Maybe you think it's harmless and inconsequential... maybe you think you're sticking it to a big corporation and not really hurting anyone... maybe you think the photographer has already made his buck on it.
You're wrong.
Getty, Wireimage, Redferns etc. are online because that's the best way for them to conduct business... that business being making photos available for magazine editors etc. to find an image and license it...
Guess what though...
THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS NEVER PAID UNTIL SOMEONE LICENSES A PHOTO.
Then the image bureau handles the deal and keeps 50% of the money. A photo might be licensed by several publishers, it doesn't cease being a source of income for the photographer after someone publishes it once.
If no one licenses the photo, because for instance, someone has already posted it all over the Internet without paying for it so no magazine wants to use it, the photographer NEVER GETS PAID.
This has directly resulted in some of the agencies NOT CARRYING NEW AFI PHOTOS. Meaning also, their photographers end up not getting sent to take AFI photos, or only snap a few shots of Davey and leave. Meaning, the band doesn't get as much coverage as they would with a healthy stock of good photos available.
Please stop hurting the photographers. Please stop hurting the agencies who are carrying AFI photos when many aren't. Please stop hurting AFI
If you like their photography so much you want your friends to see it and don't have permission to post any of it, find their website and post a link telling people to go look at the awesome photos you found. If you don't and you can't, please don't steal them. No one has ever died because they couldn't repost someone else's hot photo of Davey Havok on the internet.
(...and please note, it doesn't mean it isn't a copyrighted photo or isn't from an image bureau just because it isn't watermarked. More of the stuff on Buzznet than you think is on/from the image bureaus)
Further proof that I am incapable of having anything great happen to me without immediately being thrown under the Karma-bus, immediately after finding out some great news about my concert photography, I (in this order)...
1) Got message from a major music image buereau offering me a contract to carry some of my images
2) Got reapproved for a program that might get my daughter a decent job.
3) Got a series of 6-7 increasingly hysterical/hostile emails from my kids mentally unstable Educational Facilitator (the "teacher" who picks up their homework once a month) all during the space of 24 hours, starting with one calm normal one and progressing quickly to her claiming she'd made 5 attempts to contact me without luck (um, duh, if you make them all within a 6 hour period) so she was failing my daughter and telling the school to have her expelled.
4) Had to give my landlady a check for $900 rent even though I only have $40 in there because the child support payment still hasn't shown up
5) Went back to my computer to transfer the ET's school reports to another computer, it was acting glitchy so I saved files and restarted... at which time my eMac had a stroke and no longer can find it's hard drive, taking everything on it to the black abyss on unrecoverability. It won't even restart from the system software install disk so I can fix it.
6) While nearly all of my digital photos and Photoshop are on an external hard drive that hopefully wasn't affected, I had quite a few files on the internal drive that I was still in the process of backing up... all my East Bay punk photos, art files, my music, my documents, my webbrowsers and bookmark/password files.
7) Last time this happened (when some idiot tried plugging his playstation into my modem while I was installing software so he could play Final Fantasy Online, it took 2 weeks, $140, and they had to wipe my internal drive and start over to fix it.
8) I've spent a solid 6+ hours unsuccessfully trying to reboot my computer, and I still haven't called Psycho-lady back. :P
9) We're almost out of food, utilities are going into the red, and now I have to worry about paying someone to fix my computer, if/when we get any more money after I manage to cover the rent check.
I'm not allowed to have good things happen to me... and when they do, I'm not allowed to enjoy them. The second I decide "Wow, this is cool", the other shoe drops. Everytime. Every. Time. My entire life. That's why I don't celebrate great things, or not very much. This happens.
If anyone has any helpful suggestions on getting a recalcitrant eMac running Mac OS X 10.4+ to boot from the OS install disk when it won't recognize it's there (it would boot from Techtools but said I didn't have a harddrive to fix when it did), please let me know... at this point chanting and blood sacrifices are not totally out of the question...
