[User] Horp

post:
 Bouncing off Jagara's thoughts about ai and commercial illustration in a previous post below...

I think it's already over. It's already killed that industry. It's tangential but feels relevant to say that I've fairly recently got to know somebody with *absolutely zero* experiemce in art, illustration, creative industries (literally not from any relatable world to image making) but she now uses ai to prompt up artwork that she sells as drop shipped items via Etsy and many ither places.

She's gone from knowing nothing at all but being curious, to creating ranges of prints, clothing brands, homeware brands, soft furnishing brands, and setting up online retail, retaining a team of helpers around the world to do her marketing, her social media, and to create websites with all the shopper stuff to order and pay.

She's been doing it for just two years as a side hustle but is now looking to quit her job to focus on it full time.

Everything is copyright free, and she doesn't need to know how to create any of the images. She just picks a theme, describes the vibe, and then chooses what she wants to add to her retail points.

I can look at it all and be sniffy, saying she isn't the actual artist, but that's pointless at this point now. After her day of work, with almost zero effort, she can generate 30 artworks and have them shown on product and available to order in a matter of a few hours.

To create just 1 artwork would take me 1 day, and it might not be any good, and people might not like it, and they might say "can that part be red and could that say something else?" and I'd have to it all again to comply.

This new situation re-separates art from commerce once more; a distinction blurred when Pear's Soap first commissioned an artist to paint them a portrait for use as an advertisement.

Now there is commercial image, made with appropriate economy for the task in hand, and there is art... valuable for being human made and one of a kind and purchased because it appeals to the buyer.

I can't help thinking that's okay, and is what has always happened.

Sure, I feel sad for all the commercial illustrators no longer able to rely on that as a career; but I saw the writing on the wall back in 2008 and got out. Sometimes it's necessary to accept that a career line has closed down and to seek out a new one.

My friend who I mentioned at the start of this post received a production sample of a range of kitchen glassware she's decided to do when I was at her house. It arrived Saturday lunchtime.

She had prompted up the designs a week earlier, sourced a factory to produce them, and then they sent her a vintage looking glass sippy cup with etched and coloured graphics on it. For free. Less than two weeks after she submitted her range design. It's exactly as per her visual. The product design, and the graphical branding/illustration.

It's immaculate. She's not spent a single penny getting to that point, and as of now 24 hours later that range is on Etsy and other places, and she's taking orders. The factory produce what she needs and send it out directly with her branding and packaging.

She does nothing.

How is anybody going to compete with that? With your quality? With your uniqueness? With your skill? With your training?

[User] Nairn

comment: It's all about ideation now. That's it. We can still own that domain, should we choose to. But we don't, because it's Wrong.

comment: Inspiring story

html_comment: Inspiring story

comment: I agree it's not inspiring for the creative community, but it's happening. It's am economic and commercial reality. Very little has true value in this paradigm.

comment: My friend literally conjures up entire ranges, and factories around the world can produce them on demand. It's not just the creative community...

comment: facing oblivion, it's mass production, marketing, retail, trade, distribution, mamagement... the labour market, the working class, the middle class...

comment: all of it facing redundancy and oblivion. But if you want to start selling kites or light fittings or watches or pet accessories or vases, you can, instantly.

comment: So AI slop goes irl mainstream

html_comment: So AI slop goes irl mainstream

comment: < this story is most probably an exception, no proof this will be the norm going forward, so can we chill?

[User] BonSeff

comment: This girl's real talent seems to be hustle and drive. Hope success comes to anyone putting in effort.

[User] yuekit

comment: I think there are actually a lot of people like this if you look on sites like Etsy. The quality of the stuff is not that great but they are just  really

comment: dedicated to marketing like BonSeff said. But there are so many different things people need design and illustration for and I'm not convinced everyone is going

comment: to be using the same AI image generators.

comment: Thing is, even this is not safe. Soon you'll be able to ask an AI agent to all this for you. At that point why would anyone pay for a sippy cup on Etsy, ...

comment: When they can get something even more personalized generated and produced by a team of agents. The only one winning in that world is the factory.

comment: There will be likely be a backlash at some point and some people will come to value hand made things that cannot be produced in a factory.

comment: its about about stylisation.. how can u bring the a.i to a point that  it doesnt look like all the other a.i stuff

comment: i agree the factory will be even more superior... and that will create and anti-market for most...

[User] monNom

comment: It seems to me that so is a step change in efficiency for an illustrator. The same illustrator that did one piece will now be expected to do 10 or 20 or 100.

comment: He’ll be able to do it with the so tool. Guiding the style and the content and thinking. The end user will get a richer experience, and in more places.

comment: Case in point, I stumbled into a documentary about a canal in Canada. - very niche. It featured what looked like ai map art. Animation. Historical illustrations

comment: The production quality was far in excess of what would make sense for that content a few years ago. AI makes it possible for a small crew to make big things.

comment: Curious to see her shop. But I disagree with you in that she does  put in tons of work in managing marketing and production plus don’t forget the biggest

comment: Thing which is her taste, she’s obviously able to create things in a style that is appealing and sells which is the biggest hurtle and her real talent.

[User] palimpsest

comment: Exactly. "with almost zero effort""She does nothing"Her effort and work are elsewhere as are her rewards.

html_comment:
Exactly.
"with almost zero effort"
"She does nothing"
Her effort and work are elsewhere as are her rewards.

comment: She merits her success by the parameters you are judging success on.


[User] renderedred

topic_title: The More You Know ★

post:
 Insecure Dudes Are Getting Beard Transplants

https://futurism.com/neoscope/in…

comment: Wait.. can I sell mine?Who wants a ginger beard? Come on, get in line!

html_comment: Wait.. can I sell mine?<br>Who wants a ginger beard? Come on, get in line!

[User] utopian

comment: Paging Mr. Neckbeard!Paging Mr. Neckbeard!Paging Mr. Neckbeard!Paging Mr. Neckbeard!

html_comment:
Paging Mr. Neckbeard!
Paging Mr. Neckbeard!
Paging Mr. Neckbeard!
Paging Mr. Neckbeard!

[User] garbage

comment: "Man Kills Himself after Botched Turkish Beard Job"


[User] nb

topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post:
 ChatGPT image creation has reverted to near uselessness. Made three pictures and it is overloaded makes me wait 8 minutes before I can request a fourth.

Rumor is this is because everyone is hooked ghibli

comment: Yeah for serious usage it's not ready yet. Ideogram and Midjourney can pump out dozens and dozens of images in the same time.


topic_title: Elon Musk

post: Deactivated my twitter account today. I rarely checked / posted anyway.

[User] zaq

comment: a bot will take over and post on behalf of you

[User] grafician

comment: ^ thisold profiles are very valuable lol

html_comment:
^ this

old profiles are very valuable lol

[User] jagara

comment: in way way, lol?

html_comment: in way way, lol?

[User] Khurram

comment: It's not so bad if you mute all the Slavo Ukraini imbeciles... Unfortunately you can't do that with neverscared on this site :-/

[User] neverscared

comment: very,very, very  unfortunate ...especially when u r a into fighting sports  and  got too many punches to the head and now u have no more neurons left...


[User] Akagiyama

topic_title: Dis or Dat?

post:
 DIS: Gelato

DAT: Sorbet

comment: DIS, WTF is DAT?

html_comment: DIS, WTF is DAT?

[User] MrT

comment: One scoop of each.

html_comment: One scoop of each.

[User] scruffics

comment: definitely this

html_comment: definitely this

comment: dat every time. i hates ice cream i does.


post:
 ^

Bruh...


[User] slappy

post:
 I have been using it to turn 2D signage mockups into 3D vis, I have to say its pretty remarkable with only minor text issues which need to be tweaked and backgrounds that need extending.

By far the most usable with consistent iterations and I have tried 4 or 5 of the others.

comment: You can recycle styles from MJ into 4o with pretty good results


[User] BusterBoy

topic_title: Meme of the day

[User] ideaist

comment: Finally, the truth!

html_comment: Finally, the truth!


topic_title: Signs your getting old?

post:
 Was at a party on Saturday night...there was a former TV presenter there....she's 64 fucking years old...and she was gorgeous!

Yeah, yeah...marychain vibes.

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Your post perfectly captures the spirit of this thread ;)

comment: GILF!

html_comment: GILF!


[User] canoe

topic_title: blog

post:
 "Welcome to Europe bro lol... We got wines and mountains and clear waters and shit"
- grafician

Not my first time. I lived in Barcelona, visited family in France and went to my sister's engagement party in Ireland. (And lived in Argentina and Peru where of course they don't have any wine, clean water and mountains, especially not in the Andes)

But what I find hilarious about your comment is that I live less than a quarter mile from a Great Lake on a peninsula where we have 20+ vineyards, with rolling hill backdrops covered in apple and cherry orchards with rivers and streams cutting through everything, not to mention a national park 25 minutes away on miles and miles of beaches that run into ski resorts.

But go ahead and keep telling us about your SAT tests that you'd ace while doing shots of whatever Romanians like to drink to get over their inferiority complex.

comment: nobody nothingcanoe wait I remembered something graf said that time¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

html_comment:
nobody nothing
canoe wait I remembered something graf said that time

¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯

comment: Good for you bro, live that beautiful life!

comment: Are you bragging about a Great Lake? Aren’t they a bit toxic

[User] monospaced

comment: Only if you’re a misinformed neckbeard

html_comment: Only if you’re a misinformed neckbeard

comment: First, I'm not bragging, I'm defending myself against "grafician bullshit" assuming there's no wine, clean water and mountains in the United States.

comment: 2nd, Lake Eerie can get some bad algal blooms, and I'm sure there's toxicity around certain industrial areas, but in general no, we eat whitefish, walleye, etc.

comment: A lot of people don’t grasp how vast and beautiful and pristine a lot of the USA is, because they only hear about the big cities and suburbs.


topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
 "Donald Trump on Sunday again suggested he might seek a third term as US president, NBC News reported,  adding "I'm not joking," and: "There are methods which you could do it."

Such a move would defy the two-term limit stipulated in the US constitution."

- AP

comment: In that case, I look forward to Barack HUSSEIN Obama obliterating Trump at the 2028 election.

[User] bainbridge

comment: How about just "No"

html_comment: How about just "No"

[User] formed

comment: He likes to test the waters.  Like Greenland and Canada.  Always outlandish, so when actually acts we just complain and sigh.


