Marc Adamus LIES 2.0 commentary
“I’m a dainty little painter, yes I am please compare me to Ansel, please”
This comment was left on our first Marc Adamus image critique, “Mountain Mountain”. Despite being immediately accused of making up all the comments ourselves, we had nothing to do with any comments left on the blog. We do want to point out that this small, 14 word comment describes the essence of what Marc Adamus is. He has taken to constantly comparing himself to Ansel Adams. All fraud, of course.
Did Ansel compare himself to other photographers? Did other famous landscape photographers spout: “like so and so, I only get a dozen keepers a year.”. Of course not! Marc Adamus is completely obsessed with how he looks to other people. Once, he hid all the Photoshop work he did. Now, he revels in it, drawing comparisons to “painting”. He’s also fond of claiming to study the works of the great painters. (Other frauds like Ryan Dyar regurgitate this bullshit on their own websites).
Yeah right! Did the great painters sell workshops? Did they run around, constantly telling anyone who would listen about how passionate or awesome they were? That’s the MO of a complete fraud, and a loser who is absolutely obsessed with himself. Anyone who is passionate about anything doesn’t have to say he is; it’s evident in his work.
Marc Adamus’ new angle of comparing himself to Ansel Adams or painters is, of course, doomed to fail. The more complicated the lies become, the greater the chance that the LIAR will snare himself with his own bullshit. It’s happening at this very moment, and Marc Adamus LIES 2.0 is proud to be the driving force behind exposing this small-penised LIAR.
A couple points about Copyright Law and Copyright violations.
If someone were to copy a Steven Spielberg movie (for example), the repercussions would be severe. Whoever did this, if they ever even got as far as to have a finished product, would be attacked by armies of lawyers, ridiculed by the press, and maligned by the public for what would amount to a shameful act of theft and appropriation.
Now the rules governing photography, another section of the visual arts, are about the same. You can’t just run around appropriating someone’s compositions, the feel of their images, or the text on their website. Why is why the following image is so shameful, and a real indication of the dreadful direction our society has taken:
Now what is wrong with this picture? Apart from the blatant, disrespectful, shameful theft going on, the other thing that’s wrong is:
1 These losers/scum aren’t being attacked by armies of lawyers.
2. These losers/scum aren’t being ridiculed by the press.
3. These losers/scum aren’t being maligned by the public for what amounts to a shameful act of theft and appropriation.
Now don’t get us wrong. We don’t expect Miles Morgan or the other three stooges in this photo to feel any shame or remorse for what they are doing here. They are remorseless, immoral THUGS who lack empathy and feel no compunction at committing crimes like this. In fact, most of these bozos run all around the West committing the crime of copyright violation, every day. There are hundreds of these losers on Flickr and elsewhere.
The secret here is that images don’t protect themselves, and copyright doesn’t enforce itself. If Steven Spielberg didn’t sue a thief who stole his movie, nothing would probably get done. An IP/creative arts professional needs to be proactive about protecting his work. Copyright that isn’t enforced is copyright that is essentially given up.
There is nothing noble or good about what these pathetic imbeciles do. It’s financial terrorism. It’s completely inartistic, lacking in shame, and devoid of respect for another person’s ideas and property. It destroys the photography industry, destroys jobs, and fills the pockets of Chinese and Japanese camera companies at the expense of a native industry. Miles Morgan and his other bozo friends would serve us best by throwing themselves off a cliff (Rowena, for example) and ridding us of their malignant, damaging presence. Or, at least, spending a nickel in the federal pen as an example to the rest of their stupid buddies.
In the future, when people awaken to the terrible injustice carried out by these THUGS, the time when LOSERS were allowed to scurry around, Xeroxing/stealing professionals’ images, will be remembered as a most shameful time in our history. A time when economic growth was destroyed and peoples’ careers were destroyed so LOSERS could feel good about themselves on Flickr.
A response desired from Marc Adamus.
The $30,000,000 question: Why does Marc Adamus allow the blatant, overwhelming copyright violations that happen with his images? Why does he allow the blatant theft of his work and his “vision”, if we were to call it that? Apart from the boastfulness and general unpleasantness of Marc’s character, it must be said that his images were quite unique when they first appeared. But that’s not enough. An artist’s work can’t rely on what status it enjoyed when it first came out. There are envious, fame-lusting thieves out there. Art needs to be protected from theft. Theft like the type displayed in this picture:
As we have said yesterday, how can Marc Adamus images be “immediately recognizable” when this is happening? Does Marc Adamus have anything to say about this sort of thing? We’re waiting for a reasonable explanation!
Can Marc provide a reason for why he allows these imbeciles to simply run up and completely Xerox his compositions? It’s actually quite simple to prevent thugs from stealing images, which is why it’s perplexing that Marc Adamus hasn’t already done so. Until he explains himself and takes measures to protect his work from theft, Marc Adamus essentially condones widespread, massive copyright violation, and what amount to acts of financial terrorism against professional photographers.
