Body worlds sketching contract?

Hopefully tomorrow afternoon I'm heading to the Body Worlds Exhibit in Science world Hopefully to do some sketching but this thing you have to sign in order to sketch has some pretty... alarming requirements. These last 4 for example:

1.         The Institute for Plastination (hereafter referred to as “IfP“) shall grant the artist/art student, upon presentation of a valid I.D. and/or student card, the permission to make drawings, sketches and paintings (hereafter referred to as “works“) in the aforementioned exhibition. The works are to be used exclusively in private context. Any other use of the works, such as book illustrations, advertising activities, Internet pages, in art galleries or any other commercial purposes shall be subject to the prior written consent of the IfP.

So I can't post my own drawings on my blog without a NEW legalese document if I like them, this means. I don't think this is what I signed last time. Last time it only said I just couldn't SELL my images of the body worlds sketches, which I understood to a point.

2.         The signatory undertakes to send, free of charge, copies or photos of the sketches/drawings to the BODY WORLDS press office, at Science World, 1455 Quebec Street, Vancouver, BC, V6A 3Z7 or by email to p.saunders@bodyworlds.com within two weeks of the artists visit.

I HAVE to send them copies of my images? I don't even normally scan all my images. this seems pretty ..unfair.

3.         The IfP leaves it at the artists discretion to present prints of his/her works and to conclude a separate agreement with the IfP, should the IfP be interested in using these prints. Irrespective of these provisions, the IfP requests every artist to provide the IfP with prints which will be used exclusively for internal documentation purposes. 

If they like my drawing I have to give them prints for their offices?? 

4.         Should the artist fail to comply with this agreement, he/she shall undertake to pay a contractual penalty of US       $5,000, to the IfP. This contractual penalty will fall due even if the IfP should ascertain at a later point in time that information which the artist provided was incorrect.

UM....$5000 for keeping drawings in my sketchbook?!

This is all a little bit strange to me. 
Granted I'm not an expert in legalese but I read it as English and think I get the meaning of it... sure they're protecting their rights as the plastination is an art form in itself, I can see that - but do I have to sign away MY rights as an artist to respect their rights? seems odd.

I just noticed they only have after hours times listed as thursday to saturday! that means that Jeri wont be able to make it to the afternoon one tomorrow, as it does not exist as we planned.. this is upsetting.... Wonder what we're going to do about that.

Headache

I'm burnt out.
I have had a headache since I woke up - not uncommon.
Yesterday I worked the Frame sale (normally my day off) and while it wasn't the worst experience of my life, it certainly wasn't the best.
It was Freezing cold (I'm still trying to raise my core temperature), Filthy, and crowded.my jeans are terrifying with how much dirt is on them, I have a ton of mysterious bruises that showed up as well.
I've been working so hard. Moving boxes and stuff at mums house for her move, renovations at Opus and thne the frame sale (unloading skids, loading skids moving frames) I was moving heavy stuff for 8 days straight. Today's my day off then I have the shipment to do on Tuesday. I'd kill for a week off. SOON.

I'm also pretty frustrated with life in general. It seems like there is no one who actually listens to me. the people that should often brush me off, or ignore me - especially in the company of specific others.
Normally when someone says something that I find incredibly hurtful I will say something - despite the fact that I get LAUGHED at most times, or told I'm opinionated or over-sensitive (as if that matters in the value of feelings - they're felt either way and when someone says "you hurt me" that shouldn't just be ignored) but last weekend I said nothing. I regret it, but I think I'd regret it more if I said more at the time. I'd rather bawl in bed for 3 hours once in a while than be laughed at or ignored by the people who are supposed to love me.
Well anyway, according to them I don't know what bad times are, so what am I so upset about? I don't know. Maybe something's in my eye. That must be it.

I've been asked to host a Colouring Contest over at the CDAC so I'm working on setting that up. It will be December 16th I think. I'm also working on setting up some paid online copic colouring courses as well. That will be in the new year.
I'm debating the continuation of the Digi Stamp selling as well. I don't sell much and it's a great deal of work coming up with images for it.
I'll focus on comics  I think.
I need to organize and standardize my work for Hello, Albertosaurus soon. it's sorta... eveywhere right now.
guess I should do that now....
First, a shower to warm my poor bones.

32 days until Christmas

Good Times

3 Day weekend! My stat for remembrance day is this weekend, so It's very nice! Next weekend my mum is moving into a new apartment so I have a 3 day weekend then too, but it's hard work days off- not quite the same.
Yesterday I got the bulk of my Christmas shopping done. Jake and Fin are done as done can be, Kirsten is done, Temple & Jeff are sorta done. Know what I'm getting, just a matter of getting next payday. All I really have left is Mums and I've got 1 so far, and ideas about the rest.
We were in Toys R' Us yesterday looking for the Imaginex Spinning octopus and Dragon boat accessories for The Pirate ship and Dragon Castle that Mum bought Jake and Fin. We found the Aisle and there are 2 women with 2 or 3 kids there debating over some of these imaginex things. They were blocking our way so we were looking from where we were to see the octo and the dragons and either me or mum spotted the octo and said "oh theres the Octopus" and pointed. the Blond bimbo mums look at me and do not move. Clearly there was competition there. The shelves were pretty bare, and the big sets were on sale so I believe it had been fairly picked over. The women didn't move, just looked at me.
Eventually mum went around and "'scuse me" squeezed in, scooped octo, saw that there was dragons behind and scooped that too.
The woman glared at me, I just smiled and walked away.
I don't actually think the Dragon goes with the castle, but it's a dragon, castles a dragon - kids don't care.
Satisfying. Amazing though the shopping frenzy already about, considering it's really only a week into November. People are shopping earlier this year. I'm delighted to see this personally, as my second biggest pet peeve on the planet; the Scrooges who complain about Christmas due to Cost, Crowds or Selection.
All 3 of these things can be reduced or eliminated by shopping early. I'm not rich by any means but I spread out the cost of shopping by not trying to cram every present in on one pay cheque! I do small things for several months. This also means I don't end up with the last of the items all damaged on the store shelves.

