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Urgent, please help my friend’s dog receive lifesaving surgery!
My friend Ran Case of A Case Of Random on Etsy rushed her dog Kabuki to the vet after she found her unable to walk and shaking uncontrollably yesterday. The vet says she has a tumor on her spleen and needs immediate surgery to remove the tumor along with her spleen before she suffers another, and potentially fatal, internal bleed. The estimate on the surgery is $2500…which is $2500 more than she has after scraping together $900 for the emergency care.
To raise funds, she’s offering 20% off on everything in her Etsy store where she sells beautiful handmade glass and scale mail jewelry. See her blog here for details and coupon code, and if you can help, even a little… everything helps.
The coupon code KABUKI20 will give you 20% off anything at her etsy store, acaseofrandom.etsy.com
Please pass this on to your followers. Everything helps!
It would mean a lot if you guys could please reblog this… Even if you can’t afford to help with the surgery costs by getting something from her shop (we own several pieces of her work and it’s gorgeous and inexpensive), one of your followers might…
Some of these are super pretty!
I gave the butterfly barrettes in the photo last year for birthday presents (those and the flowers are only $5) and have been saving up for a custom order from her. The scale mail flower bracelets and hair sticks are really cool and unique, and I love the Steampunk orchids with little gears at the center of their petals.
She’s been sitting up with Kabuki making additional items for her store literally nonstop, trying to raise the amount the vet is asking for… please take a look and reblog!
for those of you who didnt know, AFI was originally a horror punk band…yeah…way to sell out guys
No, they weren’t. They were a hardcore/streetpunk band. They didn’t even get into the gothic sounding stuff until about 6 years down the road, when half the band’s lineup changed and Jade started writing the music.
Also, there’s nothing that invalidates anyone’s opinion quicker than claims that if a band that formed when a bunch of guys were 15 in high school and didn’t even know how to play their instruments ever grows up, becomes better musicians, has diverse musical interests, and doesn’t want to keep making albums that sound exactly the same because they want to explore new things each time, OMG THEY SOLD OUT.
Srsly, if the definition of “Selling Out” is making music specifically so people will buy it, isn’t that what every self entitled elitist who claims a band are sell outs WANTS to them do? Not make music because it pleases them and is an expression of what they’re thinking/feeling, but instead deliberately make music to please other people (in this case, THEM?)
When I was 7 I wanted to grow up to be Brian May.
When I was 8 I wanted to grow up and be Bob Dylan.
When I was 11 I listened to Kiss and The Beatles and Idolized both Alice cooper and Bruce Springsteen.
When I was 15 I’d spent 8 years in training as a concert guitarist playing Andreas Segovia/Classical and John Fahey./American Primative folk music, but wishing I was playing AC/DC or Adam Ant, or Pink Floyd.
When I was 16 I wanted to be in a street punk band like Operation Ivy (Billie Joe Armstrong and I came up with that epiphany almost simultaneously, LONG LIVE EAST BAY PUNK ROCK)
When I was 17 I was playing Violent Femmes, NIN, Ministry and The Cure on my radio show.
When I was 19 I was heavily into Elvis Costello, Kate Bush and Sting.
When I was 21 I wanted to play guitar in Nine Inch Nails.
When I was 24 it was Stray Cats, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies and the Brian Setzer Orchestra.
When I was 28 I would’ve been happy playing guitar for either Shirley Manson or Marilyn Manson.
When I was 31 I still wanted to play guitar in Nine Inch Nails.
When I was 32 I wanted to be Green Day’s back up guitarist and/or possess Brody Dalle.
Now I wish I were Matt Bellamy.
I’m such a fucking sell out.
Please don’t steal photos…
Just don’t. Okay? Professional (and even amateur) concert photographers know Tumblr exists and scan it for their work on a regular basis, and will send copyright complaints to Tumblr to have their photos removed. They aren’t singling people out and being mean to them, they aren’t stomping on fan spirit, they’re running a business, and protecting their copyrights, and deserve to be treated with respect. Without their work, you wouldn’t be sitting there enjoying that incredible photo of Davey Havok from a concert half way around the world from you. It’s not hard to just ASK first before you post something someone else created, use Creative Commons licenses or press images, or post your own photos and art.