[User] utopian

post:
 All you ladies pop yo' pussy like this
Shake your body, don't stop, don't miss
All you ladies pop yo' pussy like this
Shake your body, don't stop, don't miss

Just do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now
Lick it good
Suck this pussy just like you should
Right now, lick it good
Suck this pussy just like you should
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack

My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack

First you gotta put yo' neck into it
Don't stop, just do it, do it
Then, you roll your tongue
From the, crack back to the front
Then ya, suck it all 'til I shake and cum, nigga
Make sure I keep bustin' nuts, nigga
All over yo' face and stuff
Slow head show me so much love

The best head comes from a thug
The dick good, thick, big and long
Slow thumpin' 'til the crack of dawn
On the X, makin' faces and stuff
Through the night, makin' so much love
Dead sleep when the sun comes up

So lick it now, lick it good
Lick this pussy just like you should (c'mon)
Right now, lick it good
Lick this pussy just like you should

My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack

You might roll dubs, you might have G's
But fuck that nigga, get on yo' knees
A bitch like me moans and screams
Thug Missus, know what I mean

At the club so fresh, so clean
Hoes hate and niggas watchin' me
So high in the line on green
With a unit on my face, so mean
I got to pick which nigga I need
To suck a thug, nigga satisfy me
You try me, I'll make you see
You bitches ain't got shit on me

So lick it now, lick it good
Lick this pussy just like you should (c'mon)
Right now, lick it good
Lick this pussy just like you should

My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack

Do it now, lick it good
Suck this pussy just like you should
Right now, lick it good
Suck this pussy just like you should

My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack

Then, you roll your tongue
From the, crack back to the front
Then ya, suck it all 'til I shake and cum, nigga
Make sure I keep bustin' nuts, nigga
Then, you roll your tongue
From the, crack back to the front
Then ya, suck it all 'til I shake and cum, nigga
Make sure I keep bustin' nuts, nigga

My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack
My neck, my back
Lick my pussy and my crack

comment: well... if you put it like that...

html_comment: well... if you put it like that...

[User] Ianbolton

comment: TUUUUUUNE

html_comment: TUUUUUUNE


[User] grafician

topic_title: Fashion of the Day

comment: "What To Wear When You Hit 40"

html_comment: "What To Wear When You Hit 40"

comment: "To make you look like 50"

html_comment: "To make you look like 50"


[User] zaq

topic_title: State of QBN 2025

[User] PhanLo

comment: Is it the same person?

html_comment: Is it the same person?

comment: No fence to sit on.

html_comment: No fence to sit on.

comment: Perfect DMZ coffee table.

html_comment: Perfect DMZ coffee table.

[User] monNom

comment: I like how they went their own way on the roof.


post:
 5% of the country are idiots and think he's the new Jesus.
5% of the country is really rich and see this as a great time to get deals, pay less taxes, and take advantage.

So that's only like 10%.
He's an unlikeable idiot. Why are so many other people pandering to this man? He's no a strong speaker, or tough, or anything.

People are trying to put him on Mt. Rushmore.

comment: remember how much more chill things were when he wasn't in our faces every single day

comment: flol at 5% are idiots. he got over 50% of the vote, suggesting you've underestimated massively

[User] maquito

comment: Maybe 5% thinks he's a new J, but it's more like 50% of this country are idiots.  People are lazy.  They take the click-bait, regurgitate it, spin it

html_comment: Maybe 5% thinks he's a new J, but it's more like 50% of this country are idiots.  <br>People are lazy.  They take the click-bait, regurgitate it, spin it


[User] yuekit

post: The text rendering and style transfer is cool but it doesn't seem as good as Midjourney when you deviate from the main styles everyone is posting. Although it's hard to test right now with the rate limits.


comment: Chat GPT40 with the logo supplied and a prompt describing the scene. Not great but good enough for a signage mockup.


[User] webazoot

topic_title: Logo of the Day

post:
 Exeter's unassuming Co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'

https://www.devonlive.com/whats-…

[User] Salarrue


[User] neverscared

topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: Blow my mind that they are really pushing that through.  As if FL couldn't get any worse.


[User] elahon

post: Ok, fuck Musk and fuck Nazis, but goddamn, this made me laugh.


[User] ApeRobot

comment: WTF does this have to do with DOGE?  DOGE is a joke and has nothing to do with regulating anything.  They're just punks hacking away at people's lives.

comment: This 'commentator' looks like a joke.

html_comment: This 'commentator' looks like a joke.

comment: true...  this makes zero sense.. even the chronology is wrong..


post: I hate bright and white clothes. Just bought a cool white sweater on Saturday and put it on today for the first time and it has a stain on it already from a little chocolate piece that touched it for a fraction of a second when it bounced off.

[User] nb

[User] canoe

comment: Same, bought some white jeans last summer, only had a chance to wear them once...

[User] OBBTKN

comment: "Chocolate"

html_comment: "Chocolate"


[User] palimpsest

post:
 If a monkey can do better work than you, it’s not on the monkey, it’s on you.

Bouncing off Horp’s thoughts about Jagara’s thoughts on AI and commercial illustration. This isn’t just about the rise of the AI-powered Etsy entrepreneur, it’s about the quiet admission that the monkey wins. Her success is measured by commercial results, but her work by artistic standards, as if she’s breaking some unwritten rule. But there are no rules in nature. She’s doing exactly what the system rewards: speed, adaptability, orchestration. That’s not nothing, that’s fluency.

The real tension isn’t about AI, or even art. It’s about conceding that the terrain has shifted, and that effort, skill, and uniqueness no longer anchor value the way they used to. If the monkey wins under new conditions, blaming the monkey misses the point. The question isn’t whether she should be allowed to play, it’s whether you’re still playing the right game. And whether you should be playing that game in the first place.

comment: Or as Iverson might say: we’re talking about practice. Not the game. Practice.

[User] monospaced

comment: The complete disregard for IP is appalling though.

comment: @pali yes, unfortunately, but yes.

html_comment: @pali yes, unfortunately, but yes.

comment: IP is about ownership as a proxy for authorship. People will give more credit to a paint-by-numbers kit than to a well-constructed AI prompt.

comment: One follows the rules. The other builds them.The disregard for IP is only appalling if you believe execution is more meaningful than conception.

comment: Hmmmm

html_comment: Hmmmm

comment: It's not on the monkey or you, it's on a broken system that incentivizes cutting every corner to separate labour from wealth.

comment: there are no rules in nature ? ever heard of law of thermodynamics...or gravity...  + there are rules  in culture ... its called regulation.. and  copyright...

comment: thats what sets civilisation about from nature... otherwise monkey with kinves...

comment: I remember when I got a speeding ticket for falling too fast. Gaia wasn't happy.

comment: Everything that can happen will happen, eventually.

comment: gaia was happy.. because  your fast driving caused higher co2 emissions and u got punished...

comment: when the lion is hungry he eats... thats the law

comment: Can't argue with that!

html_comment: Can't argue with that!

comment: Lions fail to catch their prey more often than not, to say nothing of all the adaptations that have evolved to evade/defend against them.

comment: Banding together to resist predation is a universal constant...

comment: If nature proposed a law of Universal Basic Prey I would totally be for it.Another thing to ponder, do the laws of nature go against lions eating a Whopper?

html_comment: If nature proposed a law of Universal Basic Prey I would totally be for it.<br>Another thing to ponder, do the laws of nature go against lions eating a Whopper?

comment: the cyborg lion needs only electricity...

[User] garbage

comment: @paly AI, actually had a point. That interview was hours after a heated argument about running it back for the Finals, and Larry Brown finally relented..

comment: ..set up a conference about him coming back, and all he was getting was questions about practice. Add to that, AI's best friend was just murdered.

comment: Imagine a shouting match with your AD, you're almost fired, then not fired, everyone heard it in the hallway, an all-hands is called to clear the air..

comment: ..and all anybody wants to talk about is your creative process. Oh my god we're mixing Philly metaphors, I'm out.

comment: nicely stated.

html_comment: nicely stated.

comment: Pretty sure this was all covered in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"


topic_title: Politics

post:
 Marine Le Pen banned from running for French presidency in 2027 and given four-year sentence in embezzlement trial

https://www.theguardian.com/worl…

comment: Hot new trend.

html_comment: Hot new trend.

[User] grafician

comment: FAFO

html_comment: FAFO


post:
 As ‘Buy Canadian’ grows, more US companies say retailers turning away their products

https://www.reuters.com/business…

[User] Continuity

comment: This is the way.

html_comment: This is the way.


post:
 An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For
An unsecured database used by a generative AI app revealed prompts and tens of thousands of explicit images—some of which are likely illegal. The company deleted its websites after WIRED reached out.

https://www.wired.com/story/geno…

comment: i was told it's for an etsy dropshop empire of laugh ,live, love housewares


topic_title: Painting of the day

post: Egon Schiele


[User] DaveO

post:
 Adding on to the AI discourse above, i saw this article this morning:

https://www.nytimes.com/interact…

Quite an interesting read with the examples of very Gen X careers (Rock & Roll music journalist was the clearest). Weirdly it reminded me of everyones obsession with learning flash and code in the late 90s. It definitely struck me to read things like 'graphic design / photography' in the lead, but its the same story where successive generations have a different landscape to the previous, and the winners adapt.

My wife used to work on music videos as a stylist in the mid 2000s and they had seemingly infinite money. 10 years later that industry as a fraction of what it was, and then another 10 later and its barely an industry. She is in a corpirate creative director role now, as the styling fell off very sharply after 2012

I am constantly hearing older colleagues talk about how different it was back then when they had real money to do shoots, how they shot for a week and came back with amazing 10 stills but that's pretty anachronistic now, and  the skill is how you adapt to working with what you have (tools and budget).

I use AI to generate storyboards and style frames, but then i still also get an artist to draw up frames for me when its specific, so its a combination of bot. I feel glad to be able to support a traditional creative skill in some way.

Someone once told me that 'AI won't replace you, but someone using it might'

FWIW – that girl mentioned about sounds like a great business person, but ultimately selling something pretty disposable – and thats been around since the dawn of capitalism.

comment: Thank you.

html_comment: Thank you.

[User] misterhow

comment: My wife sent that to me too! New tools that will only get better each day. We either can adapt and fall under or ride the waves. My 2¢

[User] utopian

comment: The only ones whining about AI are the creatives it exposed as painfully average on their best day.

comment: true... tarantino is painfully average...


topic_title: Vid of the Day

[User] AQUTE

comment: class act

html_comment: class act


[User] sarahfailin

topic_title: East Clintwood

post: Lewd Jaw


[User] Gardener

topic_title: Epstein / Maxwell

post:
Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, has days to live after car crash,

https://news.sky.com/story/virgi…

[User] PhanLo

comment: O.O !

html_comment: O.O !


topic_title: Positive thread

[User] Akagiyama

comment: Its not about the destruction of Tokyo, its all the Godzillas we met along the way.


