saturday night (2024)
...Nessas de portifolio generalista o cliente vai entendendo que tu é só um operador de photoshop. na cabeça dele "se eu soubesse usar photoshop eu nem contratava ninguém". O cara não consegue compreender que "não é o martelo, mas a decisão de onde, quando e quanto martelar" que faz o profissional.
É essa dinâmica de favor que eu num tenho mais idade pra digerir, hehehe. Comentei no rp do júlio que acho que isso é reforçado pelo discurso que a gente vê na faculdade que "designer não pode ter estilo e autoralidade igual artista"...
Vou falar em português pra não queimar a gente lá fora, mas os únicos clientes que me deram problemas na vida foram os brasileiros. Praticamente todos os gringos que atendi foram maravilhosos. O último me pagou o dobro como forma de agradecimento, pro cê ter ideia.
Acho que isso é reforçado pelo discurso nas faculdades de que "designer não pode ter estilo e autoralidade como artistas". Nessa de portifólio generalista o cliente é ensinado que o profissional não tem uma identidade e um jeito próprio de resolver as coisas graficamente. Que ele é só uma ferramenta
É o que eu faco... com um único adicional: nunca mais aceito trabalho com aquele dito cliente. Dou desculpas que estou sem agenda e não conheço ninguém pra indicar no momento.
I do the work, receive the payment and then add them to a personal list of clients called "never again". Fortunately 99% of my layout clients in the last 7 years were good ones that came to me asking "what would you do?" In the first place.
So good.
How I long for the day when I can live lightly again. There's so much work and responsibilities that I feel like I'm no longer able to rest, only sleep.
🎯
Beautiful design choices
My unpopular opinion of the day is that I think modernist abstract art works MUCH BETTER as book covers than full rendered illustrated art.
I have the impression rendered illustrations ends up reducing what it's book is about. It sets how you're expected to imagine the scenes you'll read inside it
3/3
It's like that company jerk that is adored only by the people who don't need to work with them on a daily basis.
Internet made things easier...but also a lot more complex, unfortunately.
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That means a whole country of active online users was meeting him for the first time after 40 years of problematic stuff that went completely under the radar for most of them. They were not reading Song of Kali or Flashback. Their entry point was the safest one, Hyperion.
Another thing to take into the equation is that internet made different contexts seem similar ones by getting us, citizens living wildly different realities, in direct contact to each other.
Example: In 2023 we had a Simmons work translated to Portuguese for the first time ever in Brazil. 1/3
Yeah... The guy was always problematic, but I don't think most of the public dive deep into an artist's work as we do (we're culture creeps).
I feel most of them read only the Hyperion Cantos, his most safe and successful work, and call it a day.
PS: everybody seems to agree Kali was a bad move.
And I say that sad for the many artists I used to admire revealing themselves terrible people, some even monsters, on the last years.
Neil Gaiman, Nobuhiro Watsuki, Billy Corgan, Phil Anselmo and so many others
MANY times I quit reading/listening to artists after their undefendable takes.
I honestly don't know if there was a time where the artistic class was made out of better people.
My sour heart inclines me to think fans only didn't had that much access to their private lives and thoughts back then.
Internet didn't made people worse. It just revealed what was always there.
My thing with Dan Simmons is that people throw the terms "genius" and "brilliant" way too easily on the internet.
His Hyperion original cantos was good? Yes.
Was it anything as remotely brilliant as, let's say, Gene Wolfe's *worst* works? No. Not at all.
Yeah, but I think there were scales of it ... one thing is edgy stuff in subtext. Another whole different thing is open preachy right wing fiction with no subtext at all.
The man worst started to really bloom in the second half of his career.
That said, even at his best his work was overrated.
I've only read his Hyperion (and the fall of it) out of curiosity since everybody praised it in high regards. Although they're good sf novels, I found them extremely overrated at the time. People call things "genius" way too fast on the internet.
I'm trying to organize my life through Notion and so far things are working out great.
From projects management (pic 1)...
... to movie tracker (pic. 2)...
... to gift wishlist (pic. 3) among many other things.
My only problem is that the day has only 24 hours and I need to stay healthy.
I know the feeling, my friend. Better than I wish I did.
Last weekend some friends asked me if making TTRPGs brings good money.
"yeah, it does... But it pays the bills tho?
Men of culture, my friend. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Another absurd take I see online is people saying Javier Rodriguez art for "Absolute Martian Manhunter" is somehow bad...?!?!?!?!?!
As an example: paul pope's Batman Year 100.
Online people saying Pope's overestimated and I'm like "man, Pope is dope as heck! What you're talking bout?!"
Recently I've restarted reading and buying super hero comics after many many years without doing so. To my surprise (...not really) my taste is considered trash to the mainstream readers of super hero comics. Every comic online people say is the worst I find to be among my favorites.
Keanu Keeves is an actor everybody seems to love and I can't stand him. To me he's the wrong person at the right place most of the time in his carreer.
P.S.2: another thing I've realized is that in my visits on the Cube it was always day outside.
In the Cillinder, on the other hand, it was night outside.
