Catching Up

[mbarrick]

The feeds are catching up. deviantART and iStock have a way to go before they are current, but the Flickr feed, as of the last blog post, is now showing new photos, uploaded today.

Source: http://www.mbarrick.net/blog/110507/catching

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[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Think of the word in these senses: "stock" as something you make something out of, like "soup stock" and "stock" like what is kept in the stockroom behind a store.

Stock media (pictures, film, audio) is, basically, stuff that is intended for re-use. When a photo is put up for sale (or given away) as "stock", you're basically saying, "Yes, you can use this in a design, modify it, put it on a flyer, etc. even though I didn't shoot it specifically for you to use for that exact purpose." The exact details of what is or isn't allowed has to do with the specific licensing agreement. It can also mean stuff that wasn't intended for any specific purpose, but is there to be used if a use for it comes up. Like a film studio having stock footage of stuff like stampeding wildebeest from the air so someone making a film that is supposed to be in Africa doesn't actually have to go to Africa. They can just, say, do a shot of someone looking out the window of an airplane, cut in the wildebeest stock footage, then cut back to the person on the plane and *blam* the character seems to be flying over Africa! If I wanted to make a poster for, say, a Venetian-Carnival themed party, instead of flying to Venice to take pictures of my own I could just buy a nice picture that someone has offered up as stock to illustrate my poster.