Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
A Poll... Please vote... I think that my time spent as an amateur photographer would sky rocket at light speed to professional award winning photographer if I changed my name to something exotic. Something that starts with two consonants, besides "st". Being sexy myself, I think I need a sexy name to advance in this profession. What do you think? Yes or no? If yes, which name? Here they are: Ii Vul & Ky Gielli...
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Bob Chance |
How about Scandinavian names like "Sven"? Or how 'bout that guy that used to do those stupid butter commercials?
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Sharon Day |
ROFL Andrew! I vote Yes! I think you're on to something. I don't like either of those names though :o)! How about something Scottish with a Mc in the front? :D
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- Darren J. Gilcher Contact Darren J. Gilcher Darren J. Gilcher's Gallery |
French names always sound artistic and sexy. Maybe I need some sensitivity training.
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Bob Chance |
LOL! Sharon. "Mc in the front? :D" You're making me hungry for fries and a bigMac.
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Alan N. Marcus |
In 1888 George Eastman needed a name for his fledgling company. He liked the letter “K” because he often said it was strong and incisive.He tried out a great number of combinations, words starting and ending with K. He chose KODAK because he believed it was strong and maybe pronounced the same every language. If George can make one up, so can you. Go to it! I have no preference. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
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Debbie Del Tejo |
A rose by any other name is still a rose......you can name yourself whatever you think sounds sexy...but if you don't produce QUALITY work and have INPECABLE people skills....??? get my drift??? But you have both, then go right ahead and change it to REDWAN (WHICH IS MIGLED ANDREW) I myself jsut love the name Andrew though.....it is a very sexy name in itself.
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Bob Cammarata |
...How about "Shuter Composozier". It's sexy, it sounds foreign and best of all...,it falls within the parameters of your double-consonant rule. (Don't bother thanking me...consider it a gift.) :)
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Paul Tobeck |
My vote is for Provish McShooter
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Paul Tobeck |
That would be Russian-Scottish wouldn't it? Besides, if you get to complicated a name, they can't spell it right on those huge checks you'll be getting!
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Sharon Day |
I read recently that "tog" was short for photographer. How about Provish McTog? LOL
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John Roberts |
Yes, a name, not talent, is what you need. Two examples: Case 1 - Linda Eastman, so-so photojournalist, marries Paul McCartney, becomes Linda McCartney, gets unprecedented accesss to rock stars because she's Linda McCartney, and becomes lauded as a "great" photographer even though phtographic work remains as mediocre as her musicianship. Case 2 - Many years ago Diane Keaton published a book of photos of old hotel interiors that would not have gotten past the front door of ANY publisher if her name wasn't Diane Keaton. Once again, name trumps talent. Yeah, go for a new name.
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lawheadphoto.com - Larry Lawhead Contact Larry Lawhead Larry Lawhead's Gallery |
I've been wondering that myself... Maybe if I canged my name to something like Ansel Abrams??
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Paul Tobeck |
Isn't it amazing how many celebrities just pick up a camera and get their crap pictures published. As if it isn't bad enough that we have to listen to them pontificate their mindless babble between movies.
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Bob Chance |
So, what has Kenny Rogers published lately?
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Sharon Day |
I had forgotten all about Kenny Rogers. I actually like his work but I have no idea if he's done anything recently.
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Peter Hundley |
"A well-respected photographer, Rogers was invited to the White House to create a portrait of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for the TV special "A Day in the Life of Country Music, " which aired in 1993. He has also published two photography books: Kenny Rogers’America and Kenny Rogers Your Friends and Mine. Soon his third book, This Is My Country, will be published."
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Debbie Del Tejo |
Kenny was on American Idol recently pushing a new album of some sort...he also appeared very recently on Ellen also pushing the same album....mind you I did not rush to Tower Records to buy it. He has had major face lifts as well to add to his NEW image!
