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- shapesalad0
If you think you're having a bad day... listen to this:
- He survived the fastest ejection in the history of Naval Aviation, in to icy shark infested water, no less.shapesalad
- tldv; 2014 ejected from a US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet at 695 mph into the icy Atlantic Ocean, survived. Torn brachial artery and open leg fracturessted
- after the docs put him together he choose a path of healing w/ psychedelics.sted
- spl33nidoru8
Hope not to jinx it but I'm this close to scoring my dream rep after months without jobs (not unusual in my field).
My portfolio is as good as I can make it, and I last improved/updated it 3 months ago.
Since then, none of my inquiries to other reps has gotten a reply, leaving me looking at my work with embarrassment towards the things that could have been better, the properly failed but high profile projects I can't afford not to show etc.
These guys I want to work with are genuinely excited about it, and seem to see what I'm aiming for.
Tonight I looked at my portfolio again and felt unexpectedly proud. I could really see how far all my hustling got me over the years when friends who gave up along the way would gently discourage some of my zero financial potential efforts, usually the ones that ultimately paid off the most.
Anyway tonight I feel like I do belong with this rep and that everything is falling into place.
Funny how good a little outside trust makes us feel.
- That's awesome, good for you!! All your hard work is paying off.BuddhaHat
- Thanks B! Trying to spread some hope for us freelance folks!spl33nidoru
- Nice, bien fait !
Link to rep's contact details for the rest of us? :DContinuity - Sadly not one of these places where spots often open + i'd like to keep some anonymity here, but will give you the info when it's done buddy!spl33nidoru
- if you want to shortly leave your @ in your biospl33nidoru
- Cheers, mate! Check bio for emailContinuity
- got it, you can take it down! I'll shoot you an email in about a weekspl33nidoru
- Sounds good!Continuity
- misterhow12
I have called my computer ‘my machine’ for years. Laptop, desktop, doesn’t matter. My machine.
A. Where did I pick this up?
2. Does anyone else do this?My wife has given me grief about this for a while now. She said I sound like an old timer who has never seen a computer before.
- Terminator 3hotroddy
- I also do thissausages
- Machine, rig, porn chest... it’s all goodfuturefood
- You got it right.
Your laptop is a computing machine, and the "computer" is the person whose job they replaced.spl33nidoru - first time it felt weird when i saw a movie where kids call their motorbikes machine :)
you're doing fine, in my native language its called "computing-machine".sted - @spl33nidoru, funnyhotroddy
- Yes machine. It’s pretty normalmonospaced
- Yepthumb_screws
- Yup_niko
- spl33nidoru is spot on btw, they had human "computers" in WW2 at Bletchley Park before machines came alongsausages
- Yup. It's a machine. Just sounds good. Computer makes you sound dumb.
I remember laughing at my Nan for calling the TV remote the machineProjectile - is it weird that it’s what i call myself?scruffics
- If you want real grief with you wife, call her your 'machine'.SimonFFM
- machine code, innitzardoz
- I call it a machine, too, which is weird, actually. It's not a mechanical contraption, and there are no moving parts, except for the fan.Continuity
- @future Lolmilfhunter
- Depends on how early you got a "machine" the early hackers call it machine, also in books same, then the regulars got computers...grafician
- PIITB and let's see if she runs her mouf again.palimpsest
- i called it meta-machine because it can simulate all kind of medium..or cybernetic-machineneverscared
- yes. its on my machine.robthelad
- Ohh, as in how you refer to it in conversation? Aye, It's a 'machine'. What else would it be? Diverging opinions are incorrect.Nairn
- lol, what nonsense is this about hackers before regulars? My grandfather referred to his computer as his machine in the 1980smonospaced
- Oh, and so did all the regulars who early adopted before hacking was a thing. So...monospaced
- clearly you're too young and disconnected from the computer world to really know this from experiencemonospaced
- Are you guys in your early 70's?utopian
- My first machine was a TI-99/4A. I really wondered if I picked up the term from sci-fi books or just from doing the work. I'm just glad I'm not the only onemisterhow
- I call my "phone" my device.wordssssss
- wait, I also do... in spanish! it's my maquina :Pmaquito
- "my machine" - computer
"my device" - phone
"my vehicle" - carstoplying - hey monospaced, if you need to google what rtfm means then stfugrafician
- You got it from David Lee Roth. https://youtu.be/0zG…jagara
- OBBTKN4
I have taken free in the afternoon. My wife and I have a carnival party, which seems to get out of hand, LOL.
