During a high school production of Beauty and the Beast, where I was
assistant costumer and assistant prop master, our director decided that
we needed to spice up Gaston’s introduction. You know: in the movie,
when Lefou runs in trying to catch the duck/goose that Gaston has just
shot out of the sky?
Originally, the actors were going to stroll
on stage with our Lefou hauling in the really neat (and real!)
taxidermied deer head that we had found in a local thrift store. Now,
two days before opening night, our director wants Lefou to run in from
off stage and catch a stuffed duck that Gaston has just shot. This, of
course, requires two things to work properly as a scene: a gunshot
noise, and a stuffed duck.
The gunshot noise, we had covered.
Blue-collar, redneck school? Guns a plenty to record. The stuffed duck?
Harder than you might have thought to obtain.
Three hunting
stores, two taxidermists, and one Pet Supply Store ™, I’d finally found a
semi-realistic pheasant squeaky toy. What follows is an account of the
ways this dog toy managed to be the nightmare prop of the six show run.
Opening
Night: The stagehand, who was supposed to drop the bird from the
ceiling catwalk, missed his cue and didn’t drop the it. Lefou’s actor
rolls with it and does an excellent job of looking around foolishly
before getting cuffed upside the head by Gaston. The stagehand then
drops the bird squarely on Gaston’s head. Cue laughter.
Saturday
Matinee: Different stagehand throws the bird instead of dropping it and
beans Lefou directly in the face with the prop. Lefou falls over. Cue
laughter.
Saturday Night: Bird is missing during curtain call.
Director hauls the deer head down from it’s place on the tavern wall and
tells Gaston and Lefou to revert to the old blocking i.e. no gunshot,
no bird, just walk in with trophy. During Gaston and Lefou’s
conversation, gun shot sound goes off and a stagehand throws the bird
onto the stage…from the wrong side of the stage. Lefou and Gaston stare
at it in awkward silence for a solid thirty seconds before Lefou makes
off-script, subtle joke about Gaston’s gun going off late instead of
early. Cue adults in the audience laughing.
Sunday Matinee:
Director begs the stagehands to get the cue right at least once. Gunshot
and bird prop go off without a hitch. Lefou accidentally catches the
prop when it falls from the catwalk. He’s so startled that he caught it
that Gaston runs right in to him. They drop both the gun and the bird
props, and grab the wrong prop in their scramble. Gaston spends the rest
of the scene gesturing dramatically with a stuffed pheasant, instead of
a gun.
Sunday Night:
Director is fed up with bird prop, decides that Lefou should just carry
bird prop in after gunshot happens off stage. Lefou accidentally
squeezes the prop during the intro conversation, startling both actors
into silence with the squeaky toy noise – apparently, neither of them
realized it was a dog toy.
Monday Elementary School Show: Lefou walks on stage with the
bird. Accidentally drops the prop during conversation with Gaston.
Gaston doesn’t notice the dropped prop and steps on it. Cue depressingly
sad squeaky toy noise. Cue ten years olds laughing.
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It’s finally here! This song plays when you are in the Doodle Sphere, with all the doors that lead to other worlds and a Sans you’ve never seen before… possibilities are infinite!
I wanted this song to sound really eerie and timeless… I took inspiration from tracks with similar moods, like Wandering Flame [FFX] or Corridors of Time [Chrono Trigger]. Thanks to the almighty Mania for letting me experiment all I wanted 😀
And they are getting even more strict when it comes to not using invoices for charging for Digital Goods.
Whatever Invoices make you uncomfortable or not, you gotta start using them if you want to keep your PayPal and your money. Changes starting this October 19th.
Honestly I don’t get why so many artists are so overwhelmed by invoices, takes just a few clicks to set up.
And is not only “oh you have to use invoices because PayPal says so” if you don’t use invoices you’re putting yourself at risk of being scammed by an user abusing the buyer’s protection.
Since PayPal ain’t got no idea of what those $50 you received were for, but the buyer is saying they didn’t got anything for the money, PayPal will just side with the buyer.
I’m seriously begging ppl, start using invoices. I’m tired of seeing ppl complain their paypal was banned, or is under investigation, or worse, the $100 they got for a very complicated commission, 3 months later get a refund issue.
just
start
using
invoices
for your own sake.
Here is how you use invoices because I can’t keep playing devil’d advocate, yes I would love to help you get your PayPal restored but just this last month I had to help three persons, and they were MORE than aware of this issues.
Just protect yourself.
Step 1. You login and click here
Step 2. You click create new Invoice. YOU NEVER CLICK REQUEST MONEY, unless you want to risk yourself to get scamer by buyer’s protection exploit and not only lose your money but your paypal account, and any future paypal linked to your irl name.
Step 3 You follow this steps
1. Invoice for amount only
2. Ask your client for their PayPal email and put in that field
3. Add a vague description of what you’re doing, something like “Character Coloured with Background” is good enough, and if you need more than 1 character you can type in “2″ where it says amount, or just say “2 characters”.
Warning: don’t type in “Naruto rawing Sasuke”. That will get you banned.
4. Click send.
Optional steps. Create a template, doesn’t take more than 10 minutes and it will save you a lot of time for future invoices, you can even click on “items” right next to “create invoice” and add a list of services you offer such as “character sketch” “character flats” along with a price, so next time you invoice you just add to the invoice from your list of items and you saved yourself some more time.
More importantly, you protect yourself from buyer’s protection exploit because if PayPal knows you’re doing digital goods, then you will be allowed that you did in fact created a digital good.
Keep PayPal happy, as for right now there are no alternatives to this service, and this is the only source of income for many freelancers.
Stay safe.
Heads up, all commissioning artists
I’ll be doing this from now on!
ADDING THIS BC I HATE PAYPALLLL
OK so when you send/make invoices…it doesnt let you choose ‘digital good’ or differentiate between “goods (as in physical)” and “services” (as in doesnt need address) which is what you could do with micropayments….
SO WHEN U SEND INVOICE the buyer will be asked for their shipping address. ( I even had the options turned off for shipping?? I was pretty sure there USED TO be an option that you turned off and then it wouldn’t ask for shipping, but that doesnt seem to work anymore? I went to where the setting was and still had the boxes unchecked, and yet my buyer was still getting asked to put in shipping address, and when invoice was paid, i was being asked to provide shipping label by X date or Consequences.)
SO APPARENTLY YOU HAVE TO DO THIS as the SELLER
SO go to the invoice (i think this can be done BEFORE the buyer pays?? Didnt try myself tho, i did it after it was paid), and click on VIEW DETAILS in that first box
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click ADD TRACKING INFO
(YES COUNTER-INTUITIVE AS BALLLLLS.)
of course HERE IS WHERE YOU’RE GIVEN INSTRUCTIONS ON PROCESSING DIGITAL GOODS. HIDDEN BEHIND A BUTTON YOU WOULDNT PRESS IF YOU WERE, SAY, TRYING TO SELL DIGITAL GOODS.
Select Order Processed/Service Rendered
YAY this stuff fills itself out and you can save and not have to worry about shipping your Digital Intangible Product to a very confused seller.
I am so salt about this. excuse me while i go cry angrily.
Think I’ll reblog this for my own use…
Guess I gotta get used to sending invoices for all transactions soon then
Oh boy. Probably a good thing I have a few templates already lol
im not a pro at this field cuz im also still learning, but i hope u find this helpful anyway Kevin. ^ ^;;;
ill try to help as much as i can ! also for the best tips, use ur own clothes as reference~ its easier cause u got to clearly see where the folds and creases are! ^0^/
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