"You did an amazing job! So beautiful. Rusty was psyched! We will keep you in mind for any future projects that come up."
If yesterday’s surprise twist in the case of Rusty Surfboards Inc allegedly stiffing California’s Mural Queen Hanna Daly for fifteen gees – Rusty says Daly couldn’t provide written evidence of the mural’s approval – well, buckle in, little ones.
If you want to recap, click here.
While I generally eschew the right of reply, why ruin a good story or even slow it down with fairness, I sent Rusty attorney Gary Sirota’s handful of smoking bullets to Daly to see what she’d come back with.
First, Daly says she received an email from Jen Cassidy, their current General Manager, in July 2023 shortly after she’d completed the mural.
Hanna,
You did an amazing job! So beautiful. Rusty was psyched!
We will keep you in mind for any future projects that come up.
Hit us up and stop by if you’re ever down this way.
Will get a check out to you asap.
Jen.
Then, again from Jen Cassidy, in January 2025.
Like I had mentioned before, I came in after they already agreed to the mural. The management at that time didn’t budget the project properly, if at all.
Which, is absolutely NOT your responsibility, but unfortunately, became your problem. I am so sorry.
As for the mural’s location and the logo, Daly says, “those would be questions for the Rusty team. How I can say that they expressly asked for the R dot logo.”
Who commissioned the mural?
“The mural I painted was commissioned by Rusty surfboards. They had final approval on sketches.”
Who? Someone in marketing? CEO? MD? Was it a verbal agreement?
“It was a written agreement. I don’t want to give out any names. After the mural was painted, they fired everyone that worked at their company at the time. After that I only spoke with Jen Cassidy and never was the amount of the mural or contract ever disputed. They only issue was she claimed Rusty Surfboards didn’t have the funds to pay it.”
When Rusty apparel paid the invoice, Daly donated half the money to Surfrider and the rest to CAF Adaptive Surf Youth Program.
“I am not doing this for money,” writes Daly. “I am speaking up because businesses need to have dignity and pay artists.”
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I’m super confused. Is she still a “queer artist” or is that just a June thing? The headline didn’t mention it.
Yes! We born this way etc.
No doubt only winner here is investigative surf journalism!
wild ride.
i’m going to start designing companies logos they didn’t ask for, then charge them for them.
might try pepsi first, the last one was atrocious.
few hundred thousand should do it.
As a lawyer who’s litigated contractual disputes for too many years and with family in the arts, this reeks of the vague bullshit non agreements artists come up with then wonder why they are always poor and pissed off with anyone who commissions their work. I’m almost certain this all arose from her making assumptions she can’t back up with proper evidence. I bet the written agreement was a draft and she just went ahead without getting confirmation then asked for the money and that’s the Rusty employee trying to be nice.
The relevant basics of contract law for all you laypersons, some or all of which are almost always missing when dealing with these kind of artists:
1) offer
2) acceptance
3) consideration
4) intention to create legal relations
5) certainty
6) don’t wear velvet or smell of patchouli
Dear colleague, thanks for boring us more stupid than we were before. None of these cunts give a shit about the rudimentary fundamentals of contract law and some of them certainly wear velvet on their wagon mounds. With all due respekt etc…
You’re welcome. We call them gunts.
None of this is a contract!
Her answers are deliberately vague and incomplete. She says “[the commission from Rusty] was a written agreement” but then the first written communication she can produce comes from after the mural was done?
And she’ll name the general manager she talked to after the mural was done but nobody she supposedly talked to before that, most importantly the person or people who would have commissioned this? For this one she says “I don’t want to give out any names”… huh?
This doesn’t seem to be on the up and up.
I’m sooo over this story.
It’s like the 11’1″ Glider of stories
It just keeps gliding where most would’ve kicked out…no doubt.
Dang, sounds like the post-op convalescence board I need.
Also pretty fun in points
Only two more to go!
The bottom line as we all know is that lawyers are evil. Never trust them and their double speak.
