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- Hayzilla1
Watched The Karate Kid last night with my kids last night. The 80's one I loved as a kid. They loved it.
I was surprised by the ending though. No sooner has his foot hit the mat from the Crane kick, then the credits roll up. I mean it's not an issue, just unusual. I suppose they already knew they were gonna make a second.- Wow spoiler alert plznb
- Ok just watched the ending again, a ton of things happen!nb
- 1. Ralph declared winner
2. Spectators cheer, prefer this outcomenb - 3. Girl runs to hug Ralph, true love realized
4. Small group congrats, new friends made.nb - 5. Trophy awarded.
6. Nemesis shows respect, completely changing his position.nb - Now that I think about it, the "bad guy" blond kid is the real hero. Daniel learned how to win a fight, but the blond kid learned to be a better human being!nb
- SimonFFM11
After months of being unmotivated, I finally begin to work on my next photo book. It's structural work like back in good old school days. Reading on topics that will appear in my book, taking down notes, putting them in order, thinking about stuff.
Finally, I have a document and began to work on it. It feels good.
Unfortunately I can't tell you what I work on. But I already have read a lot of fun things today that I wasn't aware of, which in itself is a bit embarrassing. But as I am not telling you what it was, it feels less stupid.
- Ianbolton5
Although funny at times, the current political game is really frustrating me. The severe lack of trust in those at the top can be seen in even those just trying to get by in the street. I've never seen so much fear, confusion and disdain in my life. Or am I now just part of the problem?! haha
- It's exactly as the fascists want. Authoritarianism thrives on confusion and mistrust. Best thing you can do is stay well informed from a wide variety of soucesmandomafioso
- Smack down fake news and fight conspiracy theories if you hear fam and friends spouting that shit.mandomafioso
- U do know facism is socialism or communism or any collectivism. When ppl use facism term it make me think they don't understand the history of itdeathboy
- Continuity3
At last, gyms are opening back up in Bavaria starting 8 June. Never mind my physical health, this will hopefully help my mental health, too.
Now, if I can just stop eating all the things ...
- utopian3
Are there any good online resources for creating a grid system for book & magazine layouts and spreads in Adobe InDesign?
Similar to these site but for print:
https://guideguide.me
http://gridcalculator.dk- The classic, Grid systems in graphic design by Johans Muller Brockmanrobotron3k
- And https://bit.ly/2A90j…robotron3k
- This guy has some free tools but the plugin is greatGnash
- https://www.layoutgr…Gnash
- 6 col grid for photography, 12-24 for copy/smaller elements, 8pt baseline.
Or don't even do grids anymore, just align stuff visually after 10+ yearsgrafician - But sure, you can go wild like this: https://penguinserie…grafician
- ^ Marber? I though it was Tschichold that developed it all for penguinGnash
- ^ same but it’s all goodnessMrT
- autoflavour0
fucking bluehost.com
this literally the 10th time this month I have had to talk to some barely literate tech support about a variety of issues..
kill me now
- omahadesigns-4
Are you friends with any non-binary or trans people?
- Are those the same with pronoun users??robotron3k
- wasn't this question asked before? was it you or different person?pango
- I am not friends with any of they.BusterBoy
- Yes, both.
Most cases you would not know they are trans and/or non-binary unless they told you, so you probably already have known some, you are just oblivious.sr_rosa - Yep. Bloke (pre-op) still married to lovely Japanese lady who is cool with it all. Happily refers to themself as cock in a frock.MrT
- A few. Why do you ask?nb
- Definitely with my couple of friends no one knows unless they came out to that person. They don't talk about it or bring it up in conversation ever.nb
- So unless you knew them very intimately, or knew them before and through transition, you would have no clue.nb
- Yeah, but also didn't you ask this before? What's the fixation all about?garbage
- There were tons before Covid, now you're either tested or not tested now.robotron3k
- ^ wut?pango
- @pango Don't you know? COVID stands for Coronal Or Ventricular Identity Disorder. It comes from the same stuff the government used to turn the frogs gay.garbage
- several!sarahfailin
- my 15 year old son isGardener
- friends with, not actually nb/tpGardener
- gets REALLY arsey with me if I refer to a girl (friend) of his as a boy or vice versa, it's just nutsGardener
- Continuity6
So a bit of info for those of us who are unemployed and looking for new jobs:
Had a chat with a headhunter of my acquaintance in Berlin, who told me that the market is paused right now, and that budgets and new hires are being moved to summer/autumn, more likely on the autumn end of the range.
