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three blackhawks, going north, upriver
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It's 17:21 and already it's dark :(
- dude, where you bee?!?! It's 2008, yolocustsloth
- sorry, that was foolishlocustsloth
- whee HAVE you been?Jaline
- *whereJaline
- Ah, took time out for maximum productivity. Achieved nothing so came back!creative-
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We're having our week long partners thing with most of our associates around the globe actually physically being here. Never really been a big fan to be honest, seems like an egregious waste of money.
Obama is in town as well, so I'm sure they did not plan appropriately for shuttles/routes and the like, but that's not my problem as I'm driving - getting a few drinks and making sure people notice me - then ducking out to go see him speak.
Unfortunately I cannot pull this again on Wednesday when we have another late afternoon/ evening event. But since I'm playing hookey for a bit earlier that day to go watch Arsenal play at the pub, I'm sure I won't mind the mandatory attendance.
- hallelujah0
My temperature's rising, my fingers are tingling
They're starting to shake
I look in the mirror and everything's funny
I think I'm a fake
And why did I do it, how could I say that
I wanna come down?
Everything's swirling and I just forgot
Why I came to this town
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"We know all the things that belong to Troy"
- SkyPoo0
Long Post Apology: I apologise.
What I hate about work sometimes is that occasionally you work with someone who's mission in life is to be super-nice, and at first that seems refreshing.
But then, the concept or aesthetics of what originally could have been a great piece of work inevitably gets driven way off track by the client in various team "development meetings" that you are not privvy to. The original potential gets shaken to pieces on the wastelands of weekly design-by-commitee meetings.
Supernice tells you how terribly sorry he/she is and that in spite of the changes it will still, he/she believes, be an award winning piece of work. "Award Winning"... yeah, sure.
Meeting by meeting, it gets systematically reconfigured to the point that it is something you would laugh out loud at were you to see in someone's portfolio. It is in no way even remotely like what you would have done given the ability to protect it until it crossed the finishing line, and you've long ago resigned yourself to merely rendering up a pencil sketch done by the client's head of finance.
But Supernice still says things like "Everyone thinks this is amazing" and "If we can just get this last round of tweaks done to keep them happy I think we'll be able to save this from the jaws of disaster" and really I just want to explain to him/her that whilst I intend to remain professional in my engagement on this project, right to the very end, there is no way, on this earth, that I can contribute to the delusion that this is in anyway a piece of work I can care tuppence for on a creative/artistic level.
It is effectively their design now and I am going to deliver it with consumate professionalism. So Supernice... if you're out there reading this... please, please please spare me the strange hackling sensation that bristles the back of my neck everytime you allude to how creatively important this artwork is to me. It is not. This is not because I am disillusioned or aggravated by the situation, nor is it because I have lost interest. Its just my professional view that its not worth pretending we're trying to give birth to a faberge egg when we're actually trying to push out a stubborn stool, ye ken?
This is the artwork equivalent of asking the captain of a ship to parallel park your citroen hatchback for you, and then excitedly telling him what a tremendous job he's doing and how great this bit of parking is going to look on his CV.
For goodness sake, stop now.
- I've always thought Supernice has a nice clunt, myself.killthefish
- so did you want me to park your car or not?7point34
- right there with you, pally.MrOneHundred
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- ninjasavant0
Owning a home is apparently a lot like being an AARP member. You're broke, you get a ton of junk mail and telemarketing, and you spend most of your weekends in dirty clothes shuffling about turning off lights and poking at little projects you've got going everywhere.
- Buyer’s remorse? I went through this a little while ago, but you soon get into the spirit of it.MrOneHundred
- elpaso0
shit shit shit my toast.. came on QBN.. left it going.. probably burnt by now
- elpaso0
why did i type that insead of going to check it??
- canuck0
GO MCCAIN!
- Go where, precisely?MrOneHundred
- plz keep him in the us!uan
- FTW!canuck
- YEA GO BACK TO 1921 WHERE YOU CAME FROMGreedo
- MrOneHundred0
In response to 7point’s earlier post, I really feel for you, friend. IMHO if you put the boy’s needs first, you will never “lose”. I put this sentiment in a note a few pages back, but no-one ever reads those things. Hang in there, brother.
- Jaline0
I'm almost done my sound project. I was at school from 3:00 - 7:30 PM just working on it, non-stop (I don't like taking any breaks in the middle of a project). It's almost done! I have to do a photography project tomorrow morning, filming for a shoot on Wednesday, and then I have to finish up any leftover sound work I may have. Then I have work, and then Flash, and then more work. And then it's the weekend, yaaay!
- Of course you are going to let your fellow QBNers critique it before you hand it in.MrOneHundred
- Tru dat.boobs
- I don't know.....Jaline
- maybe...Jaline
- Ah, come on!!MrOneHundred
- boobs0
My daughter is pretending she's a hobo for halloween. In a Wonder Woman outfit. "Super Hobo."
- locustsloth0
Dinky's been gone for a month. Has he reincarnated and i missed it?
- Hey, yeah. I didn’t notice. Sorry if you are still here, Mr D.MrOneHundred
- His inane threads were far more entertaining than Llyodslocustsloth
- he's probably hiding from his wildly successful fffound swapshop threadGreedo
- Jaline0
I want to punch the faces of most of the people in this thread:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/570599…- Good thing I never act out on my real life feelings! :E
;)Jaline - To be honest, a lot of users are pissing me off now.Jaline
- "users" = mostly trollsJaline
- me? you aren’t here much anymore. I think emu was the QBN glue.MrOneHundred
- What? I don't mean regular members, for the most par.tJaline
- face punchkillthefish
- fuck, I did call her a shiteater in that thread... was that offensive?hallelujah
- Good thing I never act out on my real life feelings! :E
- omgitsacamera0
my confidence and self-esteem tend to go deep down the shithole somedays.
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i haven't read the blog in ages. which makes it a shame that i could only choose pages 1 to 7 or 1411 or 1412. anyway...