so that I can ask the following question: If I multiple-tile a gif on the board, does it use up any more bandwidth for dial-up board nazis than just posting one instance of it would?
(atomicA-bomb-a-nation,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:34,
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to be fair, my friend's rather prettier than that picture
but there are similarities. in honour of her privacy, i may avoid handing out name, phone number, address, measurements and so forth, though, although i'd judge that most of those are also quite satisfactory.
I got a touch-screen phone that turned out to be really quite dumb. It doesn't even support google maps, despite being advertised as having it pre-loaded. They saw me coming.
The next smartphone you buy should be a Samsung Galaxy S, any of them (they've got I and II already and probably III on the way soon). They're very nice. I can't afford one, myself, but both my parents - neither of them that into technology - love them, and I'm rather jealous.
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:32,
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Pedro is a giraffe love doll.......!
(atomicA-bomb-a-nation,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:57,
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yiff!
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 2:00,
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ha ha ha, yes! she really did freak me out, because I had a shitload of bill collectors on my butt
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:39,
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stalkerlolz
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:44,
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Allow me to explain:
I was wondering where you got your name from. I couldn't remember the surname of the Pedro in Napoleon Dynamite, I thought that might be it. So I googled it... Honest.
As long as its original content, and it provokes discussion (good, or bad)
my standards for b3ta are pretty none-existent. Ive seen some right shite posted on here (MS paint seamy shops, barely legible doodles etc), but it flows through the board and keeps it moving, with plenty of comments. Granted, someone else's experiences on DivvyArt in pictorial form are hardly prime LOL material, but at least its a post - one during the cold, dark gayshift, too.
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 0:47,
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i'm too bored by her tedium to even bother commenting
usually
(reali'm not happy 'til you're not happy,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 0:22,
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pfft
(PedroHinCome along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 0:24,
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I do love how everyone uses the words "her" and "she"
when we all know that he's called Dave and he lives in Wrexham, has a BLOOD tattoo on his right bicep and supports the EDL (and is trying to make a British version of NAMBLA while he's at it).
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 0:39,
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that cheese, always a rush on at the ring
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 9:33,
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Ill Communication.
(atomicA-bomb-a-nation,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 0:28,
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Why is my name on this?
I AM HUMINIST!!!
(Paul_Phttp://www.Paul-hub.com,
Wed 1 Feb 2012, 8:06,
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I quite fancy doing 3DCG tribute pic to my fave film of last year - Drive. Was doing some sketches of Gosling, seeing how i can stylise / cartoonify him. Not pushing it far enough, methinks. I get well frustrated when i draw. I have the pic in my mind, but i cant get it on paper...
I think you've done quite well in terms of cartoonifying Ryan Gosling.
Wicked film, can't get enough of it :D
Oooh, and while I'm here, I'll stick this up; a mock-up cover for Little White Lies, which I'm submitting in March. Still got a few things to change here and there, but yeah. :)
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 23:59,
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When does Drive take place, anyway? It seems like it's in the 80s, but when there's technology like vibrating mobile phones etc, throws you off a bit.
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 0:12,
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Present day
There's a brand spanking new Mustang GT in it, as well as other modern cars and gadgets, and the bloke with the knife collection (i forgot his name) mentions that he used to make movies in the 80s.
If the graphic novel I'm writing ever gets completed, I'm thinking of selling it somehow; I know JollyJack uses a site called LuLu to sell his stuff.
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 0:30,
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Depends what you're selling it for and how
but Lulu can be a good thing. (Check what you upload, and then buy a copy to check what they're printing, though. I got a copy of one of JJ's Sequential Art books and the page order is totally fucked up, and he swears that Lulu buggered it up after upload.) On the other hand, print quality is nice and the cover is lovely. I've also published other books through Lulu and had no problems at all.
For me right now though Lulu is worthless because I'm bound by contract to sell stories for $0.99 or more, and Lulu charge $1 a pop for digital downloads. Me, I can live without paying Lulu a cent every time someone buys one of my stories... Depends what you're wanting it for really.
