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- palimpsest1
I really don't care, do u?
- jaylarson3
TIL that Dolly Parton has written between 3000-5000 songs. That is fucking insane.
- And 'Jolene' was one of John Lennons favourite songs seemingly.microkorg
- damnmoldero
- Dr. Dre had over 200 songs ready for Detox album...grafician
- I've prob got 5000 shit half finished tracks on various hard drives over last 25 years.fadein11
- Frank Zappa: "hold my beer" https://www.qbn.com/…Krassy
- Dolly Parton did that, kept a private personal life, and has given away 130 million booksimbecile
- sarahfailin1
how come no one ever talks about being ub3r 1337 haxx0r anymore?
- Big Sur sends a log of every app and script you open to Apple from now on, bye haxx0rzgrafician
- Because no-one (really) plays Counter-Strike anymore.Continuity
- ^ this seems rightsarahfailin
- grafician0
pizza is no fun eating it alone, pizza is to be shared
- every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.fooler
- have a slice of pepperoni fooler, how are you man?grafician
- There are two things I don't share: pizza, and chips (fries). I will stab you in the hand with a fucking fork.
Get your own.Continuity - What kind of cunt won’t split a pizza?monospaced
- The kind of cunt who has had a hard day, looked forward to it as a reward, and likes it just so.
Get your own.Continuity - I made an amazing pizza today. Best dough I’ve ever made. Unfortunately had to share with my wife. Damn. I wanted to eat it all.shapesalad
- ^ This is a man who knows where I'm coming from.Continuity
- I feel sorry for your prostatei_was
- grafician0
Michael Keaton was the best Batman, no discussion
- sorry, no
https://www.66batman…futurefood - ^not even close! that's just a guy in a costume!grafician
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- You are kidding grafican right?
Christian Bale, no discussionutopian - i still think Bruce Willis would make a mean Batmandasohr
- Kevin Conroy is the best Batman.face_melter
- Bale was in the best movies, but perhaps Keaton was a better Batman? Old fingerless gloves cast him because he had the same eyebrows as Nicholson apparently.MrT
- Agree with FMelter. That’s the voice I hear when I’m reading the comicsmisterhow
- sorry, no
- imbecile3
Regarding grafician's post about late 80's Batman...
I was so stoked for this movie.
My mother took myself and a few friends to the opening night showing. I remember all the hoopla.
Also, my father was already supporting my graphic impulses. I taped and glued together a huge bat logo using cardboard, folded it in half for symmetry, then cut it with a utility knife.
He would take me around different places to let me paint the outline of the logo. Literally supporting and funding preteen vandalism by letting me do low level street art graffiti.
Still not the best Batman, though.
- 1990nb
- 1989 actuallyfuturefood
- 1990 on VHSnb
- "My mother took myself and a few friends to the opening night showing"imbecile
- I saw it on VHSnb
- 1966 or NOTHINGCyBrainX
- ^yes!futurefood
- OBBTKN6
Regarding imbecile post... My father was the BIG supporter of my graphic career, hope it leads to something he can be proud of.
He's not a man in arts, but strong in work discipline and ethics.
Thanks dad :)
- And these tears?OBBTKN
- F*** I miss him, this social distancing is S***T.OBBTKN
- My dad was there, but showed almost no interest in my career at all.monospaced
- You are lucky to have had a dad that cool. :)monospaced
- my career started when my dad left.sted
- My father died two months before graduating college. Is wish that he was still around :(utopian
- nb2
For years, my dad argued furiously for me to follow in his footsteps and be a tradesman. He hated his job but believed the trades were a safe salary. I followed my heart. My dad was disappointed in me for well over a decade. I was barely scraping by. It was rough.
Now, I make more than any of the tradesmen, most of whom are terrified of losing their job forever. Friends who took those jobs who now won’t take overtime pay and work through the weekend because they’re trying to be the last to get laid off.
Meanwhile, I earn more than them to sit in a designer chair and choose colors and fonts and push pixels around a screen. I’m eternally grateful for this.
My dad’s not a bad guy at all, he was only trying to protect me from failure, in his way.
I think he’s still disappointed in me because he doesn’t understand what I do or why it has value to my employer. That’s ok.
- Unlike mono’s story, I was never concerned with my fathers approval. Not then, not now.nb
- More like you, it’s more that I’m aware of it all now than it being an actual concern. It’s nice to have the approval even now when it doesn’t mean much.monospaced
- It’s not like I was striving for approval or anything. It’s nice to have though. I hope your dad can get over his disappointment and start to understand. Cheersmonospaced
- Yeah that’s cool. I think my dad is happy that I don’t ask him for money, but he wishes I was rich.nb
- :)monospaced
- Where do you live that trades aren't in crazy high demand?i_monk
- monospaced4
My dad didn’t show much interest in my career but he knew I would be okay I guess. He covered college — and I’m eternally grateful — but help stopped there. He said you’re on your own to pursue education and a career in design. So I did.
