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mcnasty aka steve spent is a boy, has been a member since October 6, 2005, has scored 18367 submissions, giving an average score of 1.51.

Nov 30 '05 by mcnasty

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Ripping off other peoples work :(

It really pees me off when I give someone a 5 thinking theyve done it themselves when i stumble upon it doing a google image search

for example i gave this guy a 5

http://www.threadless.com/submission/60208/Jarhead#lastcomment

and then found the original

http://www.bobotheseal.com/personal_work/concepts/UT-Soldier.jpg

grrrrrrrrrrr

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maddingo on Nov 30 '05 at 2:54pm

it really ticks me off when people don't put (for example in this case)

<a href="http://www.bobotheseal.com/personal_work/concepts/UT-Soldier.jpg">http://www.bobotheseal.com/personal_work/concepts/UT-Soldier.jpg</a>

in the first post with links they want people to look at... but that's just me.

riverxo on Nov 30 '05 at 2:55pm

of course, you can still withdraw your 5. just revote/re-click on the numbers.

jublin on Nov 30 '05 at 2:55pm

i think you can change your vote.

rudeboyzach on Nov 30 '05 at 2:57pm

That's a bummer.

Seriously.

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:00pm

i dint know you could change the score he deserves a big fat zer0

xiv on Nov 30 '05 at 3:02pm

i just changed my vote.

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:03pm

wahey 5 to a 0!

gerpander on Nov 30 '05 at 3:07pm

Hey, people will do anything to get a print or be popular. Nothing new, but ah so annoying.

Kerrn on Nov 30 '05 at 3:07pm

how did you find out about the real artist?

-k.

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:09pm

you mean youve not heard of bobo the seal?

Leslee on Nov 30 '05 at 3:11pm

Thanks for pointing it out, zeroed it.

maggock on Nov 30 '05 at 3:12pm

Man, he didn't even draw the brain and jar either: http://www.npl.co.uk/publications/einstein/images/brain_jar.jpg

ACANTHUS on Nov 30 '05 at 3:13pm

going to zero it because i want to be liked only gave it a 2 in the first place too many head replacements now apart from my idea of replacing a head with a panda head with heart tatoos down the side of the pandas skull

scoutti on Nov 30 '05 at 3:14pm

i'm really amazed by how you guys manage to find out about the real stuff!

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:14pm

ha ha!! good spot maggock

scoutti on Nov 30 '05 at 3:14pm

the brain, precisely.

green-means-go on Nov 30 '05 at 3:15pm

People: you're not going to get away with it. *Someone* on Threadless will have seen the original art and will call you out on it.

And then you're blackballed.

ACANTHUS on Nov 30 '05 at 3:16pm

jeez i'm a nasty geezer i gave it a zero anyway obviously have talent for spotting a steamer of a shit

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:16pm

next he'll be doing a tshirt of you on that bike on your profile

Kerrn on Nov 30 '05 at 3:19pm

the name sounds slightly familiar
but nope, dont know of him

were you just looking around at
bobo the seal sites and came upon the illustration
and were like" hmmm i just gave this a 5
oh the deception" ?

-k.

Luke... on Nov 30 '05 at 3:19pm

plaugerism = a plagerism plauge
which is what we seem to have running all over the net....it is such a shame that people feel they can steal to make a profit....
i wouldnt care if somebody took my work of the net made themselves a print and hung it on their wall.....but if they tried to sell it or make money off it somehow......that just gets me all a fired and riled up........
pirating a song = lost profits....ok not good, but not horrible
selling that song as your own music to make money....just downright horrible....punishable by threadless banishment.......
BANISHMENT I SAY....!

gameyy on Nov 30 '05 at 3:20pm

I wondered about that when I scored it. It was so well drawn and yet so hideously placed on the shirt... Shirt color was a bad choice, too. I doubt that anyone that's that good of an illustrator is so bad as layout and color.

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:22pm

no i voted a % on it couple of days ago thought what an illustrator, then saw a mag with bobo in did a google on him to check out his stuff and boom... theres jarheads body

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:25pm

oops shift stuck on the 5

gameyy on Nov 30 '05 at 3:26pm

Jusice is served.

gameyy on Nov 30 '05 at 3:27pm

...I hate not having an edit button.

Luke... on Nov 30 '05 at 3:31pm

everyone go leave him a nice comment....wink wink...

