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- kaiyohtee1
Just finished a meeting after me and my team laid out a major update print for the largest healthcare provider in the country.
- sted0
madrid metro mazda
- oey_oey0
toronto train toyota
- oey_oey0
berlin bicycle bugatti
- OBBTKN2
Back home this morning at 5am with a friend whose father died two days ago.
F***k me, I'm 50 yo already!
* All night "celebrating" the life, talking about how proud we're of our family, our loved ones, bla, bla, bla...
- I get dressed, and I go out to the street to do the shopping. A coffee and a tapa ( i I revive) that later I have met with my wife to take a walk :)OBBTKN
- SimonFFM7
Saw my first book at an auction. It went for 260 EUR. My sales price was 44.90 in 2014.
- Do you have old books left? Sell them with your autograph for more.Longcopylover
- The book that got sold was signed by me. About 90% of all books were signed by me.
I only have 3 copies that I keep for myself.SimonFFM - Could you leaf through it easily enough or were some of the pages stuck together?Nairn
- ********2
What's with people and astrology?
- https://i.imgur.com/…palimpsest
- My girlfriend and I broke up over astrology.
She's a Taurus, but I don't believe in bullshit.utopian - Wife, youngest daugther and me are Taurus... Still alive ;)OBBTKN
- I’m a Taurus and magically still alive.Chimp
- I take an extreme position against astrology. Despite being a Libra.Continuity
- lol utopianYakuZoku
- Inability or unwillingness to even bother to think about how the world actually works. See “ignorant” and “gullible.”monospaced
- is there a timepiece more accurate than the solar system?keewee
- Not that we know of. When the ancient spirits built the solar system to keep track of time they were using the latests technology they had at hand.palimpsest
- But who knows how much their technology has advanced! Maybe they've moved on to build more precise pieces throught the universe and forgotten about us.palimpsest
- Luckily we have the celestial bodies as a reminder of their greatness.palimpsest
- it's not rocket science.MrT
- astrology isn’t keeping time LOL wtfmonospaced
- Astrology isn’t keeping time but our solar system is. Astrology is learning to read the hands of time in the celestial bodies.
Name a more accurate timepiece.palimpsest - Never said it couldn’t be used to keep time. I’m pointing out that it has nothing to do with astrology and isn’t an argument for its usefulness.monospaced
- Additionally, the universe is expanding, and is not used to keep time. Atomic clocks are used as they are more accurate and reliablemonospaced
- Kinda ridiculous to think that the solar system is reliable. The orbits have planets have changed drastically over time and continue to change. Stupid AFmonospaced
- Always deliversGnash
- Indeed.palimpsest
- lol, fine, but remember that keewee was serious so whatevermonospaced
- ********0
Was on a plane next to a man who was maybe 25 years old and 300 pounds.
I could hear every breath he took. I wanted to ask him if he was ok, but I just figured it was due to his weight.
He was fat but not unusually fat.
This was alarming.
- I was 25 and 300+ pounds sitting on a plane and i was fucked because my respiration doesn't likes this kind of air conditioning, within minutes my nose wassted
- blocked and i turned into darth vader.
+never had any issues breathing because of my weight.sted - 300 pounds in more modern measurements = 136.078 kilo grams. That's a fat fucker and he needs to go on Keto immediately.shapesalad
- Not unusually fat - because too many people are fat these day, it's almost normal to be a heffer.shapesalad
- lol @ keto as solutionmonospaced
- @shapesalad depends on how that weight is distributed. always love when the person sitting next to you shows all kinds of symptoms of inferiority complex.sted
- nahh keto dont work. Try fat burning crystals!pango
- canoe0
https://www.reddit.com/r/short/c…
Body shaming still trending at BBDO Los Angeles, and client AT&T.
- And QBN, apparentlyscarabin
- hacanoe
- I'm more than a foot taller than some of the people posting in that thread.
Feels good.i_monk - But you're two feet taller in your mind?canoe
- In my mind I'm slightly taller than average.i_monk
- Whatever floats your bigot boatcanoe
- You must be this tall *points at sign* to ride the bigot boat.i_monk
- scarabin7
Check out this massive unit of a mountain aloe i found at a nursery next to my place. These shits are like $300+ at this size but i offered a security guard 50 bucks and he let me take it!
- You just took in a Triffid.Nairn
- I knew this was a scarabin post before I saw it was one.monospaced
- succulentzardoz
- amazing plantsNutter
- whoa that looks greatsted
- Very niiiiicegarbage
- Named it Cthulhuscarabin
- That's a beast. Great find. Feed Me SeymourIanbolton
- Wait 'til it blooms! They're so cool flowering. :)monospaced
- pango15
pssssss
it's HijoDMaite's birthday today- Felicidades Hijo!! ;)OBBTKN
- :Dscarabin
- hay fiesta?oey_oey
- ¡Feliz cumpleaños!oey_oey
- HBD @Hijo!
