For a better tomorrow.
- BuddhaHat0
FMT 031523
Ahh man I remember those FMT days fondly. RickBenedict you are the man.
- Memories of Jazx. No one seemed to like him but he was a huge contributor.CyBrainX
- I used to research and buy music specifically to share on Fridays, lol.Nairn
- what des FMT stand for?Krassy
- Friday Means Thursdayimbecile
- Friday Music Thread if I'm not mistakenBuddhaHat
- cool, tnxKrassy
- It originally meant Friday Music Thread but many people will tell you it meant Friday Means Thursday because we usually started it on Thursday.CyBrainX
- prophetone5
- <- that's what tiktok is forsted
- ahaha HELPsted
- like this duh https://i.imgur.com/…_niko
- milfhunter0
- *palimpsest busts a nutNairn
- I really don't get that random symbol. Also it gives me Asics vibes.milfhunter
- quoi!omer
- what is the icon supposed to be?dbloc
- cool clipart symbolutopian
- https://wolffolins.c…dmay
- I'd love to know how much Wolff Olins charged for this.Continuity
- Also, that they managed to make that CA ... err ... ligature(?) look even worse than it did on the old logo is astonishing. That's talent I really don't have.Continuity
- the lettering is much better, the icon... well, it's usable and distinct enough to use across all the products they havedmay
- Logo of the Day shows it without context; meh.
Wolff Olins over contextualizes it, BUT man it looks good!ideaist - that will be 895,734.76$
Our team worked very hard in the last 6 months to bring your logo to the next level.HAL9001 - I think it's smart to have a "mark" that you can use without the type. Clip art or not, it works well on their clothing and on tiny applications.monospaced
- It evokes movement, it's like a D, it locks up nice. Don't need to read too much into it beyond that.monospaced
- Pecathalon.Nairn
- Weird forced ligature that looks like C4bulletfactory
- ^ For whatever reason, that CA ligature thingy reminds me of a dog lifting its leg up to piss on something.Continuity
- The icon is the P for decathlonimbecile
- The selected blue color is not working, previous was way more "positive" than the new. The new logo looks like the LADA of clothing...OBBTKN
- Taking into account the price increase that their products have experienced lately... This is not going to help them to sale moreOBBTKN
- The icon makes sense in that it is reminiscent of the CA ligature, although that could be pushed harder. Very useful to have something small for buttons and >>skinny_puppy
- >> other small touches. I liked the old font though has character, the new one is ... dull. They could just have tweaked the original lettering.skinny_puppy
- @cont Like a lone elephant washing itself with the self-knowledge that it is a dying species, because it fits in with nothing that surrounds it.garbage
- The new font is boring, generic. The icon looks like a random korean or chinese car company. The old color is also way better. Don't get it.sandpipe
- I do not approve.
I agree with sandpipe, the old color is the best thing they had.palimpsest - The tension between the top right of the C and the A makes me very uncomfortable.maquito
- We want it to have movement, so italicise the ligature.
More.
No like they did in the 90s.
PerfectionProjectile
- utopian5
- https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- knock yourself out https://i.kym-cdn.co…_niko
- ^ lol made me spitpango
- Perineum-sunning.jpg :Djagara
- ideaist5
- Gah; where's the edit button @QBN?!
Apple Music: https://music.apple.…ideaist - I listened to this during lunch today. Very good, as always. It's a bit more low key than usual.CyBrainX
- Downloaded album for car, it soundtracks my journey from Edinburgh to NewcastleGardener
- He delivers yet again!Krassy
- what des FMT stand for?Krassy
- It originally meant Friday Music Thread but many people will incorrectly tell you it meant Friday Means Thursday because we usually started it on Thursday.CyBrainX
- It was a download sharing thread before everyone had streaming services.CyBrainX
- cool. Tnx!Krassy
- Gah; where's the edit button @QBN?!
- crazyprick4
blog
"About 50 people have died in Angola after being forced to drink an herbal potion to prove they were not sorcerers".
All cultures are equal!