Mark recently photographed the Take Action Tour in Hollywood on
2.27.2008. When I saw his photos they were very dark, but I thought I
saw something under the red stage lighting and low light, so I asked
him if I could play with them. He graciously
acquiesced...
As you can see, he got some fantastic
shots. One of the greatest benefits of digital photography is that there is
far more data than meets the eye when viewing raw files straight from
the camera, and it doesn't require a darkroom or the time involved in
developing film or prints in order to edit and see your results.
Officer suspended after video shows him berating teen
Officer Salvatore Rivieri, a 17-year veteran of the city police force, is the subject of an internal-affairs investigation. (Sun photo by Elizabeth Malby / May 24, 2004)By Annie Linskey and Gus G. Sentementes|Sun reporters
February 12, 2008
A Baltimore police officer was suspended yesterday after a YouTube video surfaced on the Internet showing him berating and manhandling a teenage skateboarder at the Inner Harbor.
On the video, the officer, Salvatore Rivieri, puts the boy in a headlock, pushes him to the ground, questions his upbringing, threatens to "smack" him and repeatedly accuses the youngster of showing disrespect because the youth refers to the officer as "man" and "dude."
At one point, Rivieri, a 17-year veteran of the force, says: "Obviously, your parents don't put a foot in your butt quite enough, because you don't understand the meaning of respect. First of all, you better learn how to speak. I'm not 'man.' I'm not 'dude,' I am Officer Rivieri. The sooner you learn that, the longer you are going to live in this world. Because you go around doing this kind of stuff and somebody is going to kill you."
Sterling Clifford, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department and the mayor's office, said authorities have begun an internal-affairs investigation.
"The entire incident raised red flags for all of the members of the command staff who watched the video," Clifford said.
He said yesterday afternoon that Mayor Sheila Dixon had not seen the video, which appears to have been shot last summer, but that its contents had been described to her and that she was "very displeased."
"We have invested a lot of time and energy in having better relations between the community and the police," Clifford said. "The bad behavior of one police officer can jeopardize a lot of hard work."
Clifford said Rivieri's suspension entails a transfer to administrative duties with pay.
Reached at home Sunday, Rivieri said he was not aware that the incident had been recorded or posted to a public Web site. He acknowledged having encounters with skateboarders at the Inner Harbor last summer and told a reporter that he would review the video on YouTube.
"These kids, they've got nothing better to do," Rivieri said.
Yesterday, after being suspended, Rivieri said, "I have no comment. Thank you."
Attempts to e-mail the person who posted the video were unsuccessful. Police said they do not know the identity of the youth involved or who shot the video.
Clifford said the department has tried to e-mail, through YouTube, the person who posted the video and is contacting area schools in an attempt to find the boy.
Skateboarding is not permitted in the Inner Harbor.
Paul Blair, head of the police union, had not seen the video but cautioned that videos show only a slice of a story. He noted that it is impossible to know what happened before or after the camera was turned on.
The video came to the attention of the police after a Sun reporter e-mailed the link to the police Sunday morning seeking comment.
The video was posted on YouTube on Saturday but probably was made late last summer, according to the Police Department.
The 3 1/2 -minute video shows Rivieri walking toward a group of boys, one of whom is holding a skateboard. The boy says he did not hear an order that the officer had given him before the video starts.
"Take the earplugs out of your ears. Can you hear me now? Hey, I'm talking to you. Can you hear me?" Rivieri says.
Rivieri tells the boy he is not allowed to use his skateboard.
"OK, I didn't hear you," the boy says.
"Don't get defensive with me," Rivieri says. "You backed off me. I'm not your father. You hear me. I'm not your father. You give that attitude to your father. You give it to me and I'll smack you."
One boy says, "I don't have a father."
"Shut your mouth, I'm talking," Rivieri says.
One boy repeatedly uses the word dude when addressing Rivieri, and the word becomes a point of contention.
"Sit down. I'm not a dude," Rivieri says. He then pushes a boy to the ground and walks away with his skateboard.
