Need a stock picture of a guy doing almost anything strange, actor Patrick Wilson is your man. Professional photographers have paid him to pose as “A guy in a tiger costume playing an inflatable guitar in a foggy room full of military personnel” and “A detective examining a jar of peanut butter in a room filled with mousetraps.”
Wilson has starred in the CBS drama
A Gifted Man, acted on Broadway and appeared in several film including:
The Alamo, The Phantom of the Opera, Little Children, Watchmen, The A-Team, The Ledge, and
Insidious.
Prior to his acting career he worked as a stock photography model and was featured in
over 133,000 stock images by his count. Now he is selling a 3 CD-Rom set of images of all the wacky and bizarre characters he played at the behest of professional photographers. If you could use a little humor in your day, take a look at the
video promotion for his discs.
If that’s not enough check out Matt Stopera’s collection of 60 “
unexplainable, bad stock photos" that he has found on web sites like Getty Images, Thinkstock, Shutterstock, Photos.com, 123RF, Corbis, Dreamstime, Veer, Inmagine and Fotolia. It’s hard to imagine that any customer would ever pay to use any one of these shots, but the photographers have certainly exercised their “creativity.” Where are the editors? Does stock photography need more of this?