Tiffany's · Rambling

I clicked the wrong button when cross-posting/promoting ebay auctions and pissed off a community of angsty emos.

As it turns out, I accidentally trolled them, then figured, what the hell, and had some fun. I just have to wait for the sure to be retarded responses in my inbox.

I deleted the post and their comments, but I screencapped all of it for fun times.

Under the cut are some preview images and links to their auctions (click the image to view the auction). These are all one of a kind ATC/ACEO, they are all remarqued and hand embellished. They come in plastic sleeves to keep them safe. I am going to be uploading some more ATC/ACEOs of my other work, some remarqued one of a kind prints and some OSWOAs later on today, so if you don't see something you like now, check my store tonight or tomorrow for some more auctions.

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I have several auctions up on eBay right now that are ending in about 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Many are one of a kind items like limited edition prints. They sell fast so snatch them up while they're still available!

http://stores.ebay.com/The-Faery-Bazaar

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I have several auctions up on eBay right now that are ending in about 18 hours. Many are one of a kind items including limited edition prints. Snatch them up while you can, they don't stick around very long!

http://stores.ebay.com/The-Faery-Bazaar

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Today I deleted my Elfwood account.

I am getting really tired of people who know very little about copyright law trying to apply what little they do know to everyone on the internet.

The copyright law on the internet thing has gotten out of control. Everyone goes after the people who don't need policing and completely ignore the people who do, like art thieves. Did you know that many "rippers" don't even know they are breaking the law? Why is no one educating these people? Oh right, they're all too busy hunting down painters who use reference photos.

According to Elfwood, I'm a copycat. This is news to me, since I've never copied a photograph in my life, but because I used one for anatomy reference, I am!

In real life, outside the internet, do I have to cite my resources? No. Some people would say that's unethical, but the basic fact is that you're all brainwashing each other. Some people would even go so far as to say that using a reference photo is unethical. These people are what I like to call "Brainwashed hacks". If you do not use reference photos, your paintings will always suck. There will be no avoiding it. No matter how good you are, you will always make mistakes. Always. Don't even comment with "but you can use your imagination" because it's not plausible, possible, or a realistic expectation to have.

If your goal in life is to be better than you were in third grade, great, I can see how that might work out for you. But if your goal in life is to be the best, then I'm sorry, but that's not going to cut it. No matter how powerful your imagination is, it will skip over details or warp them. Impressionists and abstract artists might paint from imagination, and for the most part they all suck, with very few exceptions.

Did you know that the masters used to trace? Some of them didn't even have to trace because they had apprentices to trace for them. They are practically crowned kings in any genre of art and probably have a special afterlife for all the worship they get. I freehand with a photo reference and am practically burned at the stake. Everyone is so paranoid because everyone threatens legal action. "omg this kind of looks like my pose, I SUE YOU!" bring it on. Seriously. I will laugh you all the way out of court and then make you pay my legal fees and hell, damages to my reputation, and why not emotional damages as well? That is more feasible to a judge than imaginary copyright infringement.

The crap that people do over copyright on the internet would never hold up in a court of law, because these people are actually educated. Everyone thinks that they are copyright police on the internet, and the truth is of those people, probably only 5% know what they are talking about. I bet you, if you ask any artist if they have copyrighted their work, they will go "well of course, I made it". No, wrong. WRong wrong wrong. They will also say such things as "if you use my art I will sue you for lots of moneys!" also wrong. Unless you have actually filled out the legal paperwork, paid the fees and sent it to the copyright office of your country, it is not copyrighted. Sure, it's yours, and you can tell people what to do with it. But if they break your rules, you know what legal actions you can take?

A cease and desist order. Maybe. And that's it. You will get no money, they will get to keep whatever they made from your work, because you don't know what you are doing or talking about, but you read whatiscopyright.org once three years ago and now you are a genius on the subject. No, you are an idiot, and you lose.

I refuse to be treated like dirt just because I live in the 21st century. So I will no longer be participating in Elfwood, and if any other website strikes me as being the sort that trample all over "modern artists" simply for living in the era that they do, you won't find me there, either.

*It is also entirely possible that I am really cranky because all I've had to eat for the last two days is two slimfast shakes and a sandwich.*

I just wanted to give everyone a heads-up! I have 2 ACEOs ending in the next day and a few limited edition prints ending around the same time as well! The ACEOs are currently at $5.00, they are printed on canvas and are one of a kind!

My eBay Store: http://stores.ebay.com/The-Faery-Bazaar

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It seems like the last 2 months have disappeared. I haven't updated anything or posted anywhere, except deviantART. It's fast and easy and if I scribble a sentence no one cares as long as I'm alive. When I update here I feel like I should have something HUGE or I'm just wasting time.

I've been accepted into Collins College in Arizona. Yeah, all the way in Tempe. So I'll be moving in a few months in order to get situated before school starts. All my time has basically been eaten up by paperwork, phone calls and then the boring things I have to do in order to eat.

Oh christ I just remembered I have to go to the post office before it closes. Crikey. I just can't get a break! I have mountains of paper work to do before then, as well. Ugh.

I really need a to do list.

