The Great Architect

Seems a little weird to expect anyone to read this as a first entry, so I’ll keep it short and to the point. My thoughts on starting this? Well, everyone else has, so I didn’t want to get ‘behind the times’.  I’m still more than a little rusty on all things technical and web related, but hopefully this will all start to get more exciting and funky the more I use it.

Well, where to start. One of the main reasons behind this whole blog thing for me has been the fact that several contributors to the www.B3ta.com website – digital arts and photo manipulation aplenty – have been finding their handiwork plastered all over the media in general, often without permission, but more importanly, with their creator ‘tag’ missing.

A keen ‘unofficial contributor’ to many a lad’s mag, daily newspaper and suchlike is the very talented Beau Bo D’Or, who has a blog here: http://www.bbdo.co.uk/blog/ and I recommend checking it out.

One particular magazine with which both he and I, and many others among the B3ta community are having trouble with, is “ZOO” magazine, who have recently started printing photoshopped images ’sent in’ by the public, and having the creator’s ‘tag’ removed somewhere in the transition between being found on the internet and being sent in to the Magazine… Funny that.

Beau is a champion for the cause, having missed out on a “Generation Game’s” worth of prizes given to the public by the Magazine, he has started contacting them to at least get credit where credit is due, and have the ‘tags’ remain on the work. I myself have had the best part of 10 or so images ‘lifted’ and printed in just that one magazine over the past year, and up until the last couple of months or so, all tags had been left on them. So, where does this leave all us budding photoshoppers? Well, hopefully Beau will get some good result from it. Check out his blog – address above – and follow with interest.

Right, well, enough of all that, what sort of photoshopping do I do? Well, on B3ta, I have the username ‘The Great Architect’ and have recently been asked by Site Owner Rob ‘The Ginger Fuhrer’ Manuel to submit a couple of pieces I’ve done to the up and coming “B3ta Sick Joke Book” – available from all good stores if you badger them enough, or available to pre-order on Amazon for a few Earth Poundingtons, and ideal for your Granny for a last minute Christmas gift.  Now, don’t get me wrong. Not all of my ‘work’ in the photoshopping area is in ‘bad taste’ but every now and then something comes out which people may put in that category. I’ll let you be the judge with these two recent additions of mine…

..it’s not that hard to keep the ‘tag’ on either, is it “ZOO”?