- They would have been fine had they eaten an albino beforehandGnash
- Psshhh, that’s nothing. More than half of the US died in 2020 after forced to get vaccinated. Oh, wait. Pr2 is a fucking retard.monospaced
- Fuck off, losercrazyprick
- @Gnash furiously taking notesskinny_puppy
- Witchesbainbridge
- lol prickmonospaced
- sted1
- The fuck is a ciejej?milfhunter
- bundes nachrichten dienstneverscared
- the wifi under the wings symbol is scary.
I like the punk one better
https://i.imgur.com/…uan - an improvementutopian
- Shouldn't it say BIRD not BND? ;)sab
- or BOND :)uan
- This kind of German crest imagery always has bad connotations for me personally.HAYZ1LLLA
- neverscared0
- freelon the universe..neverscared
- Don Lemon is quite annoying. Can imagine the combo of him and Melon being quite brutalPhanLo
- Lemon vs. Melon.Nairn
- Man Child Musk is Upsetutopian
- the dont call him ...https://www.youtu...neverscared
- https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- lol. Lemon is even worse than he was on cnnGnash
- That interview was a parodyGnash
- good enough to hold elmos feet to the fire and make him tense... good journalism right there... elmo is still fucked since grimes left him for chelsea manningneverscared
- no inner peace but wants to be overlord... never works out ..neverscared
- lol. Lemon looked like an idiotGnash
- Holding feet to a fire? Lemon, at best, is a warm, moistened toweletteGnash
- nb3
canada
Canadian Standard of Living Plummets Lower, Approaching Lost Decade: NBF
https://betterdwelling.com/canad…
“The country received a number of warnings from prominent agencies, that building an economy focused on credit creation and housing isn’t sustainable. Rather than acknowledging these issues, the country doubled down on trying to stimulate housing demand. In the process, it’s also managed to send global investment fleeing for greener pastures in record volumes.
The OECD previously forecast real GDP growth that indicated quality of life would stagnate. Canada would occupy the growth spot that Greece did during the financial crisis, but for decades. That forecast is looking generous these days.”
Doom n gloom eh
- The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples money.everyangle
- The problem with you is you have no idea what socialism is.i_monk
- loleveryangle
- the problem with that quote is that you got it wrong and anyone who uses it is a twat.face_melter
- Ramanisky24
Suggest a bad movie
Octopus (2000)
Please watch this one and report back in the note section. It’s Incredible.
Full Movie
- lol the art, very suggestivefuturefood
- needs some MST3K!YakuZoku
- it does lolllfuturefood
- neverscared8
Obama
Obama takes a shot at the likes of Musk and Bezos, says we must protect Earth before colonizing Mars
- Why terraform Mars when we can terraform Earth?!palimpsest
- Thanks ObamaYakuZoku
- There is no planet Bcrazyprick
- Space is a lie.palimpsest
- pew pewAQUTE
- birds are fakeYakuZoku
- Big Barry couldn’t fix some lead pipes in Flint so he knows what he’s talking aboutPhanLo
- there are two kinds of people in the world. those who are pioneers and those who support obamahotroddy
- roddy, you should chill out with a Bud Light and watch some musical theatre - it'll take your mind off all this silliness.face_melter
- Snowflake be like triggered.utopian
- fuck earth.. if u dont get a seat on elmos rocket...u r fucked anyways.neverscared
- They keep blowing up, so I'm not sure it would be that safe eitherPhanLo
- i was saying the exact same thing but no one listened.milfhunter
- and look where that got them!
...where did they get?pango - lol hotroddy, it must be hard being such a faggy bitchcrazyprick
- Obama, America's first black President, wasn't a pioneer. Also, the French don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'.Nairn
- indeed Narn, celebrating a superficial trait over which you hold no authority is the left version of 'pioneering'hotroddy
- lol, hotroddy, you saying all those conservative, socialist sucking noncontributing trump supporting fuckatrds are "pioneers" how?monospaced
- Pioneers of being the base of the welfare state? Pioneers of modern racism and nationalist bigotry? You tell me.monospaced
- Pioneers on how to vote on legislature that surely fucks the working class, supports corporations and billionaire idiots who don't pay taxes?monospaced
- Thanks Obama. Srslystoplying
- God, He's such a troll. Probably the worst in QBN history.CyBrainX
- mono, you call them colonizers but basically the same thing.hotroddy
- I called nobody a colonizer.monospaced
- And, I'm sure, if I could somehow magically retard myself mentally far enough to grasp what you're saying, you'd still be wrong about it being "the same thing"monospaced
- to mono, dylan Mulvaney is a pioneer.hotroddy
- Horp21
blog
Thought I'd log back in to add a comment.
