Pedalling Uphill

I just received a notice that my painting ‘The War Horse’ has been ripped off and reproduced by an L. Hunt and sold on e Bay.  Apparently she has done this many times…it’s very bizarre to see an image that has come out of your head and partly from a photograph I took of a horse while doing my OWN fieldwork and see the exact copy and someone else’s signature at the bottom.

This is becoming more and more common and some days I think I would just like to shut down my website and no longer contribute in any way to the internet.  It’s not the first time I have seen my work copied and signed with someone else’s name.  But mostly they’re students and unfortunately their teachers haven’t taught them to source their own material so they take the easier path and copy another artist’s work.

The internet can be a great tool and a lot of fun, but really, between the spammers, viruses and all the crooks and theives out there, something should be done to protect the consumer who just wants to own a computer and not have to deal with all the endless assholes looking to make a quick buck.  If cars were as dangerous to drive as computers are fraught with problems, there would be anarchy in the streets!

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“Save your mental health…don’t give a computer a good home!”  - Patricia Bourque

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Ever try to find something on the net, only to be bombarded with and having to pick through a thousand things you’re not looking for?!  What ever happened to being direct?  I liken it to chopping through a thick jungle forest to find a single banana - by the time you get there, you’re too exhausted to eat it!

Or trying to use HELP (a misnomer if ever there was) on computer programs…I wrote to Bill Gates (yes indeedy…I write to them all) and told him if he wanted to make a million dollars , he should come up with programs that people with full time regular type jobs that use computers as part of their jobs (but don’t dedicate their lives to them) could use.  I’ll bet there are 100,000 things in most programs that I’ll never use, but try and find the HELP for the things I do need and it’s almost impossible - let alone decipherable when I do.  It’s called ‘revenge of the computer geeks’!

And PLEASE companies…don’t send me hours of reading material starting out with the words…”To make it easier for our customers…”  Either you think we are really dumb, or we are really dumb…but if I had the time and energy, I would drop you like a hot potato and take my business somewhere else.  Too tired, too busy - you count on that.

SIMPLIFY should be the new Mantra for 2007

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Am I the only one who hates this new way of photography in the movies and more and more on television?  Moving the camera in and out and up and down and as fast as the music plays.  Have we become such a pitiful nation of people with such short attention spans that we can’t even watch a scene without being made to feel we’re jumping around and that we have to have movement every second or we’ll lose interest?  Calm down already!

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