Day 160 - A-Amusements is a Racist Fraud and Thief!

So after I made the video, A-Amusement has started blocking a bunch of individuals who confront them. To back up my statement on being racist, here is a snapshot of the comment he left on Catriona Finlayson-Wilkins YouTube Channel:

She also got this comment when she confronted them on Facebook: (S***=Screw)

They even posted this as a reply to a comment I made on one of their videos and then immediately made the video private and blocked me from commenting:

Here is what one person had to say about this company:

I don't encourage it except to report them, but here is the link to their Facebook Page http://facebook.com/aamusementperformers and here is their YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/aamusement

These are places you need to go only to find out if they have stolen any of you photos or videos! DO NOT ENGAGE THEM UNTIL YOU HAVE REPORTED ALL PHOTOS & VIDEOS YOU KNOW ARE NOT THEIRS!

See if you have a photo here http://aamusementperformers.com/face_painter.html

As of now, they are still there and continue to curse people out for stand up to them. I will post all information I can on them.

In fact they are really stupid to post this in their footer:

Copyright 1999 A Amusement of New Orleans   All rights reserved.  Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without the express written consent of A Amusement of New Orleans is prohibited.  Please contact us at (504) 347-4958 or write us:  A Amusement of New Orleans  3024 Destrehan Ave.  Harvey, LA 70058

They were smart enough to put themselves into a position to screw themselves over!

I can probably post more info, but I think this is enough to start with! I will touch bases on this issue in next Wednesday's video blog. I have done my damage, now it is your turn to turn up the heat on them.

Don't think this does not affect you, because it affects us all in a negative way. Who will be next?

UPDATE! More info to get rid of these frauds:

Larissa Symbouras 

The Facebook page violates Facebook's TOS:

Profiles represent individuals and must be held under an individual name, while Pages allow an organization, business, celebrity, or band to maintain a professional presence on Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/aamusementperformers
On the left hand side under friends, click "Report/Block This Person". Choose "This person is pretending to be someone or is a fake" then choose "Represents a business or organization.

The host for the website is GoDaddy, their Terms of Service prohibit any type of copyright infringement:
http://www.godaddy.com/agreements/ShowDoc.aspx?pageid=tradmark_copy

The form for infringement claims is below:
https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/DomainServices/TrademarkClaimPage.aspx?prog_id=GoDaddy&isc

Day 159 - Week In Review

Wanted to do a Q&A video, but did not get any questions in time, so I just decided to take 2 questions that came up in the past. watch the video to get those answers. If you would like to submit questions for me to answer, send them to questions@post.com and I will get to them in the next Q&A video in about 3 weeks.

Hair Feathers or Feather Heads are a not so new item, but are becoming very popular right now and I will be doing them in the near future.

This past weekend, I was at the Blue Plum Festival in Johnson City, TN. Besides all the problems, it was a really great festival. Some of the problems that were there, were the amount of FREE face painters there. Some were even using acrylics, Apple Barrel Acrylic Craft Paint. I even asked them to stop using it because it could harm the kids. One had the nerve to argue back that it can be washed off. I lost it and told her off in front of the parents there. A church even was doing FREE face painting and asked them how long they were going to be doing it and they told me until 6PM. I told them I had paid for a booth space and that I was charging, they said "OH" and continued to do FREE face painting instead of doing the Christian thing and stopping.

One of the biggest deals at the festival caused me to create two 2'X5' banners that you can purchase. Take a look: (click on the image to see it larger)

The one on the left is a little blunt and rude sounding, while the one on the right sounds a lot better and is more professional, but will still rub people the wrong way.

That is okay, because no matter how much you try to make people happy, you will always have those who are out to make your life miserable and complain about everything. Most people don't read anyways and those that do are usually the ones to understand why you posted in the first. There are also those, when told your rules, that will say "Why don't you make a sign then?" and that is exactly what I did.

These signs can be used in almost every event you do, but use caution when displaying them. Some situations you may not post at all, while others you will want to shove it in the customers face.

If you are interested in purchasing one, they are $50 each or both for $80. just fill out the form at the bottom of the blog and I will get it to you within 3 weeks.

I Upgraded my Gig Salad account and you can see it here http://www.gigsalad.com/katmandew_face_body_art_abingdon Please write a review and let me know what you think of my services I provide!

I also created a couple of badges you can attach to your Facebook Profile pic. Click on each photo to go to that badge. You can even create your own through PicBadges.com

You can also Skype me if I am online! Just click the button on the right in the sidebar!

Other than that here are some photos of faces I did during the Blue Plum Festival:

Day 158 - Busy schedule today!

Not only do I have to get the video & blog ready for tomorrow, I have to contact the Mayor of Abingdon, VA, go to the executive meeting for the Virginia Highlands Festival, create a couple tutorials, work on my book and gallery projects and somewhere in all this eat & sleep.

HAPPY PAINTING! 

Day 157 - What do you want to Know?

I am still looking for questions to answer in my Wednesday Q&A Video blog. Any and all questions are acceptable, but this will be about FABAIC 2011, so make your questions relate as much as possible.

Please send in all your questions to questions@post.com

Look forward to see what you ask, HAPPY PAINTING!

Day 156 - Last day of Blue Plum Festival

Well it is the last day and I have had my fun already. Today promises to be a more relaxed, but profitable day for us. There is so much to tell you about this weekend and I will make sure to fill you in on Wednesday.

I will tell you that there were 2 acrylic face painters there that would not heed my warnings and continued to do their thing. And also there was FREE face painting by a church all day yesterday (even though it did not completely hurt us) that did not care if we paid a vendor fee and that it was our main business. I will get into more details in my video blog (minor rant, but pertains to all of us).

So to finish off, HAPPY PAINTING!