P.S. how do you guys know whose bday it is on here?Krassy - Some people care, Krassy. If not you, then fine, but just know that some people do.Nairn
- Oops. wrong post, lol.Nairn
- But we do care, that's how we know.palimpsest
- Krassy. QBN Pro
$8/monthpango - https://i.imgur.com/…Akagiyama
- HBD homo:)utopian
- Lol thanks everyone! Getting dim sum with fam now! <3HijoDMaite
- Feliz cumpleaños cabron!!
Cómo viene la tienda??maquito - HBD Hijo!Continuity
- Feliz cumpleaños puta!Chimp
- HBD yogarbage
- Yeah buddy!YakuZoku
- Krassy6
how do you guys know what QBN member's bday it is on here?
- qbn.propalimpsest
- In the metaverseYakuZoku
- ah, right1 forgot about thatKrassy
- discord profiles. head over, it's great.fadein11
- fb
you guys put personal info on discord profile? lolpango - I have them all written down in my dream journalautoflavour
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- People connected via linkedin or facebook I guess; or maybe someone with quite creepy calendar?maquito
- I hate birthdays and I'm keeping my secretdrgs
- Do you mean which brand of bidet?jagara
- mg330
Tonight my son, who is 5, asked my wife and I "What happens at the end of the growing?" We're pretty sure he was referring to the end of life / death, and wow what an existential question from someone that age.
- And what was your answer?OBBTKN
- decompose?pango
- A: When you end growing you start to shrinkKrassy
- What did you tell him? Hope the truthmilfhunter
- ********0
Good holiday gift ideas for coworker I don't really know, under $50?
- $50 worth of peanut brittle.monNom
- $50 dollars worth of sardines.AQUTE
- $50 worth of cafepress goods with your face on themrobotinc
- or boozerobotinc
- Butt plugspango
- You can get an interesting food and wine basket - like tapas and a spanish winecanoe
- Rubik's cubedrgs
- https://www.avidapor…shapesalad
- https://www.avidapor…shapesalad
- https://www.avidapor…shapesalad
- https://www.avidapor…shapesalad
- Fidget spinnersKrassy
- He or she?OBBTKN
- headbezoar
- Goldfish with bowl.milfhunter
- Most importantly, are they trans??monospaced
- $50 worth of photos of your bathroomautoflavour
- toe sockssofas
- Krassy5
Where’s Bennn?
- Taking care of his Yaris, sure.OBBTKN
- Or his body has served as breakfast for a bear, who knows?OBBTKN
- Missing his posts and commentsKrassy
- And folks like Amicus, ICanHasQBNContinuity
- The jaguar got him.garbage
- Tiger, surely?Continuity
- Was the powerful Tigger. Sure.Miesfan
- Does Bennn like cocaine? If not, rule out bears.CyBrainX
- He left QBN to focus all his time on Crypto. Classic Bennnnnnn. I hope he's alive.monospaced
- isn't Crypto in the $hitter? hope he returnsKrassy
- SimonFFM8
You all warned me how dangerous it is to stand on a skateboard as an adult. Nevertheless, I put a model naked on a board.
And it came as it had to come: She fell and tore one side open. I immediately drove with her to the pharmacy. It was in a small mountain village and the pharmacy was the only store that existed (next to an ATM in a wall).
Inside, Corona rules were very strict. Access only with mask, barrier tape 1m from the counter. And as I waited for the pharmacist, I look to the right in this old village pharmacy and on the shelf next to the counter they displayed three modern vibrators.
The pharmacist said the model should rather wear protection next time.
The model is well now (this happened two weeks ago).
- You get my attention with a person “tearing open” and then immediately switch to mundane stuff about ATMs and pharmacy shelves??scarabin
- Iodine.shapesalad
- Did stuff fall out? Did she get stitches? Is there a scar? What did she fall on? Is her career ruined? Did she do a sick trick on the way down?scarabin
- ^ lolYakuZoku
- Did yell to her "Do a kickflip"?dmay
- Pics?drgs
- Did you get the shot you wanted? Is she gonna sue? Did you shoot the wound? Can we see?scarabin
- It's kind of beautiful, because she's both a poser and a poser.garbage
- yes she should wear protection and nothing else with a caption that says "I always use protection wink wink"Beeswax
- @SimonFFM please never change and please write a bookKrassy
- I'd like to see one of your models on a pogo stick.shapesalad
- the bottom line: "The pharmacist said the model should rather wear protection next time." :Dsted
- lol garbage poser poser hahahamonospaced
- They sell cheap 'skate trainers' that wrap over the wheel and stop it from rolling. Just one on a wheel out of frame will keep it from slippingkoma_
- 'Poseur' you cultureless swine.i_monk
- Falling is part of skating. It just hurts longer now that we’re old menmisterhow
- If you want to get more shots of models you can get 'ollie helpers' which are rubber things that go around wheels to stop board skooting away from you.microkorg
- you could have one on the wheel(s) that are out of shot. https://www.surferto…microkorg
- i get the feeling Simon can't comment on this any further because the case is still ongoing.scruffics
- ^ lolSimonFFM
- I asked her if she can skateboard and she said yes. It was a longboard to be precise, but the road was a bit nasty. She switched feet, therefore fell.SimonFFM
- I offered to take her to a doctor and also paid for all the pharmacy stuff. We bought "water to clean a wound" and a lot of unnecessary things.SimonFFM
- Everything is good between the model and me. Shit happens.SimonFFM
- Continuity4
Just spent the morning reading through old campaign ideas I've had over the years that never made it in front of clients, and then remembering the circumstances around many of them:
• account managers who wouldn't know a good idea if it fucked them in the ass whilst screaming, 'I'M A GREAT IDEA, BITCH!' in their ear;
• work done directly from labyrinthine client briefs that had never seen the inbox of a strategic planner, let alone been massaged, refined, or reverse-briefed by one;
• work intercepted and shot down by egomaniac CDs/ECDs with fragile self-esteems, who wanted to put their own weak ideas in front of the client instead;
• work no-one else believed in because of their own agendas.And I think back on all of that, and I get angry all over again, because I know that some of these ideas are actually killer, and would have done the business. If any creative I've managed since becoming a CD had come to me with some of these, I'd have been over the moon.
