Zoetica Has it Rough
Zoetica has a horrible job. She is the photo coordinator of Suicide Girls, and as such is often tasked with doing long photo naked photo shoots with beautiful women. Women who are often tattooed, pierced, ritually scarred and dyed.
It must be horrible. She's also the co-editor of Coilhouse, which is about stuff I have very little knowledge of, but find increasingly cool.
She's basically an excellent example of what I love of the future we live in. We as creators are no longer stuck in a small cube of art. We can be photographers and writers and internet emperors and forum moderators and tastemakers. We can create these little cults around ourselves.
Back when I was young, and had just started seriously reading novels, it was all about Stephen King for me. Read several of his books in a row, loved it, ate it up.
But how much cooler would it have been to hit up his website, find out what music he listened to while writing The Stand? Or just other books he liked that I could go check out?
The two way street of creator and fan is what I really dig. It means I, as a fan of Zoetica's work, can email her, take her picture, actually talk to her about photography.
There is the potential, in every contact I make on Flickr, to become friends with people whose work I enjoy and respect. Some of my best friends have come from this place.
All the websites I've got now, they're just ways of communicating with people, attempting to create a dialogue with strangers.
The very concept brings a smile to my face.
All that said, I can also be found in the following places: