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A twenty year old photograph of me has gone viral
The other day I was on Twitter and someone posted a picture. This picture was of a boy drawing on a dog. That boy was me, about twenty years ago.
The dog was called Lola, my grandparents' English bull terrier. She was the softest dog I have ever met, as demonstrated by the photo. The pens were washable, the dog was white, it made perfect sense. Needless to say the dog needed a bath afterwards which she was less than pleased about. My sister found the picture a few months ago and posted it on Facebook. It was my profile picture for a while. I don't know about my sister's settings, but my profile pictures are public. I don't think any of my others are.
Anyway, I contacted the person who tweeted it. He said he had found it on stumbleupon. Their source was Odd Stuff Magazine, who I had never heard of before, but it looks like some crappy online magazine where they post those naff lists of faux-inspirational photos of marines hugging their kids with badly sub-edited captions. Here is my picture. http://oddstuffmagazine.com/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.html/attachment/29898 I emailed them asking for the source and this was their reply.
Hi ..
it was taken from a russian news agency .. can't disclose the real location .. sorry about that . .
but the pic is great :)
Thanks
Jaspal
Admin
I don't know where to go from here. This is the strangest thing to happen to me in a long time.
Why the crap are you abusing that dog Vine?
Don't make me repeat myself
They were washable
oh my god that is good
i love you av
<3
Horrible sofa
Should have drawn on that instead.
It was the 80s
Everyone had one
Brilliant pyjamas!
You could ask them to expand on the quite vague
a russian news agency angle.
Yeah that's what I was thinking
were you drawing
anti-Soviet propaganda on the dog?
Russian 'news agency'?
??? ?????? ???????????!
that was supposed to say something funny in Russian
hinting that you were being watched by the KGB.
Russ something funny ian
Say what you see
This is exactly the reason why I don't draw on dogs
this is exactly the reason why my dad's new bull terrier will soon be green
It starts out with a piece of paper, it finishes with full canine art work.
It's the reason I'm considering stopping drawing on dogs
Does this mean that this explanation will now go viral? Are we going to be famous?
If so, HI MUM! And more importantly, HI ANDYVINE'S MUM, LAST NIGHT WAS LOADS OF FUN!
That dog clearly wishes he was dead
you're history's greatest monster
Why would a male dog be called Lola
YOU'RE history's greatest monster
damn
you got me there.
SHE does look depressed though
It is/was a transvestite dog. LOLA. L.O.L.A. LOLA
La la la Lola....
She had quite a few phantom pregnancies
I hate to say it but from the size of her nipples she may have been in the midst of one :-/
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that photo could be the front cover to a 7" on Underwater Peoples
(thats a compliment)
Such a expert manipulator of the media.
I bet 20 years ago your cold calculating mind predicted the unstoppable rise of the Internet and knew that the morons that used it would lap up a picture of a cute little boy drawing on a dog. This is your dream come good, admit it.
The caption was 'Future artist'
Well use some of my more recent work then. It's still dog-themed but less abstract
LOL(A)
I saw that picture fucking AGES ago.
I mean it must have been over a year, I'm sure.
So all I can say is: good effort.
Seriously?
What the actual fuck is happening
Seriously. Or there's a similar picture
It was in a list of, well, that sort of photo on Digg or somesuch.
Honestly it feels like over a year but I guess it could have only been a couple of months ago?
that's 14 dog months
maybe that's why you're confused.
:-)
I bet my cousin's got a copy of it
She put loads of old pics of my grandparents up on Facebook a few years ago and she probably doesn't bother setting her profile to private, I bet it's amongst them
I did a similar thing few years back, except it was on a human and my art medium of choice back then was
knives. Still, it got some international news agency coverage as well.
<3
*laughsnort*
good work vine, good work.
as deadwrong said, pretty fucking cool pj's.
Well...
i guess it depends if you feel the photo going viral can do any serious damage to your brand.
If not, there's no further action to take beyond a bit of a laugh with your friends and family.
If so, sure, hire a solicitor, issue a C&D Order, get yourself a new suit and prepare to spend thousands of pounds you don't have taking a couple of Russian students to court.
Of course not, it's a great pic
It's just a bit creepy
Can't disclose the real location
Just popping in to say that I had that exact pyjama top.
Cheers.
if you google kid drawing on a dog
you're the first image that comes up
congrats man
IF
:D
gosh, you're lovely :)
(never seen the pic before though. will have a think about legal stuff once my brain thaws. i'll do as much as I can for free if it's something you want to pursue, although ask yourself what you really want to achieve and what harm has been suffered.... because that's what any competent authority will ask)
:)
I know it's not damaging in the slightest, I love the picture but it's just proper weird not knowing how people have got hold of it. Love/hate the internet
Odds are...
someone's uploaded it to a social networking site at some point.
Maybe just find who did that and cut their face?
Cut my sister's face
Gotcha
I offer some pretty competitive rates for face cutting if needed?
and if you find anyone cheaper, let me know, I'll cut their face.
For the record
I don't *really* want my sister's face cut, but I appreciate the offer
Oh ffs!
I suppose you expect me to be an expert in uncutting faces now as well.
I would just think
WOW LOOK THAT'S ME ON THE INTERNET!! And then let it go. I'm a bit jealous. I might casually post photos of me as a child on all of the internet.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/drawing-on-your-dog-bu
http://magnonsmeanderings.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/patience.html
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/boy-drawing
http://www.clevelandseniors.com/family/pet-crayon-dog.htm
http://uncommonpics.com/pic-5104-Kid-drawing-on-a-dog
http://pinterest.com/pin/75857574943109004/
Sinister
the 2nd one is from almost 2 years ago
I bet my cousin has uploaded it as well then
So fucking weird
Okay, glad I'm not going mad about having seen it ages ago.
