Yesterday I came to the realisation that I really do need to live life just like my dogs; in the moment. / I had a chance to photograph a …
Yesterday I came to the realisation that I really do need to live life just like my dogs; in the moment. / I had a chance to photograph a wonderful sight as I was driving along the main road to town. Instead of stopping right there on the side of the road, and risking holding up traffic or having someone honk their horn at me, or even worse, look at me like I was an idiot, I drove further down looking for a side road where I might get a good view of what I wanted to photograph. / I drove down this dirt road between the sugar cane and realised as I drove that the cane was going to obstruct every chance I had at my target. / I drove back to the main road only to find that it had gone, dissipated. / It was a wonderful sight, cloud all over the mountains and rising up between 2 mountains was a really broad rainbow that ended at the clouds. It looked like it was fighting to get through the clouds and losing the battle. / I was so disappointed and wished that I had just stopped when I spotted it, and taken the shot. / :(
Hi Everyone .... Well It’s been a long time since I sat here and wrote a little about myself like I used to. In a way this is yet ano…
Hi Everyone .... Well It’s been a long time since I sat here and wrote a little about myself like I used to. In a way this is yet another of those updates, only at this point I am angry beyond belief. Maybe that is when I write the best? A quick Health update which I should have done a long time ago. At this stage I am taking two different Anti Depressants and seeing a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist!! Mentally I am not the best which I guess most of you would have figured from my here again – not here again presence in the Bubble. Some would know I lost my job in May due to a Lung Disease. I have had one specialist Appointment about that and am due to have another follow up appointment in early Oct. As of now I find it nearly impossible to do any physical work for any long period of time. As such I need to re-learn how to do normal everyday things in stints. I am finding that hard to come to terms with, but I will get there. Being a small rural town my chances of work here while I am sick (I also get pretty sick late evening to late mornings) are pretty slim. Money wise I now have maxed out my Credit Card. I have never been in this position before, I have always had a little savings and a regular weekly income, so at this stage I am very stressed out living day to day. Why do all the big bills like insurance and rates always come at the same time? I will get past all this. In regards to what is going on with my Ex. This is why I am so angry today. I while ago I had to change from paying a solicitor to getting legal Aid because I could no longer afford a solicitor. The new Solicitor had a meeting with me in Early July and that went really well. Going through Legal Aid now as well, I set it up so that my Ex and I could go to a Mediation Session before anything legal was done in the hopes that we could come to some arrangement that way. My new solicitor requested a few more documents from me at our meeting and would let me know when mediation (if indeed my ex agreed to it) would be taking place. I have written to my Solicitor twice since that meeting regarding extra documents and let him know if there was anything else he required not to hesitate in letting me know. I haven’t heard anything from him since the meeting. I would have assumed that he and I would have met or spoke at least once more before Mediation took place, so I was just thinking it was a slow process and waited. At the meeting he asked me when I would like to be moved back to Victoria and I said at least from Xmas. So … these things take time obviously. Last night I lay awake in bed till about 6am this morning. I had terrible reflux (apparently due to my lung disease) and didn’t feel very well at all. I finally fell asleep sometime after 6am. I remember waking once to the sound of the phone ringing, but because I was so tired just went back to sleep not thinking much about it. When I got up today I found that I had 5 messages on my mobile phone. Obviously someone needed to talk to me so I checked them right away. It was Legal aid Asking why I wasn’t at the Mediation that had been set up for 9.30am today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I may not be the brightest light bulb in the pack … but in order to have been at a meeting I think it would have been nice to have been told about it in advance!!! Not only now does this work against me in regards to why I am still here in WA fighting a woman who shouldn’t be getting what she says she wants …. but I would fairly say it has blown any chance I have at all now of reasoning with her. :( I wish I could sue all those involved now for all the stress and depression I have suffered leading up to this point … only now to be in this situation. I really feel now I have no chance at all of getting anything that I feel would be fair for me. Basically now I am way back at the point where she suddenly popped up again and said she wanted half the profits from the sale when I sold my house. I don’t know if I can go through all that again :( Angry? You bet I am and disappointed and depressed and confused and lost. What will I do? Mope for a few hours … then live day by day again. I have a Psychiatrist coming around to see me at 3pm. Poor bugger, he is going to cope it all :(
