:: Jail bait and switch ::

Monday, June 21, 2004

I had, once upon a time, been assigned the task of collecting appropriate images for a wallpaper application we were publishing. Here's what I learned:

1. Even "royalty-free" collections of professional images are amazingly expensive - the minimum you will pay for the privilege of pushing a postage-stamp-sized image of a baby porcupine and its mother on your phone is several hundred dollars, and the company purveying it may or may not decide to take a revenue cut on top.
2. Photographs of deserts are surprisingly unpopular. Pictures of bikini-clad women are unsurprisingly extremely popular. Conclusion: sun + skin = hot, sun + dust = not; median point in "dust to dust" death-life-death progression is "sweet spot".
3. If you are the shipping recipient of any of these CD collections, you will be labeled a "graphics professional" and subsequently bombarded with massive amounts of junk mail, and even some phone calls, from your distributor et al.

Today I received "[my] LAST Free Issue" of Photoshop Fix magazine as a result of the third phenomenon above. The cover story is titled "Doll Face" (subtitle: "Smoothing Polish"), but I think a more apt name would have been "Barbie's Underage Sister" (subtitle: "10 Legal Ways to Digitally Indulge Your Pedophilic Urges Under Artistic Pretexts").

Yes, I'm keeping it... for the articles.

Posted by morland @ 04:00 PM

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