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- Gardener5
38 years ago today was the only time I ever saw Uncle Frank on his Them Or Us tour at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. I was in the back row (row Z) downstairs for the evening show, he played twice the same night! The sound was excellent and I hadn't long been introduced to his music as a friend had recently given me Tinseltown Rebellion and I was so blown away by it I jumped at the first chance I had to see him live, he returned to the UK once more (in 1988) after this tour but this night was pretty damn good.
tracklist of the evening show
Roland Hyams Rap, Chunga's Revenge, Teenage Wind, Truck Driver Divorce, Tinsel Town Rebellion, Trouble Every Day, Penguin In Bondage (q: God Save The Queen), Hot Plate Heaven At The Green Hotel, Evil Prince, Ride My Face To Chicago, He's So Gay, Bobby Brown, Keep It Greasey, Honey Don't You Want A Man Like Me?, Carol You Fool, Chana In De Bushwop, Let's Move To Cleveland, The Closer You Are, No No Cherry, Baby Take Your Teeth Out, Sharleena, Whipping Post
- <3 frankscarabin
- I am a bit jealous nowd_gitale
- you are enviousimbecile
- I love everything about frank Zappa...except his music :(_niko
- Lol I’ve tried and tried, time and time again but for the life of me I can’t listen to more than a few minutes of it_niko
- I have a mix that might help!
https://soundcloud.c…Gardener - Haha cheers Gardener, listening now!_niko
- ahhh that was brilliant, now I'm hooked lol_niko
- my work is done xGardener
- grafician-1
Since working on UX/UI projects which require the use of one or maybe two fonts max on the regular, I'm beginning to think I'm losing my way with typefaces :|
I just don't spend the time to research typefaces like before when working on graphic design projects...
I really miss that
- Massimo Vignelli used 5 fonts for pretty much his entire careerGnash
- ^ Vignelli canon https://archive.org/…grafician
- But no, a limited numbers of typefaces is not ideal.grafician
- I work in-house corporate. I choose zero fonts. Shrug********
- Er, typefaces. But yeah ui/ux design is like “choose exactly two faces and one of them better be Inter”********
- Yeah I feel this too. I try to do some side projects to keep me fresh.Chimp
- @chimp trying
@nb yeah corporate fonts very limiting
Used to spend hours and hours looking at new typefaces...grafician
- kingsteven2
Detritus of cunt: McDonalds wrappers by the benches in the park.
The instant win game codes are intact. What kind of monster!?
I theorise an underdeveloped palette and mind.
I turn to the dog and mutter "it's always a Mc Chicken!"...
The dog looks at me with one eyebrow raised and says"Chicken?"
That's one of her words.
- Detritus of Cunt?
YOU RAAAAANG?Nairn - There was a lottery scratchcard on the ground as I walked home the other day that had some of it unscratched. I picked it up and scratched and ... didn't win.Nairn
- ...which made me feel like a total bum.Nairn
- i was tempted, i am a sucker for those comps since working the mailroom in a dairy and realising very few people claim the prizeskingsteven
- i was always a fan of that moniker. as oatcake enjoyers the dog is no stranger to a detritus of nairn :)kingsteven
- Detritus of Cunt?
- Nairn3
That second when you're talking to your client on a Sunday evening, having slogged your guts out over a weekend to meet a deadline and you realise that your tiny little cog of involvement - which is actually fundamental - is literally 0.001% of the project's whole budget.
hahahah wheeeee.
*hangs self
- YakuZoku1
I swam through a school of jellyfish when surfing today, itchy as fuck!
- Imagine how they now feel?shapesalad
- I gave them CovidYakuZoku
- imbecile1
while taking my dog for a jog, i ran over a 3-4 foot snake with my boosted board. surprised I was able to clear its wriggly body. air cast is working nicely.
- Chimp6
The gas coming out of my dogs arse could solve this winter's energy crisis. I just had drop out of a Zoom meeting.
