<< My pen and inks, which no one commented on >>
I did comment on them:
<< BTW, I LOVE Jon’s art. Yours sucks. >>
Now, at this point, the lines of questioning
diverge. Branch one goes like this: “Do you read Spawn?” To which I inevitably answer “No, cause I’m not twelve anymore” The second branch is ever more infuriating, on account of it’s less a question and more a self-indulgent rant. Branch two goes like this: “I draw comics, too. Well, kind of, I’m not that good. My cousin’s really good. He draws the kind of stuff you’re drawing. He’s still in junior high but he’s really good. He wants to work for a comic company. Like the guys who do Spawn. I have this idea for a book, it’s called Spheres (or something equally bland) and it’s about, like, me and my friends, and how we hang out and play music, and the scenes we’re in, cause nobody’s really done a comic book about that yet, you know?” To which I inevitably answer: “Wow, could you, like, shut up?” LOL I like the blatent insensitivity! Poor child…rebelling with his punked hair and wayward questions and comments…probably just needs a hug. Was he wearing spandex?
Jon I especially like Dr. Strange and others…
Ooooh excuse me…I meant no one of consequence…
I understand Jon…like I said I carry a tennis raquet for those who cast the first, or second, or third stones. LOL I love engaging in volleying debates. Ask Karen…
By the way are those your gargoyles Karen?
<< Now, at this point, the lines of questioning
diverge. Branch one goes like this: >>
blather ::snip:: blather ::snip, snip, snip::
<< Was he wearing spandex? >>
Does anybody know what the hell this guy is trying to say?
Yeah, Karen, he was quoting from an entry on my sketchbuk site. Specifically http://www.ape-law.com/wustudio/sketchbuk/sketch016.htm
By the way, Karen, thanks for the compliment on my work. Always nice to hear 
-An epistle most prosaic, courtesy of Calamity Jon.
Jon can be seen swinging from trees at ape-law.com
<< By the way are those your gargoyles Karen? >>
You talkin’ to me? I’m the only one here. Duh!
Self portraits?
<< Self portraits? >>
Actually, they were inspired by this weird Eddie Munster floating monkey head I once saw. It was scary.
Touche
Karen:“That stupid looking head that’s floating around on your web page; the one that looks like Eddie Munster…what’s up with that? Is that TheArtist? Why would anyone want to post that for all the world to see? Floating Eddie Munster head. LOLOLOL already! What’s up with that?”
Hmmm…she doesn’t even post a pic, taking her way of thinking into account it MUST be truly hideous…
Well actually there is pics…Fortunately I don’t poke fun at your subject matter in your pics…But if you’d really like me to…
You’ve mistaken me for someone who gives a damn.
Promoting “doing what you want, where you want,” doesn’t cover your ass when it comes to copyright lawsuits.
I really hope that you have permission from the original copyright holder on those photos to not only alter, but display them. You see, just applying a filter to an image doesn’t make it your intellectual property. There is a certain amount of change that has to be made before the original holder of the copyright loses the right to complain about infringement, and I can pretty much guarantee that the pic of Meg Ryan is still, quite obviously, Meg Ryan.
That’s not really the sort of thing to display or encourage, unless you very politely mention (usually requested in very large text, with links) who the original photographer was and that you have permission to use the image. And most photographers take these things so personally that Kinkos (at least the ones that I have used) will not, under any circumstances, scan a professional picture without written permission from the photographer. Unless this has changed in the last 6 months, it was specifically because of copyright and the potential for infringment.
Altering photos doesn’t make you any less of an artist than someone who uses pen and ink to draw from imagination. It just makes you a different brand of artist. Make sure “thief” isn’t one of the charges added.
Suze – why yes, there are photoshop altered images all over my site, but dammit, they’re all pics of myself made by myself, so there – anne
Suze – what AM I doing? – anne
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[[For anyone interested there’s a couple of pics here… http://home.eathlink.net/~imagine68
Opal…please…that is NOT a face drawing, it’s a torso. And it’s been published.]]
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that url redirected me to “37.com”, apparently some search engine.
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as a face, it sucks. As a torso it sucks. I’ve seen abysmal crap get published before. It doesn’t make the picture suck any less.
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I have book illustration credits too, whoop-de-doo
>^,^<
“Cluemobile? You’ve got a pickup…”
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Ho hum…that’s what “royalty free” means…photos available for use by anyone at no cost…the others are mine…next
The torso looks much better than yours…you only wish you looked that good…LOL
Besides I thought no one cared to see my refrigerator stuff…Add an “r” to eathlink
Can’t remember the Flash and Tripod sites, I think they might link somewhere…
I’d like to personally thank you all for rallying behind Opal and Karen and visiting my page
I was just thinking…if that torso sucks…
LOLOLOL you aren’t saying much for yourself. That model was in excellent shape…and Ive seen your pic…maybe with a little Bally’s or World Gym and some slim fast…hmmmm
Oh yes Suze…anne…here are some links to “royalty free” photographs. Now lets see they ARE pretty hard to find…hmmmm Circuit City, Staples, Office Max, CompUsa, Walmart, Target, Sears, Montgomery Wards, Fryes, Savon, Egghead Software, and literally hundreds of smaller…non-chain stores. Just in case you didn’t know… =)
[[[[Oh yes Suze…anne…here are some links to “royalty free” photographs. Now lets see they ARE pretty hard to find…hmmmm Circuit City, Staples, Office Max, CompUsa,
Walmart, Target, Sears, Montgomery Wards, Fryes, Savon, Egghead Software, and literally hundreds of smaller…non-chain stores. Just in case you didn’t know… =) ]]]]
And this has what to do with what, Rocket Scientist? Just in case you didn’t know, some people see “art” like that and think it’s okay to just walk off with the work done by someone else, plaster a cheezy filter over it, and call it their own. Surprise, surprise, it’s illegal and wrong.
Sears, Olan Mills, JC Penney … even WalMart holds the “copyright” to an image created in their photography studios. When you take pictures home, it’s because you’ve paid for them. Scanning the picture and redistributing it is a violation of “fair use” if you send it out, since you purchased hard copy pictures for that use. It’s a very titchy issue right now, since copyright law on the Internet is a fairly new and highly controversial topic. If you walked up, snapped a photo of a photo on their wall, took it home and played with it in Photoshop, it’s STILL not yours.
On to the rest of this wildly enigmatic blathering you did. None of these stores have a bloody thing to do with “royalty free” photography, (unless of course they’re selling disks of them, and most of the time art disks are clipart, not photographs of famous people) and I guarantee if you take one of the models out of someone’s ad and lay a filter on it and pop it on a billboard without talking to the “owner” of the picture, you’re going to court.
Apparently you missed most of the relevant detail of what I was trying to say regarding gratuitously plastering filters over photographs, and I quote (again): “I always promote doing what you want where you want.” No surprise there, since it seems that the only thing you’re able to do is slam on people and find faults and the most insulting way possible to disagree.
There’s a bigger picture here on the issue, and frankly, you aren’t in it – unless, of course, you’re one of the flagrant violators. But of course, you wouldn’t do that, now would you?
Suze – what AM I doing? – anne
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