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- NBQ00-7
Whenever I ride a train and parents with two toddlers sit next to me, I'm like, fuck. The kids, especially when they're boys just can't sit still a minute. Constant crying, shouting, kicking with their legs. I don't know how these parents do it sometimes but I'm glad I don't have children. And if I ever do, hopefully only girl(s).
- Much rather have kids sitting next to me than a big sweaty fat f*ck. Once had a guy take up his seat and half of mine on an 8hr flight. With no spare seatsmicrokorg
- to switch to on the plane.
I guess if you don't want anyone sitting next to you, pony-up and buy the seats around you.microkorg - Holy fuck, why do you want to share that here?canoe
- Because we are friends.NBQ00
- PonyBoy3
It just hit me that this not-from-concentrate organic coconut water I've been drinking non-stop the last 2 weeks tastes exactly like the sugary milk you gulp down after killing the bowl of cereal once floating in it... I am addicted. <3
- Puaj! Incredible the things you can drink guys...OBBTKN
- Wife and me just finished dinner. To drink, sparkling water and a few drops of lemon ;)OBBTKN
- Pfanner makes this pineapple-coconut, i can drink that all day.sted
- "sugary milk" ffsmaquito
- aren't you supposed to be painting me a skateboard? :)PonyBoy
- NBQ00-11
Maybe unpopular opinion but David Bowie was mostly overrated.
- *snort... oh no u didn't <3PonyBoy
- Although I really like Bowie, I would also agree with you.utopian
- Yes, yes... but noOBBTKN
- Look at this plonker!WallaWalla
- you're the unpopular opinion king - think it's ok to harrass women, be bigoted and a low-key racist. what's next - pineapple on pizza? something about Jews?face_melter
- I like pineapple on pizza....pango
- ‘Maybe’ ?Gnash
- Salarrue0
whut!!! https://live.qbn.com/
- cannonball19786
Got the house. Got the ring. Got the girl.
Pray for mr qbeans. Everythings right. Getting ready to take the deep dive
- Shit yeah!bezoar
- Godspeed, goodpseedmonospaced
- Kids?monospaced
- Oh nografician
- Oh no? Of course you're going to troll someone who is moving their life forward. He obv sounds prepared, excited and in love.canoe
- depends on your idea of success, but if you're doing things you're doing things!robthelad
- OBBTKN2
I'm seriously thinking about putting solar panels in the garden, about 30 square meters, and getting an electric car...
I've deleted the rest of the "ugly" text.
I don't want to leave a mark, lest certain agencies be bored and concerned about our insignificant lives today.
- stoplying2
I was up on a ladder yesterday cleaning my gutters. Not too high, my house is a one story ranch so about 12 feet up. I grab a handful of dead leaves and notice some bugs flying around. I keep going when all of a sudden I realize that those bugs are wasps, and I've just been stung on the back of my arm. More start flying around me as I clumsily swat them away and try to hop down the ladder without falling, Wasps don't leave a stinger in you but I do still have a red welt. Little fuckers.
- OBBTKN1
I've been walking like Robocop for a couple of weeks now. A low back pain has me doubled. Errrr. Oddly enough, it all started after a lunch that ended with an impromptu dance... Lol
- I tried to get on my bike, impossible. The pain is even more acute. Today I'm sunbathing and swimming with my wife... let's see if it helps.OBBTKN
- Little clothing and the relative cold and high humidity of these days have been terrible.OBBTKN
- Stretching at night and hopefully I can get back on the bike by the weekend.OBBTKN
- </blog>OBBTKN
- 5timuli5
I worked for LinkedIn for the past 13 years, and I only have ONE piece of activity on my profile: a single comment on content that's no longer available:
"I'd agree that correlation ≠ causation, were it not for the fact that I'd rather throw myself into a swimming pool than watch Nicholas Cage in anything."
What a legacy.
- palimpsest10
I has no works.
But I can haz cheeseburgers.- You mean you have no balls as you will get exposed for being a talentless troll.
But sure, bon apetit!grafician - Mind your business from now...grafician
- Oh, snap!palimpsest
- little doggy's like to barkYakuZoku
- Wait, I forgot.
I have a job.
I don't has works.palimpsest - @grafician.
Peru calling.
Learn English before stepping to me.palimpsest
- You mean you have no balls as you will get exposed for being a talentless troll.
- Horp26
Gotta be honest about this...
