I've never really been interested in comedians, but lately I've been able to watch a good couple of live shows and shows on tv.
About a year ago, I was introduced to Jeff Dunham by a friend and ever since then I have watched that show so many times that I can probably recite it word for word, and between a couple of my mates and I we have our little inside jokes that relate to good old Jeff, with his puppets, and at the end of the day they're are so many people who actually know who Jeff is because he has become really popular recently.
My brother also absolutely loves Mike Naiker's comedy, who is a white south african comedian, that grew up in durban and is probably a better indian than most indians, at times he can be funny... Just not when I'm trying to work and I have my brother making me listen to this guy talking about fly fishing being childish because you tease fish with false and fake flies for hours and hours. ha ha!
George, my friend also introduced me to the world of Kevin Bloody Wilson, and we went to go watch him live at Carnival City, although I never actually got to watch his show - I watched his daughter open for him and I was horribly drunk, but from what I can remember I almost pissed myself laughing at this woman. Singing about Catholic Girls being nice girls.... and the fact that chocolate is better than sex, amongst other things that really hit home for me and the boys didn't understand why I was laughing so hard. I was laughing so hard because it would of been things that the boys didn't understand. Once Kevin Bloody Wilson finally came on stage, I went to go and look after a very drunk Brett. I was drunk too, so I can't really complain. Good night though, I just learnt that I mustn't drink beer because of how quickly it gets me drunk. ha ha!
The most recent comedian that I watched last night, that had been recorded on my PVR at home. Jim Jefferies, the Aussie living in the UK and performing in the USA. An absolute laugh. I loved watching it... Simple and small facts that man comes up with, are literally outstanding. Really hilarious, but also so bloody true. If you haven't heard of him - youtube him NOW! You seriously will not regret it :)
I'm really trying to get a hand on this blogging thing... not sure if its working though, oh well, its always better than actually working :)
Flea
Tuesday, 05 October 2010
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Spam/ Joke Emails
I love receiving emails that are jokes that are:
1.) funny
2.) New: that I haven't read before
3.) literally make me cry because they are so funny...
4.) are not sickening to read or ruin my day once I've read them...
But at some point, the people who constantly email me 100 times a day with joke mail, it actually becomes spam mail to me at least. If I am my pc at the time of the email being sent, then its great, I can open, read and load all the wonderful and sometimes very weird pictures that you have sent me but at other times, like for example over the weekend, I see them initally on my blackberry and can't always see the pictures properly for many reasons, one being that the pictures do not always load or you can't see them because of the size of the screen. And constantly when I look at my phone I see that tiny red dot flashing away at me and I somehow initially think that someone wants to get hold of me, but its just you, again sending on jokes, like you always do.
Now I know there are many solutions to this problem, change my email address on my Blackberry, mark you as spam, ask you nicely not to send these mails to me but I don't want to do any of the above. I only want to do the above when you send me horrifying and terrible imagery that in some cases makes my stomach turn and I have a strange urge after reading your mail that I want to throw up....
I understand that shocking things are happening all over the world and we all need to be aware of it, but I don't want to see it on my work email, if I want to see that stuff I will log onto news24, or switch on sky news, or I dunno - read the newspaper?
I've been guilty of spamming some of my friends mail boxes, but at the end of the day I don't do it as much as mine is spammed daily. Maybe we all need to think before we hit forward? I mean we all need to work sometimes don't we? Why don't you start to do some work today instead of forwarding me rubbish that has been going around cyber space for years! I have been going on the internet daily since I was probably 11 years old.... Lets not forward EVERY email we receive.
I challenge you today :) Lets see if you can do it!
Flea
1.) funny
2.) New: that I haven't read before
3.) literally make me cry because they are so funny...
4.) are not sickening to read or ruin my day once I've read them...
