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- PhanLo3
RIP of the day
JD Twitch, real name Keith McIvor.
The beloved Glaswegian DJ, producer, promoter, label head and one half of celebrated dance music duo Optimo (Espacio) revealed he had been diagnosed with an “untreatable” brain tumour in July of this year.
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- RIP. Always a a fun dj setSquiddy
- fucking hell, 57. RIPkingsteven
- Oh. So this is why a client asked me if I knew of Optimo y'day? :\Nairn
- My mates all went to Pure, the other club him and his mate did, but I think I only went once. Legendary techno nights. Great guestsPhanLo
- RIP legendmrAtor
- utopian7
Artificial Intelligence
AI Slop Be Gone!
- I already posted about this and you downvoted it like a jerk :)grafician
- What imaginary thread did you post it?utopian
- Nobody downvoted a post about Seedream though. Just to be clear.monospaced
- lol just scroll a few posts on this page!
4 downvotes so far :))grafician - You have some serious mental issues and live in an alternative universe. You never posted this video sill little boy. Seek help today!utopian
- Not this shitty video!
This
https://www.qbn.com/…
It's only you who posts shitty videosgrafician - SEEK HELPutopian
- Krassy5
- too bad that's not what a piano looks like. very closesarahfailin
- maquito3
- Endless hours on the toilet.utopian
- pooptopian?PonyBoy
- BlumpkinVilleutopian
- omg make my mouth cum pleezfuturefood
- gotta trycanoe
- Hazelnut double caramel is al#o goodmort_
- Didn't magnum buy Ben and Jerry's but was like pro Israel or something so Ben or Jerry or one of those guys just quitYakuZoku
- ^ Actually the problem was more Unilever owning Magnum owning B&J's.
Means:
Just support your local Gelateria please.Longcopylover - Yes, this is surprisingly good.jagara
- Nutter3
blog
Struggling at work atm. The problem is the growing feeling that my nearest boss seems to dislike all design suggestions I make.
If he asks for feedback on a design it gets disregarded too, even if it turns out months later he comes to the same conclusion. At one point our art director was very adamant that I should be the one doing a specific task and only then did my boss conceded.
Worst part is I don't know why this shift occurred, or how to rectify it. We've worked well together for numerous years, but when I've mentioned it to him and he just said it isn't so, even when I point to numerous examples of it.
Part of me thinks its a sign to start polishing up the old portfolio and start looking for other pastures.
- NBQ007
Apple
Apart from some bad UX design decisions Tahoe is apparently also a resource hog? People on reddit are reporting high usage of GPU/CPU and making the M-SOC's fans spin when previously it was all quiet.
I will probably wait until next year to update or may even skip Tahoe to see if Apple fixes their decisions in a next macOS version.
- I regret updating my M1...Salarrue
- Lot of GPU shit for glass fx is not needed!Gabriel
- I have an M1 and will stay put 3 versions back for nowprophetone
- Apple love a new OS, slow buggy unrefined, and then over the years refine and optimise so it's super solid... Then do it all over again for some reasoninteliboy
- OS updates are the Trojan horses for hardware updates. That old Mac still looking good and running perfectly? Fuck you, here’s OS Glasshole.MrT
- Don’t they usually support updates for like 10 years or something?monospaced
- Quite possibly but what about the 3rd party apps? I've got a 6 yr old MBP, second machine and it's fast becoming a pretty brick. But this is a survey of 1 : )MrT
- 3rd party apps rarely support old hardware as well as Apple does.monospaced
- Horp15
blog
I've started drawing again.
I don't know what I'm doing, except that my experience of being a commercial illustrator for around five years (largely lived out at full volume here on QBN 15 years ago) lead me down a niche little path in terms of a kind of drawing that became the only thing I truly enjoyed doing.
But at that time it constantly vexed and troubled me that stylistically I was not very good. Not graceful, not fluid ... not aesthetically perfect.
At this point in life I am 55-and-a-half. I've learned, finally, that it's time for my career to end, for my sake. I had a couple of tries at retiring from it, but I always ended up agreeing to go back to it; then regretting that.
Now the world has shifted so much that (a) literally nobody anywhere would consider an old, 20th century fuck like me for the new 21st century job descriptions and (b) at no point do I *ever* read a job spec now and think "oh that's exciting I'd love to be doing that".
In fact 100% of job specs instantly make me recoil and shudder and think "Fuck no. I'm no masochist. I do NOT want that to be part of my life 5 days a week."
So I'll dabble in a little freelance research when I could do with a top up, and otherwise, I'm just noodling about doing what I *want* to be doing.
I might take my HGV license test and do some long distance (Britain's version of long distance, hehehe) truck driving too.
