A couple of weeks ago, I had an offer to do some modelling for a pretty well known Italian fashion brand. The offer came to me through an Italian musician/artist friend of mine who is active in that field, and in touch with the founder of that brand. I told my friend that I was very flattered [which I really, truly am, believe me! =)], but working in that specific field is just not an interest of mine, and really not in harmony with my life style and fields of activity and work that I’m interested and involved in.
So my friend relayed my response to his friend [a lady working for the brand], and then came the real surprise. A few days ago my friend told me that his friend had said that she was wondering why I had said no to the offer, since she had seen my profile on Facebook [oh, yeah!] and I had listed “modelling” as one of my interests. Apparently she was very curious as to whether I have an offer from some other brand or agency that I somehow found more interesting. =P
Well, as you can imagine I had very big round eyes when I read my friend’s message saying all that. I knew that unless I was suffering from multiple personalities disorder, I couldn’t have possibly listed “modeling” as an interest of mine, and to all honestly I don’t think my friend believed that I had done so either. =P So then I ended up doing some digging in my own Facebook profile, and guess what… I discovered that I did in fact have the keyword “modeling” in there. Quite a few times too actually. Page names such as “Modeling the World” and “NLP Modeling” and numerous others with the “modeling” keyword most certainly are listed in my interests. =P Except of course, [well here comes the funny], those are all about _SCIENTIFIC MODELLING_!!! D’UH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here’s the moral of my story, and my advice to all the recruiters out there: Make sure your target model is interested in the same kind of modelling as you are. =P And when you see something with the word modelling in it on someone’s FB profile, CLICK ON IT, you’ll see it may or may not have anything to do with your kind of modelling. And yes, there are, in fact, OTHER KINDS OF MODELLING in this world! =PP
We’re still having a good laugh over this so thank you….. ;))))
Last week, a Swedish friend of mine who is well aware of exactly how culture-curious I am, did me the huge favour of directing me to the deviantART gallery of a brilliant Danish comic artist. This artist has created a fictional character for each Scandinavian country, through which she depicts the popular stereotypical characteristics of the people and the culture of each of these countries. It’s of course quite satirical, and extremely funny.
In the past few days I’ve been going through this artist’s gallery, reading through all her comic strips, and I’ve had a great deal of laugh doing so. I highly recommend that you do the same. Here’s a more sophisticated version of her main characters:
From left to right: Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
Don’t you just love the look on Sweden’s face? =)) And apparently Finland’s character has quite a fan-club [and I totally want his hat!].=D Iceland has a parachute, that makes me jealous. Norway has cute hair and a huge fish. =)) Somehow the first thing I did, was sharing this with a Danish friend [xo] who’s apparently been sharing it with just about everyone in Scandinavia…. =D
A few months ago, a neighbour’s cat walked right into my bedroom when I opened the flat door to come in. After inspecting my bedroom for a bit, he found himself a comfy place on a mini table under my window, and that was that. The cat didn’t seem to want to go out! =) I tried picking him up and putting him on the floor and leading him to the door, but he just turned around and went right back to where he was. Then I sat down and started doing some work on my notebook, and the cat would just circle around my chair and rub his fur to my feet. =)) Any attempts of getting him to get out was completely unsuccessful. Until finally after about an hour of playing around in my bedroom, he finally “accepted” to go back home.
If you know anything about raccoons, you probably know that they never let you get close to them. They raid people’s backyards and if one of them finds its way to your kitchen, you should probably say goodbye to any food you had in there. =) And they seem to detect human presence from kilometres away, ’cause the only thing you get to see of them is their cute behinds jumping up and down running away from you with the speed of light. =) And then, once when I was sitting under the rain, in my aunt’s backyard, I noticed one of these cute creatures slowly walking towards me… I was expecting it to just turn around and go away at some point, but that didn’t happen. It walked right to the spot where I was sitting, and then it climbed up my jeans all the way to my knee, so that it’s eyes were looking directly into mine. It was extremely odd! I even petted the raccoon’s back a bit. So it was just sitting there on my knee for some minutes.. I don’t even know how long. And then it decided to leave….. it was a very cute encounter. =)
Yesterday, I noticed that a couple of pigeons were in the balcony again… up to some mischief. I love them really, but they make a bloody mess in the balcony that seeing how I’m on the 23rd floor, is slightly difficult to get cleaned. 😉 Anyway, I knocked a few times on the glass door to the balcony… quite certain that they would be scared and leave. Well, that didn’t happen! So I stepped in the balcony, excepting them to fly away any second now. That didn’t happen either. At some point, I found myself face to face with the pigeons… close enough that I could see all the shiny pretty colours in their eyes. And I was laughing my head off too, seeing how they were just.. standing there watching me! =D So at the end I gave up… and walked back in…. it’s as if they knew the threat was simply non-exiting! =P I swear, one of them was totally giving me the “yeah, right” look! =)))))
And these are just a few….. so… what is it with animals and me anyway? Any theories? =)))
So this running gag of uncertain origins has finally landed on Facebook, and even has it’s own fan page now. =P Not that I have a clue as to who created the page, but here it is, the online testament to the apparent fact that it’s all my fault. Check it out! =P
Hey, I'm Aasemoon, and this is my blog which has been around since 1998. Childhood toy project that ended up growing up with me.
You can reach me here:
aasemoon.blue
Zorbas is my kitten. You can see some pictures of him below. =)
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