Fetish
Cares Spotlight
Model Profile: Widow
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7th: Do you think
more models should be more creative with their appearance (i.e.
piercings & tattoos) to break the stereotypical images of
the modeling industry? |
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| Widow: Well I guess that would depend
on what the person was modeling for. If it was truly something they
wanted to make a career of, then I agree with the agency/industry
that the ability to be a chameleon is a very useful asset. Out standing
permanent features like tattoos or piercings can seriously limit
job options in certain markets and if you want to make a business
of your looks, you had better be prepared to be business-minded
and diversify your appeal to as large of a market as possible. Now
if the modeling is just something you want to have fun with and
try your hand at to see what comes of it, |
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| I say there are plenty of models out there being VERY creative
with their appearances already. I find this genre of model is becoming
a lot more recognized also, as the new ideals take hold. I don't
think it will be too far from now that we will see a few serious
agencies popping up to represent the already vast wealth of the
less mainstream looks. Most of the creative people in the fashion
industry, which form the stereotypes, are already in love with and
using the alternative looks. The stereotype is changing; constantly
will be. I'd almost say we're on the verge of having the pierced
and tattooed model as the stereotype. The only thing that really
bothers me about the mainstream industry's present stereotyping
is when they try to take a model that has quirks like piercings
or funky hair colour, or some such statement of originality, and
tries to take that from them by saying "if you get rid of this
or that…or cut your hair like we tell you too…then we'll
represent you and you can really make it" Screw that, I know
tons of beautiful people out there doing very well with their own
style and own self-made career, not as someone's puppet. |
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| 7th: Why do you choose to use an alias instead of your
real name? And Why did you choose that name? |
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Widow: When I first started poking
around the internet world, I had a huge "Big Brother"
fear! So there was no way I was going to be putting anymore of my
personal information on the net than was necessary (I was so paranoid
at first that I refused to get any kind of personal |
| internet connection and just used friends computers or the ones
at the cyber cafes). Hence the desire to choose an alias. The modeling
foray also started as an online venture only, so the model and the
alias then became intertwined. |
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| So the next question, why the particular Black Widow alias….let's
just say it was born out of a time in my life when that little creature
was my guardian and totem animal, I had a lot to learn from her
at the time. The alias commemorates that transition in my life. |
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| 7th: When you are being photographed, do you feel there's
a part of you that only comes forth when a camera is in front of
you? |
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| Widow:No, not at all. That's the
one thing that got me into this modeling venture and that keeps
me doing it, it's the fact that I'm capturing my Self and moments
of my history. The way I am in front of the camera is the way I
am a lot of the time in my life. Of course I have my moods and downtime
when I'm introverted, but camera or not…I am often a very
projective person when it comes to my personality. |
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| I think that's the main reason a lot of people say I seem so natural
in front of the camera. It's also helpful that I do the modeling
as a hobby rather than a job. I can therefore choose projects where
I'm being myself or facets of myself that I want to portray without
the pressure of having to act a roll I'm not interested in because
I need the work. So cameras in front of me is just a chance to capture
who I am at that moment, though I will admit to hamming it up every
now and then *laughs* |
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| 7th: Has there ever been a song that you felt captured
your life. What is it? and why? |
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| Widow: Queen - Show Must Go On
I've lived through a lot of different types of adversity in my
life experience and despite it all, I can truly look into myself
and see an optimistic person that can keep smiling through the
frustrations or hurt and rise above the circumstances. I'm a fighter
and don't give up easily in life, I'm constantly pushing onward
no matter what stands in my way. The show of life will go on with
or without me, and damn it if I'm going to miss being an active
part in any of it. |
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| 7th: Why did you decide to pursue a career in modeling? |
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I don't know if I'd say I have a career of any sorts
since it's something I do fairly sporatically and it's not a significant
part of my income. I chose to make a hobby out of modeling when
I first started nosing around on the net and got a lot of response/interest
to the few pictures I had online. I quickly found it to have the
potential to be a great avenue for my personal creativity. |
| So the pursuing has been fed by it being a useful medium for various
creative projects I am inspired to undertake. A representation of
constantly mutating desires. |
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| 7th: What are your aspirations as a model? What do you
hope to accomplish with this? |
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| Widow: I don't have any specific goals with the
modeling anymore outside of having fun with it. When I first started
down the path of "fetish/alternative" modeling I was a
fan of the UK magazine SkinTwo and I recall that was one of my main
goals….to be published in that. A couple years ago the magazine
started a regular model feature and they asked me to be the first
one featured. So with that goal reached I realized there were still
many more opportunites and options with the modeling, so I'm just
sticking my fingers in all the puddings I can right now….enjoying
it for what it is. |
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| 7th: What, in ways of modeling, would you like to do that
would set you apart from others? |
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| Widow: I don't really want to try
to set myself apart from others in an active sense, there's too
much diversity out there in the category of alternative models to
say that I could somehow set myself apart from everyone else who's
being unique in their own way. I just hope that my presence and
personality in the pictures, and as a professional person to work
with, makes me stand out of it's own merit. |
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| 7th: What would you say to someone that said that all
models are "vain, vapid airheads"? |
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Widow: I recall reading HellBelle's
response to this question in her interview and I have to agree with
her statement about that stereotype being mainly true due to the
fact that a lot of mainstream models are young. They haven't had
a chance to realize there's more to life than looks and/or popularity
yet. Though I'd say that's really only applicable to the mainstream
modeling world. It has become a limited label nowadays |
| in that a lot of people out there right now who are making waves
as alternative models have a lot more going for them in the brains
department. They have to because they have to represent themselves
and sell themselves, no agents just telling them where to be and
when to be there. They need to be business minded AND sexy. |
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| 7th: If you were asked to do a professional fetish shoot,
what would be the layout of your ultimate fetish glamour shot? |
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| Widow: Someone like Giger or Brom
as the set and costume designers, somewhere in Japan with a Ninjutsu
theme/feel to the activity in the pictures, Aeon Flux-esque! |
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