Yeah, it was bound to happen I guess. One of the pictures that I took of Gail Trimble on University Challenge has ended up in a video on the BBC News website. Great! but are two reasons why I'm annoyed: for one thing, it's a bloody picture I took of the TV screen with my phone! I hate when people do that, especially on YouTube. I could have a thousand first-generation high resolution photographs, all shot on a Hasselblad, and they'd never get noticed! Secondly, and much more depressing, is the fact that they linked my image with a piece about the hatred towards Gail Trimble. Oooh I'm fuming here! The picture is embedded in a third-party facebook profile, that actually doesnt bother me all that much, but linking it along with my image to the hatred... thats a big dirty Grrrr @ the BBC right there.
Ah well, I guess I did say I kinda liked the picture for it's artistic merit anyway, what with all the sparkly noisey bits and all... and it was just that Facebook entry that was being mean and not my image... Fuck it sure, I'm on the BBC!
Watch the video here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/.../7906745.stm
[EDIT: Oh and by the way, is anyone else loving the recursive irony of all the camera's taking pictures of pictures?]
Congratulations - even if they did mess it up. Do they have to ask your permission or anything? Or even let you know?
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No, and for a few good reasons really:
ReplyDelete1) It's a highly insignificant.
2) It's just the news, not exactly a commercial motion picture.
3) I never asked the BBC for permission to take a photograph of one of their programs in the first place, now did I? :)
Point made - though oozing with sarcasm.
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I have to admit, I can't see the sarcasm myself, I thought I was just being honest lol
ReplyDeletehaha, fair enough - can never tell. Must be my paranoia catching up with me.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't worry about it. I think my sarcasm machine isn't working. Just there earlier today, I thought I was being sarcastic but someone took it seriously. Ah well.
ReplyDeleteDaylight robbery. Don't forget to send a bill to the beeb, dude.
ReplyDeleteGamma = that femme fatale Trimble made me find your blog if it is any consolation. Not all bad. I do like a lady with a bit fo wit about her.
ReplyDeleteI think I've done dairly well for myself, with the whole thing considered :)
ReplyDeleteNOW LET'S KEEP LOOPING!
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