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- Gnash1
- Makes senseGnash
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- he looks confusedrobthelad
- I'm pretty sure he can't readGnash
- he looks like he's had his head stuck one of those Roman helmets for 6 months.Fax_Benson
- he is a Roman helmet_niko
- mort_5
- Lets get shawarmamonospaced
- 2 kilos for everyone.Continuity
- With onions.monospaced
- Squiddy6
Layoffs...
I’m guessing most QBN are graphic designers. Any programmers?
Anyway I live in Honolulu worked for an outfit in Los Angeles..laid off back in September.
Did random stuff and currently shelve groceries. It's zen; different kind of stress, clearly less money. No dependents however. Anyway, the time and environment allowed me to constructively think about things.
At the same time, working a different timezone had trained me to wake up at 4am - or "signs your getting old" :-) - which due to these changes, turned into walks at the beach park. Which lead to a new path: I regularly saw the corner liquor store owner’s wife and his daughter out on walks/runs. And so are training to do the Honolulu Marathon in December. More paths in there I hope
The point is, like others said, stay positive. Small things. Different things. Change your point of view.
Hope there is some nugget of usefulness in there. Hope things go well for everyone.
- I'm in advertising, and the scene isn't all that much different than it is for designers and programmers. At least, not for those looking for FT work.Continuity
- My freelance practice pays rent, food, and bills, but it's clear the environment is unstable. At the same time, I've found opportunities to gradually shift itContinuity
- ... from servicing typical generalist advertising agencies and their clients, to starting to build up fandom marketing consulting services, too. Basically:Continuity
- advertising to otakus, nerds, and geeks, which brands are only now discovering also have money to spend. Plus it's way more enjoyable to me than helpingContinuity
- ... agencies hawk the usual suspects: sugary drinks, cars, clothes, frozen pizzas.
It's a hustle like doing outreach for FL clients, but thematically is where IContinuity - ... want to be.
*strokes his manga and Macross variable fighter toys while wearing a t-shirt that says "ラーメン" on it*Continuity - Point being: even though the economy and the market for creatives are extraordinarily shit right now, it shouldn't stop one from looking for interesting ways toContinuity
- ... enhancing one's career in ways that bring a bit more satisfaction.
So, like everyone has said so far: try to stay positive. I know it's tough.Continuity - I'm a freelance web developer, mainly doing Shopify dev work. It been inconsistent on work for the past year. Been looking for more contract before FT.BabySnakes
- @Continuity Thanks! BTW I am a programmer if it wasnt clear. Part of me wants to do stuff that doesn't involve computers if that makes sense.Squiddy
- @Squiddy
Oh, I hear you loud and clear. A bit part of me wants to table-flip advertising and rage quit it, and then open a ramen shop somewhere not here.Continuity - *big partContinuity
- Nairn4
Aphex Twin
My first aphex track, before I even knew what any of this sort of thing really meant
- +1canoe
- rinsed this on vhs taped from mtv :) jarvis cocker co-directed the vid... just realising it would have been made just as pulp hit the mainstream.kingsteven
- its such a rad track too, the one with the didg was one of my first i think https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- such a strange vid :)jagara
- pango21
- lolneverscared
- +1canoe
- There really is a different ambience on here at the moment. Remember when Trump went offline after his first tenure? That. Hope.Nairn
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^utopian - :Dmonospaced
- milfhunter12
- LOVE the modular base.ideaist
- One for Photoshop, one for Illustrator, one for Pagemaker...
