A frustrated graphic designer who has been at it for a while simply can’t stand the typical “off the assembly line” phony hipster graphic designers that are prancing around every where. These fucking dweebs basically just slap the title “Graphic Designer” on themselves along with others like”Writer”, “Musician”, “Foodie”, “Executive Barista”, etc. Well anyway, she wanted to share a little chart she made with me. I love the last bullet point for the Apple Mac Book – ‘mostly used as coaster for frappuccinos.’ Enjoy.
So why the hate for Macs?
There isn’t any hate for Macs. Hipster treat Macs like expensive fashion accessories. I personally like Macbooks.
Fantastic t-shirt! Only one thing, the hair, the uncombed, unbrushed matt of yak pelt underneath because mumsy and daddy won’t give them any more money for a frigging haircut.
so true…Macs are great computers…it’s just the iZombies that make Apple seem like a four letter word.
Macs are part of the hipster concious. Hipsters use anything that has an apple logo on it. me personally I hate apple computers because of its closed ecosystem so I stick with windows 7 and moving on to windows 8 ianother reason why I dont use apple products is because of its high value resale and constant thievery which can lead users to 6 feet under if some one shoots you for an iphone. To bad there is no app for that.
“To bad there is no app for that.”
Ha!
I have been a longtime Mac user but am just about done with them. My career is in printing and my hobbies are in music. So the stability of the Mac OS and its ability to crunch through huge files with ease has always led me back to Macs. However the Windows products just keep on closing the gap and before long we won’t need the Macs anymore. (Although I saw a preview of Windows 8 over the weekend and it looks to me like a big step backwards for windows…) Only the trust- and parentally-funded douche bags who don’t have to earn their money and care more about what others think of them then about what they think of themselves will buy Macs in the future.
The last Mac I bought was a (used) notebook a few years ago to run ProTools for my band, and only after we had built 3 different PCs to try and run it and they all failed. However I now also have a Windows 7 machine with PreSonus on it that is very VERY comprable to ProTools on the OS machine. The problem of course is that ProTools is the industry standard so it’s nice to have all your recordings in that native format.
I will piss a lot of people off by saying this but Harley Davidsons are the same thing as Macs to me, only even less usefull. The vast majority of Harley owners these days are LOOK AT MEEEEE types. Overpriced junk is all a Harley is when EVERY SINGLE competing cruser is cheaper and more reliable / lasts longer. Granted the Harleys have gotten a lot more reliable in recent years, but ever since the CEO of Harley came out about 20 years ago and said that he doesn’t sell motorcycles but rather an image, I can’t respect anyone who buys one after that. Or who wears a Harley t-shirt for that matter. A Harley t-shirt is the motorcycle equivent of black skinny jeans.
An old-time cyclist I knew way back had a button on his headband that pretty much summed up his loathing for Harleys. It read “Chrome Won’t Get You Home”.
95% of all the Harleys ever sold are still on the road. The rest made it home.
Sorry, I just couldn’t resist. No offense meant…
None taken. I remember the days in the Eighties where Harleys were so undependable, and sold only because of the image, that serious bikers wore buttons reading “Better A Sister In A Whorehouse Than A Brother On A Harley”.
Windows is rubbish. Mac is BSD, real UNIX. TBH it’s currently the most polished UNIX system out there. Yes, apple are going to get a bit evil with the iCloud Gatekeeper and general nasty lockout, putting the platform in jail, and that’s a real shame. OSX is a really good system.
However, there’s enough proper computer scientists who’ve been keeping BSD out of the AT&T jail world since the 80s, so I’m not really *that* fearful that nobody will be able to get things done. It’ll just take some skills to remove the child-lock and rent-mode.
If apple do push it waaay too far and send all the pro users fleeing, and take to making phones, set-top boxes and fondle slabs, that will be no bad thing, because somebody will then make something better, probably running Linux or BSD on the internals. TBH the whole mouse and window thing is getting pretty outdated, the old macintosh was just an application machine, it had no real OS to speak of, so the design of the OS doesn’t really reflect what’s actually going on in today’s ‘NIX macs.
I can’t say that I could get a lot done with Ubuntu, and Windows would make me an angry, angry person with files littered all over the place and a fear of installing new software.
Real UNIX, developed by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, along with the, as it was called, “C language”. Hate on AT&T as much as you want, but the Bell System gave us many of the technological advances that we take for granted – and Bell Co research labs also gave us the basic R&D that discovered the background radiation proving the Big Bang. Oh, and don’t forget that thing called the transistor.
