Update with Starfinder/Christina Penescu

[gizagiza.livejournal.com]

I wanted to give a quick update regarding the issue I had with Starfinder/Astray/Kannos/Christina Penescu, previously posted two months ago here.

I updated that post saying that she had contacted me shortly after posting here, informing me that she'll send it out at the end of that week. This would have been the first or second week of December, latest. I haven't received it, so I sent her an e-mail asking about the matter (as instructed on her FA page, under the username Astray) two weeks ago, and then a note on FA five days ago. She hasn't opened by note and all her galleries on FA or DA haven't been touched. However, she's updated her Facebook page since, the latest update being January 26th. So, she has internet access.

I just wanted to say that the issue has not been resolved, and I doubt it'll ever be.

And please, since it was a problem last time, nobody contact her or her employers about the matter. I'm posting this here so that the community and others know to stay away from her (as if there wasn't ample reason already), not to make her life difficult. She'll do that herself.

Comments

[cesarin.livejournal.com]

not to make her life difficult. She'll do that herself.
I think the point about this is..
even if she makes her own life difficult.. she is dragging unsuspecting people with her scam schemes (aka pseudo commisssions she "magically forges" or never does them)
Id do my best to prevent others from falling to such schemes.

[2cuxi.livejournal.com]

People were calling her job? That's not right at all. You'd think people would make the logical connection that if she lost her "day job", she'd just start doing even MORE grab-and-run commissions.

[gizagiza.livejournal.com]

I think the best way to do that is to inform others, not to harass the artist.

[insane-kangaroo.livejournal.com]

I think gizagiza is referring to the other beware where an artist claimed someone from AB called her work?

[2cuxi.livejournal.com]

That wasn't Astray?

[insane-kangaroo.livejournal.com]

o.0 It was? Someone asked me if I called an artist's place of work but I wasn't sure who the person was talking about.

[gizagiza.livejournal.com]

Apparently someone (or maybe there was more than one) called her employer about the issue, maybe about others as well, I'm not sure. Either way, not cool.

[2cuxi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it was. I read the journal and I'm pretty sure I remember seeing the big toothy dog icon which belongs to Astray.

[insane-kangaroo.livejournal.com]

Are you sure about that? I remember investigating her and only found she's been doing freelance/self-employed art related work for the past 10 years. Unless she has a job at Micky D's which she isn't telling anyone about.

[2cuxi.livejournal.com]

That could be the case, but it was definitely one of the chronic offenders.

[gizagiza.livejournal.com]

She said it to me in her reply via FA note. Quote: "...a's it caused people to attack my real world fine art life, including a publisher. I'm not in a terrible situation and may be out thousands of dollars if my contract gets f***ed."

[maryseif.livejournal.com]

Color me unsurprised. Again.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

She has stuff on a wild life art site that is "juried" to get in.

The owners of the site were contacted about her inability to follow through on promised/paid art work. Which is very much against the rules.

It doesn't seem that she has lost the contract with the company at this point nor does it seem that she has sold much through that venue either.

I have a feeling that her chestbeating about what she lost is rather inflated considering how the site works.

[insane-kangaroo.livejournal.com]

pardon my ignorance, what is a juried art site?

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

This ^

Getting the information out so that others don't lose their cash is good. Causing the artist to have a total meltdown by commenting and e-mailing them is bad

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

It's like a juried art show. There is a panel of professionals with some cache in the field who decided if your art work is good enough for their gallery be it a physical gallery or a web site or a show.

[cesarin.livejournal.com]

Its not that easy when the artist.. like starfinder.. changes names everytime things blow on her face.

I'm still surprised noone has sued her, since I've heard some people still being owed art in the hundreads.

[silverfoxwolf.livejournal.com]

Don't forget she might be using a phone to access Facebook on a dedicated application which might not run FA very well. Goodness knows I can hardly use it on my phone and that's a full doo dar phone with internet connected up.

[sigilgoat.livejournal.com]

It means that artists are only allowed on by jury, like a board of trustees.

[sigilgoat.livejournal.com]

It's alright, the tag list here will just keep getting longer.

And she will get her comeuppance, it's just a matter of time.

[poizenkat.livejournal.com]

this 8/ man id sue her totally....then again im a NYer 8U we sue for everything

[dustmeat.livejournal.com]

Astray is Starfinder.

[gizagiza.livejournal.com]

I contacted her by email, though, 8 days before I tried with FA.

[silverfoxwolf.livejournal.com]

Ah, I was thinking out loud there.

[marus-puppy.livejournal.com]

If her facebook's active, why not try to contact her there?