This is info for Germany, mind you, but I expect it would be the same in most other countries.
Thankfully, the unemployment office informed me this morning my benefits are being extended by three months as part of the Corona relief package.
Strap in, kids, it's going to be a rough ride.
- All the best to you, I hope some form of normality returns soon. Be thankful your country has a functioning government.fadein11
- It's worrying.shapesalad
- Worrying, yes. But largely out of our control. Only thing to be done is to keep sending CVs, keep connecting with the relevant people on LinkedIn.Continuity
- LinkedIn is an alternate universe, and it's bonkers. Today I applied to a position there and received a mail with a link to an automated process...sr_rosa
- ...with seven different parts that requires answering questionnaires, sending audios, and an assignment with a warning that will take me at least three hours.sr_rosa
- Yeah, I used to be a proud 1099 and had a weird chip on my shoulder for turning down in-house editor positions. Now I'm just in the house.garbage
- Same in the US, according to different sources I've talked to and the fact that I'm basically seeing automated reset reposts of the same six jobs over-and-over.evilpeacock
- Been doing small contract work via existing network connection, and those projects are all slimmed budgets from what was originally intended.evilpeacock
- yeah all the best to you and anyone who lost their jobs in this so far. not to be negative but many more to come.ben_
- ^ Yup. And get used to clients not coming back. Whatever, I didn't plan on retirement in the first place.garbage
- damn!moldero
- Not sure how Europe is but IMO focus on making the perfect LinkedIn page. SEO it to come up high in search results. This will work 24/7 and inquires will come irobotron3k
- haha, ouch garbage.
me neither, tbh.Nairn - Spend a week doing this, if done correctly recruiters will be reaching out to you. Also, don't just sit there moping, take some classes...g'luck u got this.robotron3k
- How do you do that robo?pseud
- ooh, nice username green pseud.
*enviousNairn - WAIT. Registrations are open again?Nairn
- LinkedIn sure, but in the US recruiters have very little recruiting to do right now. I'm echoing what I was told by a recruiter.evilpeacock
- Did they make you upload your CV and have you type in the same information into separate fields? I will never understand this.Maaku
- I've done a few of those upload, then re-type everything again applications. And I have a blessed by recruiter experts "ATS-friendly" resume.evilpeacock
- Truly sorry for those that are out of work. Before all of this - a buddy was able to score a gig through indeed.comstoplying
- It was something to be expected on any creative front. Compare it to the webdesigner dog meme, and apply it to photographers, editors, writers, etc.garbage
- @psued pretend your a recruiter, go into LinkedIn search for your role/title that comes up first. These profiles are optimized, try to fig out ur key words.robotron3k
- Add then to your profile, when headhunters search, you will pop close to top. There are many vids and articles how to do this.robotron3k
- Interesting, thanks!
And thanks @Nairn! I'd like to verify my account but activation link expired :/pseud - Sometimes I wonder, if you spend all day at the computer, you could scroll linkedin or think about trends, manage risk, trade markets and make $£$£shapesalad
- renderedred-3
wtf?!?
- Hayzilla6
Sorry guys, I know it's wrong.
But as a white middle-class man living in rural England, I fucking love seeing all those black kids smashing up cop cars, looting and burning big corporate stores down in America.
Sure it's not the right thing to do but I feel for them.
Hate me here ->- *drops head, raises fistNairn
- https://twitter.com/…robotron3k
- Hayzilla speaks out what a lot of us are thinkingmoldero
- Sometimes I just have to remind myself that USA is a real place that exists in the realm of non-fiction.sr_rosa
- for the record, i am not supportive of fuckwit rioting.Nairn
- Plot twist: Its all clever editing. All the rioting and looting occurred in a 2 block area around the precinct.robotron3k
- No Justice – No Peaceutopian
- It's def not about racism, we all.agree it was bad cops. It was about needing a new flatscreen.robotron3k
- LAUNCH AMERICA! all of itsrhadden
- two wrongs don't make it right, but yeah, agree, it was a totally inhuman murder and people are pissed off about it.shapesalad
- They should hop a plane and burn your neighborhood down too.cannonball1978
- It happens everywhere in the world. The clock was ticking it was bound to happen again here.sea_sea
- @Connonball Why come to England? Only two black men has been killed by police in 30yrs that wern't using a weapon...Hayzilla
- ... US cops kill more than that every 10hrs.Hayzilla
- why is it so much fun to break glass. man loves destruction until it is their shit being destroyeddeathboy
- wagshaft23
Humble brag alert...