Federally funded basic (as opposed to applied) R&D led the U.S. of A. to be the powerhouse global tech leader. Don’t let the teabagger know-nothings eviscerate our national R&D budget, lest the Chinese eat our lunch.
Here ya go:
http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=ohD&sa=X&pwst=1&channel=cs&biw=1301&bih=660&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnsa&tbnid=xT0yItN8XP95nM:&imgrefurl=http://telescoper.wordpress.com/tag/large-hadron-collider/&docid=-sw55kMBV8TW7M&imgurl=http://telescoper.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/pcs_versus_mac.jpg&w=720&h=519&ei=oTGtT8jDBK-_0QGbnoCzDA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=414&vpy=162&dur=316&hovh=143&hovw=198&tx=145&ty=78&sig=100098151941996546033&page=1&tbnh=141&tbnw=196&start=0&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:1,s:0,i:77
Further to:
PC
http://www.jsf.mil/gallery/gal_photo_sdd_f35atest.htm
Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/graphicward/4632808732/
Great comparison.
As “obscure” as Linux would appear to be none of these pasty twizzler-limbed jack-offs appear to be interested in dealing with it. Too much like work you little playcationers?
They don’t use Linux because they don’t know how to do anything with a computer other than pose. Real men aren’t afraid of the command line.
Despite the user-friendliness of today’s desktop Linux distros, it’s still too steep of a learning curve for the average hiptard.
And that’s a good thing!
A very good thing.
Debian or die!
Mint 12
mint 12 from USB… WE OWN SHIT!
Mint 13 final release soon
I’ve got a 2nd gen. Aspire One 9″ SSD netbook and Ubuntu 12.04 runs very nicely on it.
I currently run Xubuntu on my desktop and DreamLinux (Brazilian Debian based distro) on the laptop I use for school. As much as I like the noob-friendly “works out of the box” nature of both distros, I find myself getting rather spoiled. I plan to install both Debian and Slackware as VMs on my laptop. I heard that if you learn Slackware, you really learn Linux.
Dorks.
Wuss.
Shut up hipster. High school is over Hurry up with my coffee.
Because Macs are the high-price, low-performance technology of the decade. It’s SOOOO ironic, hipsters just can’t keep their hands off ‘em.
It’s not the mac… it’s the contents. Those contents… good lord it really can get that bad. I’ve met these f*ckers. They’re giving graphics a bad name.
DH, I feel for your friend.
My sister and Brother-in-law work in the same field out of North jersey and NYC. Both are seasoned with a combined 30 years of experience. They’re hard working professionals who deliver what the customer wants, on time and within budget. They’ll do everything from Fortune 500 companies to flyers for the pizza shop down the street. They do not turn down work and no job is beneath them.
A lot of the money they make – off the books is the little jobs, gym, the bakery, start up law firm, nail salon, etc. who will pay 50-100 bucks for a business card or logo. They can knock a few of these out between jobs and the additional 300 bucks or so of income is money in the bank.
A lot of their clients initially dropped them because these poseurs say they’ll do it for less. They’re work sucks, they’re always late, don’t listen and eventually wind up charging three times more than promised.
What’s worse according to my BIL, is that people are taken with the attitude – “oh he acts and looks like a creative person so he must be good”. My sister told me is the worst part is that they don’t listen to the customer and have no regard for their line of work. They use the same font and “edgy look” for everyone. Well a law firm – which should present itself as staid and conservative – does not need the same “edginess” as say, a bar.
We just got a resume in yesterday. I passed on it. The thing resembled those “LOSE 30 LBS IN 30 DAYS FLYERS you see posted on telephone poles. And when 90%of resume is dedicated to your passions and hobbies and 10% of them are related to your chosen field, it’s time to re-think your goals in life.
Also – to all newly minted graduates looking for a job: WE HATE THE WORD ”INNOVATIVE”. Don’t use it. We hate it.
Several years back, I had to have a banner made for my business. Standard 3×6 vinyl banner, I supplied the logo and the copy, and my mistake was going to a place near where my wife works. I had two weeks before the show in which I’d be using it, though, so I figured that things couldn’t be so bad.
