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Sep 2012, Issue #3
Agencies Part 2
R AW Talent
Clothing Never Too Late To Succeed
Colors of Fall Shannon Lynch Drawn to Create ------Beautifully Homegrown
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Model: BruqueChontel Photographer: Subtle Shades Photography MUA/HS: Heather Duggins
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Nickoli Jean Letter from the editor -in-Chief www.glasshatmag.com
So far our pages have been graced with the beautiful faces of talented up-and-coming models shot by outstanding photographers, but this month we are eager to Spotlight an extraordinarily talented sketch artist.
Talent comes in many shapes and forms, and we want to exhibit as many of those as possible. Art does not have any boundaries or definitions, and neither do we. The Glass Hat Mag is welcoming the changes that Autumn brings. The leaves melting from greens to reds and browns, the crisp air, and a new sense of wonder springing up through the cracks in the sidewalks. The world around us is handing us the purest form of inspiration on an organic platter. We are anxious to capture the energy and the colors of the fall, and share them all with you. I hope that you take a moment this month to truly look around you, take in the September colors, and create something beautiful.
Nickoli Editor-in-Chief Glass Hat Magazine
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Glass Hat Editor Nickoli Jean
Contributing Writers Nathaniel Goodwin (http://www.nathanielraygoodwin.com/) Traci Lacek (http://elizabethlacek.wix.com/tracilacek) Michael Franks (http://www.facebook.com/EPIPHANY.MEDIA.PHOTO) Chuck Rogers (http://www.rawtalentclothing.net/)
Contributing Photographers Allan Cich (www.subtle-shades.com) Larry Jacobs (http://www.facebook.com/lajstudio) Jennifer James (http://232-studios.com/) Cory Hughes (www.reeltimeproductions.com) Michael Schofield Studio (www.schofieldphotos.com) Michael Franks (http://www.facebook.com/EPIPHANY.MEDIA.PHOTO)
Sales & Marketing Larry Jacobs (http://www.facebook.com/lajstudio) Matt Bradford (http://www.facebook.com/matt.bradford.3532) Janettee McCrary (http://www.facebook.com/janetteemccrary)
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Model: Tayla Agee Photographer: Subtle Shades Photography MUA/HS: Tayla
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Features 8. The Art of Displays
20. Shannon Lynch Beautifully Homegrown
By Nickoli Jean
10. Colors of Fall By Michael Franks
12. Music & Me By Traci Lacek
14. Shannon Lynch Drawn To Create
By Nickoli Jean
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52. Questions a model should ask By Nathaniel Goodwin
32. Sarah Lawson Never Too Late To Succeed
50. You must be an artist
44. Raw Talent Clothing Company
By Chuck Rogers
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Every day you are surrounded by
displays. There are so many types of displays, some that may not even come to mind when you think of the word ‘display’.
While strolling through the mall you
are bombarded by window displays of the latest fashions, accessories or musthaves. When walking down the streets of any city, you can become mesmerized by the window displays that you pass. Some people even entertain themselves
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by window shopping or checking what is on display. There are people that make special trips to see what is on display.
There is the public display of affection.
This often has various affects on people. If you pass by two people making out right out in the public forum you could have a couple of reactions. Maybe you’re angered, disgusted, jealous, happy to see two people in love or maybe you completely ignore it. If that’s the case, it couldn’t have been that much of a display in the first place!
During the holidays we often
see many types of light displays. Most, I would say, are tasteful while others are obscene. I have been witness to a holiday display that had every symbolic figure displayed on his lawn and in his yard. It was actually quite atrocious to look at, but that is definitely a display that gets a lot of attention.
There are also displays on
phones, treadmills, televisions and computer monitors. These displays have different letters to describe them. For example, there’s LCD, which is liquid crystal displays and there are LEDs or light emitting diodes. I’m not sure which one is better, but they’re both the preferred method of television and electronics displays.
