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  • drgs0

    good morning

  • pinkfloyd0

    Thinking about just walking out. All this b.s.

    • do itKrassy
    • Do it! Do it!
      and do post it afterward.
      pango
    • getting tired of this shit and the vagina mafiapinkfloyd
    • another brick in the wall?JG_LB
  • pinkfloyd0

    It doesn't matter if your designs are bad
    It doesn't matter if you can't draw
    It doesn't matter if you can't speak
    What really matters is if it comes from your heart
    True

    • Not if you're talking about client projectsscarabin
    • I've learned that integrity only seems to hold you back in this bizscarabin
    • integrity, does it matter anymore?pinkfloyd
  • PonyBoy0

    What are the chances my GF's brother frequents this site? We all went to High School together back in the day... but he and I didn't know each other too well. I know he is into Graphic Design too but I've never bothered to check his folio... *sigh, and now I wish I hadn't. :( He's... ugh... ... not that 'great'... :( :( As a matter of fact, it's sub-par for a mom / pop sign-shop... ... I'm usually the last one to be a critic of someone's work too. DO NOT ASK ME FOR MY OPINION... chances are I WILL give it to you. :(

    He hasn't asked me for my opinion yet (thank god)... my GF told me he really really loved my work and wanted to share his (my work blows, dude... ugh!!!)... so now I'm scared I'm going to have a bro-in-law soon of which I'm always going to have to act weird around when he wants to talk shop. Wow... I kind of sound like an arrogant prick... I don't mean to.. I just don't want to hurt the guy's feelings— 'artists' are fragile. :(

    • whatever you do make sure he doesnt know about this siteCALLES
    • <yes because then he will suck even moremoldero
    • but his shit wont stink anymoremoldero
    • designers need thick skins. Give him constructive criticism. do it over a beer.capn_ron
    • Surely he's thinking the same about you Kev, then you both can melt in a infinite hug when you're sincered to eachotherOBBTKN
    • ;pOBBTKN
    • what if he's hedge or bret?sea_sea
    • haha, felix! :)
      good advice / love everyone else
      PonyBoy
  • pinkfloyd0

    I keep seeing this mug

  • Krassy0
  • OBBTKN0

    Another quick 50km bike ride today after work... I need to lose weight, but my legs are doing fine for now

    • I don't think I could ever use '50km' and 'quick' in the same sentence... except for right now of course.PonyBoy
    • Yes i know... but it was something "quick" like take helmet+shoes+bike+an... ;)OBBTKN
  • pinkfloyd0

    My bike is awesome

  • monospaced0

    I'm overseeing a new designer's work for the first time, reviewing their first draft concepts and I'm having a hard time dealing with how unrefined their work is. Bad type principles, doesn't seem like they have a strong grasp of layout and hierarchy either. It's hard giving feedback that's constructive, and it worries me not knowing if the person is even capable of implementing it and coming up with a good finished product.

    • I have to work hard on letting it go, letting them design knowing it's not my name on itmonospaced
    • you say first draft concepts, is that possibly why it is so unrefined?capn_ron
    • yeah, partly... but even with this it's easy to tell they weren't even considering some fundamentals...monospaced
    • my job is to push them toward better principles, but not make them feel like shitmonospaced
    • you can push and use your experience as the backing so it isn't mean.capn_ron
    • this is why i'm uncomfortable leading teams. some people i feel just don't have any hope of getting it so i just end up doing it myself insteadscarabin
    • plus, if you manage them, they expect that. That's why they show you. Help them get better.capn_ron
    • myself instead. i haven't learned how to deal with that in the best way yet but i suspect it involves a lot of patience and teachingscarabin
    • I'm like that scarabin, but I cannot take over. This is a new team and I am working hard at starting to build it wellmonospaced
    • My experience will help me lead them in the right direction... it will just take time and patiencemonospaced
    • This whole team management team is brand new to me, as in new this week. Ugh, here's my new life.monospaced
    • mono, how about having drinks w/ someone in NY who has been doing this for years. Everyone can benefit from a mentor.ohhhhhsnap
    • mentor.ohhhhhsnap
    • having drinks/coffee = to talk about the new position + the stress' of it. Side note: I'd love to see the portfolio of your new hire.ohhhhhsnap
    • new hire.ohhhhhsnap
    • Didn't you look at their portfolio before you hired them?pinkfloyd
    • They aren't a new hire. Just a reshuffling of talent around the nation. She ended up on my team.monospaced
    • She has been a local designer in one city but is now part of our internal agency and under my art direction.monospaced
    • good god I can only imagine how terrible and/or amazing it would be to have Monospaced as a CDset
    • tell Fouty to keep his chin up!utopian
  • pango0

    Playing NWA at work. let's see how long i can play it before some party pooper complains. whinewhinewhinewhine*it's work inappropriate*whinewhinewhine. hehe

  • stoplying0

    Just found out I'm heading to London for a shoot at the Farnbrough airshow in mid July. We're staying at a pretty nice hotel Apex or something in London, looking forward to being back. Last trip was 2002.

