#1 12-04-18 07:56:23

aven frey

Video editor

Registered: 24-02-06

Posts: 2,577

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So Long!

Hello to the people!

As the  early adopters of IFM would know I've been round these parts since the dawn of time. Watering plants, cutting up videos, listening to podcasts. However as the new editors videos start to filter onto the site it's probably time to say goodbye. Goodbye! It's been rad, and lengthy.  Over 12 years, good lord.

Obviously losing me is a crushing blow for the Internet but in a stroke of good fortune Richard has been able to secure superior replacements, Mew and Frances who are certainly an upgrade and will keep everything chugging along in excellent order. If I wasn't writing this y'all wouldn't even know I left! My last day is on the 30th of this month. Remember to ask Siri to put it in your calendar.   

I don't come round as much as I used to but I've always appreciated these forums as a robust, frank and quality space to talk about sexuality and as such an incredibly valuable part of this site. I'd like to say a special thank you to those of you who've on occasion sent some sunshine my way, you peeps were always so appreciated. x

I'm not the best with words so here are some pictures ....

This me when started working here ....

This me 13 years later, with mad skills, some wonderful experiences, many of my most enduring friendships and creative partnerships, and a house  - also check out those cool earrings!

Wish me luck. All the loves!

xx

kypris

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Registered: 17-03-06

Posts: 1,269

Re: So Long!

Thank you Aven for your great work. I wish you a great future with many new interesting challenges. Here are a few lovely pictures from earlier times:

smoothed

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Registered: 11-08-15

Posts: 606

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aven - i hope it's not too late to admit this - i've long harboured a crush on you, and loved your duets here on IFM as well as AW. You look more ravishing today than you did all those years ago, and what an amazing run of years it's been. hope to see you around - so long, and thanks for all the fishies

richard

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Registered: 14-03-06

Posts: 3,395

Re: So Long!

I think it's a bit shoddy, these editors who think they can come and go as they please.  Whatever happened to a Job For Life?  They breeze in here, hardly warm up the seat and already they're off on some capitalist empire-building crusade.

I would like to publish Aven's job application here but she'd probably kill me.  I still have it.  It was probably the least professional CV ever to come across my desk (and I get a few) - had no detail whatsoever, said nothing about her education or experience,  no references, nothing but a plea for help and an expression of interest in, shall we say, erotic photography.  So being the soft hearted, adventurous manager that I am, I decided to give her a go at editing ISM photo shoots.  Then when a spot came up editing for IFM she extended her elbows and barreled her way into that department, leaving a swathe of torn and broken editors in her wake. 

To say there have been highs and lows would be an understatement.  When a young, optimistic, idealistic marxist feminist artist has to work with a cynical, pessimistic middle aged male engineer, there's going to be collisions.  When we used to go out on shoots I'd be fussing about white balance, exposure, focus and whatever, trying to carefully compose shots and make sure we have a narrative - I'd look around and Aven would be chasing butterflies, spinning the dials on a DSLR until it looked good to her.   Sometimes the subject would actually make it into the frame.   I'd get so frustrated at her lack of technical discipline, but even more frustrated when we'd upload the footage and hers was always so much better.

{I should add that she has a degree in photography and understands the technicals.  She just doesn't trust them!]

It's thanks to Aven's skill and stubbornness the videos look as great as they do.  And not just those but so many of the images across Feck's sites and in our promotional material benefit infinitely from Aven's genius eye.  And I have to say that I've held her back - she hates the way the sites look (and they are getting tired, let's be honest) and hopefully she'll come back to be on the rejuvenation committee. 

She is, honestly, the most talented photographer I've ever met, and if she wasn't so modest and lacking killer instinct, she'd be huge.  Anyone's who's seen her Instagram knows what I mean.  I sincerely hope she'll be very successful in her ventures because she deserves to be.

We'll all miss Aven around the office, not just for her mad skillz but her wit and infectious good nature.   Nobody more than me.

So I'd like to thank Aven for her hard work, especially when things weren't going so well and lesser people would have walked out.  And also for sprinkling her fractured genius all over our work, and generally being awesome.  Nearly all of the time.

Orgasm86

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Registered: 26-09-12

Posts: 314

Re: So Long!

Aven, your talents as an editor have been inspiring (as an amateur editor myself) and have helped make IFM quite beautiful these past 12 years. In short, thank you! I hope your next adventure in life has no shortage of laughter, happiness and peace

Howland

Member

Registered: 19-03-15

Posts: 259

Re: So Long!