Since I stopped being a regular on here, which is probably more than a decade ago now I imagine, I have continued to drop in at least weekly but sometimes daily.
It has remained a constant source of inspiration, information and entertainment, and it's been a great layby on the information soupy highway that I have remained very fond of, despite not participating.
But it's got smaller and smaller, and less people post, and then lately it's just become a battleground for two aggreived factions to trade barbs.
I don't bother reading that stuff, but when that stuff feels like 70% of what's on here, it gets hard to ignore.
And I have to say that based on the little bits I have read, none of you come out on top, victorious.
I've never read so much petty juvenile barb trading in my life. It seems like an arena that stipulates you lose automatically just by entering it.
This place probably hangs by a thread now. Barely able to justify its continued existence, but please, don't become the palpable reason for it finally spluttering, collapsing, and dying.
Let it die for any other reason than purile tit-for-tat where all contenders sound ridiculous. There may not be much of an audience but the windows are open and it's all here for public record.
Some decorum and dignity would be wise, and this is coming from somebody who had neither quality on display during my active QBN years.
- Oh hi Horp. Hope you're good! Come drop by Discord every once in a while, will you?Continuity
- Keep up the nice LinkedIn posts T.monospaced
- Totally agree.
And I acknowledge being part of the problem. But if QBN won't do anything about it turning into a shit-slinging shit show I might as well dig inpalimpsest - None of this shit would fly on Discord. We run a tight ship.palimpsest
- ^Continuity
- ^ looks like some folks enjoy authority a lot....or too much... mostly complys to tiniy penis boys.neverscared
- they cant execute it here so they blustering they can be big boys on discord.... classic.neverscared
- this_is_fine.jpgpalimpsest
- Thanks Mono!
Continuity, I don't have a Discord module. I don't have much to say these days anyway.Horp - I feel you Horp. I try to keep posting stuff to ease the waves. But I can't keep up. And I think it's a pity.Longcopylover
- I also try to post stuff.
Life is hard.palimpsest - Lest we forget:
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - how huge is your part in the part of the problem then? 12% -64% it was all pretty smooth till u came back...neverscared
- Indeed I took a week off and it all went smothly. I do concur.
Until I came back and decided to make that post above.
I would say my part is 85%.palimpsest - 30% in making the post and 55% in reacting to the aggravation.
More or less.palimpsest - There's always a margin for error. I would love to look at your calculationspalimpsest
- So when other users call you out you act all innocent and docile, got it :)grafician
- You talking to me?
What part of 85% responsibility did you not get?palimpsest - Well you took it a bit far as you have no mental and emotional control it seems and all this shit about me will have legal repercussions :)grafician
- You're calling the cyber police?palimpsest
- You live in Europe after all and your identity is known even though you think you are anonymous or something.
You are not.grafician - I asked many times to mind your business and you decided to continue with your circus, but it seems you cannot.
No problema, that can get fixedgrafician - You act like a teenager with no emotional control. That's fine.
There's a saying - fuck around and find out.
That is all.grafician - Please don't move to Discord. I like this site.pseud
- i make no calculations ... i simply go black and white on gut feeling... safes a lot of time and margins errors.neverscared
- 12% -64% doesn't sound too black and white. You can't have 3/25ths of your cake and eat it too.palimpsest
- that was not meant as what i think... but a guess of mine what u think...neverscared
- Cake is a celebration of life.neverscared
- Don't be part of the problem. Be 100% of the problem.mort_
- This is what one cancerous person can do.utopian
- be careful there.... because cancerous rhetorc can only come from a cancerous person...neverscared
- be more problematic than the sum of the parts of the problem...neverscared
- Amén, mort_.
Take life by the horns.palimpsest - Lemonade is for losers.
When life gives you posters, throw a tantrum.palimpsest - I also gotta be honest that I don't understand the animosity at all. I get the vague impression that grafician did something terribleyuekit
- but no idea what it is. How bad could it be?yuekit
- Thank youd_gitale
- There's a discord?kalkal
- Yup! You can message pali or me about it (discord user names are in our profiles)Continuity
- discord group name = qbn big boy pants boysneverscared
- discord group full of old farts and haters cool stuff guys
Have the balls to post your stuff in the open like the rest of us :))grafician
- OBBTKN2
A guy from a nearby town, about the same age as me, was killed in a car accident while riding his bike.
