To whom it may concern at askacutegirl.com. I'm not wondering who you call a nerd but what your definition of a nerd is and the values each of you might associate with the use of the label. For instance why are you nerds? Are we talking 80's kind of "Revenge of the Nerds" or some sort of neo-hipster "Napoleon Dynamite" nerd? Also what is a hipster? Please advise. Thank you!
Love,
Maxeem Konrardy
Albert Lea, MN
http://maxeem.com/
NESSA
A true nerd is someone who thinks for themselves and does not conform. They often are very intelligent and have an odd obsession with something. I think the label of Ask a Cute Nerd Girl is what is nothing more.I have seen many nerds get shafted because they are awkward in public or people don't understand them.
There is a reason the young hipsters want to be nerds. It is because we rock! I was picked on a lot as a child. Now I have learned to embrace and love what I am. I want to spread that confidence to other nerds.
This is our time.
Now we are the cool ones.
LAUREN
Well.
I find it hard at times to find an appropriate label. I have been a nerdo my whole life. Collecting pogs, cards, Hildebrandt, Saturday Night Live, Jurassic Park, comics, going to conventions, science fairs, Star Wars, watching almost every Star Trek except Enterprise. (Sorry I have no love for you) It's a niche I have always called home base.
I guess to nail down a definition: a person that enjoys intellectual and esoteric pursuits, i.e. things that are branded considerably uncool by the mainstream.
Hipster these days seems to be defined differently. I have heard "thrift store aesthetic" with the tight pants, trust fund kids, bad 80s clothing (This is where American Apparel steps in) and will sneer at you if you don't confess a love of vinyl; which I have noticed online seems to be the new definition. But hipsters are generally people that don't live in the status quo. Appreciation of DIY culture, intellectual pursuits, liberal or left politics, PBR (although I am more of an Old Style girl myself), etc. Or if you want the original definition: a hepcat that digs hot jazz, laid back attitude, sarcastic humor, cannabis...don't be square daddio.
I guess everyone has their definitions.
MARY
I need to tell you that although I met both Ness & Lauren while working at our fair nation's third largest home shopping network, we never all worked there at the same time. They collected each other without my knowledge, those tricksters! I was surprised when I found out they knew each other after Nessa & I had been real close for a few years. Lauren had long since defected to another nameless non-home shopping television network. We are all photo/video audio visual tech art nerds, not computer nerds. Yes, boys...there are girls that are most certainly respective nerds that aren't on the internet from the bored at work community. Thanks to Tina Fey for making a hilarious show starring one of us. I work on this when I get home from a long day of product video photography. Nessa is my best friend. Lauren is our mutual good friend.
Honestly Maxeem, I am not going to dance this tango. I am going to give you what I think you want. Thus I create without their previous knowledge or permissions:
THE NERDFILES
Vanessa went to fucking Space Camp. Are there any arguments to her nerd street cred? Did you go to Space Camp?
Plus she went on a free scholarship for an essay she wrote on women in space. Take that feminist critics of http://www.askacutenerdgirl.com/-MaryPants Productions! We know you exist but as a Q & A column, we don't post on other blogs.**
Write to us if you have an opinion. We will answer and publish.
**Mary will post on http://www.jinxworld.com/ if she ever decides she feels like it.
Nessa also got in a near physical fight over her opinion that Next Generation was better than Deep Space Nine with another girl there.
More nerd street cred...her film works.
Art Director:
Fear of Girls (2005)
Vernie (2004)
Exposure (2004/II)
Cubes (2003) (TV) (co-art director)
How to Kill a Mockingbird (2002)
Miscellaneous Crew:
In Production
2000s
The Dark Knight (2008) (filming) (production assistant)
Factotum (2005) (production assistant) ... aka Factotum (France) ... aka Factotum: A Man Who Performs Many Jobs (USA: long title)
Art Department:
Edible Love (2004) (wardrobe stylist)
Four Feet (2002) (set dresser)
Production Designer:
Edible Love (2004)
Additional Details
Genres:Comedy / Drama / Short / Thriller
You didn't miss the parts where she worked on the next fucking Batman, did you? The Dark Knight and a Charles Bukowski film? Also Eriie is Nessa's name in _________.
Plus she grew up poor as fuck. Poorer than me and I have strict standards. Last time I checked that soundly does not = hipster.
LAUREN
I cannot do Lauren justice. She does herself better justice back in 2005 without even trying before she knew we would ever have to blog it up at http://www.askacutenerdgirl.com/
Here is her other blog: http://plasticego.blogspot.com/
Memoirs of a Master Control Operator?!? Have you often wondered what that job entails?
Master control
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Master control is the technical hub of a broadcast operation common among most over-the-air television stations and networks. It is distinct from production control rooms in television studios where the activities such as switching from camera to camera are coordinated.
Master control is the final point before a signal is transmitted over-the-air or sent on to a cable television operator or satellite provider for broadcast. Television master control rooms include banks of video monitors, satellite receivers, videotape machines, transmission equipment, and, more recently, computer broadcast automation equipment for recording and playback of on-air programming.
Master control is generally staffed with one or two operators around-the-clock, everyday to ensure continuous operation. Master control operators are responsible for monitoring the quality and accuracy of the on-air product, ensuring the transmission meets government regulations, troubleshooting equipment malfunctions, and preparing programming for future playback. Regulations include both technical ones (such as those against over-modulation and dead air), as well as content ones (such as indecency and stationID)
MARYPANTS
My own nerd file will be poor after I wrote for Nessa and LL. Plus I am real sleepy. I work almost 60 hours a week. Did I mention I can't do this crap at work like the majority of the rest of you reading this as part of the bored @ work generation?
I am much more awkward geek than the other ladies. I have severe asthma, severe allergies, a very sensitive stomach that allows for the grace of vomiting at social functions where drinking isn't even involved. I am very clumsy and commit crass social embarrassments that I often regret. I am uncomfortable in bras, fancy clothes, high heels, cosmetics...I'd be a lesbian if I didn't I like shaving my legs and love the cock so much. Anything that isn't naked, a miniskirt or jeans and boots I don't feel like myself in.
I have worked in the same insanely obsessive complusive, high detail, highly repetitive product video photography job for that home shopping network for going on seven years. I love it there. You can find my shots on the internet if you are dedicated to your internet research. Or if you ask me in an email. I can't say much beyond that in a personal blog like this according to regulations.
I received a spiral fracture to my tibia after falling off a children's swing in front of fifty or so of my closest friends at birthday party in 2004. It totally ruined the party. I have a sweet limp from that.
My group of friends in high school was known as "The Learners". Before I found my friends, I thought I was some sort of alien.
My prescription for my glasses is 4.00 L 4.25 R. I can't wear contacts because I developed an eye allergy.
I am prone to seizures.
It took me years before I liked people better than books.
I graduated with a near 4.0 I wasn't eligible to graduate with honors due to missing too many classes from my "ill health".
I was real poor and grew up on rainbow money. I make more money now than my mother ever has made in her life.
I read an embarrassing amount of sci-fi.
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