For a better tomorrow.
For a better tomorrow.
- bjladams24
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I've been working out of my studio here in Knoxville for the last 5+ years and a smaller one on the same block for the few years prior to that. I've just paid the last rent here and have sold our house and am packing up the fam to move back to NZ.
It feels kind of bittersweet... I love it here, but also excited to change things up a bit. Business has grown and is steady enough that I don't need to be here anymore.
We're moving to a pretty small community on an Island about an hour off the coast; there are a few small towns scattered about and while i'm looking fwd to finding a new studio to work from i'm more excited to slow my pace down and have less irons in the fire.
- what about the truck??!?!?!hans_glib
- godspeed to you. sounds greatGnash
- the truck is going to my dad for now - he wants to do some bodywork on it.bjladams
- Wait. I'm totally lost here. Knoxville is in the States right? You're moving to New Zealand right? What you mean move back?oey
- plus LOL @ hans. plus what Gnash said.
dude, I love your work and pictures. One of the few things I miss in having a Flickr account. Wish you the best!oey - All the best with the move. Sounds idyllic where you are going!microkorg
- Do you still have my print?pinkfloyd
- oey - wife and I moved here to Tn in 2005 from nz.bjladams
- I still have our print :-)bjladams
- My dad is always telling me to move to NZ as there's no one there... well this ruins that! ;-)shapesalad
- yaypinkfloyd
- Been following your work on insta for a while - love your style. best of luck with the move. :)pedromendez
- beautiful. best of luck.docpoz
- obligatory upvoteimbecile
- There goes my Tennessee trip! lol jk Looking forward to the next adventures. Don't unplug, I still want to commission a portrait with my pets from you! xDsea_sea
- I'll be in LA in a month, Sea - we should get beer and maybe juice boxes for the kidsbjladams
- awesome, can't wait to see photos of your new island lifestyle!canoe
- its better than old zealand for sure!pango
- Sweet! I volunteer as tribute and or tour guide if needed. lol :Dsea_sea
- Judging by that bottom photo, I'd call this a big-time win. Congrats!nocomply
- Congrats Ben. The wife and I are planning our exit now as well. So long rat race!noRGB
- sounds fantastic! happy for you!SimonFFM
- cheers all - def looking fwd to it.bjladams
- Good luck with the move. If you’re ever in Australia ...MrOneHundred
- I went back to AKL from London a few years back, but found it all too parochial and left for NY. I hope downshifting from Knoxville will be a little easier!hardhat
- Good luck to you and the family Ben!JerseyRaindog
- Awesome! Godspeed!Krassy
- Very cool! best wisheschukkaphob
- CygnusZero4-1
Video Games...
Once you get past all the annoying micromanagement stuff and the slow ass controls, the game is very awesome. Im kind of at a point now in chapter 3 where it feels like the story has ground to a halt and im basically just doing random missions that dont seem to have anything to do with anything. Bummer, I hope it picks up again soon.
The game is a lot different than RDR1. That game was just GTA in the old west. This game is definitely trying to be much more of a simulator. I can see how it would turn people off, but if you stick with it, it will suck you in. So, so well made. You can really see where that 7 years dev time went.
- ugh no PC version.pango
- Looks like there may be one eventually..