While I'm here, I'm going to write some shite that nobody needs to read.
It's a weird world out there, for a million different reasons. But in one specific aspect it is quite worryingly weird. Work.
My dad became finally, properly terminally ill last April and we were told he really didn't have long to go. Like, days or *maaaybe* weeks.
I was just finishing a long fixed term contract (FTC), so I made the quite difficult decision to delay looking for my next FTC as my dad dying would probably take up about 3 months of time. My mum has been married to him since she was 16 (Now mid 80s) and he was the man of the house who controlled everything. So it felt like there would be lots to do to get my mum settled and set up for life on her own.
Curiously, I saw absolutely no FTC positions being advertised anyway, so back in May-July 2023, it seemed my break nicely coincided with an industry lull. I've had 3 month breaks many times in the past between contracts and I'm ok with that. It's a perk if you budget for it.
My dad, despite being to all intents and purposes a perished cadaver in a hospital bed at my parents home, just didn't die. He wasn't able to do anything, and remained asleep for a lot of the time. There was nothing left of him at all because he stopped eating and only sipped water of the occasional cup of watery soup. But he just kept living, which frustrated him immensely.
On the occasions where he was awake and able to speak, he would talk about how much he wanted to die and how infuriating it was that he was just still here every single day.
He lost all sense of time and reality and would have the weirdest conversations (instructions for us, mostly) in short spurts before drifting back into the fog.
Over many months I got called up to my parents place countless times because "This is the end now. He's fallen into a coma and he's got hours left". But I'd arrive and he'd open his eyes, greet me, and request some weird food item he'd never eaten before in his life. Over and over this happened. I've done thousands of miles.
The longer it went on, the more certain it was he'd go any minute, and there were zero opportunities being advertised anyway. So I just focussed on my parents, and started getting into the all the admin of death so we were ready once he finally passed.
LinkedIn started filling up with "Open to work" profile pics, and posts about there being no work. The narrative kicke doff that A.I. was destroying the creative industries already. Copywriters, translators and strategists were all out of work. Creatives were out of work. People were becoming desperate. But my mum and dad were my priority, so I stayed out of it.
My dad finally passed on February 15th. His funeral is next Tuesday.
With regards to work though, by October last year I needed to try and do something. I'd been offered 2 freelance consultancy pieces by old clients and that helped, but I was not seeing any long term opportunities to start pursuing. I applied to some full time jobs, but there weren't many, and I didn't hear back from most.
One of the consultancy pieces was for a major UK delivery company, and I did some immersion research as part of the consultancy work - understanding how their business works from the ground up. I had asked to be placed on payroll inside IR35 and taxed at source for the work, because I no longer have a LTD company and companies rarely work with sole trader freelancers these days.
So after that project finished I asked if I could return to the ground level and do some pre-Christmas delivery work whilst on payroll. A really weird request for a senior level consultant to ask about van driving work, but I explained my situation, and they needed people before Christmas, so I did three months of delivery driving from October to January.
Weak pay, hard work, but oddly very enjoyable. I really liked it. Good physical fitness, fresh air, working by yourself with no ambiguous problems to solve. There's just one way to do it right, and it's not hard to do that.
I figured it might just be time to quit my career and take a form of retirement that puts me in the basic jobs market as opposed to the high paid career market. It was dooable. We paid off our mortgage last year and earning much less becomes manageable without a mortgage commitment.