"Dude, don't take my skateboard. I didn't do anything, dude," the boy says.
Rivieri replies: "If you call me dude one more time. ... Are you from the county or something?"
The officer's tone becomes increasingly harsh.
The boy, who says on the video that he is 14, says he wants to call his mother, and later the officer asks to speak with her. It is unclear whether that conversation took place.
The person who made the video does not talk and is never identified, though at one point Rivieri addresses the person with the camera, saying, "You got that camera on? If I find myself on ... " The video cuts off before Rivieri finishes his sentence.
Clifford said the boy never made an official complaint to the Police Department and that Rivieri has no other citizen complaints in his file.
Tony Santo (left) and Eric Bush consider Officer Salvatore Rivieri's reaction over the top, even though Bush acknowledges that skateboarding at the Inner Harbor was "100 percent wrong." (Sun photo by Monica Lopossay / February 13, 2008)
By Brent Jones and Gus G. Sentementes |Sun reporters
February 14, 2008
Eric Bush, the 14-year-old skateboarder who has gained national fame after his encounter with a Baltimore police officer at the Inner Harbor surfaced on YouTube, said in his home yesterday that he knew at the time that what he was doing was "100 percent wrong."
But Bush added that the officer's reaction to his simple offense of skateboarding in a prohibited area was over the top and that if he had his way, Salvatore Rivieri would be without a job.
Rivieri, a 17-year veteran, was suspended by the Police Department pending an internal investigation after berating, manhandling and threatening Bush last summer.
"I don't feel sorry for him at all," Bush said.
Bush, meanwhile, has turned into a minor celebrity as a ninth-grader at Northeast High School in Anne Arundel County, where he said he was swarmed by the curious - teachers and students alike - while he walked the halls this week.
As of last night, more than 400,000 people had watched the video on YouTube since its posting Saturday. Bush and the cameraman, Tony Santo, 15, a 10th-grader at Northeast, have taped segments for two nationally broadcast shows and are expecting other interview requests before the end of the week.
Santo said they were originally going to post the video right after the incident but decided to wait because Bush's mother filed a complaint with police. Santo misplaced the video for months but recently found it.
Bush and Santo talked about the incident for 30 minutes from Bush's home in Curtis Bay yesterday evening, both stunned by how much attention it has garnered.
The video shows Rivieri putting Bush in a headlock, pushing him to the ground and threatening to smack him for what the officer says is a lack of respect.
Bush repeatedly refers to Rivieri as "dude" or "man" in the video.
"I started calling him 'dude' because I didn't know what else to say," said Bush, who has been skateboarding for four years. "I didn't think of calling him 'sir' or anything. I didn't know he was going to do that."
Bush said run-ins with police for skateboarding are nothing new for him and his friends. Two other boys were skateboarding that day at the harbor with Bush and Santo.
Santo said he sometimes uses a camcorder to tape his friends' conflicts with police because they find humor in getting yelled at by officers. But Santo added that shortly after they are told to leave, he and his friends leave, and that they were in the process of doing so at the harbor last summer.
"I was like, I can't believe I'm getting this on film," Santo said.
Bush said he did not hear the officer's orders to stop skateboarding, which were given before the 3 1/2 -minute video starts. Bush said he was wearing headphones and missed the command.
In the video, the teen tells Rivieri that he did not hear him, prompting the officer to tell Bush not to get defensive. Rivieri then tells Bush to not give him attitude or "I'll smack you."
Near the end of the video, Rivieri takes the skateboard before discovering the camera in Santo's hand. The video cuts off as Rivieri is asking Santo whether he's recording.
Santo said he held the camera near his thigh so that Rivieri would not realize he was being taped. Santo turned it off once Rivieri recognized the equipment.
"I didn't want to tell [Rivieri] it's on. He's already pushed [Bush] down," Santo said. "I'm afraid he's going to take the camera. He knows he did something wrong. If he didn't do something wrong, he wouldn't be asking about the camera."
