[Cialug] Meeting next week - topic idea

[Josh More]

They're from stock photos.  Lots of them come from istockphoto, but
Getty probably has some too.

They are mostly people that a photographer got to sign a waiver.  The
picture people get paid nothing, the photographer usually gets between
$1 and $100, and the marketing people get to use them wherever they
like.

A lot of businesses prefer to use stock photos than actual employees,
because actual employees tend to have personalities and occasionally get
into trouble.  It really sucks when you have a booth that cost you $50k
and is covered with the face of your former head of product development
who is now serving 10-50 years.



-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701

>>> Todd Walton  01/19/10 3:36 PM >>>
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Josh More
<morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> Anyone else want to volunteer for a lightning talk that may or may not
> 100% truthful?

I won't be there.  But I want someone to explain where picture people
come from.  View this site, for instance:

http://www.navyfederal.org/mobile/mobiledemo.html  (In the Beginning
Was the Command Line)

See the pretty picture person?  Her kind exists everywhere.
Wellmark.com employs a *lot* of them.  They're on
http://www.dmmta.com/.  Most universities or colleges put them on
their promotional materials.  You'll see them on the sides of busses
sometimes, and on billboards wearing expensive watches.

Who are these people?  Do they exist in some alternate universe?  Are
they from cyberspace?  How do they get these jobs?  Is their a
consulting firm somewhere that hires these picture people?  They're
always attractive and clean and so... non-specific.  That's a
hallmark.  If they're wearing a company logo then it's probably some
real person here in the real world.  The picture people don't wear
logos.

--
Todd
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