I got spooked though. Over those three months, talking to many of my colleagues in that delivery role, I learned that many had opted to do that work as a stop gap during industry lulls. These were highly skilled people from high paid career roles. Very senior, very specialist. Some of them were C-Suite level people from globally operating UK brands - household name brands.
But they said they found that the stop gap job went on for too long and after six months of being a delivery driver, nobody would take them seriously in their career anymore. Nobody wants to entrust the future of an organisation to a van driver. So they got ensnared, and stuck there. Some of them had been there for 20 years by this point. Their former careers a distant memory.
So I decided not to risk that just yet, and I pulled out after three months of working as a delivery driver. I can bury three months given the consultancy work connection, but six months... I'd be cast in stone.
In December, before I quit that work, I had applied to a bunch of full time roles that came up on LinkedIn. Not many of them were 100% suitable, but I could bend in to them with a bit of effort.
I got two responses out of maybe 30 CV/Resume slingshots.
One was for a stalwart UK design company seeking a strategist, the other was for a global PR firm.
Both started the process at the beginning of December with an initial videocall interview. Both said they wanted to progress to the next stage.
The next stage was in January and both were keen to progress to the final stage.
Design company arranged for me to meet the ECD and the head of client services (HCS) as the final stage before making a decision. They had whittled down to just me and one other candidate. Final two.
ECD just didn't take to me is my best guess, and the HCS seemed to want more of a project manager than a brand strategist.
Almost exactly 3 months to the day they told me they'd gone for the other candidate. Lots of puffery about how much they loved me and thought I was fantastic blah blah blah but the other candidate had assured them more of their capabilities around the basic project management stuff and the mechanics of campaign anatomy and process. I was, they felt, a "wonderful creative strategist" but their immediate needs were more prosaic.
As much as I really needed to land a job and be back at work, I really didn't mind being passed over. They were a bit like an eccentric aristocratic and slightly inbred family; cut off from society and operating along their own rules and behaviours cultivated over decades in isolation. I had already sensed it would be wonky and weird, and largely about navigating big eccentric personalities that didn't run on contemporary rails.
The global PR job took me all the way to meeting 5 senior people and then on to the CEO for a final meeting. That meeting happened the day after my dad died and I should have cancelled, but I chose instead to crack on given the short notice. I did advise them I had not been able to prepare due to my dad's death, but I felt disoriented and unfocussed. I felt like I may have come across as drunk or addled, but I made my decision to attend so that's on me.
The feedback was that the CEO thought I was really great, and that it was uncommon of her to speak so favourably of a candidate... however she also didn't feel the role I had applied for was quite right - I was way more senior and had skills that wouldn't often be called upon for that role (and she was right about that). So they said they wanted to talk to me about other possibilities in their vast global org, and they would set up a meeting to discuss other possibilities.
Since then, I got ghosted. Totally ghosted. It was a 'no' dressed up as a shmooze.
I'm now in the stage 1 running for three other jobs. The job market is picking up I think. However, the clock is ticking for me.
I'm 54, I've been away from the coal face of my sector for 8 months now. I have two/three meaty freelance projects to show for that time, but that's all. They were all upstream analysis and consultancy projects so I can't even use them as case studies because there is no outcome (yet) and nothing was finalised.
This might be the end of my career, after all. It feels like it all hangs on a very fine thread right now.
If I could, I'd go back to studying for a few years but I cannot decide what I would study, and I don't know how I'd support my family while I did that.
So I'm in a limbo state for the time being. I have no idea where this story goes next.
You don't need to read this. I'd skip it, if I were you.