I'm sure I know him, but I don't know if I want to know who he is :(
- grafician-11
What, no designers around working with Vice back in the day, I thought you were pros
Shame on you :)
Thanks for the downvotes, kisses!
- Respect again for monospaced, he touched the Coca Cola account even as a junior!
No more bickering from me Ben :)grafician - Let's see your folios from 15 years ago boys be shameless show us your filthgrafician
- What’s up Graf? You having a mental breakdown?Ianbolton
- We touched a lot of Coca Cola projects back then. But your approval means less than jack shit to me.monospaced
- Also. 4 am on a Saturday night. Weirdmonospaced
- The art in the vice piece wasn't even yours lol!
We can Google too idiotWallaWalla - You can’t be a pro if you didn’t do work for Vice back in the day. If you didn’t, you’re a loser.monospaced
- :))) you "googled" Vice?! You didn't knew about Vice?!
Then go "google" what a moron means toografician - what?monospaced
- HAHA grafician is busted!redneck
- Did hundreds of ads in vice. Man those guys were fun, good times. Gavin was the soul of that place, thoughGnash
- Respect again for monospaced, he touched the Coca Cola account even as a junior!
- bainbridge2
Most of human existence has been a miserable struggle.
- coolpango
- Thank fuck for drugs and ice cream eh?mort_
- deepNBQ00
- have you ever talked to a fly?sted
- Entropy and decayneverscared
- Tried to explain to friends...OBBTKN
- Nobody listenedOBBTKN
- Have you ever thought about the fact that we might be living at the peak of humanity and it's all downhill from hereyuekit
- cant get much downhill from that peak... maybe for 0.1% that peak is high enough though...neverscared
- aaahhhh, remember the good old days where you'd wake up, go to war with your neighbour, get your guts ripped open with a spear and then sit and eat sand. LovelyIanbolton
- That's Samsara and Dukkha 4 yo ass.jagara
- Horp4
"have you ever talked to a fly?"
- Sted
Related, but unrelated...
About 20 years ago I was drifting off to sleep in bed and I felt a house spider crawl over my face - causing me to open my eyes and emerge from my slumber. I watched it scuttle along my duvet and then stand on my bedside table.
I had an empty glass there; not wanting to be roused again, I put the glass over the spider until morning.
I went back to sleep, but I dreamed intensly and vividly about that spider pleading with me from that glass to free it.
As the dream went on, it told me it was short of air, and desperately needed to be released
When I woke up the next morning it was facing me, and on the ceiling of the upturned glass there were speckles of condensation. Just as I had seen it in my dream.
I lifted the glass and the spider seemed to wave one leg in acknowledgement, and then it scuttled off.
- canoe18
@graf
You can call me a loser.
You can call me a junior designer.
You can call me a ghetto defendant.The one thing you can't call me is... lonely at 4am.
- My man at 4am it's either coming back home from a night with friends or doing work for US clients
Being lonely was never an issue for me :))grafician - You keep inventing and projecting this bullshit about me around here, that's never true.
Get a grip, get a life.grafician - Hey hypocrite, read what you said about me. Now you're playing the victim? That's a strategy nobody will get behind, not like you at 4am.canoe
- Playing the victim?! WTF :))
No dude, just telling you to stop spreading false shit about me
You are loser and junior designer and "ghetto defendant" tho'grafician - But me posting whenever I want is NOT your problem so stfu with your stupid rantsgrafician
- https://www.youtube.…canoe
- My man at 4am it's either coming back home from a night with friends or doing work for US clients
- bjladams8
ahh, I agree with that below Horp (or above or whatever) - this place and the other one helped me though some rough times and there were some great laughs. I found this the other day. I don't think I have a real copy of it anymore. 2012.
- I vaguely remember thatcanoe
- I remember that [/heart emoji]
Where are they all now. Greedo, where are you?Horp - I tried finding my copy of this a month or two ago and couldn't, for the life of me :( It's here.. *waves hands* somewhere, but.. egh.
Also, lol at Set, hahahaNairn - flol, as soon as i posted that I thought "Wait.." and checked somewhere I hadn't and.. https://imgz.org/iAc…Nairn
- got my framed print of all the faces on my wall still, no 13/100!johnny_wobble
- mg333
Random idea just popped into my head: do you think people ever think up and design a band identity - name, stylistic approach, art, etc. for a band that doesn't exist yet and somehow sell that identity to a new band?