Also if you put anything on Lulu you may as well whack it on Amazon as well. Amazon have "CreateSpace" which is more or less their version of Lulu. Upload the same PDF and cover, and it hits Amazon US faster than anything from Lulu will, and increases your market surface area. Probably not to any appreciable level if my execrable sales record is anything to go by, but then again I've done as much marketing as I have hang-gliding, and I'm terrified of heights.
well as it stands now, I imagine the final product would be long. Really, REALLY long. We're talking about 18 chapters worth of content.
The main reason I'm doing this graphic novel is because, by and large, I enjoy it. If it's an opportunity to make money whilst doing something I like, then cool. It's just a case of where I could sell it, how, etc. To print it would cost a fucking bomb. I guess my best bet is to take it to a publisher once it's done and ask them.
I doubt it'll be done for another year or thirty, so I've got plenty of time to weigh out my options.
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:05,
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I'd say contact the Hedgehog from Hell and go roughly his route
Self-publish while you hawk it to agents and publishers - any legal ramifications can be dealt with afterwards when you sign away your soul. Of those, since it's a graphic novel eBooks are a waste of time, so flog it on Lulu and Amazon, and you'll be able to hit most people you'll care about. Both of them take a large but totally bearable cut of the profits to cover printing costs, and the quality coming out of both is actually generally very nice.
(Also it's just occurred to me, if you're colouring your pictures, I don't know what they insist on having uploaded but if you *can* upload everything in CMYK I'd suggest doing so - I've only published print, but I have had cover images come through from the two companies in rather different colours, and for me as a colour-blind moron to notice that is quite impressive. At least if you do your own remapping you've got control over what comes out of it.)
That's kind of what will be a problem to me once I leave uni.
Whether I should sign on with a design agency or go freelance. Most post-graduate lecturers say they went freelance for a bit and then got picked up by an agent. Sounds like a good angle.
I think the pages will be in greyscale, I'm not too sure yet. JollyJack seems to get by without using colour, but I think a splash of colour would help quite a lot.
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:26,
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the problem's only really with converting from rgb to cmyk
so the differences won't be *that* major, or shouldn't be. if it's only a splash of colour here or there on each picture it's not even going to be noticeable. if it's full-colour spreads all the way through it may not be noticeable until you compare the two printouts - then it may or may not concern you. i'm probably just anal :)
Yeah, my tutors have been grilling us about CMYK for a while now.
I do get it, it's just not too much of a problem for me, being able to instantly switch modes in Photoshop, etc.
I better go to bed now, gotta be up SO early D: thanks for the advice, and see you later! :D
(Bourbon FoxBourbon is a moron,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:34,
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haha
yeah photoshop can help, but even photoshop's just using one or another mapping - no idea what, since i don't have photoshop. i'm using whatever it is epson put on my computer along with the printer drivers, since i work with gimp (which is *STILL* motherfucking rgb only, which is obviously why it's "professional standard" yes, fat linux nerds, it's *totally* professional so long as you don't care about, you know, usability, or features, or semi-professional colour-spaces, or useability, or a non-shitty UI, or useability, or..... ahem) but there a quite a few journals insist i provide them with figures in cmyk, most likely so that i'm liable for any colour problems.
as for advice, i don't know how helpful any is but anything i can offer i'm happy to :)
I used to do the in-house design work at a printers. Honest. I know I only post junk here.
When it comes to offset lithographic printing, it's REALLY important to understand the difference between CMYK and RGB. One small example - when you convert from RGB to CMYK, the 'black' will be made up of all 4 colours, which can lead to all sorts of nightmares with registration. And switching back and forth will make your colours all mushy and inaccurate. Beware.
(4Qjust lurking,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 23:48,
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partially, yes :-)
My hair was a greasy mess, and both my beard and my hair needed a trim. I thought i looked a bit like freebase, so i tried my best to emulate his expression. Its humanly IMPOSSIBLE to get that gurn right, so i shopped it on.
I'd be a bit scared if I could do the lunatic gurn, tbh.
