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- detritus2
It's 2am in a Saturday and there's no cheese in the fridge.
Ok, there's Parmesan, but that doesn't count right now.
How on earth has this happened?
- fate3
Only regret about moving to LA is that I didn't do it sooner.
- WelcomeArmandoEstrada
- Enjoying the Summer in Winter we are having?BabySnakes
- PonyBoy-2
1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually transmitted disease.
- I'm just getting over a bad case of CSS.fadein11
- My JS be itching menotype
- are you using virus protection?monospaced
- 'open source' takes on a whole new meaningPonyBoy
- You still getting randomly down voted by the looksSunSunSun_
- notype1
weird.
- freedom2
What extensions should I get for Chrome. Like ad blocking and stuff like that?
- +1notype
- i've been using https://adguard.com/…Gnash
- Get uBlock over AdGuard. Less overheads and a wider range of block lists - plus it hasn't sold out to ad companies to allow certain ads to be shown.face_melter
- uBlock, Blur. But also why are you using Chrome?garbage
- all of themGuyFawkes
- freedom0
What are some good skincare products I should consider?
Like stuff to put on my face to make my skin nicer.
- St. Ives Timeless Skin - Collagen Elastin Moisturizer.omg
- I use Khiel's
https://www.kiehls.c…Gnash
- since19791
I wonder if there are any dudes called Hitler still left in the world...
- http://i.telegraph.c…Gnash
- https://cdn.foodbeas…Gnash
- so, no...?since1979
- Is Adolf a common name? I've seen a Adolf around.pango
- No Adolfs or Hitlers in my town. Last one died few days ago: http://www.qbn.com/r…sted
- I've known an Adolf. I wonder if there are any Germans or Jews with Hitler around or did they change it?since1979
- no but me and millions of others have been rocking Adolf Dasslers our whole lives :)_niko
- there was a netfix ting a couple of years back... spoilers... it wasnt very good. http://www.imdb.com/…kingsteven
- hah, well it wasn't even netflix, but it was total netflix...kingsteven
- I had a horrible landlord named Adolf. Always got weird looks from others when I was arguing with him over the phonewhatthefunk
- https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- pango2
omfg... kids upstaires won't stop running for the last 2 hours.... calm the fuck down!!!
- Having twin 3 year old boys- that’s exactly why we only looked at first floor apartments when we were moving.bulletfactory
- luckily it's not their kids. hopefully it's only today. lol but holy shit just 2 hours and its unbearable!pango
- remember how you felt, it will help you decide if you should ever have them or not.fadein11
- good neighbors chain them upGuyFawkes
- I had 3 kids under 5 living above me for a few years. the running around didn't bug me one tiny bit. It was nice hearing kids play.Gnash
- Much better than listening to a subwoofer thump away.Gnash
- The family above me I’ve named the Kloppers, it sounds like 5 Clydesdales having a disco party every gatdamn night of the week.Ramanisky2
- Oh they do subwoofer too...pango
- Yeah ..adults are no better, had to endure neighbours next door singing (shouting) Britney spears songs at 2 in the morning on Fridaydee-dubs
- scarabin0
holy shit winchester was a crap movie
- mugwart0
- don't forget to put your Oscar on there :)Gnash
- (hopefully it will be the 4th this year ;-))mugwart
- sweet! congrats :)Gnash
- I like the simple ones meself. The CV ain't a bit of work so it just needs to be functional IMHO. In a recent recruit drive we got 6 CVs with the same template.MrT
- ^^ ta!
^ good to know. I'm not one for templates but will keep it simples!mugwart
- mg333
I’ve still got the LOLZ today about a Facebook post I made during the super bowl last night that a few people actually believed:
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There’s a cool documentary out about how they designed and built the pretend computer machines that measure Drago’s training process in Rocky IV, if you’re bored with football.
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- kona6
i took on a small client that should have been a slam-dunk logo and small brand identity system. it's turned into a straight circus act.
i meet the client at a starbucks and i talk her through my process, expectations, deliverables, timeline, we sign a contract and i ask a number of questions to get a good sense of what direction she'd like to go.
i give her homework and she provides about 8 logos she's fond of, which surprisingly enough are all pretty similar.
we talk and agree i'll experiment with her name, which, she believes is her brand, in uppercase serif font. perhaps a staggered monogram. supporting text "residential real estate".
round one went well.
then a week goes by. two weeks. i reach out and get a series of odd texts at all hours of the night. "i really love this logo", "i just bought this stock photo cause i love the colors". ok. the logo is for francesca's and it's all lowercase papyrus. the stock photo's color scheme is literally nothing like the one we defined.
round 2. a week goes by. then,...
it's now almost daily new logos, none of which are even close to what she'd decided before. she also wants her logo to be used for like 6 other business ideas she has which is fine, it probably could as long as she changes the text but wtf... focus here... she'd also like to meet in person and design the logo on the fly over my shoulder. i try and explain what a logo is, and isn't, and what her brand, i believe, should be and that perhaps what is happening is she's showing the rounds to friends and family and their opinions are now becoming her own.
the pinnacle was last night she sends me a picture of a pineapple that she's trying to add her logo over in word, saying a pineapple means 'hospitality' and her clients will get it.
