tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462478560873008528.post1730356164166702775..comments2008-03-05T05:52:10.119-08:00Rumor On The Streethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200635027651900943noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462478560873008528.post-61845779995867037052008-03-05T04:53:00.000-08:002008-03-05T04:53:00.000-08:00When I was a college student, in the sixties (yes, long ago), I was earning <BR/>some money as a (no nonsense) artist's model in regular art academies and <BR/>artists' ateliers. It was rather a "found" but "looked for" job, but it <BR/>solved very well the problems of a moneyless student as it required little <BR/>skill, little involvement, and offering flexibility and the possibility of <BR/>having always some money in the pocket. After all there must be somebody who <BR/>does it, and I shouldn't have been so bad for that job as I got somewhat <BR/>popular, as I had a regular figure where one could see muscles definitions <BR/>and skeleton, and thus easy to draw - let alone the fact I was a proper and <BR/>reliable professional too. I was nicknamed and known as "the circumcised <BR/>David" after the famous Michelangelo's statue of David, as I was said to <BR/>look like as it might have been the Michelangelo Model for that statue and, <BR/>differently from the statue, I was circumcised. So I sort of made the rounds. A romantic & "glamurous" job because its involvement with art and beauty? <BR/>Not at all!!!... it is very boring -- but that is why one is paied for <BR/>doing. I have come up to the conclusion that it is not a job you can carry <BR/>on for long, or be regulated, and from which one day you can retires. You <BR/>can do as long you are in demand and as long you can do it, and it is so <BR/>even more these days, as today everybody can be a model once: competition is <BR/>far fiercer. What I mostly liked of the job was the fact that it gave me the <BR/>chance to move in the world of the arts and artists, where I could met very <BR/>intriguing personalities and live interesting experiences. That is the real <BR/>value of it, for what concerns me. Once i got graduated, left the job for a <BR/>completely different career: all that remained of it are remebrances a few <BR/>stories I wrote of those times. That is my experience in a nutshell. (a pic <BR/>of me of those times showed at: http://www.namir.it/GIOCONDA/noto.htm )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com