These days, most fanartists has run into their own thieves in one way or another. Sometimes it ends well and sometimes the thief turns into a stalker (*waves to my stalker*). Usually they only repost the work on different generic sites which doesn't matter much compared to the fact that others either use cafepress or ebay to make a profit on the work by someone else. The last part irks most people and pisses them off - today I got to see a whole new level of it!

Went to Collectormania in Denmark today, which was a hoot thanks to the Q&A with John Rhys Davies, Robert Englund and Bronson Pelletier. However, the rest of the con was a pure disappointment. There wasn't a lot of sellers, they didn't even fill the room and there wasn't that much people visiting either (which was good in one perspective because then the signings wasn't hurried and you could actually talk to the celeb :)) - but unfortunately that WASN'T the biggest disappointment. There was one seller fully focused on The Twilight Saga. Selling autographs, pictures, posters and some frames that spelled the word "Twilight" and had pictures within the letters. My eyes almost fell out of their sockets when I began to actually browse the merchandise. 50% of the posters and unautographed pictures was STOLEN FANART. One of them even had half of the URL to the artists livejournal account (unfortunately I wasn't smart enough to pull up my phone and snap a pic). I got pissed, and wasn't quiet when I told my friend what the hell was going on and also let one of the other sellers know what was going on (my friend and I are regular buyers of his since a few years back, he also sells autographs and I meet him at every "con" in Sweden) who also got pissed about it.

This is beyond low. I can "understand" selling on ebay but to actually head to a convention where fans WILL ATTEND (esp. when one of the guests are from the same fandom) and blatantly stand there and sell their works just pisses me off. However, I can't tell you who the artists are because I don't know (it's not one of you guys that I know personally), I just recognized the works from seeing them around the net/livejournal. All I know is that the seller is german and an asshat. My friend had planned on buying a Peter Facinelli auto from him but upon this discovery we boycotted and coughed up an extra 50DDK for the same pic/auto to another seller.

I think this is the lowest of low that I've seen so far. However my reaction after getting pissed about this was basically "Why am I surprised? *eyeroll*".

For the first time in about 4 months, Chosen Art was updated. It got a new layout and a lot of new artwork was added. With that update I decided to re-vamp the community for the site as well and remove the entire idea of manip-releases. The place will now be as it once was, a place where I post my art on LJ that is also featured on the site. If manips makes an appearance it will be wearing heavy tagging, as before. I can't promise frequent updates of any kind because my interest in art has gone down and is looking like something died on the floor. But I'm currently posting the art that was created in the past 6 months that never made the public. And when/if I make more, it will of course be posted on both the community and the site. I've also opened up membership, so now you can join without approval. No point in having any rules when they're not followed anyway.

This journal will continue it's silence as I have nothing else to add.

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Not around here much anymore, but now you can always catch me over at Twitter. Feel free to stalk me, maybe I'll stalk you right back! ;)


Also, for those who's missing the art, visit the home of all my graphics over at Chosen Art. The place is still open even if I'm not updating much and all those icons you wanna use can be found around that site! :)

To make sure that Roadhouse is reaching as many people as possible who are in need of transcripts, I have now opened a community where all updates will be posted simultaneously with the site itself. This might also make it easier for some people to keep track of the site and find out when there's new updates, transcripts and other events.

The team is also expanding a little and we're all waiting now in anticipation of the upcoming Joss Whedon/Eliza Dushku show "Dollhouse" which is premiering on February 13th.

So head on over to Roadhouse on LJ and sign up today! The place is of course recognizable by every regular visitor of the site, since it's sporting the same gorgeous layout :)