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- since1979-1
When confronted with extreme opinions, extremists become more centrist.
- Bennn0
Right now in my life, I'm at the lowest I ever be on creating stuff (graphic design, illustration, etc). I don't know why, it just happen.. i dont have that urge to create stuff as I used to have before. Maybe its just temporary, maybe it comes with getting older...
Weeks are passing by really fast. I have martial arts classes 2 days a week, and from Friday night to Sunday, my time is dedicated with my gf. So i have 2 days in a week where I really have a lil' time to create stuff. But instead i surf the web, play video games and chill.
I can't imagine what it would be with childrens!
What about you?
- life is often consumed by the detritus of everyday.Gnash
- you improve at whatever you spend your time on in life...since1979
- I'm in a similar spot at the moment. I think it's the kind of projects and mostly how they are being managed that is killing creativity and motivation.monospaced
- Think it probably comes with age. When you are younger you are more passionate and out to prove a point.microkorg
- These days i'd much rather be making music or watching netflix than designing in my spare time. I'm still very much design inspired though..microkorg
- I think design is a way of life that stays with you even if not doing commercial projectssince1979
- Similar to myself - but with a kid with my ex wife so multiply that time gauge by 10!
I have a project I always do and always work on regardless how I feel.mugwart - Even after a day of not getting shit done out of non-motivation for my paying job, I have no issue doing a great design/drawing in the evening for a small partymonospaced
- I feel you Benn, i am right there on the same path at the moment. Care to do a stupid art exchange just to force us to create something this week?capn_ron
- We should start somthing within the QBN community that would "force" us to get creativeBennn
- I was thinking of starting up photo assignments. I'll post something soon.ORAZAL
- we talked about an new photo exchange, but if you are interested in something quick, i'll do a drawing and trade with you.capn_ron
- would be cool capn_ron, but not this week, i dont have timeBennn
- Haha... Wait to have children!OBBTKN
- ron, I think I still have your film from that exchange .... :/monospaced
- mono, is it the double exposure exchange? the one that I shot first?capn_ron
- What are you? Solo?pango
- yeah, capn... I think I just need to expose it, honestly ... can't remember but I have it around here somewhere stillmonospaced
- I like you Benn and I like your honesty which is refreshing on here. You have to have side projects to stay sane if work projects are not making you happy andfadein11
- let's face it you are lucky if they do. But if you are like me and go a bit crazy when not getting creative kicks find something you love doing - music, photogfadein11
- or anything as long as it gives you that serotonin hit we all understand as creatives. hope that made sense.fadein11
- totally fadein11, thanks :)Bennn
- p.s. having children focusses the creativity if anything, partly because you spend so much time at home. Well it did for me anyway.fadein11
- utopian0
Will the GOP destroy its future to save its base?
Donald Trump seems headed for an epic defeat next month. Several states that should be GOP strongholds — Arizona! Georgia! Indiana! Utah! Alaska! — are suddenly swing states. And it's pretty much all Trump's fault.
- kona3
I think I read the saying someone on here this morning, I forget, but it was fresh in my mind.
Anyways, I had a meeting with a number of engineers earlier today. We have a rather large test area with every competitor's product as well as ours. We were to test one of our new products and had it positioned at this mechanical infant (it's creepy as fuck).
I walk in and all the engineers are standing around it. In the same voice I walk up and say "How is Babby Formed" and they all just turn slowly and give me this look.... "... fuck... they must think I'm special" funs through my head. They had no idea what I was talking about and I'm only a month old here at the company. Great first impression.
Most awkward meeting ever.
- set0
Who needs netflix anymore when we have..
Been using it for a few weeks now. Has everything I've looked for so far. Streams perfectly and even remembers where you watched to last time.
