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- shapesalad-5
I really want to try Mongolian mare milk.
- notype0
Watched Nanette last night by comedian Hanna Gadsby. I wasn't expecting it, but it left me moved. Hope she wins some award.
- maquito1
Watched "The Nun" yesterday. I'm pretty sure there's going to be plenty of nuns on this year's Halloween...
- SimonFFM2
Again I spend a night in a hotel room tonight. If the client was more decisive I could be home now. Not complaining. Sleeping in hotels is just less glamorous than I thought it would be five years ago.
- it's funny how quickly the novelty wears offGnash
- is she having second thoughts?docpoz
- I'm guessing you probably don't need to find porn on tv to kill time...robotron3k
- Simon's hotel room right now: https://78.media.tum…chukkaphob
- Lolrobotron3k
- Signs I‘m getting old: I brought my own pillow. Lol.SimonFFM
- Yeppppppdocpoz
- NBQ000
How did we get from this?
To this?
SMH
- you must not be WOKE to how LIT this all is FAM!capn_ron
- LSD. Have you heard of the 1960s?docpoz
- it's music from different subcultures.
when dis in, things like dat existed.
dat won't be remembered like dis.sted - I blame Bach.. but some argue it's all Chopins fault.shapesalad
- I lol'd at capnHayoth
- same can be said for art, literature etc we just live in a disposable mass produced adhd world. also, get off my lawn!_niko
- no... please... stand on my lawn...
*flips on sprinklerPonyBoy - Different value systems. Many reasons why values changed.Claymantis
- got to live with your time famApeRobot
- Musical genius isn't dead. And there were plenty of turnip-rubbing simpletons back then. I'm sure young kids sang violent shanties about catapults and wenchesFax_Benson
- and wore their breeches hanging round their arses and died their hair with beetrootFax_Benson
- lol faxfadein11
- actually i listened to a historian whom researched that Beethoven didn't compose all and in fact he was the first industry puppet.mugwart
- Also he was around when the upper class was financing colonialism so wasn't all peaches and vegan cream.
I prefer Aphex anyway!mugwart - The Bach/ Mozart diss composition really started it all.BH26
- Yeah, it all went to shit when guys started buttoning up their shirts.BustySaintClaire
- I'd listen to catapult and wenches rap all day_niko
- its like the inverse of evolutionBennn
- disgusting.severian
- too many suicide squad viewingsdocpoz
- This dude is a pedophile that managed to skip jail because he was too stupid to pass his GED.garbage
- I just googled and read it. Oh boy do I hope he goes to jail 'forever'.NBQ00
- i_monk3
Today was the most corporate day of my life.
- hate it when that happens..._me_
- I'm 3 weeks in a super corporate job right now, IMO it's a sweeter feeling to sellout when you're old...robotron3k
- I'm 2 months in to one too. When you're old there's nothing left to sell.MrT
- Your soul still has a few miles left in it, sell that.robthelad
- oey0
I urgently need a receipt/invoice from a web designer / web developer.
I received some money from the unemployment center to invest in a website.
I invested the money in a Riso and will build the website myself.
Someone told me she could help but just can't.
Either I find someone to write me an invoice or I have to give the money back.Can someone help, I would pay the taxes value if someone could just handle me an invoice of 800€ without seeing the money
I know how it sounds but sometimes there's things one can not really explain.
- Hello Nigerian Prince. I will send you my social security number and bank account soon.ArmandoEstrada
- Wtfffdocpoz
- I'm not seriously asking...it's like I'm wishing for a miracle...oey
- SimonFFM35
Tomorrow is my big day. For the first time, I have a press event. I am promoting my new coffee table book and rented a party space, all drinks are on me, I even have a catering.
A television station and nation-wide newspaper are coming. Also, I made sure to have a balanced male-to-female relation of guests. Invited quite a few girls. Some of the models from my book are also flying in (from Rome, Paris, etc.).
It is a total premiere for everyone out there. I am the only one who has seen the book, they haven't seen any of the photos yet.