My wonderful (and longsuffering) boyfriend accompanied me to an orchid show this weekend. Cameras and photography were encouraged, said …
My wonderful (and longsuffering) boyfriend accompanied me to an orchid show this weekend. Cameras and photography were encouraged, said the web site, so I fanatically readied my baby (the camera that is) and we were off. I was pretty disappointed at the setup. The flowers, while unspeakably beautiful, were crammed together on tables with poor lighting and even worse backgrounds. Clearly this was not an event for photogs, but for orchid enthusiasts – imagine that! :) I took almost a hundred pictures, but I think very few of them will turn out to be any good – the lighting was bad enough that I should have had a tripod, and in the background of every shot there are a hundred other flowers, leaves, ribbons and tags. Unfortunate. The orchids, though, were stunning and it was certainly worth the 20-minute drive and $4 admission to see them. I didn’t realize there were so many kinds of orchids, but they vary wildly in shape, color and size. Plus I felt somewhat encouraged in my photography since there had been an orchid photo contest, and the winning pictures were quite poor in my opinion. Not that I am trying to be hypercritical (I’m sure there weren’t many entrants for the judges to choose from), but it is encouraging when I can tell some specific differences between good and bad photography. :) I did upload one shot, The Dancer, which I love. Hopefully I’ll have a handful of other worthy shots up for viewing soon! Thanks so much for reading!
Okay, I’ve got the last of the stuff I ordered from the bubble today. So, I can begin to give some impressions on what I have. Might …
Okay, I’ve got the last of the stuff I ordered from the bubble today. So, I can begin to give some impressions on what I have. Might help to list what I ordered (generically, not specifics). A Good Handful of Cards One Canvas Print One T-shirt 5 Calendars Impressions The cards are first rate. I honestly don’t buy a lot of cards. I haven’t done Christmas cards in years, and when I did, we’re talking the most generic stuff possible, and these cards from redbubble are light years from the quality of those. No complaints are concerns. I would still like the ability to set an individual percent on my own cards versus prints, especially with the base price rising. But that’s a technical issue, not a quality issue. The canvas print is nice. It was very well put assembled and packed. Through no fault of redbubble, I had a slight mishap with it and managed to get something indelible on the surface of the print. So, what I have on my wall and what I received are not quite the same. Essentially, I have a one of a kind because I put paint brush to canvas and did my own bit of repair. I still don’t know what I foolishly did, but when I first pulled the print out of its well-packaged cocoon it was just fine. The t-shirt is nice. It’s a gift, so I only opened it up long enough to get a little glimpse at it. Nice touches, the sticker that wraps the t-shirt includes nutritional info. type stuff and even lists Pompeii as one of the ingredients (the t-shirt is a scene from Pompeii)! Oh, and in keeping with the theme of food, it included a set of chop sticks. Very happy, especially as a gift. The calendars I received today. By and large, happy, but they are a bit, I don’t know, dark? I have prints of almost all the images I used for this and none of them are as dark as they are on the paper the calendars was done for. The darker areas of the photos are practically black. Anyone else have this experience? There were photos that were quite complimented by this, but some just didn’t look all that hot to me. They’re family gifts for this year, but next year I’d be interested in doing some calendars for sale, so any feedback on what should be expected in the future is appreciated. So, overall happy and impressed. Maybe a tad disappointed in the calendars. I would definitely want to have enough lead time next year to order and preview the results before I offered them for general consumption next year.
Today I received my delivery of Calendars.. a good thing you might think?? However, I had to pay, at the door, an additional amount of £2…
Today I received my delivery of Calendars.. a good thing you might think?? However, I had to pay, at the door, an additional amount of £24.76 G.B.P… this is on an order that originally only cost me £27.00 GBP.!!!! This was a charge made by the good old British Government covering Import VAT and charges. So my fellow Bubblers beware the Great British rip-off!.. My calendars have each cost me almost double the original price.. I am so disappointed.. Bahhhh Humbug!
