Monkey See, Monkey Do

Okay, I know that everyone says that "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."  Well this is true, if you are given credit where credit is due.  "Hey Jill, your boots are gross and they make me puke." *ONE WEEK LATER* (Same girl who told me my boots were ugly) "OMGEEBUS GUYZ.  I just bought these totally unique boots and I have never seen/heard of/thought of anyone wearing them before me!  BLAHAHAHA! Isn't this so amazing that I'm super original?!"  BOOM.  That was me shooting you with a gun.  Not really.  I've never even shot a gun, which is a good thing, because I'm a pretty angry person.

This used to happen to me on a daily basis in high school.  Especially whenever skinny jeans very first started showing up in magazines.  I bought a pair from like, American Eagle or something, and EVERYONE made fun of me for wearing them.  Too bad they were the hot new trend the next year, huh guys?  Oh, but too bad for me, because no one listens to me when I'm alerting everyone of a new and upcoming trend or something.

Now I'm dealing with this problem with my photos shoots that I do.  Every shoot I have done has been either premeditated by the photographer or myself and if it is inspired by something, we will list it as such.  Never have we ever taken someone else's work and said "You know what?  Let's buy this exact shirt, skirt, pair of tights, pair of heels, and lipstick and do your hair just like this and do this exact pose and then photoshop the sheeeeet out of it so it looks just 100% exactly like this one that someone already did!"  No.  That is stealing.  And it's not being creative. 

So needless to say, it amuses me when I see people who end up with pictures from photo shoots that look E.X.A.C.T.L.Y. like mine do.  AND they come in a timely manner, like within a few weeks after I post the new shots, sooooo that's kind of hard to deny.  It's also kind of hard to deny when half my friend list on facebook messages me about it saying "Holy Guacamole did you see Copycat Caren's pictures?!  They're like, super mega similar to yours that you JUST put up like 8 days ago!"  Yeah, friend.  I did see that.  Thanks for just confirming my suspicion.  At least I get paid for what I do.  So even if my work is getting stolen, at least I actually made some c@$h m0n3yy. 

I can't think of anything else to say.  Forgive me -_-

Cherry pie and whipped cream <3
Jillian.