Here are the Buns...

It is Bunday and therefore I am posting the naughty. This is a shot by Robert Laliberte. I found a nice new source of the artful male nudes...you can all breathe a collective sigh of relief.

( Buns in the grass... )

So I have carved out a day to do nothing. I am still in my jammies here and sipping iced tea. It is nice. I am enjoying the quiet and the only reason to go out might be to get a latte at Peet's. That is the only reason I can imagine.

La.

In response to the Graphics Wars

To the uninvolved on my friends list...move on. Don't read this. You don't really want to know anyway. This involves the graphics community on livejournal which I have become involved in somewhat, mainly in a peripheral sense. I make graphics and request them on maker communities. I manage two communities and have a lot of fun with that. They are open communities one for new and learning makers and one provides a resource to makers. I really enjoy the images and making things but I have to say...it has gotten a little out of control.

To the graphics community...those involved and those watching the explosion that has happened. Let's use this as a lesson of what not to do here. You all know what I mean. We cannot forget what we are REALLY doing here. Essentially in the work that we are doing...we are using other people's images. There is no ownership. There is no entitlement. There is no NOTHING. So therefore. I do not get what the big deal is all about.

Someone edited someone else's layout. SO?

I have been following this with growing concern at the level it has reached. This is livejournal, this is online. And this has become a personal attack on someone. There is a person behind that computer. I will ask you to remember that.

When we do these graphics we are basically borrowing and editing other people's work. We find an image that someone else created and put our spin on it. We are not creating something original. We are not artists and we do not own the copyright on these works.

I am a writer as well as a iconer and graphics person. Now if someone plagiarized one of my stories...I would make a stink about it. You are talking about edited graphics that did not originate with this person. These are borrowed images.

This is way out of proportion and the harrassment of this individual needs to stop.

I sense immaturity. I sense a gang mentality. And I sense a group of people acting in consort to personally attack someone who did nothing out of the realm of what we all do.

If you want to continue along these lines...you are getting into dangerous territory. Harrassment online is a serious charge. This person has defended herself and stated her position. She did not go on the attack. I have seen the dialogue going on the journals here. It is low down, mean spirited and spiteful.

Graphics are something we do in our spare time to have fun. When oh when did it come to this?

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Don't tell me this is none of my business. This is my journal and this entry is in response to posts in communities that I belong to...and the tone of escalating fervor and insults that I see there. We should try and find our sense of community again. Try and think of the other person before lashing out. And most of all, be considerate of each other's thoughts and feelings.

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