament I was close in wwt season 34, but KriskaN drew the longest straw in that final

What do you think made you take the final step up to the absolute top of CSM?
The time I’ve spent on this game, and my vision of “old” players. If I had the same vision of “old” players as I had for 5 seasons ago, I wouldn’t have got that CL victory. Insted I would have rebuilded when my players turned 28. (have done that 2 times before)

How is your plans for the future, regarding your team?
My plan is to replace my old players, when I can’t keep them in shape anymore. I’ve already have a 6th player, that just need a little bit more LC. So he will soon replace one of my current players

How do you like the evolution of csm atm? What is most important to add in this game?
I think they are doing a great job now. For many seasons they didn’t implant any “big” things, and that was a little bit borring. I think the most important in this game is to delete d2 and add the csm.inferno

Any regrets so far in your CSM career?
All my rebuilds

And do you have any fun anecdotes about csm to share with the csm community?
can’t think about anyone right now

Quick questions:

Quickness or Awareness
Dust2 or Aztec
Champions League or WWT?  CL ofc
Bendtner or Zlatan? Bendtner
Carlsberg or Tuborg? Carlsberg

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Wipe Your Knees Before Entering

Back in the eighties when I was starting out, every six months or so I made the pilgrimage to Washington DC to see Bob Gilka, The Director of Photography at the National Geographic Magazine.  He was the guy who decided if you would shoot for the magazine.  He was accessible, answered his own phone and made appointments to look at work. How times have changed.

Gilka was a man of few words and because of that seeing him was always a bit intimidating.  If all you had were images to show – and nothing to say, you’d pretty much be in and out of his office in the amount of time it took to click through your slides. Knowing this, I did my homework prior to the appointment. I’d come up with about 10 query ideas, research back issues of the magazine to make sure they hadn’t been done before and have at least one idea written up in a story proposal.

I’ll never forget the first time I went to Gilka’s office.  His secretary met me in the lobby, and led me to a small area just outside his office.  There on his door was a doormat –with words that read “Wipe Your Knees Before Entering”.  Talk about feeling intimidated – as if it wasn’t intimidating enough just to be meeting with the Director of Photography  at the  National Geographic.

So every six months or so I would show my images and pitch my ideas.  This went on for about two years.  Each time I went I would almost test myself to see how long I could stay in his office.  I would do my best to sell my story pitches that I felt the strongest about and he would reply – “done it –doing it – or – don’t want to do it”.  This coupled with a few words of encouragement in regards to some of my photographs would pretty much be it as far as feedback.

Then one day he kept me waiting.  He had been detained in a meeting.  I had scheduled a pretty tight day to maximize my trip to Washington – so the delay had thrown a wrench into me keeping my other appointments that I had scheduled.  When Gilka did show up and apologized, I was already feeling quite anxious and showed it.  I told him that I didn’t have much time because I had to be across town at the Smithsonian in 20 minutes.  He picked up the phone, called Declan Haun, the picture editor I was headed to see at Smithsonian Magazine and explained that Gail Mooney was running late due to his tardiness.  Then he proceeded to look at my pictures and hear me out.

When I did get to the Smithsonian, it was amusing to see how curious Declan Haun was to find out who this Gail Mooney was that got Bob Gilka to call ahead for her. The very next month, I got a call from Bob Gilka offering me my first assignment.  Guess I just needed to show my real self. I had sufficiently shown my interest and determination in wanting to shoot for them. And I had demonstrated my photographic ability through my images.  But it was when I showed my true spirit that he knew that I could shoot for them.  I just had to get over my fright.

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