Alabaster Crowley wrote:

You get HIV ONLY through contact with bodily fluids from an infected person.

Usually this is through unprotected anal sex (both homo or hetero), contaminated blood or if you're super unlucky vaginal or oral sex.

You can not get it through wallowing in garbage or sewage.

J Jessica wrote:
How do I submit?
I have a few dozen awkward poses.

Magnificent!!

Virtual Studio wrote:

You get HIV ONLY through contact with bodily fluids from an infected person.

Usually this is through unprotected anal sex (both homo or hetero), contaminated blood or if you're super unlucky vaginal or oral sex.

You can not get it through wallowing in garbage or sewage.

You can also get it when your sarcasm meter needs calibration.

Virtual Studio wrote:

You get HIV ONLY through contact with bodily fluids from an infected person.

Usually this is through unprotected anal sex (both homo or hetero), contaminated blood or if you're super unlucky vaginal or oral sex.

You can not get it through wallowing in garbage or sewage.

I thought it was very obvious that Alabaster was being sarcastic.

Koryn wrote:
I call those "paid gigs."

There are some absolutely HORRIBLE pictures of me floating around the internet, but you know, I got paid for those and they've kept me fed and housed, so.... whatever...

+1

Monad Studios wrote:

I thought it was very obvious that Alabaster was being sarcastic.

Shrug. Sarcasm doesn't carry on the internet.

I mean you weren't being serious were you?

Alabaster Crowley wrote:

Puddles and trash. Exactly how you get HIV.

If they're filled with used junkie needles... Which from the looks of that area may be a very real concern.

B L ZeeBubb wrote:

You can also get it when your sarcasm meter needs calibration.

If it was sarcasm then it was in stunningly bad taste.

A whole generation of people suffered discrimination and ostracism because of rumours of how HIV was transmitted. Some things simply aren't funny.

Virtual Studio wrote:

If it was sarcasm then it was in stunningly bad taste.

A whole generation of people suffered discrimination and ostracism because of rumours of how HIV was transmitted. Some things simply aren't funny.

If?

Stunningly?



Whatevs.

B L ZeeBubb wrote:

If?

Stunningly?



Whatevs.

Try to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Not knowing something is innocent and fixable. Making jokes about HIV/AIDS is culpable and borderline homophobic.

So we assume the nice.

Whatevs indeed.

Virtual Studio wrote:
You get HIV ONLY through contact with bodily fluids from an infected person.

Usually this is through unprotected anal sex (both homo or hetero), contaminated blood or if you're super unlucky vaginal or oral sex.

You can not get it through wallowing in garbage or sewage.

Jesus Christ, dude. Tell that to the person I was being sarcastic to who I quoted.

Virtual Studio wrote:

Try to give people the benefit of the doubt.

Not knowing something is innocent and fixable. Making jokes about HIV/AIDS is culpable and borderline homophobic.

So we assume the nice.

Whatevs indeed.

This was posted as a fun thread on a site called Model MAYHEM.

Some of us joke about EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING, myself included.

I lost a cousin and two good friends to HIV/AIDS, I lost several friends to drugs, guns, disease, death and stuff. I have another friend who has been HIV positive since 1998 and is doing better than anybody would have ever expected.

I am watching 2 friends go through the end game right now.

I moved home to take care of my dad, who died of Alzheimers.

Someday I will die and so will you.

None of this is pretty or fun, it just is.

If I can't make jokes or laugh at humor, however sick somebody else thinks it is, I might as well be dead already.

You cannot expect this place to bend to your will and accept your conditions, it will only make you unhappy.

Let it go, I already did until you felt the need to go on and on.

Peace to you and laughter.

Alabaster Crowley wrote:

Jesus Christ, dude. Tell that to the person I was being sarcastic to who I quoted.

Perhaps you might like to.

Rather than turning it into a showcase for your elevated sarcastic wit.

Virtual Studio wrote:

Perhaps you might like to.

Rather than turning it into a showcase for your elevated sarcastic wit.

So about those awkward poses...

B L ZeeBubb wrote:

This was posted as a fun thread on a site called Model MAYHEM.

Some of us joke about EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING, myself included.

