Comments on: Kruder & Dorfmeister Totally Looks Like Simon & Garfunkel

By: Marialuvrupe

Marialuvrupe — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:56:36 +0000

the right guy in left picture is have same Face with a right guy in right picture

By: M

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:28:42 +0000

This is just sad. Somebody doesn’t know who Simon and Garfunkel are… whoever said Simon was the genius and Garfunkel was the name is correct. Paul Simon is a true musical mastermind. Art Garfunkel supplied some really lovely harmonies with his tenor voice, but otherwise isn’t anything special. All that aside, yes- this is an homage. Who cares? It’s a nice tribute to the great Simon and Garfunkel.

By: ZsuKov

ZsuKov — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:23:57 +0000

i have full discography of the two bands up there. and hell, i love these guys. all of them.

By: Rosewyn

Rosewyn — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:02:22 +0000

LOL I guess we are kinda like sheep huh buddy!
That was a good one.
Cheers!

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:42:05 +0000

OMG GARFUNKEL IS IMMORTAL!!!!!!!

By: morecowbell

morecowbell — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:11:50 +0000

nooo!

By: cody_gee

cody_gee — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:08:32 +0000

LOL

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:46:54 +0000

It’s “spit and image” – not spitting image.

By: blake419

blake419 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:27:56 +0000

Obvious fail.

By: idaho beef

idaho beef — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:15:25 +0000

yeh, but can they sing as well?

By: Ruben

Ruben — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:21:28 +0000

Agreed. Effin trolls, go back to your LOLcats.

By: humeanesque

humeanesque — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:39:05 +0000

It’s funny because the second paragraph is paraphrased from Wikipedia.

Not that I don’t agree.

By: humeanesque

humeanesque — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:34:07 +0000

I realize it’s just a head shot but they don’t seem fat to me.

By: humeanesque

humeanesque — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:26:11 +0000

All white people look the same to me.

By: Stu Padazo

Stu Padazo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:59:30 +0000

This site has rules?

By: superyutz

superyutz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:01:24 +0000

Oh…and they are not conjoined twins at the head….just in photoshop!….

By: superyutz

superyutz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:58:45 +0000

Simon was the genius, Garfunkle was the name…Can I tell the right from the left….WHO CARES!

By: LB

LB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:58:11 +0000

Yes she could, she just couldn’t wash her hands well enough. That just sounds like a bad case of OCD, and as EVERYONE knows, OCD sufferers make the BEST housekeepers.

By: Jillers

Jillers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:46:43 +0000

Hi there, you seem to be confused about what an homage is. It is not blatantly ripping off someone else’s work, but is rather a way to show respect to a person, most noticeably: as an image or work which was made in the style of the original to show where the artist’s influence comes from.
This particular cover can be considered ‘tip-of-the-hat’ toward f Simon & Garfunkel’s music and a statement on Kruder & Dorfmeisters perception of their own music, style and their claim for their own standing in modern popular music as a timeless classic duo. Whether they are or not is another thing completely, but this isn’t ripping them off, it’s acknowledging them.

And, HI stereotype of my generation! I appreciate that you think my peers and I are “hollowed out Ritalin Rejects who can’t come up with anything original, soulful, or innovative on their own if their lives depended on it” but, I assure you, I never took Ritalin.
Heeeeyyy….. quick question…. what did you ever innovate and/or create?
I mean, personally? I wouldn’t rip on two entire generations (ok, 99% of two whole generations) unless I was a critically acclaimed, Nobe Prize-winning, artist (of some kind); otherwise I’d just be a stubborn fool who refuses to accept that my own music (for example) isn’t the only music worth my merit. Also? It would make me sound like a pretentious asshole.

By: Jillers

Jillers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:33:44 +0000

I’m just curious if it says in the rules of this site that homages (ie: something that TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE something else, albeit purposefully) aren’t allowed.

By: Jillers

Jillers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:25:17 +0000

No she wouldn’t: she never could get that spot out.

By: Hoopy Frood

Hoopy Frood — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:23:43 +0000

I actually don’t mind homages.

But stock photos really don’t belong here, because instead of “one thing looks like another thing,” it’s “one thing looks like itself.”

By: Hoopy Frood

Hoopy Frood — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:22:07 +0000

Usually, Again, homage images are done as a tribute, not a ripoff. They also tend to have the original creator’s permission.

By: Hoopy Frood

Hoopy Frood — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:20:06 +0000

People complain about stock footage because “this model totally looks like him/herself” isn’t entertaining.
They complain about homages because, while they might be interesting, they’re rarely funny.

By: ozibobsledteem

ozibobsledteem — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:47:39 +0000

photoshopped

By: Matador

Matador — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:11:53 +0000

Interesting, maybe.
Appropriate for this site, no.

By: Schmoe

Schmoe — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:08:43 +0000

don’t get it; don’t want it; getting along very nicely without it. And, yes, have heard it all before.

By: Again

Again — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:22:48 +0000

Poor baby… We don’t need you here anyways. Good riddance.

