October 7, 2009
me and my pals endorse this lifestyle
10/7/09
I've seen a lot of stock photography before. Believe me, I've edited enough websites for The Man to have experienced the lamest photographs ever taken, all grafted onto web pages to promote eyeball "stickiness", just the worst shit you can imagine. Most of the time it's three smiling Americans in their 20s, each from a different race, arms around each other in a frenzy of multiculturalism (and, of course, corporate synergy). Other times it's just a vaguely hot chick, focus-group-tested to be inoffensively attractive to the largest number of Americans possible.
I thought I'd seen them all, until I saw this:
... and now, I just want to sit in a corner, draw on the wall with crayon, and moan.
Posted by Ian Williams at October 7, 2009 11:46 PMThe mind boggles.
Cooler half-empty or cooler half-full?
Maybe it's not really so bad. Maybe it's an homage to the Electric Company. Can't you just imagine Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno: "Rid-", "-iculous", "Ridiculous"? Maybe not.
Pass the Robin's Egg Blue crayon over, Ian.
As an aside, why is there a Macaroni and Cheese colored crayon in my kids' Big-Box-O-128-Crayons™ that doesn't smell like macaroni and cheese? Don't we have the technology for this yet? That crayon doesn't smell like anything except false hope.
Hee hee. Yeah, at work I use stock images fairly often, and you really have to wade through some monumental visual cliches.
I bet they're talking about last night's "Glee"
Hilarious. I used to work for a small ad agency and we had this art director who was stuck in the 80s. I don't know what was going on with her and my boss that kept her employed because she was not very talented and her eye/style was so unbelievably dated. She would have loved that image. And she loved to use really dated gradients and font that looks like handwriting and she would call it all 'fresh' and 'fun'. I hated being assigned a project with her because it was so much work to get her to work in the 21st century and produce stuff the clients would like. So, I feel you, Ian. Hilarious!
Is this a test? Do you see two people talking or is it Freud, made up as a bat-clown, with a water cooler lodged in his throat?
Your answer will determine if you're normal or will end up spending your life moaning in the corner while drawing on the wall with a crayon...
even better, check out this new tool that means "creatives" don't need to be involved in coming up with these images:
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/october/photosketch
now, you can make asinine tripe yourself with stick figures!
This is great! I can't wait to show this to all of my colleagues at the office and discuss it some place where we can all gather away from our cubicles!
Props to Jody and Ehren for making me smile!! (oh, don't worry, you all make me smile, but those comments especially)
Is she giving him the finger?
I don't like that the base of the watercooler is crooked.
What is wrong with me?
We're trying our hardest with ClusterShot to focus on selling real photography, not stock. I wrote a little article on why:
http://www.clustershot.com/blog/archive/2009/october/whatdoesyour