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kzeorStatus: Member Country: United States Gender: Female Type of artist: fantasy artist Registered: Jan 30, 2007 Last online: 12d ago |
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Letting Little Kids Drive
Written by kzeor
At Jun 8, 2008, 6:34:02 AM
Whoa, now something weird just happened. I was sitting here on dA when my little dog started barking and freaking out. I went outside and could hear a man yelling from the west of my house. I though, no problem, another family fight.
I was going in the house when a little boy of about 9 or 10 pops around the corner of my house and said." Ma am, can you please help me?" ( Keep in mind I live in very rural Arkansas....)
He said that he and his Dad were driving to someone's house to get some....stuff... and got stuck really bad in a ditch.
I told him to hop on the back of my 4wheeler and I would drive slowly ( thinking he would be afraid) to get someone on the farm to get him out with a tractor. I found a couple of our farmhands and they said they would. I asked the little boy if he wanted me to give him a ride back to his Dad's car. He said yes.
I took him there and sure enough, the car was in a ditch. Being on a dirt road I could see how the car had weaved from side to side.
The men were two neighbor's that have been in and out of prison on drug and theft arrests many times. They were either drunk or high as kites...at 11:00 in the morning.
They had the little boy driving for them! They wanted me to stay and talked but I made up an excuse to get out of there, plus the farmhand was getting there to get them out of the ditch.
The little boy said," Thank you Ma am". When I left. Poor kid, I wanted to take him home and give him a popsicle and let him be a kid instead of driving these two around.
At Jun 8, 2008, 6:34:02 AM
Listening To: Ooingo Boingo and Sweet
Whoa, now something weird just happened. I was sitting here on dA when my little dog started barking and freaking out. I went outside and could hear a man yelling from the west of my house. I though, no problem, another family fight.
I was going in the house when a little boy of about 9 or 10 pops around the corner of my house and said." Ma am, can you please help me?" ( Keep in mind I live in very rural Arkansas....)
He said that he and his Dad were driving to someone's house to get some....stuff... and got stuck really bad in a ditch.
I told him to hop on the back of my 4wheeler and I would drive slowly ( thinking he would be afraid) to get someone on the farm to get him out with a tractor. I found a couple of our farmhands and they said they would. I asked the little boy if he wanted me to give him a ride back to his Dad's car. He said yes.
I took him there and sure enough, the car was in a ditch. Being on a dirt road I could see how the car had weaved from side to side.
The men were two neighbor's that have been in and out of prison on drug and theft arrests many times. They were either drunk or high as kites...at 11:00 in the morning.
They had the little boy driving for them! They wanted me to stay and talked but I made up an excuse to get out of there, plus the farmhand was getting there to get them out of the ditch.
The little boy said," Thank you Ma am". When I left. Poor kid, I wanted to take him home and give him a popsicle and let him be a kid instead of driving these two around.
I need website help
Written by kzeor
At Dec 9, 2007, 5:18:56 AM
I have a website, kipsart.com but nothing is on it now. I paid a family member to build and maintain it about three years ago but he stopped maintaining it. I decided to scrap the site and rebuild it using Frontpage 2003, what he used.
I have totally messed it up and Frontpage seems too hard. I am currently trying to redo it in Microsoft publisher and I am wondering it this is a good, easy program for a simple art site for a total web building virgin noob to try.
I truthfully don't know what I am doing but I pay for my hosting and dotcom and need to get this done!
If you know of any easier things to use ( free unless you can advise me on what I currently have) and help will be greatly appreciated and I will send mental hugs and kisses to you.
At Dec 9, 2007, 5:18:56 AM
Mood: confused
Listening To: Driver's Seat by Snif n the Tears
Listening To: Driver's Seat by Snif n the Tears
Ok, this might be long but here goes.
I have a website, kipsart.com but nothing is on it now. I paid a family member to build and maintain it about three years ago but he stopped maintaining it. I decided to scrap the site and rebuild it using Frontpage 2003, what he used.
