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I've been on MM for awhile now and I can pretty much say I have seen it all. From the cat fights to the rants about TFP's, to the internet sluggo, pimp daddy wanna be. My question is this. Why are YOU here? Is it to network and build a business? Is it to promote your business? Are you an "internet" model with dreams of being the most down loaded woman or man on the net? Are you an up and coming artist using the site for growth and knowledge? Me? I use it for a bunch of reasons. 1. I've always wanted to be in a position in which I could put the teams together and create something. From print ads to Music video. I love to create. I hate limitations and I love people. 2. I'd like to pursue my crafts, my many crafts..many of those crafts require other people, from models to make up artist, and even other photgraphers. 3. And most important. After years of struggling and not getting a break, i want to be the guy that can give others that break. I want my place in life to be something I can share. After all, what is any level of success worth if you dont spread it around? So, I ask..why are you here? And what do you wish to accomplish? With regards, vance McDaniel Feb 01 06 08:24 pm Link Im on here so I can look at hot chicks! Just kidding. Feb 01 06 08:29 pm Link To network  Hey, I'm honest.... Its also to improve my skills and get some good inspiration. Feb 01 06 08:31 pm Link B(o)(o)bies - that's why I keep saying that portfolios with no nekkid pictures inside should be CLEARLY MARKED so that I don't waste my time popping in. What a friggin waste, oh man.... Feb 01 06 08:32 pm Link I'm prety much new here, and new to the fashion world... I guess I'm here to connect with ppl and probably meet new ppl to work with as someone else said it.. inspiration Feb 01 06 08:32 pm Link None of the above. Here strictly for the fun of talking to y'all. Business is all conducted elsewhere. Just pleasure. :-) Feb 01 06 08:34 pm Link to do my portfolio work and to meet some photographers and models. i've worked and met some great people on this site-and some really awful rude characters who like to criticize me and pick at every little thing. i don't kiss ass-you shouldn't either. otherwise you get nowhere. Feb 01 06 08:37 pm Link pamela mars wrote: I like that last part... Feb 01 06 08:40 pm Link I'm addicted to the comedy in the forums. Feb 01 06 08:41 pm Link Vance wrote: you leave the suckahs behind and move forward! Feb 01 06 08:41 pm Link if i told ya...i'd have ta kill ya... Feb 01 06 08:41 pm Link i needed yet another empty addiction to distract me from furthering myself. myspace and alcoholism just weren't cutting it. kidding. i like screwing around in the forums. Feb 01 06 08:42 pm Link Monsante Bey wrote: hah-did you read my thread?! Feb 01 06 08:43 pm Link Christopher Bush wrote: haha-myspace!!!!!!! Feb 01 06 08:44 pm Link I am looking to meet models who want to contribute to the creative. Who have an idea as to what art is, and who have some passions they want to capture. I want to network with photographers, to learn and to share. Feb 01 06 08:46 pm Link I've tested with a couple of girls from here, and produced work that I'm happy with from that, but I'm certainly not here to "establish" myself, or even to network, really. All that's done at the street-level (or, more accurately, all that is something I'm working on getting done at the street level ). The Internet has done very, very little for me in terms of business, but good ol'-fashioned legwork has helped me make decent progress at times. In short, I expect absolutely nothing in terms of real career advancement from a Website, no matter how cool it is. So.... I'm here for the advice (with a salt-shaker handy for that essential grain!) ... Here to look at some wonderful photography and be inspired ... Here to see some beautiful and talented models and also be inspired ... And here to read some great and fun posts by some very cool people (after sifting through the drivel posted by a few keyboard cowboys, just like on any other popular message board), and (cyber-) hang with like-minded folks 'Nuff said. Feb 01 06 08:48 pm Link I'm lost, and, being a guy, unwilling to ask directions. Heck, it almost killed me just to admit I'm lost. So I just keep wandering around like I'm supposed to be here... Feb 01 06 08:51 pm Link MM is the myspace for models, photographers, stylists, and makeup artists to talk. Honestly, I like MM better then myspace. Networking is sooo much better. And the help you get from others is amazing. Yeah I am a MM whore. Anyone else agree? Feb 01 06 08:52 pm Link pamela mars wrote: Can you believe I still haven't signed up for that? Am I the only one here... or, like, in the whole world? lol I tried Friendster and all I got was spam. I deleted my account. Feb 01 06 