Ryan Bliss’s Comments

• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 7:13pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I never accused any one of stealing...

  on 'Go The F**k To Sleep' Accused Of Copying Imagery
  By that I mean I don't look at a photo of a place and try to replicate that scene. I just build my scenes how I want them to be and don't try to make it look exactly like, say, the Grand Canyon or Machu Picchu. Of course I use mental references...
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 12:17pm

  Deja Vu

  on 'Go The F**k To Sleep' Accused Of Copying Imagery
  Before I head back to work I wanted to add that this whole situation seems a bit like deja vu to me. Back then the RIAA was the bogeyman though...
  
  http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8086
  
  Video in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfeLF6j1kWU
  
  Thanks for the enlightening debate. Hope you all will stop by my gallery sometime.
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 11:59am

  Re: Re: Digital Blasphemy

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  I would love this too! I fact it has happened with my work countless times. On the other hand, one of my prints may or may not be in the background of new "The Thing" remake. Regardless if you think that movie needs to be remade, the studio contacted me about it beforehand and asked that I sign a release. That's just how it's done. No, I didn't ask for any money. They bought a print they can do what they want with it.
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 11:55am

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  I try to make all my trees happy ones.
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 11:22am

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  That would be a cool trick, since I am the author of the image you posted. That was an earlier version of the one I eventually posted. Check out the rest before you post any more...
  http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/picklejar.shtml?i=skysong2&mode=dir
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 11:14am

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  No, I posted it for use as wallpaper Marcel. That's what I do.
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 11:10am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: I never accused any one of stealing...

  on 'Go The F**k To Sleep' Accused Of Copying Imagery
  No problem Husler. This is a fascinating debate. I guess the question is what can an artist use as reference. Yes, I know there is nothing new under the sun. In the old days artists huffed their easels up into the mountains to paint a mountain scene (and I'm sure some still do). Nowadays I would imagine it is a lot easier to hit up GIS.
  
  As for myself, I don't use references at all in my work. Maybe it would qualify as "art" if I did. My "Song of the Sky" image was based on a time (around 1995) that I was driving in northern Michagan and saw the aurora for the first time. I rendered it in 2000 and while it may seem generic now, it was pretty well received given that "home rendering" software was still pretty crude.
  
  It's one thing if someone copies a photo because anyone could conceivably go to that location and paint the same scene. I'm sure some landscape photographers would argue against that point. I don't know, I'm not a copyright lawyer.
  
  It just feels wrong to me to take an original work that someone else did, paint my own copy of it (leaving the framing, lightning, and structure intact), and then sell it for huge royalty checks (I'm sure Mr. Cortes did not foresee the massive popularity of this self-published book). I'm certainly not saying he did that, but the images are similar enough (to my eye) that I felt it was a valid question.
  
  I'm sure I would have never heard of the similarity if the book hadn't attained such popularity. I have two little boys but I don't ready that many kids books. As soon as people started reading the book I started getting emails from people asking that I look into it. Asking my fans is my way of looking into it.
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 10:49am

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  If I were really the litigious type that folks here have made me out to be, then you would be reading about a lawsuit rather than a postulation I floated on the Internet. I get that you guys come here to read about copyright abuses every day but don't read more into it than there is.
  
  If I'm going to sue someone (which I've never done by the way) I not going to be posting about it beforehand.
• Jun 24th, 2011 @ 9:55am

  Re: Re: I never accused any one of stealing...

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  "Why do you think there is a big difference between being inspired by a picture of the northern lights or an original artwork (or the real thing for that matter)?"
  
  Maybe there isn't. That's sort of the question I was asking by bringing this up in the first place.