Bush said that Rivieri allowed him to call his mother after the camera stopped recording and that Rivieri told Bush's mother that he was being disrespectful. Bush said Rivieri returned the skateboard and left a few minutes later.
The boys said they have not returned to the harbor, a popular place for skateboarding despite the prohibition against it.
"I was pretty scared," Bush said. "I was thinking he was going to do something else, punch me in my face."
The video's popularity has generated similar complaints from other skateboarders in the city.
Jon Tarburton, a 17-year-old senior at Dundalk High School, said he was with friends at the Inner Harbor on Feb. 3 when they encountered a police officer.
Tarburton said the officer drove up in a motorized cart and began yelling at them as they sat under a pavilion with their bikes. The officer told the teenagers to run, and as Tarburton was packing up his belongings, he said, the officer pointed a Taser in his face.
"He was like a mad man. I don't even know what was wrong with the guy," Tarburton said.
He said that before he could run away, the officer kicked him in the leg, and his leg crunched against his bike rim, breaking a portion of the wheel.
When he saw the video, Tarburton said he believed he recognized Rivieri as the officer who kicked him. He said he filed a complaint with the department's Internal Investigations Division on Monday and has yet to hear back about it. A law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation into Rivieri's actions said the department was looking into Tarburton's complaint.
Sterling Clifford, a Police Department spokesman, declined to comment on pending internal investigations, though he did confirm a second complaint had been filed against Rivieri since the YouTube video surfaced.
The source also said internal affairs detectives interviewed Santo, in the presence of his mother, to get additional details about what happened before and after the moments captured on video.
Jason Chapman saw something familiar when he watched the YouTube video of a police officer manhandling a skateboarder in Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
"I've had the same thing happen to me, but worse," Chapman, 34, told a group of skateboarders gathered around a computer at Charm City Skatepark, an indoor skating facility he owns in Baltimore's Canton Industrial Area.
Though the officer's intensity angered Chapman and the other skaters, the nature of the conflict - skateboarder vs. authority figure - is one with deep roots in skateboarding culture.
In the 1970s, the antics of the Zephyr Skate Team, a group of California surfers-turned-skaters, cemented the sport's anti-establishment image. In the 1980s, skaters plastered their boards with stickers declaring "Skateboarding is not a crime."
More recently, the conflict has made its way into skateboarding video games. Security guards armed with stun guns chase skaters in the 1999 game Skate and Destroy, and they tackle virtual boarders in Skate, a game released in the fall.
Chapman, who grew up skating on Baltimore streets, said he had several run-ins with aggressive security guards when he was younger. He and his friends dubbed one man "Tackleberry" for his penchant for knocking skaters down. He refers to the officer who was suspended Monday - who complained that the skateboarder had referred to him as "dude" - as "Officer Dude."
Officer Salvatore Rivieri, a 17-year veteran, has been suspended, pending an investigation into the incident in which he loudly berated 14-year-old Eric Bush and took him to the ground in a headlock.
Yesterday, WMAR-TV aired another video shot last summer, of Rivieri at the Inner Harbor kicking a remote-controlled vehicle belonging to an artist from Washington. Sterling Clifford, a city police spokesman, said that "this second video may be evidence to be included" in the inquiry already under way.
As the price of video cameras has dropped, skaters have increasingly documented conflicts with security personnel.
"Kids are tech-savvy," Chapman said. "And as important as going out and learning a new trick is filming a new trick."
Video footage of altercations has proliferated on YouTube and other video-sharing sites. One title, "Angry Catholic Priest vs. Skateboarders," depicts a group of boys with skateboard exchanging curses with a man who repeatedly demands that they "get off the property." Another purports to show police officers attempting to remove skaters who are protesting a skateboarding ban in Philadelphia's Love Park.
Laurie Schwartz, a spokeswoman for Baltimore's Waterfront Partnership, said skateboarding is prohibited in the Inner Harbor to protect pedestrians.
"The other problem," she said, "is that it damages the bricks and concrete and other hard surfaces that have been constructed."