  • autoflavour0

    off to Fusion festival again tomorrow.. Playing on the Friday night at the KINO..

    if you are going, come find me

  • ohhhhhsnap0

    i like big expats
    and i cannot lie.

  • ohhhhhsnap0

    i'm in love with
    an expat.

  • HAYZ1LLLA0

    What's the name of that site that does full screen video gifs etc? Something like YFOTD or summin.

  • set0

    1. You are not your mind.

    The first time I heard somebody say that — in the opening chapter of The Power of Now — I didn’t like the sound of it one bit. What else could I be? I had taken for granted that the mental chatter in my head was the central “me” that all the experiences in my life were happening to.

    I see quite clearly now that life is nothing but passing experiences, and my thoughts are just one more category of things I experience. Thoughts are no more fundamental than smells, sights and sounds. Like any experience, they arise in my awareness, they have a certain texture, and then they give way to something else.

    If you can observe your thoughts just like you can observe other objects, who’s doing the observing? Don’t answer too quickly. This question, and its unspeakable answer, are at the center of all the great religions and spiritual traditions.

    2. Life unfolds only in moments.

    Of course! I once called this the most important thing I ever learned. Nobody has ever experienced anything that wasn’t part of a single moment unfolding. That means life’s only challenge is dealing with the single moment you are having right now. Before I recognized this, I was constantly trying to solve my entire life — battling problems that weren’t actually happening. Anyone can summon the resolve to deal with a single, present moment, as long as they are truly aware that it’s their only point of contact with life, and therefore there is nothing else one can do that can possibly be useful. Nobody can deal with the past or future, because, both only exist as thoughts, in the present. But we can kill ourselves trying.

    3. Quality of life is determined by how you deal with your moments, not which moments happen and which don’t.

    I now consider this truth to be Happiness 101, but it’s amazing how tempting it still is to grasp at control of every circumstance to try to make sure I get exactly what I want. To encounter an undesirable situation and work with it willingly is the mark of a wise and happy person. Imagine getting a flat tire, falling ill at a bad time, or knocking something over and breaking it — and suffering nothing from it. There is nothing to fear if you agree with yourself to deal willingly with adversity whenever it does show up. That is how to make life better. The typical, low-leverage method is to hope that you eventually accumulate power over your circumstances so that you can get what you want more often. There’s an excellent line in a Modest Mouse song, celebrating this side-effect of wisdom: As life gets longer, awful feels softer.

    4. Most of life is imaginary.

    Human beings have a habit of compulsive thinking that is so pervasive that we lose sight of the fact that we are nearly always thinking. Most of what we interact with is not the world itself, but our beliefs about it, our expectations of it, and our personal interests in it. We have a very difficult time observing something without confusing it with the thoughts we have about it, and so the bulk of what we experience in life is imaginary things. As Mark Twain said: “I’ve been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” The best treatment I’ve found? Cultivating mindfulness.

    5. Human beings have evolved to suffer, and we are better at suffering than anything else.

    Yikes. It doesn’t sound like a very liberating discovery. I used to believe that if I was suffering it meant that there was something wrong with me — that I was doing life “wrong.” Suffering is completely human and completely normal, and there is a very good reason for its existence. Life’s persistent background hum of “this isn’t quite okay, I need to improve this,” coupled with occasional intense flashes of horror and adrenaline are what kept human beings alive for millions of years. This urge to change or escape the present moment drives nearly all of our behavior. It’s a simple and ruthless survival mechanism which works exceedingly well for keeping us alive, but it has a horrific side effect: human beings suffer greatly by their very nature. This, for me, redefined every one of life’s problems as some tendril of the human condition. As grim as it sounds, this insight is liberating because it means: 1) that suffering does not necessarily mean my life is going wrong, 2) that the ball is always in my court, so the degree to which I suffer is ultimately up to me, and 3) that all problems have the same cause and the same solution.

    6. Emotions exist to make us biased.

    This discovery was a complete 180 from my old understanding of emotions. I used to think my emotions were reliable indicators of the state of my life — of whether I’m on the right track or not. Your passing emotional states can’t be trusted for measuring your self-worth or your position in life, but they are great at teaching you what it is you can’t let go of. The trouble is that emotions make us both more biased and more forceful at the same time. Another survival mechanism with nasty side-effects.

    7. All people operate from the same two motivations: to fulfill their desires and to escape their suffering.

    Learning this allowed me to finally make sense of how people can hurt each other so badly. The best explanation I had before this was that some people are just bad. What a cop-out. No matter what kind of behavior other people exhibit, they are acting in the most effective way they are capable of (at that moment) to fulfill a desire or to relieve their suffering. These are motives we can all understand; we only vary in method, and the methods each of us has at our disposal depend on our upbringing and our experiences in life, as well as our state of consciousness. Some methods are skillful and helpful to others, others are unskillful and destructive, and almost all destructive behavior is unconscious. So there is no good and evil, only smart and dumb (or wise and foolish.) Understanding this completely shook my long-held notions of morality and justice.