Have a nice weekend locos!!
- Just remember to skip the steak at 3am.
Have fun.palimpsest - It's never not a good time for steak.
And I'm not wrong.Continuity - No problem. This year we are going to dress up as gypsies, and I carry a mini-bbq in a box with wheels... LolOBBTKN
- Just remember to skip the steak at 3am.
- scarabin15
Turned the new fish tank into a bioactive vivarium. Stocked it with isopods, springtails, a couple black widows, earthworms, and three emperor scorpions, which arrived just a moment ago.
They’re so fat and cute!
- Nice, I love these things.
Land is the new sea.Nairn - So. Cute. Om G!monospaced
- yass! damn they are f cuuute :)
these are fat? :D they look healthy :)sted - at first I thought you were going to house some kind of lizard, wanted to tell you that be careful with their legs :) that's the easiest to f up.sted
- but with these, they are beautiful! :)sted
- Yeah, their “armor plates” separate when they’re full. Looks like the breeder kept good care of themscarabin
- Very coolYakuZoku
- +100garbage
- once bitten, twice shyutopian
- looks like they need some exerciseBeeswax
- cooolmilfhunter
- feels like a set from Starship Troopers sequel with B-movie-style animatronics and lightinghotroddy
- It cycles through different modes during the day. Sunrise, morning, sunset, moonlight, etc. I’m not fond of this mid-day lighting but it’s good for the plantsscarabin
- Nice, I love these things.
- Nairn0
^
someone should mix one of these with a particle cloud chamber - drunk, drowning small creatures being beset upon by particles of ionised radiation. Also, UV, perhaps gene edited creatures for more glow. Proper miniature nature rave.- I’ve had my eye on some glow in the dark mushrooms. Scorps are UV reactive so i thought it’d look cool. https://www.amazon.c…scarabin
- Isopods and springtails feed on mushrooms though and may decimate them or overpopulate so i thought better of itscarabin
- If I ever get rich, I'm spending £50k on perfecting a cloud chamber.Nairn
- hydro742
NET FUCKING 60's.
WHY!
- no idea what you're talking about but I'm going to guess this? https://i.pinimg.com…_niko
- invoices are paid in 60 days? idk :Dsted
- yep, paid invoice two months after the project is done. 30 makes monthly planning easierhydro74
- Continuity4
So, here's a question:
Have any of you sold a TV series before? If so, did you:
• Include both a single synopsis of the series as a whole, plus episode synopses, or;
• Just episode synopses?I'm asking cos I'm working on the show I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, and it's really a mini-series — six eps, eight eps at the most — and I'm wondering if I can get away with just episode synopses in my pitch deck, or if I should include one for the series as a whole, too, in order to maximise the chances of selling this thing.
Thoughts?
- OK, not just *a* question, clearly.Continuity
- I've asked two people I know who *might* know. I'll let you know if they get back to me with anything useful.Nairn
- Splendid, cheers Nairn!Continuity
- what would be the downside of including that? Why not?dopepope
- From the POV of redundancy, I suppose. But then I think having both is good,Continuity
- If only to show how I would expand on the general plot and break it down in each ep.Continuity
- I've worked on the pitches for dozens of series, including a few that have been commissioned. There's always an overview of the series; tone, talent, style etc.MrT
- + the synopsis/outline of a couple of episodes (sometimes all) These range from a paragraph to a full page with main beats right through to how it wraps up.MrT
- I'll ask around tomorrow which I can share!MrT
- Watch this, this is actually insightful I found, from his first hand experience https://youtu.be/lW_…_niko
- Currently shopping two series and actively taking meetings with production cos, financiers + distro. Series and episode synopsis + season arcs for 6 seasons.shellie
- Damn, MrT, niko, and shellie, thanks for the insights, it's really helpful! And actually, shellie, I'll probably reach out to you soon-ish as this gets closerContinuity
- ... to being ready as a 1st draft. I'll defo want your thoughts if you don't mind!Continuity
- All this talent on QBN <3Continuity
- Use Chat GPT to write all the episode scripts and episode synopses.shapesalad
- I sold an old TV oncedrgs
- HijoDMaite6
AI is coming fucking fast!