AFI @ Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Providense RI ©2009 Shockblast Media - Joshua Lowe
Per the ask/message we received today, we are asked to remind our readers that if a Flickr photo says “All Rights Reserved” on it’s page, DON’T POST IT without asking the photographer’s permission FIRST, even if Tumblr’s app makes it possible to do so.
(The above photo was published here legally under a Creative Commons License 11 months ago. The photographer has since turned his entire account to All Rights Reserved due to disrespectful photo theft, including Tumblr sites cropping his watermark off the images. This is a loss to everyone, as he has some beautiful images we COULD have shared with you, and now cannot.)
All of this. ^^^^
Plus, if a Flickr photo says “Some Rights Reserved” then CLICK ON THAT TEXT and it’ll show you what kind of Creative Commons License it uses that will allow you to post the image on Tumblr legally. Normally, it requires a credit, link back, and mention of the license terms (like the photo above.)
It takes about 5 seconds to check for a CCL, and only a few more to drop the photographer a note asking permission if you don’t see one. What’s so hard about that?
Dork 7” split with Loose Change insert
Bliss - Blaqk Audio
AFI @ Rainbow Ballroom ©2010 MiseryXchord, MiseryXchord.com
Davey Havok of AFI performing at the Rainbow Ballroom in Fresno, California USA on January 27, 2010. Photo by MiseryXchord. Do not reblog without link/credit.I just got home from the hospital a few days ago, was hospitalized for 8 days and will probably be laid up for awhile, so I’m going to try to queue up our saved themes for next week (yay for fan art and tattoos and merch!)
Catch me up… what’s been up with AFI/Blaqk Audio/Hunter/Adam (yes, I know someone’s engaged ;) while I’ve been gone?
“STARTING DRAMA” AND 5 COPYRIGHT FACTS EVERY BLOGGER SHOULD KNOW
I was looking for original content to reblog on a fan site I maintain and stumbled on a fairly new fan site for the same band with this disclaimer posted on the main page:
“Now I will say this here and only ONE time.
I DO NOT OWN THE PICTURES/QUOTES/INTERVIEWS/VIDEOS that I am posting on this account, I did not take them and ALL credit goes to the people who made them in the first place. If you see something on here of yours and want credit to be given then it will be given if you give me your information for that particular post, but please do not start drama over anything posted here.”
I’ve said this before, and I know a lot of people will just blow it off but it obviously needs to be said again.
Professional photographers aren’t going to contact you asking you to please credit their photos, they’re just going to report you to Tumblr for copyright infringement.
Giving people “credit” or posting a meaningless disclaimer saying you don’t own these photos doesn’t make it legal to use them.
Copyright means the owner of the images has all the rights to choose where to allow them to be published. You don’t have any rights to use them unless s/he specifically gives you permission to use them. With professional photographers, permission normally involves paying them a licensing fee, which you are guilty of ripping them off for when you use their images illicitly.
I’m not telling anyone this to “start drama”, I’m giving everyone a heads up that if you’re collecting photos from other sites and reposting them you’re inevitably going to have complaints filed against you for stealing images, just like all the other Tumblr sites have complaints filed against when they steal images… and the “stealing” part is that you used them without licensing/permission.
http://www.bloggingtips.com/2010/02/18/5-copyright-facts-every-blogger-should-know/
I work as a professional photographer and know dozens of other professional/semi-pro photographers (and a few of the most prolific fan photogs) in person or from interacting online, and the number who don’t object to people on Tumblr casually reposting their work without permission can be counted on one hand.
(The blog I found the above disclaimer on even has images taken by photogs at the image agency I shoot for, which are marked across the middle with a copyright notice stating “Not for reproduction.” At a certain point people need to start stepping up and taking responsibility for their own actions, and not blame other people for “starting drama” when they’re the ones who are in reality violating laws.)
