DOs & DON’Ts – A REFRESHER

After we ran this post about submitting Dos and Don’ts a couple years ago, there was an amazing period where folks took our words to heart and most of the emails we got contained big, in-focus, and interesting enough photos for us to work with. Unfortunately this honeymoon has long-since ended, and while plenty of people still send us great pictures to use, they are drowning in a sea of blown-out 35k submissions that look like they were taken with a cell phone off the screen of someone else’s cell phone.

We admit we were high-balling it when we said shots had to be over half a megabyte to be printable. The real limit is more like 250K and can even dip a smeedgen below that depending on dimensions. Still, the bigger you can send it the easier it is for us to zero in on the important details and trim away all the distracting fat(s).

Otherwise all the rules from before still apply, but we must make one addendum that we would like to believe is unnecessary. And that is: Please only send us pictures you’ve taken.

You can’t just copy something on the internet into an email and then claim it’s a shot of your friend or aunt. Well, obviously you can, but it’s like sending us a Harper’s story and claiming you wrote it or telling some girl at a bar that you served in Iraq. If it slips through the cracks, it may feel like you’ve pulled one over on some dumb asshole, but ultimately you’re the one who actually is an asshole.We agree this guy and his “just the basics” approach to fashion is both fun and unsettling to stare at, but it is slightly less so than when Wierd records used it on a party flier two years ago and far less so than the first time someone forwarded it to us many moons prior. Same goes for other people’s MySpace pictures, shit from people’s Flickr accounts, and that shot of the tranny with the bottle of Hennessy stuck up his ass.

The one exception we can make is for photos you’ve physically found, but they have to be actual photographic prints (I suppose you could also stumble across a disc with a bunch of pictures on it, but that’s not very likely) and you can’t “find” them at an art gallery. OK that’s it and please keep up the good weird-shit-to-us-sending!

xOXOx,
VICE