[User] neverscared

topic_title: Billionaires

post:
Musk gives away two $1 million checks to Wisconsin voters in high profile judicial race

https://www.reuters.com/world/us…

[User] Salarrue

comment: Normal stuff....

html_comment: Normal stuff....


topic_title: Guess Who...

[User] fooler

comment: Clayton Bigsby

html_comment: Clayton Bigsby


[User] dbloc

topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: Lol I once see this with a dead raccoon on the street


[User] canoe

post:
 Collaborative music effort fell through, so I'm taking it all under my own and feeling motivated about it. I did all the work anyways. I'm thinking about hiring a choreographer, I always wanted to dance with my son in a video, not sure if this is the right one though as the lyrics are super dystopian. Will share when it's done.

Italy was exceptional. Everyone was super friendly to me and my little nuclear family. It left a mark of joy, "romance", and the importance of art and local ingredients.


topic_title: Coronavirus

comment: Saw this in my feed and refused to click on it. I can just imagine the nonsense and insanity from the anti-vaxxers I'd like to keep what brain-cells I have left

comment: America is beyond fucked.

html_comment: America is beyond fucked.

[User] toemaas

comment: Luckily there are 340,000,000 people in the U.S.  It's this guys job to find the most outrageous 20 so you will click and he gets paid.

comment: And 160,000,000 of them, subscribe to MAGA ideology and conspiracy theories.

[User] yuekit

comment: And some of them are now running the health system.


topic_title: religion

[User] nb

comment: 10/10 would pray

html_comment: 10/10 would pray


topic_title: UK is Fucked

post:
Birmingham declares major incident over bin strike

https://www.bbc.com/news/article…

[User] kingsteven

comment: god damn zoomed in to see what was circled in the photo lol

comment: only now? christ it's been happening for weeks...


topic_title: Show your latest Pics

post: not mine my brother's just shot on his iPhone

[User] maquito

comment: noooice!see? we're bragging about openAI and there's fucking phones taking ludicrous shots like this... all is good

html_comment: noooice!<br>see? we're bragging about openAI and there's fucking phones taking ludicrous shots like this... all is good

comment: Re: Nikon

html_comment: Re: Nikon

[User] Continuity

comment: Jesus Christ, that's apocalyptic.Also ... where in Greece was this shot? That architecture's a dead giveaway!

html_comment: Jesus Christ, that's apocalyptic.<br>Also ... where in Greece was this shot? That architecture's a dead giveaway!

comment: :) indeed, it was in a little town 20km from Delphi

comment: As you slowly scroll the pic upward, it looks like the back of a curvy woman, and then "BAM" it's just a cloud, no ass. :(

[User] Gnash

comment: Apollo speaks

html_comment: Apollo speaks

[User] milfhunter

comment: Well NIKO, why are you sharing this in; Show YOUR latest pics?

comment: ^ Uh-oh!

html_comment: ^ Uh-oh!

[User] palimpsest

comment: Don't be a Thessalonikid!

html_comment: Don't be a Thessalonikid!

comment: I know, I know, milf, but I did the honourable thing, and trust me, you don’t want him on here! :)

comment: Are you challenging us? Can you get him on Discord, at least?

html_comment: Are you challenging us? <br>Can you get him on Discord, at least?

comment: haha, he was actually on here briefly during the newstoday days, didn't survive the cuntiness of this place :)


[User] mantrakid

topic_title: making beats

post:
 My ambient album dropped today!

"Echo Chamber Made"

The album is all about my journey with anxiety and my experience medicating it the past couple years, I dont think i could have written this the way it is without seeing what its like to have NO anxiety for once in my life.

Stream it here: https://ghost.ffm.to/echochamber…

ps Shouts out to @cruddlebub whose ambient mastery was a huge inspiration in the back of my mind while writing a lot of this stuff!

comment: Listening on Spotify. So wonderful. Huge congrats to you! I'm working away on an album I've been trying to really focus on for a few years now, and

comment: seeing people put out new music is inspiriting and motivating.

comment: I wish I knew how to think through ambient tracks like this. My stuff is more instrumental and I've poured so much time into that over the years, but

comment: hoping that after it's done I can move in a more ambient direction.

comment: I love the first track Summer. It feels reflective, calming, meditative.

comment: mg33 - i LOVE your stuff dude, every time youve posted

comment: sessions that i can then find the best parts and clip them out, or combine with other parts, etc.

comment: Hell yeah dude. And your cover is dope too


[User] bainbridge

topic_title: Donald Trump

comment: Socialism?No thanks✋!

html_comment: Socialism?<br>No thanks✋!


[User] grafician

topic_title: Sports

post:
"Slovenian Domen Prevc soared to a new ski jump world record of 254.5 meters (roughly 835 feet) on Sunday"

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/…

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Snow Roglič

html_comment: Snow Roglič


comment: What is even more ironic, he probably embezzled EU funds too


topic_title: Proper techno

comment: Luke Slater yes. Liebing not so much yes.


[User] Gardener

topic_title: RIP of the day

post: Bond villain actor Bruce Glover, father of Crispin Glover - 92


[User] prophetone

comment: ...and.... no

comment: Caspar Pound, 90s yes

html_comment: Caspar Pound, 90s yes


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

comment: it's interesting... when tax software came out did people gleefully wish tax professionals would lose their jobs?

comment: most professional artists/designers execute tedious client feedback daily i dunno where this cliche of pampered artist stereotype originates from


post:
“LIBERATION DAY IN AMERICA IS COMING, SOON,” the president posted on Truth Social at 1:39 a.m. Thursday. “FOR YEARS WE HAVE BEEN RIPPED OFF BY VIRTUALLY EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, BOTH FRIEND AND FOE. BUT THOSE DAYS ARE OVER.”

Trump readies sweeping tariffs in major escalation of global trade war

https://www.washingtonpost.com/b…

[User] zaq

comment: I laughed ... and then I cryed

html_comment: I laughed ... and then I cryed

comment: Can't wait for the backpedalling.

html_comment: Can't wait for the backpedalling.

comment: "New" York, and "New" England are rip offs

[User] utopian

comment: The clown show must go on.

html_comment: The clown show must go on.

comment: Liberation Day is Wednesday BTW

html_comment: Liberation Day is Wednesday BTW


comment: Impressive. No point anymore to learn Blender, kiddos.


[User] autoflavour

topic_title: FUCK ADOBE!

post:
 lol. opened email this morning to find Adobe quietly announcing they are increasing the monthly subscription by $10 ..
nope, fuck you

die and burn

[User] AQUTE

comment: zing

html_comment: zing

comment: Are you paying full price?

html_comment: Are you paying full price?


[User] yuekit

[User] Salarrue

comment: Don't look up!

html_comment: Don't look up!

[User] Ianbolton

comment: TWRAE doesn't have the same ring to it as MAGA.

comment: All the money in the world doesn't by class or style. Look at how dumb that looks!


post:
 ‘Liberation Day’ Is Almost Here. What It Means for the Stock Market.

https://www.barrons.com/articles…

comment: Sell Low.Buy High.

html_comment: Sell Low.<br>Buy High.


topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
 lol

https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status…

[User] bigrobot

comment: who cares? idiot

html_comment: who cares? idiot

comment: set fire to them all

html_comment: set fire to them all


comment: deep

html_comment: deep


[User] neverscared

topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

comment: Nice. Another Nick Frost film.

html_comment: Nice. Another Nick Frost film.

[User] necromation

comment: not bad... The end was a bit weak tho.

html_comment: not bad... The end was a bit weak tho.


[User] nb

comment: There is a god!

html_comment: There is a god!

[User] Continuity

comment: April Fool's!

html_comment: April Fool's!

[User] ApeRobot

comment: The Simpsons predicted his death for April 12 2025.


post: The "artists" being so extremely anti-AI are annoying me. Jeez, be a little more open minded and positive. It's not all doom and gloom.

comment: says the troll who thinks learning a  3d software..where u have the possibilty space to understand a high tech complex  user interface is pointless...

comment: First of all I'm a Blender user and secondly it was joking earlier on grafician's post. I'm just pro new tech and going with the flow.

comment: What's the point of being all negative Nancy being against all AI and being left behind? Embrace it and use it to your advantage.

comment: as annoyed as with muslims ... or as annoyed as every qbn member is with you...

comment: I think many here agree with me on the Islam(ist) topic :)

comment: too many... everybody nearly... all the comments are cheering for your over the top hate...

comment: Islam deserves all the hate it can get. But let's not get too off-topic.


topic_title: TESLA

post:
The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense
After weeks of “Tesla Takedown” protests, extremist groups are showing up to back Elon Musk’s beleaguered car company.

https://www.wired.com/story/prou…

comment: I think I'm going to modify this meme that I created.


topic_title: THE GEN X CAREER MELTDOWN

[User] OBBTKN

comment: lol

html_comment: lol


post: So this article needed its own thread, ok then.


[User] microkorg

comment: haha good for them

html_comment: haha good for them

comment: i like this

html_comment: i like this

comment: YEAHHH!!

html_comment: YEAHHH!!

[User] SlashPeckham

comment: Follow the money! https://www.youtube.…

html_comment: Follow the money! https://www.youtube.…

[User] stoplying

comment: go on brent!

html_comment: go on brent!


post: Yeah, I read this article a couple of days ago, too. Fucking depressing.

[User] palimpsest

comment: #TraumaTuesdays

html_comment: #TraumaTuesdays

comment: #MardisDeMerde

html_comment: #MardisDeMerde

comment: flol @ #MardisDeMerde

html_comment: flol @ #MardisDeMerde

[User] monospaced

comment: ditto

html_comment: ditto


post:
 How did we miss this one ?
Richard Chamberlain, 90


[User] Nairn

post: ^ I've literally just done the annual 'i'm going to quit' theatre with them to keep the reduced monthly rateI've been paying for years now. This year though, they've built it straight into the 'Cancel Plan' pathway, so I didn't have to spend an hour on some bullshit chat thing with them as I have the last few years.

comment: Ah I need to cancel too, bumping me from 29.99 to 55.80, awww hell noHope they do offer the option to continue at my rate

html_comment: Ah I need to cancel too, bumping me from 29.99 to 55.80, awww hell no<br>Hope they do offer the option to continue at my rate

comment: They do, just pretend to cancel after they tell you you have to pay cancellation fees and you'll see the option there.

comment: Thanks!

html_comment: Thanks!


[User] milfhunter

[User] fooler

comment: Is this an April Fools joke? What is Kid Rock wearing???

comment: Why is there a "Gulf of America" map in the background?


topic_title: Guess Who...

comment: sad wannabe spudboy

html_comment: sad wannabe spudboy


[User] canoe

post:
 Music on bandcamp claiming to be an old artist from Detroit, but turns out to be made with AI. All that to make like $30 a month is mundane. Just have a go at it with your own mind.

It's not the computer, it's the user.

[User] yuekit

comment: That was really weird, he actually fabricated a number of albums in different genres and presents it as obscure lost music.


topic_title: 80's-90's MEMORIES

[User] futurefood

comment: yessssss

html_comment: yessssss


[User] BonSeff

post: I read the article, then I thought about godzilla

[User] prophetone

comment: Godzilla doesn’t want this for any of us

comment: ^ lol

html_comment: ^ lol


[User] renderedred

topic_title: The More You Know ★

post:
 Excited delirium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex…


[User] grafician

topic_title: quote of the day

post:
 "We’ve created a culture that fetishizes the new(s), and we forget the wealth of human knowledge, wisdom, and transcendence that lives in the annals of what we call “history” – art, literature, philosophy, and so many things that are both timeless and incredibly timely.

Our presentism bias – anchored in the belief that if it isn’t at the top of Google, it doesn’t matter, and if it isn’t Googleable at all, it doesn’t exist – perpetuates our arrogance that no one has ever grappled with the issues we’re grappling with, which of course is tragically untrue."

-Maria Popova

[User] neverscared

comment: just like we forgot the wealth of human knowledge blabla so many times before google...


[User] Continuity

post: "Do well in school, go to university, and a lifelong career will fall in your lap," they said.

comment: heli kohl?

html_comment: heli kohl?

[User] kingsteven

comment: nobody:

html_comment: nobody:

[User] nb

comment: Don’t remember anyone saying anything remotely like this

[User] bezoar

comment: ...And it's getting very hard to stayAnd we're living here in Allentown.

html_comment: ...And it's getting very hard to stay<br>And we're living here in Allentown.

comment: @nb my teachers did. All. The. Time.Fucking boomers.

html_comment: @nb my teachers did. All. The. Time.<br>Fucking boomers.


topic_title: News of the day...

post:
 EU readies counterstrike on Big Tech and US banks over Trump’s mega tariffs
Brussels sees America’s transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles’ heel.

BRUSSELS — It’s one thing to hit Harley-Davidson motorbikes and bourbon whiskey. It’s another to go after Silicon Valley or Wall Street.

The European Union is considering opening up a new battlefront as President Donald Trump prepares to impose so-called reciprocal tariffs on all of America’s trading partners on Wednesday.

https://www.politico.eu/article/…


post:
 This is a similar feeling when Flash creative boom ended overnight.

Only instead of a firecracker and losing a finger... we just unknowingly walked three steps beyond the cliff edge while holding the comically-large 50s ACME ball bomb with the lit wick (looks at camera before the drop)

comment: i'm more tech based than many but i've had several career wipes. very lucky in any professional field to be doing the same thing for a decade


post:
 This kind of struck me:

"As opportunities and incomes dwindle, Gen X-ers in creative fields are weighing their options. Move to a lower-cost place and remain committed to the work you love? Look for a bland corporate job that might provide health insurance and a steady paycheck until retirement?"

Like a bland corporate job is a bad thing, and somehow selling out?

[User] bainbridge

comment: Most people have a bland job in the first place. You're talented and lucky if you get one. Not every creative independent is good at what they do.

[User] maquito

comment: I choose bland corporate until retirement

comment: and pizza

html_comment: and pizza

comment: I'd take bland corp and insurance. Plenty of side projects to have creative freedom on, whether music, art, or web design projects.

[User] mxhxr

comment: boring/secure/well-c... sellout jobs are the best.  they allow you to live your life outside of work


topic_title: Luigi Mangione = Hero

post:
 DOJ to seek death penalty for Luigi Mangione in CEO Brian Thompson murder case

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/01/…

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Don't bite the hand that feeds you

html_comment: Don't bite the hand that feeds you


comment: Hello. You've reached the winter of our discontent.

[User] palimpsest

comment: Non-ironocally.

html_comment: Non-ironocally.

[User] sab

comment: In the words of The Lucksmiths: It’s the winter of our discount tent! Great band! Clever.

comment: Think anyone got rich designing this poster? Because some of you think this was made in the golden era of design .  Lulz.

comment: lol...wasn't the film itself about people in the creative industry struggling to find a job?


[User] yuekit

post: China watching this shitshow unfold

[User] Akagiyama

comment: When you do so much stupid shit that you unite S. Korea, China and Japan..now that's something!


topic_title: Punches For:

post: Every company that sends me a survey after buying anything.


[User] colab

comment: I can't unsee him scratching his taint at 4:00


post:
 Although some of what's in that article may ring true you've got to keep in mind it doesn't contain any numbers or data. It's just the stories of a few people.

Overall fields like graphic design and UX design are growing and projected to keep growing for the next decade.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer…

But I'm sure that heavily differentiated based on what your specific focus is. I think the most difficult are people who don't have that many technical skills and also get stuck in a niche which then goes away.

comment: by "technical skills" do you mean the ability to prompt?

comment: Let's say your career was centered around designing magazine layouts...well no shit you're probably now going to need to find another type of job.

comment: Media has changed dramatically during that time and will continue to change but it doesn't mean the overall pie is getting smaller.


topic_title: Show some recent work

[User] canoe

comment: what's the concept?

html_comment: what's the concept?


[User] DaveO

post:
 I posted this in the Blog thread – i do think it needs its own space.

They don't mention how that generation benefitted from a great property market before it skyrocketed everywhere!


topic_title: AI logos

post: april fools?

comment: thought the same!

html_comment: thought the same!

[User] e-wo


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: America is Fucked

comment: This is right on par with Trump's business record... mostly a failure.

comment: I like the gif

html_comment: I like the gif

comment: Was a lockdown one, think it’s in this thread near the start


post: all shit

comment: +1 I’ve been using allshit.co for a while and it’s really good at logos


post:
 jokes aside, e-wo, I do a lot of logos, for business, for friends, and mostly for fun; I usually start from a doodle on a notebook in a cafeteria or in the tube. I don't think I would ever even consider prompting an LLM for a logo.

Why? the same reason I would rather keep solving my crosswords without peeking though the solutions page.

[User] monospaced

comment: But it's happening.

html_comment: But it's happening.

comment: Totally understandable, and I admire that perspective


post:
 Not just Gen X.

Remember what made many of us feel special as kids? our ability to draw or make art? How impressed our schoolmates were? How no matter how much of a fuck-up we were at math or how much we horsed around, the teacher would give us a pass and actually respected us because we were creative?

Yeah, for the next generation, that's probably all gone now.

[User] prophetone

comment: Millennials, Gen-Z, Alpha live life under a constant 4K microscope socially...

comment: everything is (potentially) recorded, scrutinized, media over-stimulation is off charts, de-sensitization at all time high

comment: I agree – i feel like the instant access to everything means that nothing is special any more, and there's not as much boredom that leads to magic

comment: little is cool anymore, it's all snapped to rails or an industry/platform formula. where are the wild rock bands, crazy movies, explosive creative pop culture.

comment: there are amazing rare examples of this of course... but pre-2000s it was like an explosion of creative musi, visuals and the arts

comment: the motivations have shifted away from striving for the creative magic as THE GOAL - now it's just focus on maxing 'likes, subs, mentions, shares'

comment: and most importantly imo - the 'zombification' of the, especially, younger generations

comment: like now, even if a young person sees something inspiring! special! freshly-creative! they 'pause for a sec say MEH and keep doom scrolling

comment: All of this just in time for fast food approach of A.I. - which imo will create millions of more kids saying MEH out there even if actual great creative

comment: Ok enough of this, time for my vitamins and Metamucil

[User] cherub

comment: nah keep going.  I think you are right.

html_comment: nah keep going.  I think you are right.

comment: You felt special?

html_comment: You felt special?

[User] renderedred

comment: lol yeah not special more like bad-ass...I felt special when I tried to do math ;)


post: lol, it's impressive how the OpenAI one can replicate all the elements and text of another image but notice how they censored the gun. This is a pretty boring future we're creating for ourselves if they stick with this level of censorship.


[User] bainbridge

post:
 This is all a generalization.

Plenty of people go through art college and aren't talented or give the effort to be creative.

Anyone who cares and has a good eye and tries will always find work.

There's also dumb ways to make money if you try or get lucky or are just confident and have dumb clients.

This doesn't mean creatives have to go work at Chipotle now or deliver Amazon packages.

comment: Feet pics.

html_comment: Feet pics.


post:
 I'm tired of people always saying that someone is good just because they went to school for something or have a job.

How many people are bad at their jobs or work for dumb companies?

How many of your friends/peers majored in something at an expensive school that they never had a career in?

[User] nb

comment: Less than 15% of my graduating design class from college are working in design


topic_title: Donald Trump

[User] Longcopylover

comment: They already knew in 2017.

html_comment: They already knew in 2017.

comment: Yeah, was a throwback post.

html_comment: Yeah, was a throwback post.


post:
 Knew I'd take shit for this : )

If it helps, this is me trying to help out friends pro-bono, without the available time to develop tons of ideas from scratch. I prefer this approach to directing them to stock logos or shit like that.


post:
 I haven't seen any that are good at logos yet. Might be an issue of the type of training data that's available along with the orientation towards creating photographic imagery rather than iconography.

You could try the new OpenAI image generator...it has more graphic design capabilities but I still wasn't very impressed with what it came up with in terms of simple logos and icons. The more your logo looks like an illustration the easier it would be.

comment: Thank you. I've been trying that one, and agree that it has a strong bias towards ornate illustrations.

comment: They are all like that. Maybe shows how creating something simpler can actually be more difficult.

comment: Sure does

html_comment: Sure does


topic_title: Official SFW Thread

[User] utopian

comment: Gardener is preparing to unload.

html_comment: Gardener is preparing to unload.

comment: hehe. A perfect mix of his interests

html_comment: hehe. A perfect mix of his interests

[User] Gardener

comment: Indeed! Thank you for this x

html_comment: Indeed! Thank you for this x


[User] duckseason

topic_title: Before & After Logo Animations

post:
https://www.motherdesign.com/wor…

(bout 1/4 down the page)


post: As a Gen X'er I don't recall a time when the bottom wasn't perpetually falling out of every creative industry...