Well. Their “graphic designer” was the full hipster cliche, and apparently he took a couple of classes at the local Art Institute before he decided he knew more than his teachers and went out on his own. He ended up at this printshop because his uncle owned it, because nobody in their right mind wanted him working for them, and his main talent seemed to be turning water into urine. I gave him the logo and copy, listed several fonts that were compatible with the logo, and assumed that he was a bit professional. Every proof that came back, after nagging for two or three days, was worse than the one before. I’d tell him “green”, and he’d make all of the copy red. The logo needed to be left-justified, and he kept shoving it in the center, with the copy nearly unreadable around it. Finally, three days before the show, he gave me a proof that was good enough to get the job done, and I decided “I can’t afford to dick around any longer.” This was when I discovered that his “extensive experience with banner design” consisted of getting files from our local “Best of” magazine, sending them to the printer, and assuming that he was part of the process when everything he received was already print-ready. Even better, the graphics people at the magazine knew he was a fuckup, so they made damn sure everything was complete before they sent it to him. (Uncle was a close frat brother to the publisher of the magazine, so the only reason why the store was still going was because of the ongoing pity fuck of banner business he was getting.)
Suffice to say, I still had to wait an hour the day of the show for them to print out said banner, and it cost me over $300. Now I see Staples is offering better banners for about $75, and guaranteed three-day delivery if I supply print-ready art. And the clincher? Said dweeb tracked me down via LinkedIn and asked me to be a reference. Oh, I’m going to have fun with that.
“his main talent seemed to be turning water into urine.” Priceless. I hope you tear him a new one on Linkedin.
OMG… that experience would have been completely avoided if he was a real designer. Sorry you had to go through all of that! As a GD, I am embarrased to hear these type of stories because they always give us a bad name (even though it’s the really bad designers who are to blame!)
And that’s why I do my best to find good designers after this. It’s worth the expense to have it done right the first time. Thank you.
“GD” means something entirely different where I’m from…
But I’m being funny. I actually work in printing and know all about “GDs”. There are a few good ones left, but seemingly fewer and fewer all the time…
As bad as the hipster “graphic designers” are, the hipster “photographers” who think doing kitschy stupid shit and then taking a picture of it constitutes ‘art’.
While I only do photography as a (serious) hobby, I work hard at it and take great pride in the result. Something these rent-subsidized fucks will never under is hard work as it’s own reward.
But somehow they manage to get gallery shows and even sell pieces (more often than you’d think) for hundreds of dollars or more. I don’t know who buys their crap — I’m guessing it’s their fellow over-indulged grown-up toddler friends.
One way to launder money is to buy lots of worthless crap for exorbitant amounts of money. Example: Masturbation Bros. Manufacture recycled Hersheys + organic butt chocolate, mold it into bars and sell for 100x the price. Cash business = great way to put drug money back into circulation.
Youre not alone Joe… thats why I quit
Here’s the deal on these…..goons.they are evolutionarially speaking going backwards .as opposed to being foward thinking and i n dependent from societal influence
I quit too after seeing how hipsters were completely ruining the industry with their “twee” craptastic tastes. What they try to pass off as good design just sucks. The last straw came when I had to work with this hipster girl fresh out of Pratt, who claimed to be a real “insider” in the design world(which was a total load of sh!t), and a real up-and-coming artiste. She thought she was rilly kewel and edgy with her raggedy hairstyle that she called a Mohawk. Day in and day out this stupid bitch would tell everyone she had a Mohawk, as if she was the first and only person to ever have had one. Finally I had enough of it and told her in front of everyone “that’s NOT a Mohawk, it’s a fauxhawk. Do you even know what a Mohawk is? It’s when you shave the sides of your head and gel up the middle part and put bright colors in it, like the original punks did in 1980. Not like what you’re doing. So stop calling it a Mohawk.” She mumbled some excuse about that being too extreme. I said “well you’re the one that keeps blathering on about how extreme and cutting edge you are”.
She never did any work. She’d bring her own side projects into the office and do them in front of everybody instead of GETTING REAL WORK DONE. But the stupid bosses thought she was like yah totes adorbs and she got away with it. She was selling “jewelry” online. I put jewelry in quotes because what she did was take fishing lures, cut the hooks off of them, attach findings to them, and TAH DAH! Earrings!
This went on for months. I complained to the bosses til I was blue in the face about this talentless waste of oxygen, because she would fuck up all the files, and I’d have to stay late every night fixing everything. But she had the stupid clueless bosses convinced that she was going to be the next fashion superstar, you know, by like, being on like, blogs and like, going to parties and stuff. Of course, time went by and nothing came of it. She’s probably still there, still not working and still doing her fishing lure earrings and friendship bracelets on the bosses’ time. There are just too many idiots like her that have polluted the graphic design industry now. I found a different line of work in healthcare that is 1000% more satisfying. I did’nt need a degree from a very expensive private college and a Brooklyn staycation for it either.
