Vladi Wizard's Musings

Well... not really "new".... Been doing a bit of stuff with my Flickr account . If people have been keeping up with me there, you will see that I will upload a ton of images, which will then disappear, to be replaced by even more eye-candy. Well, will tell you a secret. Those other images have NOT disappeared. No, what I have done is moved them to my PRIVATE area, where only FRIENDS will have access to them. Now, these will not be 360 friends, but of Flickr friends, which are of a different sort, I suppose. Within Flickr there are several settings. There is PUBLIC and there is PRIVATE. Within the private section, there are 3 settings. Private that only myself can see... Private that only Friends can see.. and Private of which only Family can see. Much of what I have is of the Private, Friends Only type. That means, that if you want to see material that I had to pull from The Lair (for example, A-Emi's work), you will have to join up Flickr (it's free, don't wo...

Well... some of my images that I sent up to Flickr violated the TOS there and I got a nasty gram from the folks there because some of my images violated another person's copyright. Acckkkk!! Never my intention! Thus I quickly scrambled in a mad panic to remove everything from my flickr account!! Then... I did some thinking. All the images that I got I have gathered from the web, for free. Most, if not all, of the images that I collect have been taken from newsgroups, of which someone else has taken from another site and then uploaded to the newsgroup. And many, if not most, are 5 years old, or older! Many are 10 years old! It's not as if the original photographer and the like have not had time to profit from these images. Anyway, I have not altered any of the images. I do not do like many and crop out the copyright and/or the artists 'signatures'. Indeed, I very very rarely rename the images (beyond the adding numerical date at times to those that are just called ...