I have a habit of occasionally writing about things I’m not fully aware of. Such as this one. Heard from Sonia Belle‘s blog that a technologicaly knowledgeable model named Anina has been given an ultimatum:
either quit doing the technology stuff, or leave the agency. they say that fashion and technology do not go together.
. I think this sucks. And I know I don’t agree with Microsoft all the time, but Microsoft’s technical evangelist Robert Scoble has the same opinion:
Anyway, I just saw that Anina, the geek model, has been told to stop blogging. That sucks. But leaves a bunch of future opportunities. She’s smart and that’ll take her a lot further than her looks.
I agree with Robert‘s statement that it’ll leave her with a bunch of future opportunities, possibly with a more forward thinking agency. But I don’t think she she should be forced to leave her agency just because she might endager the image that models are stupid. other models might make poor decisions, some of them are made to appear more stupid than they really are. A lot of them, like Anina are highly intelligent, probably more so than a geek like me.
Anina told her agency that she was going to be doing all this geeky stuff before she signed up with them. Only now that she’s been doing it are they starting to whinge. I’m not a lawyer or anything, but isn’t that breaking some sort of contract law as the contract was signed under the agreement that Anina would be doing all of that then they change their minds ?
This situation between Anina and her agency, who I’m not agreeing with so much that i’m not even going to bother giving them a rel="tag" or a rel="vote-against" link. What they have deserved is this: a technuendo dedicated to themselves. And apple. (must balance out mentioning microsoft somehow).
Yet again, this isn’t spellchecked cos I’m using the latest stable release of Firefox.