Comments on: Think Sometimes

By: blurb

blurb — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:22:19 +0000

@Mike Drips, I’m wondering if someone like you would ever be in a position to hire anybody? And who would want to work with you if you were?

Also, not such a nice comment for somebody in CRM. So far your relationship with this post is not so good.

By: Mike Drips

Mike Drips — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:27:28 +0000

Yet another non-event for the inbred blogsphere members that lack genuine lives to fester over.

I think that discussing whether or not to serve eggnog at one’s family holiday gathering is of much greater importance to the general populance.

One A-list female blogger told me that this incident was important to “the open media web and women in tech”. Huh?

The only conclusion I have come to in reading multiple endlessly boring stories about this incident is to never hire Lane Hartwell as a photographer.

By: kendra!

kendra! — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:30:12 +0000

I realize I totally responded to the wrong post, but I know you know which one I was responding to, and if I were not 9 mos. pregnant with a dented pumpkin for a brain, I’d expect no mercies except those of one human to another.

By: kendra!

kendra! — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:27:38 +0000

This is a courageous piece, Jon. I especially appreciated the part about jerkiness, which, ironically, has nothing to do with therapy, but rather about working through those parts of us that can’t be medicated to fully expunge. Life and its relationships require work to net us the good stuff — and part of realizing the good stuff, in my experience, IS the act of working for it.

I married a therapist and let me tell you — he would be really satisfied to have you as a patient. People always ask him what kind of advice he gives his patients. Those people have no idea what the function of talk therapy is. If it was all about advice-dolling, we could all just sit on the 1-900 lines and not have to leave our homes. Therapy is work, as is living with a therapist (as no one wants to make the mail carrier work on his day off, n’ah mean?). But it’s worth it. I hear ya barkin’.

By: Deb on the Rocks

Deb on the Rocks — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:31:13 +0000

Thanks for responding to my comment. I was actually speaking theoretically, not legally, because I really wonder how we can expect that some frozen point in time when creative laws were set really can possibly be meant to hold up now. Actually those laws work against photographers, who legally are bound to arcane release laws that most other creators are not bound to. It just doesn’t work, and it doesn’t hold up to logic. I actually do support myself on several types of creative work, and if I ever am not happy with the deal I make on first publish, I don’t release the project. I don’t want someone to say it is their work, but if it quoted, sampled, reconstructed, whatever, it not worth worrying about because it’s going to be increasingly impossible to enforce reprint rights unless we reinvent the system. I think it’s fantastic you are inspiring discussion on this–we have to think about it.

By: MaddenWidow

MaddenWidow — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:47:00 +0000

Thank you! Thank you so much for writing that. I deal with depression and I have anxiety issues. It’s so easy for me to ignore my husband when I’m dealing with one of my bad spells. Reading this really just reminds me that it’s not easy for the other half as well, and I have a feeling that he probably feels the same way you do. I need to work on being more conscious of my husband and I may print a copy off for when I need to remind myself.

By: Jady

Jady — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:31:30 +0000

I’m sitting at work right now, emailing historical societies for permissions and high-def copies of their images.

It may not seem like a big deal to some, but I fully believe in credit and permission BEFORE the fact. Working at my former job in a bookstore, people constantly asked to use a copier, and of course, we couldn’t let them. People would get so irate at the idea that they couldn’t just make copies and use them as they wished.

But now I make my living protecting other people’s work and making sure they get full credit for every single usage. They deserve the credit, and the choice to NOT let their work be used. I mean, why do you think the writer’s strike started in the first place?

By: witchypoo

witchypoo — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:12:41 +0000

Jon, I’m sorry, I wasn’t very clear with my original comment. I would always give credit and a link. I am reluctant to use an image, however, without the permission of the artist. My site may be controversial to some, so permission is sought first. Not everyone wants to be associated with my particular brand. I had asked you for permission to use one of your images for my Christmas banner, and since I didn’t hear back, I just scanned a homemade card after a bit of a site rework. The image I wanted to use of yours would have fit very nicely in the original theme.

By: Omar Fernandez

Omar Fernandez — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:38:58 +0000

I agree with the author… people just don’t respect and I find it very disturbing how people don’t think about what they are doing and how it might affect others…

By: Jady

Jady — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:32:23 +0000

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qfwv_cara-sorella

Just wanted to add a little of awesome parody. Maybe you’ve seen i, Jon?

It kinda makes me laugh uncontrolably.