Sorry, rant over.
Hey fuckthepeople, so what do you do for a living now? I’m kinda at the turning point in my life as I used to be in design untl (hate to repeat these things) these fuckers came along.
Remember me!
I was really confused by this- and the original video. How did no one break their tailbone? What was the point of jumping from that cliff? Does this have to do with lemmings? How about that “Ash?”
“Embedding disabled on request.
Watch on YouTube”
Gee, I wonder why? Wouldn’t have anything to do with the new anus we ripped them a few months back now would it?
http://www.nationalreview.com/media-blog/299565/itimei-cover-are-you-mom-enough-greg-pollowitz#
Speaking of graphic design, anyone see the latest cover of Time? The designer missed a few things – the kid should be thirty, have a DB Mason mustache and mommy should be handing him her AMex card.
Hilarious..
He will be in Williamsburg soon enough. Just hope a Hipster beating is waiting for him.
Plus that young, what’s he doing out of his stroller?
This reminds me of why I changed my college major from graphic design to something actually useful (not to say that graphic design isn’t useful or important).
The market is just oversaturated. As well, there are just way too many types who pay (moreso their parents) up to six figures to get a graphic design degree when essentially what they do can be done for free.
I don’t claim to be some virtuoso graphic designer, nor artist, nor musician, but I like what I do and I do it on the side. My main work has always been my main work, whether it’s been working for the University I just graduated from or even small stuff like painting houses. I do that stuff to supplement my income while my art and music ventures are on the side.
Sadly, the title of graphic designer has been diluted by posers and losers just like the title of artist and writer. They require little work (anybody can download a hacked copy of photoshop online), little effort, and minimal output. Yet to hipsters, it’s more about having the title than actually making anything come from it.
And why the pretentiousness and smug attitude? I knew kids from hip-hop forums I used to post on that came from genuinely disadvantaged backgrounds with no formal graphic design education that were making mindblowing mixtape covers and videos! And they were some of the most down to earth people to work with. Whereas most of these hipster larfs were making some of the most boring and subpar graphic design work ever…yet wanted to treat their clients like they were the messiah or something.
Much respect to those that have been doing their thing that have been working hard and staying humble.
I hear you, all too well. Anybody in your field has the same laments, too: Clients From Hell does a really good job of cataloguing the “Oh, I have a nephew who can do this cheaper” bullshit stories. Naturally, they get what they pay for, and then they blame the original designer.
Like this site, thanks
That reminds me of when I briefly tried doing porn sites. I had a few acquaintances (I won’t say friends) who wanted to go into the business with me. All of them without exception had the same attitude. Lots of ideas, we’ll be millionaires tomorrow and never any money. (Plus, they all thought having an endless supply of wank material was payment in itself – I can’t tell you how boring that gets after a very short time).
Without exception, they all had exactly the same plan. Rip off other peoples’ material, link to paying sites (they still paid per click back then, now they only pay when somebody joins) and get rich. And since they never had an ounce of web skills but knew all about sex and parties, we would split it as follows: I get the ideas, you do the work, we split the profits 50:50. You can see where this was going.
What I could see coming was another Herbalife/Amway type scam. “Unlimited Income Potential” = “You Can Make Millions in Only a Week” = you’re lucky to make 67 cents at the end of the month. Last I heard one of these acquaintances was homeless and another was back living with his mom in the suburbs.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/texas/naked-unicycle-rider-arrested-657309
Send him to Portland. The local judges there protect naked bike and unicycle riding as free speech. (Considering some of the free-range Soylent Green in Portland who feel compelled to ride naked in public, you can understand why I got the fuck out.)
As a self-taught graphic designer (why the hell would I get a degree in something I could teach myself?), I’ve worked with the above stereotype. All of it true.
I loathe 95% of all designers. And 99% of their work is shit.
And the “creative process” is a means and not a fucking end.
A diatribe on bad design and the bigger picture:
http://pungeon.blogspot.com/2011/09/vitello-di-trota-fish-dont-know-its-wet.html
What I can’t stand is when I have to go through the process of interviewing 3 dozen of these clowns to find the one competent
Designer who isn’t trying to make a statement by turning your plumbing supply website into a clusterfark nightmare of
of 50’s clipart, 70’s punk graphics, anime and a Terry Gilliam cutout animation.
