One thing is clear: Mondo Models may never have any permanent home. But Denver will be the base for now. Mondo Models will be happy to work with select models wherever Agent Mondo happens to be. Agent Mondo is afflicted with "On the Road dysfunction" and expects to be traveling to places he has never seen, and we mean really soon. These trips pertain to his personal and many creative projects, but may also integrate with the Mondo Models mission over time. Trips are being planned for Nancy and Paris, France, followed by Hollywood and New York City in that order. Amsterdam and other European stops may be in the picture eventually. The France trip is expected to last 90 days in late 2010 or Spring, 2011 if there are no delays.

If you are an aspiring and unusual model in the Denver region, please try to catch Agent Mondo when he is not on the road. Mondo Models will not be advertised much until things are a little more certain and settled. In the meantime, send an email to Agent Mondo from the Contact page. Or visit Mondo Models on MySpace. Go to.... MySpace.com/MondoModels

Mondo Manifesto
The mission of Mondo Models is far more than "alternative" and not just a new adventure into being "cool". Mondo Models was born specifically to remedy the prejudices of consumer culture by presenting models who defiantly break taboos in art, fashion, sexuality, physical prototypes, ethnicity and economic status, especially in art environments. Agent Mondo, a longtime prolific photographer, film aspirant, online arts publisher and literary writer, created Mondo Models in the Spring of 2003 to foist confrontational surrealism upon the bourgeois. It is both an act of defiance and a clear call to revolutionary change in the relationship between artistic model/acting talent and patrons.

Mondo Model: Heather Honey.

It is largely the connection between money and art that has long pigeonholed both mainstream and alternative fashions, human images, film and lifestyle into convenient commercial formats. By the 1990s the Madison Avenue prototype, meaning the mainstream in cultural commerce, had become so institutionalized along with consumer approval and apathy, that it imposed upon us a lifestyle based on conspicious consumption and class warfare and not based upon true art. The revolution against this machine began long ago. Today in places like New York there is an underground art/fashion/lifestyle movement so diverse that it begins to break apart not only the mainstream but also throws out much of what we call alternative. Counterculture by and large outside of New York, Berlin,, London, Amsterdam and parts of Los Angeles, is really a process of buying "uniforms" (fashions and records) connoting membership in the underground. But while the poseur masses of every subculture are controlled by money, the real core of the underground is driven by small  scale radical artistic vision that replicates on a large scale. If it were not for the "art criminals" who drive this process, alternative lifestyles would be even more boring and meaningless than they certainly are today. The mission of Mondo Models is to accelerate this process here in the outback hinterlands of Denver, Colorado by promoting appropriate model and acting talent.

Heather Honey
& Ray Eerie

Behind Mondo Models, a set of themes will evolve representing a new dynamic in the way that human

I recognize that young people have hedonism, new forms of clubbing and wild things on the Net. Yet much of television, radio and print advertising is still glued to convenient prototypes that maintain a fuzzy status quo with the cultural corporate mainstream. New fashion independents, new forms of music distribution and personal publishing, and new affordable independent film technology are the primary hopes of many underground movements. Yet even with all our new diversity, human identity is at war with human identity. Culture clash is everywhere. And this is no less so in the so-called underground. In reality, there is no absolute cure for culture clash. But it will be the mission of Mondo Models to promote aspiring models, actors and other talents who crack open the minds of today's blind culture consumers by breaking all unreasonable taboos.

In that vein, let it be said that Mondo Models will specialize in Madison Avenue rejects and cutting edge avant garde talent as well as those who exhibit classic standards of beauty. Models will include Celtic fair maidens, retro, flappers, limey mods, culture trash, psychedelic, pop art, fetish, cyber-punk, fantasy, vaudeville, industrial, bizarre, surrealists, mammary-challenged toothpicks, sumo-models, tattoo-covered bikers, and authentic punk rockers.

Mondo Models will also feature goths and gravediggers, circus types, Black people, interracial couples, minorities ignored by mainstream catalogs, geriatric folks, homely girls, gender rebels, drag kings & queens, , scary dominatrices, peasant fashionistas, accident victims, mutants, people with major birth defects, missing limbs, eyes, stretch marks, surgically scarred human beings, art criminals and political pinkos. We mention these proposed prototypes not as freaks but rather as valid human identities who are blatantly betrayed by Madison Avenue as well as by much of apathetic and divisive counterculture. Mondo Models will be an artistic tour de force of revolutionary proportions in service to our models.

Mondo Models, in Denver, is the region’s first online catalog dedicated to a diversity of subculture talent beyond the white bread underground. Prospective models are encouraged to browse our web site, then submit an email with recent photos for examination. Models will be selected more on “visual talent” than on physical looks alone. Most of the model industry is out touch with the art underground as well as ordinary humanity. The Mondo mission is to promote new models to counterculture advertisers, film crews, fashion creators and commercial photographers. A quality online portfolio will be constructed FREE of charge for each model by longtime photographer Agent Mondo. Make history! Be a Mondo Model!

Local Models Wanted - Free Portfolios
Mondo Models is offering to develop free portfolios for select amateur and professional models who fit any of our theme standards. If you are the kind of model we are looking for, we will provide a free two to four hour photo session. Once we get rolling we expect we may receive our first requests for fashion models, photo models, actors, and film extras. Local fashion photo shoots, hair salons, public relations firms, small film companies, and theatrical companies all have a periodic need for unusual models. The Mondo Models catalog will gradually grow and become unique in its artistic specialty. Mondo will not become an authentic agency right away. But we will develop the ultimate menu of unconventional models. We will charge no fees from models nor offer pay. But we will be happy to connect you with people who hire models and may pay you as they begin to prefer our collection of models. Mondo is not requiring contracts or exclusives. We are primarily a model resource in development.

If you think you have the stuff to be a Mondo Model, please send us an email with your introduction and any credits, a phone number and a photo.

Our web site will slowly become a visual feast, a sometimes surreal world, an entertaining and useful catalog of human oddities. In this Libertine environment, I have faith that only prudes will be bored, as well they should be.

Mondo Models is about art, it's about fun, about dreams and dreamers. We're going to make some of our dreams and yours come true.

- Agent Mondo