- no 5.1 sound.
hd quality is actually webrip re-encoded crap.
illegal af.sted - will be turned down in a few days/weeks, dont get used to it too fastBennn
- and Netflix is cheap af. come one set :) you have 9$ to spend each month rightBennn
- Oh no its illegal!set
- Sound and visual quality is absolutely fineset
- netflix's selection is really shit. could be so much better.sarahfailin
- netfux used to be the shitscarabin
- Fuck Netflix for blocking us library from me!pango
- @set, you can't compare stereo sound to Dolby Digital, even though I do agree it's just as good for everything else.monospaced
- lol @ setfadein11
- who needs netflix in the 1st place? pmsl.fadein11
- #webnoobfadein11
- I'm not comparing anything to anything, I'm saying the sound on that site is absolutely fineset
- £5.99 a month... someone's career is going well lol.fadein11
- sound might be "fine" on that site, but so would a 240p video if you were okay with mediocre quality, y'see?monospaced
- yup... it does annoy me people moaning about spending around 1 pint of beer a month on all that content... weird.fadein11
- bet set hasn't and never will pay for the Adobe tools of his trade either.fadein11
- aahha set i know it's fine on your tv set from the 1990 :) sorry about that it's just i didn't bought a projector and a dts set to watch 240p stereo movies :)sted
- "Has everything I've looked for so far" = Downton Abbeyfadein11
- I use pubfilm. Same concept. Been around a while. Just close or backspace pop up windows. http://pubfilm.comsea_sea
- I got notice from my internet provider to stop streaming from Tamayo and Popcorn Time.HijoDMaite
- For a totally free service, with a far wider selection than netflix, the sound is fine... Is all I'm saying. I didn't say amazing. I said fine.set
- I haven't tried popcorn-time for a few years nowset
- I get it. But I'm with sted ... once you have legit 5.1, going back to stereo is like dropping from 1080p to 340p for video. You know you're missing a ton.monospaced
- nice. thanks.bklyndroobeki
- I knew some cunt would appreciate it. No worries bklyn - hope you're well old chapset
- they have a great selection of camcorder movies ... who needs netflix is right ;)monospaced
- They're the ones in the cinema now, which netflix doesn't have. Whats your point? I tend not to watch the cam ones as they're shit but your point makes no senseset
- I was just having some fun with it. I'm not that stupid.monospaced
- no 5.1 sound.
- Maaku1
I just deleted the long ass rant I was about to post about my working space, boss, job, etc...
I really don't know how some of you stay so positive. You're either on drugs, fooling yourself, or found the dream job.
Today sucks.- I demand a drug test.monospaced
- Update: I'M DONE FOR THE DAY! Bye.Maaku
- i have the same feels right now, but not just about work, about almost everything. It's tough to be positive for some reason right now.capn_ron
- I find happiness on other people's misery at work. That's how I get by.pango
- i say fuck off and do better. it takes some time but the result is better than any drug.sted
- life is hard. no doubt about it.inteliboy
- Maybe I'm just going insane. And numb and insane.pango
- pinkfloyd3
I need to get something for the doorman at work because i'm always ordering stuff giving him extra work. I'm feeling bad about it, suggestions?
- sted7
Maaku, Benn, mono, cannonball1978, and everyone who feels like crap nowdays for some reason. There is nothing wrong with this, life can't always be joyful and positive sometimes shit has to happen so that you can appreciate the good stuff what you neglected. So get laid with a stranger, try some new drugs, fuck-up your daily routine with all-night (or week) party or anything. the point is that don't get trapped in to your changed situation.
- pango0
Kind of jealous of my roommate's schedule...
That fucker (musician) sleeps way earlier than me and wakes up way later than me. $&@%^€$@!!@!!- young dude?moldero
- 40. he's really got it going as a pro musician I guess. Except the fame. He said he used to work with that "Call me maybe" girl.pango
- 2 Cups 1 Musicanutopian
- living the dream in shared accommodation at 40.fadein11
- let me know when you have an opening.yurimon
- lolmonospaced
- Sorry won't happen :(
All my ad has a very strict rule. "No yurimon". We might break reality if we starting to break rules.pango
- drgs0
js scripts in browser using GPU? did you know?
https://transcranial.github.io/k…
https://github.com/transcranial/…
- GeorgesII4
After months of pussyfooting around the issue, I have finally submitted my first project to an accelerator.
- set1
Was just having an internal dialogue, trying to explain something to myself. I had to stop and remind myself that it's fine, I already understand, obviously, it's me trying to explain it.