Hi all. I recently received some redbubble stuff that I ordered for Christmas. One was a self designed t-shirt >for me, and the ot…
Hi all. I recently received some redbubble stuff that I ordered for Christmas. One was a self designed t-shirt >for me, and the other a calendar, > a gift. The calendar itself, as redbubble product is great. stylish, well packed and well done. The actually prints were as seen on screen. Unfortunately, as deceived by the back light of the computer screen, they looked brighter there, then when printed. I found myself disappointed. The t-shirt was disappointing for a couple of reasons. Again-quality, fine! When I ordered it, I ordered a print I thought I liked. Since ordering, I did something better. From previous experience, I thought what was on screen at the time of printing, not ordering, was what you got. So, I changed the image, hoping I would get that instead of what was there when I ordered. (are you with me?) Alas, I learnt-it is what is on screen at the time of ordering that gets printed. Again-this is probably a good thing of redbubbles-what if an artist deletes, or changes an order unbenounced ( that is a word, I swear!) to the purchaser? ( I could’ve tried contacting RB..I thought they’d be way too busy w chrissy) upon trying on this alternate image-I also noted the design must be catered for women-mine is strategically in the wrong place ie more in the middle of the t rather than up high. (I’m so embarassed, I can’t wear it). Very unflattering. So I learnt a few things -make sure what you order is exactly as you like it. (duh) / -artists, make things a little brighter to keep the colour nice / -t-shirt designers-ensure your image is a little higher than you think…perhaps even measure on yourself to get the centre of the design ‘above the nipple line’! _______ on that note, I was very nervous to deliver an order of 4 t-shirts. (they didn’t trust the internet!) please god, like them, let them be awesome! ...and they are! the parents are very happy their boys will be dressed in t-shirts for their life to come (small in mens is HUGE!) and I am very very relieved.
I’ve been talking up the trail rides in Upper Plenty for several months now and I thought it was about time I finally got around to organ…
I’ve been talking up the trail rides in Upper Plenty for several months now and I thought it was about time I finally got around to organising the first (as far as I know) Melbourne RedBubble trail ride meet. I’ve been going to Uncle Nev’s for years now. The staff are fantastic and they cater for all experience levels whether you’ve never ridden before or you’ve been riding all your life. DETAILS DATE: Saturday the 28th of June (this is just a proposed date and is flexible, if this doesn’t suit feel free to propose another date, just make sure it’s far enough in advance to make sure we can get a booking) ADDRESS: 1115 Wallan-Whittlesea Road, Upper Plenty, 3756 (50 minutes from Melbourne CBD) TIME: 1:30pm mount up for a 2pm departure (returning around 5pm) COST: $65 for the three hour ride including a stop half-way for coffee, tea and biscuits (though once they had cupcakes so you never know your luck) / NOTE – The website says a discount applies for bookings of over 10 people so the price may work out cheaper depending on numbers, also they don’t have eftpos facilities there so bring cash WHAT TO WEAR: It’ll be cold but like any exercise you’ll warm up once you get going so dress warm but not too warm. I usually wear a jumper or jacket that I can take off and tie around my waist if I need to. Also, comfortable pants (jeans are fine), and boots are best but runners with a bit of grip are fine to. Helmets are provided. I’ve got three spaces in my car for anyone who needs a lift, but if anyone else can offer rides to people in need that would be great too. If you’ve got any other questions or you want a contact number for the day just bubblemail me. =) So who’s in?!
