Posts Tagged ‘art’

A perfumer hard at work...

We write a lot about the stupid things people do for money, but we should also acknowledge that there are some wicked jobs out there – and perfumer is one of them. So, excuse the lack of venom for the moment, while I meander through this sensory world.

If I got to start my life over, after high school, I’d be seriously tempted to head in the direction of perfumer. Or maybe not. It takes a lot of work to get into the industry, which is very competitive, and it appears to be the kind of career path that once you’ve chosen, you don’t get off. You really have to want to be a perfumer above anything else in the world. You must be passionate, a perfectionist, patient, and most of all, persistent. Companies will require at least 3 years of training – often 7 years – before they hire a perfumer. To start with, you will need a degree in biology or chemistry (or both), before then attempting to get into a specialised perfumery school, and racking up a few years as a trainee.

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Karl Lagerfeld: the definition of ego

We on the IWDTFM team are often asked, “Why don’t you all become models?”. It’s a valid question, given how good looking we all are. But I have a secret: I don’t understand the fashion industry. What it is, what it does, and why the hell anyone would want to be a part of it.

I’m writing this because I read Kate’s article about the New Zealand fashion week, and – like Kate – I was impressed that a country that has yet to pave its streets even has a fashion week. Wales doesn’t, although this could be due to the fact that large numbers of the Welsh population have yet to be introduced to clothes.

Not that the fashion industry is particularly concerned with clothes. They don’t produce things that you can wear. They produce monstrosities of design, much like a five-year-old with access to a large supply of Play-Doh might.

What really confuses me about the fashion industry is that so many people seem to want to break into it. Models, fashion designers, stylists, hairdressers… never mind that the industry seems to be a mix of sweat shops and the Third Reich, it’s honestly an industry that people marry footballers to get into. On your average thirteen-year-old girl’s list of “Things I Want To Be When I Grow Up”, the desirability of jobs in the fashion industry is probably only second to whatever the hell it is Tara Parker-Tomkinson did to get famous.

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Art by Suuqin

When do you last buy a music album? or should I ask – Do you still buy music album? No, I don’t.

Art by Suuqin

The new Nintendo Wii Sports Resort was the month’s best-seller game compare to other video game sales were falling. I guess what’s best/special about the Wii console would be the way of interaction rather than just sitting down.

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“If I had a million coins” was the theme of a competition from a Playfish game “Pet Society“. Unfortunately I didn’t participate and the results were out today. So I didn’t win.

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A Taiwanese program that I watched last week were talking about kids (or people) these days like to download songs/music rather than buying the CDs (include pirated cds =P).

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Art related to a movie Confessions of a Shopaholic. A Magic Card, unlimited cash… as if.

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The internet is a marvel. Since its incarnation as a tool to enable research to be shared between universities, it has grown so much. It is now an interactive platform capable of enabling myriad arseholes an outlet for their barely coherent and almost always misinformed outbursts under the guise of “Having your say”.

Anyone who has used the internet to share their opinion, ever, will be familiar with the kind of ignorant nonsense that some folk consider to be worthy of voicing. Go to a news site, or forum, anywhere, and scroll down to below the story. Read the first comment from “NRA_4EVA” – see?

When YouTube was first launched I fully expected it to turn into a catalog of near death experiences captured by dim-witted American college kids, yearning to imitate their Jackass heroes. For a while I was right. Then the corporations found out they could “leverage” sales out of “viral” marketing yada yada yada.

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