But at some point, the people who constantly email me 100 times a day with joke mail, it actually becomes spam mail to me at least. If I am my pc at the time of the email being sent, then its great, I can open, read and load all the wonderful and sometimes very weird pictures that you have sent me but at other times, like for example over the weekend, I see them initally on my blackberry and can't always see the pictures properly for many reasons, one being that the pictures do not always load or you can't see them because of the size of the screen. And constantly when I look at my phone I see that tiny red dot flashing away at me and I somehow initially think that someone wants to get hold of me, but its just you, again sending on jokes, like you always do.
Now I know there are many solutions to this problem, change my email address on my Blackberry, mark you as spam, ask you nicely not to send these mails to me but I don't want to do any of the above. I only want to do the above when you send me horrifying and terrible imagery that in some cases makes my stomach turn and I have a strange urge after reading your mail that I want to throw up....
I understand that shocking things are happening all over the world and we all need to be aware of it, but I don't want to see it on my work email, if I want to see that stuff I will log onto news24, or switch on sky news, or I dunno - read the newspaper?
I've been guilty of spamming some of my friends mail boxes, but at the end of the day I don't do it as much as mine is spammed daily. Maybe we all need to think before we hit forward? I mean we all need to work sometimes don't we? Why don't you start to do some work today instead of forwarding me rubbish that has been going around cyber space for years! I have been going on the internet daily since I was probably 11 years old.... Lets not forward EVERY email we receive.
I challenge you today :) Lets see if you can do it!
Flea
Monday, 02 August 2010
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Is Fashion The Fickle-ist Industry Of Them All?
Aaah, so an overly discussed topic in the makeup/modelling/photography world, is going to be just an even more so overly discussed topic on my blog, but hey, its my blog, I can say what I please. I'm speaking from my experiences in the industry with the numerous amount of people that I've worked with in my short career in this field.
I read on a forum the other day, something along the lines of - "models have feelings too..." and the model went to discuss how it hurts to be rejected time and time again after attending every casting that becomes known to them, only to be rejected for another girl with the same dreams as said rejected model. Sad fact of reality, no matter how in shape, and well groomed the 'models' keep themselves, unless they are that small percent that manage to get a big break, the rest of them can enjoy modelling for ammateur photographers, and have pretty photos for facebook as payment, the good old TFCD, unless if they start doing promotions, but at the end of the day, the promotion lifestyle is not going to be glamourous as everyone thinks the modelling world is.
A lot of the models that I've either photographed or made up, have literally been doing the photo session as a means of a confidence builder in their lives, not many had admitted it but when I think about these girls, their confidence and self esteem was low at the point before the shoot where makeup and discussions of the shoot expections were being spoken about, but once that shoot is finished, they have a run of confidence and finally start feeling better about themselves and then their "professional photographs" are then plastered over Facebook and all their friends will comment and tell them how fabulous, amazing, draw-droppingly-sexy that they are.
I can't speak as though I know why all these girls and boys model, but that is the impression I get based on the experiences with many of the people that I've worked with. What grills with the generalised persons that I've mentioned above is that they do not actually take into account how much work goes into preparing for that shoot on the photographers part, as well as the makeup artists part sometimes. Yes, neither photography nor makeup artistry is rocket science, in fact its quite the opposite it is an art, and so is modelling, I am not taking that away from the models. Photography = light + time, and getting that right all the time is not easy, and what is makeup when it comes to photography shoots? Understanding the concept and vision that both the model and photographer have in mind and being able to bridge the gap, contour, highlight and emphasize as well as paint and create something that is not so everyday normal than what the model looks at in the mirror.
Its not only the models and makeup artists that suffer the rejection that the models deal with from not getting work from castings. Photographers and makeup artists are in some instances represented by agencies. Agencies that if you get into the correct and right one that they can make killer livings, however, they stil suffer the same rejection, humiliation, and constant being told that their work is not good enough... The problem, may be just that, the work is crap or the problem may be that the market for that particular area of talent may be saturated and monopolised by individuals with completely different ideas than the person looking to be represented, to make a living, ad that there may be NO WORK in that particular field that the individual is looking for work in.