Some companies are conservative because the industry they’re in IS conservative. It’s not your job to make them cutting edge so you get to have something cool for your portfolio.
Call me crazy, but I would not want to do business with say – a brokerage firm whose website resembles that of Something Weird Video.
Urgh. I’ve been there, too. The whine is always “But I wanted to make it FUN.” It’s even worse when you have to explain to them, over and over, that just because they can steal graphics from Web sites doesn’t mean that they have the copyrights. “But it’s soooo KEWL! Besides, information wants to be free!”
During the dotcom period, I worked for a big tech company as a tech writer, and had to explain constantly that it was bad enough when the intranet designers would fill their personal Web sites with lots of Star Wars crap. It’s worse when you do that for a corporate intranet or extranet. Not only does it look childish, but it also opens up the company to multi-million-dollar copyright infringement lawsuits from the copyright owners. I even had to deal with a guy who was so obsessed with Star Trek that when he designed a PowerPoint training tool for clients to use, the whole thing was done in a full “Next Generation” graphics style, and he must have spent DAYS downloading all of the copyrighted photos that went into it. Worse, nobody could take it down because his father was a big investor in the company: when Zim, and this was his real name, “quit to pursue other opportunities”, only then were we allowed to take that nightmare down.
That sounds painful… And there is always one of those a-holes at every company who is somehow allowed to break all possible branding guidelines and copyright laws, because for some reason he/she’s untouchable (ie: makes the most money for the sales team, is the owner’s son/daughter or is f*cking the CEO). UGH!
Don’t even get me started on dotcom 1.0. Every shoe salesman and McWorker became a developer or got their paper MCSE. After the crash in 2000, wages went from $75-125/hr to $25/hr because of the glut.
Zim – that’s the name of someone who is just begging to be hated.
The type of “designers” you mention above are the same type of idiots and overgrown children who never spent a day of their lives in a proper design class or design studio. Their lack of client-facing skills and understanding of your product/company is natural to them…they don’t care about anything unless it looks “cool” to THEM. F*cking idiots.
Yes, this. As a designer, every work order I get shows how much the client is spending on a particular run. 3, 4 & sometimes 5-figure amounts. I get deadly serious about working on a solution with results and don’t fuck with the client’s money when I see how much they’re spending.
These tryhard designers can’t even see the bigger picture when it’s right in front of them.
Proper design is not about looking “cool.” It can look good and not work. It can look ugly but work.
Bottom Line: DOES IT WORK?
Just found Portlandia on Netflix . How did I never watch this before? I hope someone makes a Brooklyndia. This stuff writes itself.
I honestly can’t watch Portlandia for more than a few minutes at a time. It gives me far too many flashbacks to life in Portland. If there’s one particularly good side to the show, it’s that art and craft shows got a lot more fun. There’s always one idiot at these who gets butthurt when you look at his crappy work and exclaim “Put a bird on it!”
Thank God they’re only 20 minutes long. I just watched the “Artisinal Light Bulb” episode. Its so sad but true.
Ever since the show first premiered, I’ve stated that Portlandia is for hipsters what William Shatner’s “Get a life!” speech was for Cat Piss Men. Namely, half whine “This isn’t funny at all,” and the other half laugh and point because they know someone else who’s exactly like this. I have yet to be disappointed in this, because the worst offenders always think that the comedy is aimed at someone else.
It took you this long?! The first episode is the best with Steve Buscemi.
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/19/24_reespencils_2012_05_11_bk.html
WTF?
It’s a joke; he’s doing a parody of the artisnal-everything trend.
Good for him. This is someone who knows how to take advantage of people with more money than brains.
I’ve seen this before. “…pencil sharpener to the stars” – I love it! What a scam! Ill bet Zach and Zoie are eating it up. I hope he gets rich off it.
“You can tell someone that you paid someone to sharpen your pencil, which is totally baller and tough,” Rees said.
Um, okay. Artisanal AND thug pencil sharpening. Ohhh I’m so scared.
I’ve been in the graphic design and marketing field for 16 years, way before the current invasion of Hipster Graphic Design Clones infested our industry. I’ve had the pleasure to work with, interview, hire, train, all different types of designers in all age brackets (most of them genuinely good at their craft and eager to learn and develop as such). I will attest that the only “problem” designers I ever worked with/managed were those that fit this hipster scum mold: Self-important, impatient, snarky, unmotivated/lazy, and uneducated to proper layout techniques, not willing to learn production methods (which as a GD, you should… wait, no…**NEED** to know so that your end-product meets the highest of quality standards).
