I’m confused. I am a local artist at the waterfront and I have been selling my work for a few years now during the summer months. I pay the city for my permit to do so. I spend a lot of money trying to prepare myself and everything. I heard the Tall Ships Festival was happening this summer and I was so excited to be a part of it…come to find out all local artists at the waterfront are being kicked off the boardwalk. Why? It’s one of the biggest tourist attractions in the summer. People come from all around to see them and our province. Shouldn’t they also see local art instead of stores selling lighthouse keychains or $10 sunglasses made in China? They might as well open up a fast food chain down there too… Why can’t Halifax be different than all those towns that just become cheap tourist traps that no one ever returns to? —Angry Artisan
This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2012.
“They might as well open up a fast food chain down there”
Finally! A NSCAD alumnus with some common sense. I vote Arbys, or dare I even dream – White Castle. Llllllaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhh.
The businesses there likely squawked enough about lost business so somebody decided it would be a good plan to kick out the artists. Maybe try some squawking as well?
what’s the permit say?
sue for lost wages since you have a permit, if possible.
pretty sure if you can legally bring up a lawsuit that makes sense, they’ll fold like a house of paper.
Do “Angry Artisans” like to “throw pottery”?
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
some idiot was probably “offended”. And by offended, I mean jealous or bored with nothing better to do.
Folks in this city are annoying.
the tall ships will be here starting july 19-23. if you feel so against it, go to city hall. they will show you the best place to go. usually out of their door, back to sidewalk. don’t hold your hand on your ass waiting for any type of justice from there, it ain’t gonna ever happen.
yep, more money for halisux with the boats, and once against, more teenage pregnancies to come in next couple of months. check the records folks, every time a visiting boat comes here, population rises a bit higher. are we missing something?
it’s july 19 to the 29th
Welcome to Halifax where the fucktards are indeed fucktarded!
Probably they don’t want your booths set up because it’s crowded enough on the boardwalk when the tall ships are visiting. Like others said if you are paying a fee to rent the space and are being denied access to it that’s not fair and you should get some compensation or an alternate location nearby should’ve been arranged but that’s life and life is, unfair.
http://www.dudelol.com/img/life-is-unfair.…
Heh, what if the OP makes balloon animals?
no mel, that would be the buskers^^ http://www.toxel.com/wp-content/uploads/20…
What does your permit say, OB? I suspect there’s some clause in the paperwork you signed saying the city can give you the boot during events such as tall ships.
Check it out. And if it doesn’t have that clause, you should definitely receive some compensation for the loss seeing as you paid for a permit that you can’t use.
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check the records folks
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More bullshit.
The city liscences the waterfront to the Tall Ships corp, and the contract says TS decides. I tried to busk on the boardwalk 3 years ago, and we were bounced once they figured out we weren’t supposed to be there. It was me on bass and a great young drummer. We were so good it was 2 full days til an organizer walked by, danced, then asked for our permit.
Thing is: they don’t rent, sell, or give them, so we had to leave.
No live entertainment at all, just TS swag.
Nothing to do with City Hall. At all.
Wp
What records? The Tall Ship Staff Intercourse Sign-out Sheets?
WHITE CASTLE IT IS!
And I sell my artwork on the waterfront just fo’ da hoes. Bitches like artsy shit!
Waterfront artists sling some whack oils:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptHEuL41xAs
Unicorn on the Aircraft Carrier – Hanging in ma crib.
I don’t get the excitement over the Tall Ships. They’re a bunch of old boats lined up on the dock. Guess I’m not the nautical type.
no painy, it is as i stated, the 19th.-23rd. of july. here is a piece about it, and yes, young girls always get knocked up when their is a ship in port from away. it’s a matter of history.
http://www.halifaxnewsnet.ca/News/2012-06-…
oh, and paul, sebastion wants you to blow him again.
You’re the one completely up to date on Sebbie’s sexual cravings, and *I’m* the gay bitcher?
Wp
well dude, you are always the douche talking about him, so i guess you know all about his movements. anyway, i’m not wasting my time bantering back and forth with you anymore. you seem to think you know all, well then know what the fuck you want. same goes for the rest of the douches that are on here. fuck you all, i don’t need you and your two faced shit.hopefully kay and the rest of the other haters come back, and then this place will be a bitch board again. not a degenerated piece of shit, that you people are making it. hate my posts and dislike them all you want assholes, who fucking cares.
We know you “don’t care”, you don’t need to keep saying it.
What this burg needs is a few Popeye’s Louisiana Chicken n Biscuits.
We need some Food Trucks like “real” cities have and are shown on Eat Street, Bud and Bill the spud need not apply.
Getting one or two IHOPs would be nice too.
Bahahahaha, you’re such a wanker, LS. Why bother responding if you don’t care wether or not people like/dislike your posts? Maybe at the next summit you can kick wheelies ass, or maybe just shoot him with a bb gun (cause you can’t be charged with anything if you use one of those).
crawl back into your hole harper gear boy. keep your fucking lips and nose out of shit that don’t concern you. and yeah, b.b. guns are cool, for getting rid of little vermin, like you.
