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- byukid, on 12/04/2008, -3/+319Maybe all my pictures of cats with overlaid text will be used in a movie!
- buffyangel108, on 12/04/2008, -1/+248That's nothing: they borrowed my iron suit.
- AlpineStars777, on 12/04/2008, -21/+259Pratt: Is it true that you went twelve-for-twelve with the Maxim Girls last year?
Tony Stark: That is an excellent question. Yes and no. March and I had a scheduling conflict but fortunately the Christmas cover was twins. - sockpuppets, on 12/04/2008, -4/+232LOCATS: THE MOVIE
YOU
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S U M M E R 2 0 0 9 - gmprunner, on 12/04/2008, -5/+148What a coincidence, I saw the movie as well!
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -2/+135I know this sounds unbelievable, but I just cashed a check for $300 from Kayne West's project manager who is using a picture I took at Bonnaroo 2008 in a book they are publishing.
Here is my photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metalhaze/2590771157/ ...
Don't ask me why they want it. But just knowing a pic I took has been noticed by a famous person and they want to publish it it pretty damn cool.
I think I am going to go buy the Steven Colbert Christmas album 50 times now, lata! haha - cyrusuncc, on 12/04/2008, -5/+87Nice deal for an amateur photographer!
- TommyTubesteak, on 12/04/2008, -1/+74Speaking of background photos. Back when I used to work at a production company; we were doing a video for a church. (An African American church).
Anyway, my job was to scan in a bunch of photos of various activities that happend during various church functions. The job was pretty boring so I decided to have a little fun. I ended up downloading a picture off Google of Black Jesus.
I photoshoped Black Jesus into the background of a few photos, turning down the opacity so you could barely make him out. Anyway, I sent the photos across the network to the editor. He was in the edit bay with the Pastor and his assistant. The editor always knew I'd pull stupid pranks like this, so, immediately upon looking at one of the pictures he saw Black Jesus. (He later told me how pissed off he was, but couldn't say anything seeing how the Pastor and assitant were sitting right behind him.) Anyway, he ended up putting the pics into the video, without the Pastor nor Assistant noticing.
-We had a good laugh afterwards....
Anyway, A few months later they wanted to do a follow up video. We had just purchased a new 60 inch plasma for the edit bay. This time you could see EVERYTHING. So, the Pastor and Assistant are sitting there watching the video. Next thing I hear, (my office was down the hall) is, "OMG, is that Jesus! LOOK, it's Jesus! Is that a reflection?"
(The editor told me that he began to sweat, litterally, sweat pouring down his face) The editor, was like, " I don't see anything..."
Pastor: "Nah, look closely, you can see him, there's Jesus with his hands out..right there behind that kid!"
I was crying laughing at this point, couldn't contain myself at all...
The editor was like, "I don't see it, we don't have a lot of time, we have to move on..."
Anyway, I heard the Pastor making all kinds of calls...-They finished the edit, and the editor was pissed at me. My boss ended up finding out later and telling the Pastor the whole story...they thought it was funny, thank god.
I always remember my boss saying to me afterwards, "Tommy, you're going to Hell! Straight to Hell!" - kakwakas, on 12/04/2008, -5/+73WHAT.
I never managed to make the connection that the villain in Ironman is indeed The Dude.
MIND = BLOWN - Geniustwin, on 12/04/2008, -0/+60What's funny is that all the Ironman producers had to do was go to the Kennedy Space Center online photo gallery and choose from any number of copyright-free, high res photos of the VAB interior for use in the movie. However, it's cool that they didn't know about it and used this guy's image instead. Now he has a fun story to tell :-)
- ZeeZee2k, on 12/04/2008, -4/+63Who the ***** is Kayne West?
- Zippo, on 12/04/2008, -0/+48In a world... where funny text rules...
there is a cat... with a mission. - sockpuppets, on 12/05/2008, -0/+42There was a copyright issue, we had to be careful.
- sockpuppets, on 12/04/2008, -9/+48Generic positive first comment to get diggs!
- codeblue315, on 12/04/2008, -1/+37Lucky bastard.
- byukid, on 12/04/2008, -0/+33VINCE VAUGHN IN A CHIHUAHUA SWEATER
- huggybarrel, on 12/04/2008, -0/+31apparently shaving your head is equivalent to putting on glasses ala clark kent.
- Davegfx, on 12/04/2008, -0/+30Ha. Crazy. I'm sure it must have taken him quite awhile before he believed it was for real.
- dajuggernaut, on 12/04/2008, -7/+36Damn you MrBabyMan!
- Gemizo, on 12/04/2008, -2/+28That was a really interesting story, who could have thought that that crappy photo could have ended up in such a movie? I personally think this story gives hope to all of us that through the internet we can one day be featured in a major motion picture.
- Rikkochet, on 12/04/2008, -0/+25Give them any ideas. They've been reduced to talking Chihuahuas and putting Vince Vaughn in a sweater. Please, guys, GIVE THEM ANY IDEA YOU HAVE!