This weekend, it was my daughter’s very first ballet performance (three performances in two days, actually) and I was so much looking for…
This weekend, it was my daughter’s very first ballet performance (three performances in two days, actually) and I was so much looking forward to photograph her, but we were not allowed to take a single photo… :( (even when the director told me some time ago that I may take photographs during the performance if I will!) / We’ll be able to buy a DVD with photos taken by a professional photographer who was hired by the school but as far as the DVD will be made for TV/PC playing and should contain a video reportage of the whole performance (taking about 1.5h) as well as group portraits and portraits of all of the 290 performers, I’m not really sure whether the photos will be big enough/in reasonable quality to get even a single print of her… Even worse, the DVD will be only available after summer holidays (in September), so we have nothing to show to our grannies who live 1000km far away. I feel so sad and disappointed about it… / On the positive side, she really enjoyed being a part of it, and after all that’s the most important :)
Today my website gets a good order from Singapore. For around £1300 GBP. But the paypal system lets me down, i guess the buyer didn’t hav…
Today my website gets a good order from Singapore. For around £1300 GBP. But the paypal system lets me down, i guess the buyer didn’t have his cookies set right or something went wrong, but he was unable to pay. Ego i lose a valuable sale. And one i really needed as I’ve invested about £1000 in advertising my site in the last couple of months and really needed a return on it. But while it’s a disappointment, It means my work will sell for the price I have it at and maybe even more and next person who tries will most likely be able to pay using the system and will get sent the paintings they wanted. i just hate letting anyone down or having them have a bad experience while buying anything from me.
i just recieved mounted prints that i ordered and i am very disappointed with the quality. they were very over priced. they feel like…
i just recieved mounted prints that i ordered and i am very disappointed with the quality. they were very over priced. they feel like they are worth $5 and i paid $50. they have a finish wich makes them show much glare. they are mounted on garbage. they don’t look terrible on the wall, but i could not send customers to redbubble to buy such inferior workmanship.
To all my RB friends who don’t know her work!!! / Well its time to get over to her site and take a look! / This lady’s work stands out as …
To all my RB friends who don’t know her work!!! / Well its time to get over to her site and take a look! / This lady’s work stands out as a real treat and as work that will keep you up at night looking for something crawling on your walls in your bed or in your food! / But not only does she photograph Bugs and creepy crawlers she’s wonderful at photographing flowers!! / You all know I love flowers but Miss Yool can make my mouth water over her flowers and Macro she’s the Queen here on RedBubble for her flower Macro work. / So take the time to look at this wonderful work and yool all love it too! / Check it out here:!Yool / ! And this little nasty
this will be my first publication in Best of College Photography 2009 / was notified today that i am a finalist for / nikon’s 29th annual …
this will be my first publication in Best of College Photography 2009 / was notified today that i am a finalist for / nikon’s 29th annual college photography contest!!! / over 3,000 students participated from us and canada and around the world!! i will be notified feb 23rd if i place as a category winner! cape disappointment / 2009 calendar – lighthouses of the pacific northwest cape disappointment / ilwaco, washington
this photo is being published in “best of college photograp…
this photo is being published in “best of college photography 2009” / as being chosen for a finalist in Nikon’s 29th annual photography contest / i find out on february 23rd if i actually made it as a category winner for more prizes!! / i am so honored and my edmonds community college teachers deserve all the recognition too: i’ve now studied under / minh carrico, michael wewer, robert stahl and michael whitmarsh / i was bobby stahls lab assistant and chosen to co-teach with michael wewer in the darkroom and start training this friday to assist minh carrico in the mac lab!! they have really been amazing, inspiring teachers and i so appreciate all the opportunities they have presented me and helping feed my passion!! with that said, i wanted to sincerely thank my two groups for featuring my shot, your love and support means the world to me: first to feature my work yesterday (1/27/09) was my group Live Love Dream thank you to our hosts bonita one-cent trussotto and MDomaille and a few hours later(!!!) i was featured by Your Magic Place thank you to my hosts Kasia and Pawel blessings and inspirations my friends, / ♥t
Ugh. For the fourth time, Hubby and I have had the money to get my camera and it’s not going to work out. It was supposed to be my Valent…
Ugh. For the fourth time, Hubby and I have had the money to get my camera and it’s not going to work out. It was supposed to be my Valentines Day present (and Birthday/Christmas/Anniversary since we didn’t have money for anything on those days) and as usual, something comes up and it’s gone again. sigh / I feel like I’ve been rolling with the punches pretty good with all of this but now…ugh, now I actually just want to cry. I actually thought it was going to work out this time and got myself too excited. Plus I think the fact that my camera is starting to freeze up on me and not act right, makes it worse. I’m scared to use it because if it busts, I’m SOL…but I’m not enjoying NOT being able to take any photos. Sigh Blah, I tell ya….Just BLAH!!
