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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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And I agree, it's very sad that most people don't know (or consider, is a better word) how artists might feel about using their work carelessly. But I think a lot of that is because the vast majority of "sharing" websites don't care, which basically sets the climate and line of thinking. Someone see's it on some random wallpaper site and likely assumes the site itself is responsible for its creation, and since the site says "free" they assume they can do as they want. Multiply that by even a quarter of the internet and now you've got the ingredients for a culture who's only real concern is what they can get for free, what they can do with it wit very little actual artistic investment, and how much popularity they can gain by silently re-upping it as theirs.
It really speaks of the thoughtlessness that rampages the world with the coming of the internet. How simple it is to evoke whimsey without repercussion. Because these actions would never be taken if this was sitting in a art gallery on a physical print. But here? Oh, it's just a picture on the internet... let's do whatever we want and at the end of the day my real life is unaffected because I have a power switch. It's kinda lame.
Thanks for your understanding (and listening to me bitch for a second, lol). I greatly appreciate it!
I wonder if you gonna upload the other colors now that you've storaged the wallpaper pack...
The unfortunate aspect to all of this is that these thieves are really forcing us into a corner. We're either going to have to give up, or start being more proactive with how and where we decide our watermark/signature placement. While I don't personally mind marking my art in a more visible place, I understand that the people who want to use my work don't prefer to see watermarks/signatures "obscuring" the art. Tit for tat, I suppose.
I think the worst 2 things someone can do is take someone's art and A) remove the signature or B) modify/alter the art. It's a sad place out there for artists right now. Double that with picture-sharing kicking into overdrive in social networking sites, and triple that with mobile universe growing so fast.