Thursday, March 28, 2013

Anticipatory blah-de-blah

John Biddle, NIN in 2011

Full-time planning for modeling is underway. I've been doing some modeling over the last year, of course--but it's been a year and a half since I was full-time, taking those adrenaline-aggravating trips where my hours are laid out on a spreadsheet and I sometimes am left to deal with very unexpected downturns.

It can be stressful, it can be exhilarating, it can be disheartening, it can be rewarding.

That's the infectiousness of it, I suppose--I see it all the time. A well-known model will announce that she's going to retire...only to return a few months or a year later.

And it makes sense--both the attempt at quitting, and the failure to truly knock it. After a certain point, I think some of us just have the lifestyle embedded in ourselves in a very fundamental way, and it becomes tempting--but almost impossible--to renounce.

My best trip ever, as a model, was when I went on a comprehensive tour of the east coast a couple years ago. I not only made more money than I have anywhere else--but I made more friends, had more fantastic experiences [not a single bad shoot], yielded wonderful results [my portfolio was quite happy for that trip], and had a lot of fun side-adventures [including milking goats, building a cob bench, and riding a Vespa around Western Mass, getting shown around secret parts of the Natural History Museum in NY, decorating myself in random objects and sitting in a sink pretending to be a pirate of sorts, and being taken out to some phenomenal eateries...oh, and I posed naked outside of the UN in NYC, that was a rush]. Had only one cancellation--and that one led to a referral to a wonderful two-day shoot, so no harm done.

Hoping to top that experience this time around. 8]

Monday, March 25, 2013

EAST COAST TOUR: May 14th-June 6th

PJ Reptilehouse, Oaklandia
It's official. Plane tickets are booked.

Flying in and out of NYC.

On my radar:
NY, NJ, PA, DE, DC, VA, [possibly WV,] MD, CT, VT, NH[, possibly ME].

I've just begun booking--get in touch!

geya [dot] frallows [at] gmail [dot] com

It's been almost two years since I've modeled back east! VERY excited! 8D

Monday, March 4, 2013

Travel noodling

Christopher Lee Donovan, NH, 2011
Fuck yeah. This is why CLD is awesome. And all the way over in fucking New Hampshire.

So, speaking of. I'm thinking about travel.

For starters:

Absolute number one priority: East coast trip. I love it over there--for many, many reasons. Among those reasons is this one: never have I found modeling to be more fun, more lucrative, or more gratifying than over on the east coast.

And it's been two effing years since I've been back east--I don't know how time got away from me like that, but there we go.

I'm thinking May, for about three weeks [I'd go for five or more, but bittersweetly there are elements at play that currently prevent me from being away from home-base for longer than about three].

I'm thinking NY, MA, NH, CT. I'm also thinking I've never seen VT or PA, and I would like to rectify that. Oh, and I'm thinking a detour down to DC is definitely in order.

Will book airline tickets as soon as I have a clearer idea.

For after-starters:

Second priority is getting to the Pacific Northwest. Probably taking a car for this one, though I'm not positive yet--heading up the California coast to Portland, Seattle, and [if I can find my passport] Vancouver. I miss it up there. So that'll be happening. Currently thinking June-ish.

I'd also like to try modeling in the Midwest [never been to Chicago...], return to the Southwest [New Mexico, I love you!], and make a return trip to the South [though probably not over the next few months...I've found that Texan Summer is not my friend]. Oh, and go to Hawaii. And Alaska. And abroad. And elsewhere. And so on.

And of course I'll be in, out, and around the Bay every so often [heading back and forth from Reno, which I've adopted as my current home base].