Well, this just cook's my noodle

This is a pretty cool looking skull, yes? Too bad it is made up entirely of stolen images.
The creator says "Taking my own photos would have been easy but I thought it would be interesting looking for the perfect picture made by somebody else, with a completely different goal."
Easy, eh? Then why don't you try it then.
He (or she) goes on to say "With the huge development of media-sharing sites as Flickr, YouTube and Blogs nowadays anybody can enter the life of a stranger, copy their pictures, their movies and their ideas and make them his own."
Um, that my friend is called stealing, and that makes you a thief. Not an artist, not "cool" but a thief.
Just because someone puts their work out into the world it doesn't mean it's there for you to mess with. At the very least you should credit each and every photographer you stole those pictures from. Or better yet, ask the photographer for PERMISSION. I bet most would have said yes. Just because the photo's are available permission to use them is NOT implied. Ever heard of copyright, asshole?
I don't care if you changed the pictures so they are almost unrecognizable, you are nothing but a thief. Flickr is NOT an image buffet for you to conme and help yourself too when you don't want to take your own damn photos.
Read his full article HERE and decide for yourself if this guy is a thief.
Labels: art, Artist, asshole, copyright, graffiti, photography, skull, thief, ZBS, ZBS Skull

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