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- scarabin26
Hey, so what’d i miss?
I hope this little corner of the world hasn’t fallen to shit as well.I burned out on film advertising (that industry is fucking brutal for no real reason) and took a couple years off to work on myself and some personal projects. Doing consulting from home while i try to not catch the plague
- I feel you on film advertising. I worked the FYC campaigns for two major film studios in 2018. Not exactly easy work and the longest hours ive worked in a whileshellie
- Yeah, the hours were killing me. I reached 80 one week and that was the final strawscarabin
- Oh this little corner is dusted, you've missed some boring drama. Glad to see you back.garbage
- Welcome back, glad you're ok now. This place hasn't changed much since you left, bennn got a new job. Nothing else important happened.zarkonite
- set had a rage-quit after making the mistake of posting his face, a few dyslexic dimbulbs have appeared, and we all need to work on some collaborative project.garbage
- Ho yes, you are the satanist! I am still a lurker. Welcome backomer
- That’s too bad; i liked set.
Thanks, Omer!scarabin - I just returned cause I couldn't miss the apocalypse...oey_oey
- Of course QBN's fallen to shit. it does every year and has done so ever since we all first got here all those years ago... .
Glad to see you're still kicking!Nairn - https://www.youtube.…Fax_Benson
- pics or it didn't happendasohr
- Set didn’t leave because of the pics - he was cool with that. It was the 5g thing that triggered itGnash
- Welcome back, scar :) thought we might have lost you at a burning manGnash
- 5G is bad for you. look what it did to set.pango
- Welcome backSalarrue
- Welcome back... I hope you are well. It's hard to stay positive in film advertising. I think we crossed paths with a lot of the same peeps. I remember youjonny_quest_lives
- were considering becoming a Finisher and I refrained from chiming in as I was a Key Art Finisher for a good while and it's perhaps the most undervaluedjonny_quest_lives
- brutal role in Key Art... Both the burn out rate for Art Directors and Finishers is spectacularly high.jonny_quest_lives
- Welcome back home, prodigal son!OBBTKN
- that is all i will now go back to lurking... Probably comment on a post next year.jonny_quest_lives
- Welcome back!ayport
- What are you doing these days, Jonny? I’m still thinking about where i can take my particular set of skills outside the industryscarabin
- Welcome backinstrmntl
- Sup homey.DRIFTMONKEY
- I started in the packaging field so i've always bounced between packaging and key art... it's getting harder and harder to take comps to to finish as thejonny_quest_lives
- builds aren't getting better and the deadlines don't improve. having said that a few of my friends are actually enjoying doing Key Art for Netflixjonny_quest_lives
- Hey! Welcome back scarabin! :) Hope it's for good and not just a chime in.Bennn
- i heard some crazy rumor only 2 to 3 shops still work actual studio theatrical releases everyone is on streaming key art.jonny_quest_lives
- I've done streaming key art but more on the UI side so it's not as prestige as the OOH Marquee Art the Streaming platforms releasejonny_quest_lives
- Howdy Bennn! I’ll be around for a while. Quarantine’s got me starved for interactionscarabin
- but it's volume based much like home entertainment used to be and the Netflix UI needs multiple versions of the art to steer users into selecting something tojonny_quest_lives
- Netflix stuff is fun ‘cause they want pieces from every conceivable marketing angle. Their algorithm works out which works best for individual usersscarabin
- stream so your constantly revising 10 to 20 comps with the client then uploading to test/prototypejonny_quest_lives
- I was doing retouching for Beats by Dre for a while; they pay well and have fun benefits. A finisher would find that stuff a breezescarabin
- yeah i am a bit worried about the slowdown as i wrap up projects...Covid has really shaken up the agencies right now...jonny_quest_lives
- Agencies developing a remote wfh workflow with NDA heavy assets literally overnight 90 days back was bizarre... like the wild west. no stuff is just gettingjonny_quest_lives
- pushed back delayed or straight to streaming.jonny_quest_lives
- 'sup scarabin. glad ur around.bezoar
- You're still mentioned whenever a goth meme passes by. QBN didn't forget about you. Btw, tiger fights like no onesrhadden
- Haha. Love you guysscarabin
- @gnash I thought set quit because of lady problems and the photoshop thread pushed him over the edge? 5G did him in?garbage
- (it's kind of hilarious to picture a scenario where that face is burning down towers)garbage
- Hey Scarabin, good to have you back, duder.!Krassy
- Hey, seems to be the same as ever here. A little bit of internet stasis.mydo
- Nice one. Welcome back scarabin, I'll stop stalking you on PSN now : ]MrT
- What are you playing, lately?scarabin
- Holy shit look who's back!!!Projectile
- Now that you are back, please tell us: Where did you bury Georges?Longcopylover
- Welcome back.monospaced
- fucken oath! welcome back.inteliboy
- good morning :)sted
- Morning!
