i hate the janice dickinson modeling agency. in the same episode this season she berated a photoshoot director for touching one her models (the woman was adjusting the model's arms because the model could not take verbal direction and was stiff as 2000 year old paste) then later janice slapped one of her models across the face because he'd gone out the night before drinking and she could smell it on his breath. he was doing an underwear shoot at someone's cheesy l.a. pad. i applaud him for not bringing meth to the set.
besides the irony that she left a red welt on his face in the middle of a shoot, she proved herself a hypocrite and abuser. plus she berates people for being too heavy and when they lose too much weight to the point they're unhealthy just keeps sending them out on auditions. plus she forces people to reveal personal struggles just for camera, not as their own form of chosen self-empowerment. she berated a cutter last episode and made her cry. she didn't get her help. janice's show is going to be the one where a reality personality finally dies on camera.
my favorite revealing part of each season is where the models talk about having been on vacation during the summer, meaning the agency is only active while filming the series. summer, l.a., hmmm, think there's any gigs they're missing?
yet she still gets on people if they sign up with multiple agencies, as if she's a real one. where is her damn agency website? her shitty myspace and out of date model profiles on the oxygen website don't count. the tattoo shops on l.a. ink and miami ink are real and year round. sure they choose who to put on the air but they're doing business the whole time with people who never get on the air. plus most of the jobs janice pulls into the agency are only there because of the added exposure they get by having their photoshoots be filmed for tv. it's called product placement.
yet i watch it because it's the cheapest male flesh going and somehow even more exploitative than pro wrestling. so i hate janice, but i don't feel the same about her models. like this guy who got a [brand of underwear left out because janice isn't paying me] gig. he's all "take the picture already and pay me. i can only keep a straight face for so long."
. yes it's a documentary about a font. a fine fine fine documentary that designers and non will love. intoxicating and precious. did i mention helvetica is possibly the most ubiquitous font in your life? from corporate logos (american apparel, sears, american airlines, staples) to signs (no pissing on sidewalk, please smoke here, don't stop) to famous as hell posters to magazine titles to the side of the space shuttle, it's so everywhere. the film is simultaneously about that which defies yet begs observation. something omnipresent yet unnoticed.
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