- Is he eating bread? That’s supposed to give them gasHijoDMaite
- That might be it, I ran out of dog treats and gave him some bread.Chimp
- Bottle it and sell it.********
- Cheese will also make them fart like fiends.Continuity
- LolHijoDMaite
- grafician-2
I quite enjoy the QBN vibe lately, can we keep it so 'till the end of the year at least?
- +scarabin
- FUCK YOU CANDYautoflavour
- +Chimp
- We are in energy saving mode apparentlyOBBTKN
- scarabin5
Whoa. Turns out the guy I just bought $300 worth of weird cactus and succulents from is banned from south africa for stealing rare plants from the wild
- http://miamibeach411…********
- are you in illegal possession of a succulent plant?imbecile
- Nah but check out this neat swirly boy i copped https://i.imgur.com/…scarabin
- I wanna grow a San PedroYakuZoku
- that's dope, his great grandaddy may have a pic on this page: https://davesgarden.…imbecile
- whoa. Also we need a cactus of the day thread.garbage
- Bro, i’ll show you my san pedros tomorrow. I have a stand that’s 15 feet tall. I just came in from using a post hole digger to line the perimeter of my backyardscarabin
- with off-cuts i had lying around. Gonna grow a natural security fencescarabin
- Actually, here’s a shot from last year when they were blooming. Such big, beautiful flowers https://i.imgur.com/…scarabin
- Oh wow those are nice!YakuZoku
- http://miamibeach411…
- Continuity0
Never read Leonard Cohen prose in a room with the lights off in the evening, if you don't want to come away from the experience feeling profoundly suicidal.
- HOW DO YOU READ IN THE DARK?!
I'll mail that thing in a day or so... soz, been a bit busy xNairn - No problem at all, take your time!
As for reading in the dark, it didn't start that way. Just that the sun went down, and I wasn't paying attention to that.Continuity - Also, it was on my Mac's screen.Continuity
- HOW DO YOU READ IN THE DARK?!
- oey_oey3
what's with the NSFW thread popping up again?
I thought those days were over.- Danish has got the horn, see 'Suggest a good movie...' as wellBluejam
- yup, Bindys having his weekly wankkingsteven
- https://www.qbn.com/…
he's gone a bit left field but he'll get there eventuallykingsteven - https://www.qbn.com/… fucking hellkingsteven
- Sometimes a cigar is just a cigarmisterhow
- they have only just begun.. apparentlyautoflavour
- shapesalad0
I made exactly £808 trading GBP/USD today.
Wasn't supposed to trade - was trying to focus on work... but heard the news at lunch, saw the chart and couldn't resist a good opportunity.
808, I like that, maybe I should treat myself to a little 808 unit.
- scarabin42
Just got a job in “experiental marketing”. i’ll be making cool shit like electronic interactive flowers and giant pinball machines and statues and iot stuff for brands like call of duty, fortnite, and blizzard.
I guess dicking around making useless stuff for burning man and myself finally paid off?
- experiential or experimental?utopian
- Nice one!PhanLo
- experiential. it's all interactive experiencesscarabin
- That’s amazing! To find a unique art/design niche you enjoy and making it pay. Next level life achievement.monospaced
- sweet! well playedGnash
- Well done, man - now, don't go all Georges and disappear from us, eh?Nairn
- Now you have to figure out what to charge for the thingsGnash
- Rad********
- You’re effectively making money in the metaverse********
- `Congrats!