- Pull out game weak.palimpsest
- Premature intelligencemonospaced
- So many people with their
head in the sand.utopian - funniest thing mono has said in yearsimbecile
- Time to go off grid me thinks...shapesalad
- Yup, shits gonna changeYakuZoku
- Shit has already changed, most people just don't know it yet.utopian
- i have to change to stay the samemilfhunter
- DaveO8
Made a rib eye steak last night with the 'reverse sear' method. Fucking sublime and paired very well with a 2017 Barolo. I love middle age.
- Woaaaahhh... I'm hungry now. Bon apetit :)OBBTKN
- I'm having some freshly shaved ribeye cheese steaks on a long steak roll this evening.utopian
- Try the cold pan method, feels and looks so wrong until the last couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- Sounds lovely. A hot butcher once told me, one's beef consumption should comprise approx 5% steak, proportionally reflecting how much of the animal it is.MrT
- @MrT, what?! sounds like nonsensemonospaced
- bainbridge2
I work as an in-house designer at a company. It's small (20 people) and comfortable. I'm good at my job and my boss and coworkers and I all get along.
But I've been there 2+ years and it's starting to get repetitive and the days are long and I talk to the same people all the time.
I've grown a lot here and think I could be making more money. I've only gotten a small inflation raise as I asked and also know we don't have a ton of money floating around. I don't want to look for another job, but that would be a good way to get more money maybe.
How do I spice it up so things don't get boring in another year?
The grass is always greener, but it would be exciting to work in a company with a lot more people to be friends with.
- carve out a part of the job you can own? you may not make more money, but that time will be spent doing what you want.imbecile
- Ask if you can work remote. Then sell all your stuff, end rental contract - book out airbnb's etc for 1 month each across europe/aisa.shapesalad
- catpower spiced things up, but probably not best to go down that route.PhanLo
- So I hear that you want to spice it up...get a side hustle, like becoming a sex tourism coordinator or knob cobbler associate and what not.utopian
- lol phanloArchitectofFate
- Phanlo lol my thoughts exactly!_niko
- Pitch something to someone.i_monk
- A buddy of mine has found some success searching Linkedin for jobs. Not applying but instead emailing asking if they need some help in the interim while theymisterhow
- find someone full time. This had led to a bunch of long contracts. One company rewrote their job posting to include him as a team member.misterhow
- misterflow, that's brilliant_niko
- OBBTKN0
I have broken, again, the screen of my smartphone...
Thanks to the fact that I always buy Android potato-phones and for €40 they change the screen.
Damn me!
- NBQ002
So for years I've been eating 90% dark chocolate because I love the taste and it's healthy. And in recent months there was a study that there's tons lead/ heavy metals in them that could be harmful accumulating over years.
Sigh, nothing is really healthy anymore. And salmon/ fish have micro plastics, heavy metals or other chemicals in them.
- Lindt 90%. Bummer. But it's not something you can eat a lot of anyway.shapesalad
- https://www.consumer…shapesalad
- might as well eat at taco bell
¯\_(ツ)_/¯imbecile - It's all marketing mumbo jumbo.utopian
- Allergies cases in children throught the roof
Insanely hard to find "pure" products anymore in any markets. Basically poisoning future generationsgrafician - @NBQ eat small fresh water fish, eat chicken & turkey, no beef, even in EU with very high standards is getting harder to eat safegrafician
- Test chicken by grinding the bones with your hands > hard to break bones = more healthy, easy to grind bones = no eatgrafician
- Turkey fed at least for 3 months only corn and so ongrafician
- You grind bones?monospaced
- rotflsted
- I'm no nutritionist but a 90% chocolate diet doesn't sound healthyFax_Benson
- Whats the other 10%drgs
- Cocaine.palimpsest
- sunlightsted
- bainbridge0
NYC or LA to live in?
- doggydoggdog1
How many jobs have you had in the last 10 years?
- palimpsest0
Is AI taking our jerbs the same immigrants are taking our jerbs or fax machines took our jerbs?
