For a better tomorrow.
For a better tomorrow.
- yuekit3
Russia-Ukraine Invasion
Photojournalist went into the forest to retrieve his drone containing pictures and never came back...Reporters Without Borders concludes he was executed, possibly tortured by Russians.
- utopian3
- So fascinating. And not a single one of ‘em tied off._niko
- working from home to a whole new level.shapesalad
- Krassy7
News of the day...
International Space Station smells awful because astronauts fart more in space
- If they save up their farts until they're almost in tears from the pressure, can they have fart-propelled races from one end of the ISS to the other?Continuity
- yesKrassy
- It’s impractical and useless if not impossible for man to space travel, the real life starship enterprise will consist of ai and robots only._niko
- @_niko very likelygrafician
- same as submarinesneverscared
- so stupid just open a windowprophetone
- It’s 2022 nasa! Can’t you couple their asses with personal vacuums?futurefood
- NBQ00-3
blog
Stop fighting, we’re all one. We’re all from the same matter of the universe. From the same cosmic source.
- Yeah, true. It's been very messy here lately...OBBTKN
- What did mono do this time?palimpsest
- imbecile is monospaced's hardcore version
look at their fury unleashed against republicans and religion...and megrafician - sorry but in no way I will make peace to some grown up idiots with the emotional control of small pitbullsgrafician
- You project so hard, I feel sorry for you. Strange how you think it’s okay to attack others but when you’re on the receiving end, you don’t understand why?imbecile
- If you support the Republican Party and the child crimes committed by the church, you’re the same level of evil they are. Don’t wonder why no one likes you.imbecile
- You’re literally a worthless piece of shitimbecile
- stfu, seriouslymonospaced
- you talk so much shit and act like you’re a victim, like a deluded child who can’t see that he’s being a cunt pretty much all the timemonospaced
- For the record I didn’t do anything. This little bitch just keeps talking about me. Leave me out of your tantrum nobody likes you.monospaced
- I’m busy with my family and you literally know nothing about me except what your dumbass imagination can come up with.monospaced
- I rage over religion and conservatives because they are the core of the problem affecting lives here. Not yours btw so fuck off.monospaced
- https://i.imgur.com/…imbecile
- P.S. you can't even take your own advice... https://www.qbn.com/… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯imbecile
- Lol palimpsestGnash
- God job that Ukanian shits over with so we can all go back to hating monospaced.Khurram
- the ones just likes eating ass are from black holes.sted
- lol look at both imbecile and monospaced replies - you can't even distinguish when one ends and the other begins! :))) they're like the same person somehowgrafician
- @monospaced I actually post real stuff and don't get in fights with the rest of the NORMAL people around here, unlike you imbecile!grafician
- you two idiots hate and fight with at least half dozen users around here
Maybe YOU'RE THE PROBLEMS think about that and stop boring usgrafician - typical American pitbulls in heat, always looking for a fightgrafician
- there are a dozens of posts showing and recording unnecessary hatred carried out by a user called grafician.
yeah it's time to shut the fuck up.sted - well how about you tell them to shut the fuck up then :)
I'm coolgrafician - i downvoted this postpango
- oh shiet notes are going again.
https://c.tenor.com/…pango - nah graf, maybe you're just an abrasive, assumptive, histrionic, know-it-all prick who - as already pointed out - projects like a daughterfucker.Nairn
- ^ That just about sums it up.Continuity
- 'Daughterfucker' might've been an unnecessary stretch - I found myself channeling the idea of Trumpian perversion after 'projects'.Nairn
- still calling people idiots like a fucking asshole i see. Just because you’re hated doesn’t mean people are unintelligent. But please be the cunt you are.monospaced
- You seem baffled by your downvotes. You can’t seem to comprehend why it’s happening and your inability to self reflect leads you to silly and wrong conclusions.monospaced
- And if you insist it’s because people are stupid then it will never end. And before you go all fucktard, it’s not me downvtoving.monospaced
- lol exactly posts like these makes me call you an idiot monospaced - YOU don't seem to get things.grafician
- Also @Nairn: chill, your passive aggressive attitude has nothing to do with me, drink some water my friendgrafician
- @Nairn Not to mention who tf takes you seriously after stories like these: https://qbn.com/repl…grafician
- huh, and there's me thinking I was just being aggressive.Nairn
- The 10 people who responded?
