Cite your sources.
Click below:
To me, it's just as important as mache and paint.
Just saying.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Friendly Creative Reminder
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Instagram
ABOUT ME:
Krampus
Mr. Jones
The Unheard
Swamp Foetus
Parts Rotten:
Rotten Writing:
The Haunt & Scarecrows:
High Noon Records
Author Lesley Bannatyne
Blog Tags:
Blog Archive:
-
▼
2011
(1048)
-
▼
February
(122)
- The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill
- Scary Stories Treasury
- Plump
- Prometheus
- Horned
- Now Playing: The Social Network
- Foggyfathoms
- Now Playing: Ruh
- Orchard Smudge Pots
- Pirates And Skeletons
- Lantern Lit
- Prof. Spectre
- Demonic
- Sam
- House Alive
- More Gravestone Girls
- Night Music
- A Farm Picture
- Dead Island
- Home Sweet Home
- Mycobacterium Lepromatosis
- Rustic Elegance
- Autumn Bonsai
- Daylight Cemetery
- Wool Of Bat, And Tongue Of Dog
- Cider
- Owl
- Monster Music
- Now Playing: Who Blew Out The Northern Lights?
- Winter Moon
- Nightmare Fuel
- The Nutshell Studies Of Unexplained Death
- Shrouded
- Chains Forged In Life
- Yamato
- Monstrum
- Apollo 18
- Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!
- Safari Anomalous
- Beasts
- Implements
- Parts
- Green And Blue
- Waterfront
- Flameless
- Terror-ium
- Rural Lighting
- Friendly Creative Reminder
- Bulb Terrariums
- Now Playing: The Hours
- Child Clowns
- Oddities
- Los Angeles Haunted Hayride
- Halloween Frog
- They're Drilling Holes In My Damn Teeth
- A Toast
- The Haunted Garden
- Pumpkin Head Storage Tank
- Cassowaries
- Taphonomy
- The Mushroom Diary
- Metallic Specimens
- Cold Blood
- Craniate
- Carrion Farm 2010
- More From CFX
- Intestinal Couch
- Charlie
- Kingwood Asylum
- Swamp Water
- Wraith
- Ghastly
- Pranks
- Millennium
- There's Disturbing
- Color And Shadow
- Leafy
- The Living And The Dead
- Robertson Family Cemetery
- Locked
- Apothecary
- Now Playing: The Fly
- Glowing
- The Fly
- Hanged By The Neck Until Dead
- Details
- Broken
- Missing Autumn
- Buried In The Woods
- Hi-Res Witch House
- Frankenstein's Army
- Remote Viewing
- O
- Slow Day
- The Great Showdowns
- Black Death
- Cyclops
- Funeral
- Target Has Always Been Cool
- Happy Laugh Clown
-
▼
February
(122)
17 comments:
Oh no.... not again!? Some one trying to take credit for something original???
They look pretty cool too.
Not being preachy...just reminding is all.
Rot you know how I stand on this kinda stuff and I'm right there with ya. But preachy? Nah, nothing preachy about asking for a little common courtesy from others in the community.
They are pretty cool looking (rubs hands).
Yes, they are cool looking, but credit is needed where credit is due. When I did my own version of the Witch Jars I made sure I put in the title "Pumpkinrot inspired".
Well at least we true Pumpkinrot followers now where it originated from.
Your Halloween evil goodness spreads throughout the Halloween community....
Sometimes plagiarism is not the best compliment.
At least I freely admit when I rip someone's idea-unless I have a senior moment and forget!
Worth mentioning that even the music/dialogue is based on the music in my 2008 Hollowmen video by Jon Glassett.
I could not even count how many props I have seen people do that are just copies of your work.
Yeah...they look exceptionally...familiar! Seriously, is it really that hard to say "this piece was inspired by..."? Nothing wrong with adapting other's ideas, especially with yard haunting, but just let people know where the idea came from. It's a fine line between homage and rip-off, and the easiest way to make the distinction is giving credit where it is due.
These are very cool...
While I have no doubt that these are direct rip-offs of something you made, I would like to play devil’s advocate a moment and say, the pumpkin-headed scarecrow is not a new idea. When I first saw your Pumpkinrot scarecrow, for example, I thought it was a cool combo of the Sleepy Hollow ‘crow and the fugly cemetery pumpkins from Pumpkinhead. Your zombies (for me anyway), always remind me of the muddy corpses at the end of Poltergeist (that’s a huge compliment, by the way). You probably didn’t even know you were making these homages. This stuff just creeps quietly into your mind and seeps into everything you make.
The primary inspiration for my pumpkin-headed Halloween props is the artwork that Denslow did for Baum’s Marvelous Land of Oz in 1904. It’s a childhood nostalgia thing for me. My secondary inspiration is my lifelong obsession with dead trees. Add to that every Halloween-twinged TV Show, cartoon and movie I’ve ever seen. Add to that list every single scarecrow I’ve ever seen since I was born. Add to that list every person that ever carved or mached a pumpkin and posted it on the internet, including you (in a big way), of course. It’s just too big a list to even attempt.
I don’t know the guy that made those props or the props they’re copied from (sorry, I’m unable to get here as often as I’d like), and I’m sure you’re right about deserving credit, I’m just saying (mostly because I enjoy being contrary for absolutely no reason at all), that inspiration comes from many places.
Many, many places.
Come on! Even the title?! Sigh.
I saw an old post of yours about a near identical etsy shop. A complete rip-off. Awful. But what happened to that? I could never find it! Did they shut it down?
The guy changed his etsy shop around after that and developed his own style. Which was cool.
DGallow,
I called this guy out because there's really no disputing where his idea came from. Even the name. Had they been groundbreakers or a pumpkin-headed scarecrow, I would just have featured them like I do all other cool props.
In the end, it's really up to the haunter. He knows where the idea came from. It's really that simple.
Oh, I believe you, Rot. I've seen many people try to make direct copies of your props.
I think I just wanted to blah-blah because I can't sleep today.
I'll wander off now...
Off the bandwagon here, but they are done in a refreshingly different style than yours.
It's as if the guy who made the original ground-breaker went around claiming that everyone who made ground-breakers was ripping him off. Sometimes you establish a meme, you should be so lucky (talented! (skilled!))!!
Jeremy said: I usually try not to get involved, but this is pretty lame. How hard is it to say "inspired by pumpkinrot". It is obvious that these props are copys. The style is pure rot. Immitation is a form of flattery, but only if the original creator is acknowledged. I am glad you call these people out. Its all about manners.
Mantan,
Like I said before. It's all about what's going on in that creative process. Would the finished work have existed had the artist/haunter/painter/musician/sculptor not seen it elsewhere?
That's the easiest question to answer.
Hey Rot. I couldn't agree more about giving credit where it's due (your a huge inspiration to me and I've borrowed your style as well). After seeing this I went over to the Hauntforum and he did mention you and Stolloween as his inspiration. However still think showin' a little love in the video should've been addressed.
Take care,
Tim (dubbax3)
Post a Comment