In addition and as other posts here have mentioned, these are the assholes that have over-saturated the pool of employable graphic designers and freelancers, knocking out of contention the really talented designers who charge fair-market prices for their craft. These a$$holes are the ones who will gladly take $25 to nothing for laying out a freelance job–poorly, mind you, because their trust fund covers all their financial expenses–and thus taking away work from designers who really need it. This has happened to me personally, mentioned to me by clients, when asked about pricing, why I am charging “so much” when in reality, my fees for freelance work are beyond fair, compared to the professionalism and quality product that I deliver back. I’ve had bids turned down because they claim they can get someone else to do it for free. Well, these people get what they pay for. It makes me sad to see my friends who are out of work also getting out-bidded and overlooked for work because of this over-saturation in the market. These a$$holes are harming truly talented artists in indirect ways. The only good outcome of all this is that it always forces you as a designer to have an immaculate portfolio, great business sense, and a strong sense of organization and diligence. This is what makes you a great designer… the complete package. Not just having Photoshop on a f*cking MacBook.
I feel for you. I really do. What’s especially aggravating about those “you get what you pay for” clients is that they’ll come back to you to fix the mess that the hipsters left (usually when King Dipshit decided that he can’t get the job done because he has to go to a music festival), but they only want to pay the rate that they agreed to with King Dipshit. “Well, he was willing to do it for $25! Why can’t you cut me a deal?”
Leroy, this scenario you mention JUST happened to me recently, albeit with slight change of details. I had to spend HOURS of unpaid overtime recently to urgently fix a butchered set of files that some outside “graphic designer” put together for my current employer at the last minute, of course. What pisses me the f*ck off is that this bitch got paid a ridiculous amount of money for something we never used, and which I had to fix at the last hour. It’s simply infuriating.
I got that about a decade ago, too. In this case, the client felt that she was paying me too much, so she let me go and brought in someone’s kid to maintain the documents. Naturally said kid couldn’t make heads nor tails of Framemaker files (precious few people can), so she called me up and insisted that I needed to fix the mess her new kid made of them. Insisted, and then demanded. Oh, and this was to be for free because she wasn’t paying the kid. I just told her “Sorry, but I can’t do it. I’m too busy going to job interviews so I can pay my rent” and hung up on her.
More Bob Vivants…..enjoy
Never mind barmen. These creeps fail miserably at being MEN (and that holds whether or not they’re gay).
I worked with a hipster designer who cluttered up her desk with Spinal Tap dolls, “ironic” little signs and toys. This was her first day on the job.
Of course, she had to get snarky with a long-standing client in no time.
She was canned before the end of the week.
You know, I can understand toys and other items on workdesks, but what the hell is it with the hipsters who load their desks with crap by the second day? Are they that insecure that they can’t go to work unless they bring Mr. Poo-Poo with them? Why not bring a blankie and a pacifier, too? (Don’t answer that. we don’t want to give them ideas.)
Too late?
http://media.photobucket.com/image/hipster%20with%20pacifier/hipsterrunoff/photographs/hro/ee1d512f.jpg
Back in the day, when I was cubicle dweller, my ex bought Dilbert toys for me to put in my cube because it was a fuck you to my pointy-haired boss. Dilbert Catbert, Dogbert (with a liver strapped to his back, representing his big consulting brain), but it was alla fuck you to corporate management. These little fucks don’t ‘ even know who the bad guys are
Off topic.. but I’m here at my neighborhood joint, and across from me is a dude w/ wool watch cap and ironic muttonchops. What to do? Awaiting further instructions, over.
Arm flamethrower.
