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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away ...
... I gave my consent to let the illustrious Les Toil (a.k.a. Brian Clarke) use me in an image that was commissioned by my photographer's studio. I was 19. I mentioned that I would have liked to be in a classical piece--some goddess in her curvy radiance, so he drew me as Venus on a half shell. (Please ignore the spelling error in my own letter to him ... I wasn't as neurotic about it then as I am now.)
So the other day I get a request for my permission to use this image in a calendar. Now, you'd have to know me pretty damned well, like my mother, to know that I check calendars for their September image to see if it meets the standards of my birth month. I won't buy a calendar if I don't like the September picture. I don't want to see a sub-par image the entire month of my birth each year, so it must be exquisite. When these people contacted me about placing me on the calendar, they mentioned that they might put me in the month of my birth provided that there wasn't someone already being held for that spot. Sure enough, they emailed me today and said I'm the September girl. Me. They'll send me the url to the online Toil calendar when it's up and running. I'm not really sure how I feel about that ... I'm giddy, yet rather hrm ... well, I just don't know. Murr!
... I gave my consent to let the illustrious Les Toil (a.k.a. Brian Clarke) use me in an image that was commissioned by my photographer's studio. I was 19. I mentioned that I would have liked to be in a classical piece--some goddess in her curvy radiance, so he drew me as Venus on a half shell. (Please ignore the spelling error in my own letter to him ... I wasn't as neurotic about it then as I am now.)
So the other day I get a request for my permission to use this image in a calendar. Now, you'd have to know me pretty damned well, like my mother, to know that I check calendars for their September image to see if it meets the standards of my birth month. I won't buy a calendar if I don't like the September picture. I don't want to see a sub-par image the entire month of my birth each year, so it must be exquisite. When these people contacted me about placing me on the calendar, they mentioned that they might put me in the month of my birth provided that there wasn't someone already being held for that spot. Sure enough, they emailed me today and said I'm the September girl. Me. They'll send me the url to the online Toil calendar when it's up and running. I'm not really sure how I feel about that ... I'm giddy, yet rather hrm ... well, I just don't know. Murr!