[User] CyBrainX

comment: Seriously. The dot com crash was no picnic but I think the job market now is at least as bad as late 2001. That was when I had my first layoff.

[User] falcadia

comment: Agree, very uncertain times with AI, tooling, job market etc.


[User] yuekit

topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

[User] Krassy

comment: Cartificial

html_comment: Cartificial


[User] grafician

topic_title: Art of the Day Thread

post: Rubber Duck, Florentijn Hofman (2001)

[User] garbage

comment: Is this the same one for rent? https://thebigduck.u…

comment: It was here a couple months ago to promote a boat show.


[User] toemaas

post: I was under the impression that every generation goes through this. Change is the essence of the universe. Unless you work for some sort of municipal or education job that comes with some sort of respect for tenure, what profession doesn’t feed off of the energy of youth? Athletics, entertainment, creative, hell even like delivery drivers or labor. It seems that only the absolutely exceptional are thriving full force through the twilight of their careers. That’s why the idea of advanced age retirement seems so dumb! Especially as creatives! Make some good financial decisions early on. Take the big risks early on. That way, you can walk away from the commissioned work and spend the last 1/4 putting your experience to work (both in life experience and creative technique experience). Throw out as many artifacts as possible and showing the rest of the world that you existed + letting them know you understand and you know they exist too. Fight the dying of the light,  but not in the corporate “sell-out” environment that you have already clung to for decades. It’s time to do the good shit and build your own communities. That’s what the younger crowd is already doing with you you anyway.

comment: *without you ;)

html_comment: *without you ;)


post: We ain’t nothing but steelworkers in the rust belt.


[User] Beeswax

post:
 If this isn't news what is?
No it's not an April 1st thing

https://www.techspot.com/news/10…

comment: unlimited applications, including use cases in aerospace systems, artificial intelligence devices, medical equipment, small drones, micro-robots, and more

comment: So we won't be able to pull the plug on AI

[User] PonyBoy

comment: woah

html_comment: woah

comment: Coolio.

html_comment: Coolio.

[User] OBBTKN

comment: Nuclear waste everywhere... Last episode in this dystopian present we're building

comment: The first application will obviously be military

comment: It's for micro stuff. So no, it won't power your smartphone

[User] microkorg

comment: This was announced at somepoint last year, not new news. will be used for pacemakers etc.

[User] milfhunter

comment: Enron coming to life.

html_comment: Enron coming to life.


topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk’s Millions

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/…

[User] theonlyengineerhere

comment: ...and STAY the fuck out of my state, twat. We don't want you OR your money.

comment: Elonia only lost a few pennies by trying to buy an election for uncle Donnie. He makes George Soros look like pauper.

[User] neverscared

comment: maybe he can end the war in ukraine on day one since donnie dork cant.... evidently not


[User] fooler

topic_title: RIP of the day

post: RIP Iceman

[User] AQUTE

comment: it's been a long time comingi always liked him. cool cat.

html_comment:
it's been a long time coming

i always liked him.

cool cat.

comment: the saint

html_comment: the saint

[User] prophetone

comment: RIP Madmartigan

html_comment: RIP Madmartigan

comment: Bang bang bang (HEAT)

html_comment: Bang bang bang (HEAT)

comment: he is gonna sing  duett with jim now..

html_comment: he is gonna sing  duett with jim now..

[User] elahon

comment: Daaamn. RIP, dude. =(

html_comment: Daaamn. RIP, dude. =(

[User] pango

comment: thought its april fool

html_comment: thought its april fool

[User] thenohero

comment: dang, true loss of an 80's apex stud.  Know he was battling throat cancer, hope no suffering and he had peace.  RIP.

[User] haga

comment: Clarence, I like you. Always have. Always will.

comment: cathartic - https://www.youtube.…

html_comment: cathartic - https://www.youtube.…

[User] instrmntl

comment: RIP :(

html_comment: RIP :(

[User] renderedred

comment: oh! RIP.

html_comment: oh! RIP.


[User] utopian

[User] Salarrue

comment: Yes, another opinion from a random dude... That will clear thisngs out.


post: What a loser. Imagine if Soros tried to buy votes like that. Oh, well still didn't win.


topic_title: TESLA

post:
 Tesla plunges 36% in first quarter, worst performance for any period since 2022

Tesla’s stock plummeted 36% in the first three months of the year, its steepest drop since 2022 and third-biggest decline for any quarter on record. The company has seen declining new vehicle sales and faces concerns surrounding President Trump’s tariffs as well as protests related to CEO Elon Musk’s role in the administration. Tesla lost over $460 billion in market cap in the quarter, while the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency claims it’s so far saved $140 billion.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/…


topic_title: QBNers for QBN

post: I just heard the "News Today" jingle when logging in for the first time in years. Does anyone else hear the jingle every time that you login in?

comment: The last time was a few months ago... My wife exclaimed: Hey! Newstoday! LOL

comment: I have it on, but it rarely plays.

html_comment: I have it on, but it rarely plays.

[User] maquito

comment: Legend says it only plays when you don’t want anyone to know what you’re browsing


[User] yuekit

comment: lol

html_comment: lol


[User] bainbridge

topic_title: Signs your getting old?

post:
 Guys, the man who played Batman in one of the major films in the 90s has died.

Not the old Batman TV show, like the cool Batman from the 90s, which wasn't so long ago, right?

comment: Movie came out in 95.  That is a current delta of 30 years ... fml


topic_title: What are you listening to?

[User] canoe

comment: Sigur Ros on heroin, nice.

html_comment: Sigur Ros on heroin, nice.


[User] ApeRobot

comment: let them eat cake...

html_comment: let them eat cake...

comment: lol... when he says its not political because his parents where immigrants.... like if thats proof...

comment: This is bullshit, basically everything they said is a lie.https://archive.is/6…

html_comment:
This is bullshit, basically everything they said is a lie.
https://archive.is/6…

comment: That's the problem, people see this stuff and they believe it based on Musk's past reputation. It never occurs to them that he's  lying in a really dumb way


[User] Projectile

post:
 I tried it a little while back... just as a second mood board page before diving into a mini logo/brand project (it was a fake brand for a fake project so I only had a day to produce it)

None of the logos I generated were even half decent, you could tell it was AI immediately... but having the client point out the colours of one and the style of another was a useful part of the process. But it was still much less useful than the moodboard page with existing, professionallly created logos.

Firefly was a bust, I can't remember what I used. And the prompt to get it to work was a very long winded story about me building a brand that does this and that.


[User] OBBTKN

topic_title: Car of The Day

post: Hyundai Insteroid (Inster on steroids)


[User] neverscared

comment: w hat to the f.... cant even differntiate two faces...

comment: oliver stone, roger stone, al capone ,mascarpone ,  gazpacho police all the same...


post: Illustrator now has a tool that automatically creates these lines for you.  That's all I know, Youtube will show you the rest and you might find a nice case study at the same time


post: Alas Runway Gen-4, while impressive, is still doing some weird artefacts. Especially when there's typography in it. We're getting there, but probably needs another 6-12 months to be really usable in commercial stuff. And hopefully there will be an option to have less compression on the video itself too, like a ProRes QT instead of only mp4 option.


topic_title: Video Games...

post: Hopefully we all get a little meat on the bone today ... https://www.nintendo.com/us/nint…

comment: Would be nice to see what the next 3D Mario and Zelda look like. Zelda probably coming next year or in two years. Unless it's a remake like Ocarina of time

[User] ideaist


[User] elahon

[User] nb

comment: Eating cold, soggy freedom fries

html_comment: Eating cold, soggy freedom fries


post:
https://www.phano.co

The whole shabang (except the writing). Been working on it for a few months, just me, so the site design is more of a "nudge it into a shape over time" deal than it is more of an intentional design process with typical UX artifacts. It's rough but functional.

If you write about the future, hit me up I'm looking for nonfiction as much as I am fiction....

[User] grafician

comment: An idea: add next prev story to each "article" so a user can go to the next one quick

comment: But solid website, nice effort! Stories not too bad, the type of stuff to read in the metro

html_comment: But solid website, nice effort! <br>Stories not too bad, the type of stuff to read in the metro


[User] thenohero

comment: all good.  =)

html_comment: all good.  =)

comment: 1/2 of a million folks on now.

html_comment: 1/2 of a million folks on now.

comment: I need a tingle Nintendo !

html_comment: I need a tingle Nintendo !

comment: 1080p? 120 fps, though...

comment: SOOO 4K on a tv, BUT not 4k on the native (first nations?!) display!?

comment: No need for 4K on a 1080p handheld screen.

comment: Also it would kill the battery in handheld mode pretty fast.

comment: @NBQ00 touche; The Portal looks pretty great at said resolution AND yeah battery is pretty good/great.

comment: The keynote could've been more exciting. But ok at least it's June 5 and not end of year.


[User] autoflavour

topic_title: FUCK ADOBE!

post:
 Also while we are bitching. Fucking wetransfer.. bumped their price $100 and then auto renewed even tho I am 1000% sure I had that shit not to..  and email silence .
Cunts


topic_title: Typography

post:
 This site is cool

https://schultzschultz.com/tools…

[User] duckseason

comment: Been following these folks on insta for a bit, they do/release a lot of really fun and interesting generative tools. (Along with solid work overall)

[User] renderedred

comment: nice

html_comment: nice


[User] milfhunter

topic_title: Vid of the Day

comment: QBN's finest

html_comment: QBN's finest


topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

[User] Nairn

comment: Feels so .. cynically constructed and paint by numbers.

[User] Salarrue

comment: Indiana Jim

html_comment: Indiana Jim


topic_title: I ♥ HOUSE

comment: sexy

html_comment: sexy


topic_title: Pic of the Day

comment: Ye, can't stop won't stop

html_comment: Ye, can't stop won't stop

[User] Krassy

comment: ^ LOL

html_comment: ^ LOL

comment: Whitehouse press events are getting loose


[User] kaiyohtee

post: I didn't know i needed to get a S2:

[User] robthelad

comment: DK, This and Mario Kart... wild fun ahead


topic_title: Positive energy zones

[User] kingsteven


topic_title: Generative Art

post:
 Where do you guys stand on using AI to write code to create generative art? That's what I spent a lot of time last year doing while I was out of work, and it kept me focused, engaged and happy to do that and offset the stress of looking for a new job.

