Lee Jeffries,* writing as LJ. on flickr:
Untitled
He did the strangest thing. Rolled up a joint in cardboard. Never seen that before but I guess if you got no paper you gotta make do. I’ve had a sheltered life.
Yet another mis-attributed work by an amazing artist that showed up on tumblr stripped of any connection to or mention of that artist.**
Like most such images I come across, finding the true source of this photograph took me less than five minutes.
It’s possible that one or more of the thousands of tumblr users who reblogged this image before me also found the correct attribution information and included it with their post. But, unless the original post contains (or is edited to include) that information, and a link to that post is preserved through all reblog branches, the majority of the reblogs aren’t going to include or even link to the correct source — that is, the artist who created the work being reblogged all over tumblrspace.
It really isn’t difficult or time-consuming to find sources for un- or mis-attributed works you come across on tumblr. If the work is (or includes as part of an image) text, you can put a quotation from it into your search engine of choice in order to locate the original source. With images, whether photographic or otherwise, Google Image Search has gotten really good at finding matching images even when they’re cropped differently or otherwise (un)altered; just go to google.com/imghp, click the camera icon in the search box, and paste in the URL of the copy of the image you found on tumblr. With most images, the source will be either one of the first web results, or on the results page accessed by clicking either the “All sizes” link (near the top of the page, above webpage results) or a matching image in the “Visually similar images” link (near the bottom of the page, below webpage results).
Even if you only look for the creator credit for things you want to reblog once in a while, every time someone takes those few minutes makes a difference…
* The photograph featured in this post is only one of literally hundreds of arresting portraits of homeless people that Jeffries has captured. His flickr photostream and website are both well worth the visit — though perhaps more wisely in moderation than marathon session, as the pain and adversity of life on the streets is more often highlighted than hidden in Jeffries’s work, and those harsh realities are disquieting.
Further comments from the photographer, as found on the flickr page:
The challenge of course is to try and make “colour” artistic. So much easier with a black and white shot. It helps having the right ingredients to start with. I saw his eyes from across the street and almost RAN to get to them!!!
I told him that he had stunning eyes too. He was a quiet man and just smiled and said thank you.
** This reblog ultimately — according to the information on the tumblr-reblog where I found it, at least — traces back to a post made by realsh1t; the source & image links previously went to realsh1t’s main page, however, rather than the post that began this thread, and, with five-thousand-plus notes, I’m not checking whether that attribution is accurate.
(via thetruthsiren)
Source: flickr.com
Dankish (aka the photographer who actually took this):
Sleepy Hollow
Rila National Park, Bulgaria… And in case you’re wondering — Tim Burton is one of my favourite film directors :)
nightmare-desert only posted this photograph.
nightmare-desert has excellent taste in landscape-photography appreciation, but execrable habits in crediting (or rather not crediting) the people who made those photographs available for strangers on the internet to appreciate.
nightmare-desert does not deserve to be credited for this post.
It took me all of less than five minutes to find the real source for this image. (With many images all it takes is going to Google Image Search, clicking the camera icon in the search box to select “Search by image”, pasting in the URL of the image you found on Tumblr, and picking out which of the copies in “More Sizes” view is the original.) We need to do better, Tumblrers. We need to stop just reblogging things we come across that are missing attribution to their creators. The fact that someone else posted it with incorrect credit — or no credit at all — is no excuse to continue sending their post along like a chain letter.
Sometimes I can’t find sources for things I want to post or reblog; that’s going to happen sometimes. But we owe it to the people who make the things that delight us to give them credit. Plus, if you know where to find the source of an awesome post, you can often find even more awesome stuff by the same creator. It’s in everyone’s best interest to give credit for photos, artwork, writing, poetry, videos, music and every other kind of creative work that can be found on Tumblr, whenever it’s possible to do so.
Click here, or on the image above, for the full-size (1024x683) copy, which shows the detail much better — the inline version on Tumblr’s servers is only 500 pixels wide and may be stretched on your screen, causing pixelation and/or fuzziness.
And now, finally, it’s time for my feelings about the actual photo itself:
Mmm, moraine eccentrics embedded in the hilly ground underlying a pine forest. I can’t help but recognize this place as home… even though I’ve never been anywhere near Bulgaria, which is where the photo was taken. It’s amazing how much this view resembles similar landscapes in southern New England (USA), where I grew up.
(via auralae)
Source: Flickr / dankish
the injustices we have endured. sean bell, caylee anthony, mathew shepard, that asian kid & now trayvon martin
i still feel like i need to know why trayvon beat up mr zim. then i can draw my conclusions about this.
Well, I have good news and bad news:
There will never be an answer to “why did Trayvon Martin beat up George Zimmerman?”
That’s because Trayvon didn’t beat him up.
There’s security camera footage, from the Sanford police station, of Zimmerman being led in, in handcuffs, on the night of the shooting. Zimmerman claims that he was bleeding from the back of his head and from his nose and mouth as a result of Trayvon’s alleged attack. But apparently he was miraculously healed in the back of that patrol car, because he doesn’t have any blood on his head in that video… no stitches, either… not even a band-aid. And there’s no blood, mud or grass stains on his clean white shirt, either.