It's called humility or perhaps self-depracation. I know that's an entirely alien concept to your ego.Nairn - *deprecation. Your snide totally not passive aggressive remark about my other blog comment recently also completely missed the point of that entire thread.Nairn
- But, obviously, it's not you here who Doesn't Get It. It's ok. We get you. It's pretty easy to.Nairn
- Kudos on managing to get Sted, Monospaced, imbecile and myself all on the same side against you... that's almost noteworthy.Nairn
- Who takes Nairn seriously? We all do. He's a far more respected member of QBN than you will ever be grafician, and that's a fact.Continuity
- Go eat a bag of deep-fried dicks, you patronising know-it-all.Continuity
- Fucking insufferable bore.Continuity
- made out of the same cosmic source but running on a different balance for intelligence and empathy..... this is were it gets differential.neverscared
- Right, remind me why I come here again
definetly not for the boring cooking stories and decades old users stuck in mental loops...grafician - Yes, please, *do* remind us why you keep turning up here. It's a mystery to us all.Continuity
- Yes this is the mental stuck loop you "project" for sure - a crappy decades old forum full of crappy decades old users
No wonder this place never grows [up]grafician - @continuity I was here before you...grafician
- but I keep turning up to see what other interesting stuff the rest of the fucking community posts - except probably the haters in this discussiongrafician
- but sure, project in continuity your white male alpha Axe sprayed egos around boys, does wonders for this communitygrafician
- FLOL
'I was here before you'
That's all you've got? Oh, dear.Continuity - but let's just get along
Just don't get in my way and I'll stay away from you cunts?
Fair?grafician - The only person getting in your way here is you, grafician.Nairn
- Nairn I was actually done with this, but sure, keep at it if you need to vent
II'm out for beers
Cheeriografician - last word.Nairn
- some people have to be right (even if they know they're wrong) there are a lot of threads that represent what QBN is, grafician is nowhere to be found in those.imbecile
- that's all anyone really needs to know. love you mono, nairn, continuity, neverscared, and stedimbecile
- babydick_4
- "They could be running away for reasons other than having committed a crime" yeah like just trying to get their steps in!_niko
- I don’t see how this can work. It’ll be like uncle Ben x 1000. Sorry not my problem, can’t chase him. Then dude goes and kills some kids._niko
- https://youtu.be/k5M…Gnash
- that's some straight up batman tech right there, gnash (would be cool if that sort of stuff caught on)PonyBoy
- that will never catch on. not enough murder.imbecile
- idles3
- TRE45ONutopian
- The bloat needs to be tarred and feathered and walked strapped to a log down 5th St.dasohr
- what a fucking cry babyfooler
- It was a perfect phone call.utopian
- dumpsterfire.dasohr
- Call me when he ever is held accountable for anything. He's a lifer when it comes to being a slippery sack of unarrestable pig lube.garbage
- SimonFFM7
blog
My wardrobe is not cocktail party ready.
- "discuss"NBQ00
- Mines is definitely not. Lockdown has seen a few extra inches put on around the waist. Work recently had a party at a posh location, everyone in kilts, suitsmicrokorg
- and cocktail dresses. I had to buy a pair of black trousers from a supermarket clothes dept (cos its what dads do) a few inches larger than the past.microkorg
- A lot of my shirts were now unwearable as too tight around the middle. One was suitable tho.microkorg
- Shoes are my main concern. I hate shiny leather shoes but they are demanded for the event.SimonFFM
- Shopping for formal shoes is the biggest pain in the arse there is. I fucking hate it, they all look cunty.Continuity
- And then there's wearing the fuckers. Blisters. Achilles tendon blisters. Big bloody raw ones.
