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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Off Topic => Topic started by: RacePhoto on July 21, 2011, 16:08

Title: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on July 21, 2011, 16:08
Sure I make a joke for three years and she steals it?  >:(

Crapstock.com
Creation Date: 28-may-2011
Barb Choit Studio

That's OK I have others...  :)

Sounds like she's serious and not just squatting on a site name: (best wishes to her)

Barb Choit (1977, Vancover, Canada) methodically collects, archives, and expertly photographs refuse that would normally be swept up and thrown out. The photographs on view are part of the temporary storage archive of her Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware – a project which interrogates and celebrates the impluse to collect and document a rapidly proliferating glut of disposables.
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: madelaide on July 21, 2011, 16:13
That's why we have copyright, trademarks, patents... to protect one's remarkable ideas.
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on July 21, 2011, 17:09
That's why we have copyright, trademarks, patents... to protect one's remarkable ideas.

Thanks for pointing out why I didn't protect my dumb idea.  ;D It was unremarkable.
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: click_click on July 21, 2011, 18:23
Sure I make a joke for three years and she steals it?  >:(

Crapstock.com
Creation Date: 28-may-2011
Barb Choit Studio

That's OK I have others...  :)

Sounds like she's serious and not just squatting on a site name: (best wishes to her)

Barb Choit (1977, Vancover, Canada) methodically collects, archives, and expertly photographs refuse that would normally be swept up and thrown out. The photographs on view are part of the temporary storage archive of her Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware – a project which interrogates and celebrates the impluse to collect and document a rapidly proliferating glut of disposables.

I'm sorry, I missed out on that one. What happened?

You made jokes about a website called crapstock.com 3 years ago and now someone registered it?

I don't understand. The website is not in use.

Can someone fill me in?
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on July 22, 2011, 22:53
Sure I make a joke for three years and she steals it?  >:(

Crapstock.com
Creation Date: 28-may-2011
Barb Choit Studio

That's OK I have others...  :)

Sounds like she's serious and not just squatting on a site name: (best wishes to her)

Barb Choit (1977, Vancover, Canada) methodically collects, archives, and expertly photographs refuse that would normally be swept up and thrown out. The photographs on view are part of the temporary storage archive of her Division Museum of Ceramics and Glassware – a project which interrogates and celebrates the impluse to collect and document a rapidly proliferating glut of disposables.

I'm sorry, I missed out on that one. What happened?

You made jokes about a website called crapstock.com 3 years ago and now someone registered it?

I don't understand. The website is not in use.

Can someone fill me in?

I think you pretty much covered it. I've been making a joke about starting a site named CrapStock for years, maybe three. Also I call the Micro I do "CrapStock" as a way to separate it from people who do serious Micro shots, with models. Someone who shoots junk that she finds, has registered the name for the site, within the last two months and I suppose she's going to do something with it eventually. That's why I said, she's not just parking the name and holding it.

The reason I was looking the other day, is I was finally getting around to registering the name. Too late. You snooze you lose... someone else has it, I need a new site name and maybe one that isn't as negative. But I'll continue to label the people who upload things they find around the house and snapshots that they happen upon, as "CrapStock".  ;D
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: Shank_ali on July 22, 2011, 23:23
actions speak lounder than words.........
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on July 23, 2011, 20:43
actions speak lounder than words.........

And stupid ideas shouldn't be implemented. :)

I have multiple websites for useful purposes, spending the money to make CrapStock would only be good as a mockery and some entertainment.

I agree with you.
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: microstockphoto.co.uk on July 24, 2011, 02:45
once upon a time there was a thing called snapvillage and now even turned into a decent thing
another one is called graphic leftovers
I never understood why one would want to include a word with a commonly negative meaning in a trademark, but it happens
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on July 24, 2011, 14:24
once upon a time there was a thing called snapvillage and now even turned into a decent thing
another one is called graphic leftovers
I never understood why one would want to include a word with a commonly negative meaning in a trademark, but it happens

Yet another reason for not ever following through with the joke. I have a new one. Must have taken 20 minutes and I like it better. I agree while I can describe the snapshots and junk I've sometimes produced as CrapStock, it would be a double negative for a site.

