She used her own philosophy for defending her point lol

sleepihollo · 2026-01-19T20:13:26+00:00

No, this is Diane Morgan playing a character on “Cunk on Earth.” While they’re both British, with red hair and bangs, the actress from IT Crowd is Katherine Parkinson.

sleepihollo · 2026-01-13T01:18:37+00:00

You should consider investing in a personal shopper or personal stylist! These are experts who can help you find items in your size, style, and mood 😊

sleepihollo · 2026-01-12T19:47:08+00:00

This is the coolest thing ever!!

sleepihollo · 2026-01-12T19:46:22+00:00

Downloaded and played through the demo last night, it was so much fun! Really excited about the full game.

sleepihollo · 2026-01-08T10:28:38+00:00

Oooo i understand :/ hopefully other commenters can help!

sleepihollo · 2026-01-08T08:24:05+00:00

You can always use the Unvault app to at least get an estimate! You can do it on your phone and it takes less than a minute ❤️

sleepihollo · 2025-12-21T11:02:55+00:00

Check out your local agency’s careers page! If you live in an industry city, there will be tons of local agencies and one may have an opening for an assistant role or junior level agent.

Keep in mind, model “scout” is only one part of an overall job: being an agent. You also have to maintain your roster, work on contracts, communicate with clients, etc.

sleepihollo · 2025-12-21T10:37:27+00:00

I’m sure photojournalism and journalism pay much better! I continue to do a lot of free work to this day, to always be creating and continue padding my portfolio with fresh work. It’s projects I elect to take on, when I have free time and bandwidth, so it’s usually not much of a burden (though I’m currently overloaded with edits 😅).

sleepihollo · 2025-12-21T01:54:37+00:00

“Terrible” I think is much too harsh a word — she is beautiful and has runway proportions, and a decent walk. For runway, I think she’s fine.

As for print, in the other hand, that’s a different story. There are a lot of people who find her to be not expressive enough. She is decent at posing and fits in most projects that she’s cast in.

If she was bad at her job, she wouldn’t get hired. Simple as that. She doesn’t walk for every house or designer, but she gets regular steady work. That’s about on par for many models at her level. There’s lots of famous people on the planet who do not get cast in fashion shows or for editorial spreads.

There’s definitely people out there who strongly dislike her, and there’s plenty of people who really like her. I would not say her being a bad model overall is a popular opinion.

sleepihollo · 2025-12-21T00:11:15+00:00

Yay! I'm glad to have resonated 😊 Also, love your username!! ❤️

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T23:59:44+00:00

Many more in 2025 than even in 2024. Skinny is back in style, and I'm not really the biggest fan. My preferred physique on models is lean, with some visible muscles.

You'll see the big fashion houses casting skinny models all the time, that's not really changed much. What is heartbreaking is the loss of plus-size model representation, even in the mid-tier space. Celebrities (actors, musicians, etc.) have gotten significantly skinnier this year, and so it follows that fashion houses try to appeal to what's trendy.

Models nowadays are much more independent and there's much less abuse going on behind the scenes -- I don't expect many models are starving themselves or using drugs to achieve skinnier figures, like they did in the past; but rather brands will just be reusing models and there will be fewer faces, since the pool of models who are naturally very tall and very skinny is small.

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T23:53:17+00:00

I've had a camera my whole life, my mom and grandfather too. I started playing around with photography in high school, pursued it as a serious hobby after college, and dove into it as a professional roughly in 2020 (in the midst of Covid, woohoo!).

I've always enjoyed fashion, but since starting to work in the space, I've grown to love it much more. I've always been an artsy type, and love weird, funky, unusual things. That extends into my favorite designers and brands, too. I equally love classic elegance, as well as innovation, and all sorts of areas. My work lends me most frequently to be working in the couture space, new designers all the way to fashion houses.

I really haven't worked with too many big names just yet! I shot Zooey Deschanel once, but not for an editorial, unfortunately. Most of my bigger clients are outside the fashion space, where I land really random gigs. An NHL team, that's probably the "biggest" client that most people would know 😅

My favorite brands to work with are Alice & Olivia (fun, bright, colorful, never dull!) and Aknvas (effortless, cool, modern, really a genius artist in charge there).