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Bob Chance |
When someone mentioned celebrity photographers, I remember Kenny doing a photo album some years ago, In fact, I think he even had his own art showing. I haven't seen or heard of anything of him lately. But then again, I don't watch TV. Imagaine that! LOL
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Mark Feldstein |
Hey Andrew: I think you're right. Talent means nothing, it's ALL in the name. How about "Quick Releaseman". Kinda takes care of both photographer and sexy. Well, sort of, although I hope you don't suffer from premature adjudication. :>) Take it light.
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Samuel Smith |
and albert said?sooo who is albert? and the first edition and he didn't do drugs? so if I change my name i'll miss my hate mail?i'd miss that. that subtly m. ah hell i'll say it,brown dirt cowboy. kinda catchy.elton john. what's in a name? norma jean?
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- Carolyn M. Fletcher Contact Carolyn M. Fletcher Carolyn M. Fletcher's Gallery |
You people are seriously warped! I love it!
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- Dr Silly Contact Dr Silly Dr Silly's Gallery |
Hey I needed a name change too, so I when with something sexy (Dr Silly)LOL And my photos are known world round. But hey no finalist. Dr Silly is my clown name and I love to clown around in photos. But if I where to turn pro I would have to go back to my real name (Bill Krause}. Your work is what makes you not your name. And I also think you started this as a joke. DOC
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Jon Close |
(a) create a one-word name. Maybe "Andros" derived from your name, or something unrelated to anything, like "Praetor" (just opened a dictionary randomly). (b) use it for a while, then create a glyph, .gif, or scribble and simply use that (with ©).
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Sharon Day |
Actually, now that I think about it if Andrew is handsome and sexy he doesn't need a name change! Everyone knows the beautiful people get ahead just by being beautiful :O)!
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Kerry L. Walker |
"Everyone knows the beautiful people get ahead just by being beautiful :O)!" No wonder I'm not getting anywhere!
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- Dr Silly Contact Dr Silly Dr Silly's Gallery |
If Andrew is handsome, why is he hidding behind a water faucet handle? LOL Doc
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Sharon Day |
LOL Doc! Good question :o)!
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
You guys crack me up!! Hiding behind a water faucet?? Where was that??? LOL! Oh, I already have a scribble I use as a signature, just waiting on my Wacom tablet to add it to my shots! I'll keep everyone posted on what name I choose. Who knew Kenny Rogers was a photographer??? I had a friend who got food poisoning from his Roasters restaurant one time.... :-(
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
The Photographer Formerly Known As Andrew???
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Robyn Gwilt |
O Andrew LOL - Doc S, the whole tap thing depicts his subliminal accaptance of being a 'drip' (note the size of the tap!!BTW Jon C, what is your 'Kwanon'thingee? I can't make it out on my screen - are you guys talking about Kenny Rogers the (old) singer?? We haven't heard his music here in SA for about 20 years. Andreas StOwenovsky sounds quite exotic to me, and crosses a few cultures ?! How about going the whole hog, have a sex-change and become Andrea? (I've been so busy editing, haven't checked into this asylum for a while - hi, my name is Robyn, just Robyn!!!)...
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Well, Hi Robyn. My name is Andrew, and I'm a photographer. I quite like my tap and wouldn't want to go whole hog. Just finished a novel last night that was set in Russia, so the Stowenovksy name has some appeal. I may just call myself Big Sexy.
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Sharon Day |
Yep, Kenny Rogers (OLD) singer and star of The Gambler. I really like his photography from what I've seen of it. Wish he'd enter a few here at BP. It would be fun to see if he would win, place or draw LOL!!
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
LOL, Sharon!!!
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Robyn Gwilt |
Andrew, its St Owenovsky, not Stowen.... you have to be specific - it you want to keep the Russian connection, and add a bit of South Africanism, what about Igor van der Merwe (truly South African surname!!!) You could use Thor as your middle name to bring in a Scandinavian minimalism !!
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Sorry for the mistake, Robyn, but you typed it, I didn't! LOL. I've also thought about an African name, something that starts with Mb or Mk. I hope the people at betterphoto don't mind when they have to mail all my prizes to St. Mkuele van der Merwe...
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Debbie Del Tejo |
Sir van der Merwe...I am positive now that you have drank too much water out of that faucet. lol ( or is it water??)