Hoping to get my first golden pencil. One of my projects from last year is a finalist in the integrated campaign category. I was super honored, then I looked at the list of finalists and there are hundreds.
The One Show folks are making serious cash with all these entries I expect.
- Paying to get awards defeats the purpose I guess...grafician
- But good luck mate!grafician
- That'll look mighty fine on your CV, even if you don't win.DRIFTMONKEY
- Haha, same here. After Shortlist comes Finalist. That is still no pencil. What's next? "Congrats, you nearly won a pencil. But you didn't".Longcopylover
- $450 per entry?! What a ton of backslapping cunt bullshitpedromendez
- But the best of luck to you wagshaft! :)pedromendez
- Show us the golden pencil when you win it! Fingers crossed!SimonFFM
- Worse thing is you still have to pay for a ticket to go to the awards...inteliboy
- And you have to pay to get a physical trophy, too.Continuity
- Great stuff. Still get's super ridiculous that the cost of these things is so high that winning an award almost becomes a business is it's own rightIanbolton
- Continuity1
FFS.
A woman I dated twice, for a couple of months each time in 2012 — and has since moved to Berlin, got a career, etc — visited my LinkedIn profile last night, then sent me a WhatsApp text this evening saying, 'Sorry for LinkedIn stalking, I was curious if you are all right'. We do a bit of small talk, and she tells me she thinks about me sometimes (after I thanked her for thinking of me).
Worth noting, she dumped me both times for being emotionally unavailable, and I remember not being at all happy about the outcome either time.
I really don't get why she does this, and she does something like this something like once a year for the last four or five years. Argh.
And yes, I still have a thing for her, which is why it's making me upset.
Ladies of QBN, any insights you could give me would be lovely.
Pfffffff.
- I'll just go ahead and downvote myself for being like a nauseating adolescent.Continuity
- Never give anyone a second chance as a romantic or even sexual partner after it's over. You don't owe them anything, and you deserve better.sr_rosa
- It's always just a speedrun to the same end.sr_rosa
- I just want to know why she does this, vanishes, then comes back to do the same thing in a year. I don't get the motivation or the reason why.Continuity
- After the second she did this, I learned not to get my hopes up to much, so there's that much gained.Continuity
- *second timeContinuity
- Most probable cause, is she just like having you as a backup in case nothing better comes up. Acid test would be letting her know that...sr_rosa
- Well. Wonderful.
</sarcasm>
I've never behaved like that with any of my exes.Continuity - ...you are in a committed relationship. If she contacts you casually again it's proof she doesn't care about you or wants to pursue anything, she is just checkingsr_rosa
- She is a covert narcissist keeping you handy for emotional fuel or for favors. Let me guess, she's a bit shy but a bit of a helpless victim.robotron3k
- Interestingly, one of the times she did reach out a couple of years ago, I was in a committed relationship and told her. And here we are now.Continuity
- @robo: nah, she never played the victim at all. She's ambitious, knows what she wants, and never played that card with me.Continuity
- Sometimes the most hurtful manipulative shit doesn't come from malice but from well intended candid actions.sr_rosa
- Well, whatever. I'll just eat some homemade shoyu ramen, watch CinemaSins, and try to get her out of my head. AGAIN.Continuity
- @sr_rosa, I totally agree. And she probably had the best intentions. And it still hurts. Fucking hell.Continuity
- "Pretty girls make graves" - Sid Viciousrobotron3k
- At least she has 'continuity' ;)microkorg
- sadTrombone.mp3Continuity
- *robo is a lady
BaDumTss.mp3sted - She could just have been lonely and the thought of you made her happy, so she reached out.Gnash
- She clearly has fond memories of you. be thankful just for that. Regardless of her intentionsGnash
- Clearly she likes your attention. Don't settle for crumbs.sea_sea
- ^Continuity
- What Dan Bacon videos on youtube and try out some techniques/mindsets.shapesalad
- She's probably just broken up with someone...and needs to have her ego stroked by you saying you still have feelings. Fuck that.BusterBoy
- Guess I failed that test miserably, then.Continuity
- Bennn-2
the mudguard of my bike came off this afternoon while I was taking a curve ... my tire ended up on the plastic mudguard so I slipped like on ice ... my foot got caught in the roadway while falling ... sprained ankle and sprained a finger.
- Continuity2
Huh. When did new user registrations open back up?
