Forbidden Photo #3

oooh! A white table, with white cushions.....I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THAT!

Comments

[Maia]

Y'know, they should also be really careful about letting people use pens and paper in there, too... because a super-savvy designer could walk in there and be all, like, "Oo! White on white! I'm'a jot this down!" And BOOM. Walk out of there with that idea.

And don't even get me STARTED on the dangers of people with photographic memories. Oh, man. They will rob you of your color scheme faster than you can say "Pretentious frozen yogurt shop."

[MrsWaltz]

How long can you keep this series going...? Because it has started to become my daily pick-me-up, these photos verboten :)

[anna]

This is a great picture . . . is that photoshop or is the lighting really like that with the color in the foreground?

[sara]

On your website you state that people do not steal your work. If you saw your work reproduced somewhere, after you specifically state not to steal it, how would you feel?

[MelissaS]

I don't know. If I recreated a store that sold frozen yogurt and had a white on white theme and named it something similar to what their shop is named, maybe I'd understand.

But I thought their store was lovely, a place we specifically stopped in to because it was nice to look at. You'd think they'd want people to know how lovely it is.

I guess not.

PS A photograph is not "stealing". My camera can not (yet) suck the souls of things.

[Michelle]

I really just want to smear some chocolate ice cream all over that picture.

[NoPasaNada]

You're such a rebel, Melissa.

[Katy]

Yogurt store porn.

Woohoo baby!

[Wayne]

I ate my morning yogurt while staring at this photograph. Stealing or not? Discuss.

[Jennifer]

You have been very upset in the past when you felt like your copyrighted work was copied and re-used. Maybe the store's policy against photographs was trying to keep people from stealing their ideas (assuming they can't copyright decor). And, whoever reproduced your martini logo that got you so up in arms wasn't "sucking the sould out of" the logo, but you sure didn't like it.

[MelissaS]

Yeah, I don't know. I see a difference but okay. Like, if I took these pictures, and recreated their entire decor and business model (like they did with Pinkberry frozen yogurt) sure. Much like the time that someone actually right-clicked my trademarked logo.

I don't know. I see a difference.

[Maia]

There is a difference. Example: It would be wrong to build an exact replica of, say, the Guggenheim, and try to pass it off as your own (particularly since everyone knows Frank Lloyd Wright designed it. Seriously, could you pick a more recognizable building? Dumb). But it is certainly not against the law to take photographs of the Guggenheim. That's not stealing the Guggenheim.

Are the proprietors of the froyo store within their rights to ban photography inside the store? Sure, it's private property. But it seems kind of ridiculous when keeping people from taking photos is not going to keep people from stealing design ideas. I mean, if that's what they're trying to do, they should probably have everyone who comes in wear blindfolds. You know, so they can't take any mental notes. (See? Hyperbole. Funny. Although less so when it has to be explained.)