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
LOL, Debbie! Since I actually am a recovering alcoholic (126 days now) it'd better be water, or I'm in trouble!!! And you'll have to drop the sir, because it doesn't fit me being 28 years old... LOL
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Notice the name change... I decided to try it on for a while and see if it fits....
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Robyn Gwilt |
Ooooonh African, with an M or a T... well Mongameli is sort of how you would address a King (instead of Your Highness...) T... now what about Thabo (as in Mbeki, our Pres??) Mongameli Thabo Sipho van der Merwe (MK stands for Mkonto Wesizwe, don't worry about the spelling!!) but that was the 'armed terrorist' wing of the ANC in the good old bad old days of the old SA. Sipho (pronounced Seepoh) is also a good one, as is Shaka/Chaka (as in Shaka Zulu - who was King of the Zulu's) a warrior of note.... Or how about Eish? Wow to explain this word.... is probably the most commonly used word in SA amongst black and white... its an exclamation (prob equivalent to OMG, or WOW), as in Eish, I am ty-ed (tired) or Eish, I'm hot, or Eish that was difficult, or.... eish I didn't get a finalist or winner on BP for a loooooong time!!! So... Mongameli Eish van der Merwe sounds good!!
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Oh, I love it!!! We have a winner, and the name will be changed! Thank to Robyn Ball, who has my undying loyalty and affection for picking the winning name combo. Drumroll puh-lease::::: Sipho Eish.
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Robyn Gwilt |
ROFLMAO!!! Nyabong gakulu (thank you very much in Zulu!) You do need to remember now that you are a fully fledge Zulu,that should you wish to marry, you will have to pay 'lobola' to said maidens hand in marriage - this is paid in the form of cows (preferably about 10 or more at about SA Rand 1200.00, and a couple of goats!!) Now as the payment of lobola will probably be beyond the financial means of a fledgling international photographer, it is not uncommon to first test the woman's fertility, have at least 3 or 4 children (just to be sure), and then bugger off into the rolling hills never to be seen again :) Sipho can then start the whole ball rolling again .... (excuse the pun!) Eish, I'm so ty-ed, I'm dizzzeee! This is a favourite expression amongst cabin crew on our local airline!!!
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- Dr Silly Contact Dr Silly Dr Silly's Gallery |
What was your name again, oh I know Andrew. Will Master Sipho Eish I don't know about this name it is to hard to remember so your photos may just fade away. LOL Doc
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Well, thank God I'm gay and won't have to purchase livestock over a woman! Not to mention all that fertility testing (LOL)!!! If you've just joined the conversation thread, here's a summary: A small town boy by the name of Andrew Owens has just come out of the closet to betterphoto members about his sexuality, past alcohol use, and then promptly changed his name, which was contributed by the lovely Robyn Ball of South Africa, who will receive (if she sends me her address) a thank you card with a crisp, new, one dollar bill in it, my undying loyalty, and great affection. That covers it, doesn't everyone??? LOL
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Bob Chance |
How about just Andy? Easy to remember! Easy to spell, though not as easy as Bob. Heck, I can't screw my name up even if I spell it backwards. Oh, wait a minute, yes I can. boB
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Sharon Day |
It was fun for a while anyway :o)! Now I think I'll go have a mixed drink. Pepsi and vanilla :D
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
LOL @ Bob!!!
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Robyn Gwilt |
Eish, a gay recovering white alchoholic with a new exotic name.... you can only go one way.... straight to fame!!! The one dollar won't cover the cost of a cow (or even a miserable goat) but they thought is appreciated! Enjoy the new persona - anytime you need a new ID.... well honey you know my email! :)
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
LOL @ Bob!!! And I've always hated "Andy" and no one for fear of their life has ever called me that! LOL
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Bob Chance |
Okay, enough already. I must have at least two dozen e-mail notifications. "Response to question by Mkuel" "Response to question by Andrew" "Response to question by Sipho" Make up our minds already. LOL
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING MY BUTT OFF AT ROBYN!!!! I never thought of that!!! You're so right!