Another problem, in South Africa is that our industry is actually rather small and that in fact, everyone in this business knows everyone, maybe not personally, but everyone knows of each others work and opinions on certain matters, thanks to modelbase and all those lovely networking tools that photographers exploit to market to the general public masses, such as facebook, twitter, myspace, etc etc. I think all photographers, makeup artists and models have the most friends possible on facebook, because they want to market their talent to the general public, who in fact couldn't give two hoots about whether I photographed a model with the correct lighting and contoured her face correctly in right spots to make her look even more beautiful. I fear that this industry may actually be pushing themselves onto everyone on the social networks in the hope that they get a paying customer, so they can get paid for the talents that they have instilled in themselves and the artistic eyes that they were born with in order to make a living.
Thats my little bitch and moan for today on my wonderful blog.
xo
flea
I read on a forum the other day, something along the lines of - "models have feelings too..." and the model went to discuss how it hurts to be rejected time and time again after attending every casting that becomes known to them, only to be rejected for another girl with the same dreams as said rejected model. Sad fact of reality, no matter how in shape, and well groomed the 'models' keep themselves, unless they are that small percent that manage to get a big break, the rest of them can enjoy modelling for ammateur photographers, and have pretty photos for facebook as payment, the good old TFCD, unless if they start doing promotions, but at the end of the day, the promotion lifestyle is not going to be glamourous as everyone thinks the modelling world is.
A lot of the models that I've either photographed or made up, have literally been doing the photo session as a means of a confidence builder in their lives, not many had admitted it but when I think about these girls, their confidence and self esteem was low at the point before the shoot where makeup and discussions of the shoot expections were being spoken about, but once that shoot is finished, they have a run of confidence and finally start feeling better about themselves and then their "professional photographs" are then plastered over Facebook and all their friends will comment and tell them how fabulous, amazing, draw-droppingly-sexy that they are.
I can't speak as though I know why all these girls and boys model, but that is the impression I get based on the experiences with many of the people that I've worked with. What grills with the generalised persons that I've mentioned above is that they do not actually take into account how much work goes into preparing for that shoot on the photographers part, as well as the makeup artists part sometimes. Yes, neither photography nor makeup artistry is rocket science, in fact its quite the opposite it is an art, and so is modelling, I am not taking that away from the models. Photography = light + time, and getting that right all the time is not easy, and what is makeup when it comes to photography shoots? Understanding the concept and vision that both the model and photographer have in mind and being able to bridge the gap, contour, highlight and emphasize as well as paint and create something that is not so everyday normal than what the model looks at in the mirror.
Its not only the models and makeup artists that suffer the rejection that the models deal with from not getting work from castings. Photographers and makeup artists are in some instances represented by agencies. Agencies that if you get into the correct and right one that they can make killer livings, however, they stil suffer the same rejection, humiliation, and constant being told that their work is not good enough... The problem, may be just that, the work is crap or the problem may be that the market for that particular area of talent may be saturated and monopolised by individuals with completely different ideas than the person looking to be represented, to make a living, ad that there may be NO WORK in that particular field that the individual is looking for work in.
Another problem, in South Africa is that our industry is actually rather small and that in fact, everyone in this business knows everyone, maybe not personally, but everyone knows of each others work and opinions on certain matters, thanks to modelbase and all those lovely networking tools that photographers exploit to market to the general public masses, such as facebook, twitter, myspace, etc etc. I think all photographers, makeup artists and models have the most friends possible on facebook, because they want to market their talent to the general public, who in fact couldn't give two hoots about whether I photographed a model with the correct lighting and contoured her face correctly in right spots to make her look even more beautiful. I fear that this industry may actually be pushing themselves onto everyone on the social networks in the hope that they get a paying customer, so they can get paid for the talents that they have instilled in themselves and the artistic eyes that they were born with in order to make a living.
Thats my little bitch and moan for today on my wonderful blog.
xo
flea
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