- defectDS, on 12/04/2008, -0/+25"They're trying to take... my... TORTILLASBOOOM!!!!!!"
- Supernova36, on 12/04/2008, -0/+24If I knew my photo was in one of the biggest movies of the year, I wouldn't wait til it happened to be showing on a plane I'm on..
- skeen07, on 12/04/2008, -0/+23Well, Jeremy Keith isn't just any guy. He's a very well-known web developer and web standards advocate who has published leading books on AJAX, all of which are on my bookshelf. So, at least in this case, it didn't just happen to "any guy" - I would have to think his fame, if that's what you want to call it, directly lead to his photo being seen by whomever it was at the movie studio.
- Hilsee, on 12/05/2008, -0/+21@sockpuppets
Dugg for the most epic typo recovery ever. - Ahnteis, on 12/04/2008, -1/+22Maybe he doesn't like the pricing, advertisements, people talking, cellphone lighting, etc experience.
He didn't say it was beneath him, he just said he wasn't a fan. - Chyeld, on 12/05/2008, -1/+21What's funnier is they didn't even realize it was the VAB. They just thought it was a cool warehouse pic.
- meantime, on 12/04/2008, -0/+20Then this will really blow your mind:
Iron Man is Charlie Chaplin - inactive, on 12/05/2008, -1/+20The longest ***** I've read on digg. Dugg.
- dikaiosyne, on 12/04/2008, -1/+18Nice story. Would've been nice if he was given a small compensation as well.
- inactive, on 12/04/2008, -3/+20So it costs $1500 to get his name on the credits? He should've charged them $1508.99 for the license.
$1500 = credits
$8.99 =movie ticket - Gemizo, on 12/04/2008, -0/+17Hmm, not really. Wouldn't you be a bit proud if your photo got into the movie?
- mediaspree, on 12/04/2008, -1/+17Don't give Hollywood any ideas. Actually, do give them ideas just not this one.
- KSUdesigner, on 12/04/2008, -0/+16He said he wasn't:
"The woman on the other end of the phone—her name was Ashley—said she could reimburse me for the use of my photo if I signed the form she sent. I thanked her, told her I didn’t need any reimbursement, and said I would print out and sign the form for her." - spiffyfitz, on 12/05/2008, -0/+15LOCATS?
- zadadka, on 12/04/2008, -0/+14Those out-of-the-blue, how-about-that, "Famous For 15 Minutes" stories are as good as kittens for making you smile....
....that's live, whole, normal, cute, fluffy kittens, before anyone ruins it. - sockpuppets, on 12/04/2008, -1/+14Rob Schneider, lolderp dee derp! Derp dee derpittee lolderpee derp! Until one day, a derpa derpa durba derp! Derp dee derp, -- da teetley tum! From the creators of -- LOLDER -- and -- LOLTUM TA TITTALY TUM TERPA LOLDERP, Rob Schneider is -- DA LOLDERP DEE DERP DA TEETLEY DERPEE DERPEE DUMB. Rated PG-13.
- fribhey, on 12/04/2008, -0/+13i guess actually reading the article to get the link is not an option for you....
- twishart, on 12/04/2008, -1/+14wow, I actually loled pretty hard.
- macfan93, on 12/04/2008, -0/+12interesting opinion. i however, disagree...
- brownsound00, on 12/04/2008, -0/+11a hungry cat... with a mission...
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for cheeseburgers... - fatlip, on 12/04/2008, -0/+108.99 for a movie?!
they're 10.50 here :( - Fishn2, on 12/04/2008, -0/+10http://adactio.com/journal/1530/
"All of my Flickr pictures are published under a Creative Commons attribution licence."
also
"The woman on the other end of the phone—her name was Ashley—said she could reimburse me for the use of my photo if I signed the form she sent. I thanked her, told her I didn’t need any reimbursement, and said I would print out and sign the form for her." - haplology, on 12/04/2008, -2/+11Yeah. And wouldn't it be cool if some code you wrote ended up in the Mac OS or in Windows? On the other hand, you might want some money for that. I think it's cooler for the movie company that managed to get free photos to use instead of paying for them.
- graemee, on 12/04/2008, -1/+9Tommy, you're going to Digg! Straight to Digg!
- assbeard, on 12/04/2008, -0/+8what? I don't see why this makes him a douche? He even told the girl he didn't want reimbursement and signed the release.
- schroeder, on 12/04/2008, -0/+8He thought it was cool but nothing to brag about. It would be a douche move to think he was awesome because his photo was used as a background for a photo for a few seconds in a movie. As he humbly admitted, the photo wasn't that great but it was cool to see it in a movie behind Robert Downey Jr and Jeff Bridges. He didn't take the lady seriously because, if you look at the original, it's not the kind of picture someone normally buys the rights to.
- erhanaltay, on 12/04/2008, -1/+8You sound like one of those poor writers who complain that writers on the internet sell themselves too cheap. You get what your work is worth. Deal with it. Its called reality.
- LordPhoenyx, on 12/04/2008, -0/+7If someone contacted me asking to use my photo like that I would be a bit wary as well.
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