NICHOLA HAFFMANS

CASTING MODEL

AGENCY: WHY NOT MODEL MANAGEMENT, Milan (whynotmodels.com)

Height: 177 - 5' 9.5"

Bust: 78 - 30"

Waist: 59 - 23"

Hips: 89 - 35"

Shoe Size: 40 - 10

Hair color: blonde

Eye color: blue/grey

DILAPIDATED ROOM

LOCATION

MERT ALAS & MARCUS PIGGOTT

PHOTOGRAPHER

Fashion photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott were both born in 1971 in Turkey and Wales respectively and first met in England in 1994. They decided to become a photography team after working in completely different areas (classical music and graphic design). Their first photos for Dazed & Confused made the cover.

Meanwhile they contributed to major magazines including such as Italian and American Vogue, W Magazine, Pop Magazine, Numéro and Arena Homme Plus.

Strongly known for their portraits of sophisticated, powerful women, Alas and Piggott's photos lend an air of grace and unmistakable perfection to advertising.

PARENT AGENCY: Art Partner

Jan Saudek
INSPIRATION

(born in 13 May 1935, in Prague, Czechoslovakia)

is a Czech art photographer.

He was forced to work in a clandestine manner in a cellar, to avoid the attentions of the secret police, as his work turned to themes of personal erotic freedom, and used implicitly political symbols of corruption and innocence.

His best-known work is noted for its

hand-tinted portrayal of painterly dream worlds, often inhabited by nude or semi-nude figures surrounded by bare plaster walls or painted backdrops, frequently re-using identical elements (for instance, a clouded sky or a view of Prague's Charles Bridge). In this they echo the studio and tableaux works of mid nineteenth century erotic photographers, as well as the works of the painter Balthus, and the work of Bernard Faucon.Post the late 1970's his work got popularised.

GROTESQUE MOMENTS

So, when you are asked to make the reality of eccentricity cross-over from the roads of simple realisation to the uncanny conjectures that helps you meet your own substance and food for your deviance..
Well, my friends Giulia,Justyna,Bian and I went on a trip to meet our uncertain grotesque moments..when we are asked by our professor, Miss Serena Sala to build conjectures on the basis of ECCENTRICITY(happy hour)...We met with newer possibilities of eccentricity, in the form of: art/identity/lifestyle/situations........
My findings saw eccentricity as a medium:
-Where thoughts are suspended
-Where thoughts grow
-Where thoughts interact
-Where thoughts interlace
-Where thoughts produce a newer meaning
-Where thoughts usually die
This medium thus, changes into a newer world where thoughts are trapped and cannot transcend across.If in any way it finds a chance too, it gets labeled as fashion and utilised in the society as something new and never before understood or acted upon.Therefore, I find the birth of heros professing the same as some noted figures like Mathew Barney,Tim Burton, Nina Hagen, Leonor Fini, Katsura Funakoshi an many other notable players and the others in the same quest help us see a maverick form of creative/intellectual response to the monotonous social language.They help us find a certain sort of a coherence to a second reasoning or an  ulterior reasoning to the obvious and unidirectional thought.
Their deviant lifestyle from the society or sociologically patterned movements help us relocate our present with a revolutionary,radical moment. This medium and moment of realisation of a new reality needs to furnace and be voiced to find a respect and identity in our society...

We followed a grotesque adventure to quote our ideology on similar lines to find a purposeful beauty in our work.We performed a beauty shoot with make-up products by utilising parts of animals(tongue of cow, pork foot) and sea creatures(oyster,fish,octopus) as the models for our shoot.
We teamed conventional beauty products with unconventionally beauty-models......

The result-  "Beauty is, as beauty does!!"


The below is a link to the video of our behind the scene gig for the above mentioned photo shoot!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsfcav6pRn0

PS: The above picture is that of our shoot with the cow's tongue with eye-shadow and tints.

Heartbreak........with Sophie Ellis Bextor

Heartbreak (make me a dancer)......................

a video(the clothes that neatly glazes with the oodles of oomph) and

the song that fixes your groove for the required catharsis!!

Sophie Ellis Bextor is an answer to all the love-drunk emotions with an embodiment of new-age disco and electronic sounds.

Below is the link to the same of her collaboration with Freemasons:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1sKhvcABH8

another all time favorite of mine from this model/singer/composer- "Murder on the dancefloor":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Nsi05HkXw&feature=related

the below happens to be a 'super-english razzle-dazzle bit' from her with a fine finish as a manequin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9xIshgDVj0

COMMEMORATION of IDIOSYNCRASIES..........(in 2010)

I loved the smarter versions of everything, even if it seemed complicated, mischeivious, hurtful or face-smashing.........It made me fill my mouth with twisters that for recollection would just make it tough for me to express but,originally not make me recall their odds & evens and respect the sentiment of the event or its cause..

It was an acheivement to entertain with my stories but their lessons could not reach me even if I wanted the best out of their idiosyncracy....It is lighter to feel the bite of an icecream,cause we concentrate on their irking effect on our dental sets...we avoid to appreciate the reason of having it then because we either wait for it to ease with the temperature to comfort us, or to surrender ourselves to its nostalgic effects on us...but the real meaning of the "ice" in an ice-cream is lost....once we wait for it melt for an easier session to consume it.

I would want to consciesly make an effort on undergoing the old-school methods on indulging into things thats transports me to the reason for its introduction to us,as humans but, what happens if I end up journeying an experience in this way, I loose the rhythm of my adventurous pulse..its like escaping into the wilderness,cause it is a refuge from the concrete jungle, it just leaves us with a comparitive way to appreciate its identity....and not necessarily the fact that in its own as an individual space it can give us so much (and not more or less with respect to out city-scapes)

I want to try to feel my pulse for a certain subject but with the reason that releases a certain originality in its appreciation......as  creation need not just require originality but also it would also require a set of original eyes to scan it...and hence, contribute in making a subject unique!!!!!!!!!!

This is one of the reasons to my new-found loves and mistakes.............and I shall take time-out to build a newer realm to fit-in my episodes of 2010.

PS: The above is dedicated (with the link of a song below that underlines the above)to all who helped me travel and realise experiences in an original sense, be it crudely or tastefully.

The video below is directed by the mastered eclectism of Tarsem Singh who has journeyed around and given a newer dimention to diversity and multiple-perspectives with sweet lullaby(song below).....that designs an eye that sees inviduality and captures globally.

A classic commemoration of idiosyncratic encounters....

The link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG0pegmmB5A&feature=PlayList&p=A3739EBF8618D9C6&index=83

Third Eye Chakra Painting by Catherine G McElroy