as most of us know America's next top model has begun its ninth season. Yeah its hard to belive that we have already endured 9 cycles of watching wannabe models be widdled down to become america's next top model. but how relaistic is that these models will truly become a top model. the sad truth is proably none of the women will become truly successful models because of many reasons.
Reason 1: the women on the show are to old, period, eclamation point. its sad but its true. the world of modeling is a world that pulls young girls at the age of 13 and 15 to start a career that will last a good 10 years it is simply unrealistic that a women who is 25 is gonna have a career long enough to be considered a top model.
Reason 2: most of the women that win america's next top model don't have the qualities that big time magazines and designers are looking for to push their line. these people are looking for more of the eastern european look the girl next door which is typically what america next top model goes for. However it seems that they have started to change take a look at cycle 8 in whcih natasha a russian and jaslene a sex lataina were in the two to make the final run way challenge.
Reason 3: Relatity TV ruins you professionally. while it will give your quick 15 minutes of fame the truth is relity tv ruins people for the most part. its as simple as that. its simply hard to take anyone seriously after they've been on a reality tv show its as simple as that. shandi from cyle 3 is a perfect example. after signing with trump modeling she went on auditons only to be told that she is better for tv work rather than modeling.
these are some of the main reasons that the contestants of america's next top model will not be successful...but the show is still addicting and controls my life
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
Something that really impressed me
Last week in my Intro to Theatre Design class, our instructor Dave Noffsinger assigned us a two word project. In this project we each drew to words at random and had to come up with a way to connect them. We were to create a research board, a concept paper, and a box that shows our connection.
One of my friends Lauren drew the words soft and wire. we made jokes about the ways she could connect them and after that i went without thinking of what her connection would be. Honestly i didn't expect much from her because we all kind of took the project as a joke. well the day came for her to present and I was blown away at the metaphor she created while tying the two words together.
What lauren said was that while she was researching she just keep thinking about a soft wire. Then she said she thought about a trapeze act where the person walks across the wire. She then went onto explain how hard it is to walk on the wire and said that represented life. That our life is nothing more than a struggle get across our own personal tight rope.
In the box that we had to make to represent our connection Lauren had yarn going all over the place. she said that the extra yarn represent both obstacles that we have to over come and people that we meet in our life. She explianed that while we are all living our own lives our wire is intertwined with a lot of other peoples wire and that we must rely on some of them to help us get across our own wire and also be warry of the people who are trying to knock us off of our own.
Laurens presentatin made me think a lot about my own life and me realize how right she truly is about our wires being intertwined with other peoples. this was just something that really made me think and i wanted to know what you guys thought about it
One of my friends Lauren drew the words soft and wire. we made jokes about the ways she could connect them and after that i went without thinking of what her connection would be. Honestly i didn't expect much from her because we all kind of took the project as a joke. well the day came for her to present and I was blown away at the metaphor she created while tying the two words together.
What lauren said was that while she was researching she just keep thinking about a soft wire. Then she said she thought about a trapeze act where the person walks across the wire. She then went onto explain how hard it is to walk on the wire and said that represented life. That our life is nothing more than a struggle get across our own personal tight rope.
In the box that we had to make to represent our connection Lauren had yarn going all over the place. she said that the extra yarn represent both obstacles that we have to over come and people that we meet in our life. She explianed that while we are all living our own lives our wire is intertwined with a lot of other peoples wire and that we must rely on some of them to help us get across our own wire and also be warry of the people who are trying to knock us off of our own.
Laurens presentatin made me think a lot about my own life and me realize how right she truly is about our wires being intertwined with other peoples. this was just something that really made me think and i wanted to know what you guys thought about it
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
SPICE GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So for my first blog i have decided to talk about something that i believe that everyone will be interested in. Something life changing. Something so excititing it will have every gay in England begging. That's right the reunion tour of non other than the most famous girl pop supper group ever...the SPICE GIRLS!!!!!!!!!! yay!!!!!!!!!!!
First off for the select few people who don't know about the spice girls, i have but one thing to ask...were the hell were you during the nineties. As almost every human being knows the spice girls were huge not in their home country of England but in the entire world. With catchy pop songs that became instant hits to a movie that became a phenomenon. However, nothing so amazing as the spice girls could ever stand the test of times and despite their talk of sisterhood and girl power they broke up. leaving millions of fans with nothing to do except go home and put little cuts on their legs. j/k. (yay for will and grace quotes).
This attempt at a come back for the spice girls will not have been their first. In the year 2000 the spice girls released their first studio album in three years, forever. However, it did not generate the stir it had hopped, for without one of the most influential, Ginger Spice, the group just didn't have the same mojo. To put into terms how poorly this album did lets just say that the last single was properly tittled "Goodbye."
Like most groups that come to an unfortunate ending the individual band members took a shot at their own solo careers. Most of the spice girls while not being very big in the United States found great success in other parts of the world, mostly Europe because lets face if you can't make it in American where else you gonna go.
First of their was Geri Halliwell who's solo career was like watching a train wreck at first. For many reasons. For one in her first video for, Look at me from her first album Schizophrenic she tried to break away from her ginger spice roots even having a funeral cart with the name ginger on it, big mistake for every person and everyone realized except her. However after this she went on the sell over 3 million records of her first album. Then in her second album she made herself a legend, in Europe at least oh and the gay world, with her remake of the legendary Weather Girls song "its raining men"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXH7GiSaxs
This song became, according to the united world billboard charts, the number two song of the year placing second only to Lady marmalade featuring Christina agulliera, pink, Lil Kim, and mya. The song was also featured in the queer as fold sound track, and was a song on many DDR games. And if that doesn't make you start then i don't know what does.
