I like the second one best.

You see this one:

http://www.allowe.com/Humor/whymendieyounger

Probably have but it made me think of the TrendLand.

Peace!

I found a great blog called “Rosie Hardy Plagiarism”
http://rosiehardyplagiarism.tumblr.com/

That proves that Rosie Hardy blatantly copies other photographers ideas from her DeviantART favourites : http://rosiehardy.deviantart.com/favourites/

The worst part is that she sells the images, and claims her work as original.

She is a FRAUD !

Wow! I had a feeling that she was stealing ideas! I try to actually come up with original ideas, which is why my stream is filled with a bunch of arms length face shots, because there is noway in hell a person can come up with an awesome original idea every single day. Ha!

She deserves being called out like that, but you have all those foolish teenagers who don’t care that she steals other people’s art and claims it as her own.

What a pathetic, cocky girl.

Their names are not fake, but the whole story that they met through Flickr is fake.
They knew each other in “real life” and decided to create her Flickr account and invented this story that they met on Flickr on the same day to create a hype.

The problem here is plagiarism and lies.
She said that she didn’t saw the photos that she copied but they are on her DeviantArt favourites: http://rosiehardy.deviantart.com/favourites/

And she is selling these images as original work.
This not fair to the DeviantArt artists who had the ideas that she copied.

She doesn’t deserve any respect and she is finished as a photographer.

I did a bit of a write up on this story as honestly, it’s kinda like watching a car wreck

http://blog.tonyeckersley.com/?p=173

I am a friend of Rosie’s, and attend her sixth form college in Cheshire. Any plagiarism, stealing (call it what you like) that has gone on I am not condoning, but all this crap about her and Aaron knowing each other beforehand, their relationship being fake and a team of photographers helping with her work – come on! I met Aaron over the summer, and the couple are very much in love and he very much lives in America, thank you very much.

‘What a pathetic, cocky girl.’ – everyone seems to be having a huge amount of fun attacking Rosie whilst they’re safely seated behind their computer desks, but none of them know her. Sure she’s done wrong, but anyone depicting her as a sly, devious character is not accurate at all. Rosie has a practically celebrity status on Flickr, so any personal attacks on her and her life are like people pretending they know the ins and outs of the lives of iconic figures like Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse – except people know even considerably less about her.

I’m not going to start voicing my opinions on the whole plagiarism issue, as I only want Rosie to know what I think about that. The fact is that this has gone beyond people’s frustration at her ‘plagiarism’ – once you start dreaming up conspiracy theories, it’s gone a little far. Besides, I have seen no proof that Rosie has sold any of the pictures in question (if anyone has, feel free to enlighten me), and I know that at least one of the pictures that everyone is screaming about was DEFINITELY credited at the time of upload. Apologies have been made, and she is trying to make amends, people should be getting over it; it has now come down to nothing more than bullying a teenage girl who wanted to meet her fans’ expectations and made the foolish mistake of letting her pride get in the way some of the time.

you all make mistakes. the only difference is there isn’t a whole internet community watching you every day waiting for you to make them.

SGR wrote : “you all make mistakes. the only difference is there isn’t a whole internet community watching you every day waiting for you to make them.”

She decided to expose her personal life on the Internet (Flickr, You Tube, etc…) no one forced her to do that.

She is selling pictures of her personal life (she and her boyfriend in bed) :
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/slideshow.jsp?auto=0&aid=768a5498cf3d0cdcef7b&idx=21
http://www.shutterfly.com/progal/slideshow.jsp?auto=0&aid=768a5498cf3d0cdcef7b&idx=42

I would never expose my personal lie like that. But, hey, it was her choice.

Hello- Nobody said she had assistants. People are talking about her stealing other people’s art and pretending it is her own. As if she is coming up with all these great ideas everyday on her own.

I’d say most people on Flickr who take 365 pictures do it themselves. Who the fuck has assistants, and who cares if they did?

For her to worry and get wrapped up in what her “fans” expect, ok, and to even say you have “fans” then you have a big head and think you are the better then you really are. To think of yourself as a celebrity on Flickr, you are a moron.

It’s not even like the girl is some amazing photographer. Anyone can take a crappy photograph, where the colors of the picture suck, it is under-exposed and photoshop it to look like hers do. It’s really not a talent to make your pictures look murky, and throw a ton of textures over your crappy picture. If you look at her images in Original size which you used to be able to do, her editing is pretty sloppy also.

Her boyfriends pictures however are very good technically. Everything down to the editing is great.

I think everyone is over Rosie now.

The relationship is clearly not fake; I know one of the pair. The “lonelygirl” crap is just baseless speculation. But what is entirely fair is 1) criticism of her work (she posts it on a website every day; fair game) and 2) criticism of her attribution failure and commercial gain. (And comments about her personal life and weird obsession with weight loss are now also fair game, since she makes all of that public with comments and Twittering.) You can’t claim that you want people to “get a life” and leave Britney ALONE! when she’s trying to profit from the same thing when it suits her interests. She puts it out there.