- LOL 18 not 16Horp
- ^ My dad wasn't Elvis.Horp
- These side notes are unrepresentative of the post, which is a good read. Good luck with the search, Horp.Fax_Benson
- Thanks Fax. It's a bit of a brain dump waffle. Therapeutic typing. I appreciate you reading it xHorp
- Best of luck Horp. I once suggested a former colleague for a writing job, he got it and said he wasn't sure he'd ever get one in the industry again...Nutter
- last I checked on LinkedIn he had become a creative director of a ad agency. So sometimes its just one recommendation that gets the ball rolling.Nutter
- Good reading Horp. I share with you the "vertigo" that is felt right now in our sector. Good luck in your search ;)OBBTKN
- Cheers Nutter. I feel like this is a Mickey Rourke moment for me. A wilderness period where I learn gratitude and humility and whatever comes next I grab it ...Horp
- ... and give it my absolute all for whatever years remain of my career, then I can slip gracefully into service job world and waddle into retirement age.Horp
- Thanks OBBTKN. Yeah, it's sobering stuff seeing it all getting hollowed out with no sense of what replaces it. I mostly worry about my two kids working futuresHorp
- The gruesomely weird thing about my dad was he kind of embodied the jump scare with the emaciated man in the movie Se7en...Horp
- He actually looked very similar, and we'd all be in the room with him, silently, all wondering if he'd now gone and we were just looking at his corpse...Horp
- and then suddenly he'd open his eyes and say, in a panic-stricken way "Don't let the nurses steal my record player!" and we'd all be "OH FUCK" and then...Horp
- laughing hysterically at the fact that he JUST KEPT DOING THAT. He'd leap up and demand a baguette, or order me to protect his antique ink well at all costs...Horp
- or make me promise to donate his cricket bat to a museum.
It was comedy horror, every day.Horp - "shhhhh, he's gone. He's finally gone"
(silence) (Respectful silence and reflection)
"I NEED A DIGITAL WATCH"Horp - Good read, Horp. Although we might not be going through the same specific things there is a shared feeling. We're with you!palimpsest
- ha ha Horp on those commentsNutter
- Sorry to read your plight, but I'm feeling this very same situation right now creeping up on me. I'm 47 and get a distinct feeling that by the time im 54....Ianbolton
- my mum won't be around much longer and my career is already stagnant and I'm thinking where the hell am I going. Like existential meltdown is coming.Ianbolton
- Make QBN your journal if you want?! I'd be interested in seeing how you find your way through Horp. Thanks for sharing buddy and sorry for your loss. xIanbolton
- Cheers Ian. Sorry you're going through it, but I personally take some solace from knowing that *everyone* (not *absolutely everyone, obvs) is going through it..Horp
- with regards to careers, and age, and especially the creative industries. I might pop back in at certain milestones to drop a log on the blog.Horp
- Studying? Are you high? Fuck that shit.crazyprick
- Dude, start writing. This post is really well written. Hope some new doors open for you soon, Horpstoplying
- I'll keep reading. Sorry about your Pa.garbage
- Yikes. What a ride.
Did you ever get in touch with that connection in introed you to at Hofstede?Continuity - Hey Continuity. We said hi. He and I. I wasn't really in a place to do anything more. I'm only just really gearing back up to normality and need now, in fact.Horp
- Crazyprick... hahaha
I'd love to just go and fuck around at university. Good times.Horp - You have a house and two wonderful kids. If you want to, you can just duck out from now on. You made it anyway. But do start writing :)Nairn
- ...or a podcast. They're all the rage, I hear.Nairn
- Sorry, I just read that back and it sounded a bit defeatist. It wasn't intended so.Nairn
- Family first.crazyprick
- ^OBBTKN
- People sometimes say to me "Start writing" but I'm no writer... what the fuck would I write about? Nobody is going to pay to read my mind-clearouts, and...Horp
- ... I've got nothin' else.Horp
- "If you want to, you can just duck out from now on" Honestly Nairn I would if I could find the right thing. Just enough money and easy and simple work. Elusive!Horp
- Less or more we are all a bit there. Probs we are one of the first generations aging socially online. Not sure yet if is better or worse.maikel
- Also not sure on that Maikel. In some ways it's reassuring to know it's not just you, but equally it's a gaping cavern of darkness right there in your hand.Horp
- Awesome read Horp! Yeh the industry seems a little funny at the mo, but in the last month it seems to have picked up a little or is that just me?Projectile
- Please remember, when you're old and on your death bed... it is your god given right to fuck with your kids. I NEED A 2032 MODEL APPLE WATCH!!Projectile
- Hahahaha, he definitely did that Projectile.Horp
- And yeah, in a way it seems to be picking up in as much as there are recruitment ads for (in my case) strategy. But, the interview process is about 3 months...Horp
- and honestly to me it feels like nobody knows what they want or if they can *actually* take somebody on...Horp
- I'm quite a marmite candidate. People are either going to feel I am right or know I am wrong, instantly. To me it's clear in the first meeting, but I get...Horp
- dragged through the entire process and at the end I get told "ehhhh, we're not sure. You offer some great stuff, but we don't know if it's the stuff we need...Horp
- right now. We need to have a meeting"... and then, ghosted. I actually know very quickly if it's not for me, but I have to keep shtum: I'll try anything RNHorp
- sted11
- I, too, want belly hands.