I am so super excited. Yesterday I was giving a 40 minutes interview in a talkshow on a youtube channel. Sounds weird for me, but this has much more impact than tv these days.
Anyways, I will let you know how this went on Friday... Cheers!
- best of luck :)Gnash
- Congrats. I think many of us feel like we've been on this journey with you.Gucci
- ^ I think you meant "many of us desperately wish we'd been on this journey with you." :Dmg33
- Haha. Touché.Gucci
- Dude sounds like you are crushing it! Congrats on the big release! Share the party photos with us here.nocomply
- CONGRATS! Your art rocks and you put so much heart and soul into your photos I wish you all the best. You've earnt this!mugwart
- Meat Lips and Beyond!utopian
- Good luck Simon, make us proud and jealous!OBBTKN
- nice one - hope it goes wellhans_glib
- That must be awkward being a model and checking the book with random people... "wow! nice as., mean you look good you look good"Bennn
- No link to YouTube?docpoz
- No link to VIP invite?fooler
- Good luck with the launch event! Sad the QBN massive didn't get an extended invite ;)microkorg
- radimbecile
- Good luck man!inv
- Break a leg!cannonball1978
- post pics. I want to see you in a smoking jackethotroddy
- Congrats and good luck, Simon!Krassy
- Congrats dude! Cheers!chukkaphob
- Congrats._me_
- Haha, thanks for all your lovely comments! I will try to look good. QBN is invited, drinks are on me. If you're in Frankfurt, come around, I'll let you in.SimonFFM
- ^ you tell us on the very day ;-)mugwart
- Good luck man!emphor
- cheers simon!sea_sea
- Hopefully fffffmdocpoz
- Hopefully fffffmdocpoz
- imbecile2
have you registered to vote yet?
- https://www.usa.gov/…imbecile
- NOvember is right around the corner.utopian
- HijoDMaite5
I picked up another hobby and now I can’t stop. I’m on a rampage to find vintage cameras to clean and restore. Ebay, Craigslist, Goodwill auctions, thrift stores, Facebook groups and Marketplace.
I won’t mention how much I’ve spent, but I want to turn half of my office into a repair shop now. And my wife is like wtf are you doing with all these. Lol!
But when I finish one it feels so good!!
Here is my latest:
-Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SP
-Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar f/1.8 50mm "Zebra"
Some people flip them, I'm keeping and shooting with them!
- Somehow I knew it was your post.pango
- sweet. check out camera doctor in manhattandocpoz
- very cool!dibec
- learnt to shot on that camera. Lovely beastmugwart
- Signs your getting oldBennn
- (very cool btw)Bennn
- Be warned, this is a very dangerous path.garbage
- It starts with old polaroids and SLRs from the 80s. Before you know it you're replacing electrical switches on cameras you've had shipped from Japan.garbage
- Get a good set of Helping Hands if you don't have one already, really helps with the tiny things.garbage
- Where is that huge camera district in Asia? Hong Kong or Tokyo I think? I’ll stop when I finally get a Leica or a Hasse I promise. :)HijoDMaite
- Japan Hongkong and Taiwan all have camera district.pango
- I do have a Voigtlander from the 1950s in mint conditionmekk
- oh and a Pentax k1000 :-) If I ever go to the US west coast I'll bring them to youmekk
- Mekk. Do it! We’ll make a good trade for pics of the Voigt?HijoDMaite
- It looks like a Bessamatic or Vito B. Not sure yet. The special thing about it was that it was one of the first (or even the first) to have auto exposure iircmekk
- Tokyo is pretty huge.
https://www.japancam…garbage - Note: I haven't dealt with Bellamy in years. He's dedicated, but definitely a little shady. Sent me a Hexar AF that he guaranteed was mint, but..garbage
- ..the shutter release was busted and I had to fix it myself. He is good for sourcing, but take everything he says with a grain of salt.garbage
- @mekk The K1000 was the first camera I ever used, there's something special about that thing.garbage
- I'm very familiar with JCH. he usually hunts for expensive shit that i cant afford.HijoDMaite
- Ha true. He's also a bit of a wanker. If you have any refurb questions just hit me up.garbage
- freedom0
If your cousin asks if you can create a logo for her boyfriend's project and he says he can send you a check for $150, do you take it or do you decline payment?
