Do yourself a favour and watch Shoah, if you haven't already seen it. If we start to forget and push away what happened, we only doom ourselves to further failures of mankind.

Soooo some things that are coming up...

Alright, So this weekend is a pretty busy one for me. First off I'll be painting here. It's a fundraiser for Emily Sheppards new studio! So please come by and support local artists!
I'll also be putting in 2 paintings here for the Movember fundraiser at Whiskey Dix. So come get your drink on and buy shit! It's all for a good cause!

So I guess I'll put some photos of stuff I've been working on, then rant a bit. You all love a good rant, right?

 This is from the summer... it's life size, and for sale. No frame though, sorry guys!

 This was for a show at The Goods. I think Mitch bought it!

 Same show, acrylic on a skateboard, and hand glued beads. many many beads.

 In progress On Lyndsay

 In progress on Rhys

I really want to tattoo something like this or this. So this is up for grabs!

So now for my rant. Kirk and I were talking earlier, and we've realized that there is an alarming amount of people who just have a terrible work ethic. Alarming!

 Now, I've been working since I was old enough to get a job. Full-time, at that, even in High School and College. Even if, at times, I've hated whatever job I may have hated on at the time, I still did a good job.... because it was what I was getting paid to do. How hard is that?

I just don't understand people who get a job that they hate, then complain, and steal, and generally just suck at life. First of all, you were hired to do your job for a reason, so do it. I don't care if you don't want to be there. Don't want to be there? Get a new fricken job! I'm sick and tired of being helped out by people who just don't care to actually help you out. I especially don't understand waitresses and waiters who do the bare minimum of serving, and expect to still get tipped. It's your JOB to give good service. If you do a good job, then you get a good tip. If you do a shitty job, and are rude, then your tip diminishes to the bare minimum.... kind of like how your serving skills are. And don't you dare try to give me shit service next time I'm in, based on my tip, because that's just making it worse for you.... take that opportunity to see where you can improve, and do so, and you will be rewarded.

Simple, right? The same goes for someone, say, in my industry. We get so many questions, every day, and while a lot of them seem inane, and easily figured out, I will always try to give a concise and well thought out answer, because even though it may seem simple to me, I know that the person asking me may not understand what I'm talking about. I expect the same when I go to a business that I'm unfamiliar with. It takes how much longer? Not that much! 

I also don't understand people who have a job, that is an awesome job, but they have no drive to get better at it... but that's for another day!

cheers, 

Stephanie<3