Fab Marketing Intern Jess imagines what it might be like if MASS MoCA and one of her favorite guilty pleasure television shows combined.
Last time, on MUSEUM’S NEXT TOP MODEL, we explored how to pose with a controversial piece so that you don’t ruin your career later. Some of you were exceptional, posing with just the right amount of professionalism to call on the experience in future interviews, but with an appropriate distance so that the artwork could be cropped out if it tanks. However, one of you did not come through with enough art in her eyes, and is no longer in the running to be MUSEUM’S NEXT TOP MODEL.
This week, we will be posing with LEGENDARY artist Iñigo Manglano Ovalle and his piece Gravity is a Force to be Reckoned With at the LANDMARK contemporary art museum, MASS MoCA. Each of you will be called upon to pose with Iñigo’s upside-down house to provide scale for his own portfolio documentation. This is an amazing opportunity to be seen by artists all over the world, but comes with a challenging twist.
For this shoot, you will need to appear as NORMAL PEOPLE. This is harder than any pose I have called on you to do this far and it will make or break your career on MUSEUM’S NEXT TOP MODEL.
Now, as I told Intern Jess on her way to being MUSEUM’S NEXT TOP MODEL, you are not trying to BE normal, you are only trying to LOOK normal. That means you must remember all that I have taught you, and find ways to STAY FIERCE IN THE FACE OF ANY AND ALL ADVERSITY.
1. SMIZE (smile with your eyes). It is SO important, girls, to ALWAYS be smiling with your eyes, even when you are sad or tired or hungry or pregnant. The smize this shoot calls for is an intellectual smize: one that says, “I understand this art, and I like it.â€
2. DO NOT LOSE YOUR NECK. So many models forget that they have one, and it is just a TRAGEDY. Do not be introspective and tuck your neck down like a sleeping duck. YOU ARE SWANS. Raise your heads high! Look at that upside down house! Crane to see inside it! Make yourself ugly-pretty!
3. DO NOT POSE LIKE A HOOCHIE. This is an art shoot. It is SERIOUS BUSINESS. There is no need for shenanigans.
4. BE YOU. A BIGGER, BETTER YOU. Sometimes you will come to a shoot and the photographer wants someone else. At this shoot, the artist wanted a man. Do not waste your time trying to be someone you’re not—it gets very expensive. BE THE NOUN AND NOT THE VERB.
5. MODEL THROUGH IT. I always tell my girls to have their favorite music playing during a shoot—it will kick your poses up 10 notches! This shoot was silent, which was a CHALLENGE. Solution: PLAY THE MUSIC IN YOUR HEAD AND MODEL ON.
Now, go! Be art models! I BELIEVE IN YOU BECAUSE BEAUTY COMES FROM INSIDE AND YOU CAN BRING YOUR INSIDES OUTSIDE BUT NOT IN A LITERAL WAY BECAUSE THAT IS GROSS. You are all still in the running to be MUSEUM’S NEXT TOP MODEL.
Posted March 16, 2010 by Brittany Bishop
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