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Help Wanted; for planning, contest judging, prize giving, and participation.

It has come to my attention as well as many other members of the community that there has been a lot of recent disrespect towards models mostly in the forms of rude and/or inappropriate comments aimed towards their bodies, and a lack of recognition of the model being part of the artistic process.

In the name of community awareness, and respect for models and their artistic contribution to this community, I would like to hold a week of recognition for the models on deviantART. We will aim for this week to happen in early February. This week of activities will be the start of a movement in this community to encourage respectful interactions with all models, no matter their gender, race, size, shape, age, or health status.

I am working to plan a couple of events for the week which include the things listed below, if you have any interest in helping with any of the things listed below please tell me. This is a community effort and would be ineffective with out the communities help.

-Stamps and banners; In order to show our support for respecting models properly, it would be great if some individuals skilled in stamp and banner making could take up the task of designing some slick stamps for "respect model" awareness.
-Ideas for good models to interview for the planned week interviews. If you know any please refer them to me.
-Discussion ideas for the week and areas we can hold them; one event might be held in Flesh: the artistic nude photography forum.
- Getting in touch with the larger community, show your support for it, link back to events and other journals that are hosting events, in your journal. The more artists and art watchers we can get involved the better.
-Contest: I will need judges and prize donators for the for the contest which will be photography based. Any prize you want to donate will be put in the prize list and credited to you. Here are some prize donation ideas:
*subscriptions
*art requests from the winners completed by you
*prints
*other deviantart related accessory prizes
*journal features
-Hold your own contest, maybe for a different art style during the week, or host a feature in your journal themed around respect for models.
*Any major contributors will be noted and linked to in the event journals and news.

We will be working on this opening stage of the project till the 5th of January. During this time from now until 01/05/09, we will be taking the following steps:
-Asking anyone interested to repost this journal, or a link to it, to get word out;
-Making a list of volunteers who offer to make stamps or journal banners;
-Making a list of ideas submitted for contests, discussions, and interviews
-Making a list of volunteers who will organize or judge contests and/or submit prizes

Stamp and Banner Makers:
- 11Ziggy11 (If you have any stamp phrase ideas please send him a note and tell him it is for the Respect Model week)

Contest Ideas:

Discussion Ideas:

Interview Possibilities:
- kittiem
- JennaBlack
- bellabrooke
-

Volunteers for Contests:
*Contest Organizers
- catsagecat

*Judges:
- whenSmyledoesnttalk
- catsagecat
- kittiem
- wynnesome
- SteveAnaco


*Prize givers and prize provided:
- catsagecat:
3 month subscription for 1st place winner
1 month subscriptions for 2nd and 3rd place winners
features for contest winners and all contest entries
- darthbeandip:
Pencil sketch requests for the winners (gallery here: [link] )
- bellabrooke:
Feature of winners
- MarkVarleyPhoto:
5 prints size: 10x8 of any of his images will be donated to the contest. I am not sure which places will receive how many prints yet.

People who have helped spread the word in their journals forums and other blog settings:
- wynnesome
- dwingephotography
- jasontagphoto [link]
- selizabeth
- whenSmyledoesnttalk
- zananeichan
- LovittGirl
- Cyclops22
- phydeau
- chrisstjames
- sunnycjj
- SteveAnaco
-

Individuals who may be hosting features during the week:
- bellabrooke

Thank you for all of the support!

jasontagphoto has been helping me set up interview planning so if you have any suggestions for possible model interviews you may send their names to me and I will contact him and work out which models we will use, we are hoping to get a diverse group of interviewees together so that we can reach many aspects of the modeling community. If you would also like to help with the interviews organization please contact me.
Other helpers who have offered:
- Halohid

11Ziggy11 has worked on some stamps along with several others and I have added them to a collection in my favorites section labeled, "Respect Model Stamps", it should be at the top of the Collection bar. 11Ziggy11 has also said that if anyone has stamp requests he maybe be able to help fill them, so feel free to note him if you have a stamp idea or request for the "Respect Model", theme.
Other Stamp Makers:
-

If you repost this journal please provide a link of where for me below in the comments so that I may find the link and look at suggestions made on your link and add them to the master list here.

Once we reach the 5th of January and see how many people have volunteered or submitted activities, we will continue by publicizing the various contests and chats, sending interviews to deviants, and finalizing which week the winners will be announced and the group activities will be held.

So please, if you have any interest in helping with the project, send me a note and explain what you want to take part in. It would be great to know as soon as possible if you are interested in taking part so that we can get the week plans rolling and finalize a week schedule.

I hope to see you all join in.
-catsagecat

See you all around!