https://www.pcgamer.…Nairn - dude why not take a trip upstate and ride a real horse with all that time you are wasting?docpoz
- Why not both?pango
- if only we had the time..winters almost heredocpoz
- slow ass controls seem to be a thing of this console generation, nearly all games suffer from this, esp. the ps4 exclusivesmekk
- it's insanely well made and an amazing game. quite the phenomena how good things are in gaming, yet everyone still finds shit to complain about.inteliboy
- ^ I'm not complaining, I just noticed that the system sellers of this gen are built around the technical capabilities of this gen. With all its pros and consmekk
- Yeah, I'm only a couple hours into it (just got to c2), my only complaint is the clunky controls. I've always felt that way about R* though... it's a theme.ben_
- GTA V on PC feels snappy and directmekk
- NBQ001
- get a job, madonnadocpoz
- baba yaga?_niko
- https://media.tenor.…chukkaphob
- Caitlyn Jenner?utopian
- a lad insanehans_glib
- that dude who told everyone to "leave Britney alone"Bluejam
- Ugh, everywhere, ughrobthelad
- a resident of Lisboashapesalad
- maradonamaquito
- David Bowieridlerontheroof
- has she implanted fake hair under her arms?mugwart
- Are .. are they implants?Nairn
- Justin Bieberspot13
- Ancient Spirits of Evil,
Transform this decayed form,
to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!Maaku
- chukkaphob2
- Nice job! Almost crushed the baby!Bennn
- could be a win... baby survived... dudes in the back didn't drop their beers... ...winPonyBoy
- Ha! Babies are funny!pango
- https://www.youtube.…elahon
- What were the dudes with their beers supposed to do?cannonball1978
- Drop their beers, jump over the women and land in front of the baby with a pillow in their hands....in 1 second.Maaku
- if anything, at least prevent her from landing on the babychukkaphob
- How are they supposed to prevent thatcannonball1978
- ^They should have wore condom.pango
- ^ LOLchukkaphob
- chukkaphob2
- that board was hacked because of this logo:
https://www.freemala…sted - ^ omg that logo has to be a joke...MrT
- Malaysia - truly asiaaaaaaa !_me_
- oh dear god!!!Projectile
- Hahahasea_sea
- lolBennn
- Drake designer put this together? https://pre00.devian…Krassy
- that board was hacked because of this logo:
- sarahfailin5
Show some recent work
so... ya'll know I'm not a professional designer, but over these years as a qbner, i've actually learned one or two things here. like 3 years ago i paid dbloc $10 to make a horriblelogo for my band which I finshed like so:
yeah pretty horrible ;) but I now recently used his design and my scant Photoshop abilities to turn it into this design:
Fonts are Monoment and Clear Line (for the E). Thanks to sted! I modified the h to look like the original chair-guy dbloc drew, and I modified the tip of the E to look more like the Monoment font.
We just got a new lead guitar player for the band, so it's a good time to launch a new logo too. I'm thinking we might get it printed on some athletic Ts. If anyone has any constructive criticism on how i might tweak/improve it, I'm happy to hear it. Thanks guys!
- cool. i almost prefer the old one from a visceral standpoint but the new one has a classy feel to it. what kind of music ?docpoz
- Easy chairs or Easy Chains?
I'd work on the C+H link - that hard turn isn't natural. Make the text ochre and set a blending mode to show grain through?Nairn - Easy chairs! Sorry, I see it in the top logo thing. Fucking d'oh.Nairn
- You could even knock the link out entirely and just stub the loop in the h?
eg.
http://concep3.com/d…Nairn - Also - and I'm sorry I'm just bored, ignore me if you will - the E sits vertical whilst the rest slopes leftwards - perhaps tweak the E to lie a little ..easierNairn
- nice great feedback. I'll work on the c-h link. I'm not sure what to do about the r looking like an n... I'll experiment with different colors for the textsarahfailin
- You're right the E can be a bit more laid back too. I'll experiment with that as well.sarahfailin
- Did you do this in Photoshop or Illy (etc)? The latter's MUCH better for tweaking this sort of thing - have a play with the 'Width' Tool for connecting strokesNairn
- the r's fine, i'm just a moron.Nairn
- sorry, 'monon'.