Thanks for everything Aven, and good luck! (BTW that pic with the earrings is seriously sexy ... !)

viva

pretty pretty princess

Registered: 14-05-10

Posts: 4,113

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Love you so much Aven, you are amazing. and such an inspiration for me. I'll miss you around here but don't worry, I'll keep pestering your inbox with my gender politic dilemmas, heart dramas and torrents of poetry.

Richard you bastard. you made me cry.

Monotreme

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Registered: 21-05-07

Posts: 763

Re: So Long!

Aven, you are and always will be my hero. I'm both sad that this chapter is closing and excited for the new ones you're gonna write.

See you on Instagram.

privignus

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Registered: 29-12-15

Posts: 607

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Wow, Aven quitting!  Thanks for the sexy videos from both sides of the camera!  I hope that your new job is a success.

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Res est arduissima vincere naturam,
in aspectu virginis mentem esse puram

_hyperballad_

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Registered: 04-08-16

Posts: 556

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I feel such a welling of emotion at your flight into creative business Aven_Frey & I am so certain that you will find success in the areas you turn your hands to. You have been such a fixture here at Feck, you're a part of history & I am forever grateful for your gently tenacious presence here. You have taught me so much about grace & dignity, about perseverance, about creative vision, you have been & continue to be an absolutely phenomenal friend. You have seen me at my best & my very, very worst - there has never, ever been judgement just love & care & support. I've held off from writing this because I knew I'd cry at my bloody desk & here I am hiding behind the partition wiping tears off my cheeks! You are 50 different kinds of beautiful inside & out. I'm going to miss seeing your face here but only for purely selfish reasons, I really am SO glad that you're taking this step forward into a different kind of living & working life.

You are incredibly magic & honestly one of the best humans I know. Go forth & be your excellent self.

To those of you who have long enjoyed the genius of Aven_Frey go support her creative endeavors, she makes beautiful earrings & necklaces. You should go buy all of her lovingly handmade creations immediately:

https://www.instagram.com/thelittlefear/
https://www.littlefear.com/

More awesome Aven_Frey-ness can be found here:

https://www.instagram.com/avenfrey_creative/

& here:

https://twitter.com/AvenFrey

Ivy_jean

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Registered: 11-08-17

Posts: 5

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Oh gosh. What a tear-jerking post.

Half of me is crying 'don't leave us Aven' and the other half is so happy for you that I'm completely ignoring how freaking sad I'm going to be when you're gone.

You are all of the good things, I'm super excited for you and this adventure of yours.

XO

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ISM Site Editor

ThatIndividual

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Registered: 16-07-15

Posts: 347

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I’d never known aven posted on here before now. (But I’ve always been slow!)

Thank you so much Aven for very many hours of entertainment and a chance to non-guiltily indulge myself!

Also, I totally agree with not just accepting the accepted dogma of a field - especially art, but all human endeavors inclusive.

Last edited by ThatIndividual (27-04-18 19:43:44)

aven frey

Video editor

Registered: 24-02-06

Posts: 2,577

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Re: So Long!

Thanks so much for all the well wishes! I'm very touched. Feck has been so many things and I'm thankful for all of them.

Today is the very last day so, so long!

xx

Mew

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Registered: 06-03-13

Posts: 789

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I'll missss youuuu!! Thanks for teaching me editing things, it's super fun and challenging and I'm so happy I got to work with you even for a little while! If you ever wanna collab...............
Also omg 2000's Aven - iconic af *heart eyes*

I was worrying about you leaving a lil while back and someone in the office said, "we'll be ok - we just need to find the Aven inside us all." Life advice right there! Good luck with everything <3

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carzypenguin

Member

Registered: 20-08-17

Posts: 22

Re: So Long!

Oh no, first Lauren, now you! :-/

Nectarine98

Member

Registered: 29-12-17

Posts: 13

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thank you you for all your inner and outer beauty over the years - I feel you have been integral to this sites development with your visual artistary. So long, best wishes and many thanks. x

Pegasus3

Member

Registered: 31-12-15

Posts: 32

Re: So Long!

Did aven have videos on IFM? I can't seem to find any

_hyperballad_

Member

Registered: 04-08-16

Posts: 556

Re: So Long!

Not anymore, she chose to step back from her time in front of the camera quite a while ago now.