I have totally messed it up and Frontpage seems too hard. I am currently trying to redo it in Microsoft publisher and I am wondering it this is a good, easy program for a simple art site for a total web building virgin noob to try.
I truthfully don't know what I am doing but I pay for my hosting and dotcom and need to get this done!
If you know of any easier things to use ( free unless you can advise me on what I currently have) and help will be greatly appreciated and I will send mental hugs and kisses to you.
Do not take my artwork
Written by kzeor
At Sep 29, 2007, 3:13:19 AM
It has recently come to my attention that some of my work has been taken, colored and manipulated and claimed as their own by another artist. Be advised that some of my works are licensed to another party and they and I could both take legal action.
Also, I do not appreciate the selling of prints of my artwork. This could get you further into a legal entanglement due to a few of my works being under a license at this time as prints, cards, etc. ( whatever the term was for that particular piece), and we were at an agreement that I would not sell them as that item for the duration of the license. If the work is stolen and sold by a third party(some kid on dA or elsewhere), they are the ones that the companies will be going after for legal action.
I have already had to do this once with a card I designed for a card company being ripped from here and being made into a card. I did not take action other than telling the person to remove it and that I would notify the company that I had designed it for. I did so and they took action against this individual.
I know that the people that actually read my journals are probably not the culprits.
If you admire something I do, that is fine and I appreciate that. If you want to ask me how to do something, I will help but taking someone's work, saying it is your own and having it made into prints is a very bad move on your part that can land you in legal hot water.
This is actually one of those times where the saying," It is easier to get forgiveness than permission," does NOT apply. I have granted permission to some of my online friends ( Tower raven, Ladyshalafae, to name a couple), to color some of my work. But, they noted me and asked if they could color it, WAITED for a reply, did so and linked back to my work and credited me.
That is the proper and honorable way to do it but then again, they are proper and honorable artists.
At Sep 29, 2007, 3:13:19 AM
Mood: disgusted
Listening To: The Monster Mash
Listening To: The Monster Mash
It has recently come to my attention that some of my work has been taken, colored and manipulated and claimed as their own by another artist. Be advised that some of my works are licensed to another party and they and I could both take legal action.
Also, I do not appreciate the selling of prints of my artwork. This could get you further into a legal entanglement due to a few of my works being under a license at this time as prints, cards, etc. ( whatever the term was for that particular piece), and we were at an agreement that I would not sell them as that item for the duration of the license. If the work is stolen and sold by a third party(some kid on dA or elsewhere), they are the ones that the companies will be going after for legal action.
I have already had to do this once with a card I designed for a card company being ripped from here and being made into a card. I did not take action other than telling the person to remove it and that I would notify the company that I had designed it for. I did so and they took action against this individual.
I know that the people that actually read my journals are probably not the culprits.
If you admire something I do, that is fine and I appreciate that. If you want to ask me how to do something, I will help but taking someone's work, saying it is your own and having it made into prints is a very bad move on your part that can land you in legal hot water.
This is actually one of those times where the saying," It is easier to get forgiveness than permission," does NOT apply. I have granted permission to some of my online friends ( Tower raven, Ladyshalafae, to name a couple), to color some of my work. But, they noted me and asked if they could color it, WAITED for a reply, did so and linked back to my work and credited me.
That is the proper and honorable way to do it but then again, they are proper and honorable artists.
A story of caution when dealing art online
Written by kzeor
At Mar 16, 2007, 7:12:33 PM
This story happened to me a few months ago and it still bothers me in a way. I did finally receive full payment for my work yet the way the person represented himself to me was wrong and I did not like this.
The following is the story
I responded to a post on another website forum where a young man in college was looking for an artist to create a few illustrations of his characters that he was writing a Christain fantasy novel about. I did approximately 4 or 5 of these drawings and he was delighted with them.
