Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 03, 2023

He’s a model citizen.

Where does he want you? Outer Mongolia comes to mind.

Ok. Lose the cap and slippers but leave the robe on.

Someplace else, no offense

Kind of a forced joke. Nobody really believes that individuals are interchangeable, just folks whose value to the employer is entirely summed up by the job title.

Equality? Equality is in the eye of the beholder?

Preferably on the other side of the doorsill.

Here, put this goblin outfit on.

It’s gonna be a wierd painting.

Ah, I think I can finish off the portrait from the photograph, actually .. But thanks for turning up.

Equality versus Equity versus Justice: https://onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu/resources/equity-vs-equality/

Equality? more like diversity. Extreme diversity…

Gig worker’s motto “Hey, it’s just gig work” as patently true.

Agency aim is for equality of numbers but not the numbers the artist prefers.

True story. A male art class model was fired, because he had an “involuntary physical response” to some of the members of the class.

This is when he realized he was a strangling, struggling artist

On the bright side, maybe Chubby’s got some cleavage?

Diversity – Great until you have to find a buyer.

They/them identifies as a thin, blond, female model. You MUST accept they/them as a female thin, blond, female model.

A true artist would happily just start a new work.

Actually, the arts is one place where one can discriminate on color, age, gender, body size …

For example: I can turn down an overweight, 70-year-old, black man in favor of a 14-year-old, Italian girl for the role of Juliet.

The last model was female so , yeah!

Should’ve listed “hot chick” as a BFOQ, haha.

away

How about, Turn around, back out the door and don.t let it hit you as you leave.

That should make for an interesting painting.

Nope.

My older sister took a drawing class in college and was proud that she got an A, having never tried drawing before. When she showed our parents her portfolio, our dad was amazed — he couldn’t understand how she got such a good grade when “everyone you draw looks strange or ugly.” She explained that that was pretty much what the models looked like. The instructor chose models for interesting features, not beauty, because that is what artists look for.

Hilarious!

You want to paint that model, get a nine inch roller.

“Cleveland.”

There are plenty of men in the modeling business, although not as many as women. It has nothing to do with sexual lifestyle choice. A human figure is a human figure and you learn by drawing it.

The artist should keep a blow-up doll just for such situations. That doll would be a closer fit that THIS.

A near crossover with “That is priceless.”

Having been raised as a nudist, I never have understood the extreme tendency in the US to be so over-reactive about the form of the Human body. We’re all different, folks. We each have a body. For each individual, it’s what it is. You don’t ‘look just like …’ any of the totally unrealistic ‘hot, famous’ people … and you probably never will, even with very expensive body sculpting. Accept it, get over it, and move on with your life.

OR … you can choose to whine, use extreme diets that will affect your health, take medications that you shouldn’t be using, strap yourself into very constrictive clothing (and distort your internal organs) in order to try to achieve that ‘model’ shape, or waste literally hundreds of thousands of $ on the previously-mentioned body sculpting.

You (successfully) do you … or (much less successfully) try to do someone else.

“Tell me what beach she’s at. I’ll paint her there.”

Ahh, he has what the artist needs to make it a masterpiece!

The gig economy: Workers can’t be choosers.

oh well,back to the drawing board….

Isn’t this even more a case of the beggars-can’t-be-choosers labor market? When the job market is tight, it’s hard for workers to find suitable jobs; when the labor market is tight, it’s hard for employers to find suitable workers.

go to YT, search “walmartians, people of walmart” you’re welcome.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!

OK, guess we’re doing the Adam & Eve goes Rubensesque after all.

Wouldn’t much matter if the painter was Picasso…

Back at the agency.

This is more about the desperation of the model for a paycheck, than EEO.

“So where do yo want me?”

“Anywhere but here.”

If it’s for one of those ads/fashion plates/fantasies that uses the expected “ideal of the moment” look that few real people actually have, no need for a model, just copy—or even cut & paste—the one that’s used on all the other such ads/etc. If it’s for a true portrait, or the artist’s own project, it can wait till she’s back.

That explains so much about Rembrandt.

Kudos to the subtle point for reason being made against equality run amok.