Bicycling was also prohibited but is now allowed before 10 a.m. and during certain hours on the weekend to encourage people to exercise, she said.
Dakota Welty, 13, of York, Pa., who skates in Baltimore almost every week, said the ban is frustrating because he can skate in the Inner Harbor in the video game Tony Hawk's Proving Ground. Released last fall, the game allows players to navigate through downtown Baltimore and the Inner Harbor.
A growing number of skate parks are being built around the country, but Dakota said they don't replace the sensation of skating in the street.
"It's just so fun to skate down the street," he said. "It's always different, not like a skate park. The ground is different everywhere you go."
Brenda Welty, Dakota's mother, said she allows him to go street skating only if he is with other skaters whom she trusts to act responsibly. "Kids need to respect the police officers," she said, "but the way some police officers are going about it is instilling some very negative perceptions about them in kids."
Chapman said skateboarding has shed much of its anti-establishment image because of the popularity of the X-Games and TV shows featuring skateboarding.
"We used to be dirty or scum," he said, "but it's different now. Kids nowadays don't have, like, 'Thrashin" written on their boards. Because they might have seen Tony Hawk on Letterman last night." (Thrashin' is a 1986 movie about skateboarders.)
Through videos and magazines, he said, the skateboarding industry has tried to discourage vandalism and littering. "We still grind things, and we can be a nuisance," Chapman said. "But a lot of kids are more respectful."
Like any other physical activity, he said, skateboarding helps youths stay fit and keeps them away from other temptations.
"I love Baltimore to death, but she's a tough cookie," he said. "Because of skateboarding, kids don't get into drugs in a city where heroin is a popular leisure-time activity."
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More info, from Trent:
This music arrived unexpectedly as the result of an experiment. The rules were as follows: 10 weeks, no clear agenda, no overthinking, everything driven by impulse. Whatever happens during that time gets released as... something.
The team: Atticus Ross, Alan Moulder and myself with some help from Alessandro Cortini, Adrian Belew and Brian Viglione. Rob Sheridan collaborated with Artist in Residence (A+R) to create the accompanying visual and physical aesthetic.
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THE US military is investigating a YouTube video that apparently shows a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff.
Major Chris Perrine from the Marine Corps Base Hawaii said the man appears to be based with a unit in the islands.
The video has caused an internet backlash after footage of the incident was uploaded onto YouTube - even though it could be fake.
The authenticity of the clip, which has been viewed more than 32,000 times since it was uploaded about 36 hours ago, has not been verified, although forum members and bloggers have been frantically trying to track down details of the solider.
Warning: The following video contains images of graphic violence
In the clip, a soldier held up a small black and white puppy and said how “cute” it was, before the small dog appeared to have been thrown off a cliff.
“Oh, I tripped,” the man in the clip said as the puppy was thrown.
An unseen man could be heard saying: “That’s mean. That was mean, Motari.”
As of 11.15am (AEDT), the clip was the 70th most viewed clip on YouTube in the past 24 hours.
Forum members and bloggers have declared war on the soldier, believed to be from the US, and have already posted links to a Bebo account, a residential address in Washington and a phone number.
The Bebo account linked to by users of several forums has been set to “private”, but according to comments on reddit.com many people had already written abusive messages on the member page.
One reddit user pointed out that the Bebo account-holder might not even be the person in the video.
“Hey, it might be him... let’s ruin his life, quickly, before we’re sure it was really him!!! Mob justice rules!!!” the user said in a comment.
A user on Digg.com posted a similar comment: “Can everyone just settle down until we figure out whether that video was real or a hoax? Oh, I forgot - it's the internet and we all want everything RIGHT F**KING NOW. Fine, lynch away.”
But other Digg users were not as cautious about casting blame on a man accused of being the soldier featured in the clip.
One said: “I feel like just mailing him and calling him all day… we should make him feel shameful of what he did.”
Many others said he deserved to be thrown off a cliff.
Marine officials said the video was "shocking and deplorable".
