Well…
For sure I’m not the most serious guy by myself and I guess I’m very humorous, but I’m not that a big fan of cracked.com.
Is it really necessary to make (sometimes very tasteless) fun on iconic work / photographs ?
And things become very different when it’s affect your own work / person.
I first heard of cracked.com a few weeks ago when they used (or shall I state: misused ?) one of my photographs for it’s ‘fun’ in a series entitled “Old timey ads for modern products”
Even worse, a female friend (who agreed to model for me) is now shown to the public as a stupid blond who can’t find home without a Tom-Tom navigation system. Not to mention the racist title “Gosh, darling … how will we avoid the ethnic neighborhood” and sexist terms like “Studies have proven the size of a woman’s brain is six times smaller than that of a man” , among some other ‘funny’ statements.
She really was NOT amused when I show it to her. Fortunately she is a friend and didn’t come over me although the signed model release states that defamation is excluded.
Does just the fact that a photographer shows the work on the Internet, and photographs can be found in search engines, include the allowance to use it and manipulate it in any way (without asking for permission) ?
And cracked.com isn’t a blog run by a teen with 3 readers – it’s seen by millions!!!
Like Mr. Marasss, I am emotionally devastated and outraged over Cracked.com’s repulsive, tasteless, violent assault of the artistic integrity and copyrights of these iconic masterpieces of photographic imagery.
A Hipster version of Mad Magazine with a difference, lack of taste with a bad after taste. Their associations lack ingenuity I like trying to get drunk on Brown Derby beer (carried in one of the big four grocery stores in the 70’s & 80’s).
Muybridge getting riffed on by Cracked goes to show how important his work is to photography. Always good to have a little of the sacred and the profane in our lives regardless of the originator!
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Lol, so it’s now crystal clear that all four of the horse’s hooves did leave the ground :)
Well…
For sure I’m not the most serious guy by myself and I guess I’m very humorous, but I’m not that a big fan of cracked.com.
Is it really necessary to make (sometimes very tasteless) fun on iconic work / photographs ?
And things become very different when it’s affect your own work / person.
I first heard of cracked.com a few weeks ago when they used (or shall I state: misused ?) one of my photographs for it’s ‘fun’ in a series entitled “Old timey ads for modern products”
Even worse, a female friend (who agreed to model for me) is now shown to the public as a stupid blond who can’t find home without a Tom-Tom navigation system. Not to mention the racist title “Gosh, darling … how will we avoid the ethnic neighborhood” and sexist terms like “Studies have proven the size of a woman’s brain is six times smaller than that of a man” , among some other ‘funny’ statements.
She really was NOT amused when I show it to her. Fortunately she is a friend and didn’t come over me although the signed model release states that defamation is excluded.
Does just the fact that a photographer shows the work on the Internet, and photographs can be found in search engines, include the allowance to use it and manipulate it in any way (without asking for permission) ?
And cracked.com isn’t a blog run by a teen with 3 readers – it’s seen by millions!!!
I say that picture, and I really liked it, not what cracked.com did, but your picture, she looked amazing and the picture was great.
Looks very Audrey Hepburn to me
Like Mr. Marasss, I am emotionally devastated and outraged over Cracked.com’s repulsive, tasteless, violent assault of the artistic integrity and copyrights of these iconic masterpieces of photographic imagery.
Let’s Occupy Cracked.com’s office now!
A Hipster version of Mad Magazine with a difference, lack of taste with a bad after taste. Their associations lack ingenuity I like trying to get drunk on Brown Derby beer (carried in one of the big four grocery stores in the 70’s & 80’s).
wow, if you guys don’t fit the stereotype of old, cranky and get off my lawn…
they’re parodies, get over it. or maybe complain some more about how its not funny, because that really does make you seem all that more relevant.
Cracked is funny, love it. The above naysayers need to get a grip. I would love it if they parodied one of my pics.
Muybridge getting riffed on by Cracked goes to show how important his work is to photography. Always good to have a little of the sacred and the profane in our lives regardless of the originator!
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