'Would You Like It Better From Behind?'

This street capture, 'Would You Like It Better From Behind?' might also

have been submitted under humor . . . . and is self-explanatory at least

for most adults. Photography, even serious photography, does not

have to be somber. your ratings, critiques and remarks are invited and

most welcome. If you rate harshly, very critically or just wish to make a

remark, please submit a helpful and constructive comment; please

share your photographic knowledge to help improve my photography.

Thanks ! Enjoy! John

I googled it, hoping to find a music group named that, but alas, I found various references to 'sex and the machine' but none to a music group.

Nevertheless, those exact words were in my mind as I shot and reviewed this.

No music group?  I was sure there had been one, just like 'Sex Pistols' or some such.  Maybe it's before Google.com's time and wasn't indexed recently, and there are no web references. 

Perhaps you know where the term has its origin - Google.com was no help a couple of weeks ago.

Can you help with information?  Know something about the term? I'd love to hear it.  Thanks.

john

John (Crosley)

It is past time to grow up John Crosely.

Over the years, you have been accused of being a doppleganger (stand-in--read that double account) for another Photo.net member whom I will not name here.  Literally a 'sock puppet; for another too cowardly to make his own comments.

I have repeatedly challenged over the years whether an individual named Asher Lev, Photo.net member exists who does not (under another name) have another Photo.net account . . . and been met by silence, yet it is clear that my remarks are read and read carefully.

At last remark, the apparently pseudonymous 'Asher Lev' -- for failing to prove he was a real individual -- despite years of very public challenges and for other bad behavior, was told he was not welcome here. 

This remark is seen as just a form of retaliation.  

The 'other member' not named here has remarked repeatedly on a life of what I easily call debauchery, and if A.L. is his sock puppet, he cannot be shocked by this photo or its caption.  By debauchery, I mean a life of living with prostitutes, helping them with their street drugs, etc., as that member has written he has lived.   I suggest there's much more he has not written about, but won't speculate what.

Now, if I am wrong, and I doubt I am, and it is proved so, I would be the first to apologize, but I have a mountain of evidence from over the years, so don't hold your breath.   The 'member' in question who was cut off from replies to his numerous 'snarky' comments, has lived a life full of rebellious behavior which seems built in -- a part of his personality, and he has written about it.

[i note that the member removed systematically many of his offending remarks -- often after goading a reply from me -- under the now 'old system' where a member could edit or remove his remarks anytime after posting.  That system was changed only a few months ago, so many of the original very offensive remarks may no longer be in the computers and records of them may be lost, but they were VERY offensive . . . .and the campaign to post, then remove the remarks, then post new offending remarks was consistent, then remove those too.

[i note that the name/account of 'Asher Lev' appeared, and with the same name/religion and geographic region, as that member I barred for one year for his snarky and worse replies to comments under my photos, and because of other serious misconduct in postings to my photos. 

All of a sudden, Asher Lev appeared some time ago, and began making his own snarky comments, then,  lo and behold, at one time the two individual account names made not only comments to my photos, but re-enforced one another . . . . yet for a very, very,very long time, Asher Lev did not post one photo. 

For years, as I recall.

One remark made by the member who engaged in misconduct in posting to my photos and also by the apparent A.L. pseudonym account was so peculiar (and noted as a 'shared belief') and so uncommon, it caused me to understand as fully as an individual can comprehend anything that Asher Lev did not exist as a real person, except almost certainly in the mind of the other misbehaving member (or the other member is posting pseudonymously and his real name is Asher Lev - an interesting twist, since then if so he could 'prove' Asher Lev exists, but might think no one would challenge the offending member's identity if the 'member' turns out to be the 'sock puppet'.

That member states his work prior to Photo.net was known under another name -- suggesting he now uses a pseudonym as a member or is practiced in using one in a former lifetime or in other pursuits.  

Old habits die hard.

The A.Lev account postings remain unwelcome here in posted remarks for failure to answer repeated accusations that 'he' is a sock puppet for another, all wrongful and harassing to me.

Pseudonyms, dopplegangers, sock puppets and double accounts (if that indeed is what the name A.L. is) have no right to make comments at all.  I have made the challenge and No Reply has been forthcoming for years now. 

I must assume it is correct.  The comments come, have obviously been read, but there has been NO reply in the face of a my clear and plain accusation of misconduct. 

Under generally accepted rules of law and decency, that amounts to an admission of wrongdoing.

Cease the harassment.

I'd tell you to 'grow up' but apparently you don't exist . . . .

I can produce identification - driver's license, ID card, passport.

Can you?  Or if you can, can the other misbehaving member?

John Crosley

Real Person and member

[The sad part is the 'other member' has a sometimes very decent side, sometimes is a decent photographer and is apparently afflicted with an extremely serious disease, and no one including me wishes him any further harm, but I don't want to be a 'victim' of the cruelty of even a sad old man - no matter how sad he may feel himself to be].

Fair's Fair. 

Play by the rules here.

I do.

jc

This critic said in his e-mail (among other things, he enjoyed the humor, but really had nothing worthy to say about this photo.

He said that compared to other works of mine which caused him to think and reflect, this was 'more superficial'.

I admit it.

It's 'superficial' perhaps to the extreme.

I'm not above superficiality at times.

Not every posted photo has to puzzle Kant, Hegel, Descartes, or even the more minor philosophers or even the more philosophically bent photo commentors here.  There's a place, I think, in my photos for a simple, direct photo.

After all, I now have over 1,600 photos, perhaps 1,700 photos here, and every once in a while, I take one that causes me to take note, even though it is not complex and I think certain people will enjoy it, even if the higher brows are not edified at all and 'expect more' from me.

Well, you can expect more from me, and I will deliver regularly, I think, but not on every photo.

I gotta take a break every once in a while from being too dead serious.

Plus, I'm a fan of Gary Larson, cartoonist, famous for giving inanimate objects human (anthropomorphic) characteristics.

This photo is a classic case of anthropomorphism, and thus is a little more than complelely simplistic . . . . it's humor raised a slight notch . . . . in case you hadn't noticed,  or even a little coarse . . . or 'vulgar' as a close friend and wonderful critic with wonderful (but high brow and difficult to please taste) says about my work.

You can't please all the people all the time.

john

John (Crosley)