Don't know what to do with the ingredients? Don't know how to do something? Research it (look through a cookbook, and/or look online) for 5 minutes, and there's the answer.
Well there you have it, you're not a bad cook, you're just a lazy sack of shit who refuses to follow simple instructions!
Though I will contest that some things (and I'm looking at you India) are fucking hard work in the cooking department. I've made tandoori butter chicken from scratch (right down to making my own ghee) on two occasions, and the effort involved just isn't worth the outcome.
MustangArbiter of Unpopular OpinionsRegistered Userregular
edited February 2010
I used to have two steaks (and nothing else) when I was single and could only get a two pack of steak at the supermarket.
I mean I could freeze the other one and maybe cook some potatoes or vegetables, or I could have two steaks.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
edited February 2010
I need to get me a george foreman so I can slap burgers on it whenever I want.
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NappuccinoSurveyor of Things and StuffRegistered Userregular
edited February 2010
I already haven't- I'm just bummed my niceness always gets in the way of me enjoying life - I pretty much just convinced my best friend at college that she'd be happier at home closer to her fiance- now I'll literally have no one I really get along with down here. Some people I hang out with sure, but no one who seems to actually get me.
edited to fix a weird use of "things" due to a 1st edit that I didn't pay attention to.
Everybody go to youtube right now and geek the flying fuck out over planes and rockets breaking the sound barrier. I can't believe something can be so cool. Fuck.
Dudes are trying to commission me to do what is, in a nutshell, fan art. I'd like to turn my nose up at it out of hand but they're offering decent money and reasonable terms for drawing stuff from things I'm a fan of, myself, anyway. Thing is though, isn't commissioned fanart hella illegal? Don't say "oh it happens all over dA and every Artist's Alley ever" because I know that already. It really doesn't change the fact that it feels super sleazy; you're profiting from a derivative work.
Thoughts, gang?
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
edited February 2010
Using others' trademarked IP in the course of making money?
You'd probably have to get permission for it at least.
Just to keep yourself safe, though, I'd turn them down.
Most work agreements will contain some blurb about the work being the property of the artist, and that the artist has ownership of the imagery and so can legitimately transfer the rights to the client for whatever their use might be.
If you've been commissioned to essentially draw someone else's IP then you can't, in good faith, be covered by your work agreement.
The only (slightly better) way around this is to be producing satirical work of some kind, which is considered an artist's interpretation and therefore the artist's property to sell.
From an obvious good-guy/jerk point of view: If you heard of someone asking an artist somewhere else to basically redraw your work you'd be pretty pissed off if they did it. Artsts should look out for one another when it comes to clients asking for shady/rediculous/dumb things.
And on that note, personally, I would turn the work down but I would politely explain to the client why, as a professional, it's not a job I could undertake.
Most work agreements will contain some blurb about the work being the property of the artist, and that the artist has ownership of the imagery and so can legitimately transfer the rights to the client for whatever their use might be.
If you've been commissioned to essentially draw someone else's IP then you can't, in good faith, be covered by your work agreement.
The only (slightly better) way around this is to be producing satirical work of some kind, which is considered an artist's interpretation and therefore the artist's property to sell.
From an obvious good-guy/jerk point of view: If you heard of someone asking an artist somewhere else to basically redraw your work you'd be pretty pissed off if they did it. Artsts should look out for one another when it comes to clients asking for shady/rediculous/dumb things.
And on that note, personally, I would turn the work down but I would politely explain to the client why, as a professional, it's not a job I could undertake.
I'm familiarish with copyright law, some of its intricacies notwithstanding, and I agree that in my current situation it'd probably be tacky to go along with if not downright illegal, but now it's really got me thinking about & questioning what is and isn't okay with this kind of thing.
People are always commissioning drawings of their D&D characters, or their original characters based on the Star Wars universe or what-have-you. If you want to really nitpick, that's still legally sticky ground because these are all derivative works, but I don't really morally object to that kind of thing ... do I? Maybe I do. I have never thought about the legality of different stripes of fanart this hard. Where are the boundaries with derivative work? I was kind of hoping more people would chime in with their views on this stuff; I know a few of the artists here draw a lot of folks' original characters based on existing IPs, etc.. I don't think they'd do it if they felt it was wrong or that they were profiting at the expense of another creator.
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Well there you have it, you're not a bad cook, you're just a lazy sack of shit who refuses to follow simple instructions!
Though I will contest that some things (and I'm looking at you India) are fucking hard work in the cooking department. I've made tandoori butter chicken from scratch (right down to making my own ghee) on two occasions, and the effort involved just isn't worth the outcome.
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Water never boils when it's supposed to
Bread doesn't cook thoroughly even though it almost burned at this temperature last time
Electric burners malfunction but I can't tell for 10 minutes because they're electric
I am awesome at putting meat onto bread, or cooking that meat just slightly and then putting it onto bread.
Also I can rock a good pasta.
also electric burners suck
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I mean I could freeze the other one and maybe cook some potatoes or vegetables, or I could have two steaks.
Also, for grilling my sandwiches.
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edited to fix a weird use of "things" due to a 1st edit that I didn't pay attention to.
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Fiance apparently = Finance.
There isn't enough
Chrome's spell checker must have a pre-feminist view of marriage.
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I want to hug you. Some how that made me feel 10 times better and I have no idea why.
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Sign me up for that.
Dudes are trying to commission me to do what is, in a nutshell, fan art. I'd like to turn my nose up at it out of hand but they're offering decent money and reasonable terms for drawing stuff from things I'm a fan of, myself, anyway. Thing is though, isn't commissioned fanart hella illegal? Don't say "oh it happens all over dA and every Artist's Alley ever" because I know that already. It really doesn't change the fact that it feels super sleazy; you're profiting from a derivative work.
Thoughts, gang?
You'd probably have to get permission for it at least.
Just to keep yourself safe, though, I'd turn them down.
Most work agreements will contain some blurb about the work being the property of the artist, and that the artist has ownership of the imagery and so can legitimately transfer the rights to the client for whatever their use might be.
If you've been commissioned to essentially draw someone else's IP then you can't, in good faith, be covered by your work agreement.
The only (slightly better) way around this is to be producing satirical work of some kind, which is considered an artist's interpretation and therefore the artist's property to sell.
From an obvious good-guy/jerk point of view: If you heard of someone asking an artist somewhere else to basically redraw your work you'd be pretty pissed off if they did it. Artsts should look out for one another when it comes to clients asking for shady/rediculous/dumb things.
And on that note, personally, I would turn the work down but I would politely explain to the client why, as a professional, it's not a job I could undertake.
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I'm familiarish with copyright law, some of its intricacies notwithstanding, and I agree that in my current situation it'd probably be tacky to go along with if not downright illegal, but now it's really got me thinking about & questioning what is and isn't okay with this kind of thing.
People are always commissioning drawings of their D&D characters, or their original characters based on the Star Wars universe or what-have-you. If you want to really nitpick, that's still legally sticky ground because these are all derivative works, but I don't really morally object to that kind of thing ... do I? Maybe I do. I have never thought about the legality of different stripes of fanart this hard. Where are the boundaries with derivative work? I was kind of hoping more people would chime in with their views on this stuff; I know a few of the artists here draw a lot of folks' original characters based on existing IPs, etc.. I don't think they'd do it if they felt it was wrong or that they were profiting at the expense of another creator.