How Some Dude's Flickr Photo Wound Up in 'Iron Man'
Filed under: Comic/Superhero/Geek, Images
Here's a cool story I came across today. How did the makers of Iron Man put together that montage detailing the rise of Tony Stark, Obadiah Stane, and Stark Industries? Apparently they did it at least in part by looking for nifty photos on the internet.
Jeremy Keith is "just" a web designer with a website and a Flickr account. This week, he posted a fun account of how team Iron Man found one of his Flickr photos -- a picture of his friend in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building -- decided they wanted to use it, and set about getting his permission. The best part: he ignored them for weeks. But apparently they really liked the photo, and hounded him for it. The second best part: they didn't know it was a photo taken in one of NASA's most famous facilities -- which is obviously a great fit for the film's subject matter. They thought it was "just some warehouse or something."
Anyway, good story, and I didn't see it around the movie blogs, so there you go. People do insane things for internet fame, but sometimes it just happens by accident, after a fashion. Remember this next time you put up a photo album and make it public.
[via Waxy]
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12-04-2008 @ 11:58AM
joits said...
its just good that they asked him... there are many other places that steal photos from flickr and actually pass them off as their own.
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12-04-2008 @ 12:41PM
Fullman said...
He "ignored them for weeks" because the Creative Commons license applied to the image gave *anyone* permission to use the image for any means as long as credit was given. He assumed the person contacting him (especially if they worked for a clearing house) would know what a Creative Commons license was and would just use.
So, it's not a negative as the concept of ignoring the request would imply, but good news all around. I've also met Jeremy at a past speaking engagement of his, so he's not "just" a web guy either. His popularity in the interactive/web industry causes his photos to be linked around quite often, due to the fact that CC is often applied. So the chances of the studios using his image are much higher than them using or wanting a photo that you or I had posted on Flickr. ;)
Tip for all photography hobbyists: read about the CC licensing, consider making some of your posted photos on Flickr available to all to use, and who knows, you might just see your images flashed on the screen, big or small!
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