Stores need to purchase
displays to put all of their merchandise on. Think about a store at the mall and their displays. They probably have glass display cases and shelves, cute picket fence displays, greeting card displays and stuffed animal displays. There are wind chime displays and candle displays. And of course don’t forget the candy displays. There isn’t a general merchandise store around that would be complete without a candy display.
Sale items are always on
display at the ends of every isle in grocery stores, variety stores or hardware stores. It is a silent calling to the consumer saying, ‘check me out, I’m on sale! Buy me, buy me!’
We put people, animals
and objects on display. Any museum is a perfect example of this. There are art museums, aquariums, and botanical gardens. There are circuses, theatrical plays, and the covers of magazines even that put people on display.
Sometimes, we even like to put
ourselves on display for others. Magazines make huge profits from models putting their bodies on display. Displays are always trying to get us to buy something, try something or be something. Window displays want us to buy the entire outfit, the treadmill displays want us to push ourselves to do something we haven’t accomplished before, end caps in stores want us to spend more money, too. Museums and tourist attractions want us to enjoy something. Whether it be displays of affection, clothing, animals or holiday lights they are all works of art and somebody has put some time and effort into making their display attractive.
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all approaches and the artist is presented with hues of brown, red, and gold as summer’s vistas disappears into the slow approach of winter’s embrace. While the landscape presents challenges, we can find those hues to compliment what nature provides. It is a time for any visual artist to explore those memes and themes, and present their vision to the viewer and to reflect on its deeper meaning. As we are visual beings, we see in contrast and color. Nature is alive with a palette of shades that gives us an
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endless feast of “eye candy” in which to engorge our artistic expression. Color can be an explosion across the medium in which you craft, but the absence of color can express an impact just as profound. Light and shadow, with gradients between, is the playground upon which we send out our inner dreams to be made manifest in the physical world. One has to but open their eyes and take a tour through a wonderland of the imagination as color inspires awe with its simplicity versus its complexities.
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Music & Me Growing up, I lived in the country
and did not have the luxury of being near shopping centers, fast food, and places for entertainment. Even if I did,I probably would have been too shy to go out with friends. When I got home from school, I would go in my room and shut my door, tossing my books and instrument on the bed, and go straight for my headset, putting in my favorite music and singing along. I would turn it up full blast, shutting out the world around me, even if just for a fraction of time.
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here are so many different types of music out there. I might argue that there is really not a ‘wrong’ choice as far as the kind you listen to. I am inclined to believe that music truly does effect our moods and actions.
We are not all puppets when
it comes to the music industry. Emotions play a big part in the type of music we tend to turn on for the day. Each person is driven by something different in life, and we all cope with things in our own way, but music is one thing that has the power to unite us all. I couldn’t imagine a world without the beautiful sounds of music.
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usic is a way of speaking to the soul and allowing it freedom. It is an outlet of beautiful notes; the airwaves of life. Wether you sing, play an instrument, dj, or are simply a listener, we can all agree that music is a doorway to our hearts.
Traci Lacek
Mother, married, professional model A little about myself as the author. I am a 34 year old mother of 5 beautiful angels. I have been married to the love of my life going on 14 years this July. When I started out in modeling, I thought all the odds were against me. Age, body shape and my confidence level were, I thought, major downfalls to making it in the glamor modeling industry. I never thought I would make it as a model, until I made the choice to simply follow my passion, regardless of the obstacles. That is what brought me to the where I am today.
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Modeling
Model: Liz Photographer: Epiphany Photo Media MUA/HS: Destiny Watson
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Shannon Lynch: Drawn tTo Create By Nickoli Jean
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Drawn to Create
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wenty-seven year old Shawnee, Oklahoma native Shannon Lynch has always had an eye for the artistic. Pencil and paper being preferred, Shannon follows her passion and lets herself become inspired by her surroundings, preferring portraits of people in natural states, where she can challenge herself to recreate the exact emotion through their expressions and their eyes.