P.S. don't get too busy and leave us!Krassy - https://s3-prod.adag…sted
- That sounds like your dream job. congratshotroddy
- Congrats scarab, hope they let you do what you want ;) Dream job!OBBTKN
- Congrats!mort_
- Nice, Dude!!PonyBoy
- Thanks, guise. I’m stoked ‘cause i have access now to some really incredible fabricators and engineers. I can produce stuff i couldn’t dream of beforescarabin
- And these companies don’t want a return, they just want trippy cool shitscarabin
- Sounds like fun Scarabin!@instrmntl
- Dicking around just got serious. Congrats!slappy
- Fuck yeah!YakuZoku
- congrats!pinkfloyd
- Congrats! How did you land that? Was your resume: Jan 2018-July 2022: Dicking around. They like "yup, thats our guy!"ArmandoEstrada
- awesome. sounds funautoflavour
- Yaay! We're all living vicariously through scar. Hope you get to share with us!sea_sea
- also, lmk if you need a paid intern. lmao
xDsea_sea - a few years back i helped set up a giant fireworks show for fun and one of the guys i worked with was a maker. We hit it off and he’s been watching me postscarabin
- stuff i make. He runs this company now and reached out to me. I was like fuck yeah, when do i start? And the answer is now. Now do i startscarabin
- hell yessssea_sea
- I’m starting off with a “rainforest labyrinth” experience. Interactive art installations.scarabin
- Excellent, it's great to know such gigs still exist. Go nuts scarabin!!MrT
- https://fictionmachi…prophetone
- Congrats! Sounds funbezoar
- *fistbump
Congratulationsd_gitale - This is fucking awesome!garbage
- Using the Force works! Congrats!
(please keep QBN busy asking for inspiration / ideas)uan - *\Fireworks background iPhone screen!/*ArmandoEstrada
- Let’s celebrate when you pass the probation period ;-)shapesalad
- good for you matey boy. sounds like a blasthans_glib
- This post gives hope! Thank you for posting and congratulations! (P.S. Please post pictures when you produced such stuff as a giant pinball machine.)SimonFFM
- u have to be trippy kool to produce trippy kool...neverscared
- Congrats, have fun and please post in the work you've done thread.Longcopylover
- I will!scarabin
- Congrats Scarbs, have fun and kick ass!utopian
- If the shoe fits. Nice one manstoplying
- NBQ001
Anyone in Florida? Looks really scary there now. Stay safe.
- my mom :/scarabin
- No worries...Florida will expect a Federal welfare handout to rebuild for the next hurricane.utopian
- on paper im supposed to be flying to Tampa on the 8th of October.. yet to see if that will happenautoflavour
- Stay safe!sea_sea
- Stay safe Florida manpango
- oey_oey2
just found out I already had Figma installed after I downloaded it and moved it to my Applications folder and was asked if I wanted to replace the previously installed version...
LMAO!
- I just found out I don’t have Figma installed, never have, and thank fucking god I never have to stoop so low to ever use that kind of garbage and call it desigmonospaced
- Hahaha wut ^********
- sorrymonospaced
- sea_sea5
I almost hit a motorcyclist yesterday during early dark morning LA commute from hell. Came out of nowhere, thank heaven the coffee and my bionic reflexes kicked in. Still kinda shook me up. I worry for you cyclists. Drive safe.
- Cyclist or motorcyclist?
Sorry to hear...OBBTKN - She's still shook.palimpsest
- He'll be bicycling from now ondrgs
- He'll be using two wheels for sure.palimpsest
- Fuuck. Glad you’re okay!scarabin
- Cyclist or motorcyclist?
- oey_oey1
I was ignoring this DALL-E thread all the time cause it didn't ring a bell at all and I was not curious to check what it was about until yesterday when I found out about Midjourney...fucking hell!
That was my first reaction, but I really don't know what to think about it cause on one side I find it super interesting and remarkable how things develop, and the advances in technology especially in AI on the other hand I ask myself towards which direction is society and humans evolving and in this particular case creatives.
Well, I guess I'll have to wait to see.
- I like how (hopefully) it's making people question themselves if they are artists, cause a machine can do what they think they're so special at doing.palimpsest
- I like how it easy it is for AI to make something in the style of Greg Rutkowski but not in the style of Julia Weist.
