Saturday, March 31, 2012

Credit Where Credit is Due

The Internet is great.

You can meet up with people you never would have heard of. You can look up anything you can think of. You can read books and stories and articles that would  not come to your hometown on their own.

The Internet is kind of like the Wild West, though. There are laws, sure, and there are things like the FBI cybercrimes unit that tries to protect people from scamming, and phishing, and other frauds. There are vigilantes who use the Internet as their playground, and sometimes do what could be considered good, and other times do what could be considered illegal and bad.

On the Internet, you can be whoever you want. You can say whatever you want. Some people use that to bully, or to be one of the above mentioned fraudsters. Some people use it to plagiarize and pirate. Because of this, it can be hard to find out where something came from.

Years ago, I found a picture I liked, loved really. I have no idea who the artist is, when it was created, the origin, the medium, nothing. It's on wallpaper web sites, and people use it for avatars on message boards (guilty of that in at least one location, sorry). Today, I found out about TinEye, which is an image search site that allows one to find instances of an image across the Internet.

I'll put it here now. If you know who the artist is, or where it came from, I'd appreciate you sharing that with me!

7 comments:

  1. You can search on Google for images as well. I tried there and did indeed find lots of places offering it up as a wallpaper and such. Nothing definitive on an origin, though. I did find that part of it is used as the cover for this book, though. Weird.

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    1. Yeah, Google images is how I found it in the first place, X years ago. Maybe it'll just be an Internet Unsolved Mystery for me.

      Using just that part is pretty rad for a book cover of that subject matter, actually.

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    2. i think you might have to get the book. if only because 1. the subject matter and 2. they credit the artist somewhere within the book or on the book cover.

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    3. Yeah, you have a point. "Lol, I found it on the Internet" would not be adequate photo attribution.

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  2. I don't know anything about the photo (but do love it), but installed the Tin Eye for Firefox. Great add-on. Thanks!

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    1. Tin Eye is really neat, isn't it? I'm so glad that I saw it mentioned on another forum, so I could spread the good word (and play with it myself)!

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  3. from what i can find this piece was done by Salvador Dali

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