Which exercises should I add to my split?Continuity - K U A T O I N T E S T I N A Lprophetone
- lol prophetone
Those pills are too big to be taken orally...Nairn - Clearly too much Sodalite, lemon water and over use of the Multifungtional training system.thumb_screws
- lol prophetfuturefood
- The mouth is not where those pills go.Akagiyama
- I, too, want belly hands.
- HijoDMaite14
- You made it to NY!CyBrainX
- If you look to your right you would have seen this 100 years ago. That statue and owls are in the tiny park there now. https://blogger.goog…CyBrainX
- Link broken? NYC is boss city. Can’t believe I ever doubted. Wow.HijoDMaite
- Welcome!!monospaced
- Link fixed: https://untappedciti…CyBrainX
- HijoDMaite3
SNEAKERS
Hey there fellow kids!
I went to a nice Foot Locker and talked to one of the kids about what's cool and all lately to see how close or far I am from the current styles. I've never actually owned a pair of Jordan 1's or Adidas of any kind but I did pick up both of these shoes. He did explain that the Jordan Highs and Lows are more desirable than these Mids but not a big deal. And these Sambas are a trend now and I loved the colors and build quality. Still haven't worn the Jordans. I don't want to fuck them up lol.
- My 3 year old has those Jordans.nb
- My 6 year old has Jordan’s like that too lolmonospaced
- HahahaHijoDMaite
- What size are those? Asking for my 7 year old.palimpsest
- I am a fan of Sambas! I have an all black pair. They are my fancy sneakers.skinny_puppy
- My 12 year old son has that blue and black colorway. I have the classic red and black ones.fooler
- My 11 year old has jordan's that he puts crease protectors in. He walks like Frankenstein when he wears them. Can't get lines in the Jordans!stoplying
- I wear 11.5 lolHijoDMaite
- ADIDAS has The Best Dragons.
or something.microkorg - not a fan of the colourways, but the silhouettes are on pointrobthelad
- You lucky ass bastard with the 11.5. Also those Sambas are fucking sick.garbage
- Sambas and Spezials are classics. Some people like Gazelle. Other like Campus (like me).oey_oey
- Jordan's 1 are awesome, Just had the 3.oey_oey
- I wish I could pull off AF1s, but my feet are comically large in proportion to my size, so everything I wear looks like a clown shoe no matter how much is spentgarbage
- My favorite shoes of all time are the OG Lotek Aitkens. They were patterned after AF1s.garbage
- https://rideukbmx.co…garbage
- I have it on good authority that my pair is still hanging on a line Birmingham, swinging for more than a decade now.garbage
- Sambas = Classic. AJs = will never understand these. Horrible design, and gaudy colors...reminds me of Reeboks I wore in hs.formed
- nbq6
Artificial Intelligence
Face to sticker.
It's slow but seems good.
This model runs on Nvidia GPU hardware.- 'seems good'?
From their example
https://imgz.org/i7t…Nairn - It's like a shit image search algo.Nairn
- hahah it turned Arnold into a Phil Hartman stickermantrakid
- great that i wasn't the one who noticed that its a different person :)sted
- personally I would like a Huey Lewis sticker.. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.jonny_quest_lives
- it just uses SDXL and this LORA (which is over a year old now) https://civitai.com/…kingsteven
- 'seems good'?
