Okay, so reports are that a picture of Brangelina's twins is going to cost $11 million (isn't that the ransom cost in Austin Powers for not destroying the world?). Despite the absurdity of such a proposed cost, I started wondering what kind of money I would pay for a given photo. I came up with this: I would pay $1,000 to see a picture of one of Shakespeare's original manuscripts of a famous play. I know such a picture would be worth more that that amount, but it's what I'd personally pay.
What would other people pay for their own personal "dream" photo? It could be historical, fantasy, very personal, or something creative. Feel free to think outside the box.
Oh, and also feel free to comment on where the world is going to if a magazine picks up the twin pic for $11 million. It may be a good business decision for a celeb magazine, but seriously! I guess I'm in the "WHO FREAKIN' CARES" camp.
I dont understand how a magazine can pay that much and earn a profit.
Will photos of Pitt and Jolie's twins really pull that many people in to buying the magazine? It doesnt even make the remotest of sence.
If I'm on line in the supermarket and the woman in front of me says "Oh this magazine has photos of the twins!" and she buys it, I'd be momentarily stunned that someone gave a flying crap.
When encountering a stupid magazine that had photos of Angelina Jolie's newborns you should either (A) Not give a damn. Or (B) Open the magazine to the picture, look at it, and save your money.
Are there really that many people that care? That kind of saddens me.
I dont understand how a magazine can pay that much and earn a profit.
They will not earn a profit. However, the argument goes that such a magazine will one up competitors and be "the magazine that got the Pitt/Jolie twin pictures." It will be a branding move and supposedly make sense in the long run.
My only other thought is: do Brad and Angelina need 11 million dollars that badly? Think about it - they are having to make an active effort to NOT go in public with their babies. It feels they are using their newborns as profitable items.
"A fool and his money are soon parted." - Thomas Tusser
(also attributed to P.T. Barnum)
People will always pay what they think it's worth. That rag obviously thought it was worth 11 mil to get the pics of the latest Jolie brats before anyone else. And, even if you were one of the most (unwarantedly) highest-paid stars in Hollywood, would you say no to someone trundling a wheelbarrow full of cash in your direction?
And, at least no one risked arrest, unlike when Angelina popped out her other ankle-biter in Namibia...
(OTOH, having had training as a legitimate journalist, I don't have a lot of respect for that sort of mercenary journalism. Paying people for news... [y'can't hear it now, but I'm "tsk"-ing furiously... :P])
For that kind of money, Brad Pitt and the kids had better be in those pictures playing poker with Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, and DB Cooper, in a UFO floating over El Dorado.
Mmm...close, but for my money the card table should simply be a sheet of plywood nailed to the back of the taxidermied corpse of Jimmy Hoffa. Oh, and I want Elvis, Jim Morrison, and TuPac playing Rock Band in the background.
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I would love to have a poster-sized photgraph of myself running a D&D game with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart, and Weird Al Yankovic as the players.
Oh, and it would need to be autographed by all of them.
If someone could set-up that situation and snap a great photo of it, I might be willing to take out a second mortgage for the effort.
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I would love to have a poster-sized photgraph of myself running a D&D game with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart, and Weird Al Yankovic as the players.
Oh, and it would need to be autographed by all of them.
If someone could set-up that situation and snap a great photo of it, I might be willing to take out a second mortgage for the effort.
Not to sound like I lack imagination, but I had a similar Idea. only it'd be run by me (obviously), and the players would be Vin Diesel, Jimmy Page, Grant Morrisson, Monte Cook and my brother...that way I'd have my favorite artist from each medium I enjoy, and my brother, who has been fundamental to my life. I would honestly pay up to 1000$ for that picture (autographed, of course), and I'm not even sure how high I'd go for that experiance, but mortgage-level at least.
I want a picture of god, but I would not pay $11 million for it.
Any idea what the Pope would be willing to pay for the only tangible proof of God's existance?
A photograph would hardly be irrefutable proof.
oh the good old days, when a photo was a photo and not a project cooked up on some teen's laptop...
Yes, thankfully in the early 1900’s no one was double exposing film and passing them off as proof of spirits.
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Yes, thankfully in the early 1900’s no one was double exposing film and passing them off as proof of spirits.
well at least is was less often. these days I can't even be sure the pictures I take aren't faked. And yes. I realize I'm diggin myself in deeper instead of just letting it drop. I'm not sure why.
And yes. I realize I'm diggin myself in deeper instead of just letting it drop.
To be fair, I set you up.
Because, so I've heard, God works in mysteeeeerious ways...
So does his noodly goodness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Because, so I've heard, God works in mysteeeeerious ways...So does his noodly goodness, the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Arrr...
I'd like a picture of myself playing D&D with Gary Gygax, taken in 1977. Hmmm... I was 4 at the time.
either that or a picture of George Bush in a Speedo kissing Condoleeza ... THAT'S PAYDIRT BABY!