    8. Beliefs are nothing to be proud of.

    Believing something is not an accomplishment. I grew up thinking that beliefs are something to be proud of, but they’re really nothing but opinions one refuses to reconsider. Beliefs are easy. The stronger your beliefs are, the less open you are to growth and wisdom, because “strength of belief” is only the intensity with which you resist questioning yourself. As soon as you are proud of a belief, as soon as you think it adds something to who you are, then you’ve made it a part of your ego. Listen to any “die-hard” conservative or liberal talk about their deepest beliefs and you are listening to somebody who will never hear what you say on any matter that matters to them — unless you believe the same. It is gratifying to speak forcefully, it is gratifying to be agreed with, and this high is what the die-hards are chasing. Wherever there is a belief, there is a closed door. Take on the beliefs that stand up to your most honest, humble scrutiny, and never be afraid to lose them.

    9. Objectivity is subjective.

    Life is a subjective experience and that cannot be escaped. Every experience I have comes through my own, personal, unsharable viewpoint. There can be no peer reviews of my direct experience, no real corroboration. This has some major implications for how I live my life. The most immediate one is that I realize I must trust my own personal experience, because nobody else has this angle, and I only have this angle. Another is that I feel more wonder for the world around me, knowing that any “objective” understanding I claim to have of the world is built entirely from scratch, by me. What I do build depends on the books I’ve read, the people I’ve met, and the experiences I’ve had. It means I will never see the world quite like anyone else, which means I will never live in quite the same world as anyone else — and therefore I mustn’t let outside observers be the authority on who I am or what life is really like for me. Subjectivity is primary experience — it is real life, and objectivity is something each of us builds on top of it in our minds, privately, in order to explain it all. This truth has world-shattering implications for the roles of religion and science in the lives of those who grasp it.

    • set's high againpinkfloyd
    • alwaysset
    • did you write this, set?monospaced
    • of course he didn't write it, don't be dumbpinkfloyd
    • Just want you to know I didn't read it.pango
    • i just want you to know that i read all of it setsine
    • I just made a print out for later reading, can't read all that on screenpinkfloyd
    • I didn't write it, someone on another forum did. I liked it so thought I'd share.set
    • http://projectavalon…set
    • I bet that forum is 99% malespinkfloyd
    • hah, there are far more females there than here.set
    • I read it all, and it's a lot of deep concepts to digest. Some unique perspectives to think about.pinkfloyd
    • the author, David Cain: http://www.raptitude…sine
    • You are what you think about ALL DAY LONG. I would say that YOU are not your body. But are your mind.ohhhhhsnap
    • Anyone who uses the term "females" instead of WOMEN... I am unable to take seriously.ohhhhhsnap
    • you aren't your thoughts. you are what you do; your actions and words.sine
    • Maybe you should expand your lexicon a little, ohsnap. You're doing yourself a disservice trying to act cool.set
    • You are not your job.
      You are not the content of your wallet...
      pango
    • The first rule is...pango
    • i read all of it and enjoyed it. thanks set!cbass99
    • fiiiiiiiine. i'll give it a shot. this better be worth it or i want my money back!pango
    • lolohhhhhsnap
  • pinkfloyd0

    When we're kids, we have to go to school
    When we're adults, we have to work
    I want to be free

  • pinkfloyd0

    A coworker told me about an office affair before she left the company. Kinda awkward now interacting with the married lady who's a cheater.

    • The vagina mafia is outcasting me nowpinkfloyd
    • juicy!! i like these types of events. fun to know when they don't know you know.capn_ron
    • i'd prefer NOT to know and just clock out @ 5. just go about your biz. sounds annoying @ most.ohhhhhsnap
    • I like to know everything. but i share nothing.pango
    • <LOLsea_sea
    • is she cute?autoflavour
  • ohhhhhsnap0

    had a great interview yesterday (interviewer was wonderful) my presentation was unprecedented ...ok maybe not that but it was really fuckn' good. but i think i may smile a little "too much" during my interviews. it's mostly that i'm excited about what i'm talking about. does that ever get annoying for some?

    • Ya totally. I hate people smiling. If I'm the boss, I fire anyone who smiles in my office :)pango
    • People who smile while they talk. Cringe.set
    • Yeah... smiling is stupid... people hate smiling
      :)
      PonyBoy
    • wasn't over-smiling. she was smiling back -- good sign!ohhhhhsnap
    • she was laughing at your smile.
      "ha! look at that guy smile" lol
      pango
    • lol... fair enoughohhhhhsnap
  • inteliboy0

    Cool (boring) story bro time...

    I lost my usb dongle for Reason, thought perhaps left it on the plane.... cleaned the house looking everywhere. Then hours later picked up a glass of water with my right hand, thinking about the glass... then my left hand, without thinking, reached out and picked up the USB dongle from under the couch, as if it had a mind of its own. I wasn't even looking. I stood up, and realised something was in my hand, shocked that there was the USB in between my fingers. Really weird. Like sleep walking or something. Never happened to me before. The power of the conscious mind perhaps. Or maybe just jetlag.

    • get some sleep bro.ohhhhhsnap
    • I could speak one thing and write something completely different. Still waiting for the day when my hand can draw dick butt with out me knowing.pango
    • Me knowing.pango