this is an edit i did for a blog icon. i cropped “Saint Sebastian” by Guido Reni (1615), removed the arrow, and added top surgery scars. i figured i might as well post it for Art Reasons, and in case...

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My images are Creative Commons licensed, you can get the details here: https://t.co/h9X6oy1MFJ Basically: you can use them as drawing reference for just about everything and your don't really have to credit or show me if you're only looking at my pics to make your art.

Just looking at these pictures makes me think a stock photographer’s life must sometimes be quite fun. For example, photographing strange and bizarre scenes that at first seem utterly inappropriate but once given a headline almost make perfect sense. Toddler shoots Mom with loaded .45 found in her handbag or Jealous wife stabs husband over dirty texts from his lover or Shopping Mall Santa is a Serial Sex Perv! You get the idea. What I want to know is there a weird stock photography office where you can apply for this job? Do they have a photographic editor who sits chomping on a cigar like J. Jonah Jameson barking out demands for pix of “Granny Shoots Mugger” or “This Baby Smokes a Pack a Day Just like Daddy!” or “Evil Babysitters let Kid snort cocaine!” These pictures all scream National Enquirer, if not the Daily Mail. Not enough aliens or Elvis to be of much use to the Weekly World News. Andy Kelly is a video games journalist who, quite understandably, finds this kind of stock photography hilarious. One day while browsing through the “perfect, smiling models eating salad, high-fiving each other, and pointing at flipcharts in boardrooms” Kelly...

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