When would you use this?
January 28th, 2009
Graphic designers often have to use stock photos, much to their chegrin. Today, I came across this gem of a stock photo. You tell me: WHEN WOULD YOU USE THIS? What project and / or place would possibly be the right time to use this image? I asked this on Twitter and already got some good replies, but I want YOUR take. The best one will get my gratitude and some hearty chuckles.
Current Twitter forerunners:
- Time Magazine’s Robert T. Balder: “When you’re horny, and she’s pithed.”
- Systemic / Amazing Photographer Mooney: “To illustrate the romantic tale of the woman on a safari, and her australian guide, who seranades her at night via trumpet.”
- Pierski: “Husband giving you not so subtle hints that he wants a blow?”
Go nuts. Btw, if you want to see where it came from (or want to buy it) please check this out.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
a) designing something for an alarm clock manufacturer/reseller
b) Army add campaign, instead of the light-bulb going off, it is the trumpeter that signifies the idea to join the Army.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
with the sunglasses and the hat? and the pith helmet?
January 28th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Article: Woman's pithy remarks bring wake up call.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
um, the panamanian army. ya, that's what I meant (did I mention I am not in graphic design? just playing along here)
January 28th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Haha, cool. I know plenty of designers who shouldn't be in design, so as far as I'm concerned you have as much qualifications as anyone.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
How does a visually impaired husband ask his mentally challenged and hearing impaired wife for a divorce?
January 28th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
What I want to know is: what on Earth were you searching for that pulled that up?!?
January 29th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Good question! I needed a picture of a woman isolated from a background for an animation I was doing. I found one, and then clicked on “other images like this”. Imagine my surprise when this showed up…
Ross
January 29th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I get the same feeling when I see someone wearing a particularly ugly pair of pants (think golf). It's not so much that the individual would buy them, it was that someone, somewhere, would go to the trouble to MAKE them.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Haha, YES. People will buy anything, but MAKING it? Really?
January 29th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
I would use it for any project that I wanted to get fired from.
January 29th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
ZING!
January 31st, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Two words: Montessori School.
Pay lots of money to have your kids do whatever the frick they want and call it learning.
May 16th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
A buenas horas, mangas verdes ahora que están hasta el cuello se acuerdan del código -ético!!!!!!!!!