I've built two tools / applications / whatever you want to call them that are web based built with HTML, CSS, and JS. They're running on a local server on my NAS now and basically do this:

Collage tool:
- HTML canvas can be 1:1, A1-A4 sizes, and 11x17. Background images are selected from a huge list of paper textures.
- I've got local folders mapped to multi-selects in the UI where I can select from different categories like nature, paper textures, mountains, custom SVG shapes, etc.
- I can choose a min and max width and a random width is chosen from those parameters. I can choose number of images, so if multiple are selected, that's randomized as well. Can also chose whether it uses original image, or crops to circle or square, or randomizes that.
- Ability to set number of square, circle, and line shapes to render on the canvas. Can set min/max size and randomize widths based on that, can rotate squares and lines 45 degrees.
- Can override specific randomization of shapes and input a number from which the tool randomly chooses shapes based on that number.
- Color palettes - huge set of palettes saved in JS that can be selected form a picker and applied to shapes in real-time. Colors are shown in small circles that can be unselected to remove from the canvas. Also has an "update" button that will randomize the colors amongst shapes with each click.
- Mixed blend modes - exclusion, difference, multiply, and normal applied to shapes and images, with ability to still display images as normal, but shapes in other modes.
- Generate button that renders images and shapes on the canvas based on all the parameters.
- HTML canvas is interactive to allow shapes and images to be moved.
- Export canvas as image to local folder.

UI controls.

Shapes Pattern Tool:
- Same canvas approach as Collage tool, and ability to select backgrounds from a drop down.
- Canvas is set up as an adjustable grid from an input field that specifies number of columns.
- Shapes picker offering: squares, circles, randomized rotated eq. triangles, another combo of square, circle, triangle, and a custom shapes selector that pulls from a set of SVG shapes, patterns, etc. that can be selected in a multi-select field.
- Padding control - can be both positive value and negative (the negative padding was a "happy accident" and allows for all sorts of color interaction based on palette and mixed-blend mode.
- Color palettes (same functionality as collage tool)
- Randomize rotation - button to randomly rotate shapes within their grid cell.
- Ability to save as PNG, export composite / layered SVG file. The SVG export is great for taking these images and bringing them into InkScape and drawing with my pen plotter. More on that another time.

UI controls and some output:

Some thoughts:
- Learning how to do this last year kept me focused on, well, being focused in a year I spent 8 months out of work.
- Admittedly, I could have written maybe one line of JS to do this. Both of these tools are pushing 1,000 lines of JS now.
- I hit roadblocks with Chat GPT, which I started with. Someone suggested Claude back in January and that changed everything. Better accuracy, and it was impressive to upload my original code from ChatGPT (and custom code) and ask it to tell me what it thought the tool did. It surmised that it was a collage tool, explained the JS, etc.
- I mentioned having a pen plotter. That's what somewhat kicked off all of this exploration, because I wanted to try and do something a bit more minimalistic and basic than going down the road of complex generative art, truchet tiles, and that sort of thing. I'm a big fan of bauhaus and brutalist art, and collage art, so that's where a lot of inspiration came from.
- I used to make art like this in PS all the time years and years ago. Loved layer interactions with color and transparency and blend modes. These tools either help me generate images quickly, which would take so much more time in PS (that's why I'm happy with all the parameters that are real-time updates, the color palettes, ability to swap backgrounds, etc.
- I've been using some images as idea-starters that I will edit further in PS or Illustrator. Trying to use these approaches for the artwork related to my music project, The Ageless Sea.
- I had both tools running on my live website for a few months, but moved them to my NAS and a local server, which runs so much better since I can map asset multi-selects to folders in my Design Assets folder. I've been using Bridge to manage most of that, and can easily drop image assets into a Temp folder to work through specific ideas.

Anyhow, I know this was a lot, but it's been a blast and continues to be really satisfying to evolve it further and make imagery this way. Maybe I'll post some pen plotter art soon. It takes a while to create that stuff.

Lastly, someone in this thread or another one mentioned someone who is using AI to create stuff they're selling online. That's one of my goals, but I feel better about this stuff not being created with AI. The code was, of course, but not the images. It's all built on choices, randomization, and assets I actually have.

Someone also had a comment in another thread a while back where I shared some of these images, along the lines of "I could do this in PS in 5 minutes..." Yeah, most of us could, but I find the benefits and fun of this to be the quick nature of the randomization, the ease of bringing in multiple image assets, and ability to swap things out so quickly. I don't have any idea in PS or Illustrator how to swap palettes applied to shapes, or randomize colors applied to shapes instantly. I imagine it's a pain. All in all, I just find this method to be faster and more enjoyable, and though the intention in what's created is different than starting from a blank canvas in PS or Illustrator and deciding on every aspect of art on a canvas, the randomized nature of this is what I prefer, whether an image is good immediately, or whether I want to refine it further.

I continue to be unsure what to call all of this... is it generative? Is there a nuance because AI wrote the code? I think about all the crazy generative art being made, Josh Davis' years of processing.org work, and stuff made by others, and is there a big difference when it comes to some people editing their parameters in code, and my having a GUI to control the parameters?

Thanks for reading.

comment: Cool journey

html_comment: Cool journey

comment: Yes, developing your own tools to make creative stuff is way better than just asking chatgpt

comment: Myself, built two tools so far for my uses in projects: halftone+pixelate script with controls for the effects and font pairing app

comment: Both in Claude, but it's basically React code

comment: Took like an hour total for BOTH, Claude is that good

[User] monNom

comment: Very cool. I don't think you need to be too concerned that you are using AI to realize your vision, it's a tool. Just call it 'art'.

comment: I think it's precisely this kind of exploration and building of new capabilities that leads to creative breakthroughs. You aren't doing what everyone else is...

comment: therefore you are going to get different results, have different inspiration, and you'll have different capabilities to execute your ideas. Keep going!

comment: I appreciate your thoughts! I've got a ton of stuff I need to get uploaded to my IG page, but it's here if you'd like to follow: https://www.instagra…

comment: If you want to check out one of the early versions I still have on my site:https://mg33.com/gen…

html_comment:
If you want to check out one of the early versions I still have on my site:
https://mg33.com/gen…

comment: I need to pull this down to free up some storage space, but I'll keep it up for a couple of days. Reminder that the canvas shapes can be dragged.

[User] CyBrainX

comment: Congratulations on finding a job withing the last year. I can't even imagine that happening for me. Luckily, I still have a job.

comment: ^ Thank you. :) Was out of work from March - November after the agency I worked at was sold. Such a slog but doing so much better now than I was at my previous

comment: job. It's just so much work finding a job, but I got my portfolio site updated and I won't need to do that again for quite a while, which feels good.

comment: Very interesting what you have done. Respect.

[User] uan

comment: you could/should be posting on github :). you can also go openGL or p5.js (processing to js port) or any language! I think web is awesome! cool projects!

comment: call it open source and cc :)

html_comment: call it open source and cc :)

comment: Cool!

html_comment: Cool!

[User] microkorg

comment: Superb. Love the idea of building interfaces to create the art. The generative art I make is based on my 20+ yr old actionscript knowledge...

comment: ..its been accelerated massively since I've been using ChatGPT to help me code.


topic_title: AI logos

post:
 My son used chatGTP to make a logo and kits for his Sunday league youth team that he's starting with some friends, he did this with a couple of prompts and revisions, 5 minutes total if that.

is it great? not really but it's better than most youth and some pro logos out there and he did it by himself or getting his old man to begrugingly obsess over it for a week and come up with something even more half-assed lol

comment: for me, I never have luck with it, it just frustrates the hell out of me, but for 99% of the population this is all they'll need :(

comment: I also had a client come to me recently who went the AI rout by herself and the results were ok but not what she needs, so she ended up paying me to come up

comment: with a logo and the big difference was that in AI logos there is no thinking, no purpose, no cleverness, no hidden Fedex arrow just trendy looking things that m

comment: might be better than 99¢ logos or other crowdsourced nonsense.

comment: yup

html_comment: yup

[User] canoe

comment: push button art, y(our) kids generation is going to have a whole new take on the world - GPS, Screentime Syndrome, AI, legit robots...

comment: as humanity turns sideways I hope there's still people who try to right it


[User] yuekit

topic_title: Elon Musk

[User] BonSeff

comment: oh brother

html_comment: oh brother

comment: 5G chess

html_comment: 5G chess

comment: The guy speaks like such a buffoon, but simpletons eat it up as if he's a prophet.

comment: "Sometimes the only winning move is not to play"

[User] maquito

comment: If you lose, you lose! There’s no win for losers.


topic_title: RIP of the day

post:
 "I love you, Clarence. Always have, always will".

.

Also..


[User] rzu-rzu

topic_title: Suggest a good movie…

post: with a little bit of Val Kilmer in it:

comment: one of my favourites, what a film, what a cast. Tarantino's best script. Plus Alabama!


post: Came out a month ago, did anyone hear about it?


topic_title: Robot of the day

comment: It's funny, but it's also not.

html_comment: It's funny, but it's also not.


[User] utopian

topic_title: Graffiti art

[User] mantrakid

comment: good heavens thats insanely rad

html_comment: good heavens thats insanely rad


[User] zaq

topic_title: the gif animation thread

post:
 13-animals-made-from-13-circles...

https://www.dorithegiant.com/201…...


[User] PonyBoy

topic_title: blog

post: I just landed my first prostate-related product website... yeah, you know you're jealous <3

[User] Nairn

comment: hahahaha hahahahah Brilliant.Signs your getting old?:)

html_comment:
hahahaha hahahahah
Brilliant.
Signs your getting old?
:)

[User] renderedred

comment: LOL! great! keep us posted, i am sure many of us could be interested. i suffer from it.

comment: @Nairn "signs" nah man, we ARE old :)

html_comment: @Nairn "signs" nah man, we ARE old :)

[User] Continuity

comment: Go on.

html_comment: Go on.

[User] ideaist

comment: Can't spell "Prostate" without "PRO", bro!

comment: Are you working with the geezer agency?

html_comment: Are you working with the geezer agency?

[User] prophetone

comment: Are you working on the ‘backend’?

html_comment: Are you working on the ‘backend’?

[User] Akagiyama

comment: Well, your work ethic is a little anal, but you went up against the competition and 'wrecked em'.

comment: FLOL @ prophetone and Aka

html_comment: FLOL @ prophetone and Aka


topic_title: Artificial Intelligence

post: The problem with all these things is that there's always a stock quality to the output. As much fun as it is to morph an image into another style it feels like you are just pulling an existing style off the shelf rather than creating something truly original.