forgive me for taking so long to say thank you, it was a busy week photographically for me, with the 3 day frank diMiero jazz festival gi…
forgive me for taking so long to say thank you, it was a busy week photographically for me, with the 3 day frank diMiero jazz festival gig i did for edmonds cc choral department ~ alot of editing… and with all that excitement i have to say my following work week was soooooooo hoooooooo hum. so without further adieu… thank you to Going Coastal and our fabulous hosts ER Bazor and LindaJ Bazor for featuring my image / Cape Disappointment on feb26th… only goes to prove, once again, that sometimes dissapointments can turn out to be quite a surprise ;) as always, / blessing and inspirations my friends, / ♥t
I haven’t been much active with Redbubble but since I did not have a sale for almost 2 months I came back to check the all time most popu…
I haven’t been much active with Redbubble but since I did not have a sale for almost 2 months I came back to check the all time most popular images, and what a surprise, my best seller is no longer in the top 10 of all time. So I checked on page 1, 2, 3… 30, nothing! My picture that has more than 12,600 views went from top#7 (for almost 2 years) to not even top 300!!! It just disappeared :( I could understand that a tweak in search engine make things fluctuate, but the change seems too extreme. My images are losing exposure and I’m not getting sales anymore, I’m very disappointed. Anyone else noticed the same thing?
Some of my favorite and best pictures like my Green Eyed Giza Girl have disappeared from my art at Redbubble. All of my earlier entries …
Some of my favorite and best pictures like my Green Eyed Giza Girl have disappeared from my art at Redbubble. All of my earlier entries which were some of my best have disappeared. Is there a limit of 25 pages of art on Redbubble and who decides which photos to eliminate? I spent hours loading them and setting them up and now they are gone. Can anyone explain?????? It has taken the wind out of my sails. Thanks clizzio
One wonders (at least I do) about the trust issues or the bureaucracy or the plain ‘busy-ness’ of people that they are not able to accept…
One wonders (at least I do) about the trust issues or the bureaucracy or the plain ‘busy-ness’ of people that they are not able to accept money to help an area that needs it. / / Or perhaps they don’t need it? / / Two weeks ago I contacted the Rebuilding Commission set up to mop up and rebuild after the Black Saturday bushfires. At least I got a response (as I’ve previously mentioned) but still awaiting their advice on whether or not they want Phoenix-Appeal’s profits. I decided not to wait for them to get back to me and I sent out a message to Landcare. I followed up with a phone call to a gent at the Port Phillip & Westernport Catchment Authority who I think has some involvement in Landcare. I was referred to another gent. I left a message on his voicemail. No response. I sent an email … he has at least opened my email because it was receipted … still no response. And yesterday I left yet another message on his voicemail. Guess what? Still no response. Yes, I’m having a whinge. I just don’t understand why the last chap didn’t send a quick emailed response to say the matter is under consideration or something. But nothing! Pretty rude. / / My next step is to see if I can contact a local Landcare Group instead of going through the red tape. Blast it … we are still making a couple of sales every week and currently have about $90 sitting in the account. It’s not a lot of money and maybe it is just so low down on the grand scale of things that we’re at the bottom of the list. / / But hell, I’d rather it was out there doing some good instead of languishing in our account. And it would be nice to be able to tell people exactly where the money will be going and see some results from it. / / So thank you everyone for your patience on this issue. I will continue to pursue it and I’ve asked Redbubble accounts to hang on to our money until I sort this situation out. Hopefully, something positive soon. Anne.
