Vanessa Veasley - KING
Magazine Winter 2011
11/03/11 09:19 PM Filed in:
Video Vixens
This was one of my favorite spreads from this issue
of
KING magazine. As some of you
know,
Vanessa Veasley gave a
great interview previously on
my blog in which she prognosticated about the
future of urban modeling, stating (in response
to whether urban modeling was dead): "There is
no industry.
There are urban models, urban
mags, urban music, and events, but we have
totally lost the small industrious nature of it
we were slowly cultivating in the early
'00s. ¶ I don't think it will ever recover.
Models are being replaced by strippers who don't
need the money and beautiful, insecure women who
shoot mags only to validate themselves. Any dude
with a camera is now a photographer; any dude
that can code has an online magazine. Music
videos have no budgets and no one watches them
anyway. It's a circus." I always thought that
was a pretty dead on assessment of the current
state of affairs in "the business." Gotta love
it: beauty and brains.
Tags: Vanessa Veasley