Watch out, Shitty! He (lied about) served in the Falklands War, (bullshitted about) was a Toronto cop, and (doesn’t) bang all those (made up) chicks.
You don’t watch it, he’ll (fail to follow through on his threat to) beat you up!
If he doesn’t care about the Summit, why is he still a Wah Wah Baby about not being invited?
The secret is, he cares.
Hey Suckers, the law liberry needs the shitters cleaned/ oops- I mean Sherry called for your hot bod.
“I’ll huff and I’ll puff, and I’ll make up a story about my past life or the women I can’t get”.
Wp
And I wait, excitedly, for the “records” of the baby boom that happens every time the Tall Ships leave.
Or did you make it up, just like you make up everything you say here?
I believe the grand daughter stories, because it sounds like the Grampie Gary we met and liked at the first Summit. Tye rest of it aounds like the boasting of the Bullshit King.
And I don’t need you to banter back and forth, but when you play internet tough guy or claim to have served in a war or fucked a bunch of chicks, expect people to call you on it, just like everyone challenges the people who write dumb bitches.
Wp
What about tall ships OP !!!!!!!
What about Canada day ?
I really believed it was tomorrow.
IT always seems to be on Monday, & I woke up today thinking I was going to go for an afternoon swim , do a bit of gardening & mow my lawn to get heated up so the swim will be even better & simply chillout all day. Which is still the plan….its just my tomorrow is completely fucked because my honey & I had plans to go into Halisux for the Canada day concert & fire works….oh well, I guess I’ll head over to Leno’s & buy some fireworks & join the village tonight setting off our own show. Although my perfered evening of sitting on the deck surrounded by tiki torches spewing citronella fumes into the air while drinking various concoctions of an alcoholic nature is still in the running.
big fucking deal. don’t believe then. who cares. i know where i was, and what i have done. no, i won’t bother bantering back and forth. because it just bounces of the thick skulls of some of the assholes here. but know this, i still have most of my uniform, and my t.o shirts and pull overs from the academy. so get fucked.
also on a few other points, yes, i got sucked into goimg someplace i had no business to be, and a lot of others did too. but when you put on a forces uniform, you do a stupid thing, you fucking follow orders from the brass. ask ivan about brass. same as anyone else that gets into a uniform, be it cop, services, or even a fucking bus driver. you do what the top boys say, and go where they tell you. if you have a specized training, then you get more shit than the average fuck would.
no paul, i don’t bullshit you or anyone else, i feel sorry that you think so. i used to think you were cool, but well, not now.as for sherry and the rest, well, hey, i had fun, and so did they. well not sherry, because still lives out of province, as i said before, and red, well she is an ex of mine, but still real good friends. the other ladies, they read here, but don’t comment, because they think most of the bitchers are assholes, to be nice.
they only read because i seem interesting to them. and nope, they would never bother going to a summit, because no one knows them, and they want to keep it that way. as to harper shithead. go pound sand up your ass. in the next few days, i will be going away, for a week or two, and maybe, just maybe, i might come back here. but at this time, it looks not so good. i’m taking the 68 charger r/t to the states for the barret-jackson auction in a week from sunday coming. and i’m looking at some land in florida.after all, i am still a yankee at heart, and by birth.
Wheelie sez: *The secret is, he cares.*
and yet you continue to hate on him. Why is that, Paul? I have been out of town for a week or so and just checked this out and I am disturbed and yes, vexed to see the little spat between the old suckster and the delightful smelling, bass playing living Xaviar still grinding on. It’s summertime, boys! Have a cold one, smoke a joint, spank the monkey or do whatever it takes to get over the summer crankies.
Paul, he really is grampa gary. Yes, he’s a bit of an asshole sometimes, but he’s loyal and kind. I have been thinking of him as Walter in the Big Lebowski for some time. Sucks, sorry if this offends you-I can be an asshole sometimes, too.
Xeno… I believe your asshole comment covers everyone ( myself included) but also I find that comments or opinions of others that some/most may find unoffensive can still put the hackles up on others.
But that’s the beauty & ugly of everyone being able to have a personal opinion, I’m glad the so called ‘leaders’ haven’t taken our right to say what we feel completely away & places like LTWWB allows anyone to pretty much say what they want.
it’s very chaud here, xeenie. lots of wobbly pops etc^^ stay cool bitches
Fair enough, Xeenie.
Moving right along.
Wp
S’all good, Wheelie-Love a man who can eat it as well as dish it out—sorry to get all schoolmarm on yo’ass.
Suckster also reminds me of the Donal Logue character in the movie ‘Just like Heaven” you may not have seen it-it’s a chick flick- Logue saves it from total mediocrity.
At one point in the movie, Mark Ruffalo asks for Donal’s help in stealing a dead body from a hospital. Without any hesitation, Donal’s in. Later he explains it this way: “If some day I need to move a dead body, I”m gonna call you, and I don’t wanna hear any crap about it!” Well, Suckster is like that guy.