I’m on a time out. Mommy didn’t put me on one; I put myself on it. I’m trying to cope with bovine defecation from a source familiar to …
I’m on a time out. Mommy didn’t put me on one; I put myself on it. I’m trying to cope with bovine defecation from a source familiar to each of us in its own special way. So, I won’t be far away and probably here as often as not. This place offers far too much support, love, and knowledge for me to be sent to stand in the corner without a computer. Odds are I’ll write, shoot and compose: all things I do when deeply troubled to avoid beginning ‘that scream that never ends’. Odds are also good that the results will be wildly inconsistent or just plain dark or maybe both. That means, odds are they will never see the light of day. But they will have served their purposes – to burn this crap from my mind and allow me to live in peace between the ears. It won’t be easy with human scum working like rust to degrade me, discourage me. But I will prevail. I always do. Be well and I’ll return as soon as I’m able. Love to you all. / Lenny La Rue
Sorry guys this is my third journal for the evening but thought that you might be interested in this ! l recently purchased some print…
Sorry guys this is my third journal for the evening but thought that you might be interested in this ! l recently purchased some prints from RB,l finally splashed out to see what they would look like blown up ! l received them last week and was so excited when l opened them ,l had also purchased some cards which arrived with them. l opened the package to find all my images were so dark l could hardly see them….. instant disappointment,l contacted RB and they have been very helpful in that they are reprinting but this is reply l got from them “Hi Trudi Sorry for the late reply. / The issue here is that the images on RB are too dark to begin with. A print will always come out a step darker than how it appears on a backlit computer monitor, so it’s not really useful comparing the two. What I suggest you do is go back to those images and lighten them, then re-upload them to their edit screens and once that’s done, we’ll put a reprint through for you” / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / Was l naive to think that the images should look close to what l was seeing on here ? l suggested maybe RB put out a newsletter warning us that the image we see is’nt necessarily what we will get ? just a thought,but l have had no acknowledgement about that from them, l will be choosing all my cards from now on in regards to brightness …......... Have a great Evening /morning/afternoon Trudi
Firstly, I wish to apologise to you, my friends, for not keeping up with your comments on my work and replying to you as I would normally…
Firstly, I wish to apologise to you, my friends, for not keeping up with your comments on my work and replying to you as I would normally try to do. Unfortunately, my attention has been dragged away from the ‘art’ part of the community here at RB, to more of a ‘huge family blow-up explosion’.... I am also very tired as I slept extremely little last night. I am also aware that Peter the Administrator must be in a very similar state, as he was also up extremely late last night. I hope many of you are aware of the incident that has provoked this. Helen Bascom has – in the time I have been here on RB – come to be my friend. My very good friend. What happened to her has upset me greatly. I did not sleep much last night. But – for me – there is an even larger issue at stake here than the summary deletion of Helen’s account from Red Bubble, without her having the chance to put her version of events. The issue at stake here is that Helen’s account was deleted summarily – with as far as I have been able to ascertain – NO INVESTIGATION of the circumstances – solely on the basis of a ‘report as inappropriate / personally abusive’ made by a third party who had absolutely NO direct involvement in the events or comments he / she was reporting! This reflects an ‘apparent’ zero tolerance’ policy here at RB for ‘personal abuse’... Yes, I agree, this sounds very good. Personal abuse should not be tolerated. However – this incident clearly highlights that – unlike some issues such as the potential for child pornography, where it is very easy to draw a straight line in the sand regarding who, at what age is or is not a ‘child’, the definition of what is considered ‘personal abuse’ vs the definition of describing someone’s creative work as personally offensive may NOT be so clearly defined. In this case, neither the person who made the original comment on Helen’s journal, nor Helen herself, felt the need to ‘report to RB’. Yes, RB DOES tell us to ‘report’ – do NOT go getting mixed up in arguments yourself – but – to my knowledge this issue was ended! Neither Helen, nor miron, had continued any form of offensive behaviour toward each other regarding this particular exchange. In the past, I myself have reported private bmails sent to me using the exact same words Helen wrote in her thread. The RB response to my complaint at the time was along the lines of “this appears to be dying down – let it be – if there’s any more report again and we’ll act”. At the time I was extremely upset. However, now, in retrospect, I can see that this response was correct! The matter DID end there of it’s own accord. The matter between Helen and miron may also most likely have ended right there of it’s own accord, and