“I painted this mural in July of last year, and these guys told me how much they loved the mural and then decided to never pay me.”
The iconic Californian surfboard brand Rusty has been hit with a PR headache after a queer female artist took to her socials to accuse the R dot of not paying for an elaborate wall mural at their Carlsbad store.
Hanna Daly is a forty-two-year-old surfer, also a former roller derby gal and nude model, who took to doin’ murals in 2004 with almost 1500 wall-sized paintings completed since then.
Daly claims she spent one thousand bucks of her own money making the mural for Rusty last July and was told payment was forthcoming.
Then, crickets as they say, or as she says.
Four days ago, Daly posted a reel of her taking the Rusty logo out of the mural in protest posting,
Update: @rustysurfboards has decided to spend money on a lawyer instead of paying artists. I got an intimidating email from their lawyer yesterday full of inaccuracies and threats.
This after they said they would have me fully paid within two weeks.
I painted this mural in July of last year, and these guys told me how much they loved the mural and then decided to never pay me. I spent nearly a thousand dollars of my own money on a scissor lift rental and paint. Not cool.
It’s funny because you would think that big corporations would be good customers, but often that’s not the case. Small business owners are the best clients because they understand what it means to hustle.
Taking advantage of small business owners is not cool. Do better.
The reel was liked 104,000 times with almost three thousand comments and 315 shares.
“Now 10.9 million people know the brand is bad news and can’t be trusted – was it worth not paying for the job?” wrote one fan, indicative of the general mood.
Rusty Surfboards, a brand as iconic as Channel Islands or Lost but a little faded in recent years, was created by Rusty Preisendorfer in 1985 after the boards he created for the teenage Mark Occhilupo riding his beautiful clean shapes to phenomenal effect.
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