Fuck that shit, Simon, wear a pair of Chucks.Continuity - Black t-shirt, black jeans, and a pair of black sneakers, and you're done! God' sake, you're an artist, fuck the dress code ;)OBBTKN
- Shoes is the easy part. Just get something simple from Johnston & Murphy or similar. Maybe a nice leather loafer.monospaced
- Don’t wear sneakers. Anyone wwaribn sneakers at cocktail attire is clueless and classless, and frankly comes off as a childish joke.monospaced
- And whatever you do don’t wear jeans and a black T-shirt. You’ve got some silly and very ignorant advice here from people who clearly don’t go out as adults.monospaced
- "go out as adults" - LOL what conformist Kool-Aid have you been drinking?mort_
- Hahaha Mono!!OBBTKN
- wear an ironman costume...neverscared
- wow, mocking someone for dressing appropriately, really coolmonospaced
- He said dress shoes and cocktail attire is required for the event. And jeans with a black t-shirt and sneakers is the most conformist bullshit imaginable.monospaced
- That is, if you're conforming with someone who cannot or will not dress appropriately and wants to be viewed as a childish artist.monospaced
- But yeah, I drank the kool-aid. LOL.monospaced
- fuck you all. i love a decent pair of leather lace up shoes. once worn in they're as comfortable as any shoe. and they'll go with any dress code.hans_glib
- including beachwearhans_glib
- https://www.toptrend… see? these guys do not look stupidhans_glib
- muchhans_glib
- Mono you sound like my dad. He's 80.mort_
- Nice pair of stylish boots looks good and feels good.MHDC
- At least your dad can go to a cocktail party dressed appropriately which clearly you can’t be arsed to do and would rather dress like a conformist hipster douchmonospaced
- My father is in his 70s and dresses like a goddamn classy old dude any man would aspire to match.monospaced
- I ordered leather shoes online as in the shop they didn't have them in my size. So, I'll be good. Bought a new suit as well. Finding a matching tie was easy.SimonFFM
- @continuity If you're still in Munich and would like to meet for a coffee before I catch my train home, let me know.SimonFFM
- Damn! When are you in town?Continuity
- And will you be transferring at Hbf or Obf?
(Or Pasing?)Continuity - Could you email me? Easier than through this public section.SimonFFM
- Ah, I don't have your address. Stand by for a LinkedIn DM ...Continuity
- Ah found your email. Stand by. I'm wrestling with my server.Continuity
- neverscared4
Cryptocurrency
QAnon influencers are now reportedly defrauding their followers via cryptocurrency scams
Weaponizing conspiracy theories for cold, hard cash.
You may not have heard very much about QAnon in recent months, but believers in the right-wing conspiracy theory are very much still around.
And those believers are proving to be easy-to-dupe marks for influential QAnon promoters looking to make money.
Two QAnon influencers are using their cachet within their conspiratorial communities to prey on their followers and bilk them out of millions of dollars via cryptocurrency scams, according to a new report by the tech-based fact-checking firm Logically.
Using their large followings on Telegram, QAnon influencers Whiplash347 and PatriotQakes have promoted numerous fraudulent tokens to their followers on the messaging platform. The two, along with other leaders in the chats, frequently weaponize QAnon conspiracy theories in order to sucker their fans into investing in their various cryptocurrency schemes.
- good. no different than religious conmen like televangelists. they prey on the same people. poor (mostly white) republican_niko
- Fax_Benson9
East Clintwood
Silly Bummers
- microkorg5
NFTs
Attik & KnownOrigin
Launch is in NYC tommorrow.https://knownorigin.io/collectio…
Old skool designers will recognise these pages from Noise!
- utopian8
- weird looking dog....pango
- that's a flat catsted
- “There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...Wordsworth
- — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”Wordsworth
- another day in the officeneverscared
- Lol @stedOBBTKN
- bonkscarabin
- microkorg3
- eBay betting against Gates.microkorg
- there is so much shitwork on knowing origin..it makes sense to go to ebay.neverscared
- Wordsworth1
The Useful Thread
How can I photograph hard shadows on metal objects using a bare strobe, without clipping any spots on the said object?
If I move the light away to avoid hot spots, then the shadows appear too far apart and look weak or inconsistent, because of distance and angle.
And if I bounce the light or diffuse the strobe with a white plastic cover on naked bulb, an umbrella or soft box, then no more hard shadows.
I'm curious to learn this to photograph silver flatware, cutlery and glass objects.
Or the easy answer is to keep experimenting.
Samples,
- Oh, snoot and grid?Wordsworth
- You need a small light sourcegrafician
- Maybe this tutorial helps: https://www.youtube.…grafician
- I've seen this and forgot about it, I think its what I want, thanks graf!Wordsworth
- One of my clients have been demanding this a lot lately as influencers (non photographers) shoot with just 1 light setups with no modifiers. Followerstoemaas
- To do it on the cheap, just use direct sunlight and an iPhone...grafician
- hair light or fill light. matelic objects can pick up light super easy without filling the shadow at all.pango
- both pens in photo picked up the light bounced from the white surface. and you can still see the shadow.pango
- thanks pango, i'll give that a try.Wordsworth
- if the pen is too reflective. your hardest problem will be blocking out your reflection. or the room.pango