- Do it all the time. Usually I'm justifying my actions to myself. Absolutely bullshiting myself. "Oh I need this brownie cause I played football yesterday."HAYZ1LLLA
- How much energy we must expend having utterly superfluous internal conversations with ourselves. We're all bonkers.set
- It's probably really really important for our brains to do it.HAYZ1LLLA
- I'm not sure about that. Obviously sometimes we need that process, but I reckon most of it is utterly useless, wasteful and even detrimental to our wellbeingset
- When I get a glimpse of an idea I have to articulate it in my head to fully understand it. That could the process you're referring to (not about justification).ORAZAL
- I think this is kinda what dreams are ... the brain just going through scenarios and working shit out while you sleepmonospaced
- too much weed? not joking - one week you complain about terrible memory, the next about voices in head - perhaps time to lay off for a bit?fadein11
- Good god you're thickset
- "explain something to myself" - and he calls me thick lol. And uses the term "thick" - how old are you? #middleenglandfadein11
- Everyone else seems to understand and recognise the concept except you. Haha. Your continual and pointless attacks on me just embarrass yourself. Give it a restset
- set definitely has anger issues and some minor mental problems from time to time but he's not thick. Alright! How dare you.HAYZ1LLLA
- Hahaset
- HAYZ1LLLA1
What do you guys do about this issue with Apple Mail embedding images for Outlook users?
15 years of putting up with it, I've reached the end of my tether today.
- how about use Outlook instead? no ideamonospaced
- Isn't there an attachment manager plugin? I think we used that at my old job.i_monk
- drgs4
Are you like me? Sometimes im scrolling down the front page and cant understand what thread I am in
- +1oey
- Or get stuck in a thread, keep scrolling down and think, "wtf? why so much photography on the front page?"HijoDMaite
- kona3
Shitburgers.
I really have to nail down my typos.
"GO CUBS" is now at the bottom of most emails round here, so I just responded to a company email with "GO CUBA" because I'm an idiot who can't type.
- Cuban cigars. Go Dodgers or something.I don't really care lol.studderine
- lolmoldero
- PonyBoy4
fuck me... just had a reality check
I'm on the top floor of my apartments... I like to go outside to talk and wander around / circle the top floor when I'm on my phone.
Right now they're renovating this place so there are approx. 4 units w/the doors open and workers inside... dust flowing out... drills drilling... hammers hammering etc.
One unit though... the workers are all white and there are two women on the team (all the rest are pretty much mexican / latino workers... all male). They are also wearing masks and full-body suits. I figured they were just painters or maybe fumigating.
On about my fifth loop (still on the phone) of the top floor I look inside that one unit again... wish I didn't. They were zipping a body up into a bodybag. :( So I stopped strolling around the floor and decided to stop and look off to the mountains to finish my conversation... as I was finishing it up I turned to see the four people from that unit unzipping their bodysuits to reveal their police uniforms... they proceeded to roll the body to the elevator.
My next phone call will probably be to my wife to tell her I lover her. (love you guys, too!!!) :)
- Christ these experiences shake you cold.
Hope you were able to reach your wife and love you too PonyBoy!mugwart - you live in a bad hood?yurimon
- Where da fuh you living in the Sonoran Desert?studderine
- O.O you just walked into a crime scene. Hopefully they don't pin you as the "killer who always return to the crime scene"pango
- Looks like it was a natural death... one of those 'we haven't seen or heard from so-and-so in weeks' type of things... cops found the body this morning :(PonyBoy
- damnmoldero
- had a similar experience back in SF before i moved, i was stopped at a light when the car behind me unloaded with an UZI on a bus stop next to memoldero
- went right home and hugged my wifemoldero
- Went right home and hugged my roommate. "Defug?! Get off of me!!"
He said...pango - wow... that's so similar!! //
:)PonyBoy - lol, you don't need to live in a bad neighborhood to die and get carried away. The fuck kinda thinking was that about?sofakingback
- Christ these experiences shake you cold.
- section_0140
I think I found my new work wife. I still think about my old work wife sometimes. But, you gotta move on man. Gotta move on.
- studderine0
Picked up another freelance gig; I need to get better at recognizing shit projects. May need to find a junior to help me bang this out so I can focus on other stuff.
- I know someone who may be able to help you. Depending on what it is. I'll Text you who.capn_ron
