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Name: Jen
Country: United States
State: Kentucky
Metro: Lexington
Gender: Female
Interests: WUSHU!! (DUH!!!) And art and computer graphic design. Also love music (ANYTHING EXCEPT COUNTRY!!)
Expertise: I'm a jack of all trades but a master of NONE!! LOL!
I'm also an expert at injuring myself!! Isn't that what you're supposed to do when you do Wushu? LOL!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Art
Email: email me
Website: visit my website
MSN: jenchuan2008
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- Tuesday, March 13, 2007 -
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It's OFFICIAL!!!As of today, I am a tattoo apprentice!!! I'm going to be doing my apprenticeship under Angelo at Tattoos Down Under in Richmond, Kentucky!!!!!!! I am so friggin HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited about this!! I've been wanting to do this for YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- Sunday, March 04, 2007 -
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MAN!!!!!!!!! Some people just INSIST on being a MAJOR FUCKTARD!!! I apologized to someone about something, even though I wasn't wrong to begin with, and he was being a childish asshole! And then he responds by going "mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...ok". FUCKTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I noticed ALL THE SHITTY ATTITUDES YESTERDAY!!!!!!! MAN!! People need to go back home and stay there!!!!!!!!!!
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- Saturday, February 17, 2007 -
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Some people just bring out the smartass in me. They don't piss me off, they just annoy the fuck out of me. Makes me want to flick them on the forehead.  Maybe that sharp pecking sensation might knock some sense of reality into them. Wake them up a little bit.
HELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! There someone in there???
dork
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- Thursday, February 01, 2007 -
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taken from http://rulzdemol.deviantart.com/journal/11642359/#journal
ON THE SUBJECT OF HIRING AN ARTIST
Every
day, there are more and more Craigs List posts seeking “artists” for
everything from auto graphics to comic books to corporate logo designs.
More people are finding themselves in need of some form of illustrative
service.
But what they’re NOT doing, unfortunately, is realizing how rare someone with these particular talents can be.
To
those who are “seeking artists”, let me ask you; How many people do you
know, personally, with the talent and skill to perform the services you
need? A dozen? Five? One? …none?
More than likely, you don’t know any. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be posting on craigslist to find them.
And this is not really a surprise.
In
this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are
professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified
mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.
So,
given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it
make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you
look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his
compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as
you drive down the street?
Would you offer a neurosurgeon the
“opportunity” to add your name to his resume as payment for removing
that pesky tumor? (Maybe you could offer him “a few bucks” for
“materials”. What a deal!)
Would you be able to seriously even
CONSIDER offering your web hosting service the chance to have people
see their work, by viewing your website, as their payment for hosting
you?
If you answered “yes” to ANY of the above, you’re obviously
insane. If you answered “no”, then kudos to you for living in the real
world.
But then tell me… why would you think it is okay to live
out the same, delusional, ridiculous fantasy when seeking someone whose
abilities are even less in supply than these folks?
Graphic
artists, illustrators, painters, etc., are skilled tradesmen. As such,
to consider them as, or deal with them as, anything less than
professionals fully deserving of your respect is both insulting and a
bad reflection on you as a sane, reasonable person. In short, it makes
you look like a twit.
A few things you need to know;
1.
It is not a “great opportunity” for an artist to have his work seen on
your car/’zine/website/bedroom wall, etc. It IS a “great opportunity”
for YOU to have their work there.
2. It is not clever to seek a
“student” or “beginner” in an attempt to get work for free. It’s
ignorant and insulting. They may be “students”, but that does not mean
they don’t deserve to be paid for their hard work. You were a “student”
once, too. Would you have taken that job at McDonalds with no pay,
because you were learning essential job skills for the real world? Yes,
your proposition it JUST as stupid.
3. The chance to have their
name on something that is going to be seen by other people, whether
it’s one or one million, is NOT a valid enticement. Neither is the
right to add that work to their “portfolio”. They get to do those
things ANYWAY, after being paid as they should. It’s not compensation.
It’s their right, and it’s a given.
4. Stop thinking that you’re
giving them some great chance to work. Once they skip over your silly
ad, as they should, the next ad is usually for someone who lives in the
real world, and as such, will pay them. There are far more jobs needing
these skills than there are people who possess these skills.
5.
Students DO need “experience”. But they do NOT need to get it by giving
their work away. In fact, this does not even offer them the experience
they need. Anyone who will not/can not pay them is obviously the type
of person or business they should be ashamed to have on their resume
anyway. Do you think professional contractors list the “experience”
they got while nailing down a loose step at their grandmother’s house
when they were seventeen?
If you your company or gig was worth
listing as desired experience, it would be able to pay for the services
it received. The only experience they will get doing free work for you
is a lesson learned in what kinds of scrubs they should not lower
themselves to deal with.
6. (This one is FOR the artists out
there, please pay attention.) Some will ask you to “submit work for
consideration”. They may even be posing as some sort of “contest”.
These are almost always scams. They will take the work submitted by
many artists seeking to win the “contest”, or be “chosen” for the gig,
and find what they like most. They will then usually have someone who
works for them, or someone who works incredibly cheap because they have
no originality or talent of their own, reproduce that same work, or
even just make slight modifications to it, and claim it as their own.
You will NOT be paid, you will NOT win the contest. The only people who
win, here, are the underhanded folks who run these ads. This is
speculative, or “spec”, work. It’s risky at best, and a complete scam
at worst. I urge you to avoid it, completely. For more information on
this subject, please visit [link].
So to
artists/designers/illustrators looking for work, do everyone a favor,
ESPECIALLY yourselves, and avoid people who do not intend to pay you.
Whether they are “spec” gigs, or just some guy who wants a free mural
on his living room walls. They need you. You do NOT need them. Say NO
to free art.
And for those who are looking for someone to do
work for free…please wake up and join the real world. The only thing
you’re accomplishing is to insult those with the skills you need. Get a
clue.
If you agree with the above important information, please
pass it along. The more people know, the faster we can correct this
problem.
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- Tuesday, December 12, 2006 -
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Just got home from the ortho and the verdict so far is torn cartilage
in my knee (more than likely the inside and outside meniscus) and also possibly injury to the backside of my knee cap. So,
not good. But I'm supposed to ween myself off the crutches. Shouldn't
be that hard since I hardly use the friggin things anyway. LOL! I HATE
THEM!! LOL!
MRI done on the 19th, and then follow up on the 27th.
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