October 17, 2007
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Technically, this was our most difficult competition. F-stops, depth of field, octagon boxes (or whatever they were called), light meters... it's enough to make your head spin and I think Heather and Maria would agree. There was a lot to learn in two days. A whole lot different than taking out your camera phone, pointing and shooting.
The technical stuff alone made this an interesting episode. But the really interesting part to me were these two couples. Now, I try my hardest to remain as neutral as I can about all four contestants. But it's not always easy. When I first met these four, they all seemed lovely, but by the end of the first day, Heather's snobbish claws were out for blood. Saying Daniel and Maria "looked like a catalogue" and that they were "predictable" and "pretty boring" was just a warm-up for Heather. She went even further when she and Alex lost the first challenge and she said right in front of the other couple, "I think we were way better than them". Poor wide-eyed Maria looked sucker-punched.
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Comments
Kraz_Eric wrote:
This is the first and only episode of this series I have seen...and lucky for me the topic! I loved it! More shows need to be focused on the photographer! (pun intended). Not sure if I will watch other episodes...but this photography episode was right up my ally!
posted on October 18, 2007 at 3:15 AM
VYoung wrote:
That Heather woman drove me crazy while watching this show. I can't stand people who think they are better than everyone else. I could never host a show because I would have told that couple they needed to get over themselves. Self confidence is attractive but being a snob is ugly.
posted on October 18, 2007 at 12:36 PM
Margaret wrote:
What a couple of self-important jerks Heather and Alex are. As you quite astutely pointed out, Susie, the purpose of art is to communicate. If communication doesn't happen, it is the artist who has failed, not the viewer. Heather got it completely wrong because she thinks it's all about her. Good luck with that, Heather! Let us know when you grow up.
posted on October 18, 2007 at 9:25 PM
Summer wrote:
I'm glad Maria won because Heather was way too cocky. And rude. Heather was very full of herself and a poor looser to boot. I can't imagine Heather having any job because she thinks she is right all the time and no one wants to work with someone like that. Maria was modest and handled herself well under the circumstances, and the judges agreed. Way to go Maria!
posted on October 19, 2007 at 2:29 AM
Maria Braga wrote:
Hello!
I love your show, can't seem to get enough of it!
Last episode I arrived in the middle and didn't get the judges names... the blonde girl looked just like Maria Sharapova, the tennis player,
was it her?
Best,
Maria
posted on October 19, 2007 at 1:10 PM
Chloe May wrote:
I was disgusted by the NY couple (Alex and Heather). So rude and condescending, if they had won I never would have watched this show again but luckily Heather's work sucked. Hate to break it to them; rocker attitude is about as far from 'edgy' and new as one can possibly get, it's over. Heather is easily the most hateful person I have ever seen on TV and I feel bad for everyone that has contact with her except her equally horrid and enabling husband.
Go Maria! She handled those boors with class.
posted on October 23, 2007 at 9:12 AM
Rich from NYC wrote:
Susie, this was a great blog entry. To add to the astute points you’ve already made (with which I couldn’t agree more), how avant-garde can a person consider her self when at 30-something she still uses the schoolyard-bully term “gay” to put down her fellow contestant’s work? Heather, do me a favor and clarify that one; what on Earth did you mean by that? So, is being gay “less than” or sub-par to you? Good luck getting creative people to take you seriously with thoughtless comments like that. As a New Yorker, I’d much rather live next to Maria and Daniel any day. Heather and Alex, I wish you well in this delusional, self-important, hateful fantasy land you’ve created for yourselves.
posted on October 28, 2007 at 6:00 PM