If you want to be a professional performer, whether it’s music, comedy, politics, whatever, the first thing you need to do is get a god damn hi resolution photo of yourself. I make half the posters in this town and more than half of my time is spent scouring the internet for a picture of you that doesn’t suck. FYI, photos from Facebook show up on a 300dpi (standard) sized print at about the size of a postage stamp. When you blow those tiny little photos up big enough to use on a poster, they look like crap, that leaves me with a lot of turd polishing to do as I try to change your crap into something presentable.
Stop what you’re doing, find a real photographer with a real camera, not your buddy with an iphone, and get a real photo taken at a real world resolution (not for web) and send it to the booker as you’re sealing the deal. It’ll cost you less than 50 bucks… You’ll look better, my life will be better, everything will be better if you do this. GO… NOW… DO IT! —Poster Rage
This article appears in Jun 30 – Jul 6, 2011.
they say a picture is worth a thousand words, but not all of them are good. pictures as well as words.
i love the ones they use on passports, and drivers licenses, they are fucking terrible.
they a picture is worth a thousand words, too bad not all of them are good. pics or words. the ones on the passports and driver licenses are some of the worst crap.
something is going kinda fucky here today, i think the aliens are coming early this year.
This is what I would call a niche bitch. About 2% of the population feel your pain.
rah rah rahahah lady gaga
speaking of horse-faces
http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive…
I’m with Suckulous.
http://wordsandlinks.com/wp-content/upload…
Sounds like a big box office supply store print shop employee has their panties in a bunch.
i love passport photos “take your glasses off, don’t smile” yikes
Legit. I can definitely see how this would be a problem.
Hehe, I just love how random this bitch is. It’s refreshing in a sea of traffic bitches.
I’m part of the 2% and this bitch was clearly written by a freelance designer, not someone in a box store. That comment was stupid. This bitch is 100% legit and dealing with shitty low res press shots, logos, etc. is a REGULAR OCCURRENCE in design (especially music related) and pisses people off daily. Any musicians making real money have these photos available on their sites, so new bands take a business cue and stop showing up on posters surrounded with lossy (Lossy is designer talk for piece of shit file size).