Re: Fairly Simple Photomanipulation
The original thread was (rightly) closed, so I could not comment, and I have to address the above.
Whoa, hang on a second; you're also hijacking my art-work, the art-work I slave over (and also have slaved over for years to learn how to create), to realize my visions of how I see things, that I also then share with others for their possible enjoyment as well, and chopping (hacking) it up, destroying the context it was meant to be seen in by me (under my learned and practiced steam that I took the time and drive to learn and hone my skillz to do, mind you), altering it, and using it in your “collages,” as well?
I had no idea you were also using my art-work. One word: Unacceptable.
While all you say may be sadly true (although I could track you and come at you legally if I was so inclined), I have two words from my POV, my friend: Honor and (common) Courtesy.
I know this world has become a free-for-all in this day-and-information-age, with people thinking they have a right to anything for free online, just because they can get away with it, from music to movies to pictures/graphics just because it is available online, but that does not fly with me.
I am sO sick of peeps thinking JUST BECAUSE they can get away with something, that that's perfect justification and currency for doing so! No honor. Zero. Nada. Zilch. These are the same types that if they could walk into a store and be 100% sure they could get away with it, they'd put that CD in their coat-pocket and walk out with it, all righteous and self-satisfied to boot. Never-mind that they just stole from a place of business, but they also stole an artist's work. Yes work, as in that is what they do for their living. And I've heard the whole BS justification; Aw, they're mega-rich, they won't miss it. They're just fine. And I say to that; OK, fine, you're a middle-class self-entitled snot, why don't we just open the doors to your house and invite some homeless peeps to come in and take your iPod, your Blu-ray player, your HDTV, etc. then? After all, you're way-abundant in their eyes. It's all fraking relative. But some can't be bothered with that, no. Just because you CAN do something does not make it automatically OK-fine to do it. On a number of levels.
But like the old saying goes in regard to some things esp. philosophical or ethical; If you have to ask, chances are high you won't understand the answer. Or perhaps not want to be bothered to understand. Peeps want what they want, and other peeps between said desire be damned. That's how it gonna be, huh?
And ya know, if you had taken the small amount of time it would have taken to email or PM me to ask my permission, chances are I would have said; Sure, go ahead, just credit me. That's exactly what a senior flight surgeon from NASA just did earlier this week in regard to having found my work online and wanting to then use my art in one of his NASA presentations. He emailed me to ask my permission first. Wow, what a fraking concept! Yet, he had and understood honor and common courtesy. Something that seems to be going the way of the dinosaurs in this day-and-age of rampant self-entitlement and self-absorption.
And, instead of being like the space-doc and taking the small amount of time out to ask permission, you choose rather to even compound it all, and now take the time out (and the gall) to “Furthermore” and “Seriously” me, in regard to my artwork being pirated by you, or anyone. Wow.
I myself have used other artist's work from TOS Trek in my TOS.5 take, but I guarantee, if the artist(s) that had created the efx I used had not passed on already, I would have emailed them to ask permission, and honored whatever they decided on. As is, I gave them and the copyright holder credit (in my piece itself) by default, as I'm big on giving credit where credit is due.
You gots some odd ideas of things, IMO, bub. But I got better things to do with my time than try and teach life-lessons in regard to art, ethics and honor. And besides, the universe will take care of things, as what goes around comes around, so have it, eh. Your life. You wanna walk through it clueless, self-absorbed and without honor and as a hack (literally), using your energy to justify (to yourself) a way-less-than honorable act(s), just because you can, have at it. 'Nuff said, carry on, I've had me say, eh.
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The original thread was (rightly) closed, so I could not comment, and I have to address the above.
Whoa, hang on a second; you're also hijacking my art-work, the art-work I slave over (and also have slaved over for years to learn how to create), to realize my visions of how I see things, that I also then share with others for their possible enjoyment as well, and chopping (hacking) it up, destroying the context it was meant to be seen in by me (under my learned and practiced steam that I took the time and drive to learn and hone my skillz to do, mind you), altering it, and using it in your “collages,” as well?
I had no idea you were also using my art-work. One word: Unacceptable.
While all you say may be sadly true (although I could track you and come at you legally if I was so inclined), I have two words from my POV, my friend: Honor and (common) Courtesy.
I know this world has become a free-for-all in this day-and-information-age, with people thinking they have a right to anything for free online, just because they can get away with it, from music to movies to pictures/graphics just because it is available online, but that does not fly with me.
I am sO sick of peeps thinking JUST BECAUSE they can get away with something, that that's perfect justification and currency for doing so! No honor. Zero. Nada. Zilch. These are the same types that if they could walk into a store and be 100% sure they could get away with it, they'd put that CD in their coat-pocket and walk out with it, all righteous and self-satisfied to boot. Never-mind that they just stole from a place of business, but they also stole an artist's work. Yes work, as in that is what they do for their living. And I've heard the whole BS justification; Aw, they're mega-rich, they won't miss it. They're just fine. And I say to that; OK, fine, you're a middle-class self-entitled snot, why don't we just open the doors to your house and invite some homeless peeps to come in and take your iPod, your Blu-ray player, your HDTV, etc. then? After all, you're way-abundant in their eyes. It's all fraking relative. But some can't be bothered with that, no. Just because you CAN do something does not make it automatically OK-fine to do it. On a number of levels.
But like the old saying goes in regard to some things esp. philosophical or ethical; If you have to ask, chances are high you won't understand the answer. Or perhaps not want to be bothered to understand. Peeps want what they want, and other peeps between said desire be damned. That's how it gonna be, huh?
And ya know, if you had taken the small amount of time it would have taken to email or PM me to ask my permission, chances are I would have said; Sure, go ahead, just credit me. That's exactly what a senior flight surgeon from NASA just did earlier this week in regard to having found my work online and wanting to then use my art in one of his NASA presentations. He emailed me to ask my permission first. Wow, what a fraking concept! Yet, he had and understood honor and common courtesy. Something that seems to be going the way of the dinosaurs in this day-and-age of rampant self-entitlement and self-absorption.
And, instead of being like the space-doc and taking the small amount of time out to ask permission, you choose rather to even compound it all, and now take the time out (and the gall) to “Furthermore” and “Seriously” me, in regard to my artwork being pirated by you, or anyone. Wow.
I myself have used other artist's work from TOS Trek in my TOS.5 take, but I guarantee, if the artist(s) that had created the efx I used had not passed on already, I would have emailed them to ask permission, and honored whatever they decided on. As is, I gave them and the copyright holder credit (in my piece itself) by default, as I'm big on giving credit where credit is due.
You gots some odd ideas of things, IMO, bub. But I got better things to do with my time than try and teach life-lessons in regard to art, ethics and honor. And besides, the universe will take care of things, as what goes around comes around, so have it, eh. Your life. You wanna walk through it clueless, self-absorbed and without honor and as a hack (literally), using your energy to justify (to yourself) a way-less-than honorable act(s), just because you can, have at it. 'Nuff said, carry on, I've had me say, eh.
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I do spend time online policing my work and I will not hesitate to send my patented "Letter of Doom" if I find someone jacking around.