By: Leak

Leak — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:02:55 +0000

ITYM “from the dub end of the musical spectrum”.

And who are those Simon & Garfunkel geezers, anyway?

np: Phantom Ghost – The Charge Of A Light Brigade (Thrown Out Of Drama School)

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:44:32 +0000

Raising hand

By: NixonAgnew

NixonAgnew — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:32:04 +0000

yea, if you’re missing an eye…

By: Phillipe d'Beaker

Phillipe d'Beaker — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:39:51 +0000

Yep. K&D are out on the techno/trance end of the musical spectrum, quite far from S&G, which gives their homage an extra added dose of irony. OK, then, how many of you have both in your music collection? Raise your hands high…

By: Huey

Huey — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:18:29 +0000

They don’t look alike. Only the lighting & angles are the same.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:54:19 +0000

I didn’t know who Kruder & Dorfmeister are, either.

I RTFA — I did a search and found their webpage is down, but I found a few places where one can listen to their recordings.

Making an album cover in which they look like Simon & Garfunkel is the only way anybody is ever going to confuse the two. Give me Paul and Art, any day of the week.

Yep, I’m old — this time I’m even proud of it.

By: billigan

billigan — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:46:35 +0000

to those of you that ‘don’t get it’

How funny would it be if somebody put one up that said Val Kilmer TLL Jim Morrison in the movie “The Doors”? Or, Clint Eastwood as “Dirty Harry” TLL Clint Eastwod in “The Outlaw Josey Wales?”

Yeah, not funny. Just like the girl in stock photo A TLL the girl in stock photo B.

Should be another site dedicated to “just didn’t care enough to be original / homage.” Or, Intentional Unoriginal dot com.

By: Doodlegoat

Doodlegoat — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:02:33 +0000

Sez you. I think it’s interesting that people would rather their artwork look like something else than come up with something original.

By: Schmoe

Schmoe — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:57:19 +0000

Age is such a double-edged sword. Who the heck are Kruder and Dorfmeister? And why should I care (“why should I care…out of my brain on the 5:15″)

By: ephercat

ephercat — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:32:12 +0000

I read the website just to see you all fight with each other, it’s hilarious!

By: Red

Red — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:29:15 +0000

Enough with the homages. Anyway, this site is now dropped from my bookmarks.

By: Again

Again — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:49:33 +0000

I guess being a big, fat copycat is a GOOD thing nowadays… As if “remaking” something into something which is, at best, a pale remake and at most a scathing burn of something is a good idea too.

This entire generation, nay maybe even 99% of humanity within the last two generations, are hollowed-out Ritalin Rejects who can’t come up with anything original, soulful, or innovative on their own if their lives depended on it.

If everyone gets a trophy for “participating” nobody experiences the true joy of being truly excellent or feel the pain of losing so deeply that they reinvent themselves, and as such everyone becomes a shallow joke of what they could have been had they been allowed to feel things other than numb.

By: BreenLolz

BreenLolz — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:23:35 +0000

My opinion is that this blog is called, “One thing looks like another thing”. it’s not called “One thing looks accidentally like another thing”, or “One thing is a rip-off of another thing, but is not a homage or two people using stock footage”.

It’s also not, “One thing looks like another, and that is hilarious”.

So I don’t see anything wrong with posting lots of different things … we won’t all like everything, right?

By: Fwuffy

Fwuffy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:48:25 +0000

Have you ever heard the saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”?

By: TheCake

TheCake — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:35:46 +0000

True. But the funny part here is that they actually *do* look like them. It’s not just that the cover is similar. Look at the guy to the right (Dorfmeister). Spitting image of Garfunkel.

By: Brandon_ha

Brandon_ha — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Lady Macbeth would have made a great maid.

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:24:54 +0000

hey, Clueless, yes the majority [of you],
the website is totally looks like, no matter if homage fun or stock, it doesn’t matter, ‘looks like’ is what matters and The point,
The point is not, ‘i got here first’ or let’s trash the post,
why comment if you got nothing worthwhile to say except the same thing you commented for the previous picture, and the one before that etc, ad nauseam,
i like this pic it is very lookalike, whether intentional or not does not matter, right.

carry on.

By: sweetfeet

sweetfeet — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:11:00 +0000

Geez, people, chill. Even the obvious ones are interesting and lead to exploration. As in, I have to go look up those other guys whose names I can’t pronounce.

By: jl5691426

jl5691426 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:45:16 +0000

Apparently so – did you read Again’s comment? By the way- who are Kruder and Dorfmeister? I guess I’m off to Wikipedia to look them up, and in case you were wondering the answer is yes, I am old.

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:41:26 +0000

He was in a recent episode of Flight of The Concords, for one.

By: David

David — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:40:26 +0000

Can we add a new category for the Fail Blog for things like this?

By: Say Cheese!

Say Cheese! — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:23:46 +0000

“This is an homage, I think. Kruder & Dorfmeister seem to be making a tribute to Simon & Garfunkel, and they did it on purpose.”

Do you think that you really need to point this out to people?