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Sorry Bob. Thanks everyone for participating, and look for more photography from the soon to be famous (though with a haunted past most likely to be coverd by 20/20) Sipho Eish!
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Debbie Del Tejo |
Me too BOB....I went nuts for a minute or two....who??? I had to delete Andrew's because he does not exist, then I deleted Mikuel cuz he was short lived and now I guess we have a celebrity photographer named SIPHO...WHO IS MUCH LOCO! ( do I dare delete those? or save them to sell on Ebay? )
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- Dr Silly Contact Dr Silly Dr Silly's Gallery |
Hope you didn't get any spinters in your BUTT rolling on the floor laughing at ROBYN (with a Y). Doc
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Jon Close |
Robyn, re my avatar... It didn't shrink well, but it was a brand symbol used by the Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory Co. Ltd. (later to become Canon). Their original prototype camera was named "Kwanon" because company founder, Goro Yoshida, was a believer in Kwannon, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy. The camera's logo depicted a "thousand-arm" (well 16-arm anyway) Kwannon Goddess. Not a Buddhist myself, but a Canon-ista. ;-)
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Robyn Gwilt |
Thanks Jon (I can never remember that its called an avatar!) Thats really interesting - as a Canonista myself....! I bet a lot of people learnt something tonight :) (besides some Zulu names and traditions!!) Ok, I'm off to bed, so Hamba Kahle, lala kahle - (Go well, sleep well) kahle is pronounced ga-shle btw :) And so endeth the lesson for tonight, eish this social studies class has been exhausting!
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Bob Chance |
Dag-gon-it! Another six responses from Sipho. Or is it Psycho? Isn't there some long-winded medical name for a person with an identity problem? It's okay Andrew, or Sipho, or who-ever-you are at this hour of the day. There really is help for you. Somewhere!
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Dorothy Neumann |
Responding to John Roberts' "name trumps talent"...and Trump trumps...well everyone.
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Slim Brady |
how about "twoway" or Andyn't
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
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Debbie Del Tejo |
OH... BE STILL MY BEATING HEART!!!!
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Bob Chance |
looks like one of the old Virnia Slims cigarrett commercials.
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Well Bob, you couldn't be more wrong!! LOL. It's a camel light W I D E...
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Robyn Gwilt |
Eish!! Sipho, that Botox batch was baaaaaddd!!! :) LOL I agreed Debbie "Hold Me Back....." PS Has your career sky-rocketed like you thought you would. If so, I might change my name to something more ethnic!
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
*HUGE GASP* How DARE you insult me and my botox job! And stop taking my name in vain, why don't you? LOL. You're just hatin' on me because I'm so sexy. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, Robyn. And you don't need to change your name, because you are Robyn with a Y.
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Paul Tobeck |
Andr..uh,Mik..I mean Sipho.. Nice pic, looks like a bad audition photo for Reservoir Dogs! Now you need to work on the attitude to go with the new name. Practice these phrases with a little South African accent... "Geeet out! I have no time for your nonsense! (remember to hold the "e" sound) "I am an arteest, I don't expect your simple mind to comprehend." (again with the "e") Most importantly, practice "shushing" people whenever they try to speak. Get this all down pat and every art critic will love and never even have to see your work!
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BetterPhoto Member |
Personally, I'm thinking about changing my name to George B. Dooglethorpe III. What do y'all think?
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Robyn Gwilt |
Oh no, here we go again - its Monday Schizo night!!! I personally hate that American thang of putting II or III after a name - its so... I don't know, small-willy-ish! (ish, not eish!) I think George B is good, leave off the Dooglething - but then again.... what about Bill C, or Ronald R, or Jimmy C......?
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Paul T, just because you insult someone with an exclamation point after it doesn't make it any better for the insultee! LOL. Oh, and I already shush people when they try to speak to me. If they want to talk to me, they should schedule an audience...
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Slim Brady |
how this the names Brook, Babbling Brook
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BetterPhoto Member |
Thanks for calling me a nutcase there Robyn (LMBO).
