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2008 The Year To Make It Happen

Happy New Year! Goodbye 2007! 2008 is the year to make it all manifest and happen! Girlpower unite!

Wishes For The New Year!!

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Wishes For The New Year!

Wishing for lot's of success in my mobile endevors! Big thank you to mobile rated for going down the fashion path with me!!

Happy New Year!!

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Entering the year with good music, good mood, good people, and good prospects!! 2008 Starting with a Bang!!

2008 Here We Come!!

Tue 01/01/2008 00:01

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

New Year Celebration

On our way to our dinner i look up in the Wulin street and see me in a campaign! Wow! 2007 end is getting better and better as we near the 2008!

Great Clients!

Last night i worked my butt off jumping, flying, running, expressing, you name it! I had to pull out all the stops, it was a top job. And these two guys were the best, most fun, creative clients ever! I can not wait to see the photos. We finished at 1am and george, the big boss on the right (with the groovey sideburns) even drove me home and wished me a happy new year. We had so much fun and with Wong Jen's photographic skills, wow it will be the best catalog i've done so far.

Hallowell Experience

Hallowell is a pretty top brand here in China, with a big philosophy behind. We went to the casting to meet the head designer and he 'gave us the tour'. He showed us a few video's, he showed us documentaries made on him, he explained his philosophy, we tried on some clothes, and the whole process took around 3 hours. They were only looking for 1 guy and 1 girl. I really liked the brand and philosophy behind. The head designer spoke english he talked to us directly. Finally the most experienced of China models, Tray, had enough. He said, ok 3 hours for a casting is enough. We want to go home. Then the guy started to talk about money with us, and the job, which is kind of wierd. Clients never do that-it's why we have agents. But it's China, so everything is possible! But then the conversation got wierd and he started to say the brand had no money to pay the models but that his brand would make us famous and he'd use our photos world wide. At that point Tray got up and explained about usage rights on our images. We left pretty quickly after that and it was sad. The brand was good-clearly successful, but they were not interested in investing in good photos. Oh and by the way, the guy had a Hummer car downstairs. If they have no money how can they be a top brand in china? Who pays their store electricity? Who pays the parking for the Hummer and the gas? It was so disappointing but it left us all shaking our heads. Would have been so fun to work for that brand-but not for free! I would have loved to make his catalog because his brand philosophy was great-but clearly there's a disconnect somewhere. The model is the smallest part in the budget of a job; the studio and surrounding people far more expensive. I can understand giving young new designers a leg up, or even big campaigns like Prada and other brands use their media power as a bargaining tool when they negotiate the rate. But they always pay something. But as chris anderson said, we are entering a free market economie. Maybe we will all be living on prana?

second job of the day!

The photographer of the day was so satisfied with my work that he recommended me to another client and now i make a second job me the day. Wow! What an excellent way to live out the 2007! Making beautiful photo's, clients all satisfied, and even doing 2 jobs in a day! The year started off to terrible and i lost everything-but 2008 seems to be bringing me luck already. How excellent. I even have a job on 1 Jan. I'll enter the year prosperous. How great! I just hope to have enough energy to make this second job today. Wow.

China Modelling

I'm sure they would have fit more people in the car. . .