Adventures in Copyright

We Hand Out Pulitzers for Comments Now

By Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010 / 2:19 PM

Just in case you thought Alexander McQueen was actually a genius (though for the record, we still do), a commenter’s discovered the truth behind this season’s amphibious shoes.
OhJesse jumped onto yesterday’s Trivia to post the video at left in which a dude with lots of hair dances around with his guitar and wears a silver pair of lace up platforms that, minus a Swarovski crystal or two, could be mistaken for McQueen’s SS10 stilts around 1:05. (This was posted to Youtube in 2007, so who knows when it was filmed.)
RashomonRebel put it most articulately, “OhShit! #9 just won the fashion Pulitzer for investigative journalism.”


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    Comments [7]

    guest says:
    @ 2:58 PM / 20 Jan 2010

    Not to detract from OhJesse’s awesome find, but many people have made MANY comments in past AiC posts lamenting this site’s complete disregard for the past and for vintage when taking into account copying (or homage, or inspiration or whatever).
    Also, “This was posted to Youtube in 2007, so who knows when it was filmed.” Seriously? The most cursory of Google searches will tell you this is a Tubes song from 1975, ’76 or so.
    Also, “a dude” is Fee Waybill. This doesn’t require “research,” you’re just not even trying.

    Mimi says:
    @ 5:01 PM / 20 Jan 2010

    Also, the Museum at FIT posted this YouTube yesterday morning on their Facebook.

    noellejv says:
    @ 5:12 PM / 20 Jan 2010

    Also…relax maybe.

    guest says:
    @ 9:30 PM / 20 Jan 2010

    noellejv, guest 1 has a good point!

    guest says:
    @ 4:22 AM / 21 Jan 2010

    Guest 1 has a very good point.
    “(This was posted to Youtube in 2007, so who knows when it was filmed.)”
    It took me seconds to look at the info on You Tube where it clearly states that its from a live performance in 1982. I would hardly call that “research”. There are many other fashion clues that easily date the video in the 80s, but knowledge of recent fashion history would also be considered “research”.

    RashomonRebel says:
    @ 6:57 AM / 21 Jan 2010

    lol, looks like I should give a group Pulitzer to #1, #2, #4 and #5, who passed the course I teach at Google University of Research and Fact Finding.
    If I would’ve known I was going to be quoted, I would’ve used “fuck” instead of “shit”.
    http://taytrong.posterous.com/

    heh. says:
    @ 9:15 AM / 26 Jan 2010

    It’s funny how they have nothing to say now.