08:54 pm Link I am here to learn more about the industry through talking to other models as well as photographers. I am also here to find photographers to work with and to find some paid work. Feb 01 06 08:59 pm Link fotocycle wrote: haha-yea-i think you are one of very few on here-i heard about mm on myspace. Feb 01 06 09:05 pm Link fotocycle wrote: Well said, so I must ask. Feb 01 06 09:07 pm Link To waste my time reading the same kind of stuff over and over again in the forums and responding numerous times to repetitive questions... Feb 01 06 09:14 pm Link JvR wrote: lol.....could you repeat that please? Feb 01 06 09:17 pm Link Vance wrote: Feb 01 06 09:28 pm Link Models. I'm here to find beautiful, fearless models. It works. -Don Feb 01 06 09:40 pm Link I came here to learn and network. Iâve been able to do both with great success. When I joined this site, I had been shooting for about 6 months. Since Iâve been here, Iâve met and worked with 20 or so models, most were local and 3 have been come other areas including Canada. Shortly after I joined this site, I started hosting photographer and model network meetings in an effort to bring the models and photographers together in a public setting and neutral grounds so they could talk face to face and even test shoot. Since coming here, my group of industry friends has grown from about 3 or 4 photographers to well over 300 photographers, models, makeup artist and stylist. Since coming here, Iâve been referred to other models and promotional/production leaders in the local fashion industry. It just keeps getting better each and every day. Feb 01 06 10:00 pm Link Networking, mostly. Interacting with the many smart people around here is a good way to pick up some good knowledge, too. Portfolios act as sources of inspiration. Although I do run across the occasional silk-wrapped dog turd, I've found most of the people here to be fairly genuine. Feb 01 06 10:29 pm Link My left hand asked me to come here. (j/k!) For comedy and pleasure mostly (oops, went back to the first line!). Real photo business done in the "real world". But this is a great place to meet other like-minded people. Without MM, I wouldn't have known TH Taylor who actually shares a close friend with me. Without MM, I wouldn't have met Kaytee, Hartsoe (who graciously sent me a print!)...and many other great people. Feb 01 06 11:38 pm Link I AM HERE TO TRY TO FIND MY INNER BEAUTY AND TO TRY AND CAPTURE MY HAPPINESS, SEXUALITY AND ETHNIC BEAUTY ON CAM....I AM HERE TO SHOW MYSELF THAT I DO LOVE MYSELF AND I AM STRONG AND I AM NOT THERE QUITE YET BUT I ALMOST KNOW WHO I AM....I AM HERE BECAUSE I AM NOT TH AVERAGE SMALL OR MEDIUM FEMALE...I AM A WOMAN WHO HAS MANY CURVES AND WANT TO DEAL WITH THEM AND ANALYZE THEM WHEN I SEE MY PICTURRES....I AM HERE FOR ME Feb 01 06 11:42 pm Link I'm here for the free beer Feb 01 06 11:44 pm Link For me, the internet provides a type of model that you may not find within a nyc agency. I enjoy shooting glam-portraits with off beat talent, whom has real character flowing in the veins. The internet is sort of like keep in touch with the streets. The raw edge in talent can lead to something new in the work and most of all keep one loose. For the good, bad & the ugly. I really like it. Feb 01 06 11:56 pm Link Get ideas for shoots and to network. you can never know enough people... Feb 01 06 11:59 pm Link TV sucks! Well, gotta go, mythbusters is on! Feb 01 06 11:59 pm Link I came here to get some jobs. I'm now addicted cause of the forums lmfao Feb 02 06 12:06 am Link x Sapphire wrote: I avoided the forums for the first few months. Then Don lured me in. Damn him. Feb 02 06 12:08 am Link CristinaLex...Bravo and hats off to you. That was a heart felt answer..:-) So it seems there are many views and many approaches to MM. This is one of the better threads I've been a part off. True artist at all levels conveying one common thread..PURPOSE..different views, some funny and well thought out, others from the soul and touching. To me, that's the best reason to pick up a camera and shoot. Not for the sexist women, or the most grissly "blood fest" capture. Instead a combination of all of the above because we all come from on common thread. A thread that drives all artist from the professional to the nivice. A thread born of emotion driven by passion. So perhaps, the "drama" comes from the passion that surrounds all artist? Hmmmmm Or, I could just really be smokin some good buds.. Either way, food for thought.. With Regards, Vance McDaniel Feb 02 06 12:53 am Link Vance wrote: Well, my mom and dad got together a number of years back, and.... Feb 02 06 01:28 am Link get myself out there a little and get experience with photographers Feb 02 06 01:39 am Link So I can answer yet another âWhy are you Hereâ? topic. B(o)(o)bies. And to find dates. Feb 02 06 01:43 am Link |
