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- yuekit6
- He tells it like it isgrafician
- But no, seriously, this is the kind of video that can move markets
The man can pop the AI bubble with a fucking podcastgrafician - thats a long sit.milfhunter
- Worth itgrafician
- mort_15
- hate is a strong wordpango
- hate is such a smelly wordfuturefood
- What if I'm thirsty and all they're serving is Haterade?Akagiyama
- Gardener7
- DAT! lolAkagiyama
- Issacpalimpsest
- Fat boy slim as a dad? No thx. Dis.mort_
- lol at FBSFax_Benson
- no, dad, I don't want to listen to big beat boutique on the way home againFax_Benson
- Lolmort_
- Obv. DatOBBTKN
- renderedred3
The World is Fucked
We Are All Disney Adults Now
Real reality is too distressing, so we retreat into something emptier.https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/we-ar…
- Who is “we”?toemaas
- Interesting readskinny_puppy
- Heroin, wine & an auto masterbater? Sign me up!BK
- Continuity4
Show some recent work
Worked on the Body Shop's worldwide Christmas campaign for this year.
Nothing terribly special, but it was a really fun shoot in a super-posh house somewhere in Surrey in the UK. Agency, crew and talent were absolutely lovely.
Shooting a Christmas spot in August is weird, though.
- didn't know the body shop was still aroundhans_glib
- They've changed hands a couple of times in the last few years, but yeah, they're still around.Continuity
- true .. it couldnt be more generic.neverscared
- “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”palimpsest
- I thought they were bankrupt, they're gone where I live.stewart
- well i´am sure they are going bankrupt with this clip now...neverscared
- @stewart they definitely did go through some difficulties. And a lot of stores closed, but a lot of them (as far as I understand) operate on a franchise modelContinuity
- ... outside the UK.Continuity
- Great work!
Nobody asked so I won’t tell you how i puked at a Christmas shoot on a hot August day in Los Angeles while fussing with a Christmas tree.shellie - Thanks shellie!
I think there's a real story you need to tell there. You can't just drop a bomb like that and not follow through.Continuity - I used to work on Marks&Spencer's Christmas branding. They had a dedicated Christmas dept. We started work in January. Weird name fact...Horp
- Why do we see her sweep all the products into the garbage at 0:14?monNom
- ... the woman who headed up M&S Christmas dept was called Jo Twelvetrees.Horp
- @monNom, she sweeps them into the Santa sack the kid gave them to her in, and takes them to the bathroom with her.Continuity
- @Horp In January?! Fucking hell.Continuity
- Is this a real family?bainbridge
- Yes.Continuity
- In August we were working on Christmas stuff and pitching for Easter stuff. Jesus would be confused...Longcopylover
- Curious what your role was? Shooter? Editor? Creative Director?stoplying
- CD, copywriter (script), shoot supervision.Continuity
- jbasnight5
Podcast of the day.
The last WTF podcast w/ President Obama
- hans_glib7
- Yes. That, and: "The psychiatric ward must be full; all the lunatics are on the street." Especially when I'm driving!OBBTKN
- QBN is full of old people :Ografician
- Like what the hell is wrong with people letting blacks in the neighbourhood? Or what the hell is wrong with people letting gays in the army?mort_
- Clint Eastwood high five lolmort_
- I think my sign of getting old is knowing exactly what's wrong with people.jagara
- PhanLo10
- I love VoidstomperIanbolton
- thank god it's fridaymaquito
- its a doggy dog worldcanoe
- I think this is AImort_
- lol mort_Nairn
- Ha, mort_!
In that case, I feel stupid for laughing.palimpsest - @palzo I think this is the perfect rebuttal to your AI take. This is a pretender to the throne.garbage
- https://www.youtube.…garbage
- Hershey Wood was hilarious because you saw him and had to deal with the fact that it was a real thing happening.garbage
- AI has bound us to babylike safemode that switches on whenever we are confronted with the unreal. Truth and Lies and Lies and Lies.garbage
- @garbage
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - Is this just the next version of “this looks photoshopped”?mort_
- sorcerysted
- Pelt them with WIENERS!!CyBrainX
- @pali, disagree. Hersey Wood is a real guy who claims to have fired a footlong at a cop IRL. Last vid I saw of him was filmed in a minimum security prison..garbage
- ..where he fired off a few for some podcasters. He also had a full-on gallery show where people gathered to watch him spit dogs on women.garbage
- Way funner than "old man barfs hot dogs at cops", generate.garbage
- OBBTKN8
blog
I slept terribly last night, worried about my mom and work stuff...
Today, since I'm going to sleep in the hospital next to my mom, I told myself: nothing, in two minutes, I'll be done for...
But no, the woman my mom shares a room with: she talks to herself all the time... o.O!!
A long night awaits us :/
- Hang in their brother!!!ideaist
- I hope your mother recovers soon.monospaced
- Sending positive vibesmort_
- Sorry to hear...
besarkada batMiesfan - 2:14am, and she farts a loooot... Lol.
Love, guys <3OBBTKN - sending prayers and good vibes, felix <3PonyBoy
- Thanks Kevin :)OBBTKN
- los mejores deseos para tu mamamaquito
- Feelin' for yacanoe
- all the best !neverscared
- go for a private room?robthelad
- ideaist3
cooking recipes etc
As exciting as recipes is recipe management! What do all y'all use? Paper? App(s)??? Do tell; I started with Paprika, BUT the creater of the fantastic RSS app Reeder made "Mela" so went their BUT have fallen behind AND my wife collects recipes in a hand written binder... *sigh*
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Crouton
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Mela
https://mela.recipes/images/reci…...-
Paprika
- Dang @ 2nd image of Mela; my bad / amateur!!!ideaist
- Can we edit posts yet?!