- yespablo28
- If cousin's bf is Elon Musk ask for a bit more perhaps?shapesalad
- ideaist0
Tired of freelance design/development hustle.
Interview today at local marijuana plant.
Kind of excited to "pivot".
Anyone else?
: )
- You're being interviewed by a plant?
Crikey. Please tell us how it goes!Nairn - plants don't talk dude, seek helpGnash
- Lolz u 2.
Plant = factory.
And I WILL let you know how it goes...ideaist - If Cannabis was made legal here and therer was a chance to make bizness in it*, I'd pivot in a heartbeat.Nairn
- * I suspect if it's ever made legal here in the UK, it'll be corporate as fuck with BigBooze and BigPharma the only entity types licensed to trade.Nairn
- In Canada, it's certainly a "booming" industry as legalization looms... I think the factories are treated like butchers or any other food industry...ideaist
- ...Shit is hyper clean, controlled and mathematical. Security is top notch and it's run like a scientist(s) lab.ideaist
- ^ yup. super corporate facade in canada for sureGnash
- but can't help equating to hockey players that have to wear suits when doing public events -- a forced up-scaling of imageGnash
- are you looking at a marketing gig?Gnash
- I'm looking at various roles including design/development, BUT kind of anxious at an alternate role. Something more hands on and less "tech"...ideaist
- ...Been at a desk for 20+ years.ideaist
- i hear you :) godspeedGnash
- You're being interviewed by a plant?
- NBQ004
Holy hell I think I may have some psychological issue or burnt out syndrome.
There are days like today where I can put max 1-2hrs of work and then I can't focus at all and just want to nap or surf the web or be outside.
Easy tasks that would take 5-10 minutes take 2+hrs for me to accomplish. I just can no longer focus on work and sitting in a chair.
Wish I had invested heavy in cryptos few years ago to be retired and just lay in the sun all day at a beach. Sigh.
- I feel your pain.fadein11
- Sounds like you need to do more out side of work.pango
- yet the checks keep rolling in!futurefood
- If you move to Lisbon, your motivation is to get all your work done so you an get onto the beach around 4pm when the day is it's hottest, around 34c.shapesalad
- And they have some decent co working spaces that have opened up over the past year.shapesalad
- This happens. I can’t explin it.monospaced
- ^notype
- Do an old task a new way (lynda.com). Get out of your old habitnotype
- I got it!! You need booties!pango
- Wrong thread.
This post should go here: https://www.qbn.com/…chukkaphob - I think about this a lot. There are some things I am happy to do for hours, but for some reason I just can't handle more than five minutes at a time with somemonospaced
- Maybe it's also sleep related. In the past year my sleep has become so bad and I've always felt like crap during the day not being able to focus well.NBQ00
- It's called life... stop/travel for a time to get focus and decide if a career switch is your solutionOBBTKN
- In the same boat now, burnt a bit, but with tons over the table... can't stop nowOBBTKN
- tons > tons of workOBBTKN
- It's called being lazy. Do your work and take responsibility for yourself, stop blaming some unknown "force" and man the F up. Also hugs, hope you're okay.robthelad
- yeah maybe i'm lazy. I am taking responsibility for it. but how do you cure 'laziness'? If it is really that.NBQ00
- I'm on the very slow recovery from burn out. My 10 pence from my experience:mugwart
- get a bullet planner, human brain can make 3 sound decisions a day. Rest is questionable. At end of work day plan out what could achive.
next Morning plan out.mugwart - After these three core things have been down, everything is a bonus and if you feeling stressed out - relax and plan a distraction.mugwart
- I got myself a 15 hour glass, when I have to focus I turn it upside down and wont stop till its done.mugwart
- limit dependency on computers. ie use pen and paper instead of note taking app.