Buzzfeed links back to this
http://random.terminally-incoherent.com/post/84261616/via-halbot-haluze-sk
Saying it was uploaded 3 years ago.
Ha ha
writtenbylight reblogged this from terminally-incoherent and added:
Let the world be your canvas. Is this an allegory of documentary photography…the photographer writing their narrative upon the lives of others…discuss…
marsz reblogged this from whatson and added:
lets all draw on dogs
If you're actually curious about where it came from
You could tell that website that if they don't do better than "russian news agency" then they're liable for secondary copyright infringement.
It'd be a right pain in the arse/waste of time and money to pursue but it'd probably shit them up a bit.
I just hope you've never made a sex tape av.
oh shit
So long as he hasn't shared it with his sister, then he's probably in the clear
If he was showing his sister his own skinny flick he should be asking questions regardless of whether it turned up on the internet.
it's fine as long as it doesn't have a dog in it
Prude.
you don't look 20 in that photo
A similar thing has happened to me before.
Years ago, whilst in college, I made a shit student film in the same vein as Austin Powers which required me to dress up in 70's clothing. A few years later whilst browsing the internet an advertisement for one of those gadget websites popped up. The advert consisted of a .Gif of me striking some sort of disco pose with the words *don't be stuck in the past, be part of the future* or something similar before changing to a picture of remote control helicopters and the like and the name of the companies website.
I was going to try chasing them up about it, but I was too busy looking at Dial-Up porn.
[/CoolStoryBro]
See that's much worse
If they were trying to sell shit with this picture I'd be well pissed off but as it is it's just twee Tumblr fodder. Besides that, it would probably be more difficult to prove ownership of a family photo than a student film I guess
That picture you're drawing is awful.
So's your face
I'm on the front of a book
wasn't asked.
What is the book about?
The pens were washable, the dog was white, it made perfect sense.
:D
could this become a thing?
like planking or whatever?
People start drawing on dogs then put their pictures on social media websites?
How do you make a thing a thing?
I need to start a thing.
Theo?
dogging?
Everything about this is quite weird
You need to draw on your dog with Tipp-Ex
You could say that
http://andyandyandyvine.blogspot.com
I realised last night (while, er, walking my dog) that my work seems to have a recurring canine theme.
Lola was a cool dog, beyond stupid though. People were terrified of her but she was the soppiest dog in the world. The window cleaner was scared shitless of her because she would stand by the patio doors and bark at him but it was only coz she wanted to be his friend. As soon as they let her out she rolled on her back for him to rub her belly.
My gran would give her biscuits all the time and claim she only gave the dog the broken ones, but then sat there breaking the biscuits to give to her. My grandad was insanely talented, he used to make dolls houses and remote control aeroplanes. His dream was to go kite surfing. I have a coffee table made by him out of offcuts of wood shaped to look like an eagle.
Thanks man
I like how the dog looks like she has an enormous cigarette in her mouth
She was always more of a pipe smoker than a cigarette girl
That's not actually what 'gone viral' means, though
That's "has been posted on a website".
*lots and lots and lots of websites
Repeatedly.
Over an extended period of time.
With no initial concerted push to make it happen.
That circle around the eye is making me uncomfortable
What with kids and their dyspraxia. I'm glad you managed to stay inside (outside) the lines
"Dat Dog Look like Skeloten Dog Now Bro"
Classic Mr Fun living up to his name
http://oddstuffmagazine.com/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.html/attachment/29898?replytocom=20788#respond
He's right you know
Long dead
amazing scenes
andyvine
Dat Dog Look like Skeloten Dog Now Bro
Dat Dog Look like Skeloten Dog Now Bro
Dat Dog Look like Skeloten Dog Now Bro
Dat Dog Look like Skeloten Dog Now Bro
love how the dog is just like 'whatever'
belongs on here: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbellassai/33-dogs-and-cats-that-just-dont-know-anymore-6z51
Dat Dog Look like Skeloten Dog Now Bro
17th March 2009
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/cat-tattooing-is-big-in-moscow
Rebuild.
this is incredible
OH MY GOD, my friend shared this on her wall and this photo was used with the hint that the boy in the photo was mauled later by the dog, look
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=103475574222&set=a.74715829222.71621.742609222&type=1&theater
This was the caption I saw next to the photo.
Warning:
If you are an owner of a dog that belongs to a 'dangerous breed' category, and you also have a small child, please heed this warning.
Do Not leave your dog with the child unattended.
A short period of time was enough for the following to happen.
It could have been prevented. — with Tuesday Sutton, Kristi Thurman and Julie Davis.
I think you've misread it :D
The implication is that it's a "dangerous breed" (as if that's even a thing) but she's still a soft dog. You expect to see a kid mauled, but it's a dog being drawn on. No?
o fuck
Ha ha
Also I've seen this picture with this caption probably pushing 50 times the past couple of days now. It's weird how it comes and goes in popularity
DUDE
that link shows it has been shared 40k times.
Shitting hell
fuck fuck fuck
what a dick!
So Sean has kindly tweeted this thread
thus compounding my plight. You're not going to make this viral as well, you bugger.
I feel a little bit famous
because I post on the same forum as you