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Rebecca A. Steed |
Since ya'll are now image consultants, what should MY new name be? my last name is Shadowens (shadow-ins), which I like, but I'm not real fond of Becky... Oh yeah, please keep in mind I am a short white 23-year-old woman who is married, so nothing TOO exotic, because they won't want to feature me on 20/20- it'd be pretty boring
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Marianne Fortin |
If you don't mind me saying this - you look a bit like Orson Welles and Russell Crowe. How about Orson Crowe?
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Sarah J. Thexton |
EISH I join here as a South African living in the USA and I see a Sipho so I think what is a nice Soweto boy doing in Alabama. Well Sipho great name. EISH I fell for it.
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Robyn Gwilt |
;) Sarah, So bly om nog 'n Seffrikan te sien :)Daar's nou 3 van ons!! Marianne I think the Orson is great! Becky.... Howabout first name Deep? or Short (you said you are!) or if u want to get 'Seffrican' what about Darky? With my surname 'Ball', it leaves me wide open.... :)
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Sarah J. Thexton |
Dit is lekker om hier to wees. Who is the third Seffrikan? I can think of a few Seffrican names but they probably are not politically correct.
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Please don't be castin' any voodoo hoodoo rock and roll hoochie koodoo spells on my thread.... or if you insist, let me in on it...
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Sarah J. Thexton |
With a name like the one you are using you had better start learning AFrikaans, Sotho or Xhosa. I can help out with the Afrikaans a bit and most of my American friends only want word to use in road rage situations ;-)
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Robyn Gwilt |
Graham Fry - http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/free/gallery.php?mem=167157 - he's a recent convertee to BP and a friend and then Betsy Labuschagne - http://www.betterphoto.com/gallery/free/gallery.php?mem=120312 I'm finding the new layout of BP a bit ingewikkeld to navigate - can't find the free galleries, so had to go back and find where my friends had commented on my pix. If you drop them an Afrikaans note they'll platz! Sorry Sipho - no voodoo, just 'Seffrican' :)
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Platz - now there's a word I know, but isn't it Yiddish?
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Sarah J. Thexton |
So do Americans platz as well. All good Johannesburg Kugels platz. When they are talking to their friends they usually say things like "Oh God Doll I could just plazt"
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Yes, we platz, and doll, it's because I didn't get a finalist again!!! Oh well...
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Sarah J. Thexton |
Well doll if you are platzing right now just go out and dent the Gold Amex like an good Kugel would and you will feel a whole ehap better. If you are a true Kug you would rename yourself Rachel Hirschowitz or Rebekah Weinstein. Now I had better stop monoplizing this thred.
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Robyn Gwilt |
ROFLMAO - glad to hear Americans platz - Sipho we'd have to teach you Afrikaans elsewhere, as I think what you want to learn would have everyone else platzing! Love the Rachel/Rebekah :) I've just finished the kiddi-schlepp, so am heading for bed. Sarah were you from JNB? How long have you been an 'exportee'?
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Robyn Gwilt |
PS, I've just finished The Otter Trail - which has you know, no self-respecting Kugel would even contemplate! 5 days of schlepping a 20kg backpack, which included my 1.5kg L lens, cold water out-door showers, temperatures of 6deg at night and 18-20deg at night, vomiting and the runs, eating dehydrated food, and not a salad in sight, the Old Brown Sherry was klapped on the 2nd night.... but...as I'm Robyn with a Y and NOT Rachel, one L, I finished!!! 42 gruelling kilometers. On one day alone, a cumulative total of 890m - just going up... never mind the downs. Oi gevalt, it was like having a 10year old strapped to my back for 7 hours a day while I hit the stair-climber! Will post pix when I've finished this editing schlepp!
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Sarah J. Thexton |
Robyn that is my part of the world. I am orignally from Port Elizabeth. I am very impressed that you did that trail. Not something I will be trying anytime soon even if I do have Obies. I am really looking forward to seeing those pcitures. How high was the water at the river mouths.
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Jagadeesh Andrew Owens |
Eish, I'm platzing! Sarah, you poor thing, I'm so sorryto hear you have Obies. Hopefully they'll have a treatment for it pretty soon.
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