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God bless the web
26Apr2007 Filed under: GlowsticksSo I was reading this article about underground perfumeries, and then I clicked over to this article about piperazines, and what do I find half-way down the page? A picture of myself.
It’s extra funny because the picture was taken when I was mockingly dressed up for a candyraver-themed costume party. And now the picture is being used as an authentic illustration of a raverhood. Oh, meta-media. You make a fool of us all!
(Also, I forgot how ugly photo galleries were before Flickr. Poor sad old photo galleries!)
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Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, is in bookstores now.
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Tonya
April 27th, 2007 at 5:57 am
How funny! I swear, I lived a big portion of my 20’s bouncing from rave to rave. My ultra-concervative, millitary trained, brother-in-law marveled at my pink and purple hair and my pants with shiny reflective material and built-in glo-stick holders! haha!! He told me I would regret my choice of style as I got older and looked back. Truth is, I don’t. I cherish those days of bad fashion, chemical smiles, and dancing mania. What he doesn’t realize is that my cloths were a product of my freaky nature leaking out from the insides. And, I’ll always have my freaky tendencies no matter what I’m wearing.
Gabrielle Fine
April 27th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Isn’t that using a picture out of context? But I guess you’re cool with it so it doesn’t matter (it might be a problem if you felt like you were being misrepresented, but I gather you don’t mind being held up as an example of a raver. Heh.)
Ariel
April 27th, 2007 at 8:54 am
It’s out of context AND without permission, but meh: the use doesn’t offend me, so I’m not too worried about it.
lily
April 27th, 2007 at 8:56 am
ok that is AWESOME
amy.leblanc
April 27th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
OMG. hilarious. i’ve written before about how i keep finding images/video of myself being used without my permission in contexts i’m not actually really into… so i empathize. it’s an incredibly cute photo of you, so i can see why it’s popular.
DOUG.
April 27th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
You can buy that photo on Getty Images. I used it on a sales flyer last week.
Kell
April 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
That’s great: you ARE the rave scene. Unwittingly and ironically, but still…
I have a bunch of Black Phoenix Alchemy perfumes: one of my clients has a huge box of it and is always concocting brews and foisting them off on me in little tubes.
magda
April 28th, 2007 at 6:02 am
How hilarious! But oops!
I’m the editor of the site in question - it’s a hobby site, me and my friends have a lot of fun doing it, we really have no agenda other than to build an unstoppable army of powerful women which is barely an agenda at all, but with a come-what-may wednesday deadline we tend to throw things like legality out of the window when it comes to finding the perfect pic for an article.
As it happens party pills have somehow managed to make big news in the UK this week so the piperazine article’s getting a lot of hits…
Just say the word, and we’ll take that pic down, promise!
magda
April 28th, 2007 at 6:06 am
In fact, just had to add - this has happened once before. A girlfriend was reading one of our articles on how to survive the subway/underground, and came across a promotional shot of her boyfriend at the time (the third tallest man in Britain) from a promotional Tango ad. He was sitting on an undergroundtrain wearing a dress. She was somewhat surprised.
God bless the web!
imaginary dana
April 28th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Definitely an adorable photo.
On a related note: I had brunch with a friend of mine who recently got engaged and she said “I just saw you on this wedding website, wacky brides or something?”
Word is getting around!
helenjane
April 30th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
I remember the Looky! Yay for the Looky!