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was done drawing stick figures when I was in first grade. They had odd shaped bodies, mohawks, and hands that probably had more than five fingers at times.�
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ttending a grade school without art classes, Shannon taught herself how to shade by emulating “How to Draw…” books. Before long, she didn’t need the books and was amazing her teachers and peers in homework assignments and projects that called for drawing. Moving into middle school, the arts program provided no challenge to the budding artist, but that did not deter her.
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don’t remember one memorable drawing from that class.”
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t wasn’t until Shannon hit high school that she was finally inspired by an art class. Her teacher, Melissa “was a great teacher and allowed us to be as creative as possible with whatever assignment she gave us.”
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hannon experimented with all kinds of mediums, from oil pastels and painting, but learned her true calling was with graphite and charcoal, winning first place at a scholastic meet for a self portrait. She played with various styles through her high school years, being inspired by the animes and mangas her friend introduced her to. “I couldn’t read any of it, I didn’t really care. I just loved the artwork involved.”
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ailor Moon was a favorite of mine. I am not ashamed to admit that!”
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er first art class in college was during her second year; a class for art majors. She had no intention of majoring in art, though thought about minoring in it, and finally met the challenge she had been looking for.
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“Sailor Moon was a favorite of mine. I am not ashamed to admit that!�
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“If I create something great and people love it, then that’s awesome. If not, that’s okay, too.”
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Artwork By: Shannon Lynch
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Location: Little Nellie - Johnstone
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hat was the last art class the artist took, drawing in her spare time when the inspiration hit. “I have to be in the mood. If I’m not, it’s not going to be my best work.”
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ight now, I mainly draw portraits of people. Mainly from photographs. I don’t just draw any picture, though. The subject has to have a certain look about them, thoughtful like. I don’t really like photos of people giving off these enormous fake smiles.”
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ith a natural talent to look at a photo or an object and recreate it on paper, Shannon feels that “you either have that ability or you don’t.”
Location: Woolaroc Museum & Wildlife Preserve Website: www.woolaroc.org/
Beautifully Homegrown
Model: Shannon Lynch Photographer: Jennifer James | 232 Studios
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hannon was asked to apprentice a tattoo artist, but she turned the opportunity down, not feeling that was what she wanted to do with her art. She wanted to keep her art fun, not a chore.
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hannon is now married, with two dogs that she loves dearly. She was accepted to the nuclear medicine program at OUHSC and will be graduating in 2012, after taking a break from school for a few years.
Location: StrayKat Website: straykatkustoms.com/
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ecently, she has started dabbling in painting, having done a few paintings for herself or family. She started her first painting for a friend, and is excited to expand her artistic horizons.
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f I create something great and people love it, then that’s awesome. If not, that’s okay, too.”
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Hello everyone, my name is Jennifer James. I’ve been a photographer for many years and recently moved to Bartlesville. I’ve done work for a few celebrities, a few newspapers, and possibly every family member I can think of. I’m very focused on customer satisfaction and doing anything it takes to deliver a product to my clients that they are thrilled about. Modern or Vintage, Traditional or Unique, I’ve done it all... but always with my customer in mind. I love almost every aspect of being a photographer. I love telling a story with my pictures; I love picking around in Dewey antique stores for just the right prop for a photo-shoot; I love givI've been a photographer for many years and ing my clients that makes them look recently movedsomething to Bartlesville. I've done work beautiful (or handsome fornewspapers, you men). Ifand I didn’t for a few celebrities, a few end up sore from crawling around with a campossibly every family member I can think eraI'm for hours onon end it wouldsatisfaction be a perfect job! of. focused customer and doing anything it takes to deliver a product to my clients they are thrilled about. Modern or Vintage, Traditional or Unique, I've done it all...but always with my customer in mind. I enjoy almost every aspect of being a photographer and telling a story with my pictures. I love picking around in Dewey antique stores for just the right prop for a photo-shoot, giving my clients something that makes them look beautiful (or handsome for you men). Respectfully, Jennifer James - Photographer.