And all the people who claim “every since the first photograph was taken, all subsequent works are derivative!” are clearly not ethically deep and certainly don’t know crap about the law.

If i steal your images and sell it wil you find that cool ???

Is people like you that are ruining the Photography Business.

For god sake, seriously! Why wont all of you just leave Rosie alone? Are you so pathetic that you have to pick on a student for making a mistake which shes actually confessed to and apologized for? Ha ha ha!!!!!! I think you need to get over it.

And for those ignorant enough to comment and not even know the TRUE facts..

She is real, i have met her. Her and Aarons story is true; don’t you think that being in the media would have probably revealed their story to be fake by now? And where the heck does it actually say that their relationship isn’t true? Some weirdo has just made that up to cause more hype over her.

“Did you really believe that a 17 year old girl who studies and works (with no previous experience in Photography) would have the time to take photos everyday and do all the post-processing alone ?” – This really made me laugh because Yes.. i do believe that a 17 year old girl under that pressure can do it. Are you blind? The evidence is right in front of you in her photostream.

She takes her own photographs with self timer or a control and tripod. Only on odd occasions do someone else take them and she generally mentions that in her description anyway.

And so what, she made a mistake! Who hasn’t? If you are an artist, you cant say that your work wasn’t inspired by nothing. Something must have given you the idea. She didn’t credit her inspiration.. wowwww big deal! Who actually cares? OH! Thats right! The complete utter losers who spend their friday nights stalking Rosie’s favorites and comparing them to her creations are the only ones who care.

If you think about it, she still put as much effort in. And no matter what piece of work she has made there may always be a similar one due to the fact there are millions of artists now days.

Yes my opinion is probably very biased because I know her. I know what a lovely, polite young woman she is. I also know that she will be so much more in the future.. and there is nothing that your pointless jealous accusations can do about it

Apparently the “Harry” person was actually in fact Rosie herself – trying to get more attention. What a load of rubbish. As if she would give herself a bad name and attract haters to get more views. Unless you are completely retarded, it is so obvious that “Harry” claimed that “he” was Rosie as a further plot to bring her down more and make her look worse.

I read a comment on the Tony Eckersley site and it pretty much sums up everything I think:
“If you were to put all of these together next to all of her work, it would seem less and less like plagiarism. If you were then to take all of her work at all of the work from all of the female self-portraitists on flickr, especially those near her age and members of the FSPASG, it would seem more and more trite.

She’s just a kid, trying to figure out her style, and she’s got a lot of overly processed, cliche work out there. Outside of her self-portraiture, she has some very interesting ideas. I hope that she continues to grow, but I think everyone on the internet needs to get a damn life.

The smartest thing for an artist to do is to avoid all art-sharing sites on the web. Uploading anything to such an unregulated public domain is like playing Russian Roulette. Maybe, tomorrow, it’ll be me…or maybe it’ll be you…or maybe the entire world will be so inundated with “art” that we will have to finally admit that everything has been done.” – Fenn (http://blog.tonyeckersley.com/?p=173)

I also admire whoever wrote this:
“In any case, plagiarism or not, in regard of most of the photographs I saw that were supposedly copied, I thought that hers were better than the originals. Not all, but most. The ideas should have been given credit but I’m sure that she didn’t think when she posted them that they would become such a huge issue. I wouldn’t have thought so. It’s the internet for God’s sake. I don’t take anything seriously on the internet except for perhaps myspace. haha. She’s extremely talented and should continue to be regarded as such. The internet should not be a spearing tool, but a playground for the inspired. That’s what she’s made of it and there’s nothing wrong with that. The bad attention she’s recieved from all of this plagiarism business can’t be all bad, I think. Each experience in a person’s life is a learning and growth experience and I’m sure she’s learned and growed, guilty or not, through this whole overblown thing. And, indeed, overblown is what I wrote.” – Alaina Valentine (http://blog.tonyeckersley.com/?p=173)

Its so true.

Sure she made her life public, but she didn’t ask you to view it. Those of you that have never made a mistake in life are the only ones who can throw abuse at Rosie.

I was sure that Rosie Hardy had a team of helpers and that she could not take her pictures by herself.

take a look at this video on You Tube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy-JzRdS4QM

She looks very different in real life.

She must use Photoshop a lot to look thin and to change her face.

I had never heard of this 2 (Aaron & Rosie) supposed Flickr “celebrities” till I was surfing the internet the other day. I loved her work and was actually considering taking those digital classes and even kept giving her the benefit of the doubt when I heard the scandal (“Well, maybe ppl are overexaggerating…”) till I saw the exact composition replicas. So disappointed. Now every time I look at her work I can’t help wondering who she “borrowed” that idea from. Like that one where she’s raking the lightbulbs. It seems like a metaphor for her life: If the lightbulbs represent “ideas” and she’s raking them= collecting….it’s appropriate, no?

I’m offended by what’s she’s done as a creative person. It’s a slap to the face of any creative who spends their days wracking their brain for an amazing idea! To undermine and disrespect that process! How can she do that and consider herself to be a creative?

beautiful work.