jimmycooper

First off, my comment was not directed at you. It wasn't directed at anyone in particular and you certainly have every right to do whatever it is you feel you need to do (within the bounds of ethical behavior) to maximize the profitability of your business. Just keep in mind that what you are doing as a content producer is just that. A business.

Creators who are truly passionate about their work tend to be driven more by the process of creating than by the profit potential of the end product.

Here's an excerpt from a blog post which I feel exemplifies that very point.

"Every professional photographer who?s ever shot a model in the nude remembers their very first experience. It?s practically the equivalent of your first kiss. It?s a feeling you can never forget. Your hands shake with nervous excitement and anticipation as you try to calm your nerves. Once you experience this, it stays with you for a lifetime.

As a former fashion model and ?consumer brand? art director (read: corporate art slut), photography had always been on the periphery of my life and one of my greatest passions. Finally, at age 29, I decided once and for all to make photography my career. I was living in New York City at the time and asked a friend who was a successful commercial photographer/cinematographer to give me some pointers. She quickly taught me the fundamentals of lighting, the ?zone system? and how cameras work. She also led me through books by the Masters like Ansel Adams, Sebastiao Salgado and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and gave me one very valuable piece of advice:

?Shoot what you love!?

From my heart, I knew that my greatest interest as a photographer was the female nude. I was drawn to the seemingly infinite beauty and creativity that this subject matter offered. It took a little soul searching to come terms with this; friends and family suggested I was just ?going through a phase?. But just two weeks later, I quit my marketing job, bought my first digital SLR, did a couple of test shoots for my portfolio and then hopped on a plane to Budapest."

And here's another:

"If you wanna label, if you need to label my work? Just call it fun! That?s what I call it and that?s why I do it. Sex, grrls, pussy, tits, naked, nasty, fucking, masturbation, kissing and so on is just that? FUN! My life is all about capturing the fun and having fun with it! We do not call shoots work, we call them playtime for a reason! It?s all about the fun and if it?s not going to be fun then I am NOT showing up!"

It's highly unlikely that anyone in this thread knows from where those quotes originated because over the pst two years you have all spent such a large amount of time whining like a bunch of stupid little cunts. You're probably also not familiar with what it's like to have the type of passion for your work that either of the above have theirs. What you dont understand is that it's that very passion which has enabled true creators like Brigham Field and Richard Avery to thrive with sites like X-Art and Juliland, while you clowns sit around in internet forums bitching about the same shit day after day with the likes of Jim Gunn and the disgusting shit-loving Belgian cat freak.

That's all.

No shit. They are not the ones sitting around and complaining like a bunch of whiny little cunts. They do what they do because they want to do what they do. Why do you do whatever the fuck it is that you do?

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