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Model: Shannon Lynch Photography By: Jennifer James | 232 Studios http://232-studios.com/
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Makeup/HS: Jennifer James Location: Linger Longer Antiques in Dewey, Ok Dress Provided by: 232-studios | Lorrie Beb San Francisco
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“If I didn’t end up sore from crawling around with a camera for hours on end it would be a perfect job! “ Jennifer James 232 Studios Photographer
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Model: Shannon Lynch Makeup / Hair stylist: Jennifer James Photographer: 232-studios.com Fashion Styling: Jennifer James
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Fitness
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Sarah Lawson
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Never Too Late For
SUCCESS
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am 32 years old, married, and have a beautiful 4 year old daughter. I began going to the gym a few months after having my daughter to lose the baby weight. Over a year or so, I made some improvements, but my fitness journey really began after being approached by Darrell Terrell, a top national level bodybuilder, about starting boot camp classes with him.
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decided to commit to 4 weeks of getting up at 5am to go to boot camp. I discovered that I absolutely loved to workout. I am not sure you could have paid me to miss a class. A couple months into the classes, I noticed that many of Darrell’s clients were extremely fit and I wanted to know how I could look like they did. Darrell invited me to a bodybuilding show last May. After I saw my first competition, I decided
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to go for it. You only live once! The next week I had my diet and game plan with less than 12 weeks to be ready to get on stage.
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t my first show, The NPC Total Package, I placed second in my class. This gave me some motivation to compete again. Just five weeks later, I placed first in my division at The NPC Oklahoma Grand Prix, earning my national level qualification. For a girl that’s never played sports or even knew this lifestyle existed, I was absolutely thrilled.
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has been such an adventure! We have been training very hard, which I love. I have modeled from fitness and swimwear to fashion. I also had my first radio interview. I have competed in several shows already this year, and with every competition, I become more focused and driven to succeed. My biggest show is coming up, The North American Championships, in Pittsburgh, PA on September 1. This is a national level show that gives me an opportunity to earn my pro card.
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love my new lifestyle! Yes, there are sacrifices, but it is worth giving myself a chance to be the best I can be. It has taught me to never underestimate myself and given me more confidence. I have learned a new level of discipline and how to deal with losing and being humble. It has also inspired my friends and family to try something new.
My dream is to become successful at what I love to do, but I am thankful for what I have already accomplished.
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Contest history: Sept 2011
: 2nd place bikini short class @ The NPC Total Package Championships : 1st place @ Total Package Hot Body Model Contest
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1st place Bikini Short class @ The NPC OKC Grand Prix *Earned national level qualification
June 2012
: 6th place Bikini Class A @ The NPC Oklahoma Championships
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: 5th place Bikini Short class @ The NPC Lonestar Classic
July 2012
: The Branch Warren Classic DNP
August 2012 : The Europa Supershow DNP
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Comment By Darrell Terrell
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“Sept 2011: 1st place - Total Package Hot Body Model Contest”
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“I absolutely loved to workout...you could have paid me to miss a class.�
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Model: Shaina Photographer: Epiphany Photo Media MUA/HS: Shaina
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How to Start a Business with 27 Cents
The Story of Raw Talent Clothing By Chuck Rogers
Model: Camry Photographer: LAJStudios
“God gives each of us gifts the day we are born, the key is to find out what those gifts are and then put your heart and soul into it. You will then know passion like never before, and your profit will be happiness.” Chuck Rogers Owner/Founder
Raw Talent Clothing Company is
in its 6th year now. This business was started in a tanning booth in Oklahoma City. One day I decided to take my camera inside and see what the lights would look like. The picture was amazing and I was addicted immediately to photography and graphic arts. I
would take more pictures every day in the booth, and run home and edit them. Soon I was putting friend’s pictures on MySpace on top of the tanning booth pictures as backgrounds. Every night I would do a few friends on MySpace, but I was extremely slow.
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to have ‘Raw Talent’ myself. It seemed like a good fit. I wanted a sportswear logo so we could sell to men, women, and children.
