Stealing DP Credits Shamelessly - sad.

[Richie Trimble]

Terrible Terrible Terrible. I hate shit talking, but this makes me furious and its so despicable that it needs to come to light. Someone had apparently posted about his fraudulent credit claiming on Craigslist and Alex got wind of it early this morning and removed basically everything off of his site. After researching a bit last night, everything started to make sense... How i met him on a low budget shoot, why he handed me a card if i ever needed a DIT etc... Luckily i did a bunch of screen grabs before he removed the content. Let the images speak for themselves:

Culprit: Alex Yane
Website: alexvisual.com
Email: alexvisualbox@gmail.com

Firstly, some links to actual credits:

KIA: Joydride
http://creativity-online.com/work/kia-joyride/18712

MINI: The Best Ride. Ever.
http://creativity-online.com/work/mini-the-best-test-drive-ever-period/25856

Taylor Swift - Back to December
http://www.promonews.tv/2011/01/24/taylor-swift’s-back-to-december-by-yoann-lemoine/

plus many many more... If you recognize a video and have a link, feel free to respond with it.

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There is also a film section which i didn't post up here...

If you'd like to download all the screen shots and photos, here is the ZIP file -
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6030064/Alex Yane DP Fraud.zip

Truly sad that he was able to do it, but i feel worse for the jobs he was awarded that didn't get the caliber of content they would have expected. On the bright side, i do believe people change... eventually.

 

[Kwan Khan]

Sad... Just post him on FB

Scarlet #0024 is bleong to Jim Coulter (12/12/2011)
http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?68678-SCARLET-X-24-just-landed-in-Houston-Texas

But here on Pictures #1, he said... "My Scarlet #0024" (on 11/20/2011)
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.127074717402574.22986.100003001393915&type=3

 

[Henry Ceiro]

Wow....

 

[Shane Kelly]

That's pretty shameless. There's some really good commercial dp's in there. How the hell, in this day and age do, you think you could get away with that?

 

[Mike Tiffee]

Here's a craigslist post about this:
http://idiotsofcraigslist.com/2012/...p-credits-on-music-videos-and-commercials-la/

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

This shit makes me mad. I almost emailed him. This BS is akin to identity theft and is taking food out of hardworking talented people and their families mouths. F this dude.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

Ok I couldn't resist, email sent...he better hope someone doesn't sue him...

 

[Chris Santucci]

Hilarious:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4396889/

The thing is, anyone working in the higher end of the ad industry will already know who shot that stuff.

 

[Richie Trimble]

you know it's serious when your ass gets deleted off the friends list lol

 

[Jim Coulter]

Well I am DEFINITELY NOT Alex Yane!!! And I DO own Scarlet #0024

This actually sickens me...I am literally sick to my stomach. That this sorry excuse for a film professional has now associated me somehow with his
ridiculous claims.

I am a bonafide 25 year plus professional and everything on my website I personally shot and edited. Other than the incredible odds of the parasite
choosing my serial number- I don;t know him and don't ever care to.

 

[Gavin Greenwalt]

Well, that's an easy way to deep-six your career in 10 seconds flat.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

Yeah he'll probably do it again. Sounds like a character flaw.

 

[Matt Ryan]

1) He's an idiot.
2) He's an idiot
3) Professionals with credits he claims never post ads on Craigslist looking for work
4) How did he honestly think he'd get away with swapping his name for the real dp's and no one doing their research?
5) Once he shows up on set and can't pull off a shoot, how was he going to handle it?
6) In this age of internet and technology, htf did he think he could pull this off?

I'm blown away he built an entire site based on ripped off credits. How can you do that? I know times are tough but he just gave up a possible career by pulling this stunt. Are we to assume he lied about an education from UCLA as well? If he doesn't own a Scarlet, what happens when he's hired to bring one?

He's obviously stealing pics from other Redusers for his facebook page cause the first couple of Scarlet pics are shot in Red's headquarters, I believe by Tonaci....I may be mistaking but I think I remember those exact pics (may be from another user)...

His facebook has photo's of a Scarlet but his website says he owns an Epic with Red Pro Primes.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

Hey guys, email this punk. I did. He needs to hear it!!!

 

[Matt Ryan]

Hey guys, email this punk. I did. He needs to hear it!!!

Did he email back?

he appears to have removed everything from "his" website.

 

[Brad Webb]

Did he email back?

he appears to have removed everything from "his" website.

All that's left is 1 youtube video. It's not as well shot as his other work that he took down.

 

[Detlev Eller]

... happens more often than we think ... people steal. it has become modern culture.
makes me sad.

the more unique ones work and insight, the faster it is stolen.

I have a black list. carved in black stone ... (so to speak)

 

[Matt Ryan]

All that's left is 1 youtube video. It's not as well shot as his other work that he took down.

hahaha but I'm sure it still gets him huge budget commercials.... what a joke...

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

Did he email back?

he appears to have removed everything from "his" website.

Nope. I told him if I found my stuff on there I'd sue him in about 2 seconds, and that this is serious business, not kid shit.

 

[Jake Wilganowski]

... happens more often than we think ... people steal. it has become modern culture.
makes me sad.

the more unique ones work and insight, the faster it is stolen.

I have a black list. carved in black stone ... (so to speak)

Publish that my friend! I agree I probably happens all the time but man, I feel like it's super serious. I'd freak out if I found out someone did that to me. I'm upset reading about others...