Due to unforseen circumstances (his birth), Purnell wasn’t available to make the original shoot but turned up 21 years later to pose. He was unaware his photo was to be ‘merged with the original.
Produced for the Independent On Sunday. It seems like Iain Dale had the same idea last Friday but I had to wait for mine to appear before posting here.
And it looks like Paris Hilton’s picked a spot for him as well. He’ll probably change his name to James Pornell…
He’s been busy on other projects but it’s good to see he’s back.
Very good news.
Go visit.
The site seems to be down right now. Hopefully not Usmanov related.
Tim at Stablesound who writes music and lyrics and plays a multitude of instruments has launched a new site The Audio Mangle.
He can create voiceovers, sound effects, write a whole song, play and record it while juggling three melting ice creams on a unicycle without messing up the carpet.
He has worked on several projects for Greenpeace, The TUC, No2ID, Friends Of The Earth and Camcorder Guerillas amongst others.
I’ve worked with him and eclectech on a few things and not only is his work quality but he meets deadlines consistently.
The only downside is, that in such a competitive world, he is a nice bloke.
So, if you want to hire a bloke about whom Burt Bacharach once said “who?”, do it.
I’ve mentioned Phillip at Biro Art before.
He produces most of his very detailed work with Bic biros and has a very entertaining site which is well worth a visit.
The site has a shop which sells amongst other things some monumental prints, measuring up to 6 ft. tall. These are not enlargements of smaller drawings. Several square feet of coated, matt paper are densely populated by more cross-hatched characters than there are entries in Iain Dale’s blogroll.
If certain misguided politicians found out about the overpopulation of Biro Art’s ‘canvasses’, they’d be trying to repatriate some of the creatures back into Phillip’s grey matter via his Bic pen.
Now Phillip has a glossy softback book out featuring his ANThology series of drawings.
You can buy it directly by clicking on the button in my blogroll.
Click on the image below to see some of the book contents in his ANThology gallery.
If anyone else can include the Biro-Art book button on their blog, I’m sure Phillip would be grateful.
Just another couple of clips to keep you entertained but which put EMAP’s contribution to Journalism.co.uk’s article in a bit more context.
Commission You
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Tragedy, Water Under The Bridge
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Again, if they didn’t believe I created the images they published, why would they ask me to do some work for them?
Zoo assistant editor Steve Nash, claims, amongst many things :
“Unfortunately there have been occasions in the past where people have claimed that an image was theirs and have demanded substantial payments but have failed to produce anything sufficient to back up their claims.”
Well, there’s a long story attached to this which is partially covered by previous EMAP posts.
Link to previous posts.
But let’s go back in history on this.
When I first approached Zoo magazine about using images I created, I was asking only this :
THAT ZOO REWARD THE CREATOR OF THE VIRAL OF THE WEEK WITH THE SAME PRIZE THAT THE PERSON WHO SENT IN THE IMAGE RECEIVED.
Zoo agreed to this and then went back on its word (No use denying Zoo – I have it recorded.)
It was only after this that I sought payment for my images.
So, to reiterate Steve Nash’s selective point that “Unfortunately … have demanded substantial payments… claims.” omits a very important bit of history.
And as for substantial – Well I suppose it could be – but not for each image – FOR THE TOTAL OF FIFTEEN (that I know of) it could add up to a reasonable amount.
Then it went to their solicitors. (Wiggin)
I had yet another promise from EMAP that they would not use my images and I confirmed my website so they could check against the images they claimed were ’sent in’. They promised that they would avoid using the images that corresponded to those on my website.
You can hear it here :
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This was on the 14th August 2006.
THEN, ABOUT 3 WEEKS LATER, IN EDITION 134 OF ZOO (8 to 14 September 2006) 2 MORE OF MY IMAGES WERE PUBLISHED BY EMAP.
A few months later, I blocked EMAP’s IP address on my image server. They didn’t seem to be using my site to prevent publishing my images – quite the reverse in my opinion.
Then, the attitude of Zoo and its agents hardened.
We advised Zoo’s agents of the proof I was going to supply to show I had created the ‘virals’. They did not state then that this was unacceptable. After 2 weeks of collating the information, the proof was dismissed almost immediately.
Funnily enough, others providing a similar amount of proof to Zoo directly have seen the mag dispatch prizes, sometimes up to the value of £450 to some blokes who make a phone call.