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Pitching Tip for Models: Ride a Purple Cow
There’s a million hot naked chicks on the Internet. There’s a difference between those girls and me. Those chicks don’t talk back to you. — Tila Tequila, Queen of MySpace.
I’ve been getting a lot of email pitches from young Filipina models hoping to be featured in the Babes category of this blog. Let me give you a tip, girls: it takes more than regular print and ramp model credentials to get my readers’ attention. Traditional aspiring models are a dime a dozen. You need to do something remarkable, in the sense that it’s worth making a remark about. Ride a purple cow, if you will.
You could self-publish like UrFame, or write intelligent blog posts like Anna Bayle, or unleash your inner geek like Alodia Gosiengfiao, or become a YouTube Director like Happy Slip, or become queen of Philippine cosplay like Jerry Polence. Just make sure you come to me with something more remarkable than a bunch of magazine covers.
Time’s Person of the Year: You
You know niche media has gone mainstream when Time Magazine makes you Person of the Year. Yes, you, you, and you — including you in the middle passing notes, and especially you in front nodding (maybe not so much you in the back throwing spitballs). Yes, even you in the doorway lookin’ pretty. If the ’80’s was the “Me” decade of status seekers kissing up through channels, the ’00’s is the “You” decade of content creators making their own channels.
…look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
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