[User] grafician

comment: If it's not in the training data...

html_comment: If it's not in the training data...

comment: But it's easy with the new chatgpt to invent a style yourself, feed the image in the chat and it will generate more images in your style

comment: Plus, no layers and editing, but for quick presentations and moodboards it does the jobThese are still just tools, up to the user how to use them ofc

html_comment:
Plus, no layers and editing, but for quick presentations and moodboards it does the job

These are still just tools, up to the user how to use them ofc

comment: Anyway, waiting for the new MJ version to test it out

comment: I like how in Midjourney you can actually create and save styles. Trying to do it all through a chatbot seems very clunky.


[User] PhanLo

post:
 Let That Sink In
https://www.politico.com/news/ma…
-

comment: this is the end, my friend...

html_comment: this is the end, my friend...

comment: Once Elonia gets booted from the MAGAverse, he will have an epic sissy meltdown and go MegaWoke on MAGA Trump world.

comment: yes, the meltdown will be something to witness.

comment: also, i am very interested how will putin handle all that.

comment: nice mullet, donnie!

html_comment: nice mullet, donnie!

comment: IDK if he'll get booted, I think he's too valuable as a donor. But if things go really bad for Trump he might cut ties.

[User] mxhxr

comment: will fElon allow his $290M purchase go that easy?

[User] bigrobot

comment: You dumb fuck. LOL https://x.com/ImMeme…

comment: LOLL this is why TSLA stock jumped today :))))

[User] garbage

comment: You're taking Leavitt at her word? Interesting.

[User] nb

comment: Inner Circle? https://m.youtube.co…

html_comment: Inner Circle? https://m.youtube.co…

comment: Taking Leavitt at her word? No, it's literally what they've been saying since DOGE started. Dumb fuck.

comment: ..but you just quoted her as a whiffed gotcha? Sorry to get you all snowflaked.

[User] neverscared

comment: service limit nears , Insiders say Musk will leave soon, when 130-day cap on government service expires but ‘Doge’ team set to continue


topic_title: Israel bombing shit..

post:
 Deadly strikes in Gaza as Israel expands offensive to seize 'large areas'

https://www.bbc.com/news/article…

comment: Annexation is en vogue this season, eh?

html_comment: Annexation is en vogue this season, eh?

comment: I fear Gaza is marked for complete destruction and full ethnic cleansing / genocide.

comment: Yup @cont this what we do now :)

html_comment: Yup @cont this what we do now :)

comment: Benny is taking his marching orders from from Don Putin and his consigliere Trump, I guess. Fun times we live in.

comment: The Saudis too. They have a say as far as I can tell.

comment: Ah yeah, true. MBS is getting spit-roasted by Putin and Trump. Bet he must be proud of having one in the ass, the other in his mouth.

comment: Exactly LOL!

html_comment: Exactly LOL!

[User] hotroddy

comment: Hamas and Putin are allies but I guess creating your own reality is acceptable—if you're a liberal.


[User] rzu-rzu

topic_title: Memorable Movie Scenes

comment: ah thank you "video owner", ffs. It's from Amadeus


[User] yuekit

comment: New one from WeFailhttps://x.com/wefail…

html_comment:
New one from WeFail
https://x.com/wefail…

comment: Trash ass "art". Pay attention to your own sinking country overrun by violent immigrants, you Brits. LOL

comment: true... mush is a trash ass... white trash ass t

[User] milfhunter

comment: Hey ChatGPT can you draw me Elon Musk with a block of cheese on his head in Francis Bacon style.

comment: with loser written on his  signature blue space jacket and burning fire background


[User] utopian

[User] mantrakid

comment: good heavens thats insanely rad

comment: good heavens thats insanely rad

comment: good heavens thats insanely rad


topic_title: Stand-up Comedy

post:
 Massive Norm fan that I am, I can't believe I haven't seen this until a couple days ago.

It's a long one but the payoff had me crying.


post:
 For all the idiots that don't understand how the government works.
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/190…

[User] Longcopylover

comment: Please enlighten us as to how a government with unelected members works. Just kidding, I don't care.

comment: Elon Musk isn’t an unelected government member—he’s a private citizen with influence, not authority. No office, no vote, no laws.

comment: The last person I'd expect to understand the US government is a European. Most of our own people are too stupid; how can I expect you to understand?

comment: No, no, we get it really well, it is the people inside the US that don't get it, more proof adding up every day...

comment: The American government barely works at the best of times.

comment: service limit nears so obviously he has to go...

[User] robthelad

comment: I wish they hadn't put our Tea in the drink all those years ago.


[User] PonyBoy

topic_title: Vid of the Day

comment: Nice dig at Elmo

html_comment: Nice dig at Elmo


post:
 ^

not really generative code, but you can get the script for the bitmap image effects here

https://pastebin.com/iqbGnJm7

you get something like this (pixelate and halftone effects)

comment: This is from Claude 3.7 sonnet

html_comment: This is from Claude 3.7 sonnet

comment: That's cool! I wonder if you could figure out a glitch effect to the halftone output that would move and stretch pixels?

comment: good idea! Will ask my friend Claude about it over the weekend ;)

comment: < I needed this to make some profile pics for website project in halftone and pixelated style - without going through apps like Ps

comment: < works best with monotone or duotone images; also check "invert" box to have more contrast


topic_title: Social Media

post:
 "TikTok exposed the scale of election manipulation in Europe.

In Romania alone:
•92k+ fake accounts
•33k+ spam accounts
•pro-russian networks
•5.3M fake likes blocked in 2 weeks

Across the EU: hundreds of millions of fake accounts purged, videos, AI-generated mass disinfo."

full report: https://disinfocode.eu/reports/t…

s: https://x.com/thevtalks/status/1…

comment: But now seeing fake bots promoting extremist agendas even on Tumblr! Meta groups full of the same crap, not to even mention X...

comment: < after this, you cannot say Trump even won failry, the amount of disinfo on social media is quite staggering

comment: Social media’s true business model isn’t connection, it’s chaos. Spam, bots, disinformation? That’s not a bug, it’s the main feature.

comment: Outrage fuels engagement, engagement drives clicks, and clicks mean cash. The more toxic the feed, the more addicted the scroll.

comment: It’s less about community now and more like a digital gladiator arena—where the loudest lies and angriest trolls win the algorithm every time.


post:
 Had some ideas after posting about my tools earlier. Updated the gird-based tool to incorporate images into a specified number of shapes, which is something I was doing in PS when I'd import the composite SVGs. Really happy with how this turned out!

I'm using Bridge to manage all the assets, so it's easy to connect to my server folders and just copy / dump assets into those folders right in Bridge.

comment: these look very nice!But they kinda make me want to take out some old magazines and cut and paste irl hehehe

html_comment:
these look very nice!

But they kinda make me want to take out some old magazines and cut and paste irl hehehe

comment: Thank you! Interestingly enough, this is actually gotten me into the beginnings of making physical collages with cut up images.

comment: I bought a scanner as well so that I can import stuff easily to use in the digital versions.

comment: Somewhere ahead is a convergence of all of this with my own plotter, combining cut out stuff with plots.

comment: You are on to something here

html_comment: You are on to something here

[User] microkorg

comment: Nice <3I've been having similar fun recently albeit a bit more chaotic. I like your controlled compositions.

html_comment: Nice <3<br>I've been having similar fun recently albeit a bit more chaotic. I like your controlled compositions.


topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
Trump signs sweeping new global tariffs

https://edition.cnn.com/business…

The USA is now the most protectionist out of any developed country in the world

comment: We’ll be rich when china and everyone starts paying those high tariffs!!! lol that’s why the stock market is up right now!!!

comment: this new flag level in the back reminds me of...


[User] grafician

topic_title: America is Fucked

post: "DISCOUNTED TARIFFS" LOL

comment: recession incoming boys

html_comment: recession incoming boys

comment: The numbers seem to made up in some cases because some countries have no tariffs on the USA. So they just put 10% to justify adding 10% in return lol.

comment: The 10% was the minimum yeah! Wild times.

comment: This is going to wreck havoc on economies across the world. Definitely the most significant and dumbest thing he's done so far.

comment: He is destroying "brand America" just like Musk destroyed "brand Tesla"

comment: do we add tariffs also to design work for American clients now?! Confusing

comment: MAGA nation better load up on those MAGA hats made in China and Cambodia

comment: "US tariffs take aim everywhere, including uninhabited islands" LOL

[User] monospaced

comment: You talk like you are one of the boys in the USA who has to deal with this. It’s cute.

[User] nuggler

comment: How he figured "tariffs": the country’s trade deficit divided by its exports to the United States times 1/2. So, not actual tariffs.

html_comment: How he figured "tariffs": the country’s trade deficit divided by its exports to the United States times 1/2. <br>So, not actual tariffs.


[User] Akagiyama

comment: Buttery Males!

html_comment: Buttery Males!


post:
 "BREAKING: President Trump says this will be the 'golden age of America'"

Ok, we can close this thread now.


[User] prophetone

topic_title: Vin Diesel

post:
 VIN VENN
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMBuHsdAy/…

comment: lol

html_comment: lol


post: s: https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/st…

comment: < This X thread is wild

html_comment: < This X thread is wild

comment: "Trump's people only used the trade deficit in goods. So even though we run a trade surplus in services with the world, those exports don't count"

comment: "any country where we have a trade surplus or where the trade deficit/imports is less than 10% had their tariff rate listed as 10%."


[User] zaq

comment: "Great Depression" is trending again LOL

[User] maquito

[User] Continuity

comment: So, is it time to bust out the webcam and get a new head of lettuce yet?

comment: kill kill kill the poor

html_comment: kill kill kill the poor

comment: its inflation day  not liberation day

html_comment: its inflation day  not liberation day


[User] PhanLo

topic_title: Moebius

post:
 Moebius tribute Matthew C Barrett, 2013
-


[User] autoflavour

topic_title: making beats

comment: OP1- FIELD VST .. for the same price

html_comment: OP1- FIELD VST .. for the same price

comment: Haha, wouldn't surprise me. Some boutique hardware has made its way to high priced VSTs in the past.


topic_title: Photography

[User] nb

comment: I RULED at photography until I started watching YouTubes


[User] neverscared

comment: waste as in  wasteland

html_comment: waste as in  wasteland


post:
 Another anti-AI "artist" whining.