This led to larger artworks of himself and of his friends that he would commission me to do and give to his friends.
After about a year or so of doing smallish works I received an email from the Pastor of his college stating that he was impressed with my works that he had seen and he was wondering if I would send some works to be reviewed by the district board for a large commission they wanted commorating a mission that students were going on later that year.
I did so and was hired. I received numerous emails from this Pastor and from the student concerning the details of what they wanted the people to wear, the placement, etc. The Pastor said he was leaving the details to the student since he knew his friends better, that he was just in charge of financing it and wanted updates on my progress.
This commission went well and I completed the image and recieved payment in a timely manner. I did a few more images for the student and when time came around for another mission I was again hired by the Pastor to complete the image with the same arrangements.
This is where things fell apart. I was having a hard time keeping in touch with the Pastor, supposedly because his wife had just given birth. He said that the student would take care of everything.
I kept getting the run around on a complete payment.
Finally out of frustration I called the University and asked for the Pastor. The Pastor that I talked to said that there was not a Pastor there by that name and had never been! I told them I was the artist that was hired for the last two years to do the annual mission portrait and one other portrait. He said that they had never commissioned any work.
I directed him to my deviantArt gallery and when he saw the work he did recognize it. He said that the student had claimed that he had done all of the works himself!
At Mar 16, 2007, 7:12:33 PM
I will be showing my artwork at Joshua's Fine Jewelry in Russellville Arkansas during the Spring Art Walk on April the 6th. I will have a few for sale but most are from my private collection and I just really don't want to sell them. I will be taking commissions though!
This story happened to me a few months ago and it still bothers me in a way. I did finally receive full payment for my work yet the way the person represented himself to me was wrong and I did not like this.
The following is the story
I responded to a post on another website forum where a young man in college was looking for an artist to create a few illustrations of his characters that he was writing a Christain fantasy novel about. I did approximately 4 or 5 of these drawings and he was delighted with them.
This led to larger artworks of himself and of his friends that he would commission me to do and give to his friends.
After about a year or so of doing smallish works I received an email from the Pastor of his college stating that he was impressed with my works that he had seen and he was wondering if I would send some works to be reviewed by the district board for a large commission they wanted commorating a mission that students were going on later that year.
I did so and was hired. I received numerous emails from this Pastor and from the student concerning the details of what they wanted the people to wear, the placement, etc. The Pastor said he was leaving the details to the student since he knew his friends better, that he was just in charge of financing it and wanted updates on my progress.
This commission went well and I completed the image and recieved payment in a timely manner. I did a few more images for the student and when time came around for another mission I was again hired by the Pastor to complete the image with the same arrangements.
This is where things fell apart. I was having a hard time keeping in touch with the Pastor, supposedly because his wife had just given birth. He said that the student would take care of everything.
I kept getting the run around on a complete payment.
Finally out of frustration I called the University and asked for the Pastor. The Pastor that I talked to said that there was not a Pastor there by that name and had never been! I told them I was the artist that was hired for the last two years to do the annual mission portrait and one other portrait. He said that they had never commissioned any work.
I directed him to my deviantArt gallery and when he saw the work he did recognize it. He said that the student had claimed that he had done all of the works himself!
I did finally get the money from the student so I was not slighted finacially. I figured that I received about $1,200 in payment over the past three years for my work. The thing that bothers me is, did I get paid to do his school work? I don't like the idea that he took my work and said that he did it, ( it did have my name on it), he defrauded his college by stating that he was the Pastor in charge of this organization and also he pretended to be the district board. I would think that that would be grounds for expulsion or legal action since he was conducting business as a University official. I used to receive email from him quite often asking for works. I have not gotten one since October so I am sure that he is getting someone else to do his work.
The moral of the story is that you can never be too careful. While I wasn't taken advantage of finically, I was lied to and I don't appreciate that.
The moral of the story is that you can never be too careful. While I wasn't taken advantage of finically, I was lied to and I don't appreciate that.