Personally I think these people ENJOY being miserable. Some people do! You'd have to really, if you know it's coming all year and you don't do anything about it.

In case you're wondering my BIGGEST pet Peeve are the ones who complain about "consumerism" and "commercialism" at Christmas. Look up what it REALLY means before you start throwing it around. Christmas isn't the part that's commercialized - its YOU.

So today, I'd like to get some new Digistamps up in my shop but I'm at a loss for ideas apparently :/
I'd kill for some Oreos right now.
I think I'll have a nice hot shower :D

This woman is So clever.

Lady: "These books that were on your shelf here and here " *gesturing to the sketchbooks - some colours are 50% off, others are regular price* "I'm going to take them off your hands for 5$ each" (car Salesman tone)

I looked at the shelf noting the MAJORITY of her pile is the colour that is NOT clearance, and thus is actually $12 each, and only about 7 of the ones she had were actually clearance priced

Me: "no, sorry, that's just not going to happen"

Lady "yes, i know how it works, i know about the mark up you have *wink*, so you can give them to me for $5 each"

Me: "...No sorry, I cant. They're already discounted 50% for those ones, and I'm not able to have it go any lower."

lady: *wink wink* "you don't want me to take these all off your hand, so you can get more stock *wink* for 5$ each?"

Me: "No, we wont have trouble clearing our stock. No one here is going to put that price any lower for you. It's already 50% off, it's not going any lower"

Lady: "I'm an accountant, I know how it works. *wink* You can do it for me."

Me: "No I really cant"

Lady: "are you the owner here?"

me: "No I'm the leader in charge today"

Lady: "Oh leader in charge, I like that *wink* it's a good answer"

me: "..."

Lady: "I'd like a call from the owner"

me: "no, it's her day off. That's why I'm here"

Lady: "okay then, Well i guess we wont take them then"

Me:"okay, bye"

Then she told her friend they were going to try across the street.

They bought tape.
They don't sell those books across the street. 

Guess what? No, thats not helpful

Recently I've had several people innocently try to lead me down a path of what they would preceive as a successful route for my carreer.

Let me clarify something to you non artists out there.
Every artist has a style, theme, niche whatever, that they are good at, enjoy doing, and excell at. That goes for every person on the planet - some people do well in some areas while other do well in other areas. Sometimes these areas are similar, that doesn't make them interchangeable.

Example: Bob is great at fixing bikes. he can make a bike from scratch if he can find all the parts. Bob is a mechanically minded person, can add electric motors onto the bikes and make tons of crazy stuff with bikes. There is no doubt Bob is an amazing technical guy.
Do you ask Bob to repair your car?
I should think not! Yes it's a technical thing, yes they're both a form of locomotion and yes, they both go on the road.
(Side note: Dear firefox, or Blogger: when I hit Enter, go DOWN a line, Not up)

So, as an artist, the same sort of analogy will apply.
I'm a Comic artist and Animator. Why would you expect me to do landscapes and be confortable doing that for a carreer? Why do you think this is a logical solution to the struggled of being an artist? you don't think the landscape artist didn't struggle too, before they started selling work?

What a ridiculous suggestion. I know people mean well, but do they realize how FUCKING INSULTING it is to tell me what I am doing will never make it? That what EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING will make me successful? You can't possibly.
I guess it's the people who took the "easy" road that are the ones that suggest this. Of the people who actually suggest this route for me the only one I can think of that actually likes her job is my Mum. So should I be taking the advice of 6 people who hate thier day to day job?
I think NOT!
It is fully possible to be happy in your carreer! It takes as much work as any other job, no matter what you do.

You are given ONE LIFE to live and there is no fucking reason you can't be happy and prosperous in your carreer except your own self doubt and lack of ambition.

I WILL be successful, and I WILL be happy in my carreer, whether you believe in me or NOT!

My Desk - Copic Cases

Don't doubt my nerdiness.

I just spent ...oh, about an hour with tape, and rubber making a Copic display case, LOL.

What I did was tape the 2 72piece hard cases together, then using Amazing mold putty rubber, I made a foot on the front of it, to be places right behind the grove where the lid sits. This makes it lean back on an angle so the markers don't tumble out.

The Various refills are 2 bins taped together but the foot isn't rubber and isn't permanent because I can't easily pull them out of there. It's not a real refill case, just a sketch marker cases. Snug.

anyway, sharing is caring.

Bummed!

Lame! my class I was going to take, The graphic memoir at Emily Carr was cancelled because not enough people enrolled.
Lame, I was looking forward to it. Well, that jsut means I'll be going full steam on hello, Albertosaurus.
Going to go make a tutorial. COPICS!

OH YA!
I Love that X-press it blending card so much, but the shipping on icopic.com is insane for Canadian orders so I sure wont be ordering through there! I tried a special order through Opus and it's the same price as the "special" price on icopic! I ordered a ream of it! I'm just stoked about that! I've already got more paper than I could shake a cat at, but I love that stuff.
I have 5 reams of Aquabee paper already and several packs of Copic Illustration paper...lol

anyway, now my Canadian friends know they can get it within Canada and if you're near an Opus location, no shipping either :)