I found out that Raw Talent was
“If it’s raw, it’s gotta be good.”
taken on several, areas, bands, novels, strip bar, and a few others, so I then decided to add Clothing Co. and then registered it with the secretary of state. (Company trademark and logo #12188055 all rights reserved Chuck Rogers Owner/Founder)
I was laid off at the time so I
Some people started noticing my
work, and wanted me to do them. One person was a model for Red Bull. A Texan clothing line asked me to do banners for him using his models. I was happy to use my untapped talent in that field.
Soon I ask one of his models “How do you model for him? You live in Arkansas and he lives in Texas?”
She said that he just mails the clothes and we take our own pictures.
Duh! I never thought of that.
When I asked the owner to help me start my own business he blocked me and told everyone I was a fake. I think that drove me at first to try starting my own online business. I decided to use Raw Talent since I had no experience and I seemed
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actually gave Plasma to purchase my website. Our first pictures were taken with a disposable camera.
Can you believe that? Now we
Powerfully Impressive... Pure and Natural Talent!!
Back to my story. I got a loan from
stores in Oklahoma City. Trixie’s is one of the stores in Oklahoma City where you can find our merchandise. We have done events like bikini contests, and MMA fights, and I still do a lot of our graphic and all of the web design. I even have photographed a few of the models myself.
use some of the best in America. We currently have between 80100 models and between 40-50 photographers.
Payday Loans, and then proceeded to print thirty six shirts. Twelve of which were red, twelve were black, and twelve were white. Which are our primary colors for the logo. We started to shoot anyone we could, and anywhere we could as well. I was dead set on showing the world that we weren’t fake, just new. Melinda Larsh of South Carolina was our first professional photographer. I did not have any money to compensate her, so she would do it for no charge.
Soon people in Georgia, and
Alabama joined in on my crusade. They were willing to donate their
time and talent to help me, and I got stuck in Dixie and lived in Oklahoma City. We have made a dent in America, and lots of people have heard about us. Sales continue to grow, and we are actually starting to get into
We have never paid a dime for
any of our services, but I do try to promote the models the best way I can. They all do it because they are passionate about their work, and simply want to help the little guy from Oklahoma. I’ve been blessed with some of the best models, photographers, graphic artists, makeup artists,
sales representatives, dealers, promoters, and staff in the world. Thank you for turning my dream into reality.
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Model: Jenna Credico Photographer: LAJStudio Fling Junior Spaghetti Tank $22
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Don’t ever let someone tell you
can’t do something. I had 27 cents the day I started and no experience, and look where I am today! Love you guys!
NOTE: Raw Talent is unisex
www.rawtalentclothing.net www.facebook.com/chuckums711 www.rawtalentclothing@yahoo.com www.twitter.com/rawtalentokc
sportswear; Fling is our women’s line created in 2008 and has been a big seller for us, we also offer Coco~Mojo Island Spell created in 2009 for fun in the sun... and we will be adding Raw Monkey Camos this fall. Every decision I make is based on 3 principles: keep it simple, keep it fun and be the best.
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You Must Be an Artist We are, all of us, meant to create. We Art, like science, are ‘creat-ures’, thus it is evident in the world around us that as a spider spins a web, a bird builds a nest, humans are possessed of a spiritual and biological mandate to spin and build a world of beauty and function. The human distinction is the ability to make symbols.
Symbolism is the art of investing
the world around us with meaning by expressing the invisible or intangible through visible or sensuous representation. This is the simplest, the least unsettling definition of art and creativity.
From this definition, we have come
to believe and to thoroughly accept, without question, that art belongs to those who paint the paintings, write the words, and mold the clay; those representations of the intangible and the invisible. Art has therefore been divided into those who do and those who don’t.
The reinstatement of art into every
one of our lives, both in our ability to receive and to recreate it, is to return to living with meaning. Creativity is, like evolution, like all growth and change, an irrepressible force in nature. Thus far, only humans have attempted to turn away from this call, and a case can be made that it is this turning away that is the cause of so much of our pain, suffering, and longing. This suffering, however, is the result of confusion and misdirection, not hapless circumstance.