When did georges leave? Did he indicate why?scarabin - Long before you did, scarGnash
- I remember him going scarce. That’s too badscarabin
- Yeah Georges was cool, he split shortly after Trump became a thing, maybe shit got too negativemoldero
- shapesalad0
These kind of websites:
https://percentagecalculator.net…
One page, simple, top 5 in google search results....
https://www.worthofweb.com/websi…
Estimated revenue per day:
$1,412Estimated revenue per month:
$42,360Estimated revenue per year:
$508,320Estimated... even 10% of that would be more than worth the effort it takes to create a simple 1 page form based website.
- Because of ads? What a wasteHayoth
- lol use this one https://percentageca…grafician
- PonyBoy4
5:51am... tried to goto bed twice... buried in a project and it's kinda owning my brain. Around 4:15am I was truly OUT but my wife had one of her "fuck I forgot" spazzes that threw us both out bed...
... so I had to do some laundry while she went back to bed...
... laundry is almost done... it's now 5:52am... JJ's about to awake (that her nickname... 'JJ'... not 'awake')... I'm on my fourth beer since being told I needed to do laundry... and now I'm blogging on a blog that doesn't belong to me... kinda drunk... and I still have laundry to fold... fucking sun is up.
- dasohr0
Been thinking about deflecting, selling all my shit, ditching my US passport and going back to the motherland with my Euro passport. BUT THEY WON'T LET ME COME BACK!!!
- Where is your motherland located? And why won't you let back in?utopian
- https://www.youtube.…PonyBoy
- No one is letting Americans in right now, you got cooties.zarkonite
- Krassy4
is Ghislaine Maxwell still alive?
- i too need this informationrenderedred
- She might run the whole show, maybe she put the hit on Epstein,moldero
- zaq15
Yesterday was my first day with Teladoc - the largest telehealth provider in the world. But today is the end of my 6-year startup journey as a founder and the first day of my unemployment.
Startups are hard ( I've been through many ). Healthcare startups are even harder. Healthcare startups with no funding, no savings and a family is arguably a really bad idea. Nevertheless that what we did with my co-founder.
What I am proud to say that despite all odds against us we were able to pull of unimaginable: from an idea to handling north of hundreds of thousands of telehealth sessions right in the middle of pandemic and to eventually joining the largest telehealth provider while riding a rollercoaster.
During that journey I had an honor of working with a bunch of talented people who I admire immensely.
Initially we built a remote-first team. With no central office, developers were scattered around Eastern Europe while we were located in NY. Way before remote-first was a thing. We grew our team, who were like extended family and had trust in us despite that there were times we could not even pay them. Some engineers who were still in a university at the time of joining us went on to become rock-star devs.
Our relentless dedication and a blind conviction in our vision helped us win. First we beat a hundred of other startups in a competition to get a contract with a large health system outside of Seattle. It helped us secure resources to build a platform that simplifies patient intake. Then after we ran out of budget, we were among the few out of 80 that were accepted to an accelerator in Miami. That helped to extend our lifetime for 3 months. While at the accelerator we met TruClinic team. At the time they had a simple telehealth app with some customers. It was maintained only by 1 developer and no roadmap to scale it.
It was a match made in haven: they had customers and some funding, we had half-baked platform and no money left.
After we merged with TruClinic, under their guidance we added telehealth option. They introduced us to the concept of a virtual room and we expanded on that: making it highly configurable. That made our platform very flexible to integrate to most health care systems.
So we were growing and improving.
One day at a healthcare conference while doing a demo, we were approached by IntouchHealth, who found value in us. We got acquired. The acquisition allowed us to scale our team, scale infrastructure, integrate with Intouch and exposed us to a lot of new customers.
Then pandemic hit... Our platform went from 500 telehealth sessions a day to more than 20K a day in no time. I witnessed in awe how relentless effort by the talents at Intouch Health located in Minsk, Santa Barbara and in Argentina wrestled crumbling infrastructure from a complete halt. For the next weeks, everyone involved put all their strength, knowledge and expertise to the full extend to keep the system up, allowing patients connect with doctors in a safe environment thus saving lives. If you’ve seen a war room, that was it! Only distributed. Those are the real heroes. I was honored to work alongside them.
