A while back I was talking with an actress I've been lucky enough to work with several times, Rachel Delante. We were both embedded in long-term, time-consuming projects and doing a lot of, for lack of a better term, modeling on the side. I say for lack of a better term because I don't think either of us thought of it as classic modeling--we were working with visual artists using still photography to make cool images, rather than the stereotypical "look at how beautiful I am" type modeling.
I, for one, don't really qualify for the latter. I'm too short, too stubble-headed, too square-bodied. I'm nobody's first thought when they need a catalogue model.
But what we realized was that we enjoyed the process because it's a continual creation of character. Sure, there's no dialogue, but there is certainly performance, and there's no long-term development process for that character, but also, you are able to pop in and out of shoot after shoot after shoot and play character after character after character.
It's a hell of a lot of fun.
I bring this up now because I recently did a shoot with Aiden Rhaa, a Boston-based photographer, and the end results was a chance for me to play a character I doubt I'll ever get to play on a movie screen: The classic, fedora-wearing noir detective.
Aiden's a hell of a photographer. I'm vain by nature, and I never lie about that, but sometimes a project comes out so well that it kicks my vanity into hyperdrive. Tilting a fedora down over my eyes and pulling my collar up against the wind coming off the harbor is one of those things.
Here's looking at you, kid.
I, for one, don't really qualify for the latter. I'm too short, too stubble-headed, too square-bodied. I'm nobody's first thought when they need a catalogue model.
But what we realized was that we enjoyed the process because it's a continual creation of character. Sure, there's no dialogue, but there is certainly performance, and there's no long-term development process for that character, but also, you are able to pop in and out of shoot after shoot after shoot and play character after character after character.
It's a hell of a lot of fun.
I bring this up now because I recently did a shoot with Aiden Rhaa, a Boston-based photographer, and the end results was a chance for me to play a character I doubt I'll ever get to play on a movie screen: The classic, fedora-wearing noir detective.
Aiden's a hell of a photographer. I'm vain by nature, and I never lie about that, but sometimes a project comes out so well that it kicks my vanity into hyperdrive. Tilting a fedora down over my eyes and pulling my collar up against the wind coming off the harbor is one of those things.
Here's looking at you, kid.