I've had pneumonia or something like it twice this year. I get over it and then a few weeks later I've got it again. This last time was awful though, I haven't been that sick in a long time and there were several scary days when we wondered whether I should be hospitalized or not. We don't know for sure what it is, it sounds like pneumonia, but by the time I give in and go to a doctor (you have no idea my hatred for these people) I'm almost over it and they don't bother to waste time looking into it. They just throw a bottle of anti-biotics at me and hope that fixes it. I love people who don't want to do their jobs.

Whilve I've been sick I've gotten absolutely nothing finished. I've started many things but without the energy or time to do them it never gets completed. I'm hoping that this week I will feel better and I'll be able to reorganize my studio in such a way that half my day won't be wasted trying to find things or clean this thing up so I can work on that thing. I'm also going to start unplugging my router each morning and I won't get it back until my tasks for the day are complete. It's a lot easier to spend five hours searching for reference photos than it is trying to force a painting out when I'm blocked.

I don't really get blocked, I always have ideas, my motivation to do them gets blocked sometimes, especially when I'm stressed out. And I am super duper stressed out right now.

I kicked Josh out last month. He was hiding drugs in my van and I don't condone drug use in the first place and I really don't appreciate someone keeping them in my car. He was also smoking cigarettes, which is something I really don't like, since I'm allergic to them. He knew that and so he kept it a secret, which I suspect is a lot of the reason I've been sick for the last several months. My immune system is fried from the little doses of tobacco here and there. He was driving my car while he was under the influence of drugs, and when he would go with his friends he would drink until he passed out. I think alcohol consumption is retarded anyway, drinking till you're four to the floor is so stupid I'll never be able to comprehend the motives behind it.

So I kicked him out, he left his cat here and doesn't seem to give a care, and he took the other cell phone on my plan, and then ran the bill up to over $200. Supposedly he's sending me the money and he'll give me the phone back by May 1st, but only after I reemed him over the phone last night about the stupid decisions that he makes (such as sending 73 text messages when we don't have a single one on our plan). Who the hell do you send 73 text messages to, anyway? What is so damn important that can be said in 250 characters or less that you can't call someone and talk for 2 minutes?

He is so dumb. I don't know what I saw in him. Ever.

I have a new/old boyfriend, though. I dated him when I was younger and very immature, and he's about 4 years older than me so it didn't end up working out. But now that I'm older and wiser I've realized that bad boys are bad and nerdy boys who spoil their girlfriends are very, very good. It doesn't hurt that I've finally come to terms with the fact that I, too, am a big, big nerd.

He'll be moving to Tempe with me and possibly going to the same school, but I don't think he'll do the game art program, maybe game design. Which is cool, too.

Uhh so I've wasted plenty of time now, I think I'll go get things ready to mail and take a bath so I don't gross out the post master. lawl.

I saw Pan's Labyrinth tonight. I wasn't sure that Yakima would ever get it, so when I searched for a local theatre playing it, I was ecstatic to find that one actually was. Little did I know it was all the way out in Sunnyside - hardly local. Josh wanted to see it too so we got dressed and ran out the door around 7:45 PM to make the 9:35 PM showing. We arrived at the movie theatre around 8:30 and thank goodness, they had an arcade! I was concerned we wouldn't be able to get tickets, but we had no problem. We spent probably $10 in the arcade playing video games for an hour, then we got some candy and soda and found the perfect seats - right in the middle of the middle row.

The movie is a Spanish film and is in Spanish, but I know enough to understand most of the slow parts without having to rely on the sub-titles, but it does have English sub-titles.

It had more gore in it than I expected but it wasn't like taking gore to new heights or anything. It's supposed to be a fairy tale for adults so, it is bittersweet. It's also a war movie, though it did not focus on the war, either. It had just the right mixture of war and fantasy to not push it over the top either way. I love movies like The Chronicles of Narnia but they are just a little too sweet. Lord of the Rings didn't really do it for me either.

I think that Pan's Labyrinth has forever ruined movies for me. I don't think I will ever see anything this good again in my life, and I will always be waiting for the next film that will meet or exceed it. I don't think I could even look at just plain Labyrinth the same ever again, nor any of my other favourite movies.

I have not seen a movie like this one before, I do not think I will see one like it again, and it is, by far, the best movie I have seen in my life.

It was dramatic, it was enthralling, it was magical, it was sad, it was frustrating, it made me anxious, it even made me cringe, and I think I even cried a little bit.

Amazing.

PS: It was opening night so we got 2 movie posters! One has a bent corner so I'm going to tack it up above my computer and the other I'm going to buy an aluminum frame for.

I'm kind of surprised that today is the third day in a row that this very fine dusting of snow has stuck around. It's very pretty though, so I hope it stays for at least three more.

I'm going to try to get some work done today, but, who knows how that will go? Haven't heard anything from Rustycon about what sold and subsequently whether I need to go pick up what is left or not.

I've been stressing myself out over deadlines and meeting them.. turns out they already past. Haha! So I'll just send in my work. :P Sorry to be so vague, I will share more at some point.

Hmm I guess that's all!

I will not bathe until I finish my Spectrum entries.