Our remote-first approach gave us an edge in managing demand while being under lockdown. Our global locations allowed us to work continuously.
The real-life stress test in addition to all the optimization work done during that time, made the system work solid right through the day when Intouch became Teladoc.
Today I am rest assured that it’s in the right hands and there are people with appropriate skills who will take telehealth to the new heights especially now when it’s needed the most.
As for me, I realized I feel more comfortable navigating uncertainties. And the best time to start a new journey is today, when the world is trying to figure out its future.
My next endeavor will not be a startup in a traditional way, but rather an experiment. I'd like to invite young parents of QBN to join me for a pilot.
I'll be honored if you permit me to use QBN as the launchpad.
- sorry too many words and it turned out to be like a blogzaq
- what an incredible feat in just the success of your company (so many fail)... but WOW at getting bought-out along w/having such an amazing contribution...PonyBoy
- ... to the pandemic efforts...
I don't have children but I don't see why anyone wouldn't welcome experiment given your success. Sounds fun. :)PonyBoy - And to be honest... this site could USE something like this. <3PonyBoy
- I appreciate your words.
Next stage of the pilot non parents will be able to participate.zaq - Count me in.monospaced
- +moldero
- So, are you rich?drgs
- do we need to tax you?hotroddy
- Sounds interesting!Chimp
- haha it was a teaser ad. lol********
- hey zaq! are you making plans for the next ride or having some time off?sted
- lol never mind I just skipped the last part for whatever reason :) nice to see that you don't want to waste time :)sted
- What about old parents?BusterBoy
- @drgs I am still trying to pay off the debt i accumulated during that time. Eventually I'll be better off, but nowhere near rich.zaq
- @monospaced & moldero I will share another post with more detailszaq
- @BusterBoy eventually anyone will be able to participatezaq
- I am an old young parent, does that count?Nairn
- 39yo Dad with a 11yo son, happy to help if that's what you need? nate@3030.camantrakid
- 41 years old, with a 2 month baby, i'm old but she's very young!dmay
- Great, I will follow up soonzaq
- sarahfailin3
My friend's younger brother knew he might have COVID and still went to the river with his friends. He saw me there and invited me to come play his guitar while he rapped, poorly, next to me.
His test results came back positive for COVID, but I didn't hear about it until yesterday (a week after I saw him), and I heard about it incidentally from his sister my friend. The fucker hadn't told anyone that he had had it, and he had been passing joints around with his friends and stuff.
I got a slight cough and sore throat this week and decided to get tested, only to find that Kaiser didn't have any testing availability in my area for more than two weeks! I may be able to do a drive up clinic, but I have no car...
I've got beer and whiskey and I'm feeling mostly well, but I'm going to stay locked up in my apartment until next Thursday. Happy 4th.
- ********-1
What are you doing for the 4th of July?
- nothingpango
- Mushroomsscarabin
- Sitting. Looking out my window.futurefood
- i_monk2
Can't sleep. Too hot.
- https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- portable air conditioner. already worth the $400 investment and it isn't even that hot here yet.capn_ron
- sted5
happy 4th of july to all united statesians!
- A DC man was killed in fireworks accident, clearly he did not watch this video.
https://www.fox5dc.c…utopian
- A DC man was killed in fireworks accident, clearly he did not watch this video.
- utopian1
"Call me anything you want, just don’t call me late to dinner."
- I've heard this phrase/idiom used at least three time this week, what gives?utopian
- i say: call me anything you want just don't brake me (coming from an old proverb)renderedred
- Ripped jeans, skin was showin'
Hot night, wind was blowin'********
- ********-7
Trans women are women cuz they say so. Apparently.
- thanks for that Joe Roganautoflavour
- Folk like that used to be locked up in asylums and given electric shocks to their cerebrums.Doris_McSquirter
- ya shits fucking crazy back then.pango
- Triggered snowflakeBusterBoy
- @Doris ... was that when America was great? Thought so.monospaced
- Also, who else to decide. Certainly not an ignorant cretin like you. Thank goodness your input is less than meaningless on the matter.monospaced
- autoflavour6
so who had Kayne for president on their 2020 bingo
?- Can’t think of a more appropriate way to conclude 2020mort_
- Lolmoldero
- i had him for 2024renderedred
- So a guy known for mental instability sends out one tweet, and media is seriously reporting he's running for president? America is indeed fucked :/yuekit
- That’s how things work now yuekit. Didn’t you get the memo?mort_
- just a publicity stunt for new music to be released soonKrassy
- He’s just there to take votes from bidenscarabin
- I've said he would do this since sniffing around trump.microkorg
- BusterBoy8
Friends of mine lost their 19 year old son last weekend. Still not sure if it was suicide or misadventure. The parents are shattered...the boy was in my daughter’s class at primary school. Another friend was walking past their house when the ambulance was there working on the boy...pretty traumatic for them witnessing the whole thing.
