A Bubble About to Burst
I’ve come close a number of times; now the proverbial straw has been loaded onto my own hunched back.
I’ve been uncomfortable with redbubble’s site management and the growing proliferation of copyright-infringing material. They also have an unusually high tolerance of hate-based work. A few years ago I tried to get them to remove what I considered to be a fiercely racist Christmas card, only to be told “they didn’t think it was that bad” despite many, many complaints.
At that time, I did leave redbubble for a while; maybe a year. When I decided to try and take my art more seriously, I returned. I don’t know if the card is still there or not, sadly I had given up on trying to get rid of it and I didn’t want to give it any more publicity, good or bad. Now a new bit of hate has reared up, and once again they are hiding behind ‘artist responsibility’.
Among the various print services for artists, redbubble is one of the easiest to use. True, this is mainly due to a glaring lack of options; but sometimes a quick upload late at night made up for that. For this reason, redbubble is the only site I currently have most of my work visible on. And for that reason, I cannot immediately delete my gallery until I have a significant amount of work uploaded elsewhere.
While I get Zazzle and a couple other sites (to be announced later!) up to speed I will leave my redbubble gallery up for you to browse. At the end of June 2011 I will be removing all work from my redbubble gallery.
This does not mean I am encouraging you to buy any of my work from redbubble. I do not want to give them any more business. But, if you see something you like, please drop me a note - either through this blog or on http://www.blueknot.com - and I will move whatever piece you suggest to the top of my upload/publish list. I’ll even put it on sale for the first few days! ;-)