I feel like only in the last few years does he finally see and respect my work. Now that I have a family and house I can tell he is actually proud. It’s just weird because now I’m 40 and his approval isn’t really as important to me as it would have been 20 years ago. Here’s to 20 more years where we can become closer. Cheers dad!
- I also lost a relationship because I pursued design. She didn’t believe I would be successful enough. Now I am and I wish she could see me now.monospaced
- My dad was the same, save for covering any of my education. They come around when it’s tangible for them, I really hope I’m not like him in that regard though.ben_
- microkorg3
My father was a big supporter of my graphic design career... cos he's one too :P
- ben_3
In all my years cooking I’ve never made garlic bread with cheese.
Until tonight.
And I blew it. It tastes like shit. Not sure how I screwed it up exactly, but I’m afraid to google because I’m sure whatever mistake I made was so boneheaded that I’ll just want to punch myself in the face.
Completely ruined the dinner.
- ok, now I gotta know what you did.Nairn
- wouldn't just eating plain bread + some garlic + some cheese would have the same effect?grafician
- You’re think it would be easy enough Graf.ben_
- Nairn, coles notes: too much garlic, too much butter, no herbs, should have toasted lightly before putting cheese on.ben_
- It was just a soggy bitter garlicky mess. The garlic couldn’t cook at all to soften up. We’ll be tasting this for days. Wife’s shit talking to her friends now.ben_
- Lightly butter the bread and toast, then RUB the now toasted bread with a garlic clove, add cheese/herbs and toast again to melt the cheese.ridg0026
- May taste good if you skip the garlicSimonFFM
- Did you rough chop garlic and put it on bread with butter? Eek.monospaced
- my partner, who's not a bad cook, never lets garlic sit in butter/oil for long enough, so it never cooks through and disseminates its loveliness. drives me nutsNairn
- day or two old bread's good to use for garlic bread. tbh, though - done right, I really like fresh raw garlic on bread, a la ridg0026's post.Nairn
- in fact, i keep a jar of shitty indian garlic paste in the fridge solely for spreading over bread. my partner hates me. Also for the garlic.Nairn
- lol nairn, you do make laugh these daysfadein11
- nb0
What are the best design magazines or periodical books you can subscribe to? I’m thinking specifically US-based design industry, product, UI, etc. or related art mags.
I want to subscribe to something.
- Nairn2
Another dull Nairn Blog post ahoy. Skip!:
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Just had a large, heavy and expensive order picked up to be delivered to client, 17 minutes after the 1100–1700 pickup period, so i've spent the whole day slightly antagonised (on my own in my studio in an otherwise big building, so have to respond to every knock on the main outside door, etc etc) waiting for it to be picked up.
Very well packaged. Or, so I thought. I'm now unsure how much padding I put at the top, assuming (stupidly) it would always be relayed upright. Especially given I'd put notices on all sides, and made the CoG low, and put in a foam buffer in the base, to encourage appropriate carriage.
First thing I see as the guy takes it out to the van is him hoist it onto his shoulder, topside at 90°. I raise my finger and quietly murmur "uhh...." before I realise my package's fate is now beyond my scope.
I hope I packed that thing well.
- 'heavy' = 29kg.
Motherfucker just hoyed it up there and walked out.Nairn - I used to do that with bags of cement when I laboured. But then, they were bags of cement.Nairn
- I like your posts. :-)
Hope it reached the destination ok.
Delivery drivers don't care though.PhanLo - It got there undestroyed and client is joyous. Yaay for small mercies.
I am DAMNED good at packing.
I should work for Amazon.Nairn
- 'heavy' = 29kg.
- imbecile3
Ladies, gentlemen... use your phones, shop around.
Last week...
I reduced my cable bill from $83 to $45 monthly. (no change in service)Today...
I used my credit union's insurance partner to save ~$900 annually.I saved $200 on a replacement windshield using a shop my mechanic recommended
That's ~$1,400 #win
- Is this spam advertisement?NBQ00
- ^ For what? Phones? Yeah, buy more phones.DRIFTMONKEY
- $10-15 for cable+broadband gigabit, personal insurance starting at $30, free healthcare, windshield replacement $35 - making $100-150 a day agency art directorgrafician
- ^Romania money...you guys pay too much for stuff in the USgrafician
- I saved on the following: car ins: -1,200, internet: -350, auto lease: -675, mobile: -240, health ins: -1,740, mortgage refi: -3,840. $8,045 savings per year.utopian
- the more phones you buy, the more you can save!imbecile
- i dont have cable... couldnt save money if I never spend it...pango
- Thanks for the advice I’ve been phoning people all day!nb
- pango, i refer to it as cable but i'm referring to my internet connectionimbecile
- @grafician free healthcare but 10 people just burned alive in a hospital 3 days ago :(diavolu
- @diavo well if you're in the US, can you afford to get sick without insurance? Here I can. So what was your point?grafician
- doggydoggdog-3
Imagine have so much money that spending $300,000 on a Bentley is a reasonable waste of money?