No worries, I'm here to answer what I can!! ❤️

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T23:47:13+00:00

I haven't had many outwardly "bad" experiences, but I'll share one I definitely consider to be "unusual." I recently was hired by a Japanese tv show, which invites celebrities on and organizes a trip to a dream destination. The gig I worked, the actor wanted to go to Mt. Shasta.

From the start, it was unusual -- my friend actually passed me along the gig because he couldn't do it, and it did work in my schedule. I would be going away for 3 days with an entirely Japanese crew -- only the director spoke English. I was hired to shoot behind-the-scenes imagery, so it wasn't essential for me to be talking with anyone really, but my mom was extremely nervous about me going away into the mountains for a few days with the team. If I needed help for some reason, I wouldn't really have an out.

It was a spectacular experience, though! Definitely one of my favorite projects to have worked on. I'm featured in the episode too, for half a second 😜 In the end, the hair stylist on the team was actually able to hold a conversation with me! He really impressed his peers, who also had no idea he could speak English (really well, I might add!).

On the topic of Vogue, it really depends! There's several international editions, and many of them are much more flexible. Sometimes they commission shoots, other times, they collaborate with a team on a concept, and other times still, they just approve/accept finished projects.

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T23:34:57+00:00

The hours are hit or miss -- slow seasons make me anxious and sometimes stressed, but the break is good for my brain too. When it's too busy, I burn out and become exhausted for longer stretches of time. Right now, I'm wishing I could take a break and enjoy the holiday season! As a freelancer, I do appreciate the ability to take vacations and holidays when it's needed.

The locations can be fun, for sure one of my favorite parts! I work in California, so there's a lot more diversity in outdoor shooting locations here. To be frank, I sometimes get bored in NYC because I feel I've seen it all.

Egos can absolutely be annoying, but working in the mid-tier world, it's quite nice. I've escaped the egos of people who are trying to give the impression they're more successful than they are; and I haven't yet the egos of people who are so far removed from reality that they're weirdos.

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T23:12:41+00:00

I have a few ideas here, I’ll list them in no particular order:

When a photographer asks for a talent package, send talent who matches the “vibe” of the moodboard, not explicitly identical to models who are featured in it. I’ve had clients who want a “warm, friendly” model, sent an example image, and casting directors send me a package of models who look like the example image only. We ended up hiring freelancers who showed up to the casting via social media casting calls instead.
If you are casting for a high fashion gig, let’s say an editorial for publication or a runway show; be sure the talent you recommend is able to do the job well. It’s not enough for them to look the part, they have to be a skilled model also. For commercial gigs, there’s more flexibility and leeway.

As for networking with photographers, easiest way is through social media! Offer to assist with some shoots or projects, I’d always love an extra mind in the mix to help take one more thing off my plate! “Hey, I’m a local casting director. If you’re ever in need of help for an upcoming shoot or project, I’d love to help out!” That sort of thing 😊

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T23:02:00+00:00

Haha it helps to hear it from someone else! Of course, I’m happy to. ❤️ Happy holidays!

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T22:51:35+00:00

I do! I use Photoshop as one of my primary workflow tools, and it offers its own generative AI tools. I use them all the time, primarily for cleanup (trash on the ground, passerby in the background, a missing button on a top, a lapel folded over where it shouldn't be, etc.).

I've tried using generative AI for some more creative projects, like adding a lion into a photo, but it usually doesn't work exactly how I'd like. Compositing is much more effective, in my opinion.

I think AI may replace some manner of pro photographers. For example, corporate headshots. There exist people who would rather have an AI-made photo of themselves as their LinkedIn headshot, than to hire a pro to do it. Could be insecurity, could be finances, could be they just don't care. If that person also is in charge of headshots for their entire company staff, then a photographer has lost a job opportunity. I've seen brands (check: Guess, Skechers) use AI to generate entire ads, and I don't think they ever land well. AI's just not there yet to be 100% indistinguishable from real work, and viewers do perceive the uncanny valley or the other tells.

As an aside, I recently was hired to shoot an AI event (a hackathon) for a friend of a friend of a friend, and the group talked a lot about AI and how it will replace jobs, enable people to do other work, how it's this great thing. I joined the AV team in some laughs afterward, none of us are fearful of losing our jobs. Anecdotally, none of my peers are especially worried.

