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“Your dead friends are being used to fuel the machine as we speak. It is a vain and disgusting thing. They take us and they use us against eachother. To turn eachother to coal for their furnace.” - MilliGraeme
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ALTWith one “hip-hop” sleeve and one “electro” sleeve displaying the logos of some of the artists Mehdi collaborated with, this jacket symbolizes the bridges he built between these two worlds and celebrates his invaluable contributions to contemporary pop culture.
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well, what is the library for if not for public services!! I’ll happily answer here for anyone else who wants to chip in! The more people who do, the more artists getting the credit they deserve. I’m really glad that you appreciate it 🥹
Okay, so there’s some awesome art I want to reblog, but there’s no artist credit underneath! Oh no!! Here’s what I do:
- I check the OP - sometimes the OP puts credit that gets removed. I also check the OPs blog, and occasionally discover that they ARE the artist, and they just like the aesthetic of no caption. Cool 👍 if that’s the case, I reblog as usual. If the OP had a source that got removed, I search the source to verify its accuracy before adding it back on to my reblog.
- If the above step doesn’t lead to a source, my next step is to scan through the reblogs with comments or tags to see if anyone else has sourced it. If they do, I also verify that source for accuracy before adding it on. You can also check the comments for the same.
- When there’s no luck with previous reblogs uncovering a source, it’s time to search! If the art has a distinct signature or style, I may try to do a written search query. But, more often than not, I make use of a reverse image search engine. Google reverse image search has definitely declined in quality in recent years, but it still has probably the largest database of images to run searches against. It also poses privacy issues, so if you don’t want the Man at Google to know you’re looking at porny art, maybe not the best option for you 😅 Tineyes is another alternative with better privacy standards - it’s also better at turning up exact image results than Google, which can be a blessing and a curse. Sometimes people edit art before they repost it, and Google tends to show a lot of similar images, which can help you turn up the true original. However, it can also mean you’re doing more sifting through images that look SIMILAR. Bing reverse image search also touts better privacy and promises not to use images uploaded there to train AI models. However, it’s Microslop so I’m not sure how deeply I believe their promises; further, I haven’t used it personally for this purpose. Tineyes has a web extension so that you can search while browsing on web without saving photos to your device. That’s probably the worst part of this process - I have to do a lot of photo storage cleanup bc I download images to search them.
- a loooottt of the search results will be, similarly to the Tumblr post, other art thieves reposting uncredited art. I ignore those at first in search of an artist profile website or Instagram. If I can turn those up, I use them! If not…
- Reddit posts of unsourced art are a good backup, as I often find someone comments the artist there. Also, stolen art is such an issue there that a lot of Subreddits will set up their own bots to source art, so sometimes that’s where I end up finding a lead.
- When I have a lead of artist name, I look for a reliable source of an artist website or profile with the art that I’m looking to source.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have further questions or clarifications. Happy sourcing!