HAW HAW HAWNairn - One more thing - the 'asychains' font is slightly flattened - ideally you'd make your E have width-fattened verticals, flattened horizontals to match.Nairn
- I've totally docpoz'd and imbeciled these notes. +qbnNairn
- This is [very] clumsy, but you could trace the centre points of the E and make a flattened, angled brush that approximates the main font..Nairn
- http://concep3.com/d…Nairn
- +1 for the QBN thing
+1 for the evolution
+1 by making it yourself
+1 cause I like itoey - +1 laid back E that will be coming next ;-)oey
- What are easychains?cannonball1978
- https://i.imgur.com/… here's the version with edits. idk about "width flattend verticals" or w/e... i used warp transform to fix curve. E is laid backsarahfailin
- I AM concerned about the "chains" thing. which is a problem i guess with the font rather than my design. any ideas?sarahfailin
- here it is again on the wood: https://i.imgur.com/…sarahfailin
- and LOL at the secret message in your screenshotsarahfailin
- LOL @nairn for the brush name!renderedred
- :DNairn
- please make logo's in illustrator. if you ever want to print it on a large scale you can because of the vectors. Now you are making your stuff in pixelsmilfhunter
- docpoz4
- I used to work at this newspaper a long time ago and this headline doesn't surprise me.hellrod
- because they have an impeccable sense of humour? ;)zarkonite
- Because their hiring practices were shoddy?Nanocephalic
- Good to know Mrs. Robinson is still teaching.ETM
- Should be hyphenated. First-hand job experience.i_monk
- Or should it?Turboslacker
- @i_monk I hope it was an intentional grammar mistake :)Krassy
- helloeatbreathedrive7
What are you listening to?
just because...
- dbloc15
- robotron3k2
The Healthy Thread
I've been taking a shot of this in the am for about 3-4 weeks now, once or twice a day, seems like my body likes it, cleans your gut and my hair is growing like crazy... about $40 for 60 strong double shots.
- if you need to “clean your gut” then you’re doing it wrong!bartosz
- yeah this stuff is brilliantmugwart
- Don't criticize bart, reccomend. This is the healthy thread.robotron3k
- will read up on this.notype
- Gardener3
- beautifulFax_Benson
- Unless he's naked I question the speed and trajectory of the fart. Jeans are gonna slow that baby down innit.Hayzilla
- beautifully fakeutopian
- why would it be fake? ExplainBennn
- Looks like my Friday night.rootlock
- dunno ... but the smoke/fart travels up his back a bit ... and it feels reversed ... dunnodibec
- travel his back? Cuz he moved. Reversed? whut?Bennn
- Reversed? Yo, pass that shit dibec!Hayzilla
- i also think is fake or made for a film or something, the smore shouldn't remain hot like his body, it should quickly go down in temperature, like his pee isfeel
- chukkaphob3
Where The Fun IS
14 sailors busted for LSD on US nuclear carrier...
https://www.navytimes.com/news/y…
/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com/public/A5OKVVNYEVHJPEBGW44JZFTV6I.JPG)
- Where the fun WASAkagiyama
- USA#1 MAGA2020utopian
- People still drop acid?Continuity
- making our country proud. well donedocpoz
- Imagine trippin balls in a confined space with thousands of people, jeezhelloeatbreathedrive
- ha. i get ur sarcasmzdocpoz
- Push ALL THE BuTTONS!BH26
- Amateurs!, learn from spanish sailors: https://www.bbc.com/…OBBTKN
- I knew a guy who took acid in a tank in the first Gulf War, didn't work out very well.PhanLo
- my type of sailoroey
- I miss taking LSD.lemmy_k
- There are new studies on how LCD can help with a number of illnesses.formed
- A slightly better quality LSD compared to I grew up with (presumably)formed
- @Lemmy, I'm with you. it's the one thing I'd do again (along with mushrooms)Gnash
- I was on a carrier for 4 years. They do random drug tests so people look for stuff to do that won't make you fail the test.dbloc
- fisheye2
- mother theresahans_glib
- https://i.pinimg.com…Bluejam
- Attention-whore with mental health issues.NBQ00
- poor thingGnash
- Brosraf
- Mental Health is serious guise.robthelad
- The Nope Thread?Continuity
- PonyBoy4
- It can only be this: https://i.imgur.com/…
or this:
https://i.imgur.com/…Continuity - lolmonospaced
- nah... pretty sure 'we' put it up there ourselves (maybe NSFW): https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy
- a flying baguette?Krassy
- https://i.imgur.com/…mekk
- God’s poop?PonyBoy
- rendered in blender i think.neverscared
- i'm no scientist, but that's a rockMilan
- That's no rock.
