Rad Getty Images ad of the day: It’s not all cheesy illustrations of Facebook in the Getty database. Ad firm Almap BBDO had image researchers look through thousands of Getty Images files to find the right 873 that told a consistent story in a single minute. The flow of the images is perfect. Pretty amazing. (note: ad is safe for work, but there’s a little sexy time at the beginning)
In the past few days, Getty Images has uploaded dozens of cheesy illustrations of Facebook’s logos and iconography, in an effort to prep us all for the company’s IPO this week. Here are some of our favorites. Note to illustrators who worked on these images: Sorry you guys have such a mind-numbing job. (Photos by Getty Images)
A couple of days after Herman Cain’s campaign website deleted the much-mocked stock photo on its Women For Cain page (the ladies giving thumbs up were not only not actual Cain supporters but possibly not actual Americans), the newly launched TheCainSolutions.com features a stock photo of a farmer in Quebec. (Here’s a blog post from March by Montreal photographer Nicolas McComber about his discovery that another photo from his farmer series was used in a Canadian political ad, which he regarded as an infringement of iStockphoto’s licensing agreement.)
We can guarantee that TheAbelSolutions.com, which we registered on a lark yesterday, does not use this stock photo. However, we did steal the code from TheCainSolutions for purposes of creating a parody.
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Vegan Beef of the Day: While scrolling through VegNews one day, the Level 5 Vegans @ QuarryGirl stumbled upon something rather unsavory: It seems “the nation’s premier print and online vegan magazine” has been purchasing iStockphotos of decidedly non-vegan meals, then photoshopping them to appear “vegan,” and slapping them on the site’s recipes.
Though the scandal is delectable, vegans everywhere are losing their appetite for VegNews, and subsequently canceling their subscriptions in droves (QuarryGirl says it not only canceled its subscription, but also shipped back the award it received from the publication).
FWIW, VegNews issued a statement [pdf] blaming the usage of meat-based stockphotos on cost constraints, saying “it is simply not financially feasible for VegNews at this time [to use custom-shot photography for every spread].”
[quarrygirl / blogtown.]
Well, this is pretty much the funniest thing ever. The photos reveal two things: That the vegetarian magazine writes their articles without taking photos of the food they’re talking about (bad on its own) and that the food isn’t even vegetarian. Score one for awesome.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljnucyQLpz1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Vegan Beef of the Day: While scrolling through VegNews one day, the Level 5 Vegans @ QuarryGirl stumbled upon something rather unsavory: It seems “the nation’s premier print and online vegan magazine” has been purchasing iStockphotos of decidedly non-vegan meals, then photoshopping them to appear “vegan,” and slapping them on the site’s recipes.
Though the scandal is delectable, vegans everywhere are losing their appetite for VegNews, and subsequently canceling their subscriptions in droves (QuarryGirl says it not only canceled its subscription, but also shipped back the award it received from the publication).
FWIW, VegNews issued a statement [pdf] blaming the usage of meat-based stockphotos on cost constraints, saying “it is simply not financially feasible for VegNews at this time [to use custom-shot photography for every spread].”
[quarrygirl / blogtown.]
Well, this is pretty much the funniest thing ever. The photos reveal two things: That the vegetarian magazine writes their articles without taking photos of the food they’re talking about (bad on its own) and that the food isn’t even vegetarian. Score one for awesome.
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