Monday, December 13, 2010
Modelling, and Modelling!

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..... ;))))

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Monday, December 06, 2010
People who have inspired me...

A while ago I was asked this question on Formspring: "Which people inspire(d) you? (name a few if there are too many) Explain how they inspired you." I ended up writing a pretty lengthy answer to it... and I was planning on turning it into a blog post, but hadn't gotten around to doing so yet. Interestingly enough though, I've been receiving the same question from various people in different contexts all over the place, so I guess it's best to write it down here and refer everyone to it. So, below is the answer to the question, and here is a link to the original question.

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Hmm. This is an interesting question with a pretty huge answer. =) Yes, there are indeed too many people who inspire me. It may be that I get inspired easily, by many things, ranging from very simple to very sophisticated. It could be a single sentence that someone says, or the simplest act, and what I get out of it could be massive.

Ok, lets name a few, more or less randomly and off the top of my head.

- My mom. Mahroo Araeenejad. =) She's the strongest person I know, with a pretty much unbreakable spirit. She's the power house, the one to rely on. And not just for me, for everyone around her. She has a heart bigger than this universe and a soul purer than sunshine. She inspires me in more ways than I can count.

- My uncle. Dr. Mehdi Ghalibafian, also known as "the father of Iranian concrete science". His wisdom, his dedication, his courage, his knowledge, his resourcefulness, his intelligence, his fantastic sense of humor, his kindness and his amazing personality will always be a source of inspiration to me.

- Isaac Asimov. His books, specially the robot series, were among my main reasons for getting interested in robotics, AI and futuristic technology as a child, and later on choosing that as my main field of study and research.

- Frank Herbert. The author of the Dune series. His books are life changing. Food for mind and soul.

- The Little Prince. The adorable fictional character of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's legendary book of the same name. This book is like a road guide to life for me.

- Mike Oldfield. His music speaks to me, very often saying that not even the sky is a limit.

- Albert Einstein. I don't think I need to explain this one. ;)

- Thomas Edison. The God of "if at first you don't succeed, try try try again".

- My friend TanTan. She has many many amazing qualities, but something about her that really inspires me is how truly fantastic a friend she is. I mean really, there's being friends and then there's being her.... <3

- Vincent van Gogh. Hard to explain. There's something I see / feel in his paintings that is very difficult to put into words, but it's quite inspiring. I read his biography as a kid and it had a great effect on me somehow.

This list could go on forever. Really, for EVER. It would include friends, musicians, scientists, engineers, writers, artists [and certain demoscene artists / musicians / coders would have their special place!]. But time is limited, and as I said, this is just a few, off the top of my head. This turned into an essay. Perhaps I'm going to make it into a blog post. And add it to Verse, so I can add people to it in time. Thanks for the idea. =)

Cheers!

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