The Insane Benedictine University Recruiting Video
Rescued by Deadspin, re-posted by yours truly: an actual alum of Benedictine University in lovely (snark) Lisle, Illinois. Just in case it gets pulled there…
Update: The IP log reveals a lot of incoming traffic from ben.edu. Hi, there!
If Musicians Used Their Real Names on Cover Art
This would be a fun graphic design exercise to imitate: changing the cover art of classic albums to reflect the musicians’ actual names, not stage names.
It takes a bit of the steam out of the artistic mystique. Then again, I think Declan McManus is a cooler name than Elvis Costello, so maybe not in all instances.
The iStockphoto Royalties Mess and Links of the Week
- If you’ve got an iStockphoto account—buyer and/or contributor—you may want to browse through the massive, deeply emotional threads on the proposed changes to the iStock royalty model: a new concept called “redeemed credits.” A strong majority of contributors are quite mad and not without reason. The changes constitute a pay cut and, more vaguely, evidence that high revenue targets on iStock are being imposed by Seattle-based Getty Images and their parent company Hellman & Friedman (their web site is more than a bit dated).
- There are quite a few other changes coming to iStockphoto, including the news that Vetta collection images will now be sold on the Getty Images site. And yet another premium collection—Agency—will soon be part of iStock. Artists will be personally selected to contribute to Agency. Add it to Vetta, iStock Exclusive, the regular files and the partnership program/dollar images and the iStock collection has become much more complex than it was just 18 months ago.
- CNET has a very good summary of the iStock kerfuffle and what it might mean for the future of crowd-sourcing.
- Despite of that, microstock life goes on. Cosmonaut’s image of Interstate 5 in Portland at dusk was accepted into Getty’s Photodisc collection. And it’s never too soon to get Christmas-themed stock photography up to iStockphoto for sale.
- Spammers are already finding ways to exploit HTML5.
- Submissions to the Pixel Awards are due by the end of September.
- From Pennsylvania, perhaps the funniest headline ever.
- Personal Life, the latest album from Portland group The Thermals, was released last week.
Rite Aid: With Us, It’s Personal… and Fattening
Yes, that’s actually their horrible tagline (sans the “fattening”), dreamt up by a creative director who watches too many procedurals on CBS. Nobody considered that this tagline comes across as threatening rather than reassuring? It conjures up Charles Bronson or Clint Eastwood more than it does a matronly pharmacist who knows your name before inspecting your driver’s license.
In any event, it seems that Rite Aid’s personal commitment is to making or keeping you overweight. Why else would they offer Wellness+ Rewards card deals like these:
We spotted this over Labor Day Weekend at the Rite Aid at North Lombard and Denver. We didn’t check to see if there were similar discounts on marshmallow peeps or cases of Coors.
Monday Morning Photosnark: Jimmy Fallon Hosts Primetime Emmy Awards
Photosnark caption possibilities, including a double dose of “The Simpsons” references:
- Ruff, ruff. I’m Poochie the Rockin’ Dog!
- I’m Jimmy Fallon and, Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Poplowski of Hazel Green, Wisconsin, I’m here to rock your sensibilities in an outrageous but completely non-threatening manner. Don’t let the sunglasses scare you. I’ll have your daughter back before 11:00. Or will I? Yes, I will. Sorry, sir. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. No, sir, I don’t wear the sunglasses when I drive at night. Um, is Becky ready to go yet?
- What is hell is this thing in my right hand? I’ve never seen one of these before.
- This promotional photo is the 132th reason ?uestlove regrets joining “Late Night.” And forming the Roots. And having been born.
- Todd Flanders: “Is he killing that guitar, Daddy?” Ned Flanders: “Yes, son.”
Photo credit: Virginia Sherwood/NBC
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