Google Image Search Fun
// June 16th, 2011 // Notes From The Editor, Tear Sheets
Google have just launched some new search functions for pictures.
You can find it at images.google.com and there’s more of an explanation at www.google.com/insidesearch/searchbyimage.html
Give it a photo and it will find other copies of it on the web and also similar images – for some definition of similar.
I tried it with a few of my own shots that I thought might be online in a few places and the results were a bit of a surprise.
Guns
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The first picture is of actor Noel Clarke in his role in the short film-noir ‘Reign of Death’. I took this photo for the production company It’s My Shout and the BBC. I graded it to black and white because I knew the film would be mono and supplied it and a bunch of other images including one which the movie’s poster was partially based on. I expected this to be quite widely used and was pleased to see it on IMDB etc.A few links:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1468501760/nm0164929
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/09/06/reign-of-death-the-noel-clarke-saga-continues/
http://www.andreaxmas.com/index.asp?id=7,2010
http://downtownrpg.blogspot.com/2011/04/as-caracteristicas-dos-personagens-de.html
http://lascreeningroom.net/2011/05/reign-death/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/07/10/video-noel-clarke-in-reign-of-death/
http://liveforfilms.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/reign-of-death-noel-clarkes-sci-fi-pulp-noir-detective-short-film/
http://www.clashmusic.com/news/noel-clarke-s-sci-fi-noir-project
http://www.ulike.net/Kidulthood
http://marcaprice.com/tag/steampunk/
http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/showthread.php?20497-VIDEO-Noel-Clarke-in-Reign-of-Death
…and…
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A few years ago I uploaded a silhouette of my friend Claire with a red Mohican to istockphoto then promptly forgot about it. I’ve since seen it used in a bunch of places including an iPhone case and Google images search helped me find it in three more places. The first is the funniest, as the cover of a music compilation called ‘iSweat Fitness’ with the tagline, “From Band-Aid to Live-Aid the decade of music that gave birth to MTV, Madonna and mullets! Very high-energy at 145 BPM — a great beat for Power Walking or Running on the treadmill or outside or for any other Cardio workouts.”!!!Then there’s the hair salon using it to advertise their services – but she did this hairstyle herself in my front room!
The third use… after reading some of it I can’t even be bothered to really work out what Sparklife is.
Some links:
http://isweatmusic.com/product.php?productid=16158
http://www.paxsalon.com/
http://community.sparknotes.com/2010/03/02/a-sparkler-goes-back-in-time
Roses!
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Slash is a rock god. There have probably been tens of thousands of photos taken of him over the years so I was happy that when Velvet Revolver played Cardiff I managed to make a distinctive image.It seems a blogger (from Finland?) got the idea that this unusual shot was somehow from the game Guitar Hero III, “This is the real look of Slash in the Guitar hero 3:legends of rock game. He is actually from the famous band Guns and Roses.” A Spanish language game website and then Metal Injection picked up on it from there. I occasionally read metal Injection but hadn’t noticed this story before.
None of these sites have permission to use the image, I assume they got it from my Flickr stream, where its copyright is clearly noted! They’ve even cropped off my logo.
Those links:
http://guitar-hero-3.gemzies.com/show/entry_19262/Guitar_Hero_III_Slash_Characte.html
http://www.gamesblog.it/post/5030/guitar-hero-3-lelenco-completo-delle-canzoni-non-confermato
http://www.metalinjection.net/videogames/slash-to-appear-as-a-character-in-guitar-hero-3-video-game