Hey Models and Photographers: Stock Photography

So spikyme was talking about stock photos in his journal and it reminded me that this was something I had percolating in the back of my brain.

For those who are wondering, stock photography is where a photographer takes a bunch of images he or she has already taken and places them with essentially an agent. The centralized agent company then sells various rights to the images to various organizations and gives the photographer a small percentage. The advantage to the photog is that he or she can concentrate on making images instead of sales and will probably get a number of clients that he or she would not have landed with any sort of direct contact.

Basically, the stock agency pays the photographer a royalty at set intervals, but they don't call you up and say hey we are thinking about using x and so pic of so and so for a cell phone advertisement; how do you feel about that? Most of them let you know where your work ran when you get the royalty statement.

I have a royalty clause built into my standard model release for full shoots, so that, if I got a huge check, there is a standard % I would pay to whoever was pictures minus any advances I had already paid them. I view all payments to models as advances because you never know when a picture is going to become more valuable down the line and I think the model should share in the success if it does become more valuable. It shocks me that more people on both sides of the camera do not insist on a royalty clause in the case of an unexpected windfall.

I've never done the stock thing because it always weirded me out that I wouldn't know where the images would end up and I didn't want to piss off any of my models. What do models reading this think about stock? What do photographers reading this think about stock? I'd really love to get some other people's opinions.

Forrest and I have a HUGE back catalog of images which no one has ever seen and an even huger one of images which have appeared on a Blue Blood Site and nowhere else. Should I submit some of them to a stock house?

Updated Blue Blood

I did the first installment of a travel column I am going to be doing for BlueBlood.net at http://www.blueblood.net/stuff/travel_vegas.htm It will mostly not be new to people who have been reading my journal, but I am pleased to have been able to make some pottery by turning the clay in my brain on my diary for a while. I wanted my blog to be a place I could start placing ideas which were not yet fully formed articles, but I was not sure it was going to really happen until now. I am very pleased. Getting psyched for the relaunch. Just need a few more columnists with credits to write me at submit@blueblood.net

Friendly

For some reason, feeling like a lawnmower is in my tummy and a lava lamp is in my head makes me feel simultaneously more loathing for my fellow man and more of a desire to smooth over all differences. Like if most people suck, holding a grudge seems like such a waste of energy. It makes me want to buy dinner for people I don't like. Fortunately I feel too cramp-riddled to leave the house. I think dingopariah had some insights on this.

Weirdly, I got a lot of work done tonight and I am still good to go.

Ow quit it

Wow. Bottle of White Star and a bunch of Midol and I still have cramps. I should probably disconnect my internet right now, but I won't.

Bzzz

I'm such a good little worker bee. I updated Life of Vice after Szandora left today with many all new free naughty pictures. I wanted to keep Szandora here, but we did get to shoot many cool pix. There are just so few girls I feel really close to that I all wanted to hang out the whole time and kept being like oh yeah, guess we need to take some pictures to justify that pesky airfare and all.

Pats I guess

So I guess I, uhm, like the Patriots because I feel more of an affinity for New England that anything Carolina.

There are men in my house watching the Superbowl on my TiVo.

Hee Hee Insane Clown Porn

So, here is a site which is linking a couple of galleries of Gothic Sluts and Barely Evil stuff and a whole passle more entertainment. It is insaneclownporn.com. Hee hee.

Gothic guns

Ha ha ha ha ha ...

Forrest inflicted this on me:
http://members.aon.at/rialskaedda.html/gimproulette.swf

Did I mention that I'm thinking about taking up shooting again?

Happy Halloween

A mailing list I am on just sent out their holiday recommendations of what to do for Valentines Day. Only they put Halloween in the subject as the holiday. I assume by accident.

I still haven't finished my New Years resolutions, so I'm not really ready for another holiday. Only have a couple more days of the extension I gave myself. The only things I am sure of are work on rediscovering having some hobbies and some getting in better shape stuff. I am soooooooooo conflicted between artistic and spiritual resolve vs. financial and business.

And I'm sort of both happy and sad about some human relations things. I used to be searching so hard for a genuine peer group. But it seems like the people I should have the most in common with and be the most comfortable with are almost always antagonistic. Either they tend to be trying awfully hard to be me or they are tense that I will somehow usurp their position if they ever introduce me to a single person.

Prior to this fall, it was quite a while since I was really sociable. It has mostly been fun, but I guess I had forgotten how much wistful pain is involved in interacting with other human beings. Sometimes everything is a blast. Sometimes there is the sense of really connecting with someone else. I think there is a basic primal human need to connect from time to time.

But sometimes, in the middle of everything, and sometimes, after it all, I have this sense of loneliness I can't quite put my finger on. And if I could figure out WTF that odd feeling in the pit of my gut is, then I could finally finish my resolutions for 2004.

Rest of the bondage convention and adult video convention snaps or what I did on my Vegas vacation

Got the rest of my Vegas snapshots from the convention fest posted now at http://www.spookycash.com/fun/avnbondcon/index.html. The following pix are all from Saturday, which is at http://www.spookycash.com/fun/avnbondcon/saturday/index.html.







NOTE: AS ALWAYS WITH SNAPSHOTS OF MINE (NOT MY PRO PHOTOGRAPHY) ANYONE IN THESE PIX IS FREE TO REPOST THEM AT WILL. Please just leave the spookycash.com credit on there.