;-Ddedlaast - siiiiiiickprophetone
- They said "leave some pussy for the rest of us" when they saw you with one of these.NBQ00
- LOL @NBQ! but it is super nice.renderedred
- @NBQ00, 100%. "chick magnet".ideaist
- reminds me of the Weird Science computerprophetone
- it would be sick to just 3-D print that brick of modules, crt case for a retina lcd, and put like a Mac mini Pro or whatever it’s called inside of it, case modprophetone
- Akagiyama6
- Mom?OBBTKN
- Who was the QBNer that loved older woman?utopian
- marychainContinuity
- yup marychain lol....utopian
- We ... kind of did him dirty.Continuity
- I also like older women, but increasingly... I'm old. So it kind of doesn't count.Horp
- Marychain did it to an extreme and it became a form of trolling back in the Chick of the Day era.CyBrainX
- PhanLo4
- I predict JJ has no idea how this movie ends. He just had a "cool" idea — "what if a street moves to prehistoric times" or some shit — and that's it.MondoMorphic
- Probably Mondo, it looks pretty daftPhanLo
- Ewan and Anne are good, so i reckon this will be good.robthelad
- Longcopylover9
Layoffs...
Don’t let it get to you – just stay active in your industry and talk to lots of people. I was in the same situation as you back in October... It’s not much fun at WPP at the moment. But thanks to personal contacts, I’ve landed my next job, which is even better.
It seems that working hard, being nice to people and helping others out has paid off. That’s how you get help and good recommendations.
Good luck, there will be options.- I wish I shared your optimism. Aside from 1 or 2 recruiters, I haven't gotten a call back in about a year and a half. If I lose my job I don't know if I'll everCyBrainX
- Recruiters also didn't help. Ex colleagues are worth the most.Longcopylover
- Skip headhunters.
They're worthless.Continuity
- _niko33
Proud dads...
My son got accepted to UCD Dublin for University a few months ago and over the past two weeks we were in Ireland where he trialed for UCD's u-20 soccer team and he ended up making it.
So happy and insanely proud.
And I get to go back to Dublin with him in July :)- nice niko! good boy!!AQUTE
- όπαpalimpsest
- Congrats! My eldest son is in his first year in UCD.mort_
- My wife went there too!mort_
- YEAH BOIII(S)!!!ideaist
- Cheers thanks guys! Mort we need to do Dublin qbn drinks ;)_niko
- Yeah man!mort_
- Aye aye , we know you're just going back for the spice bag..
Congrats! xNairn - BEST NEWS ALL WEEK! Man, you've got to have that happy tickle in your stomach! Great work Dad!canoe
- w00t!AQUTE
- Sweet! What’s he studying ?Gnash
- Hell yeah! Very proud dad moment.falcadia
- Thanks all! Gnash, sports management and kinesiology, but really he just want to play soccer, he’d study sock-folding if he could :)_niko
- stewart18
Show some recent work
Made some animations to promote my new inline font. It is done completely in Photoshop, screen recording. Fun way to make animations by hand.
- I like this style of chromatic aberration. I've always wanted to shift the RGBcolors to something else but I always forget to try that.CyBrainX
- And the inline font is great as always.CyBrainX
- +1OBBTKN
- Rad.ideaist
- Very seductive you sexy motherfuckercanoe
- Lovely. I’m familiar with the AE method but this looks more refined.MrT
- respect man! looks wonderful.renderedred
- nice animationutopian
- MrT I wish I knew AE that well. I am doomed to look for other workarounds :)stewart
- I think you could do this in AE with a Camera Blur/blur map setup and a Tritone or Colorama for the color.CyBrainX
- THIS is what QBN is all about (IMO):
"Very seductive you sexy motherfucker"
~ @canoe
Bro(s) (& @shellie)ideaist - YummyGnash
- err6
Layoffs...
I feel you! I was laid off last week and living in Brooklyn with a 7 year old. I only have a few months to find a gig. last layoff it took me over a year to find a fulltime gig
- Gardener8
blog
All went well with the newspaper photographer today, a lovely fella, stayed an hour, very chatty, we messed about with a lot of flexi discs and am looking forward to seeing what he saw. I wonder if I'll make the front page again in April?!
- I'll tell my mother in law to keep an eye outhans_glib
- +1canoe
- The photographer took so many pics today, the paper will have a hundred to choose from, so there's bound to be a couple of good ones!Gardener
- Shoul be holding a garden fork to live up to your true name too :)sab
- Bravo Gardygarbage
- +renderedred
