Monday, June 16, 2008

Suicide Girls vs Lithium Picnic & Apnea


Anyone involved in the alt scene has some sort of idea of what has been going on between this famous photographer and the "Big Bad" SG Corporation. We have been told, for over a year, by the photographer and his partner (ex-Suicide Girl Apnea) that Suicide Girls sued them for violating both their contracts, but most of all, for fear that LP and Apnea were involved in "stealing" SG's alternative trademark. This is ridiculous, since SG is most definitely not the only site that supports alternative lifestyle or even altporn (Blue Blood, for example).
Either way, the reasons for the law suit are unimportant. LP and Apnea have been asking for numerable donations and have been organizing charity events in order to cover their legal expenses. The amount of money they raised still remains a mystery to all of us, including the money from the t-shirts imprinted with "Viva Le Picnic" or whatever bullshit. They made us all hate Suicide Girls even more, for selling out and for destroying the scene with their business.
HOWEVER, I visited LP's deviantART journal today and I found myself a very interesting entry:

We have some news about our fight with SuicideGirls. We all sat down together and worked out an agreement that is really fair to everyone. We are especially relieved that we can now send people back to SuicideGirls.com to see all of our early work together without feeling dirty.


Send people back to Suicide Girls? Excuse me?

We want to make it clear that we 100% have no hostilities towards SuicideGirls in anyway anymore, we all came to a really fair agreement over this dispute, and there were no bad people here, just mistakes and misunderstandings. If you've boycotted SG on our behalf, you helped us come to this agreement, so thank you but the battle is over, and we're all friends again.


Did you discuss this over tea and cookies and chuckled about the whole "misunderstanding"? They're pretty much saying "Thanks for boycotting yesterday, but today you can all go back to them like nothing happened. They're back to being cool."

To help offset our legal expenses, when you sign up with SuicideGirls, please use this affiliate code so that we can use the money to pay off our lawyers and focus on Apnea's modeling and my photography!


Now, you gotta be fucking kidding me! After all the donations and charity AND a settlement from a large corporation such as SG, you STILL need help covering your legal expenses? And how? Sending all of the people that supported YOUR fight against them back to the site to sign up for a membership. Have you NO shame? No moral fiber?

Funny thing I found out is that Philip Warner (LP's real name) doesn't even make a living out of photography, he does real estate in Texas.

Awesome Lithium Picnic, Apnea, I hope you guys are enjoying your new summer home or whatever the fuck you bought with all the money your shenanigans stole from us.

2 comments:

frogflypper said...

Ok, and you seriously think that sounds like Phil? Come on now!

http://ebolagrande.livejournal.com/81020.html

Fabiola said...

I don't know him personally, so I wouldn't know if that sounds like him or not. I'm just calling it like I see it, and like a lot of us saw it and felt somewhat betrayed.
I wrote this post cause I felt like putting in my 2 cents, but there's no point in bitching about it anymore. Honestly, it's their problem, not mine. I will continue my own personal fight against SG.