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If you are going to use a "professional" name for modeling, why as a model would you pick something so crazy. I can just imagine you getting the call from Ford or Wilhelmina : "Hi, are you... Crazysexycitygirlontopofamountain22AcaciaAvenue?" Oct 06 12 06:53 am Link We're not all going for agencies. Oct 06 12 07:08 am Link they aren't looking for an agency, obs. Oct 06 12 07:43 am Link and calling out Crazysexycitygirlontopofamountain22AcaciaAvenue is illegal on MM, you can get brigged for that! lol Oct 06 12 07:44 am Link Digital Design House wrote: Well, that's sorted out all the stupid llamas who would never have thought of that. Oct 06 12 08:36 am Link Caustic Disco wrote: Oct 06 12 11:50 am Link P I X I E wrote: I know PIXIE, I was just using them as the setup for the sarcasm. It just sounded better than: "insert client name here." Oct 06 12 11:55 am Link do you really think they're using that name to apply to agencies? Oct 06 12 12:37 pm Link Anna Adrielle wrote: G-d only knows.... I refer you to a line from a not-so-great American movie, "stupid is as stupid does". Oct 06 12 12:45 pm Link I'm using an alias, is my name crazy? This is mostly because this isn't a career for me and I don't want people googling me and finding implied nudes or risque photography. Oct 06 12 01:04 pm Link Alivia Autumn wrote: I would have no problem calling you "Alivia." Any name that is convenient to use is good. Oct 06 12 01:16 pm Link Digital Design House wrote: There's a difference between an online username and a name you will be published under. Oct 06 12 03:24 pm Link Amelia Talon wrote: I do know that online personas are different from real life but my point was the wacked out names ... I don't understand. I am so glad Marion Morrison decided that crazysexydukeofthewesttexasplains45 was a bad choice and went with John Wayne. And by the way for the record, you are not ugly by any stretch of the imagination and I am so glad that your mom did not have an abortion. Oct 06 12 07:01 pm Link That's a better name than skankyhobag!!:-))) Oct 06 12 07:12 pm Link Is my name "crazy?" I don't know. No one has cared so far. I don't have any plans to go to an agency. Any clients are alternative, and use plenty if not most models with names like this. Oct 06 12 07:20 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: Alabaster Crowley is close enough to Aleister Crowley so by default its a cool name Oct 06 12 07:38 pm Link Digital Design House wrote: That's what I was going for. Oct 06 12 08:13 pm Link because some girls either don't know any better, or they just don't care. I doubt any girl is going to walk into Ford and give them a screen name. Oct 06 12 08:15 pm Link Digital Design House wrote: The point is still the same. Youre assuming that these girls intend to make serious mainstream inquiries with clients/agents/etc. Theyre not. And if one of them DOES happen to be special enough to meet requirements to get booked a mainstream gig, I doubt she'll have any trouble giving her real name to THEM. Someone who shoots alt nudes, for example, will have a harder time covering her tracks and being seen as partaking in something socially acceptable to other people (friends, family, lovers, employers, etc) than a girl who shoots next falls GUESS ad. Oct 07 12 12:55 am Link Mark Salo wrote: Are they using different names to separate genres of work? Because Id say that makes sense. Oct 07 12 12:58 am Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: In a word, no; but if your friends call you Ally, most people do probably thing your birth cert says Allison or some similar spelling. I can just go by Fig, which doesn't happen either. Oct 07 12 07:34 am Link Figuremodel001 wrote: No one calls me Ally. Oct 07 12 10:40 am Link My only problem with crazy names is that I'm never sure how to address people in messages. Oct 08 12 08:49 pm Link This is where I look at my own screenname and blush ;P Oct 08 12 09:06 pm Link IDiivil wrote: At least your name can fit on one card Oct 10 12 02:10 am Link I don't want to be easily found online except to find others to work with; I have my profile set to private so unless you're a member you can't see my work. I give a "real name" people can call me in the first message along with email and phone number if discussing working together to resolve that problem. For "real life" life modeling work for schools and for contracts/ model releases I put my legal name. But honestly a few times in the past few years I've been friends with people on FB that were from MM so they knew my almost real name and referred to me as that name on here... Anyone that's important in my life knows that I model and it's probably in vain, but I'd rather not have a permanent traceable connection between my "real" self and this self. I've had photographers request me to remove their names from credits online because I credited them incorrectly, now I check every time whether I should credit someone as "fashiontographereclectic09" or "Aaron Sorksie" as an example, no matter how ridiculous the former sounds. Oct 10 12 07:51 am Link I am, and always have used my real name, and people still think it's fake! Oct 10 12 08:01 am Link Lee Nutter wrote: just say "Hey" Oct 10 12 08:10 am Link Digital Design House wrote: An editor who used to work at Houghton Mifflin told me that when the author Ai phoned him she started by saying "It is Ai", which confused him because it sounded sounded like "It is I", and so he had to ask who she was. Oct 10 12 08:21 am Link Initially, I really don't care what the name is because I'm going for the look and there's no conversation, just keystrokes. I find that once contact is made, real names are revealed anyway. Oct 10 12 08:21 am Link Maybe they use a "model name generator." Oct 10 12 08:48 am Link JessicaBaker wrote: Thank you Jessica, I came up with a "model name generator" It works the same way as "what would your porn name be" but just a bit longer. Oct 10 12 12:05 pm Link Digital Design House wrote: Oh, this could get fun. Oct 10 12 01:28 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: or creepy Oct 10 12 03:21 pm Link - im too small to be considered by agencies in the first place, a 'professional' name doesn't really matter to me. - i dont get shoots based on my name. - i dont want to use my real name. Oct 10 12 04:35 pm Link Why would you use a professional name when you could use MelanieAss2tight4u Oct 10 12 05:56 pm Link Digital Design House wrote: ThatonegirlwiththepigtailsquirkyfemaleImnotgoingtolivelongenoughtoseetheworldend47cantremember Oct 10 12 05:58 pm Link P I X I E wrote: +1 Oct 10 12 06:03 pm Link You never know. CrazySexy... might be someone's nickname. My stage name's mine. Oct 10 12 06:05 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: I think so. Its funny how a thread morphs. Oct 10 12 06:34 pm Link |