Hah! - just when I thought I'd forgotten about '
CLM' and their swashbuckling
'steal-a-new-image-a-day-and-put-©CLM-below-it' marketing-tactics, I get a PM from a Good Friend of all of ours
(I'll let him choose if he wants to 'jump into the ring' with me or not...) with this link:
http://www.laserslasvegas.com/Video.htm
...and he wasn't even 'directly-griping' about these guys - he was like
'...where the f*k is the CDRH???' - and yeah, if you check the 'J-Lo' vid out, there are a few 'face-scans', here and there, and the "Laser Tunnel and Walkway" clip...
...yeah, that
sure looks like more than 1mW
(Class II)...
and certainly - even by 'worse-case-standards' - waaay-more than 5mW!! - and this is a
'public' walk-thru / install???
But, ok - I'm not the 'laser-cops' - probably every laser show Co in the
World has had a beam or effect go a 'further than planned' or an 'unexpected-bounce' / glance, etc, at least ONCE - nor am I
trying to 'police' these guys...but then, I got to checking out the REST of thier site, and NOT ONLY do they have SHOCKING examples of
'NFW-safe' stuff -
(see below!) but -
(and this is the 'main reason' for 'resurrecting my rant', here...) - check-out
this page:
http://www.laserslasvegas.com/projects.htm
...
5 out of
7 images from their *work* are
STOLEN from LMR / Laserfx!!! ...
http://www.laserfx.com/Gallery/GalleryImage14.html
http://www.laserfx.com/Gallery/GalleryImage10.html
http://www.laserfx.com/Gallery/GalleryImage8.html
So, #1 - are ANY of their images / 'work examples' -
THEIRS???? DID they REALLY 'DO' J-Lo's video?
(as they seem to at-least 'imply'...) Oceans12??? Judging by the other shocking 'CPK' shots
(heh - poor audience - they were 'enthralled' by 'LVL's work' - cause they were probably too terrified to even get up to go take a PISS!!! ) and their Pirate-integrity, I'd guess the 'Laser Tunnel' and 'Bellagio' clips
were theirs, but the rest of it???
******* HACKS!!!!
Now, to those of you for-whom lasers are a 'hobby' - even for those who 'make a few bux on the side' with them - you might think
'..sheesh dsli_jon is really off-his rocker, today...' - and you're
right!!
This shyte
really chaps my @$$, cause the laser show biz is how I - and many other
very hard-working people out there
(ie Greg Mak, Pat Murph, Tim W, etc - and quite a few others, here on PL (though I don't imagine these-particular 'hacks' would negatively-impact our European-brethren too much (??) but still...) ENTIRELY FEED OUR LOVED-ONES / selves, etc - and these hacks are getting biz with STOLEN pix???? Cripes, it's hard-enough to eat with LEGITIMATE-competition!! And TOTALLY unsafe
(looking, at-least) work???
I mean, do we
REALLY NEED another 'Moscow'???
So, yeah - I am publicly 'picking a fight' with
"Las Vegas Lasers - the single greatest corporate event, Live Special Effects, and Laser Light Show provider in the world." ...
Really?... Well, suck-this-up Yahoo-spiders and Google-bots - and
what say you, 'LVL'???
...I dunno - maybe I
am just getting 'old and cranky' but stealing / using others' images is just so... well, so...
(...great smiley-find, eh?)
OK. Rant over. Thoughts?
peace...
j