OSU Students Publish a Calendar of OSU Female Students wearing Angel Wings
OSU Students Publish a Calendar of OSU Females
Calendar boys
When OSU students Johnny Wong and George Psaras hit the clubs and see a beautiful girl, Wong approaches her and tells her that he and his friend are producing a cheesecake calendarÑnothing too risquŽ, just undergarments and sexy posesÑand asks if she would like to meet with them later, take some photos and maybe be in the calendar.
"Sometimes they think it's just a pick-up line," Wong said of his model-scouting approach. Jeez, only sometimes?
But around 100 girls took him seriously enough, and after meeting for coffee, conversation and photos, the enterprising young men narrowed it down to 13 fellow OSU students (including Psaras' girlfriend) to be their calendar girls.
The result, funded in part by a silent partner going by the sketchy handle "Mr. X" in the credits on the back of the calendar, is "Campus Angels." Each month features a huge close-up of a female student wearing white undergarments, club kid costume angel wings, belly jewelry and blank expressions over a tiny transparent section for the dates (I get the feeling more people will buy the calendar for the pictures than for its functionality).
Wong said they went with the angel and white theme to show the models off as classier, "good girls"Ñthey were shooting for a Victoria's Secret sort of vibe, he said, and they ended up with a less-airbrushed and more homemade looking laddy magazine level of titillation.
There's no nudity or overtly exploitive shots; the most conservative is December, shot in profile and only baring her arms and legs, while the most sensual is June, in which two scantily clad sisters embrace.
(The angel theme and non-specific use of the word "campus" also keeps them safe from the wrath of Ohio State, which can come down like a hammer on any unauthorized use of trademarks; in 1999, the university confiscated and shredded 5,000 copies of Sean Ashbrook's "Scarlet and Gray Girls" calendar.)
Models found, Wong and Psaras then hustled to find sponsors, sell ads, find a location for the shoot and people to handle hair and makeup, fly in an experienced (and expensive) photographer from Miami to handle the shoot and then find 13 different High Street locations to carry the calendars. They also sell calendars at club events and at their website campus-angels.com.
For compensation, the girls get photos for their portfolios, and calendars they can sell at much-higher-than-cost, Wong said, allowing them to make money (as well as making the boys money).
Wong learned the college-cutie calendar business from the other side of the camera when he first started school, having posed for Ashbrook's "Campus Men" calendar his freshman year (Wong was February). He plans to do another calendar next year in Miami and hopefully two more in Columbus, widening his horizons to include a male calendar as well.
He graduates in June with a degree in chemistry, while Psaras' major is biology (OSU doesn't offer a calendarology major). They seem to have picked up business on their own.
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