Limit accounts etc. I only have QBN/pinterest/(linke... in for work)mugwart - dont over work - switch off and stop self studying. was a killer for me.mugwart
- stop looking screens at a ceratin time (10pm for me) and focus on my novel/read till about 11-12 and try and sleepmugwart
- the last one has turned my life around and I'm now really improving my focus.mugwart
- 15 hour = 15 min!!mugwart
- Do you feel like you’re spread X multiple projects and have to “multitask”?notype
- pockets1
so I decided to try my luck at fire poi.. i ordered these:
anyone have any experience fire spinning?
- Paging Scarabin. Scarabin to the blog thread please.i_monk
- Lolrobotron3k
- Yes, back when I used to trade at festivals, we'd invariably end up with a bunch of idiotic poi twats doing their thing next to us. Insufferable.Nairn
- Saw someone catch themselves on fire at a festival once. I'd stick to glowsticks.section_014
- That would've been hilarious.Nairn
- LOL.. I thought they were nipple clamps for a momentautoflavour
- docpoz-7
Sometimes it makes me sad that QBN is such a shithole now.
Maybe it should just die.
It's good for legends to die, sometimes.
- you've got to be kidding?Fax_Benson
- Get another account.soundofreason
- The front page is pretty dire these days. I feel I contribute good shit so whatevaaadocpoz
- Yet today's front page is actually decentdocpoz
- QBN is awesome!oey
- one day, we are going come here and its going to be all "thanks for all the fish" and we are going to frantically trying to survive online without itautoflavour
- Itll be weird pressin qbn and no qbndocpoz
- docpoz-6
Remember when QBN was in mainstream design magazines?
I saw it on IdN i think, and probably another, more mainstream magazine once in the mid-2000's.
- But did QBN have "Chick Of The Day" back then?NBQ00
- Maybe just turn it into a porn site with advice for aging men on how to improve their libidodocpoz
- I want to say something before this whole thing gets out of control. In 1967, in the hot desert sun, a woman gave birth to a boy in the back of old pick up.soundofreason
- docpoz1
Qbn eras:
Design era
Troll war era: questine, bash, hedge
Of the day era
Political era (formation of politics rule)
Set face eraWe are now in the "post-set face era" or the "signs your aging"era. The old fogey era.
- And the "docpoz wants to bang your mom" eraNBQ00
- Oh I forgot the closed registration/circle jerk eradocpoz
- Closed registration era came after the legendary troll warsdocpoz
- Closed registration era came after the legendary troll warsdocpoz
- docpoz shits all over the place and blames others for the smell era, surely.Fax_Benson
- He just wants/needs more upvotes but the fool downvotes himself by default.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯soundofreason - We just need to comment and upvote all of his posts (to get them to the frontpage) so his vision of the ideal QBN becomes a reality.soundofreason
- sorry guys ... shouldnt have created that thread!mugwart
- There's 4 "Of the Day" threads on the first page right now. That era will never end.section_014
- ^oey
- MaryJane era...oey
- I don't even know known what content would be ideal. Maybe more around be creation stuff. But I feel we need to step it up from porndocpoz
- i really hate the autocorrect on my phone. this shit is garbage to type on. I give up.docpoz
- ...getting rid of this keyboard....docpoz
- Jim from Detroit Benefits Epoch._me_
- SimonFFM4
I really don't want to sound like I'm advertising here. But you asked about my event.
I had a wonderful time, presenting my work and it was great being able to speak with everyone who came. Less people than expected made it, which was the reason why I had time for everyone.
To me, most important was the press coverage. I gave tv and newspaper interviews. And four models came as well.
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https://ibb.co/ftfFMp- Congrats, looks like fun event!robotron3k
- Pretzels?? hehe... congrats yo!OBBTKN
- And Quiche...SimonFFM
- *thumbs up*microkorg
- Great for you!Hayoth
