For a better tomorrow.
For a better tomorrow.
- BaskerviIle3
Sacramento Mardi Gras (feedback requested)
Just read through this thread from page 1. Kind of surprised where this ended up.
I'd encourage you to list out the elements on your poster and rank them in order of hierarchy/importance.
I feel like the date/location is pretty recessive here and the illustration far too dominant.Currently your hierarchy looks like:
1. Illustration
2. Title
3. A Sacramento mardi gras event
4. Date
5. Location
Is that what you think is right?Have a look at some other event posters for reference. What do they have in common that works well?
ps, I see that Curiosity Collaborative logo ;)
6. Partner logos- Tell me to eff off, but I did a couple of quick experiments. Might be worth exploring some more 'mardi gras' fonts:
https://imgur.com/a/…BaskerviIle - idk what best practice is, but I like how explosive and eye-grabbing this design is. it builds interest, and folks will look for the details.sarahfailin
- I did consider more Mardi Gras fonts, but I like that this is unorthodox. Not your mama's Mardi Grassarahfailin
- Go for it!BaskerviIle
- those top 2 two fonts are nice baskacherub
- styles for miles, nice work!aliastime
- Tell me to eff off, but I did a couple of quick experiments. Might be worth exploring some more 'mardi gras' fonts:
- shapesalad7
Cryptocurrency
From a reddit post.
"On may 24th CEO of one of the largest bank in the world - HSBC publicly said that crypto lacks transparency and later it's UK branch started to block payments to Binance. Yesterday same British HSBC branch has been fined £63.9m by the UK's financial regulator for money laundering!"
- So the take away here is that transparency works?Nairn
- HSBC the same bank that were cool laundering cartel money? LolPhanLo
- the fincen filessted
- The crypto industry has racked up $2.5 billion in fines since bitcoin was launched... so who is the better crook ?! one more in the game with crypto then.neverscared
- and its just starting to get regulated.. phew .. there is shit to come for the cryptobrosneverscared
- https://markets.busi…neverscared
- I wonder if those are the paid or the issued fines?sted
- I know cunts in HSBC big in to cryptokingsteven
- Oh the transparencyAQUTE
- Miesfan2
- strip n cliputopian
- beavers hate him_niko
- https://www.biograph…Krassy
- Akagiyama5
- I watched this again the other day - https://www.youtube.… and what struck me was how obvious ...Nairn
- .. human-induced climate change must be. Eachone of those lights needs to be generated, as too the infrastructure around it. Now look at how ...Nairn
- ...fucking thin the atmosphere is, and how constant, 247/365 for a 100+ years with billions of people and .. duh. Fucking duh.Nairn
- Nngh.. "Each one of those lights needs to have its power generated". Mostly by hydrocarbons of some sort.Nairn
- In't it just a really long LED rope along the border?PhanLo
- they set the border on fire every night, its a traditionsted
- @PhanLo nah https://greentechlea…
@Nairn isn't it powered?sted - lol where did the solar went? :D
I'm reading that the lights and the electric fence is powered with solar plants in Jaisalmer.sted - Must be nice to be that brainwashed.Hayoth
- PhanLo3
- https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- Mustaches and those gay tennis shorts is this the 80s?GuyFawkes
- Mexico 86. Chelsea fan punches reporter.PhanLo
- what a great pic_niko
- Beautiful.Nairn
- This needs a photoshop battle.Akagiyama
- I could see the reporter cutout working well.PhanLo
- https://editorial01.…Hayzilla
- raveKrassy
- mort_5
- lolBluejam
- Strange nameomahadesigns
- lol I had to look this place up, and I would legit go there. They have two locations on the strip across the water from Kennedy Space Center..garbage
- ..have all-you-can-eat parking lot launch parties, and kids eat free. Oh and constant marquees about their dead owner, Chris.garbage
- guess it takes a while for a position to open upaliastime
- omahadesigns0
blog
Lol, was doing a zoom meeting with a new client and the designer introduced herself and listed her pronouns. She was she/her and looked like a 20 something girl.
- This is commonplace and has been for a couple years, at least in nyc. It’s you who is out of touch.nb
- Yeah a new social media whatever joined our dept last week and kept announcing "her" pronouns, and thankfully nobody else did after.i_monk
- Trans for suremonospaced
- why do they list it twice? Is it possible to be she/him?hotroddy
- she/his?hotroddy
- fuck/youbabydick
- @Hotroddy: some people use she/their, he/them, etc but I don’t exactly know whynb
- And doing the “he/him” thing saves time explaining. If you just were like “I’m Jim from Detroit, he, a designer” it would be hard for people to catch it.nb
- I feel old and out of touch as well.hotroddy
- neverscared1
News of the day...