There's levels.palimpsest - Thought I believe people are not hiring Rutkowski for his visual style but rather for his creative output. Concept artists serve to sell ideas.palimpsest
- Conceptual artists are selling the ideas themselves.palimpsest
- @pali Nah not even close - all the outputs are full of errors and you need to spend A LOT of time to get anything useful from any of the modelsgrafician
- I've spent the last month testing all the models and none comes even near an actual artist that can produce final production artworkgrafician
- These AI models are cute as tech toys and can help with concepting, but nothing much of else
and no I don't think they can be improved, testing the limits alregrafician - everyone should try it - as a tool its quite surprising how it informs your practice. i don't think it's a toy, a watchmakers tool isn't a toy.kingsteven
- on next gen hardware, realtime, i think theres a chance the current gen of model could have many more applications than several generations of AI advancementkingsteven
- research will favour chasing the tech and there are limits particularly in language models and processing power. so it's interesting to see development branchkingsteven
- off sideways in to unique creative tools given the recent accessibilitykingsteven
- @grafician
No. The proof is the pudding.palimpsest - The actual pudding.
If you ain't getting results you're doing it wrong.palimpsest - My grandma still can't Google.palimpsest
- @grafician
Post a prompt result with a Julia Weist like work and prove me wrong.palimpsest - @palim - when you say that "we think we are so special at doing" and then point out that AI needs human artistic inspiration... I'm like what the what?canoe
- Where am I pointing out "artistic inspiration"? Show me on the doll.palimpsest
- Otherwise just show me how AI can produce a Julia Weist like work. The prompt is not complicated.palimpsest
- Unless you prove me wrong, the answer is that it cain't*. Because maybe Julia Weist makes something that is beyond retinal.palimpsest
- Which doesn't mean Rutkowski is useless or can be replaced but that his work is more than a graphic style. His work has a purpose.palimpsest
- AI may be able to replicate his graphic style but he provides more than that. And this is why I welcome AI because it poses these questions.palimpsest
- Rutkowski & Weist are both artists. But when we talk about AI generated art we are talking about a specific kind of "art". Can art be really made by machines?palimpsest
- I really hope that one day it can be.palimpsest
- Sorry what? Any of the models barely outputs realistic faces not to mention details, eyes, symmetry, full bodies and so on - at this stage, they are all uselessgrafician
- And about Julia Weist "art", what you want the AI to produce - a shed?!
Ffsakegrafician - If you can show me reliable consistent prompts that output full body wide angle shots AND hands, we'll talk moregrafician
- Why would I want a full body wide angle shot when I can a drawing of shed?palimpsest
- jagara2
Is Rick and Morty still funny?
Vote now.
- It’s better than the simpsonsscarabin
- now that family guy fucked up american beauty, yes.sted
- Not sure i liked the latest episode so much, but the last couple from the new series have been greatIanbolton
- Will still watch. But the gag is done and formula repetitive. Same thing happened to family guy.inteliboy
- Never disappointed with Bob's Burgersmisterhow
- Season 5 was back to peak Season 2 levels of funny. Seriously good. I got bored in season 4 but 5 redeemed.monospaced
- It got boring a long time ago. It's just Dan Harmon pretending to be Rick. Season 3 or 4 was peak.garbage
- That whole Burger King thing is when the fanbase became silly.garbage
- HijoDMaite3
Near my house in Carlsbad, CA yesterday. I don't really complain about gas prices since it's just something I can't get around, but Jesus H.
- More than double where I live in NYmonospaced
- what the hell? how is it so expensive at that station? it is cheaper near the airport where it is always about 60 cents more than anywhere.capn_ron
- Wow, its $4.67 here in Vegas, and that's before the discount you earn shopping at certain supermarkets.Akagiyama
- that is nuts. $2.93 here in Ft. WorthBonSeff
- @capn this is off Palomar Airport Rd. and the 5. I have a 4cyl but have to use premium. $90 to fill up! FfsHijoDMaite
- Get a bicycle********
- I paid 6.09 last weekend, and that was a record for me. Why so high in Carlsbad?garbage
- I'm going to hug my bicycle now.CyBrainX
- What's a bicycle going to help with? lolHijoDMaite
- Just pumped $6.49 in Old TownKrassy
- It doesn't effect me since I always fill $50 worth of gasBeeswax
- public transport thenneverscared
- Wimps. Warm greetings from Europe.sandpipe
- I don’t live in the city guys. Plus I have a family. Having cars is the only way to get around suburbs of SoCal.HijoDMaite
- $3.25 in my cityutopian
- Get a job selling bicycles********