Lolz.ideaist - One of the reasons I love cooking is a break from screens. A binder for me too, some written, some printed, most covered in splotches. Soz!MrT
- @MrT, I KEEP trying, BUT how about both?! We used to have a magnetic iPad case back in the day and we'd put it on the fridge with JUST the recipe on it...ideaist
- I like paprika. Downloads paywalled recipes, and with a family, the meal planning and shopping features are tits.robotinc
- We've got tons of books, recipes from around the world... But latelly, we've stopped experimenting and are moving towards a menu of about 15 dishes.OBBTKN
- Like MrT says, for me is a way to from being away from the screensOBBTKN
- binder is the way to gohans_glib
- When I find stuff to keep, I hit Print, save to PDF and drop it into a heirarchal folder in Drive (Main, Sides, etc.). Then when I'm ready, I grab the PDF and..elahon
- print it off. I make notes on the sheet (keeper, change this or that next time), then pop it into a folder I keep by the microwave.elahon
- Library, even keep magazine subscriptions, and then notebooks of spider charts and the flavor bible. Make your own recipes when you've nailed the techniques.canoe
- Mealie is great if you're willing to self hostakiersky
- Nice @akiersky; haven't heard of it!ideaist
- Poorly and hastily scrawled 'directions' on quarters of A4 paper, with a vague nod towards quantities, is my preferred methodology.Nairn
- Bonus points for losing, then repeating, then finding four copies of the same recipe (all not so subtly different to each oth) in a manila folder, months later.Nairn
- Even betterer - going off-piste on a recipe and coming out with something fantastic, like I did just the other week, whilst becidered, then forgetting it all.Nairn
- @nairn, the Keith Floyd method, love it. Wasted cooking is also fun, but then even less chance of an app being involved...MrT
- PhanLo13
- YakuZoku6
QBN'r AI Slop of the day
I entered the Curious Refuge Halloween AI Film competition again this year, here's my submission.
The rules were a 3 minutes max piece with a PG13 rating.
- mort_12
- i think this is AImilfhunter
- AI thinks you’re AImort_
- It's AI, cats can't tie knots.palimpsest
- ^ https://i.haasie.com…mort_
- Cats are robots from outer space.Gabriel
- You can call me Alfuturefood
- palimpsest1
blog
Asking how something was made is a sign of insecurity. When you see an image, instead of experiencing it, you focus on the process, as if naming the tool will make it safer. You mistake the tool for the intent and the trace for the experience.
Everything visible is already mediated: pigment, lens, pixel and light. There is no purity left to recover, it's all translation. Yet the old reflex persists: if we can identify the technique, perhaps we can shield ourselves from its impact.
Skill matters, but only as a form of language. Beyond that, the work either holds up or it doesn't. The rest: the taxonomies and moral hierarchies of 'real' versus 'fake' are merely a way of avoiding the fact that seeing has never meant knowing.
- "Oh, wow, that's an expensive-looking camera. You must be a good photographer."Continuity
- Exactly, the image isn’t in the gear, it’s in the seeing.palimpsest
- Yes, but sometimes, if you are a creative, its curiosity, about seeing something different in your mind and wondering if it would be possible to do this.webazoot
- I’ve asked this several times and it’s not insecurity. Usually with motion and animation. It’s curiosity.monospaced
- Yes, but my argument wasn’t about how ideas are executed, but about what happens before we even name them as ‘ideas'. How they are perceived.palimpsest
- That first instant of seeing, before process or curiosity.palimpsest
- But I did say 'Asking how something was made is a sign of insecurity.' so I can see how that was read literally.palimpsest
- It was your “thesis” statement ;)monospaced
- @grok is this true?NBQ00
- Why is this not true?
Post facts, to debunk.palimpsest - surely gigers art fucks u up proper without or with knowing the technique...form of languange is superior when u consider yourself a formalist.neverscared
- An awkward question, before the advent of AI, how many years of your life did you spend perfecting your style and skills?OBBTKN
- It probably has nothing to do with what you were saying, Pali, but... I was waiting at a traffic light, and I thought it was a good idea to say it ;)OBBTKN
- This is great pali, it really got me thinking about how I react when I encounter a new work, and for me it’s always a fascination not with the process - paints_niko
- Lenses, techniques etc but with the thinking and journey of how they got to this place, what makes them tick._niko
- lets hope the whole a.i thing finally pushes creatives into a post branding civilisation and makes all the nonsense adverstising obsolete because of ubiquity ofneverscared
- close to zero skill high resolution output.neverscared
- amen @nsOBBTKN
- @niko, I think it’s fair to say that we can do both — appreciate the art and the journey for what it is, and then also be curious about process and technique.monospaced
- I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal to ask as to judge someone by it.monospaced
- All you who watched the show "How It's Made" are insecure and weak! It's a fact! Prove me wrong.pango
- I've found process and tools are more the focus when learning. When fluent in those, then there's the space for more direct creativity.mort_
- "If I know you did it, then I can do it too, and then we are equal"cannonball1978
- I have to admit that as a retired image maker, I do tend to default to looking at the rigging as much as the scene. This was always apparent whenever...Horp
- My partner wanted to buy a piece of art for the home. I'd be a PITA and say "but it's just bright paint splashed about. I can do that for free", but I never didHorp
- Even more, it's just light reflected into your cornea and transformed intro electrical impulses.palimpsest
- ^ that plus the story about itmort_