I don't know why she went with the word stock? maybe Phoney CarpArt was taken. There's so much of it around nowadays. People making things and shooting junk, just for the sake of being different, which is about the extent of the art, no creativity. "Oh wow, how strange and bizarre can I be, without direction or reason." Not what can I do that's different, original AND creative.
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: barbsketch on June 27, 2012, 18:46
Hi,

I originally purchased crapstock.com for a project... but, I'm not really using it...

if you want it, it's yours!

let me know, and I can figure out how to transfer it...

best,

Barb
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: cthoman on June 27, 2012, 20:08
Hi,

I originally purchased crapstock.com for a project... but, I'm not really using it...

if you want it, it's yours!

let me know, and I can figure out how to transfer it...

best,

Barb

That's awesome. She just called your bluff Race.  ;D
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: barbsketch on June 28, 2012, 11:13
Here, I got it started for you:

http://www.crapstock.com (http://www.crapstock.com)

 ;)
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: leaf on June 28, 2012, 11:20
Here, I got it started for you:

[url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url] ([url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url])

 ;)


I think the ball's in your court Race :)
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: luissantos84 on June 28, 2012, 11:25
try not to spend 1 Million EUR and please don´t take 2 years ;D
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: ppdd on June 28, 2012, 12:11
Here, I got it started for you:

[url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url] ([url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url])

 ;)


Haha! This is my new favorite person.
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: fotografer on June 28, 2012, 14:17
Here, I got it started for you:

[url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url] ([url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url])

 ;)

LOL hilarious
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: lisafx on June 28, 2012, 14:29
Here, I got it started for you:

[url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url] ([url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url])

 ;)


Nice going ;D
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on June 28, 2012, 15:12
Here, I got it started for you:

[url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url] ([url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url])

 ;)


Love it!

I was out of town (well mostly out and in for a few weeks) and something came up today, I went to search the http://www.crapstock.com (http://www.crapstock.com) registration and it's blank. Then I looked at the site and hey wait. Did I get drunk and register a site that's protected until 2013?  :D  I look at the forum and magic, the nice lady artist who was going to do "crapstock" has come to MSG.

I'll be writing... and thanks. Cracked me up!
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: jm on June 28, 2012, 15:52
ROFL
What's your plan Race? All images same price? Or are you going to introduce Veto®Collection and Crap(minus)?
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on June 28, 2012, 16:11
ROFL
What's your plan Race? All images same price? Or are you going to introduce Veto®Collection and Crap(minus)?

Well it was a joke from the start and some people don't get it. I was reprimanded for not registering my idea, when it's wasn't real. (what else can I say) But when someone stole my idea (and she didn't really, it was a completely different meaning of crap stock, I believe using found items) I got to make another joke. I was again called out for not protecting the name.

Here's where it came from. I was calling MY own Micro "Crapstock", not anyone or anything else. My collection is "Crapstock"

After a while I did come up with an idea, make the requirements for being accepted for sale on CS, the image had to be refused by one of the top four agencies, SS, IS, FT or DT.  ;D ( and not for sale anywhere else, everything on CrapStock would be exclusive rejected images only!)

Pricing? One price fits all, everything RF only, $5 OD downloads, artist gets 50% (going with the general theory that the agencies are abusing people because of supply and demand)

So it's a fictitious project and idea, created to mock my own lazy work and CrapStock collection.

Hope that helped. Here's to Barb for getting me good on this whole thing.
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: fotografer on June 28, 2012, 18:19
I love the fact that you saw what she had written on the crapstock site before you saw what she had written in this thread.  You must have thought you were seeing things. Brilliant.
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: luissantos84 on June 28, 2012, 18:27
whatever you open I am in my friend unless its a men club ;D
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: cathyslife on June 28, 2012, 20:28
Too funny! Race, I have plenty of images to
 contribute, if you need some more crapstock!  :D
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on June 28, 2012, 21:05
Too funny! Race, I have plenty of images to
 contribute, if you need some more crapstock!  :D


It's more of a cosmic theoretical site. I never intended to register the name or make a real site.

Yes she got me good and I'm still laughing.

The only reason I went to the site was something came up with another site this morning and I went to see how she was doing with CrapStock. Talk about surprise? And then I thought, what did I do? How did I register a site that was taken? My Pseudonym for the forums is on there? Talk about had!  ;D

I had eight smaller sites go dark recently, and I moved all the content under one as archives. (aka cobweb sites) Now I have two active websites, a hand full of free pages, stumping Microstock, and two registered live sites, which are undeveloped. There's no lack of things to do. The newest pages are http://PeteKlinger.com (how's that for not very interesting?) Totally non-commercial. Maybe an Amazon link,. Vistaprint, dropbox promo, and I may have something else buried, but it's just a personal site, name holder. (including a broken link to Microstock that I created when I was merging two sites, now I can't find the data...)
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: michealo on June 29, 2012, 05:43
ROFL
What's your plan Race? All images same price? Or are you going to introduce Veto®Collection and Crap(minus)?

