Jennifer Jason Leigh was victim to it, Jennifer Aniston’s hair suffered it and Petre Andre will never fall foul of it.
What is it? The copy cat scoundrel. This month I’ve come across some of the most blatant rip offs of people’s ideas that I felt I had to write about it.
To those of you out there, who are cultural, creative, inspiring, the idea of ripping off the work or concept of another artist or designer (and calling it your own), not only wouldn’t occur to you, but is something that you would probably find abhorrent.
Alas, this is not the case for the dunder-heids that I’ve come across in the last month. These scumbags come across someone who has a good idea, has perhaps had some success with it and boom they they are ON IT like a tramp on chips.
Speaking as someone who is an illustrator’s widow(metaphorically speaking of course, he’s not deid!). I spend days, sometimes weeks being ignored as the Pirate, draws, and redraws, and redraws and redraws antlers or occasionally sheep skulls (don’t ask). Although admittedly he’s not the biggest conversationalist, chit chat during these times comes to a complete standstill.
“What would you like for dinner darling?”, no response.
“Hi Dave, I thought I would come back into the living room naked except for a hairclip!” no eye movement.
“Dearest, I seem to have caught fire whilst trying to prepare you a tasty an nutrionally balanced meal, could you pass me a wet tea towel please”, nothing.
If it’s wasn’t for his wee hand skittering quickly aboot a sketchpad and the remnants of erasure particles all over the couch, I would be concerned there was no visible output.
Back to my point. To those of you out there who think that you can trace, Photoshop, WordArt, “rip stuff off from the web” think that unlicensed IStock images are your personal photo album, we are aware of you and we think you stink. This also applies to concept grifters…..you are the lowest of the low, you are the moral equivalent of a houserobber and have as much authenticity as Jordan’s Bits.
Oooh…..that feels much better!……jacq x