I will not bathe until I finish my Spectrum entries.

I will not bathe until I finish my Spectrum entries.

I will not bathe until I finish my Spectrum entries.

I will not bathe until I finish my Spectrum entries.

yuuuuum.

I think I will go to bed shortly. Yeah, very early for me. I have been staying up late and I really shouldn't, it won't help me get better.

Yep, still sick. Been sick since the day after Christmas. My immune system is already deficient and some kind of infection seems to have gotten into my lungs, knocked my immune system down and then made my eye lids, sinuses, gums, stomach and intestines its bitch. I have an appointment on the 8th for something else but I'll probably get some antibiotics then because I probably won't be able to get over this without them. I hate when it goes that way for me.

I'm still trying to get lots of painting done but haven't the last couple of days, I didn't even paint at all today. I just slept, a lot, and I'm about to go back to sleep. I am hoping that I will feel better tomorrow. Would seem about right, with me going to the doctor and all. pfft.

Nothing else really to talk about. <3

Well it's almost 2007. I've already got 2 works ready to release in 2007 and I have a lot of things up my sleeve that I really haven't discussed with anyone, though Jayde knows 1 or 2 of them.

I am hoping that 2007 will be better for me than 2006 was. I am also going to take more initiative with my career because waiting around and hoping to be noticed is not the way it works. I've been preparing a portfolio to show to a lot of companies and I'm actually going to go work on that in a little bit. I need to finish all my personal crap up so I can do Jeanne's website. I feel like a turd over all of my commissions right now and my damn Christmas cards. The stupid weather has really screwed everything up over here in Washington, and I've been trying to get the ground work for Faerael down so I can start trying to do more with it. I have a feeling that it is going to take me years to even get started, though.

I am also looking forward to spring and sunshine and seeing Demon grow into a cat. He's started to mellow out the last couple of days and is really cuddly all the time now. He's also gotten really soft and grown a lot. It will be nice to get Kermy shaved again as well, I'm really tired of the hair balls.

I'm hoping in 2007 I learn to be a better artist and a better person, as well. I hope all of my friends succeed in whatever it is they want to do in 2007, as well. <3

'Til next time...

I'm almost done with my Christmas presents. I have to finish up my grandpa's and I'm not sure I'll be able to get Josh's done in time. I'm not sure I have the creative steam left to do it. I keep thinking about how I want it to look, and that gets me excited to do it, but then I think about actually painting and my spirits really drop. :P I've never managed to do this many paintings in a month.

I've become addicted to final Fantasy XII. I've played it now more than Josh has. I think I might spend the next few hours playing it, in fact. I've gotten to a boss I'm having a hard time beating and it's really upsetting because you have to kill probably 100 soldiers before you get to him and there's no save crystals anywhere between them and him. :( Maybe I'll look for a free walkthrough.

I've made some Christmas cookies and I'm still wrapping presents because I'm slow. :P Actually some really rough stuff has come up in my personal life so I haven't been able to get anything done really. I need to get my Christmas cards out but I think they'll end up being "happy new year" cards. :(

And sorry about my potty mouth yesterday, I've just been dealing with this particular problem for a loooong time.

Eragon
The Bridge to Terabithia
Pan's Labyrinth
Epic Movie
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Evan Almighty
American McGee's Alice
Marilyn Manson's Phantasmagoria
The Curse of the Golden Flower
Arthur and The Invisibles
Transformers

2006 really blew for movies so I'm glad that 2007 seems to be shaping up to have some great fantasy movies coming out.

The woman who played the White Which in Chronicles of Narnia is supposed to be in Phantasmagoria. I really like her so I'm looking forward to that, besides the fact that it's produced by Marilyn Manson and based on Lewis Carroll.

Finally got the Monster back this evening. The lump was just a cyst, a very large one albeit. He has about 7 or 8 stitches in the top of his head now and a big shaved strip where the doc cut it out. I'm just glad to have my kitty home, even if he is pissed off that I let the vet take him for 27 hours. Yes, I did count them, I missed him that much. The vet said Monster drove him nuts mewing. I warned him he would but he said he gets used to it... Monster is very hard to tune out.

I went to the maxillofacial surgeon today and he looked at my incisions and sprayed water and stuff into them because they were kind of scabby and full of icky blood. I may have to go back and have some of the skin that didn't heal correctly removed next week if it doesn't fix itself but I won't have to deal with my wisdom teeth ever again.

I finally got the rocks done on my grandma's gift so now it's just painting the background and hair which shouldn't take much longer. I'm going to play with it in painter when I get done as well since I have painter again now. I missed my smudgy brushes.

Working on my site a bit here and there, when I do work on it I get a big chunk of it finished up so it shouldn't take me much longer to get it done, and then I owe a friend a site, and I need to get some masterpieces hammered out for a book which I refuse to name because if I'm rejected I do not want to share my shame.

I'm going to go paint for the rest of the evening.

wants a Christmas card? Comments on this entry are screened, so if you want one, post your address and I will be the only person to see it. Pinky promise! I'll allow anonymous comments too so if you're just visiting from my site and want one I'll send you one.