there would now be NO pages and pages of forum arguments that have gone WAY out of control, there would be no people favouriting any and all Tees with statements of F#$ You an dF#$% Off they can find, there would be no people removing all of their works for sale on RB, there would be no people deleting their accounts at RB and leaving in anger and disgust that Helen was given no chance to defend herself against this report by AN UNKNOWN AND UNNAMED THIRD PARTY WHO – for whatever personal reasons of their own, REINFLAMED a probably dead issue for their own personal reasons! In the 9-10 months I have been a member of Red Bubble I have come to greatly respect the motives and capacities of the RB management and staff team. Firstly, when I joined, this was my very first step back into a world from which I had been a virtual recluse for 7-8 years. I was very scared. It was things such as RB’s firm NSFW filter policy, which protected me from having to unintentionally view work I could have found extremely distressing, as well as their firm ‘play nice’ policy which enabled me to feel ‘safe enough’ to finally build up the nerve to join and take my first steps back into the world. I am, and will remain, incredibly grateful to Red Bubble, it’s management and members, for welcoming me – safely – here. Red Bubble has – since that time, provided me with the most wonderfully supportive community – as well as the opportunity of for the first time in my life ever making FRIENDS! This personal and emotional development and strengthening has also allowed in me a development and strengthening of my art, and my sense and confidence in myself as an artist. For this I also am, and will always remain incredibly grateful. I was extremely happy and proud of Peter (and the whole management team’s) response to the great outpourings of emotion over the issue of ‘porn’ on RB some months ago. They took a firm stance that in my eyes was fair, and manageable to police fairly. Peter has stated in one of the forum threads earlier today that the team needs a chance to assess what has happened and formulate a response – maybe even a change in policy – as it is appropriate. I agree they need the time and opportunity to do this. I hope that, in assessing these events, they will manage to see that such a punitive ‘zero tolerance’ policy on an issue that is NOT clearly black and white, that has MANY areas of grey in the HUGE domain between an artwork I may find personally offensive, and the aims of the person who created the work in either deliberately personally offending me or not – or the other way around… An artwork I may create to express an emotion or concept extremely close and important to me may, without any prior knowledge or intention on my part, clearly inflame another member. We may exchange our views rather forcefully in a comment thread. WE may – between ourselves, be totally satisfied that each has had his / her say – the matter is now closed. / Current RB policy allows – in any such situation – to ANY member of RB – the same result as happened to Helen Bascom. The immediate FULL DELETION of her account solely on the report of a third party with no examination of what their personal agenda may be in the making of a report about an incident that does not concern them. Any policy that allows such a punitive response to any third party report – with no investigation and NO opportunity for those actually involved in the event to explain themselves and the context in which the reported event took place is totally open to manipulation by anyone with an underlying malignant agenda against any of the participants to act out their own ‘vengeance’ with no fear of assessment of whether their complaint is fair and just. I stand by my assessment that such policy – totally open to such malignant manipulation (whether that occurred in this particular case or not!) is BAD policy. Peter – and all your team – I have grown to respect you all and the true motives you have in creating this COMMUNITY in this time I have been here. You have shown that you ARE capable of taking the hard decisions that must inevitably arise in managing a community as diverse as this. I will continue to actively take part in the ‘artists’ community’ aspect of this site, as I believe your motives for establishing it have been good, and I have great respect for what you have achieved. Also – I have to justify to myself why I am not taking the complete and final step of deleting my own account here in support of my friend, as others of Helen’s and my friends have done. I will miss them greatly here, though I am sure we will not lose contact in ‘the world’. I truly hope that, when given the time and opportunity to calmly analyse what has occurred you will be able to enstate a policy that calls for mandatory review of the details of instances such as this reported to management in this way. I also truly hope I will not be even more hurt and disappointed than I already have been this past day…... You have not given me reason to believe I would be…. Kallena xx
Hey everyone! I have just entered some of my art in a photography competition. I would love for you all to vote for me ;) You can vote mo…
Hey everyone! I have just entered some of my art in a photography competition. I would love for you all to vote for me ;) You can vote more than once, but only once every 24 hours. You can vote for me here Love, / Sarah
