One of the best printing, matting, framing, and drop shippers of art on the Internet, a start-up called ImageKind is leading its artists down the merry road by the nose. They keep promising fixes, and the fixes aren’t happening…not even six months after they are promised. I’m so tired of the “we’re working on it,” and other empty air. It’s totally disillusioning. I’ve typed my last over on their forum. They get it fixed, or I’ll pulll all my ads in their favor.
Category: professional life
Yesterday was, in a Word, Interesting.
Yesterday proved one of those days of constant surprises. It started with a site update that turned into a flurry of wannabe clients using the new forms to inundate me with crazy requests. Next was the loss of a purse by an elderly neighbor who begged my help. (Found the purse, no problem, and, no, she shouldn’t scold herself. For heaven’s sake, I forget where I lay my keys three seconds after laying them down. Wish you could “call” keys like you do a lost cell so you could track them down.) Then came the call that a little boy very near and dear to us almost choked to death. Next was the pissed off nineteen-year-old little brother. There was the student in need of advisement. And last but not least was this very odd email wanting to know how much I’d sell zentao.com for. Very suspicious, this last, because the emailer claims his name is John Y Chu, suspiciously close to author, prankster, and friend John Chew. And of course there’s Dr. Mononculous and the Million Writers Award race.
I didn’t get much scratched off my to-do list, I went to bed when I usually get up, and got up this morning five hours later than usual to lukewarm coffee. Still need to make fresh…which is where I’m off to now. Then it’s back at the list.
Oh, the boys got that 85k+ job — congrats, all. Good job. Now to build it. *grin*
Like I Said, What Free Time?!
Never fails. I just about think I’m tidying up the day when somebody drops in with some “needed, necessary, must have ASAP” emergency. Okay. Fifteen minutes and some magic with the Wacom, and, there you go, FIXED. *sigh* I tell you. Nobody plans. Everybody is rushing around doing last minute gasps to meet deadlines they knew about twelve months prior. If I lived my life like that, I’d never, ever make it. People…er…Americans, LISTEN UP.
The way to have life under some measure of control is to NOT PROCRASTINATE. Do NOT put off until the second before your project deadline what you should have iced months ago. I’m not always nice. I’m not always HERE. Then what? You’re going to wind up with your shorts down around your ankles and your hands too full to cover what needs covering, that’s what! Of course, that’s always fun for us bystanders, so…carry on. 😀
zentao.com just got updated. Really. (Amazed faces.)
Yup, that’s right. zentao.com, poor child of a too busy webmaster and graphic artist, a website that winds up limping along on old code and outdated everything, finally got a SMALL update. Front page changed…which might just blow my SE ranking, but, hey, that’s okay, too. And I put up a 2007 fine art gallery showing mostly stuff I’ve just done this year and end of last. I haven’t put up the professional graphics gallery yet, though. I’m too intimidated after opening the drives all that work is stored on. I have to say, I never realize just how much “stuff” I create on the fly for various projects at hand. Sifting and sorting what should go on, what can’t go on because it’s being used on this or that client’s website right now, and what I don’t want people to see because they might think I like doing “cutesy”…well, you do see the problem. Still, wow. Too many gigs.
Oh, NEW to zentao.com: There’s also a new art blog there. Again, I’ll be moving the posts to hard HTML when they get to the second page, but the blog is mostly devoted to me commenting back on some of the misapplied logic that artists wanting websites and promotion feed me via email, telephone, and, very occasionally, face-to-face. The blog isn’t skinned very nicely yet. Haven’t figured out or found something that really hits the switch, but I’m working on it.
Well, What Fun! Steve Yahn.
Success. NY coordinates with Idiotho…er…I mean IdAho (don’t I?) and we get to speak easy. What a fun guy! You gotta read his column, too: Sage Advice (link will go to archive in a week or two, so click now or pay to read.)
So, we talk the same talk — laughter. This is good. Sure beats grumpy wannabe clients who I keep saying “No” to, but they keep hearing “Yes.” How does that work?
“But, Dawn…”
But Dawn nothing. Dawn doesn’t DO bait-and-switch websites…which is what they want, though they’re trying to convince me that that isn’t what they’re up to. (Don’t lie to me. I can tell. How? Noses grow.) 🙂
So, welcome Steve, who has his own Category (called Steve Speaks) on this blog now, see it under Family & Friends. Welcome, Steve.