THAT'S A FUCKING PLANET-KILLER.Continuity - Aliens makes uneven spacecrafts? maybe its a camoufflage to look like a rock.Bennn
- UFOs.
Bennnsplained.Continuity - Agreed, Milan. Its increased speed is probably due to the sun's gravity. Didn't these nerds watch Star Trek???MondoMorphic
- why do planets have to be metal? Makes more sense to be a rock as its a tad more 'weather proof'mugwart
- this thing rocks!api
- Speculations, speculations everywhere. Show me a picture of that thing next to the moon and I will believe all their shit.Maaku
- There will never be a photo, never has been. It will never get near our planet, and after it leaves, it will never come back. Pointless to even speculate.monospaced
- Monosplained and bennnsplained... </comments>PonyBoy
- rastas from outta spaceoey
- @ponyboy, I was replying directly to Maakumonospaced
- Extraterrestrial dildo.pango
- That would be great.Hayoth
- it's a weird object floating in space. shouldn't that be normal?renderedred
- Tumbling through interstellar space @ 196,000 mph with an 8:1 aspect ratio and does not break apart or emit any debris, gas, dust, etc...utopian
- it received an unexplainable boost of speed that science can not answer...utopian
- ^ also i remember reading that it also made an unnatural turn.mugwart
- No, stop taking at face value willfully misinterpreted cllickbait from self aggrandizing academics and news networks.Nairn
- Here's a digestible, no- nonsense summary..
https://www.youtube.…Nairn - "That science can not answer" simply means we've abutted the walls of our ignorance, not that there's definitely something magical happening.Nairn
- If there's anything 'probey' about this, it's the happenstance flyby giving it an almost great view of the innermost planets. Sorta.
Nearly. Probably not.Nairn - It’s speed boost isn’t unexplainable by science. It just can’t attributed to the suns gravity, utopian. Nothing supernatural at all.monospaced
- guys, relax. sometimes a space-cigar is just a space-cigarGnash
- its a battleshipdocpoz
- mono did you read any of the scientific data released by the scientists? They accounted for the suns gravity and still could not explain the burst of speed andutopian
- ...abrupt change in direction.utopian
- the USS Clintonsarahfailin
- Its your mom's space dildo.pango
- Yeah...there does seem to be more to it(as Utopian stated). There's oddities that aren't explained just yet...my gut says they'll get a better understanding...PonyBoy
- ... after the invasion.
:DPonyBoy - Yes. We will know more about them after we are anally probed and branded. Lets call them further with our radio signals. Elvis is aboard.docpoz
- The stars look beautiful in that picdocpoz
- utopian, that doesn’t mean anything except they don’t know the reason. There are countless possible natural reasons why it is going that fast.monospaced
- It can only be this: https://i.imgur.com/…
- SimonFFM11
blog
For the first time ever, my work is in 3 editions of Playboy in the same month: Germany (6 pages), Netherlands (8 pages) and Portugal (2 pages). And today Matador Magazine Germany came also out with 11 pages.
Not wanting to show off. I am just so happy to get this kind of exposure for my new coffee table book...
- Congrats!Hayoth
- Yes!!OBBTKN
- disappointed, bec you should show it on qbn first and then playboy! bravo anyway!api
- Do Playboy pay well? Just curious...feel free to say "fuck off!" :)BusterBoy
- they pay shitdocpoz
- congrats Simon!utopian
- When you’re looking for money, don’t become a photographer (or musician).SimonFFM
- lol matador germany still exists?mekk
- @mekk It was re-born last year. You should buy it, it's good!SimonFFM