But I've returned to my odd, not very appealing, not very attractive drawing style, and I love it. It's not actually even that I love it, it's more that it feels like the natural motor-cerebral thing I'm supposed to do.
I used to do it with pencil, and I started off doing it with pencil again. But there are limitations to pencil. It always looks a bit washed out. It's always just that silvery grey color. The pencil indents the paper so that with heavy working you see the earlier lines as white ghost lines. Pencil is waxy so doing colour washes over it gets muddy and crabby.
I wanted to go back to doing it at a really large scale again. I used to have a 1metre square easel. Just now I'm dabbling up to A2 size while I iron out the cranky uncertainty and retrain myself.
So I'm now doing these things I do in charcoal at A2, and it's kind if working. I mean... it looks shit, but that's okay. Shitness is the road we all have to take if we dream of visiting greatness some day.
I don't know. It just feels like this is what my default activity needs to be. No commercial ambition for it. I just need to make these shapes, and get better at it, and avoid turning it into social content along with 7billion other people who do more interesting things immeasurably better.
I just need to do this, and have no objective but to master it quietly for nobody's evaluation but my own.
- You should do the HGV thing, if only to have another skill you can use, if not 5 days a week.Nairn
- Fuck, pressed submit too early there - "..and you've been going on about getting it for quite a while now! :)"Nairn
- If nothing else, your drawings always had a very specifially-you style, and I suspect human art will be in demand in future, in defiance of the automated.Nairn
- Thanks Nairn. Yeah HGV idea is probably 20yrs in gestation now :)Horp
- And yes... in a way I think this rise in AI has fed into my decision to start drawing again. I've looked at a lot of what AI jas done over the last 2 years, ...Horp
- And thought "well, I was kinda doing this with pencils" and somehow I decided "I enjoyed it, so do what you enjoy, and stop thinking about who/what...Horp
- ... does what out there". I like being retired. I just need to not allow it to convert into destitution over time. So a little freelancing will suffice.Horp
- The 'very specifically you style' is a very apt comment too. I came to realise that the marks we make, regardless of their quirks, are part of who we are.Horp
- So there's something angsty and anxious about striving to draw another way. I've just accepted that this is what I do. It's a signature of my persona somehow.Horp
- Good luck to you, Horp. It's nice to settle. I can't remember ur style, so plz post IG.bezoar
- Thanks Bezoar. There's nothing to post. I shut my studio around 2008 and didn't keep anything. Also though there was the tacky photoshop shit I did for money...Horp
- ... and then the clunky and odd drawings I did that never went anywhere other than on here. Those are long gone too. Hosting expired a long time back.Horp
- And I was a neurotic PITA about it all back then. I have no desire to go back :DHorp
- Understood. Keep on drawing, dude. It's therapeutic at the least, as I'm sure you know. Art trade?bezoar
- HA! oops, sorry "master it quietly..." It's a wake n bake kind of morningbezoar
- great news Horp!
...ffffffound this
https://i.haasie.com…uan - Holy fuck Uan. Where did you find that???
That's my big old easel. Wish I still had that now.Horp - I have returned to drawing in the same way you have.cannonball1978
- found it buried deep in the structure of this machine...Desktop>De... searching for Horp.
dated 12.6.2013uan - Desktop / Desktop-Files / Old-Desktop / firstDesktop / ...
resolution is 1000x665 which was probably high-resuan - getting out of commercial illustration has been the best thing for me to enjoy creating stuff again too. S+bjladams
- Commercial illustration market is brutal now... It kills the pleasure we feel creating. I draw way less than i want/need, busy at design and dev work...OBBTKN
- but I'll get back to it soon!OBBTKN
- bezoar6
QBN Suggestion Box
Would anyone be interested in an art trade of some kind? Handmade 3x3"?
- Yep.webazoot
- 3x3? What is this, an art trade for ants!?
I'm in.palimpsest
- dbloc8
- T R A N S F ( A I ) T T Yprophetone
- <3instrmntl
- Fellow slopper!YakuZoku
- OBBTKN9
Signs your getting old?
SOMA FM, the online radio station I usually listen to every day is turning 25! They're having a party tomorrow, Saturday, in San Francisco.
We're old af.
- Indeed... I've been listening to Groove Salad since the Clinton administration.mxhxr
- That website looks 25 years old!!!
I remember going there and listening a few times back in the day.fooler - soma.fm in the mac radio list - loved itcanoe
- anyone remember "in japan, man comes first, women comes second"Beeswax
- I still use Winamp everyday, And the only playlist I have on it is "Groove Salad", it's my soundtrack every day in the studio!OBBTKN
- i listened to soma fm for years, now once in a while "groove salad".renderedred
- wow - freaking groove salad - 25 yearstimeless
- y'all remember betalounge ?_me_