Yeah, I was on Bergan Street Friday for a Vietnamese sandwich (real, hard working immigrants this bunch) at Honchos, and there is some pretentious coffee shop next store whos name I can’t even pronounce. Now this is 12:30 , during a workday, and the place is packed with 30 something beardos with wool caps parking their bikes ,sitting on the bench outside to cop some free wireless. and hour and a half later the same bunch is there, joined but more of the same. WTF? They have NOTHING to do all day? No job? but an iPhone? Middle of the day they are there, but the dozens, with nothing to do. How can you afford to live in Carroll Gardens or Cobble Hill without a job? Maybe they don’t live here but not all of them had bikes. I was busting my ass every day for 10, 12 hours at 30. Still am. How can so many of them have nothing better to do but sip coffe and play iPhone? I think this is what makes me so angry. I might even be jelous. Fucking Peter Pans
So.. I’ve worked as a web designer/developer for about 15 years. I’m self-taught but i do have an art school background. That being said… my last job was an absolute nightmare dealing with wanna-be aging hipster “artists.” No talent, no taste and most importantly, no skills whatsoever to implement the most simple things. And what’s the first thing one of the batty aging hipster crazies do? Decide that she’s going to do SEO and her first order of business is buying links for page rank – which is against google regulations for webmasters. But did she do anything I said or read the google handbook for webmaster. Well HELL NO. She’s cr8tive and it’s her playpen. The other one there is just like her only worse. That one does nothing all day except post ugly crap to pee-interest and claim she’s doing the company marketing. lol. It’s a hipster failure for sure this company is doomed and very soon.
Okay…way off topic but I just got the best Mothers Day gift EVER! My 21 year old son is an avid “Sneaker Head” since 5th grade. I used to wait in line with him when he was younger and we’d both buy them and he’d flip the pair I would buy the next day online. He now only does the time if its a pair he really wants since he’s in school and works full time. He got on the line at the Modells in Bay Ridge at around noon yesterday for a 7am release. Still managed to make it to work at 10:30 this morning. Some Molly moved above one of the apartments on 86th and started giving the mostly ethnic kids shit about staying outside all night. Kept coming out the window telling them that she called Nike and they said it was illegal and she called the cops….blah blah blah. Cops come saw what was going on and told them all to keep it civil and have a good night. My son had the whole line abusing the shit out of her telling her to go back to her strawberry toilet farm and cat stuffing and to leave the “Real Brooklyn” people alone and go back to Iowa. Score 1 for the fucking 6-8 and Real Brooklynites. Hopefully she’ll tell the rest of these fucks to stay above the line !
She must be having a meltdown today as she is no longer Megan or Zoe but “Hipster Bitch. Would have loved to have been there.
I’d love to hear a recording of that call to Nike (assuming she actually called them). I’m sure it would be good for a laugh if we could get it posted here. Feel sorry for the poor operator though.
She probably did since she definitely called the cops. And it was Foot Locker not Modells. All the years that there have been lines for sneakers on that street and with exception of an occasional fight there was never ever a problem. All of a sudden she moves in and is giving them shit? She has to be real new because he waited for a pair at Christmas and she wasn’t there. She obviously didn’t get the memo about not messing with the locals. This ain’t Billyburg. These guys all know what she looks like now. Calling cops? Wait until the next big game release in Game Stop. Much bigger lines. Maybe she should’ve done her homework before moving to one of the busiest strips on Brooklyn. Haha
Of course when it comes to hipster douchebags lining up for the latest iProduct there’s no problem.
Why the fuck are they living in Brooklyn with real working class people anyhow? That’s just stupid considering we keep hearing the same complaints over and over yet they keep moving in.
I love all the posts on DH but this one really hit home for me. I have been a graphic designer for 20 years now for both major global clients and small local businesses. I put myself through a regular old state university, worked hard as hell and made a nice little living for myself. When I first started in this industry we weren’t even on computers yet. Now these stunted, 30-year old children who took 2 classes and failed some rich kid “art” “school” are overrunning this field as self-proclaimed designers with their smug dismissive attitudes about the “dinosaurs” like me, while they make everything resemble fliers or t-shirt stencils. I am also a minority in a very white field so I have always tried to help encourage fellow minorities to go into design. But these hipster dipshits over saturate the market, work for next to nothing and drive the entire field down.
I completely feel ya dude/dudette. Same here, been around for a looong time, I too am a minority (and a woman to boot) and had to prove myself over and over again in a field that by its nature hasn’t garnered much respect within the corporate world. It’s bad enough that sometimes us designers are paired up and confused with IT because we know “computer stuff” and are the only ones who know how to use the color printer. Now we have to worry about our livelyhood because of these hipster scumbags who have given the rest of us designers (who have worked very hard and who work at always improving our skill set) a bad name. UGH!
Here’s an interesting article about the rise of the “white negro” or proto-hipster. A lot of it is still relevant today.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/05/white_negro_for_mayor.html
This is somewhat related, but I wasn’t sure how else to put it… There’s now a Kickstart-esque campaign to make an Instagram camera to be called the Socialmatic. They want $50,000, and the price of the final product would be around or under $350.
