{"id":46822,"date":"2018-03-23T11:11:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=46822"},"modified":"2024-06-25T09:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T16:27:13","slug":"artsy-saxy-sexy-c-mel-pic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2018\/artsy-saxy-sexy-c-mel-pic\/","title":{"rendered":"Artsy, saxy, sexy C mel pic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago a SOTW Facebook discussion degenerated into middle school-level conversation, after someone posted the following vintage photo.<\/p>\n

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Now let me state upfront that I know nothing about this photo’s backstory. This of course leaves me with a boat-load of unanswered questions. Questions such as:<\/p>\n

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  • When was this photo taken?<\/li>\n
  • Who are these 2 young guys?<\/li>\n
  • Who are they in relation to each other?<\/li>\n
  • Who took the photo?<\/li>\n
  • Where was it taken? What country? City? Town?<\/li>\n
  • What was the photo taken for?<\/li>\n
  • Where did the photo come from?<\/li>\n
  • Where has it been for the last however many decades?<\/li>\n
  • How did it end up online?<\/li>\n
  • How is this image any different than if it were 2 women?<\/li>\n
  • Why can people not look at an artistic photo of 2 men and just shut the hell up?<\/li>\n
  • When confronted with artistic displays of nudity, why must adults lose their ability to have grown-up  conversation, and regress to a developmental level of a teenager?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Is there a takeaway from this artsy, saxy, sexy C mel pic?<\/h3>\n

    It strikes me we can all learn a lesson from this.<\/p>\n

    If this indeed is a vintage photo, and not a just recent photo shot in a way to look vintage, then someone made some effort to get it posted online. An actual physical copy of the photo had to have been discovered by someone\u2014who found it titillating enough to scan it\u2014and then upload the image to social media.<\/p>\n

    These days our photos are for the most part only digitally saved. Very few people print all their photos\u2014like we did in the good old days of film cameras when that was our only option.<\/p>\n

    In the future should JPEG or RAW file formats still be recognized by servers, then anything we shoot will easily be uploadable for anyone to see. And let’s face it, without the need to print everything we shoot, we shoot a great deal more than any previous generation did.<\/p>\n

    Do we want our private photos falling into someone else’s hands after we die? Or when we ditch our old computers or hard drives? Want to be the brunt of jokes as online bullies act out their f’ed up aggression against those who aren’t around to defend themselves?<\/p>\n

    Think it can’t happen to you? Perhaps it already has.<\/p>\n

    Last week as I was updating my Hohner President page, I uploaded a photo of a horn that a seller on eBay had posted. Upon final editing of the page I realized that the photographer’s junk was hanging out of his shorts and reflected in the bell of the horn. Needless to say I didn’t use the pic, since I’m not in the habit of posting dick pics on my site. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

    Take care while photographing shiny objects. Objects appearing in saxophone bells, keys, or body tubes are not always what they appear. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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