(4Qjust lurking,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 23:53,
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freebase himself would be hard pushed to do it
some say his gurn only looks as it does because haku rebuilt the left side of his face which was originally hidden by the computer on the rowing machine.
others dismiss this as depressing reductionism and point instead to the deals that freebase cut with the ancient black of the deeps who waiteth impatiently for its time of dominion that cometh
Bought an amazing illustrated Judo book from a charity shop and thought it'd be funny to take out all the speech and replace it with the speech from Dear Deidre's photo casebooks. It's made me laugh doing them and hope it raises a chortle or two on here. More on our blog here:
(mictoboyshitting in your cunt since,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 22:06,
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There was a poop in the third floor of the QMU that was so big it wouldn't flush, and so solid it wouldn't degrade. It lasted for about a week, perhaps out of compoaition - but I am sure after a few days people stopped trying to flush it out of respect
for the poop.
(gaijintendoRegular Member,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 22:17,
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(mictoboyshitting in your cunt since,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 21:28,
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i wrote the description in a hurry nad i think if i change it the story goes offline for a day
Let's all pretend that's what on Amazon actually reads
"A first year student at St Andrews encounters the We Hate Ray Bradbury Society, dedicated to Hearts, swimwear, walrus suits and hating Ray Bradbury. Over the course of the semester he slowly learns more about them... and understands less and less."
(mictoboyshitting in your cunt since,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 21:31,
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Makes more sense this way
Also I'm going to go and check if actually I can sell cheaper on Amazon now. I don't want to sell stories for 77p, I want to sell them for 50p. When I first started selling you were capped to $1 on Amazon which they convert (rather optimistically over-estimating the value of the dollar) to 77p. It might be they've relaxed that now. Be good if they have...
Edit: Nah. I can trim one or two p from it and that's it.
You can save yourself loads of cooking time and energy by, just not bothering and putting it straight in the bin, and make yourself a sandwich to start with...
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 20:47,
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a sandwich out of real meat too
with flavour!
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 20:48,
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Toooooo right there!
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 20:49,
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infact, fuck it
let's slaughter a few baby seals
it's winter, man
it's cold!
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 20:49,
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That sounds like more fun than the government advice of drinking plenty of hot fluids....
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 20:53,
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eek! hot fluids!
you could get burned!
(discomeatsThis canoe,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 21:02,
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Alcohol sounds safer..
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 21:13,
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"If meat is murder, is Quorn wasting police time?"
*gets an attack of coffee splurted out through the nostrils*
LOL
(Troutman RoflcocksA glass of port... don't mind if I do.,
Tue 31 Jan 2012, 1:00,
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Is it veggie-bashing night?
Quorn isn't horrible, just not very similar to meat. As most veggies don't like meat, that isn't generally a problem.
(notoolsovernightyou're all luvvly an' 'orrible,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 21:32,
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I love meat, but also really love proper veggie dishes too.....
But why spoil proper lovely veggie dishes with something as revolting as quorn? it's not meat and meat eaters hate it, and it just spoils lovely veggie dishes....
(The invisable manIs having a long lazy soak in search,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 21:37,
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Quorn isn't marketed at vegetarians, it's for meat-reducers, slimmers and fussy teenage girls
I've been veggie 20 years, have never touched Quorn and don't have any veggie friends who eat it.
(IHateSproutsis baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie,
Wed 1 Feb 2012, 13:27,
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I used to ear Linda McCartney sausages
then I got one of the haunted packs they tried to recall :(
(gaijintendoRegular Member,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 22:21,
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Linda's sausages taste like sawdust
and I wouldn't want one in my ear.
Veggie frankfurters taste pretty much like meaty ones, but mainly because there is about 0.001% meat in the average Frank so leaving it out is not much of a loss.
(notoolsovernightyou're all luvvly an' 'orrible,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 22:42,
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Before I saw the Quorn packet
I thought it was going to be about Kisses on the Bottom
i even checked on tineye with the hope that i would quickly prove you didn't do it, but nothing doing. instead i'm going to drown you in bitter jealousy (and click)
(Clayhopes this bit is long enough to promote my websi,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 19:23,
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evenin' all
Bongo and Twit play the Sands:
Also...Coming Soon to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 2 inch hemline lift in Deri Air business class flights, 10 characters from the paintings as figurines with retro accessories. Should be ready about mid Feb ;)
(Clayhopes this bit is long enough to promote my websi,
Mon 30 Jan 2012, 18:46,
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