Ran into my friend Dave from New York who I haven't seen in ages, even though I think we live really close together now. Dave sometimes has a New York state of mind, but he had just won an award and was pretty chipper for him. He blew off the party, but I'm going to attempt to dig out his email and see if he feels like being sociable. Ran into a weird cross-section of people I know at the party. Blue Blood hotties in attendance included Scar, Voltaire, and Jax.

I got Lemmy to agree with me that Scar has a magnificent pussy.

Oh yeah, and I went to some fetish-oriented convention or something during the day. I think I spent a lot of dough to exhibit at it too.

Drunken Webmaster Bowling

Okay, I've been experimenting with alcohol since I stopped being so allergic to it. And my conclusions are as follows:

(1) It can make unfun things fun
(2) It can make fun things more fun
(3) It is fattening
(4) Hard liquor, no matter how girlied-up, is probably a bad idea for Amelia

I know I had a great time bowling. I am actually really fired up to go bowl again with or without webmasters in attendance. I do not, however, recall a number of details of the evening and I don't think that happens drinking just beer. Plus, I intend to attempt not to get so drunk I karaoke in the future.





Normally, when I go through party snapshots, the stuff I edit out is as follows:

(1) Anything which would get someone I like in trouble with their girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse
(2) Anything illegal whether it is being done by someone I like or dislike or am indifferent or undecided about
(3) Anything involving karaoke

In this instance, however, given that Forrest has video of the occasion, there seems to be no point in censoring the karaoke portion of the evening. I might also add that drunk-ass Forrest told some bizarro random karaoke patron who asked about my spikey shoes that yes, Amelia is a giant Kiss fan and he should go talk to me.

I just want people to be nice

I just want other people to be nice. They sure expect a lot of inconvenient extra consideration from me and they sure don't give a whole lot in return. I can be as ferocious as the next girl, but I really do not like not being nice. I really do like being nice.

Ladies don't start fights, but they sure as fuck all can finish them.* Why do people have to start with me?


*Bonus points to anyone who gets the mangled pop culture allusion there. hee hee

Bleah

So . . . it is probably mostly PMS and exhaustion, but I feel kinda sucky today.

I still haven't done my resolutions for 2004.

I want more time to be creative with the written word.

I want to go to a spa and get back in shape and detoxify, now that I am feeling healthier. No idea where would be good to go or what that would cost. Or how long that would take.

I can't decide if my potential business resolutions are good ideas or just dumb stuff other people make me feel like I should want.

I love the friends I have, but they are all from such different social groups. I can't decide how to address this or what I should be doing to make myself and my loved ones happiest socially.

I'm hungry. I should go eat.

Bleah

So . . . it is probably mostly PMS and exhaustion, but I feel kinda sucky today.

I still haven't done my resolutions for 2004.

I want more time to be creative with the written word.

I want to go to a spa and get back in shape and detoxify, now that I am feeling healthier. No idea where would be good to go or what that would cost. Or how long that would take.

I can't decide if my potential business resolutions are good ideas or just dumb stuff other people make me feel like I should want.

I love the friends I have, but they are all from such different social groups. I can't decide how to address this or what I should be doing to make myself and my loved ones happiest socially.

I'm hungry. I should go eat.

No matter where you go, there you are

And I went into the bathroom with Scar to show her the watermelon and the party director told me that there was no problem at all if I wanted to do drugs but please don't hog one of the only two bathrooms for too long. I told him we weren't doing drugs. We just wanted to take pictures of the watermelon.





He seemed so dubious that I couldn't bring myself to ask him if the random watermelon placement was the movie reference I was thinking of or not.

I was a little insulted by the drug assumption. I've got good manners. Like I wouldn't offer the host the opportunity to come share. Please.

Anyone get the movie reference or am I the biggest dork up in this mutha?

Back from Vegas Again

I am back now from doing Vegas again with Forrest, Scar, Szandora, and co.

Stayed at a shockingly nice hotel. Weird one for Vegas too. Two bathrooms in the suite. Everything in muted gray, charcoal, cream, and black and no slot machines to be heard anywhere. And three valets if there are three of you getting into your car. An excess of flatscreen TVs in the room. Marble shower. Bathtub with waterfall faucet. Comfortable beds with non-ugly bedspreads. Good pillows. Plush robes. Plush towels. Origami action on the washcloths. Toiletries so attractively packaged that Scar was all over the jars. Really good service.

Such complete silence that it seemed like it couldn't be a hotel and there couldn't be any people anywhere else in the building outside our rooms. Wish I could sleep like that more often. Would have been happy to stay in that bed for a really extended time.

Much of the staff apparently believed our band was playing House of Blues. This may or may not account for the extremely good service.

Either way, what an excellent experience hanging out with my pals in a nice environment! Got to shoot in some naughty club locations and see Szandora hula too. Hee hee.

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Vegas continued to more conventions

So we basically participated in much of the festivities for three conventions while we were in Vegas last. Friday snapshots of our booth are posted now at http://www.spookycash.com/fun/avnbondcon/friday/index.html

When it was time to get our booth set up, we headed over to the convention hall which was oddly not at the Luxor but down the street



Perry got marked by Scar who was looking mighty fine





Got to see a whole passle of cool folks I wish I ran into more often





Is Darenzia's boyfriend supa dupa fine or what! They look so good together.

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Fuck a duck

So apparently Forrest was so plastered at drunk webmaster bowling that he accidentally took a VIDEO of me and a number of other people doing horrible karaoke to Queen. He swears that he did not even know my snapshot camera did video. I would hunt him down and murder him if I didn't need him to go do Vegas with me and some hotties in a few hours.