Photographer

Star

Posts: 17966

Los Angeles, California, US

another thread on flakes, yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, I call this girl today because she confirmed to shoot today but my last mail telling her the time has been moved up went unread, even though she has signed on. I get her boyfriend and left a message, he indicates that she has two interviews this afternoon but he will try to get a hold of her for me, I say ok but I am going to assume that means that she is flaking.
Than, I get this angry phone message back saying that she must not have written my date down in her calander, how dare I call her a flakE when she came all the way down from S.F. early to shoot with me on the 20th and I flaked on her. I cancelled the shoot on the 20th, on the 12th. BTB, the initial contact came from a tag she left me saying she would love to work together.

So below are our messages, is it just me or she doesn't read everything?
Was I unclear?
Can you believe there is another freakin thread on this topic?

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Me: I am looking to shoot on the 20th or 26th, would either of those dates appeal to you.
the 20th is at the beach, the 26th is at my loft and at Cal Poly botanic gardens. There will be a make-up artist and a lot of fun very extreme deconstructionalist looks going on,

Star
(Message read)   07/06/05 3:59 PM

 
Her:
So is the shoot TFP or Paid?

Nude or not...

Just let me know the finer details and you can probably count me in!

Hope to hear from you soon!

Truly,

***Sorry I didn't get your messages until now... I'm on vacation until the 13th.
  07/08/05 6:46 PM [editors note, the 13th not the 20th. How on earth did she come home early?]

 
Me:
that makes sense, this is TFP But I am getting a make-up artist, course I always get one or two, and you get full sized images no watermarks. On the day a of you get a CD of websized images, and than you send me as many images as you like, really 20 or 30 is not unusual, and I fix them up perfectly. I'll sedn you more information on Monday, I want to have all the finer details down...

Star
(Message read)   07/08/05 9:49 PM

 
Her:
That sounds great!

I'd like to book the 20th - The botanic gardens sounds awesome![editor's note, you will notice the 20th was to be at the beach]

Talk to you soon!
[her personal information, and no not even in private will I tell you who she is]
  07/09/05 3:18 PM

 
Me:
I had to cancel the 20th, other obligations, but I have the shoot schedualed for the 26th or 28th if either of those might work?
(Message read)   07/12/05 7:54 PM

 
Star
California
[lots of shoot information below, you don't need it]

(Message read)   07/12/05 7:54 PM

 
Her:
What date are we on for? Tomorrow? the 20th?
  07/19/05 10:37 PM

 
Me:

I had to cancel the 20th, I have the 26th or the 28th available,

Star
(Message read)   07/20/05 9:20 PM

 
Her:

The 26th sounds doable for me.

Thanks,

  07/21/05 5:21 PM

 
Me:
ok, I'm confirming you for the 26th, will you be at Fetish ball?

Star
(Message read)   07/21/05 10:50 PM

 
Me:

Just confirming one more time the call time tomorrow is 1pm,(I pushed it back)
the location is 300 s.thomas #209, Pomona, Ca 91766

Star

Jul 26 05 01:46 pm Link

Photographer

Marvin Dockery

Posts: 2243

Alcoa, Tennessee, US

Star 


You will do better if you can switch to phone calls after the first email. 

Jul 26 05 04:03 pm Link

Photographer

Weldphoto

Posts: 844

Charleston, South Carolina, US

What do you want us to do about this?

Jul 26 05 05:07 pm Link

Makeup Artist

Tracey Masterson

Posts: 553

Shelton, Connecticut, US

I did probably about 60 seconds of detective work to figure this one out.
That stinks.  Now I really understand your bio! lol
It seems like you were bending over backwards here.  Not cool on the model's part. 

Jul 26 05 08:24 pm Link

Model

Sibyl Nin has retired

Posts: 857

Brooklyn, New York, US

..girls like this really give all models a bad name...sorry about that..that sucks donkey d*ck!

Jul 26 05 08:35 pm Link

Wardrobe Stylist

stylist man

Posts: 34382

New York, New York, US

Posted by sibyl: 
..girls like this really give all models a bad name...sorry about that..that sucks donkey d*ck!

I just thought it was funny that Sibyl was responding to the Flake thread.

Jul 26 05 08:40 pm Link

Photographer

Bruce Muir

Posts: 586

Potomac, Maryland, US

This isn't all that unusual.

Jul 26 05 08:51 pm Link