Hey Oscar Wilde!

A spot to archive nerd images of interest from out of print/hard to find art books, magazines, comics and other assorted ephemera laying about as well as detours into other things found about the web. I really do try my due diligence to make sure none of these things have been seen online before with the scanned images or at least new to Tumblr with the web stuff to make it worth everyone's while and to have fresh content but, y'know, I'm not perfect and I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

Some of the pieces from the 'Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!!!' literary art collection (link above) may make it over here from time to time as well. Or not.

Much randomness ahead...

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If you are new here, not only do I post whatnot here on my own feed, but I have also been taken into the warm, furry bosom of Ron Workman and been allowed to work in Items over at herochan and tiefighters .  I assume the only reason I have been invited to do so was some sort of ‘take pity on the idiot/community service/make the rest of the group look good’ type of deal.  

Either way, please do check out my ‘posting pals’ (See?  Even calling them that reinforces my idiot status…) from those other sites as your tumblr experience is undoubtedly lacking and substandard by not having these fine and attractive individuals pop up in your dashboard on a regular basis.

svalts

pacalin

chanh

deanminifie

assorted-goodness

ianbrooks

koldunkisloty

I do appreciate whatever madness prompted you to click that ‘follow’ option at the top of the screen so high fives to all of you that have!

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sorry…

…that I’m clogging up your dashboard.  I know I’m posting heavier than usual as of late but I’ve ended up with almost 600 items in my drafts folder and I’m finding it unwieldy to navigate in any sort of meaningful way.  The result is a bit of increased activity to whittle it down to a manageable level. Thanks for your patience! 

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I find this type of thing, the motivations behind it and people’s thoughts on this infinitely interesting so bear with me…

I posted the above photo of the 1970’s Italian Batmen parade to Herochan on Dec. 17 with full source info as to where I pulled it from.  It had received good traction and bounced around to some degree over the next few days after I uploaded it (as well it should as it’s a pretty cool image). Bat-blog.com posted it on Dec. 23 and, from the article that it was worked into, it looks like it was submitted to them from a reader.  Now I know that sometimes things get lost in the shuffle and the original source may have been stripped but they went ahead and watermarked it as theirs, effectively making themselves the originator of the image.    

Now here is the question, once an image hits the net, do you lose all rights or claim to it, does it become true public domain or does it become the property of the first person that marks it?  Flickr user cobracreations took the time to originally scan and post it and I’m fairly certain he/she didn’t upload it with the thought that someday it will be watermarked by another group.  Was it his/her responsibility to watermark it in the first place?  Is it my responsibility to watermark it with the URL as to where I got it from to guarantee the original poster gets credit for it from here in perpetuity?  The post had it but obviously it was lost/stripped of it by the time it left Tumblr.  Does the bat-blog.com then have the authority to label it themselves if no one else has (I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they have no idea to the history of the image or where it came from as it was just sent to them).  Is the fact that it is featured on their site enough of a claim to label it as theirs?

Ian Brooks made a must read post about artist/source accreditation a few days ago but I’m wondering if it’s enough.  Maybe I’m just over-thinking it…or maybe I’m not.  

What do you think?

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