Fast and Fevered Fall

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Coming to you live from Brooklyn, NY, please welcome your host, Austin K:
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Ha! Hello everyone.  I'm writing to you this day on what was promised to be a sunny day in the low 40s but is, in fact, cold, overcast with a lazy snow falling.  Like the snow slowly falling so have my hopes to make an impact on this weeks Fashion Week.  A big flop best sums it all up, not because I wasn't presented with ample opportunity after having casting calls with DKNY, Tommy Hilfiger, Hugo Boss, Perry Ellis and MarcbyMarc(just to name a few).  I was at the same castings with some of the world's top models but the fish didn't take my bait, so to say.  But as every fisherman knows, you have your good days and your bad days and that's why you keep at it and go fishing again with the same rod, reel, bait and even go to the same fishing hole.  One of the models I'm living with, upon noticing my discouragment, broke the situation down to me like this:  A rookie baseball player is brought onto the team in hopes he will make a good fit for the team, come through in some big games and have a positive impact on the team.  But the owners don't bring in the rookie in hopes that he'll carry the team, that's what the savvy 5 and 6 year veterans are for.  Meaning: the guys who are doing well during this fashion week also did well in Paris and Milan's fashion week.  I came into the runway circuit a little late to have a real impact this week and shouldn't be discouraged at the lack of work that I've seen thus far.  I'm being told by fellow models and my agency that I have a very commercial, catalogue look and once we get a little closer to summer then work should start rolling in for me left and right, especially once the industry goes into its summer phase: i.e. beachy, bathing suit type shoots.  Working out 5-7 days a week on top of my All-American look and Southern charm(wink, wink) has its benefits and puts me in a different modeling class than these foreign "chaps" who are extremely skinny with their very nicheable High, High Fashion looks.

Potential work:  I do have some promising news despite the previous, debbie downer of a opening paragraph. I have had two call backs this week, meaning, I went to a casting call for a client, they liked my look and gave me a call back so they could meet with me again.  Not everyone gets a call back so being called back is always promising.  One is for an Allegri fashion show and the other is for a Gilt Clothing fashion show, I await word and hope for the best.  I also went to a casting call for C in 2 Industries where they actually asked me to show off my assets! Aka, they asked me to take off my shirt, as conceited as that may sound.  But when, for over two years, you work out 5-7 days a week, meticulously plan each meal(avoiding the easy route: fast food) to ensure you get the right amount of protein, carbs, vitamins and calories to fuel your body and make it look its best it hardwires you to jump at the opportunity to show off your hardwork.  Thus you get the saying: modeling isn't a job, it's a lifestyle.  I'll stop patting my own back now.  The C in 2 Industries casting call is for a 3 day shoot and is a well paying job so, as usual, keep your fingers crossed for me but tighter this time!

Unfortunately, as funny as this may sound, the other male models in the apartment will start moving out this week and heading back to their various places of living.  I have found their company uplifting and refreshing.  While I'll enjoy the extra space I'll have at the apartment upon their departure I will miss their company, stories, and insight into the modeling world.  One model, Berthold, just signed with an agency in Tokyo and will leave Feb. 16th to live there for a couple months.  Daniel will return home to his gf in Amsterdam while Louise will return to London.  Louise has had his busiest Fashion Week of his modeling career and landed gigs with clients such as Perry Ellis.  Wiley veteran Berthold is busy as ever but never busy enough, his biggest client being Tommy Hilfiger.  Daniel had a busy week but not as busy as he'd hoped for, it seems that he and I share the same boat.  But we'll both find ourselves fishing again real soon.

That's it for now.  I'd like to thank Patty Hurst Shifter and their song Fast and Fevered Fall for fueling my mood while I wrote this blog, they're a great band, I'd look them up if I were you!

Thank you all for reading,

Austin K.
If you Believe you can Achieve then you will Succeed.
It may take time, effort and perserverance but if you don't believe then who else will?