I may re-package them into a big PDF sans various agency brandings, and post them on LinkedIn, telling people to nick them, use them verbatim, adapt them to their needs, take a nugget of one for their own ideas, anything. No need to even credit me.
I'd be happy if even just one saw the light of a gaffer's set-up one day.
- I'm with you on this, it's hard to let go of ideas we're still excited about, especially considering the mediocrity of the content being produced these days.spl33nidoru
- Got ideas I've been trying to shoot for more than 10y, often considering shooting them on my own, but can't help to think they would shine the most as campaignsspl33nidoru
- It's so shitty, though, that our work — and whether it lives or dies — is subject to either the incompetence or egos of others.
Ugh, this fucking business.Continuity - Yeah. It's especially hard for non-creative people to be open to a great idea, as it usually doesn't resemble what they know and feel comforted by.spl33nidoru
- Even when I manage to push a (imho) strong concept, most of my work then consists in preventing others to normalise it. Their instinct is always to "fix it".spl33nidoru
- ^ And that's often the result of you working from either an un-clear or non-existent brief. And when you manage to get a handle on the assignment, that'sContinuity
- ... exactly the moment when the other decide to try and 'fix it' with new info not previously available to you.Continuity
- Anyway I'm sure there are other avenues for you to make some of these happen. Don't just give them away, at least make them presentable as dev work for yourselfspl33nidoru
- bleeding heck, get over yourselves. this is an industry, not an art form. if it pisses you off then become an artist.hans_glib
- I disagree hans, it's an industry relying heavily on artists, many of which need for the work to be commissioned to express themselves (or allow themselves to).spl33nidoru
- ^Continuity
- Me work in crypto agency - no CD/Art directors, complete trust in me, my ideas welcomed, clients all love it. The one good thing about crypto...shapesalad
- designs which were rejected -- are you not allowed to use them somewhere else?drgs
- LOL ofc not, the ideas generated in an agency belong to the agency
People barely can create a folio if the work was under NDAsgrafician - recycle that shit over and over until it's used :)monospaced
- You can “recycle” them as mono suggested and put them in your folio. Out of interest how many of your killer ideas won?Chimp
- OBBTKN3
Related to Continuity's post:
After +27 years working in the sector... "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... "
LMAO
Keep it strong man!!
- pedromendez5
I've had an interesting realisation over the past few days.
I transitioned to a design management role last year where Im very happy... leading with a team of great designers and I have been moving more and more away from doing design work to enabling my team to do the work. Mentoring, planning, strategy, meetings about meetings, etc..
I've enjoyed it all for the most part, learned so much, 1 year has flown by, but just this last week I've had the opportunity to dive back into designing on a project and wow I didn't realise how much I've missed doing real design work.
I stayed up until 2am working on a project that I just got totally into it and lost all track of time. It was so refreshing and I wonder if there's a balance design managers can strike to stay close to the work instead of getting lost in the world of meetings and management.
Now I'm not so sure if design management is for me...
Have any other design managers / directors here come up against the same issue throughout their careers?
- It's either IC > stocks > exit early and rich OR retire DMgrafician
- OR set a less boring goal:
keep your DM job, maybe you can move forward somewhere and you quit that shit whenever you want.sted - work on design jobs separately, but keep time in check. like spend max 2x6 hours/week, then 4h, and insert some days when you don't give a shit and just qbn :Dsted
- I’m pretty much in the same position with my agency. I like to keep it to 80% management / direction and 20% designChimp
- I manage a small team but still design too. I know that I def dont want to be just doing planning/strategy/me... 24/7 - couldnt hack that.microkorg
- i used to have an agency of 5 but it was all dreary paperwork and boring management tedium. so now i'm freelance and designing again. poorer but more relaxed.hans_glib
- My last two or three CD gigs, I always kept maybe 3 or 4 briefs to myself, so that I could come up with ideas for them. Kept me sane.Continuity
- If you've been away, it's easy to fall in love again, but then it gets less & less. At arm's length, you can still love it, but don't sacrifice the day job.ptrdo