Last week, I reached out to Sombra who has been an active model and photographer on the site for over 2 years. She has done almost 40 sets as a photographer and well over 80 modeling sets-- For someone so busy, I was expecting someone more...well...uber focused and some what of an activist. To my surprise, Sombra is as much laid-back and down to earth as she is beautiful and smart. 

N: Tell us a little about yourself! Where did you grow up?
S: Houston, Texas

N: How has your traveling affected the way you are?
S: I have a lot of stories. I don’t mind eating strange food or hanging out with people who don’t speak a common language with me. When you have the same sort of lifestyle and living environment your whole life and when everyone around you lives and thinks the same way as you, you run the risk of losing perspective and taking stupid things too seriously.  I lived in Russia and China, and spent a lot of time with my family in Venezuela.  Very different places, but they reveal more commonalities than meaningful differences.

N: How did you get into modeling?
S: I needed a job while I was an undergrad. I worked as a figure model for local museums and art schools. It paid better than most other random jobs, and I liked that I could get the job by just walking in, filling out my paperwork, and telling them when I was available. Sometimes I could sleep on the job, other times I got paid to learn about art, without ever having to worry about grades. Nice job. After a few years, I realized photographers pay more.  Some random photographer made me a model mayhem account or one model place, and it kind of went from there.  Oh. I ended up on Maxim’s website sometime back around then, I was dating a guy into their douchtastic wonder and he was supposed to buy me some blueberry cheesecake if I sent photos to Maxim. They published them but I never got my damned cheesecake, and for this they will never be forgiven. 

N: When did you first hear about Zivity?

S: May 2009? I decided to submit some photos after being on the site for about 0.3 microseconds. I think the first set I fell in love with was "House of White Life" by Haruka_Salt and beaufoto:

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Hi!

I think I have seen the inside of planes/hotels/rental cars/convention halls more than my own house in the last couple months.  I know that being busy es bueno, but Lord, whomever took me up on my request that I have an interesting life shouldn't been so literal.  LOL!

Like a couple other posters have stated, I look at pretty much every set posted on Zivity.com. Usually I take away thoughts like, "oo!  have to work with that model" or "dang, gonna have to watch that photographer in the future."...but the first time I logged into the site, back in the beta days, I discovered AddictiveImage's work.  Pardon my french, but fuck, that man can take a picture of a nude girl.  Pretty much knew at that moment that Zivity was a place that would make me strive to produce a better set every time I picked up a camera.  

Conan just got into a motorcycle accident and is not as active here lately as he would like, so I figured that it was a good day to point out my favorite sets he has posted

As cool as it may be, a DeLorean DMC-12 is an underpowered alumium pig in the 80's automotive history books.  AddictedImage and Mischa manage to let it glow and gleam with all the potential awesomeness that the Back to the Future Series only hinted at:

Siberia

(for the record, Mischa could pose next to a beat-up Prius and make it look cool and bad-ass.)

Like most of the members here, I'm a Watson fan...love her in front of the camera and enjoy hoisting a beer with our favorite redhead anytime of the day or night.What a way to meet this Texan petite ball of fury than her debut set with AddictedImage - almost monochromatic palette with all the soft fabric filling the frame.  So much promise glimpsed in 56 frames.

 Parchment Revival

One thing I really love about Zivity is the free-form set guidelines. Unlike other sites I have shot for in the past, here you can stretch out and pretty much post what you need to get your point across.  Conan's open love letter to Mischa when she was going thru health issues in "Darth Vader..." was just made me wish I was a better person.

Darth Vader doesn't wake up at 7am

Go look at Conan's sets, drop a note (and/or some votes) here and there and remember, if there is someone that needs to be pointing a camera at things and showing the world the twisted inner beauty - it's Conan.  

(I won't lie, I wrote this blog for purely selfish reasons, I want to see more of his work wherever & whenever I can.)

Thanks to Zivity, I've been able to do all kinds of things I wouldn't have been able to do, talk to amazing artists and see all sorts of wonderful art.

Thanks to Zivity, I've been able to talk to some of my favourite artists, and even better, every now and then, one of them votes for me.  I cannot even begin to explain how wonderful it feels when an artist you admire enjoys something you have created!

Sometimes, if you are really lucky, one of Zivity's top models comes by your page and makes your day. 

Thanks to Zivity I have travelled across the country to meet new friends, and have made long lasting friendships.  I have spent long weekends with artists creating sets for Zivity, all whilst having the best time, drinking too much Pepsi Max and eating way too much pizza.

I can honestly say that thanks to Zivity, I have met my best friends, and have been given opportunities I would never have encountered without this website.

That is my favourite part of Zivity, the incredible members and artists.  I can switch from talking to a creative who inspires me, and pushes me to work harder and be better, to talking to someone in Singapore who appreciates art, and then I can be talking to one of the most beautiful and unique women on the planet.

Where else could I do this?  Nowhere, and that is my favourite thing about Zivity, the people who make it my home on the internet.

Kitty aka Pirate Photography

xx

A while back a friend sent me an article about Amanda Wachob, tattoo artist. Wow.... I had never seen anything like it. Just amazing! In a world where being unique is something often desired but rarely attained, she succeeds beautifully. Her abstract work looks like paint on skin. She brings out textures I didn't think possible for tattoos. The "Bloodlines", or ink-less tattoos are semi-permanent and designed to be "absorbed" in to the body. I think this idea is beautiful. Definitely on my bucket list. Also check out her other amazing art:http://www.amandawachob.com/

Sally   

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I was so blown away by cannibalized's set, "spinning her inescapable threads." Rachel's hair alone was stunning but after a great set-up this single striking image captured me. This set is for Zivity members only at the moment, but the first 31 people to email info at zivity.com with the subject, "cannibalized sent me" will get an invite to take a look at Zivity for FREE for 30 days.