People are just having some fun, darling. As long as they don't use stuf like the Ghibli for commercial purposes it shouldn't be seen so narrow-minded.

comment: so u are whining about the whiners ? sounds u like one and the same when it comes to that specific trait....

comment: Call the Whaambulance

html_comment: Call the Whaambulance

comment: u already did... be it muslims or people who dont like  a.i

comment: look around maybe u find a muslim who doestn like a.i ... that must be the apex of outrage and hate for you....

comment: lol you and your muslims

html_comment: lol you and your muslims

[User] Ianbolton

comment: haha, you and your muslims!! There shouldn't be any should there NBQ? And AI is just fine and this 'bitch' (probably your word) needs to shut the fuck up

comment: Here we go, the guy who keeps putting words in my mouth.


[User] OBBTKN

post:
 This year marks my 30th year working, 10 of them full-time solo.

Well, we'll have to celebrate ;)

comment: salud! arriba esa copa

html_comment: salud! arriba esa copa

comment: Aupa!

html_comment: Aupa!


topic_title: Elon Musk

post:
 I’m anti-musk and anti-trump but this line that people have about Elon being unelected is a weak argument.

There are always thousands of unelected people working in government. Some of them with substantial power.

comment: Instead, we should be hammering trump and Elon on the economy that they’ve inherited and ruined

comment: Only 50% of UK Prime Ministers are elected by the people.

comment: @nb Also, people ought to be more pissed off about the fact he bought his way in, not that he isn't elected.

comment: eg: hotroddy

html_comment: eg: hotroddy

comment: This is America, nearly everyone in power bought themselves in

comment: But yes, people should be more upset about that.

comment: we will see how weak it is ..when the justice system is finished  with ... i guess they appointed Amy Gleason for legal doubtful reasons about doge operations.

comment: and not mush... not that they wouldnt all get a pardon... but that would look ungroovy for mush at the top.

comment: After all this birther shit about Obama being African, I think it’s okay to call out the actual African unelected immigrant fuckass in the white house

comment: Mono, you’re anti-immigrant?

html_comment: Mono, you’re anti-immigrant?

[User] palimpsest

comment: People "in power" don't buy themselves in, they are bought. They are not the people in power.

[User] brothernoah

comment: No unelected official has access and power like Elon was utilizing. It crosses many lines and cuts checks and balances. Essential factors in the USG.

[User] garbage

comment: Also no unelected official has an open threat to fund primaries against anyone who opposes him.

comment: Yes 'unelected' is the wrong word. "Illegal" is more accurate. In so many ways!

comment: @nb, no, I’m anti hypocrite and double standards

comment: Ok was hard to discern based on your anti-immigrant comment


topic_title: WANT of the day

post:
Got myself this little guy.
Been staying away from film for 20 years between cost and the hassle of dealing with storage etc, and this is def more on the toy side but somehow I'm excited to play with it.

https://shop.lomography.com

[User] thenohero

comment: Super fun.    I run with an Instax system for friend and family photos.  Really impressed with the quality, running on the wide format.

comment: Sweet!Good technical tips here re exposurehttps://www.youtube.…

html_comment:
Sweet!
Good technical tips here re exposure
https://www.youtube.…


comment: Protesting political actions by performing art? Nothing wrong with that!

comment: dance of shiva... If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

[User] robthelad

comment: Protesting political actions by performing art = I don't like what you do so I'm gonna wiggle.

comment: trumple wiggled himself into top position... all these dances the last year... beautifull... communcation is still 90% body languange..


[User] elahon

topic_title: Meme of the day

comment: Wife has pretty hairy arms

html_comment: Wife has pretty hairy arms


[User] SlashPeckham

comment: The two men in this video act like it’s their very first day on planet Earth.

comment: One thing I've learned here at QBN is Creatives absolutely LOVE being told how to be Creative via a static corporate motion array template from Nokia.

comment: Bold strategy Nokia...

html_comment: Bold strategy Nokia...


topic_title: What are you listening to?

post: Luttrell feat. Molly Moonwater - Something Right

comment: smooooooooooooth

html_comment: smooooooooooooth


[User] grafician

[User] monospaced

comment: The US consumer would pay the tariffs

html_comment: The US consumer would pay the tariffs


topic_title: Show your latest Pics

post: recent, re-edited


comment: N O R T H K O R E E E A ?

html_comment: N O R T H K O R E E E A ?

[User] instrmntl

comment: Russia, Cuba, Belarus, North Korea.

html_comment: Russia, Cuba, Belarus, North Korea.

[User] nuggler

comment: The US has an embargo against North Korea, so tariffs wouldn't apply. Russia supplies most of our nesting dolls so that's a bigger one

html_comment: The US has an embargo against North Korea, so tariffs wouldn't apply. <br>Russia supplies most of our nesting dolls so that's a bigger one


post:
 making the thing that's making beats:
https://diy-synths.snnkv.com/


topic_title: blog

post: There's a lot of name-calling on the boards these days. I think you fuck face twat flavoured lemon noodle fart sniffing shit sharing blood gurgling spunk pussy nonce pots should show some motherfuckingarsebanditting respect around here.

comment: Jesus Christ!

html_comment: Jesus Christ!

comment: WE SHOULD START A FIGHT CLUB!

html_comment: WE SHOULD START A FIGHT CLUB!


[User] yuekit

post:
 You know it's going well when before the policy even rolls out they have already designated a "fall guy"

https://www.politico.com/news/20…


topic_title: Kanye West Hate Thread

post:
 Kanye West Posts Tracklist for New Album Illustrated with Swastikas, Featuring 2 “Hitler” Songs, Titles “Free Diddy,” “Cosby”

https://www.showbiz411.com/2025/…

[User] PhanLo

comment: I like that he's quadrupled down

html_comment: I like that he's quadrupled down

comment: Thanks for sharing, champ.

html_comment: Thanks for sharing, champ.

[User] sarahfailin

comment: "Jared" must be Subway Jared?

html_comment: "Jared" must be Subway Jared?


[User] webazoot

topic_title: Idle Thoughts

post:
 What happens to your wheelie bin when it falls into the lorry... does it survive, do they still use the compactor to squash it?

Why is there no YouTube video covering this.

- Idle thoughts prompted by our second wheelie bin heading off on a new(or end of) life with the bin wagon.


post:
So just because the rest of the world doesn’t want to supersize their happy meals, live in a McMansion or drive a monster truck a huge trade deficit and debt has occurred for the US, so instead of punishing the world with these ridiculous tariffs why don’t you try downsizing a bit instead, try eating only 2 Big Macs at a sitting, try not owning 55 pairs of $300 Jordans, try walking to the corner store once in a while instead of firing up one of your 4 unnecessary cars

So yeah you can’t force the rest of the world to buy more of your shit, just start buying less of theirs.

Nobody’s ripping you off, they just can’t keep pace with your gluttony.

comment: And the entire system’s rigged anyway net exporters should have a strong currency and net importers should have a weaker one but it’s the exact opposite

comment: We live in an economic bizarro world

html_comment: We live in an economic bizarro world

comment: Exactly that explains the trade deficit they think is so terrible.

comment: Hey if this forces some people to curb the bullshit I GUESS it’s okay then?


post: Did you even say thank you?


[User] stoplying

topic_title: Iran

post: Iran qualified for the World Cup, but are banned from flying into the USA. They'll have to play all of their early matches in Canada and Mexico and if they advance...it's on

[User] maquito


post:
There are a range of estimates but economists seem to agree Trump's tariffs will increase costs for Americans by thousands per year. How many people can afford that right now?

Even if you switch to buying American for everything your cost is still going up dramatically, otherwise the tariffs wouldn't be necessary.

https://www.marketwatch.com/stor…

comment: stable genius

html_comment: stable genius

comment: Surprise! Surprise!

html_comment: Surprise! Surprise!

comment: golden age, much?

html_comment: golden age, much?

comment: golden showers more like

html_comment: golden showers more like

[User] canoe

comment: lol maquito

html_comment: lol maquito


[User] Gabriel

comment: are you slightly protecting the lenses on the back (if that) but can still shatter the screen once you inevitably drop it?

comment: This is like putting a condom on just the tip, I say if you're going to raw-dog, raw-dog all the way!

[User] microkorg

comment: Get a case with cover that slides over the lenses to protect them when not in use.

[User] BusterBoy

comment: So a phone case that doesn't protect your phone...seems legit.


topic_title: Street Art

post:
https://www.instagram.com/dimitr…
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topic_title: Over the Garden Wall (Aardman stop motion)


topic_title: Vid of the Day

post: Old but good


topic_title: Trailer Of The Day

post:
 Bacon is burning!
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topic_title: Show some recent work

post: Started doing these a while ago... product stickers and paint.


[User] zaq

topic_title: Donald Trump

post:
 finally found my dusted tin foil ...

“The Last President” (1900) is a short political satire written by Ingersoll Lockwood, the same author who wrote Baron Trump’s Marvelous Underground Journey. It was published in 1900, but set in a speculative future.

Summary:
	• Premise: The book opens with a shocking presidential election result in New York City that triggers chaos. A populist outsider—unexpectedly elected—represents the interests of the working class and poor, against the elites and bankers.
	• The president begins making sweeping reforms. The narrative focuses on how the entrenched powers react and try to regain control through force, manipulation, or political schemes.
	• Riots and panic erupt in response to the announcement. Mobs form in the streets. The Fifth Avenue elite (i.e., the financial and political establishment) fear the loss of their power and wealth.
	• Wall Street is paralyzed, and the new president is seen as a threat to the old order, especially by those with vested financial interests. The chaos is described almost like a civil breakdown, especially in New York.

Weird Coincidence: One of the main characters in Lockwood’s earlier books is Baron Trump, a curious boy with a wealthy father named Don. This, along with “The Last President,” has fueled modern conspiracy theories due to the similarity in names and populist themes.

https://a.co/d/0fu7XPn

comment: this can't be real

html_comment: this can't be real

comment: Hold my tin foil.https://en.wikipedia…

html_comment:
Hold my tin foil.
https://en.wikipedia…

comment: WTF! that's crazy!or did they just create that wiki page recently...borrows tin foil hat

html_comment: WTF! that's crazy!<br>or did they just create that wiki page recently...borrows tin foil hat

[User] monNom

comment: Wiki page from 2017, so a bit peculiar timing.

comment: "The last president"  referenced is a critique of the free silver movement. Synopsis (p447) https://books.google…

[User] toemaas

comment: Sooo were they published in 1889 or 2021?