It would have to be a totally new band, I realize that bands rarely "rebrand." But maybe for an established artist starting something new?
No idea if people do this. Just popped into my head while getting some fresh air at work.
- When you go to behance, I noticed, that a LOT of non US designers make up brands and use them as example projects...canoe
- There's also tons of premade logos to buy...canoe
- Am I not understanding your question migs?canoe
- You're getting it. :)
I had a cool band name pop into my head and immediately had ideas for what it would sound like, look like, etc.mg33 - And I mean "band" as in music (not a misspelling of "brand.")mg33
- Just no idea if it's common to craft a full fictitious band identity and look for a band that would pay for it.mg33
- Ex, if someone were looking for a cool name and identity for a doom / psych / shoegaze band, if would be perfect.mg33
- Egos too strong in bands to have second hand work cut out for them
Works with other industries thografician - Bands have stories, all kinds of lore, you can never replace that with a new brandgrafician
- But you can always do that with FMCG brands, a soda is just a soda with a new brandinggrafician
- Maybe you should launch it yourself? you can partner with a producer/musician. That's roughly the Gorillaz origin story.monNom
- Or learn a little audio production, lean on AI, whatever. Easy to put your music out there these days.monNom
- No doubt, but working with artists, they were always the voice and me as a designer was more implementing their vision
Again very strong egos in artistsgrafician - My best buddies are DJs so this discussion came up already, but no, they have their strong identities and styles
Very hard to remix something for themgrafician - @mg33 maybe look into this:
https://x.com/prebra…
Pieratt had something going on with prebrands for tech startupsgrafician - A company I freelance for had a client whose schtick was creating off the peg identities for bands / musicians. Album covers, videos, the whole lot. Awful shiteFax_Benson
- I should mention for anyone who doesn't remember, I'm a musician. Working on my own thing now, called The Ageless Sea.mg33
- I could see using this with a friend as a combo project.mg33
- It's just not authentic, nobody can resonate with that I guessgrafician
- Graf - that all makes sense. Having had bands and come up with names, graphics, sites, it was for sure personal to the story, theme, etc.mg33
- We changed our name from The Atlantic Divide to Looming Lights after five years when we were gonna try to make a bigger go of things.mg33
- I was too locked into ocean stuff with the old name, but LOL here I am years later with a solo project called The Ageless Sea. :Dmg33
- I was replying to Fax Benson with that comment about authenticitygrafician
- The Ageless Sea sounds good, maybe run with it?
What kind of music genre?grafician - Graf - instrumental / ambient. Album is in progress, but I stepped away to focus on the prints I'm making and selling. (From the generative art I've made.mg33
- Small sample of tunes
https://theagelessse…mg33 - What is punk rock?tbgoodwillie
- Maybe use the tunes to generate some graphics? Or at least some videos for the tracks?
Good luck my man the tunes are good vibes!grafician - Go on bandcamp too, that's were the music is these daysgrafician
- Nearly every band or musical group I’ve encountered already has a brand identity—usually something created by a sister...utopian
- ...cousin, or close friend—that they’re emotionally attached to and unwilling to reconsider or rebrand.utopian
- Marilyn Manson had created his band's identity and as a journalist, wrote articles about the group before any actual performance. MANIFEST!!bezoar
- The Ageless Sea is a great nameyuekit
- When I briefly worked for music industry clients, I sometimes did treatments for one act, which then ended up with another.Horp
- Thanks yuekit! Like I said, put it on hold, but it's been fun working on art for it. Lots of time looking at old Cousteau books, mimicking old paper ocean imagemg33
- and finding a good font that looks a lot like heavyweight fonts that were used in those books.mg33
- migs, this sounds a bit like something that Thrill Jockey would've put out. Love the reverb on the drum! Perhaps using Slate+Ash for the plucky stuff?canoe
- Also sounds quite west coasty toocanoe
- +10canoe
- You scuba mg? PADI diver since 1990 over herecanoe
- Thank you canoe! Haven't used Shape + Ash. Plucky stuff... are you referring to that looping piano sound that is consistent? If so...mg33
- that's the Olafur Arnalds Stratus looping. That plugin is amazing. Otherwise, that's me playing guitar over the top of it.mg33
- I've never dived/dove. Snorkeled in several places. I wish I did, and had a baller underwater camera. Have some ideas for abstract water images for the project.mg33