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philosophy, and civility, is our best defense against the insupportable weight of all that we don’t know. If we could disperse the weight among us citizen artists, come up with a more inclusive outlook, we could lighten the formidable load of ignorance. In the broadest sense, art is a response in whatever form it takes - an expression of the love and beauty and terror as it is given to us through the visible bounty of Nature that pulls us further out of the mire.
Creativity is anything that
fosters that indwelling spirit, any creation or activity that advances the progression of the unimpedable energy of growth that is life. The replication of that love and beauty, the balm that soothes the terror, or the release provided by the recognition of that terror, is our task, is the way of art and creativity, a whole-some response to existence.
Whether you are a fireman,
a pathologist, a babysitter, or a banker, you must be an artist. Must be means, first of all, the recognition of this as your identity, as in, ‘Oh, you must be an artist…’
Secondly, must be makes it imperative. You must remain fearless as well as awe-struck by the vast implications of Nature around us. In the meeting of this challenge, you will be recognized by a light in the eye of those you encounter, as extraordinary.
The commitment to
creativity, like any other commitment, will become an integral, necessary, part of our life once we realize that not only does our art spring from and define the core of our own identities, but more importantly, that it is an expression of that which is greater than ourselves. Thus who we are becomes linked with the world, and it is given meaning and purpose by what we do with this link. Creativity is the purveyor of meaning.
We begin with a sense
that there is something within us that must act and express. We begin by going beyond the sadness we have experienced at having this something repressed, discouraged, buried. We begin with the hope and the longing of the creative force within ourselves.
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??? Questions a Model Should Ask an Agency Part 2 or a 4-Part Series on Modeling with an Agency
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his second article of this series examines the questions a model will have once they set an appointment with an agent. The model needs to dress professionally and be ready to answer standard industry questions. The first initial meeting with an agent is critical because a model has one chance to prove to an agent that they are ready to be represented.
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he first question a model should ask an agent is “How much work does the standard model get once they sign a contract?� This question will let the agent know that the model is serious about working as a professional model. If the agent cannot guarantee work consistently, that should automatically trigger a red flag. Agencies need models and models needs agencies. The relationship between a model and an agency should be a collaborative effort.
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model should stay clear of agencies that make false promises upfront and cannot prove their claims. An authentic agency will not ask for money upfront from a model. If any modeling agencies ask for money prior to a committed signed contract from a model, the model should immediately turn down the offer. A good agency will find work for the model and will not ask for money upfront. The purpose of an agency is to find paid work for a model and allow the model to grow. The standard commission price that a booking agent will charge a model for commercial print, editorial, or advertising modeling is normally between 10 and 20 percent. The commission rate should never be higher than 20% and a model has the right to question the agent at any time if the commission price exceeds 20%. A model should never be frightened to ask an agent the status of any booked modeling job because the model is a value to the agency.
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he most important question a model can ask an agency is “Who is the best model in your agency.” This question will allow the aspiring model to learn who the best model is and get feedback from the agency and network with the best model. Modeling is more than just waking up in the morning and deciding to put on some cloths and pose for a photographer. The most successful models are the ones that know the competition, have a great attitude, and have the ability to network with anyone they come in contact with. A model can follow up this question by asking the agent “What are some qualities you are looking for in a model.”
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he initial meeting between an agent and a model is much like a game of chess. Each side wants to gain the upper hand and will attempt a series of moves to learn how the opposition operates. A contract should only be signed once both sides have reached a mutual agreement.
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he final piece of advice that’s imperative for a model is to not sign a contract during the initial meeting. A wise model will ask to review the contract for a short period of time (anywhere from 3 days to 2 weeks); so that they can process everything said during the meeting and have the contract reviewed by an independent lawyer. A contract is a binding law agreement, so once a model signs a contract they are bound to the terms of the contract.
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on’t make the mistake of signing a contract and not knowing everything that the contract declares. The important thing is to never stop questioning. A model can have a long career if they realize modeling takes great social skills and the determination to be exceptional.
Nathaniel Goodwin Model
& Writer http://nathanielraygoodwin.com
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