Bella Model Patrick O'Brien
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Model Patrick O'Brien talks about modeling as a business, updating your composite cards and photos and offers some tips to aspiring models.
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Cristina: I’m here with Patrick O’Brien and we are going to talk a little bit about his modeling career. So, how long have you been modeling?
Patrick O’Brien: Since I was 3.
Cristina: Three!?
Patrick O’Brien: That’s right. My first modeling job was a Hanes underwear job.
Cristina: That’s a good first job.
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah, yeah and then I stopped modeling for a while and then after college I started modeling in NYC.
Cristina: Where are you from?
Patrick O’Brien: Chicago. So I worked a lot…
Cristina: So you did this Hanes modeling job in Chicago?
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah. So, I started out in Chicago so I went back to my original agency after college and modeled on and off and then kind of made it a full time thing, and then I moved to New York and then found Bella, and I started working nonstop.
Cristina: So tell me of some of the jobs that you have done.
Patrick O’Brien: Let’s see, I modeled in jobs for Coca Cola, Verizon, GQ details, Men’s Journal…
Cristina: Wow, so you’ve pretty much run the gamut between commercial print and fashion. So you kind of do both.
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah a small line.
Cristina: And this is your comp card?
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah, yeah this is my composite card.
Cristina: That’s great.
Patrick O’Brien: But I’m here today to pick out a new card.
Cristina: And so you’re going to do a whole new composite card?
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah because my pictures gets outdated.
Cristina: Yeah, talk to me a little bit about that, about your pictures get outdated and doing a new composite card. What does that do for you when you get a new composite card?
Patrick O’Brien: It makes it look like you’re constantly working and a lot of the times your tear sheets are either too small or they’re not really what you want. It may be a good magazine but you look too different in your shots; your hair is longer, shorter. You need to update as much as possible.
Cristina: Exactly, so you want to update your pictures and composite card so you can keep working. I always think that when a model keeps the same composite card to too long clients keeps getting that same card and thinking they’re not modeling much. You know…
Patrick O’Brien: Right, right you want to make sure that they have enough pictures of you so clients know you’re constantly working.
Cristina: So you see that modeling is very much like a business.
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah, yeah you want to make sure that you’re on top of your game and that you’re shooting with new photographers that will bring out more than you’ve already had in the past. I mean you can tell from what your first composite card looks like you know...junk, and then as you move on you get better.
Cristina: And then you look just like you look now.
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah and especially here at Bella…
Cristina: I think you have to keep improving. If you’re not improving, you’ve got a problem.
Patrick O’Brien: Right hopefully, otherwise you should find a new job. But Bella is really good at pointing good pictures and pushing you in a way that makes sense for you.
Cristina: That fits you.
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah because you’re basically running your own business, and you want to make sure that your business is run well. We have no protection as models, you know clients, photographers can steal our images or whatever and I know that I am working with a team that is representing me right; that is not wasting my time and I am taken care of.
Cristina: You know those aspiring models out there that look at you and say, “That’s who I want to be. I want to model like Patrick does”.
Patrick O’Brien: Yeah, wow.
Cristina: What tips would you give them?
Patrick O’Brien: I would say don’t spend a lot of money on your pictures. I would say do your research, go to reputable places, don’t take your clothes off, and I think that’s it.
Cristina: No, that’s great. Well thank you so much for talking with us today.
This is Cristina DeHart on ExploreModeling.com
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