Scientists watch giant ‘doomsday’ glacier in Antarctica with concern
Cracks and fissures stoke fears of breakup that could lead to half-metre rise in global sea levels – or more
- the drop is coming, and its not an nft.neverscared
- "neverscared"sarahfailin
- Maybe they shouldn’t have printed it red, thenGnash
- lol@dropsted
- There's been warnings of rising sea levels for decades. Anyone who's bought property this close to the sea in this time knew the risk ;)microkorg
- I live at 7k ft. elevation. Feeling pretty good about that choice now.mathinc
- shapesalad5
Side Hustle
I had an idea for a side hustle the weekend after I amicably left a job back in May.
7 months of weekends and evenings chipping away at it. Learning lots of new things. Late nights workings and feeling super tired after a days work.... a few helpful answers from QBN... after launching a few weeks ago - today I made my first sale.
- What is it? Sorry if I missed a post somewhere else, but congrats anyway!_niko
- Revealing it would give away my identity. But suffice to say you can’t do it if all you do after work is watch Netflix.shapesalad
- Congrats... but watching Netflix is how I unwind from a day of stomping out endless fires in my tediously bland job that helps keep a roof over my head.jonny_quest_lives
- Was it a physical IRL sale or online sale? Does ur job involve computer code?? Give us a hint!cherub
- Onlyfans?nb
- its an online store selling original designed prints. niche theme and sector.shapesalad
- @jonny_quest_lives I get it, I used to be the same.. but wasn't seeing any progress in my life so tried to cut the passive unwinding and turn it into...shapesalad
- ...active unwinding doing something that hopefully will get me out of the day job sooner.shapesalad
- Congrats! May you have many more Netflix free evenings working for yourself! Nothing better than having someone give you money for your idea.lemmy_k
- Congrats manGuyFawkes
- That's cool shapesalad. I have a friend who sells custom wallpaper and prints on etsy. It's a good hustle for him.cherub
- https://www.etsy.com…cherub
- Awesome! Post some maybe...?formed
- if anyone's interested in shapesalad's secret identity, here he is: https://i.imgur.com/…_niko
- heheshapesalad
- good stuff. here's to more sales.Brabo_Brabo
- careful, don't make too much money or you might find yourself with leisure timescarabin
- scarabin6
confessions
I don’t understand the vietnam war, at all. Best i can figure is we were murdering innocent people en masse because it’s possible that some day they may become communists? And that really bothered us because boomers are obsessed with communists for some fucking reason?
And then they became communists anyway and the world never ended so what was the fucking point?
- No wonder rambo was so butthurt all the time. Shit was stupidscarabin
- Yeah, that's it in a nutshell. After the French Indochina War / and the partitioning of Vietnam we first tried to destabilize the South Vietnamese government..garbage
- ..after half-assed aid attempts failed. Then we went full Wandering Soul and Gulf of Tonkin.garbage
- #Winningutopian
- If you haven't read about it, it's really fucked. We captured vietcong and recorded them making spooky ghost sounds telling them to go home.garbage
- Blasted them from boats, helicopters, hidden speakers in the woods.garbage
- And then did some actual false flag shit by faking an attack on a US destroyer, which set everything to 11.garbage
- So yeah, no wonder Rambo was fucked up lolgarbage
- Oh and one of the ghost scripts in our psy ops was Vietnamese folk ghost, name translates to "the tightening knot", that encourages people to kill themselves.garbage
- amazing. i would never think of the the ghost sounds thingscarabin
- McNamara and the US thought they were fighting communism but the Vietnamese were fighting for their freedom. USA leadership = idiotsnb
- i'm watching this doc from the vietnamese perspective about their tunnels. fascinating but truly sad stuff https://youtu.be/19e…scarabin
- @scara Great link, will watch. Can't imagine being a person in the tunnels and hearing a voice be all "Hey this is your dad, I just died, come home and bury me"garbage
- @nb I could be wrong, but I think top brass knew there was no hope for a capitalistic revolution from the locals..garbage
- ..but it was a lie fed to the troops and PR against anti-war sentiment back home. McNamara was a lot of things, but stupid wasn't one.garbage
- I think in some ways it was similar to what happened in Korea and China, all these countries were destabilized by WW2 and afterwards you had communist andyuekit
- capitalist sides battling for control. This was during the heyday of communism so it seemed like an existential threat from the Americans' point of viewyuekit
- to watch country after country get taken over by communists. Little did they know the communists would someday be manufacturing Nike sneakers and Airpods.yuekit
- It's not an exaggeration to say that the US and China both saw what the Axis powers almost accomplished, both saw the world was potentially conquerable..garbage
- ..and immediately started long-term plans for getting a foothold in every power vacuum in the region.garbage
