
So some gallery artist hanging at SCOPE just traced my friend Jason Levesque’s photos and called them his own.
Fuck plagiarists. Fuck tracers. Fuck privileged dickbags who think it’s okay to steal the work of people who aren’t in their niche and pass it off as their own in a major art fair. Jason’s work should be hanging in SCOPE, not Josafat Miranda’s
Walking around Art Basel, this weekend I came across a few pieces in the Scope show that looked pretty familiar. There was a sampling of 3 pieces presented by the Robert Fontaine Gallery all by the same artist. I recognized my photography in two of them and the third was a copy of my good friend Marie Killen’s photo. When i got home a quick google search reveled that nearly his entire body of work was comprised of other peoples photography. No credits were given, though that wouldn’t have put the artist in the clear. Josafat Miranda hadn’t bothered to change the composition or content in any appreciable way, even though that too would not have put him in the clear.
For me, photography was a hobby, something i did for fun. But it was art. These weren’t candids, they were carefully composed, edited photos. The model traveled, did her makeup and helped style the shoot. Put simply, it was a collaborative artistic endeavor by me and the model Tracy P.
Marie Killen is a wildly talented photographer living in North Carolina. Photography is her passion and craft and she does it extremely well. In my opinion she’s one of the best photographers in her genre. Her shoots require far more work and planning than mine ever did. She’s developed, through hard work and practice, a recognizable style.
What Josafat Miranda has done here reveals a total disrespect for photography as an art form. He’s quickly and with very little creative altercation, harvesting the yield of someone else’s hard work. What makes a painting strong, isn’t just the brush strokes and the rendering method, more, much more, than that is the composition, the subject matter and the hundreds of creative decisions that go into making an original piece of art.
The photos are much better in the first place and clearly the real deal
Holy shit why aren’t you following @SeinfeldToday on twitter yet?
The last one about the actual jerk store

Ebony and Ivory
Devil May Cry
Nice looking guns…reminds me of the Capulets

This bear cub was euthanized for being too friendly and curious of humans near the Terra Nova National Park in Newfoundland, Canada.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife says the bear was so friendly to humans that there was no other choice than to euthanize him. They had made an attempt previously to relocate the little bear but he came back. He liked people but more importantly, liked the food they gave him.
The killing of this beloved little bear cub brings up the whole debate of over “wildlife management.” Humans move into animal territory and complain about being surrounded by animals. We take away the land animals depend on for survival and we get mad that they are attracted to our food and our garbage.
To me, the death of this little bear is a sad reminder of how screwed up our relationship with animals really is.
Raging about this right now.
not even kidding, aha whaaat the fuck. I fucking hate everyone.
^Pretty much.
I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE.
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Little bear😢
True.If they call you when they’re out with their friends…
If they text you from the club….
Just know.
Know what? Tell me tell me please lol