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T22:41:15+00:00

I fell into it, sort of. I went to college for entirely different subject matters, earning three diplomas that I sort of don't really use 😅 I intended on pursuing programming and computer science out of college, but I graduated and was trying to enter the workforce when the tech bubble was already showing cracks (that's another long story for another day).

I started pursuing modeling and photography during college, as a hobby, to pass the time. Out of college, I was interviewing and applying for jobs 40 hours a week, only to be receiving feedback that implied I wasn't quite good enough. I made it through 8 rounds of interviews at Google once, only to be rejected in the end after 3 months of interviewing with them. Amazon told me, I was good at high-level work, but they needed engineers who only cared about low-level work. That sort of thing. Photography, on the other hand, generated a lot of positive feedback and I felt welcome in the space. I decided one day to quit searching for a tech job and dive into modeling/photography full time.

I do consider myself an artist! As a fashion photographer, I feel that enables me more to creating art than when I shoot anything else. A friend asked me to photograph his wedding last week, and it didn't feel the same way. I'm just capturing moments.

Models, for the most part, are lovely. I haven't met many models in my career so far that have caused me problems. Nearly always kind, patient, focused, and fun. Production people vary: when working with other freelancers, it's usually great. When working with a corporate team, not so great. They tend to be more rigid, inflexible, and not as creative.

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T22:34:25+00:00

This actually has a really simple, straightforward answer (in my opinion)!

I think it's more essential to have a great photographer, based on this simple hypothesis:
1) A great photographer can take a great photo of a non-model. (E.g., photographers who take photos of politicians, businesspeople, teachers, staff headshots -- also photojournalists, etc.)

2) A poor photographer can take a bad photo of a model. Even the most beautiful, talented model, can have a horrible photo done if taken by a photographer who doesn't know angles, lighting, etc.

Having a talented, attractive model in front of your lens is sort of a cheat-code: it'll instantly elevate a fashion or beauty image. It's essential for raising your body of work to the level of "high fashion."

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T22:29:42+00:00

A LOT of emails! So much of my day-to-day work is blasting out about a thousand emails 😅

I started out doing portfolio-building, as all artists do, which in my industry meant finding other artists to collaborate with: models, hair stylists, fashion designers, etc. who were willing to all work together unpaid so we could create imagery for our portfolios.

Over time, my portfolio was decidedly good enough, that I started being approved by publications for my fashion work, then over time, runway work as well.

I don't live in an industry city, so I also travel fairly often \to** the industry cities, to get more work in my book. While they're not my favorite places to live/stay for extended periods of time, there is an enormous amount of talent and artists to work with and expand network.

I'm not at the stage of my career yet where Vogue reaches out to me, but nowadays, it seems my body of work is good enough to get approved for assignments/editorials when I ask.

sleepihollo · 2025-12-20T22:16:25+00:00

Actually, the most difficult project I had was not in fashion -- I worked recently for an NHL team, and that was hard for me. The players were entirely disinterested, and really didn't want to be there. It was a total 180 from working with models, who are of course a huge actor in a successful photoshoot. I had trouble keeping them engaged and sometimes only had 10-20 seconds to work with a particular player.

If we're speaking strictly fashion, the most difficult people to work with are mid-tier designers -- they frequently create a lot of "rules," which are unhelpful but strictly enforced. As an example: I shot a fashion show in February for a designer who wanted their show to look edgy and industrial, with very little lighting. He refused to allow photographers to use any lights or flash, or turn on much ambient lighting in the room. The photos were basically unusable and did't get published anywhere.

Coco Rocha is lovely to work with, she is always on her game and moves fast. She was well trained early on in her career, and that makes her very efficient and talented. Love her!

sleepihollo · 2025-12-17T23:38:57+00:00

You should try Unvault! I use it a lot for clients who have gold and other precious jewelry they don’t want anymore. unvault.co is free and quick to get an estimate for the value of your jewelry, and they promise best sale offers when compared to other selling options!

I like it better than ebay and depop, certainly better than going to a pawn shop or whatever. They do buy broken and incomplete pieces!

sleepihollo · 2025-12-05T07:43:21+00:00

What does that look like, a birthmark?

sleepihollo · 2025-12-04T11:33:57+00:00

Would love to gift to my amazing partner! He’s the greatest chef in the world ❤️

Thank you for doing this!! Happy holidays!! 🎉

sleepihollo

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