Generally around October I start to pace my floors and pray that I make it through hiatus to see the New Year. Winter Hiatus in LA is no joke! Nobody works, it’s absolutely terrible. Between Thanksgiving and New Years eve god help you. My first one in LA was nearly lethal and not of the Mel Gibson Chris Tucker variety.
This year worked out really well. Aside picking up new clients I revisited old projects. During mid December I worked on my 2nd episode of CSI NY. I wore a blue wig and looked like something out of tron. Alison Brown was the director and she was lovely. My hair guy was the fist TV hair guy I ever had when I used to work on the show Numb3rs. He specializes in strange color and hair pieces. Met some awesome new girls on the show and ran into a few I had worked with before.
In addition too a HUGE project I’m filming right now that I cant talk about. It’s will be stellar and I cant wait for everybody to see it.

Here’s a new development in the never ending saga that is France’s apparent disregard for age-appropriateness (or our extreme prudishness and over-sensitivity–depending on your persective): a new line of “loungerie” (that’s lingerie plus loungewear) for girls aged three months and up has just been brought to our attention. It’s called Jours Après Lunes, and it bills itself as “the first designer brand dedicated to ‘loungerie’ for children and teenagers, comprised of loungewear and lingerie to be worn over and under, inside and outside.”

It basically looks like lingerie–with maybe a tad more coverage–and would be totally okay for adults to wear but Jours Après Lunes is producing this stuff for girls ages 4-12 (the “loungerie” for the 3 month – 36 month age range is actually age-appropriate and cute, thankfully), so that mother and daughter can match. According to the site, the designer has a long background in designing lingerie (for grown ups) and she’s designed a “femme” collection for the over-tween set.

What’s disturbing about Jours Après Lunes is not just the fact that it’s lingerie for people who probably shouldn’t be old enough to even know what lingerie is, but the photographs on their website. The little “filles” are styled like grown women with Amy Winehouse hair, sunglasses and pearls and there are a few instances of Thylane Blondeau-esque seductive gazing and reclining poses.

We now know what Thylane Blondeau’s mother was talking about when she said her daughter’s French Vogue spread wasn’t that bad–at least Thylane was fully clothed!

Despite being more age-appropriate, even the photographs for the “femme” collection are unsettling. The way the young-looking model is posed with that sunglasses-wearing teddy bear–she’s made to look like a child, while the actual children are made to look like adults.

What do you think? Should four-year-olds be hanging out in bras and panties…with nothing over them…with pearls? Is there any context in which that makes sense?

Take a look at the collection.

My thoughts on this.  I have zero issues with the composition of this campaign.  I don’t think this girl feels very sexy, I think she’s just feeling like she has ” big girl stuff”  I don’t see anything sexy here, maybe if you do you’re looking in the wrong place.  If I was a 6 year old again this stuff would have been way nicer to wear then then licensed character underwear out of a plastic pack at target.  Let the kids have their cutesy stuff if they want it.  Some little girls can tell the difference from the target stuff and the nice stuff.  People are missing that women don’t really dress for men they dress in what they like.  McQueen Armadillo heels are an item some people would kick their grandma to be able to wear and I highly doubt men like amradillo heels.  The reason a four year old wants a bra is because kids want what ever they see.  As for the styling maybe more kids should have hair styles, not cheap $10 hair cuts from because their parents don’t think its worth it to keep up their child’s hair.

Everybody that is able to operate the camera on their cell phone is a “Model”.  Why is this, I really want to know?  It seems that everybody except working models has no clue what the difintion of model is.  The people who do porn, escort, girls on myspace, GWC’s excetera NOT MODELS, nasty hair, skin and ghetto nails…. not a model….. never made a pay check from modeling…. not a model… beauty pageants…not modeling

Its really easy to say “oh that person just relies on looks.” If you think modeling, entertainment or fashion is a easy job you have obviously never experienced any of the above. So to combat those who judge or just plain hate try this line. “Your little 8 dollar an hour job must be easy because your time isn’t worth very much$”.  Bottom line this isn’t glamorous. Like I’ve always said I love my career more than words but its not as fun as it looks.  Everybody has a rough go at things at one point or another.  Some people have it rough forever or usually just as long as they have their head up their ass.
I reassess my direction and priorities on a weekly and monthly basis. Being able to adapt to that it is key. Make note in writing of what your trying to do and the steps to get there IN DETAIL!  I cannot stress enough how important it is to write out specific things that need to be done to get you where you need to be.  An actual plan of action,  not just a heading but a footing as well.  When a couple months pass review your old notes and see what ideas you made a reality.   It really helps keep a perspective of what is going on.  I always forget what things I’ve done and sometimes I need a reminder of where I was and where I am.  Sometimes its just looking at my resume or thinking about “I remember when I didn’t think that was possible but now its old news”.  Keep things moving everyday. Get up and attack.

Work Out from Quake on Vimeo.

Last week I danced on the new video Work Out for J Cole.  It was a long shoot but the best crafty that I have had on a video.  However, the night catering wasn’t very good.  Drake showed up just to hang out for a few hours towards the end of the shoot.  He didn’t do anything about the icky catering.  I wore a blue dress and heels that I had worn to the BET awards 2 years ago.  The girls who worked on this video were hands own the best group of videos girls I have ever worked with.  They were all loads of fun. Jake Davis directed and most of the crew were females.  On rare occasion are there female crew members that are not in the beauty departments.  Made for a nice change of pace over dirty, furry crew guys who make bad jokes and ask stupid questions.  Kerri whose last name I don’t know but is kind of my hero because she is an executive producer on a lot of projects.  She really kept this shoot moving by yelling at the 1st AD to get his shit moving so we didn’t need to extend our permit.  J Cole had his homies at the shoot and they were great sports on the long hours.  They had lots of questions on how these things come together.

Yes we called the guy with the mouse Jesus hehe

WTF THEY SHOT TWO VIDEOS

This video was posted on Vevo

Gallery in Planet Hollywood with Hennessy Black

On Tuesday in Las Vegas,  Tva Parks and I went out to Gallery Night Club to pop open some Hennessy Black.  As it happens I already knew the people we went to go party with.  Jey Hall works on music with Veto aka Dr. Dre’s engineer.  The world really is just to small.  Any how look for more to come with this group we have big plans in the works.  Comment on you thoughts on Hennessy Black.  I don’t even drink but this stuff is great.

Getting our bottle service right

Tva Parks and Jey Hall

Last week while in Hawaii I went all the way to north shore to do a photo shoot. The light was amazing and the water was super warm. Water in California is like standing in a bucket of ice therefore shooting on the beach is not as fun as it looks. Although shooting on Hawaii beaches is pretty rocky and my knees were not happy with me.
I have yet to see the images but I’m happy with the light and wind that day. Expect serious diva shots.

This is the first draft of my book prologue it will be published in different words but carrying the same message.
While I do love my life. If you are interested in working in entertainment because its glamorous you’re wrong, stop reading and go be an accountant. Standing chest deep in the ocean at 4 am in december is not glamorous. Neither is eating bad catering or spending you’re day wasting gas on auditions you’re not going to book. Not everybody is qualified for every job. I have no business being a train engineer. Same goes with any aspect of entertainment. Im never one to preach creativity or artistic god given power. I have neither however I am over 5’8″, have correct bone structure in my nose cheeks and eyes and I fit into sample size.