….and women too. Amirite? Right?
Pure Evil. Much double speak.
Women lawyers though, pretty hawt
easy there buddy. my sister’s a women lawyer.
She single?
she’s a litigator….of course she’s single.
Want to intro to the gang?
probably not….for three reasons.
1. she looks like a 5’10” blonde version of Kelly LeBrock. premature ejaculating Gritians is not a pretty thought.
2. she was a paralegal for Marcia Clark on the OJ case and is one of the only people I know who will tell you, OJ was not guilty of the murders.
3. I’ve seen her in swimwear and she has a fin on her back the size of 6 meter great white…..and I don’t want to see any of my fellow gritians get eaten alive.
why don’t sharks eat attorneys? professional courtesy.
Always in tight skirts, unbuttoned shirts etc. At least from my brief-ish foray into the courtroom a few weeks back.
The best
Huh, looks like I unearthed another Andrew Tate acolyte in the surfing world. I guess it was hopeful thinking that Houshmand was the only one.
It was sarcasm. I tried to make it overly obvious by using the repetition of words, because sarcasm doesn’t translate into print. Lots of assholes on this forum; but I’m not one of them ……as yet.
Oops sorry, I’m so used to the moronic manosphere cunts babbling their incoherent bullshit that I missed the subtlety
I hear ya. Best to ignore them completely as they’re not going anywhere.
I understand though, as occasionally feel the need to call out online bs as well. I can ignore all the hate speech but mostly, on this forum, I can’t ignore negativity.
Totally agree
I see why everyone at Rusty was fired. It all makes sense now.
Looks like the new people should be fired too!
New person. Not new “people”. Imagine coming into a job and praising a contractor who had no contract.
Need to get more lawyers involved, it would seem.
Nah the praiser should be promoted and the others fired. A commitment is a commitment whether it’s stipulated in a contract or its verbal, by email or through a messaging tool. Unless you’re a CUNT.
well, of she has a contract, it’s game over…..but…..has she produced the contract, and if she did have a contact with Rusty, why the heck is the RUSTY brand not better represented?
Did it go through marketing, because if it did marketing needs to take a walk.
the logo looks like it was added as an after thought, not a commissioned piece.
If you want me to take a dump in a box with guarantee I got the time
https://youtu.be/a5dpBpaFiMo?si=Qi7qOQ83gH24P5B-
Aah the old “dog ate my homework” excuse.
That cunning runt doesn’t know shit about dignity, and it sure as hell ain’t an artist. You can’t paint worth a damn ya extortionist.
You realize you’re a caricature of that guy on the internet?
Self awareness? Empathy? Not a shred. I’m shocked that you’ll even engage with them.
Settle down Sally. Someone has to be the villain.
Villians have character though.
So you’re saying it’s your opinion that Trump isn’t a villain after all?
Bob Vylan!
😆😆
$100 bucks on Chas surfing better than Otto. True measure of a complete donkey!
A Republican is an elephant.
A Democrat is a complete donkey.
Both have equally infuriating characteristics!
Qrusty
No
Great name for a Conspiracy Bread company.
Yeah I didn’t think this one through. Pretty standard really. Queerustification…I’ll see myself out
That is way too much to process! Can someone just tell me who I should be angry with?
Cyclist’s! And Sup’s. Oh and MAGA. Also the far left and heterosexuals that enjoy risque kinks! Brown indigenous populations, Eurotrash, 400yo Greenland Sharks that oversaw all of this mess. Polar Bears. People who have been forced to rely on fossil fuels. And Cassowary’s, how fucken crook are Cassowary’s!
Is that everyone?
That’s a fine looking fossil fuel surfing craft you got there
I wash it with tears of native animals!
Xox
the clouds….go outside and shake your fist at the clouds.
Bunch of puffed-up, cumulus pricks.
MTV!
As soon as they stopped playing music, the world went to shit!
Xox
Obama. As always.