Well our Christmas was somewhat quiet, with only one daughter able to come and spend time with us…we had a wonderful dinner last night…
Well our Christmas was somewhat quiet, with only one daughter able to come and spend time with us…we had a wonderful dinner last night (Christmas Eve) and will have another yummy feast today… / Bonnie our daughter… brought a Turkey she wanted to cook, partly because she will take most of it back home to celebrate a late Christmas with her husband when he returns from flying the skys…and the other reason is it was our Christmas present from her…she wanted to prepare our meal for us on Christmas day. After the meal, we usually spend time and contact other members of our huge family…with 4 daughters and 4 sons it can be quite the holiday task…One of my Chtristmas presents to everyone’s family this year was a calendar made of captures that I had taken through the years or year that pertained to each individual son or daughter’s family. / Quite the undertaking to compile all of the photographs and contsturct 8 different calendars…much less the cost since redbubble does not even give or offer wholesale prices to their artist-members when they are buying their own products…everytime I turn around I feel redbubble is making a ton of money off of my efforts. Well back on my rant… six of those children got their presents on time and two I had to apoligize to for the empy slot under the tree from myself and my husband. / There is no more embarrasing situation to be in, then the one where you have to tell a person that their present is comming ...is has such an emprty sound to it and what is the person suppose to say who is on the receiving end? I ordered these calendars many weeks before any deadline shipping dates…first I get an email that said my shipment has been held up in customs and then about 10 days later... I get an email that my shipments have been shipped…well here I sit on Christmas Day trying to explain to my family members why they do not have a gift this year. / I wrote an email to The Powers That Be and that was almost a week ago… so far I have heard nothing back...not even a We Are Very Sorry...but then I hear that redbubble has contracted a printing company in Iowa for all of their orders outside Australia…well if that is the case, what is all of this custom’s flap and why am I sitting here on Christmas Day having to explain to family members why they don’t have a gift? / I’ll be the first person to praise the quality of redbubble products… but this has been a very disappointing experience…especially with no response or communication from redbubble or a token of a fig leaf from redbubble as an appeasement. / I guess as a small business owner… my husband and I own two corporations and have a large customer base…we do everything humanly possible to make sure that our customer’s are happy…stay late at night to make sure… if we say something is going to ship…it ships! If there is a problem, some beyond our control, we will take the loss and make it right for our customer…our customer’s are our company’s life’s blood. So in closing… I just want to finish this rant with the statement that more and more I am feeling like redbubble has dropped the ball Big Time for me…for all the time I have devoted to this site, for the sales I have brought to them, both from outside buyers, let alone from myself…I feel now more then ever, that I don’t mean squat to this place… I would like them to explain why my orders are missing in action and why I have to explain to my family that they came up short this year and what they are going to do about it to make it right? Just having the calendars show up after Christmas does not make it right or solve the problem! / I fear I will be spending less and less time at redbubble... this is very upsetting as I have made many wonderful friends here… it has been an awesome teaching tool for my art and photography students and I have (I feel) added a quality of artwork and photography to the site. / Remember… history shows us that nothing changes until the people raise up and start yelling FOUL...!!!!! / Sorry for the rant…I hope you all had a great Holiday…and no my day was not totally ruined by this issue… but I did want to draw attention to the fact that although redbubble is a great artist networking site…they are a unorganized and unprofessional semi-sales site…think before you order…I sure will! / Oh and BTW I have started directing many of my watchers and viewers to Susan’s Zazzle Site ...better prices, hundreds of products, faster more reliable shipping! / Now it seems it is time to wish you all a Happy New Year! / Susan
...or the criteria has been upped! Of course, I’m not discounting that maybe I really am more crap in 2010 than I was 2009…but it’s bee…
...or the criteria has been upped! Of course, I’m not discounting that maybe I really am more crap in 2010 than I was 2009…but it’s been seven days into the new year and I have yet to get a feature! Anywhere! In any group! And, I’m not going to stoop to featuring something of mine in one of the groups I host just so I can feel better for a moment. “Oohh, look! I got a feature. Oh yeah…wait a minute…” Yeah…I’m being pretty pitiful and pathetic here…but, damn…in 2009 I was getting features left right and centre and feeling good about what I do. Perhaps I should have just stopped at the death knell of 2009…or maybe the flu is still affecting me. (sigh) blah and double blah!
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