Well it was a joke from the start and some people don't get it. I was reprimanded for not registering my idea, when it's wasn't real. (what else can I say) But when someone stole my idea (and she didn't really, it was a completely different meaning of crap stock, I believe using found items) I got to make another joke. I was again called out for not protecting the name.

Here's where it came from. I was calling MY own Micro "Crapstock", not anyone or anything else. My collection is "Crapstock"

After a while I did come up with an idea, make the requirements for being accepted for sale on CS, the image had to be refused by one of the top four agencies, SS, IS, FT or DT.  ;D ( and not for sale anywhere else, everything on CrapStock would be exclusive rejected images only!)

Pricing? One price fits all, everything RF only, $5 OD downloads, artist gets 50% (going with the general theory that the agencies are abusing people because of supply and demand)

So it's a fictitious project and idea, created to mock my own lazy work and CrapStock collection.

Hope that helped. Here's to Barb for getting me good on this whole thing.

50%?

70% is the norm for application stores ...
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: cobalt on June 29, 2012, 06:04
This made my day! Thanks Barb! :)

Now please do something interesting with the site racephoto...fate is calling you!
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on July 02, 2012, 01:31
20% is normal for Microstock? I thought 50% was good. Oh I forgot, what people here would want is 100% and I pay them for the right to sell their "Crapstock"!  :o


ROFL
What's your plan Race? All images same price? Or are you going to introduce Veto®Collection and Crap(minus)?

Well it was a joke from the start and some people don't get it. I was reprimanded for not registering my idea, when it's wasn't real. (what else can I say) But when someone stole my idea (and she didn't really, it was a completely different meaning of crap stock, I believe using found items) I got to make another joke. I was again called out for not protecting the name.

Here's where it came from. I was calling MY own Micro "Crapstock", not anyone or anything else. My collection is "Crapstock"

After a while I did come up with an idea, make the requirements for being accepted for sale on CS, the image had to be refused by one of the top four agencies, SS, IS, FT or DT.  ;D ( and not for sale anywhere else, everything on CrapStock would be exclusive rejected images only!)

Pricing? One price fits all, everything RF only, $5 OD downloads, artist gets 50% (going with the general theory that the agencies are abusing people because of supply and demand)

So it's a fictitious project and idea, created to mock my own lazy work and CrapStock collection.

Hope that helped. Here's to Barb for getting me good on this whole thing.

50%?

70% is the norm for application stores ...
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: Microbius on July 02, 2012, 03:09
Here, I got it started for you:

[url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url] ([url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url])

 ;)

Awesome!!
Title: Re: Who Is This?
Post by: RacePhoto on July 02, 2012, 10:02
Here, I got it started for you:

[url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url] ([url]http://www.crapstock.com[/url])

 ;)

Awesome!!


Yes, funny and I dropped her a couple of PMs no answer yet. She's probably busy coming up with more nefarious ways to tweak my nose. LOL  :D

(we made contact via email today)

Dropped eight websites in 2011, added two in 2012, reserved a couple of names. Now this comes along? ???

Just for clarity, as far as I know and my plans... there will never be a real Crapstock, and if there is, there will not be contributors or commissions. It's a concept, not a reality.

So I guess I could offer 110% commissions, because no one will ever get anything uploaded or accepted. (http://s5.postimage.org/mfihhwnz7/doh.gif) (http://postimage.org/)

CRAPSTOCK = (http://s5.postimage.org/sj021te8z/nobull.gif) (http://postimage.org/)  ®

Exciting New Website coming soon!  http://hodagroadrally.tripod.com/ (http://hodagroadrally.tripod.com/)

And Another?

http://crapstock.weebly.com/ (http://crapstock.weebly.com/)

The fishing photo is from my Iowa weekend 2012, I haven't tried it on Micro but I suspect there are so many reasons it would be rejected, that it's gets first place for the newest CrapStock site. Sunrise fishing on the Mississippi