May 1, 2008

  • Cherry Blossom Festival Time


    It's that time of year,  Brooklyn Botanical Gardens Cherry Blossom Festival.

    I hate to spend a day off out of the apartment,  however, the pull to take photographs and perhaps a little human interest piece for NowPublic.com,  and what else may come of it,  another blog,  some good photos....

    I really do not like the idea that you have to have permission to use the photographs of persons in public.   My belief is that if someone is in public without a mask,  they are fair game.

    This is specific to selling the photographs.   If I do a piece on the festival with a cultural, or newsworthy slant, then you can use the photos, as long as you aren't slandering people which is getting into other territory.

    Some of my best shots are of people and I can't offer them for sell to photo sites without the signed release forms of the persons photographed.  

    How can you own your own image?  I think this concept will change,  is changing with internet and video and more and more exposure for everyone,  issues of ownership will drop in favor of issues of protection against misuse.

    In other words, you can't say,  this is a really good picture that happens to be of a person, or have an identifiable person in it,  and sell it,  however you can say  oh,  look, this happened to day and it is news because.... and then it is okay.



    Of course all I have said assumes the photo is not something that would be considered slanderous, like a photo of Amy Weinhouse with a crack pipe,
    (if you're famous it's a free for all, basically,  as far as the photo goes anyway, thank god for that)



    Anyway,   I'm just blabber blogging,   gonna get ready for work.   I love Thursdays.    I have a Cherry Blossom Festival to either dread or look forward to,  I'll dwell on that as I ride the subway.  I'm kind of looking forward to it,  for the photography aspect,  although no one is buying any more flowers....

    Shutterstockpro takes my flowers,  I've got over 200 pix there now but no one has bought anything.



    I watched a video of Madonna's performance.   She hung herself on a cross.

    I don't like Madonna,  she has a severely wounded and overbuilt ego.   I never disliked her before but now I do,  and it's not the cross,  it's the EGO, sheesh!

    I bet she's a terrible person and miserable.

    (this is because I'll be hearing her all weekend as AA has gone gagga over Itunes and HARD CANDY,  her new cd)

    I smell headphone wars.
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Comments (5)

  • oh dont' be such a hater. hard candy is simple dancey club music. very little pretension on that record. i listened to it over and over on the way to mandolin camp last weekend. is that ironic? and as far as needing permission. that's probably nonsense to independent small artists like yourself but think of the big companies...what if fox could make $$ showing people who didn't give permission? that's a scary thought isn't it?

  • beautiful flower pix.  madonna was raised just down the road from me in bay city and she & the city have been having a runnung gun battle since she left that "smelly, dirty little town years ago.  the city dissed her back in her tin cone days, but now that she's a big star, they wanna put up a statue of her up!  peace, Al

  • i think madonna just craves attention so badly she will do anything. i wonder where her heart really is sometimes.

  • Even an image of that Louise from Detroit woman can make me sick! I like a couple of her earlier songs, but other than that, she's a twat.

    As far as the photo release, and all that. If you are out in public view, it should be a non-issue. If anyone doesn't want to be seen, then they should wear a bag over their head. It's ridiculous. There is no privacy on a public street, beach, subway, or whatever. Do the security cameras ask for release forms?

  • P.S. Brooklyn is the cradle of Western civilization, the fatherland, damn Mr Levitt and his suburbs!

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