Fail Stock

Featuring all those stock images which really fail to meet the mark, or even fail to represent what they claim to be.
May 14
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Lack of imagination

Trojan Horse concept:

Lazy, lazy, lazy…

A pig in a sombrero, with a thermometer - why it must be swine flu!

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My lazy face…

This illustrator seems to have gone to almost no trouble at all in slapping the same face over what amounts to clipart…

May 05
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Creative bodies

A new take on “ass wipe”…

Got facepaints? Check! Got bullets? Check!

Never would I have thought of this:

Apr 25
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The mind of a stock photographer works in mysterious ways…

You have to wonder what photographers think their images will be used for. This is some kind of industrial toast rack…maybe to illustrate the manliest breakfast?

And this one?

This one is clearer, it’s a photo illustrating “pirate and tourism adventure”. Does it work for you? Seems to me the photographer just threw together some things which happened to be lying around…

Sheer laziness rears its head once again.

Apr 20
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It also hits the target for incredible naffness.

It also hits the target for incredible naffness.

Apr 19
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Sheer incomprehensible laziness

How long did it take this illustrator to create this fine concept?

Does this masterful piece of photographic multiplication get your thumbs up?

Sometimes you wish to god these illustrators had the power to breathe life into their creations…so that they could rise up and strangle the crap out of their creators and put the rest of us out of our misery.

Once you’ve seen something you can’t unsee it…

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They look very uncomfortable…maybe they have piles…oh wait, they do have piles - of money!

They look very uncomfortable…maybe they have piles…oh wait, they do have piles - of money!

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Even if you’re an accomplished photographer and a dab hand at Photoshop, you can still be guilty of that most terrible of crimes - bad taste.

Even if you’re an accomplished photographer and a dab hand at Photoshop, you can still be guilty of that most terrible of crimes - bad taste.

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Don’t you know bad stock also kills?

Don’t you know bad stock also kills?