some people said I should do something like this. please excuse my bad handwriting. also this isn’t some much a step by step tutorial as it is a bunch of diagrams. let me know if you want more stuff like this.
HEAD’S UP ARTISTS THAT RESIZE IN PHOTOSHOP. This really saved my life. I’d noticed that gross halo around art whenever I resized something but never knew how to get rid of it til Onta showed me and ahhhhh. I’m just so happy there was a solution to it so I really hope this helps others out too!! (also look at more cute bear faces I drew~)
YOU HAVE SAVED MY LIFE, I do some contract work often and I need to transform objects and layers all the time and I noticed this the other day that the quality of each element was going fuzzy and gross and It made me a bit like “oh crap wtf”
Begin your application with “well, I’ll probably fail anyway, but…”
Try to be cutesy/edgy and add in a bunch of superfluous statements where they don’t belong. This is a job you are applying for, not an OK Cupid profile. Don’t use emoticons if you can help it.
Fail to follow directions. If you are asked to provide a short snippet of your writing/art as proof of your ability, do that. Don’t play 20 questions about what the prospective employer might want to see.
Insert links and descriptions of what each link is. Your writing/art should speak for itself, and should be included as a .zip file as an attachment or as individual attachments. If you have to explain each piece to the viewer, you have a weak portfolio.
Format correctly. If you are an author and you’re writing prose, please format your writing correctly. If you submit work that is one large and difficult to read block of text, you will be looked over, I guarantee it.
Play the pity card. Guilting someone into hiring you is a pretty manipulative thing to do. If your writing or art is not up to the standards of the person offering the job, that isn’t the prospective employer’s fault.
DO:
Introduce yourself concisely, but with a friendly demeanor. Polite honestly is generally received the best.
Provide accurate contact information in an easily accessible space. This isn’t so much for applying for jobs per se, but rather scouting/recruiting. There are a lot of people who get passed up simply because they do not have easily accessible, accurate contact information displayed.
Reply promptly. This speaks for itself.
Ask questions. If you are unsure of something, asking questions is more professional than playing it off like you understand the job completely, only to find yourself totally lost later on.
Be clear about what you can and cannot provide. This ties into the above point. If you are asked to do something that you know you are not capable of doing, don’t agree to do it only to be overwhelmed later.
Play yourself up in a professional manner. If you have confidence in your work, that shines through and makes you far more appealing than someone who puts themselves down relentlessly. If you say your work sucks, you will be passed up. Nobody has the time or patience to coddle you.
Make sure your work is easy to access on all manner of devices. This means phones, tablets and PCs.
Be professional, but be yourself. It’s pretty easy to tell when someone is being a tryhard.
Women in Armour – ConQuest of Mythodea 2015 – 1 | 2 | 3
When you let women dress themselves for battle there are no chain mail bikinis, no boob plates, no high heels. We wear heavy armour and wield swords and axes and maces. So fuck you, video game industry.
(Those are not my photos! Posted with permission from the Live Adventure team and their amazing photographers. Find out more about them, the ConQuest of Mythodea and other Larp events here. Please don’t remove caption!)
As an apartment dweller, this is a game changer. My current apartment doesn’t have a laundry facility and the closest Laundromat about a 30 min bus ride which is just not practical. The mini-washer is a life saver
The panda mini washer hooks up to the sink, is incredibly lightweight (about 28 pounds, so light even I can lift it) and easy to use.
It has a surprisingly large capacity. The basket from the first picture represents about one and a half loads. The jeans took up a whole load while the rest filled the bin only half way.
Here’s the inside. The left is the washer the right is the spin dryer. Yes, it even drys.
Basically you shove your cloths into the washer, fill it up with water and let it go. I use my shower head to fill it up so it goes faster, the sink hook up took about five minutes to fill the whole tub, with the shower head is is down to a minute an a half. I do it in three wash cycles, a five minute rinse with baking soda, a five minute wash with soap and a three minute rinse with water. You have to drain and refill between each cycle so it’s a little more labor intensive than a traditional washer.
That’s the spin dryer. It’s about half the capacity of the washer so one wash takes about two loads to dry. The spinner is much more effective than I was expecting. A three minute spin gets my cloths about 90% dry. I hang them up to air dry for that last 10%.
The machine cost me about 150$. When you factor in two dollars for the bus, five for the machines (per week), the mini-washer pays for its self after only about six months worth of laundry.
I’m not great at expressing emotion, but I’m hoping you can tell how excited I am. Let me just say that the panda mini-washer is great and I highly recommend it to anyone currently using a Laundromat.
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