- Right, and it worked lol...and here we are todayyuekit
- From the Vietnamese perspective however, I think they view it as a long series of conflicts that led to their independence. First against the French, thenyuekit
- the Japanese, then USA, then afterwards Vietnam invaded Cambodia and China tried to invade Vietnam.yuekit
- It seems like most Americans only know about the part we fought in, which Vietnam calls "the American War."yuekit
- My public school had like a single paragraph about itscarabin
- I think we're about the same age (mid-30s) and my public school actually taught that we won the war in Vietnam.garbage
- wait till you learn about the US involvement in Afghanistan.jonny_quest_lives
- and because they aren't white. Somehow we're always more comfortable bombing not-white people.sarahfailin
- There is this recent documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that goes into details https://www.youtube.…uan
- I learned about the Ken Burns effect from scarabin years ago on qbn...that's why I bothered to watch that doc. what I remember: shows both side in detail...uan
- you'll need to find the episodes on youtube or elsewhere to watch. it's 18 hours in total. "The Vietnam War (2017) - A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick"uan
- my high-school history teacher called it the first war based on purely propaganda.sted
- I’ll check it out, uanscarabin
- On a fundamental level, it was a sectarian civil war. The US didnt invade, it was invited.Brabo_Brabo
- Baby boomers were being sent there or smart enough to leave the country. It was the older generation that gave us the red scare.CyBrainX
- on a positive note, we got some of the best songs of the rock era_niko
- growing up as a kid, my family worked with and employed hundreds of Vietnamese refugees, these are the hardest working industrious and clever fucks I've ever me_niko
- ...met. America never stood a chance lol_niko
- Lots of those Viets would be on our side... they had to flee after the South was over run.Brabo_Brabo
- The irony is, Vietnam today is very pro capitalism while many Americans no longer believe in free markets.yuekit
- https://qz.com/39473…yuekit
- TheGreatGlorpo0
blog
Rooted-in-reality hypothetical for the QBN fam:
If you were told that you were on track for a promotion within 90 days in September, and 90 days has come and gone, and it is December 17th, and the company end of year meeting came and went where promotions were announced (but not yours), how fast would you be looking for another job?
1. Immediately, or,
2. Within the week after the disappointment has subsided and morphed into determination.In this hypothetical, the person in question is extremely disappointed to see an almost immediate need to leave a company they love, and is unsure who to raise the issue to, out of fear that it’s possible their boss never told anyone else about the pending promotion.
Thoughts?
- Wait until after Christmas break, if they somehow accidentally on purpose forgot to give out promotion...then move on.utopian
- or speak up... don't be such a pussy and go have a professional conversation w/the person(s) buttering your ears back in september :)PonyBoy
- Act like you got the promotion, tell everybody, the boss will be pressured to do the right thing - if they "forgot"grafician
- Start looking. Put feelers out. Then ask why circumstances changed, why the promotion never occurred. I’d be asking why to whoever said it was on track... and..thumb_screws
- ...and then to whoever they report into. Ideally without the 2 having a chance to confer. Just be honest. If they don’t return the honesty something is up.thumb_screws
- Hypothetical Good luck working through it.thumb_screws
- Promotions are overrated. Ask for pay rise and a reduction in responsibilities.shapesalad
- I like Grafician's answer, just show up to the board meeting for the company heads like Costanza._niko
- Always be looking. Always keep your folio up to date. In reality if you want a promotion or a pay rise, by far the best way to achieve it is a new job.BaskerviIle
- Be demanding and call it out. Hint that you've been approached by another company. If they really value you, they'll get things moving pretty swiftly.BaskerviIle
- Always remember: you owe a company nothing more than what you are hired for. Any company would let you go if need be, you should be the same way about them.BaskerviIle
- Ask them what happened and ask if that's a sign you should be looking elsewhere. That will get you an answer an get them thinking of what it'll take to keep youi_monk
- Not sure why you need a week to build up determination. You should start looking now and also bring it up with your boss. Don’t tell them you’re looking.nb
- Make it matter of fact, not “but you promised.” Discuss how you deserve the promotion and put it on your boss to explain.nb
- The trick is to plan how to discuss this without making statements... instead, you should try to ONLY ask questions. Puts you in the driver seat.nb
- In the meantime, spend your free time every day and about 1/4 to 1/3rd of your work day on portfolio, prep and applying then interviewing.nb