I lost a cousin and two good friends to HIV/AIDS, I lost several friends to drugs, guns, disease, death and stuff. I have another friend who has been HIV positive since 1998 and is doing better than anybody would have ever expected.

I am watching 2 friends go through the end game right now.

I moved home to take care of my dad, who died of Alzheimers.

Someday I will die and so will you.

None of this is pretty or fun, it just is.

If I can't make jokes or laugh at humor, however sick somebody else thinks it is, I might as well be dead already.

You cannot expect this place to bend to your will and accept your conditions, it will only make you unhappy.

Let it go, I already did until you felt the need to go on and on.

Peace to you and laughter.

Perhaps you need to reflect of the effect of your humour on others.

Virtual Studio wrote:

Perhaps you need to reflect of the effect of your humour on others.

Perhaps I have, many times.

The obvious conclusion is that everything is funny.

Especially humourless people.

B L ZeeBubb wrote:

Perhaps I have, many times.

The obvious conclusion is that everything is funny.

Especially humourless people.

OK - but that's Trolling. And against the rules here.

Alabaster Crowley wrote:
So about those awkward poses...

Virtual Studio wrote:

OK - but that's Trolling. And against the rules here.

Splendid.

After you get all the people who are trolling brigged you can have this lovely place all to yourself. That will be wonderful since you seem to be the only person you get along with.

Virtual Studio wrote:

OK - but that's Trolling. And against the rules here.

Good onya, you win the internet.


Back to our regularly scheduled program...

Awkward!

Rik Williams wrote:

Yikes!!  It looks like her head is going to fall off.

AJScalzitti wrote:
Looked over the whole thing and still couldn't find any models and it was even mentioned in the title

Because the only type of model is the agency standard model.....................

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Bobby C wrote:
You are missing the point, Udor. This is a critique of the degradation of infrastructure in the world. Don't ya get it ?

http://yareah.com/wp-content/uploads/20 … Urbain.jpg
That's supposed to be a woman washing clothes in a puddle by an "Award winning photograper".

Oh...   Duh!!!    I am so dense sometimes... LOL

AJScalzitti wrote:
Looked over the whole thing and still couldn't find any models and it was even mentioned in the title

I do have to disagree AJ!

Besides that a tad awkward pose... I think that this woman is an actual fashion model:



Btw., I actually think that I recognize this location. It's in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, close to the ramp to the Williamsburg bridge to Manhattan. 

J Jessica wrote:
How do I submit?
I have a few dozen awkward poses.

This is beautiful. Never, ever throw it away. I have a similar photo somewhere l, with a hand growing out of the back of my neck. I'll find and post it later tonight when I'm not having to use the phone. It's on my laptop somewhere.

udor wrote:
I do have to disagree AJ!

Besides that a tad awkward pose... I think that this woman is an actual fashion model:



Btw., I actually think that I recognize this location. It's in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, close to the ramp to the Williamsburg bridge to Manhattan. 

I actually missed that one, it was getting painful to look at them.  Still WTH is she doing?

Eugenya wrote:

Because the only type of model is the agency standard model.....................

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No.  You have standard, plus, petite, lifestyle, etc.  None of them should do those poses and all have a special something that makes them a model.

AJScalzitti wrote:
I actually missed that one, it was getting painful to look at them.  Still WTH is she doing?

Well.. AJ... THAT is a question I can not answer... maybe that's from the cutting room floor...

udor wrote:
I do have to disagree AJ!

Besides that a tad awkward pose... I think that this woman is an actual fashion model:



Btw., I actually think that I recognize this location. It's in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, close to the ramp to the Williamsburg bridge to Manhattan. 

That reminds me of the 'ballet dancers doing ordinary activities' series that was hyped up a little while ago. Seriously, look at her back foot, that's a dancer's arch and no mistake.

Pulling off awkward poses is one of the most difficult things in modeling.

NYMPH wrote:
. . . look at her back foot, that's a dancer's arch and no mistake.

Pulling off awkward poses is one of the most difficult things in modeling.

Ergo, my previous comment that I think a lot of the original-link's photos, and the one you refer to as well, may have been *staged to look awkward* –intentionally, and perhaps for the purposes of making an industry commentary.

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