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I need to know. (Again)
6 years ago
Hello again Fellow FA Artists, Friends and Fans.
Ya know... An old fox with a little extra money is kinda' like a ferret with a stick of Dynamite. We wonder where in the heck he found it, and help us all if he figures out how to use it.
Ahem!
You see, for about the past ten years or so, I have been so badly affected by poverty that I haven't been able to attend Furry conventions, and enjoy buying the items which catch my fancy. I have been following quite a few artists here on FA who's art I like, and most of them offer Commissions and use online pay services which all have their benefits and risks. So if you nice people out there in FA land can suggest the safest way to go about making sure the artists get paid, and the projects get worked on, I'd like to read any suggestions.
I might directly contact the artists here on FA first and see what they have to say. I know quite a few artists and crafters here who will gladly accept my requests, and there are also a few I know who can't spare the time to work on anything as they are severely backlogged. Of course, the Ultimate trip for me would be to go to one last big con, and spend the weekend just "Schmoosing" with my fellow FA artists and others and buy the items directly from them.
Let me also mention that I still have a few major debts to pay off, and that my budget is still very limited. So I'm setting my sights on starting a little venture perhaps in the early Summer, or going to that big con two or three years down the line.
So stay tuned, and of course, keep all that great art coming in to FA.
"Peace."
Ya know... An old fox with a little extra money is kinda' like a ferret with a stick of Dynamite. We wonder where in the heck he found it, and help us all if he figures out how to use it.
Ahem!
You see, for about the past ten years or so, I have been so badly affected by poverty that I haven't been able to attend Furry conventions, and enjoy buying the items which catch my fancy. I have been following quite a few artists here on FA who's art I like, and most of them offer Commissions and use online pay services which all have their benefits and risks. So if you nice people out there in FA land can suggest the safest way to go about making sure the artists get paid, and the projects get worked on, I'd like to read any suggestions.
I might directly contact the artists here on FA first and see what they have to say. I know quite a few artists and crafters here who will gladly accept my requests, and there are also a few I know who can't spare the time to work on anything as they are severely backlogged. Of course, the Ultimate trip for me would be to go to one last big con, and spend the weekend just "Schmoosing" with my fellow FA artists and others and buy the items directly from them.
Let me also mention that I still have a few major debts to pay off, and that my budget is still very limited. So I'm setting my sights on starting a little venture perhaps in the early Summer, or going to that big con two or three years down the line.
So stay tuned, and of course, keep all that great art coming in to FA.
"Peace."
As to on-line pay services I only use Pay-Pal, it is best if the artist bills me through them but it works the other way as well, I just have to add a bit to cover Pay Pals little thieves. Right now we are saving money to buy land and build a house, house a couple blocks over was shot up this weekend.
As a kid I distinctly remembered seeing repeated tv notices 'This is a blasting cap! If you find one, do not touch! Tell your parents!'
Fmur321. Important safety information noted. When my friends and I visited Calico Ghost Town a few years ago, we took a faked old time photo of us dressed in period clothing, and they gave me a boiled shirt and a Steam Engineer's cap. I found faked sticks of TNT, and a plunger as props and posed as "That little ol' train wrecker." The wooden sticks clacked together in perfect "The Who, Magic Bus" fashion and I started playfully clickety-clacking them together. Two of my best friends there warned me about the dangers of banging "Sweaty" TNT sticks together. Lesson learned, I will respect TNT in any form, wooden or otherwise.
It's a good thought though.
saving up for the more expensive of them, and places to keep and use them.
exploring places that aren't often explored are the next best,
and then of course, supporting causes and people,
who make the world be how you would like to live in it.
doing all that of course, is beyond the means most people have.
but doing some of it, is the whole point of having anything.
in all that creating and exploring there is giving happiness to others too.
this also is a means of giving happiness to one's self.
the big weakness of art as business, is that while fine for the artist,
accumulation of the next artist's work, however wonderful,
takes up space, and, i'm sorry but accumulation itself,
is probably the least gratifying thing i can imagine.
there's the friend thing, of people giving stuff to each other,
that's good too.
giving stuff, even in a non-gift economy, gives gratification to the giver.
more so of course, if it is of their own creation.
I'm kind of restricted in space up here in the house in Pasadena as well. I learned a hard lesson these past few years about clinging onto Things in selling my toy and action figure collections and plastic model kits. My roommate Noah also cluttered the house and yard with antique tools and metals in hopes of building a forge, but the fire hazards of living in the hills quashed that idea. Now he's happy volunteering as a restorer over at Travel Town in Griffith Park.
You've helped me to decide better on what I should do. I figure it might be best to just send my favorite artists here on FA "A little something" to tell them how much I have appreciated their works through the years. Even f it's just a card or a sketch.
I also owe my friend Scott Big Time as no matter where I've gone, he still sends me packages of "Random Stuff" and treats.
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/trusted-artists/
I'm def listening for more info here. Don't trust PaymePal and dun wanna put an unlimited card anywhere on the net.
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