- https://www.qbn.com/…grafician
- Don't know, I noticed the other day.Nairn
- "grafician since 2007"grafician
- QBN can you do a "Members" page listing everybody including a "last posted on..." thingygrafician
- ^ please don't. this is a semi-public forum.
i don't think making it easier to monitor user activity is a smart idea.sted
- Gardener4
So my mate Chris who has lived in Milton Keynes all his life has been a longtime collector of vinyl & posters (a bit like me, but much more so) and I am keeping my distance in his back garden this afternoon and then he casually mentions he'd come across a stash of posters in a rolled up tube that he'd forgotten he had (yeah, right) "let's have a look" I said, and he unrolls a load of Punk originals including 999 and Vibrators etc, all very nice, but then a pile of original Stranglers concert posters, jeez not only have I never seen these anywhere online but one in particular (live at the Bletchley Leisure Centre in 1977) is previously undocumented, just amazing!
So he very kindly let me take some pics of them as I know there is interest among folk who dig these things, he's not selling but happy to share with you.
He also got his poster of Idles signed when they played a small pub in MK a couple of years ago
- live at Battersea Park
https://www.youtube.…Gardener - Oh sweet fuck, nice stashGnash
- I didn’t even keep all the posters that I designed back then.Gnash
- the first one would be worth over a grand easyGardener
- I posted this on the bands official social media pages and have been deluged with PLEASE SELL hahaGardener
- Of course! So nice :)Gnash
- shoes?!Nairn
- ah yeah, but soft soleGardener
- live at Battersea Park
- WhiteFace0
Looking for a good time-sheet / project management / invoice tool, any recommendations?
- I'm a fan of Harvest, combined with Harvest Forecast for capacity planning.Continuity
- active collabutopian
- I'm using streamtime. Looks good and they're adding new features. Decent free version too.Fax_Benson
- Toggl for time Asana for projectsthumb_screws
- Excel.shapesalad
- Google sheetsshapesalad
- Punched tapessted
- +1 Harvestgrafician
- Funny...everyone here has a different opinion...he's really going to be lost now.utopian
- i_was0
Nothing like wool socks.
- Really wooly socks?shapesalad
- Great when you are camping in Siberia.utopian
- Wool socks, thin onesi_was
- utopian13
I woke up this morning emotional drained. I literally watched fire burn out of control from my loft window all weekend, 24/7 sirens blaring, TV, radio and internet coverage of the mayhem. And now back to reality with Coronavirus and client deadlines.
- Take a break from the news. None of these problems will be solved this week. Pace yourself, it’s a marathon.nb
- what city are you in?monospaced
- Phillyutopian
- Gotcha. One of my designers is there and called out today. Hang in there man.monospaced
- pure insanity up theremoldero
- just know that any time you feel the need you can yell at my on skype :)sted
- what @nb said!
take a break from news and listen to music and visit just the fun(n)y QBN threadsKrassy
- imbecile8
I am sorry.
I am truly really sorry that this experience is something we have to endure. Hardship is nothing new to humans. Adversity and our progress go hand in hand. This turn of events, however, is unnecessary. This pain, angst, fear, and anxiety, that have become part of our daily lives, is unwelcome to the growth of our species. The tactics we are witnessing are of the dark ages.
Dividing us with race is nearing its end, the separation created by economic inequality is creating two sides, one vastly more popular than the other. People have experienced leadership with integrity before. The desire for a just society stays with us always. A brighter future lay ahead of us.
I am sorry we can not see that today.
- NBQ001
2020 is so fucked up. And we‘re barely half way in.
What else is coming?
- StarvationPhanLo
- At this point I'm half-expecting The Big One in California and monsters from the center of the earth to come pouring out of the crack in the groundnb
- 2020 a year that will be remembered for surerenderedred
- Ebola is trending again too.PhanLo
- aliensGardener
- Liverpool DON'T win the leagueGardener
- yeah alienssted
- at this point the aliens will finally come and we wont even caremoldero
- an alien could shoot someone on 5th avenue today and it wouldn't make the front page of the paper.capn_ron
- https://giphy.com/gi…nb
- Unemployment and starving, blacks enslaving whites, Covid-20.i_was
- omfg, it's hurricane seasonmonospaced
- Still to come. Solar flares, cephalopods rising from the oceans and some serious volcanic activity.thumb_screws
- Trump being re-elected?Bennn
- Fuckin hurricanesmoldero
- droughtshapesalad
- Adobe updates.... Osx updates... both causing more crashes and bugs!shapesalad
- +1 capn_ronNairn
- American seeking refugee status in Mexico and CanadaSlashPeckham
- dust bowlakiersky
- Leper zombies emerge from every Trump orifice. They reopen Broadway to put on musicals.CyBrainX