If that isn’t enough to convince you?
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hi, well if you look at when this post was posted. you’ll see that it was posted on the date that the news was speculating about whether or not zimmerman had battle scars. therefore, i think -silly me about doing that- that i have the right to ask any question i feel like based on the information i was provided.
I did look at the date it was posted: six days ago, meaning Thursday, March 29th. Most of the info I referenced was available over a week earlier than your post. That Tumblr post linked to its source for the witnesses and recordings evidence, an article on the Huffington Post; and HuffPo shows up on Google & Google News results just fine, if you actually look for information on a story they cover.
You have the right to ask any question you want. (Free speech means you have the right to express yourself; it doesn’t mean other people aren’t equally free to respond to you, even in ways you don’t like.) But in a situation like this, when the information you would’ve needed to answer your own question was readily available online — and if you’re getting most of your news from the television news entertainment packaged as ‘news’*, then you need to stop that, and this incident will hopefully illustrate to you the reason why — asking that question, especially while you were online, just made it seem like you were questioning the credibility of every witness other than George Zimmerman, despite the fact that no witness testimony other than his own is remotely consistent with his version of events.
If that wasn’t the impression you meant to give, good… but it’s still the impression that the phrasing of your question created.
Listen, I know it probably seems like I’m coming down hard on you here. I really don’t mean to. But you have to consider how it’s going to look to your White peers (and your PoC peers, too) when you publicly say that you want to give Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt, you know?
* Virtually the only TV ‘news’ worth watching is The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, which are up-front about primarily being entertainment but actually do a better job of reporting on many issues, and many stories the actual television ‘news’ industry barely mentions, if they don’t just ignore them completely. Even those two shows, though, shouldn’t be your sole source of news. With any televised news (and this actually applies to radio and newspapers, too) the main usefulness they serve is to let you know that there is a story, so that you can read up on the details online.
TV news is never going to give you in-depth coverage of even a major story; even when they devote hours-long programming blocks to covering some particular issue or event, their focus is always on retaining their audience rather than informing that audience… which Nielsen ratings say is best accomplished by providing simplified, summarized information in small chunks, as if CNN is just a current-events-themed version of 1980s MTV. The TV ‘news’ considers letting Geraldo Rivera claim that Trayvon Martin wouldn’t have been targeted or killed if he hadn’t been wearing a hoodie more ‘newsworthy’ than actual information about the case, such as those 911 recordings and witness statements.
the injustices we have endured. sean bell, caylee anthony, mathew shepard, that asian kid & now trayvon martin
i still feel like i need to know why trayvon beat up mr zim. then i can draw my conclusions about this.
Well, I have good news and bad news:
There will never be an answer to “why did Trayvon Martin beat up George Zimmerman?”
That’s because Trayvon didn’t beat him up.
There’s security camera footage, from the Sanford police station, of Zimmerman being led in, in handcuffs, on the night of the shooting. Zimmerman claims that he was bleeding from the back of his head and from his nose and mouth as a result of Trayvon’s alleged attack. But apparently he was miraculously healed in the back of that patrol car, because he doesn’t have any blood on his head in that video… no stitches, either… not even a band-aid. And there’s no blood, mud or grass stains on his clean white shirt, either.
If that isn’t enough to convince you?
There are two separate 911 recordings each covering at least part of the period between the beginning of the confrontation between Trayvon and Zimmerman and the time the gun went off. One call was made by a neighbor, who was close enough to the scene that both Trayvon’s and Zimmerman’s voices can be heard on the recording. The other came from Trayvon’s cell phone. (Calling 911 just before assaulting an innocent stranger, and leaving the line open while you attack them, makes less than no sense — which is probably why Zimmerman didn’t call the cops again until after Trayvon was dead.) Neither 911 tape supports Zimmerman’s version of events. Independent voice-analysis experts, using two separate methods, have confirmed that the voice calling for help on the 911 recording was not George Zimmerman’s, meaning that Zimmerman was lying about that, too.
Meaning that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin while Trayvon was screaming for help — screaming in terror, because he saw an angry white man, 10 years older and 100 pounds heavier, coming at him with a gun in his hand, and Trayvon knew he had no chance of outrunning or overpowering his attacker.
George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in cold blood. He figured he’d get away with it, just like he’d gotten away with his past crimes, because his father is a retired Florida State Supreme Court Justice and so other people on the ‘right’ side of law enforcement would help him out again. That’s exactly what was happening, too… until enough people heard enough about the case and made enough noise about the case to get the right people (the press, the Florida State’s Attorney and the Department of Justice) asking the right questions. Now, finally, the cover-up has begun to unravel.
(By the way? All this news is at least several days old, girl. Next time take yourself to Google — or even just use that Trayvon Martin tag you put on your own post — before you ask questions you ought to already know the answers to.)
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The first one is by far my favorite, but all seven of them are amazing. Our planet is amazing — and beautiful.