Then their is by far my favorite spice girl solo career that of Emma Bunton aka baby spice. Her solo career while not nearly successful as Geri's is my favorite due to one song...MAYBE and let me say it is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eGoX8lHlgU
Its catchy sounds and almost musical theatre video make it my favorite by far.
Now one can never forget about the famous Victoria "posh" Beckham. who hit it big, no not when she had a number one hit but when she married soccer supperstar David Beckham. and ever since then she has not even ever needed to try and make and album. however to everyone dismay she did and the result was a very sad one indeed. For at one point in her career right before the release of her first big record label album she was booed off stage and had stuff thrown at her. needless to say the album didn't do so well.
Now of course there are the two other spice girls scary and sporty. Who haven't done anything particularly important. Scary who stared in the hit Broadway Musical Rent, and Beauty and the Beast, eventually found her name in the public with her who the baby daddy scandal with Eddie Murphy and sporty who has been going talking of her battle with anorexia oh yeah and she was also on the techno album Fired Up, you know the one with that really annoying infomerical that aways comes on during will and grace. Shes the one with the flower leaning towards the sun song. If you think about it you'll realize who I'm talking about.
well now that i have caught you up on all of the important stuff with the spice girls you can now become one of the millions who WON'T be able to get a ticket to their show because for one they only have 4 in a America. and two need i remind you of the spice world tour in which angry mobs of crazy mother cursed Ticketmaster for running out of tickets in a mear 25 minutes. and on top of all of that did i mention they only have four in America. GRRRRRRRRRR you spice girls.....so while the Thought of a spice girls Reunion tour sounds promising be prepared for heart ace for it is simply a ploy to get you to buy the greatest hits album. just remember whatever the outcome i am praying for the best.
Peace girl out girl scouts.
First off for the select few people who don't know about the spice girls, i have but one thing to ask...were the hell were you during the nineties. As almost every human being knows the spice girls were huge not in their home country of England but in the entire world. With catchy pop songs that became instant hits to a movie that became a phenomenon. However, nothing so amazing as the spice girls could ever stand the test of times and despite their talk of sisterhood and girl power they broke up. leaving millions of fans with nothing to do except go home and put little cuts on their legs. j/k. (yay for will and grace quotes).
This attempt at a come back for the spice girls will not have been their first. In the year 2000 the spice girls released their first studio album in three years, forever. However, it did not generate the stir it had hopped, for without one of the most influential, Ginger Spice, the group just didn't have the same mojo. To put into terms how poorly this album did lets just say that the last single was properly tittled "Goodbye."
Like most groups that come to an unfortunate ending the individual band members took a shot at their own solo careers. Most of the spice girls while not being very big in the United States found great success in other parts of the world, mostly Europe because lets face if you can't make it in American where else you gonna go.
First of their was Geri Halliwell who's solo career was like watching a train wreck at first. For many reasons. For one in her first video for, Look at me from her first album Schizophrenic she tried to break away from her ginger spice roots even having a funeral cart with the name ginger on it, big mistake for every person and everyone realized except her. However after this she went on the sell over 3 million records of her first album. Then in her second album she made herself a legend, in Europe at least oh and the gay world, with her remake of the legendary Weather Girls song "its raining men"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXH7GiSaxs
This song became, according to the united world billboard charts, the number two song of the year placing second only to Lady marmalade featuring Christina agulliera, pink, Lil Kim, and mya. The song was also featured in the queer as fold sound track, and was a song on many DDR games. And if that doesn't make you start then i don't know what does.
Then their is by far my favorite spice girl solo career that of Emma Bunton aka baby spice. Her solo career while not nearly successful as Geri's is my favorite due to one song...MAYBE and let me say it is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eGoX8lHlgU
Its catchy sounds and almost musical theatre video make it my favorite by far.
Now one can never forget about the famous Victoria "posh" Beckham. who hit it big, no not when she had a number one hit but when she married soccer supperstar David Beckham. and ever since then she has not even ever needed to try and make and album. however to everyone dismay she did and the result was a very sad one indeed. For at one point in her career right before the release of her first big record label album she was booed off stage and had stuff thrown at her. needless to say the album didn't do so well.
Now of course there are the two other spice girls scary and sporty. Who haven't done anything particularly important. Scary who stared in the hit Broadway Musical Rent, and Beauty and the Beast, eventually found her name in the public with her who the baby daddy scandal with Eddie Murphy and sporty who has been going talking of her battle with anorexia oh yeah and she was also on the techno album Fired Up, you know the one with that really annoying infomerical that aways comes on during will and grace. Shes the one with the flower leaning towards the sun song. If you think about it you'll realize who I'm talking about.
well now that i have caught you up on all of the important stuff with the spice girls you can now become one of the millions who WON'T be able to get a ticket to their show because for one they only have 4 in a America. and two need i remind you of the spice world tour in which angry mobs of crazy mother cursed Ticketmaster for running out of tickets in a mear 25 minutes. and on top of all of that did i mention they only have four in America. GRRRRRRRRRR you spice girls.....so while the Thought of a spice girls Reunion tour sounds promising be prepared for heart ace for it is simply a ploy to get you to buy the greatest hits album. just remember whatever the outcome i am praying for the best.
Peace girl out girl scouts.
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