Discuss.- Different, i'd say.zardoz
- It affects people of higher social status - knowledge economy workers - so it's more serious.zardoz
- These people are generally more leveraged than your average 'immigrants taking our jerbs' worker. They're fucked.zardoz
- I'm an immigrant so...oey_oey
- ...palimpsest
- .... . ... .... ..sted
- jagara4
Do you own a proper stereo?
- Yes.jagara
- Stereo with an amplifier, etc... From the Technics brand, I haven't used it in 15 yearsOBBTKN
- Yessted
- ofchans_glib
- Nopango
- Nomilfhunter
- Absolutelymonospaced
- 2xneverscared
- I did have, but left the speakers with my parents who left them in the shed to be ravished by damp and mould.Ianbolton
- Yes. Technics von 1983: Amp, EQ, Tape, Tuner. Plus 2x Technics SL-1200 mk2. All the same color.oey_oey
- Technics amp and CD player, Onkyo tape deck, Numark turntable, bluetooth receiver. I extremely rarely use physical media players.jagara
- What's proper? I have a frankenstein of 25y old Sony amp and speaker with newer Denon CD-Player and Rega P1 Phono. Works and looks nicely reduced.Longcopylover
- I like to look at expensive Macintosh and arm thick cables, but I don't want to go down this rabbit hole.Longcopylover
- too many, i must have 10 sets of speakers knocking about. have forcibly upgraded all my friends systems with spares.kingsteven
- Mine is a marantz home theater AVR and a pair of high end Polk towers. I use it mostly for movies and tv.monospaced
- disgracefully apart from my studio monitors i only have a turntable + bookshelves in the kitchen ATM.kingsteven
- Yup. It's in the garage, ready to be given to some charity.formed
- 5.1 channel living room deal; PSB speakers, Toshiba reciever, Pioneer turntable, etc.
Studio monitors (also PSB) for the office; 2.1 channel.
Overall good.ideaist - Jesus, Toshiba = Yamaha!!! Tomato / Tomato I guess!
; )ideaist - Rocking a $10 headphone set lol.********
- My Alexa 2nd Gen bumps. Yes, in my car.HijoDMaite
- Sansui 1000X needs repair, Akai turntable, Pioneer 12" sub 3-way stacks, pos Technics receiver.bezoar
- technics receiver, Sony turntable and some mission bookshelf speakers, I'd like to upgrade everything though_niko
- Of coursescarabin
- yes, mid 70's Marantz 2235b and Marantz 6300 turntable with a pair of Wharfedale floor standing speakers.fooler
- I have a Telefunken Senator I want to get restored if possible, or gutted and upgraded (more likely).i_monk
- Just my studio setup and my DJ setup.section_014
- Anyone gone fully wireless?!
The appeal of a SONOS system intoxicates me, BUT I ain't rich.
: (ideaist - Pioneer PL600 for the vinyl, Akai 702d for the rest. Do I use them? Never. They've been sitting unused and unplugged for years.garbage
- I inherited my dad's Pioneer SA-5300 Stereo Integrated Amplifier Amp - made in JAPAN. 1970's. All analogue. Built like a tank. Sounds... amazing.shapesalad
- @ideast, I have a pair of Sonos 5 units in the living room, their largest speakers, and those things are seriously impressive!monospaced
- But those are just for music, and now only that lossless codecs are starting to become the norm. Still not as "hi-fi" as a proper system though.monospaced
- in just a few hours what a flex this simple question became :)sted
- YesSimonFFM
- Nodrgs
- yesslappy
- I have a 20 dollars Koss earphonespango
- Yes - mainly plug the laptop in to listen to tunes, or record player when feeling particularly in the mood to settle ininteliboy
- No, I trashed my "proper stereo" when I trashed when I was like 21.utopian
- The best audio device I have quality wise would be my pcYakuZoku
- Nope, just really expensive headphones.yuekit
- yep, an old solid state Sony thing for pipe and slippers afternoons with the radio.MrT
- yesApeRobot
- Yes, some parts over 25 years old. Reviving it now. Just bought Kef R3s on sale and am shopping for a Reag Planar turntable, prob 6.comicsans
- I have a Filipino covers band for all my music needs. They do a mean CCR medley.zardoz
- No I'm got a little amplifier thingy with speakers that's meant to plug your ipod into to charge and listen to music w remotecherub