Just an all round shitty time.
- eeekpango
- Condolences. Similar happened to my cousin recently. And also a friend who was a doctor. No way to know if suicide or accidental OD.********
- The worst nightmare for a parent. Take care of your friends, condolences :(OBBTKN
- tough. yesterday I was shooting a kids collection. The owners their oldest son commited suicide 3 years ago. Scarred forever.tank02
- a devastating loss. An end of life so short. :(zaq
- damn. make sure someone talks to the kids - talk to your kids about it, help them understand what happens...look out for broken heart syndrome symptomsuan
- Hayzilla19
I upvote everything on Show Recent Work Thread.
Even if I think it's shit.- confession is good for the soulpango
- for real tho. some really sick work yo.pango
- i upvote anyone committed to upvoterenderedred
- It's funny how it's ok to destroy a work if someone posts a specific thread for it asking for feedback but Show Recent Work is off limits.deadsperm
- Those sad posts without upvotes tho!deadsperm
- same here!utopian
- thanks.neverscared
- yupmoldero
- OBBTKN2
Just bought a box of BIC pens, round stic ones, a new workhorse for my summer sketchbooks.
Was planing to travel alone to Lisbon or Bcn for a week, just me, my old car, a bike and some sketchbooks and pens. Sadly; I'm going to cancel it, due to covid. Now was the moment, I need it, but I have to take care of my family too...
Instead of that, I'll take a pair of weeks, or more, of vacations, and I'll crawl with my flip-flops, mind in off-mode, and burn under the sun in the pool, using my cerebrus just to breathe, drink and other first need tasks.
Take care, locos, and enjoy summer!
- Gardener11
picking greens for Mulder this morning I found a four leaf clover
for the first time since I was a kid, he ate it of course - for good luck!
- ********-4
I hooked up with a girl that's 15 years younger than me (I'm 35). Personal record.
This will surely become a train wreck in the upcoming future, but fuck it. Life is too short but now it's kind of funky.
- neat-o, now you get to talk about your favorite Taylor Swift album and share Tik Tok's!dasohr
- Beats my record of 14 years. Well done brother!Doris_McSquirter
- alright, alright. alrightDoris_McSquirter
- Hallelujah!KennethCopeland
- that's a really early mid life crisis symptom.pango
- @pango -- yeah, probably.********
- How did you match your nickname so well? This cannot be a coincidence!SimonFFM
- Touché Simon!OBBTKN
- Didn't mean to. It was just funny.SimonFFM
- Hot?BusterBoy
- Pic or it didn't happen.pango
- Was it good enough to do it again?Maaku
- Pics or it didn’t happenautoflavour
- rybo13
I'm still here after all this time... 31 Years Old
(Joined when I was 16. CHRIST!)Worked in commericial radio in-house for 8 years. Jumped over to digital out of home for more cash. 18 months later I want out. Need the fun back. Anchored to a desk with a iMac :/
- Crikey, the prodigal son returnethNairn
- Switch to PC?OBBTKN
- What was your job in radio?yuekit
- Youngest QBN member?drgs
- Switch to PC? - I'd love a macbook pro but isn't feesable.rybo
- What was your job in radio? - Graphic Designer for the biggest commericial radio group in the UK.rybo
- Ha, thought I was youngestfuturefood
- I spent 10 years in print/digital ooh and I never want to return hahafuturefood
- it's crazy it's been that loong!MondoMorphic
- drgs likes dem youngutopian
- I was 20, and I'm 39 now. But I can't be sure :) QBN is life ❤********
- I think eighteen is the youngest qbn'rben_
- Beeswax2
This Envato market place needs to go away. Horrible business practice at every step.
I made the mistake of buying a wordpress plugin that hasn't been updated for 5 years and developer is no where to be found. I haven't paid attention and bought it.
The refund process took 2 months and they don't refund your money back they give you a store credit.
Their marketplace is full of broken scripts like that, they take huge commissions(55% - 35%) from designers and developers for such a shitty service.