- I just paid a guy to belch the happy birthday song to my girlfriend. Worth every centscarabin
- not entirely sure what the question is...pango
- spending 300k in a Bentley it's just a sign of having bad taste, whether or not you have moneyOBBTKN
- Sometimes spending 300k on a bentley is a way to save 100k on tax. And some wealthy will rather drive around in a motorised hotel room than see Gov get 100k.shapesalad
- shapes here all week with the brainbombsfadein11
- buying a bentley keeps bentley employees and their families employed and happy. it's called capitalism. look it up or somethingimbecile
- Some people can afford and enjoy nice things. What’s the point of wealth if you can’t spend it. :)monospaced
- to make sure others don't have any. "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."imbecile
- ah ...monospaced
- shapesalad-2
I saw a job advert:
Head of Design (d/w/m)
...so they are specifically looking for Divorced White Males?
- Perfect for Kirk Van Houtennb
- Divers / Männlich / WeiblichContinuity
- Dickhead With Moustachepedromendez
- nb32
I was so stressed when I lost my job earlier this year due to Covid, but with intense persistence I had two offers within six weeks.
Now, a few months later, I'm getting a few unsolicited direct messages coming in from hiring teams at other agencies.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Spend a few dedicated weeks on making your portfolio and your LinkedIn better than everyone else's you've seen and things come your way.
If you're struggling out there, I feel you. Keep looking. When you get discouraged, just keeping going. When you've absolutely had it and have to scream: shut your computer down, lock up your phone, take a walk, have a beer in the tub and go to bed. Get up tomorrow and start again, it's fine. You can do it.
- positive vibes 2020bezoar
- Effort should be: 90% portfolio & L.I. 5% applying for jobs. 4% interview practice. 1% learning to deal with a steady stream of rejection.nb
- I'm 11.5 months into job hunting, and I'm ready call it a day, frankly. I'm dog tired of this.Continuity
- Great to hear. The idea of building an updated portfolio and resume seems like an overwhelming task.monospaced
- ^ Very much this!grafician
- Continuity, hang in there, u've done the hardest part.
Mono, 2y ago I got through rebuilding my portfolio (which led to work) by watching How I Met Your Motherspl33nidoru - ^ mindless good vibe shows while working can do wonders to shut up doubts and discouragement ! Get in the zone !spl33nidoru
- Yeah you gotta accept that you need to be in the top 3 portfolios if you want an interview. Best if you're leagues above the others. This is obviously hard worknb
- Being a likeable well spoken person with good experience goes a long way too :)monospaced
- It does! But it's just so hard to even get an interview. Once you get the interview, personality goes the rest of the way.nb
- Same for me. Unemployed in Sept. I've taken a position i really wanted. and days later 2 agencies, Disney and Tiktok reached out. Just stay persistentshellie
- with everything going remote and no end in sight, Sr level talent like most of us are in demand.shellie
- so agencies and clients are like women? they're chasing you only if you're taken? lolgrafician
- ^ a little bitshellie
- yeah funny, but it's actually the law of attraction or something, small wins attract bigger wins and the ball is rollinggrafician
- It’s true.monospaced
- 25% Day Trading. 10% Qbn. 20% lino print making. 5% linkedin. 40% portfolioshapesalad
- Took me good part of 6 months to get my portfolio website together: designing, coding it, creating new work for it, finding best ways to present works.shapesalad
- In my last job, my portfolio was best the boss had seen out of 300+ websites, they'd already made mind up to hire me before interview.shapesalad
- How you present your work can go a long way to getting a job. Even if the work itself is tired and old.shapesalad
- Guess I've got to spend another 6 months updating it now...shapesalad
- Thanks for the words of encouragement. Been looking for work for almost a year now. The battle continues.desmo
- Ugh desmo, I feel you.Continuity
- And this is why we still come here, great post.fadein11
- I'm always open to e-coffes with anyone who wants resume feedback or book reviews. I'll be hiring freelancers soon.shellie
- Actually, shellie, I might take you up on that.Continuity
- Tony Robbins ain't got shit on you!Projectile
- My last job was in August. Can't say, I am unemployed as I worked freelance all of my life.SimonFFM
- I always cry at the end of Field of Dreams. Makes me miss my dad.OP31
- Hahaha wow I replied on the wrong post.OP31
- Just had to do this. I signed up to linkedin pro and got access to videos of good answers to common question:
https://www.linkedin…SlashPeckham - Just got an offer after 6 weeks... best subscription I've ever paid forSlashPeckham
- DaveO6
To NB above – this is such good advice. I remember a similar situation i was in a while ago. I spent every hour hammering away at Squarespace making a new site, and meeting with people, taking calls and getting my contacts out there.
The main thing for me was that the amount of time and energy i spent on my keynote portfolio and site gave me some element of control, as I'd retrained myself to treat it like a regular project and devote the same amount of energy and urgency to it – and that staved off the anxiety.
Good luck to everyone out there.