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:35pm

i like it great idea

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 3:37pm

hey nice comment you left for him luke

gerpander on Nov 30 '05 at 3:39pm

AWESOME!

Not.
I wonder howcome nobody has ripped off the greatest soldier of all time, the rogue trooper.
http://www.thecomicshop.com.au/covers/2000ad/progs/2000ad-228.jpg

gerpander on Nov 30 '05 at 3:40pm

Oh smap, was supposed to leave that at the sub comments.

d3d on Nov 30 '05 at 3:47pm

changed my vote too. i didn't know that worked so from now on everyone gets scored twice!

Stubby42 on Nov 30 '05 at 3:49pm

Nah this is one of my favorite pictures of a soldier, it just explains the period so well, oh its vietnam war:

http://www.vietnampix.com/bilder/sol1.jpg

I'm also fond of this one:

http://www.vietnampix.com/bilder/sol2.jpg

and this picture I love the stickers on the guys helmet:

http://www.vietnampix.com/bilder/fire1.jpg

The stickers on his helmet read: "Bomb Saigon Now" - "Bomb Hanoi Now" - "Bomb Disneyland Now" - "Bomb Everything".

mcnasty on Nov 30 '05 at 5:15pm

is this now a my favourite war image blog?

stickymike on Nov 30 '05 at 6:52pm

its so weird cause the day before this got put up, I drew a guy wearing a cosby sweater with a jar for a head, and was thinking about submitting it, then I saw this and was like...well someone beat me to it i guess

sucks to find out hes a POS

good work though

mcnasty on Dec 02 '05 at 11:29am

please leave a nice comment for this image burgular!

Rockslide on Dec 02 '05 at 12:25pm

Bobo the Seal is awesome! And I feel sorry for him getting ripped off, just like all the other awesome illustrators that get ripped off, with the culprit thinking no one will ever know such an obscure reference. I've been seeing Bobo's work for a couple years over at www.conceptart.org. I know that a couple of the threadless artists are also conceptart.org participants, so if you try to rip off any of them, you will be found.

rudeboyzach on Dec 02 '05 at 12:31pm

Did you see this sub

http://www.threadless.com/submission/60403/Scaredy_Cat

More stolen stuff...

bluemagenta on Dec 02 '05 at 12:35pm

it's amazing to be original even if you suck * even you suck real bad there is always somebody to like it but if it's not yours there's nobody there for you. not even a dude...

arethiel on Dec 02 '05 at 12:40pm

heh. your words help a lot bluemagenta! I feel so cruddy for my poor designs and getting rejected, but at least I'm original. yay!

bluemagenta on Dec 02 '05 at 12:42pm

originals never loose ;)

Stevethegreat on Dec 02 '05 at 12:46pm

arethiel, you're stuff isn't that bad.........you just need a really good idea.....I think you'll get better as you test the field and stuff

solocosmo on Dec 02 '05 at 12:55pm

im glad i saw this 5 to 0..

im so bummed when people steal artwork.

Stevethegreat on Dec 02 '05 at 1:20pm

I found a new one:
http://www.threadless.com/submission/60117/Loveblower

wasn't who i am debatably ripped off as well?

Threadless Police on Dec 02 '05 at 1:25pm

Does it look similar????

http://www.threadless.com/submission/60710/Empty_Promises

to this:

http://store.iamolympic.com/images/full/untitledoriginal_3.jpg

msm on Dec 03 '05 at 11:50am

it's called google image search ... do it before you ever submit a design ... just to make sure another person hasn't already had your genius idea ... in some cases, the google image search isn't necessary because you know you're a scammer, right Jarhead?

msm on Dec 03 '05 at 11:52am

or should I say, right AFAmenaza05?

javguerre on Dec 03 '05 at 12:11pm

people think they can just cut and paste and nobody will be the wiser. people also think that anything on the internet is there for the taking. people are dumb.

Pico on Dec 03 '05 at 12:31pm

I agree with javguerre, unfortunately :o( Many of the submissions here were obviously traced from photos or they used the photo itself with super high contrast. Thankfully when the original is found people usually e-beat the person into the ground.

However, it's rare to come across a truly original design. Almost everything has been done before, so it doesn't bother me when I see a "copied idea" (assuming the drawing itself is original). You can't copyright ideas for this reason, after all 8o)

javguerre on Dec 03 '05 at 12:33pm

yeah, sometimes, people do coincidentally have ideas that are almost exactly alike, if not identical. there are so many people on Earth that such incidents are inevitable

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