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- Corvo20
Never got a new horse but I have a new graphic card.
- _salisae_0
Updating my online folio is just ridiculously difficult. the beauty piece for the paper co. is still on hold so I am still under NDA obligation. the two books I designed and now have in hand are not allowed to be shown digitally – not even as a freaking .pdf. The client is super top secret about it. And the branding project I did for clear was taken from me and while they used the font I drew for it they added another little thing to it – just enough to make it no longer my logo.
So it's months and months of me pushing myself creatively and taking on larger projects that I have to kind of hold for a personal interview to show. It's depressing me. I don't think I can really make any updates until the designs I'm working on currently get produced.
I keep thinking about making a new URL just to show updates but don't want to upset anyone if they found out.
wah.
- Show the blog thread.Jaline
- use a login.moamoa
- there are potential clients in here?_salisae_
- ahhh .. brilliant!_salisae_
- that sucks--how did you get these great projects?********
- how do you phrase the password need without them thinking you're a strange bird?_salisae_
- just put them in a subdirectory and send people links to that********
- i mailed studios and asked if they needed a freelancer for anything._salisae_
- no one will know it's there unless you tell them********
- that was an idea given to me yesterday but i am still worried that somehow someway it will get back to the wrong person._salisae_
- can you imagine being so flush with great work that you farm out great projects like that?********
- what would they do to you?********
- if its a html site the subdirectory isn´t a safe solution. (google knows everything) I do it with a pw that I send to the clients. and its just active for a weekmoamoa
- and after a week it expires...moamoa
- you send a pw to strangers with a work request?_salisae_
- they would potentially not give me anymore work and think poorly about my work ethics._salisae_
- naaa. after I am in contact with them. and then I show them all the boring big company stuff.... which I am normally not allowed to showmoamoa
- to showmoamoa
- it's an expensive option but i could make a mailer for some agencies._salisae_
- as long as its not viewable for the public... everything should be finemoamoa
- how come they won't let you show it?********
- i see. and you just explain that it's private and ask for them to be discrete?_salisae_
- different reasons .. for the beauty book they don't want the idea robbed._salisae_
- the two books (100pgs each) were designed for a very rich family .. i don't even know which family! they're extremely sensitive about their personal stuff._salisae_
- sensitive about their personal information_salisae_
- no I don´t ask them to be discret, when I ask them I am sure they won´t be discret... ;)moamoa
- its mroe like: ehmm btw here you can see more of my projects ..moamoa
- and clear .. i can show that but i'm not super proud of it though it is a large co. i'd rather show the other ideas i had for different name options_salisae_
- different name options they were trying._salisae_
- I don´t want to show every project to the general public.. blabla and so on ;)moamoa
- oh okay .. so just mysterious like. i guess people understand that._salisae_
- gotcha_salisae_
- that really helps .. thanks moamoa!_salisae_
- once the paper piece is "out" can you show it?********
- np ;) I had the same problem. especially with the big co work I am also not proud of ;)moamoa
- it's nice to know there is at least something good about working for small crappy clients********
- yes, i assume they would. but i need all the glory right now!_salisae_
- thanks again, moamoa. i don't feel as entirely worthless and ashamed anymore._salisae_
- yeah when you work for the bigger palyers you are allowed to call them clients but not to show the work..mostlymoamoa
- especially when they wanna buy the exclusive rights....moamoa
- I'm in the same boat... lot's NDAs in my world. Certainly has it downsides. But usually the work is worth it. Usually.NotByHand
- I worked for microsoft... nothing can be worse. now you must feel much much better.moamoa
- :) :) :) ahhhh. i think i'll have a nice tub now._salisae_
- HAHAHAHA... enjoy it.NotByHand
- canuck0
^ that's a lot of notes.
- secret notes_salisae_
- i swear i've been the keeper of more secrets in the past few years than i would ever have imagined._salisae_
- That sounds like quite the burden.canuck
- it is. especially when they're the best things happening to you._salisae_
- Spill ’em!MrOneHundred
- Don’t stress. You are a very good designer, and no one piece will make that any clearer.MrOneHundred
- unburden yourself!********
- thanks mr100! i am hard on myself._salisae_
- NotByHand0
Fact:
I have NEVER had a portfolio - physical or virtual.- Yeah, it’s been a long time for me.MrOneHundred
- how do you get by?_salisae_
- Word of mouth and amazing powers of persuasion. //MrOneHundred
- Corvo20
I would never cliick that horse. It has no 44 comments.
- Jaline0
Did I post in the wrong thread about emu's dvd?
- yes, it does not belong in the Chick of the Day threadlocustsloth
- Bear of the Day maybelocustsloth
- haha , nice tryJaline
- Anyway, I swear I posted it. I just said that I went to the mailbox and got a package that I was sure was THE DVD. Turns out it wasn't.Jaline
- wasn't. But...still something to look forward to.Jaline
- 7point340
sikma and mr100 both have posted very touching stories today, and i thank them both.
i have blogged about mustard sandwiches.
you are all right to hate me.
- Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed it.MrOneHundred
- All part of the rich tapestry.MrOneHundred
- see! i don't even own a tapestry7point34
- YOU are part of the tapestry.MrOneHundred
- oh OH!
*scribbles notes furiously7point34
- _salisae_0
to further fariska and mr100's posts, when a couple of girls and I were driving across the country we got so bored we decided to write jokes on pieces of paper to show the cars next to us. we held one piece to the window for the setup and another for the punch line. no one found us amusing.
- which side of the paper did you show them?7point34
- the one with the words written on it._salisae_
- cool.Jaline
- yeah kind of a flat story, eh?_salisae_
- You were driving and writing at the same time? Actually, since you posted that attitude pic...MrOneHundred
- ...I can easily imagine you doing that.MrOneHundred
- locustsloth0
So the wife and i are sitting in the living room tonight, watching Food Network and playing chess. Our 3 yr old likes to lay at the top of the stairs and kinda peek down into the living room when he doesn't want to go to sleep. We usually ignore it until he makes it more obvious that he's not in bed and then bring him back in bed. his happens about 2 or 3 times at the beginning of bedtime.
Well, tonight he made it very obvious. First he dropped his Clifford stuffed animal down the stairs. Then he dropped himself.
i heard the first tumblings and was in the middle of getting up when he fell down the rest of the way. And in that moment i saw one of those images that just defies logic and physics and at the same time burns into your brain as if daring you to figure out if that's actually what you saw. i swear it looked like he was doing a cartwheel down the last half of the stairs. Arms and legs all fanned out away from his body, tumbling in a near perfect circle for a split second.
He was fine. Bumped his ear a little. No concussion. He cried a bit but it was more from the fear of what just happened and also being scared by my wife's shout when she saw him come down.- stuntbabyPonyBoy
- they generally are indestructable. it's always our reactions that send them into fits of panic7point34
- Wow! As the father of a 3 year old, that scares the shit out of me. It’s the 1 thing I haven’t learned to deal with.MrOneHundred
- luckily we have no stairs. (1 floor condo)7point34
- enroll that boy into gymnastics immediately!_salisae_
- my boy chocked on a dime coin at 3 scary, always gotta keep an eye on the, , now 9BattleAxe
- seems like just yesterdayBattleAxe
- Kids seem to feed off of parents being worried about them.Jaline
- 7point340
i have never had a portfolio. or at least never a proper one.
they have always been flash and gaudy and never used to actually get me a job anywhere as i don't have much respectable work.
i am in the process of designing a legit web portfolio and it's driving me nuts. i think i am over thinking it. so worried that it's going to turn out shit.
- megE0
Corvo: This is totally delayed I know. But I don't like camping - and I live in a beautiful camping area. I have a problem with the packing up everything to go out in to the wilderness, then spending forever trying to get a fire started, setting up your sleeping quarters for the night, sleeping on a hard surface - being lucky if you sleep well, get up with the sun, smell like bonfire, repack everything in the car, drive back home and sleep all day because you slept like poo the night before...
- MrOneHundred0
Well my Friday turned to shit in a big hurry. Hope my weekend gets better. Goodnight QBNers. I’ll be back!
- BattleAxe0
"We passed upon the stairs,
We spoke of was and when
Although I wasnt there
He said I was his friend
Which came as a surprise
I spoke into his eyes -- I thought you died alone
A long long time agoOh no, not me,
We never lost control,
Youre face to face,
With the man who sold the worldI laughed and shook his hand,
I made my way back home,
I searched for form and land,
Years and years I roamed,
I gazed a gazely stare,
We walked a million hills -- I must have died alone,
A long long time ago.Who knows, not me,
I never lost control,
Youre face, to face,
With the man who sold the world."- just heard this this morning on the way to work... odd coincidence.7point34
- ********0
good morning
- emukid0
i will not be back
- until at least the morningemukid
- but probably until the afternoonemukid
- okay i am backemukid
- Me too.MrOneHundred
- Horp0
QBN Camping conference, Summer '09
Peasatdawn, Portugalia.Who's in?
- i'm always inemukid
- In my mind I'm already there digging the poo trench.MrOneHundred
- ********0
a shower can be so nice.
- I just had a relaxing bath. I am not going to the studio today. I have had a hard week. Unless a client demands it of course.Horp
- some nicer than others.
*ahemMrOneHundred - EC: Golden!Fariska
- ah a bath, I didn't had one for ages. atleast a year.********
- There it is! @ fariska.MrOneHundred
- ian0
morning all. Its Friday and this thought cheers me up. Tonight Im going to watch a friend of mine playing a gig and tomorrow morning Im babysitting my niece who is seven months old. I feel that tomorrow morning I'll have the same mental capacity and motor skills as her. But there will be bacon!
For me, not her, that would just be reckless.
- Fariska0
This is going to be a very tough day which will fill me up with sorrow and despair. So ignore my negative posts, rants and whatever bitter comes out from my finger.
Right now i'd just like to kill who planned this impossible schedule.
How the fuck are you supposed to go live when 80% of the data is missing and you want updatable dynamic blablabla. But, you know, the client doesn't care.
- ian0
Fariska, you need some uplifting, inspirational music. I give you, shaft!