A Decade of Doogs Models
In mid-2010, nearly a decade, two kids, two dogs, and six jobs ago, I was restless. With our daughter's birth weeks away, I was casting about for something I could…
Fetishizing the Enemy – 4 Years On…
Four years ago, I wrote about this hobby's fascination (to put it mildly) with German WWII subjects. And it elicited a lot of discussion (again, to put it mildly). And…
Too Damn Hot
When you live in central Texas, the heat is part of the bargain. Yes, we get breakfast tacos and more queso than you can shake a tortilla chip at. Amazing…
Modeling Rabbit Holes
Around the modeling interwebs, it seems like everyone is suddenly kung-fu fighting about “basic modeling skills” and, honestly, I have no desire to join in. It’s all stupid for a few reasons.
- There is no agreed-upon threshold for “basic”, so it’s all subjective.
- People who throw the term around non-ironically are usually humorless pedantic assholes, so whether or not it actually is condescending it comes across as such.
- And it’s just so…damn…tiresome.
Instead, I wanted to take a moment to explore some of the absurd rabbit holes that we can find ourselves running down as modelers. In the past 24 hours, I’ve encountered three. And as I was thinking on the drive to work this morning, the level of fucks given about such insignificant things is probably baffling to anybody on the outside.
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