Spend $1,000 On?
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down payment on C4D Studio
- autoflavour0
as someone who has just blown over 1000 euro at least over the past 17 days since moving into my new studio.. i will just list what i got.
5 litres of 18% mid grey paint
3 x ikea 4x4 expedit, 1 2x4 expedit and 1 1x5 expedit
2 x ikea Vika Amon table tops
2 x ikea lack tables (legs cut to 10cm as to make 2 unit rack holes)
10sqm of medium density triangle foam for voice over booth
4x basstraps
1x microphone stand
1x popscreen
1x TLA2 Ivory compressor/preamp
18x balanced audio cables ranging from 1.5 to 10m
6 x mono cables, 1 pack of patch cables
1x Doepfer MCV4 midi to cv interface + cables
3 x 6m of carpet installed
6 x multi voltage power adaptors
3m x 1.5m 16mm chipboard (sound booth walls)
1x Door
about 10 packets of different screws, bolts and nails.i havent done a final tally yet.. i have been kind of blindly pushing forward trying to get it finished as quickly as possible so i can resume actually working and not constructing.. but i know its at least 1000 euro.. definitely more..
- my visa card hates me.. and my grant budget had 200 euro allocated for furniture.. so.. yep..autoflavour
- autoflavour0
but i think your question is more a hypothetical one..
so.. if i had $1000 to spend..
definitely this..
- sitting kills you, buy a stand up desk insteadalbums
- <= Thismoogchild
- yupmoldero
- I have this exact same one, True Black Aeron. Ain't that comfy.fyoucher1
- standing up and working is the most retarded thing ever thought of. besides fixies.doesnotexist
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- cannonball19780
What's with you people? A new office chair?
To improve work, I'd spend that $1000 on RELIEF. Vacation or hire an assistant.
- nocomply0
That 27" monitor you mentioned in your first post would be at the top of the list for me right now. The extra screen real estate I'd get over my current 24" model would definitely make me more efficient.
Also, no one pays me to say this but if you do a lot of your own invoicing a http://www.freshbooks.com/ account is worth it's weight in gold.
Also also, I have an Aeron chair that was acquired through circumstances that I'm not at liberty to discuss on an internet forum, but otherwise that would be on my list too.
- dual monitor ftwscarabin
- did you steal the chair from work and call it "trickle-down ergonomics"?scarabin
- bhahah!! No I didn't steal the chair. And dual monitors has always given me a headache.nocomply
- LOL!!mg33
- the circumstances involve furries and craiglist?ernexbcn
- i stress when im down to 2 monitors for whatever reason, couldnt imagine running 1 displaymoldero
- randommail0
a gym membership
- i_monk0
Two fifths of a new Mac.
- ernexbcn0
^
- ********0
Get a bill counter...
- to count nothingmoldero
- after buying this, you can count the other half of the money.********
- Jacque0
A fully stocked bar.
- JG_LB0
some light modifiers
a lens
or definitely a new chair
- Peter0
...and save the rest for rainy days.
- maquito0
Tattoo
Hamburger
Fernet- Like, for a week or something. Just that. Nothing else.maquito
- what is a fernet?
autoflavour - alcohol, a spirit if you willalbums
- vaxorcist0
2 monitors, one pretty good and large, one very small and cheap, to be like the "average office user" to see what they see.... and to keep your email and text files and menu clutter on while your "real work" is on the big monitor. The non-switching of stuff has saved my brain flow train of thought quite a bit....
Then I'd get 2 good prime lenses, probably an 85mm F1.8 and a used 50mm F1.8 .. and a good used SB800 flash and a few reflectors. And spend a LOT of time practicing bounce flash and reflector use with this so you can shoot good environmental portraits, which are often much more about your ability to relax people and balance light than they are about gear, but a prime lens causes you to stop zooming and re-thinking and just focus on what you need sometimes.... practicing with a prime helps you previsualize and it's a fast way to learn how to think photographicaly in my mind. Bounce flash with reflector use can be the difference between shit and good portrait work. Also, if you can't afford the SB800, and you can learn manual flash control, a used cheap sunpak 383 is good...
good luck! That's what I'd do if I was in your situation....
- a used 50mm F1.8 ? I think you meant 1.4 or 1.2, new the 1.8 is like $100albums
- PaulYih0
On some bullshit tickets I got while driving across town....FUCK THE POLICE...thats how i treat'em
- doesnotexist0
vacation, man!