She sells houses and wants a pineapple on a for sale yard sign ffs. i'm at the end of my rope here. I didn't charge nearly enough for this shit.
- As soon as I got to the words "real estate", I knew where this was going :/aslip
- Sometimes I think about getting back into freelance design on the side, and then...detritus
- always ends up with a hospitality pineapple.Fax_Benson
- had real estate client last year who changed his mind every few weeks. Eventually sent him something and he replied that he'd already done it himself.Fax_Benson
- lol guys! i'm afraid even after we 'finalize' a logo i won't be able to send her the files fast enough before she changes her mind.kona
- oh, and today i get a text that she'll bring cash to the next meeting so she can pay me. uh, did she misread the contract and miss a zero? cash?!?kona
- Oh my. I'm sorry for your pain but the pineapple bit is fucking hilarious!face_melter
- Cash in hand at the meeting?Fax_Benson
- Change the font and I'll put a ten in your pouch..and there's plenty more where that came from. Now make it all uppercase.Fax_Benson
- And this is why I don't freelance.Maaku
- she wants to copy others:Krassy
- https://rlv.zcache.c…Krassy
- https://resources.at…Krassy
- https://wps-static-w…Krassy
- lol. maybe. those would have been great day one. and, the pineapple she's looking to plop her logo on is a full color picture. smhkona
- Lol pineapple.
Oh humans...futurefood - Come back to her with a banana and start building a case for how bananas represent stability and growth. Phallic logo options galore!aslip
- I got hot flashes while reading this. Uber annoying.Beeswax
- You shouldn't have asked her for logos she likes. This is real estate. Provide her with a boring solution and one smart solution.freedom
- ffs, pineapplemaquito
- Tell her to go sit on a pineapplemugwart
- You should have put her on a strict narrowing progression and charge when she deviates asking for more options instead of fewer.i_monk
- Charge her a dollar per click while you guys are 'designing' the logo together.desmo
- Grow a paircannonball1978
- pineapples are awesome.omg
- https://media.giphy.…Ramanisky2
- lol@ram
it's like fishing here... you reel-reel-reel the marlin in then it takes off with 100 feet of line. it's insane.kona - ughhh been there many times before kona, I feel your pain.Ramanisky2
- I want you to be creative, I trust you.
You've done a great job, but can you just make it look like everyone else's designs. Thanks.PhanLo - lolkona
- The 'just a logo' jobs are like letting a passenger land a plane. It's never what they need.monoboy
- Feel your pain dude.monoboy
- keep charging for each revision until you're a millionaire.cbass99
- #metoo - good luck holmesBonSeff
- http://www.qbn.com/r…chukkaphob
- First time to see "slam-dunk logo" and "real estate" so close together. They do however are used frequently in rants.VectorMasked
- SimonFFM5
Crazy start of the year. I am busier than ever shooting projects I would never have imagined in my life. Can't say anything about the shoots. Well maybe that it kind of felt as if I was dreaming while I took them. So unreal.
- All your photo scenarios are only ones that the rest of us can dream about :Pmicrokorg
- except for omg, he wants to shoot dudesGuyFawkes
- @GuyFawkes lolSimonFFM
- Good for you man!ArmandoEstrada
- face_melter2
Fucking hell. There's a small studio room close to where I sit in the office - it is used as testing room for colours and whatnot as it has fairly consistent sunlight. Anyway. It is being used as a studio for a competition some people are working on, residential I think, and the architect 'in charge' isn't half talking some wanky bollocks - fucking Modernism this, introspection that, pulling out some horseshit references just to make himself sound like he's the fucking tits and read a few books.
When I and everyone else knows that because it's a residential block all his wonderful thinking will go right down the pan because the client will want everything as cheap as possible. So painted concrete, plastic windows, and 60x60cm paving slabs it is!
- ha...so true. The shit that passes off as "architect designed" is an insult to real architects.BusterBoy
- jagara2
For random shit, like electronic gizmos, weird cables, SDcards, phone covers, metal weed grinders, AliExpress can't be beat. Unless you need it right this moment, there's so much money to save.
- sarahfailin4
I'm going to New Orleans! See you guys at the Mardi Gras!
- PonyBoy0
Just started watching Altered Carbon on Netflix... about 20 mins in... some beautiful visuals but can't help but cough the words *cough *cough *Blade *cough *Runner *cough
- although the stories are nothing alike... the city scapes / vehicles etc... very BR. Not hating it... just hard to see past the similarities.PonyBoy
- I’m keen to watch too, but your posting halfway thru ep 1 says something, perhaps?!?MrT
- It's almost like cyberpunk noir has a distinct aesthetic.i_monk
- All inspired by ghost in the shell (anime)pango
- so is it worth a watch or no?Gnash
- All inspired by Neuromancer, which was published 5 years before Ghost in the Shell (the manga).i_monk
- Anyway I'm liking Altered Carbon, but it's not the greatest.i_monk
- ^ I watch Dark based on your review -- loved itGnash
- It’s good... worth a watch, Gnash... just not ‘awesome’ if-you-will... some really inspiring moments (the art)... some boring moments: meh acting etcPonyBoy
- cheers, ponyGnash
- set0