Article: http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/05/12/75992/
Funding link: http://www.indiegogo.com/socialmatic
Socialmatic is the first Instagram photo camera, with a lot of amazing features:
- 16 GB mass storage;
- Wifi and Bluetooth;
- 4:3 touchscreen;
- 2 main lens, first for main capture, second for 3D filters, webcam applications and QR Code capturing;
- Optical zoom;
- Led Flash;
- Internal printer to make your Instagram photos real;
- Paper cartridge with Instagram Paper Sheets;
- Dedicated 4 colors ink tanks;
- InstaOs 1.0, which put together Facebook and Instagram App feature;
- Pairing with iPhone and Android App;
Take your shoot with Instagram Socialmatic, make your photo cool as you want and share it directly on Facebook trough the powerful InstaOs.
Everything after the second link is theirs, not mine.
It’s just a glorified iPhone.. without the phone.
I’d love to donate to this exciting project but I just spent all my money on Mast Brothers chocolate.
What’s the point when all of this can be done on an iPhone or android?
Except for the polaroid-esque thing…sounds like this is doomed to be a novelty item that will end up on a “tech products that never caught on’” list on a website like wired.
I hope Wired doesn’t even give this the time of day, aside from the actual printing of the photos (which could very well be poor to mediocre at best since no real specs are given or a hint) this doesn’t really do much to warrant carrying another rather large item.
Then again hipsters never made any sense, ie. wear skinny ass jeans with no pocket space (who feel the need to complain about larger screen phones for no fucking reason) yet feel the need to tote around a large backpack or murse.
Sorry, phones with larger screens than that of the iphone. Hipster douchefags have taken over Engadget, The Verge and other mobile/ tech sites. Goddamn Apple culture of snobs (some of their products are good but they also sell the elitist attitude to go with it with their Macs vs PC sketch or It’s not an iPhone ads).
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/04/hipster_racism_isnt_new_read_1979s_white_noise_supremacists.html — not related to the post, however an interesting read, although I’m a bit torn on what exactly the point of it is, it brings up several logical jabs at the hipster “culture”
Then there’s this:
http://www.racialicious.com/2012/05/02/a-historical-guide-to-hipster-racism/
These hipsters claiming to be progressives are just riding another wave. Not one for race baiting or the like but some on the list I have experienced from hipster shitstains.
hipster hand book
There is so much more to the hipster anatomy than this,but its a good start.BTW.there are a shitload of stinky hipsters from Winston-Salem n.c. I+
In Brooklyn,check it out.
The whole ‘screw the user’ mentality and method of design didn’t just infect graphics work or web site design. It infected software engineering too.
These lunkheads don’t know what makes a scripting language different than an extensible one, or why that’s important to know. They think anything related to working ‘under the hood’ is useless knowledge yah kno, cuz evreetheengz fasterrr nowww.
They have no idea why object linking and embedding is piss poor architecture and frankly, most of them couldn’t begin to explain what that means either.
Maybe they dabble here and there and everywhere but almost NEVER dabble in the aspects of computer engineering meant for, well, ENGINEERS. lol They think because they know Ajax and CSS they are ‘software engineer’s. Uh, yeah. Not quite buddy, but keep dreaming high, eh?
I’ve met ‘network engineers’ ( the apostrophes included for sarcasm’s sake ) who don’t have a clue…NOT. A. CLUE…on how to do binary and hex conversions or why that’s important to know. In their minds, it’s simply not important.
Part of the blame can be laid on the colleges who routinely emphasize the importance of learning claptrap like .NET. After all, what’s an event driven language without useless events defined by useless geeksters?
“I fixed my friends LAN.”
Big deal. So can my ten year old niece.
And forget about mentioning Unix to them LOL I know Unix guru’s. They didn’t get there in ten months. Try ten YEARS. And they could talk circles around these morons with tremendous ease.
Also forget about discussing O/S architectures. It’s just another thing the RoR’s crowd see as ‘unimportant’.
No wonder we’re getting our butts kicked on the information security fronts. Real network security takes EFFORT.
SW gets crappy because of poor design. If you need to figure out what kind of company you’re working for, listen carefully during your first design meeting. If marketing’s running the deadline’s, you’re done for.
It also gets crappy because HR hires people who learn how to braindump on exams for spurious certifications. MCSE isn’t called ‘must consult someone else’ for no reason. And there’s a really good reason that cert’s for something like C or Lisp are ill omens: they don’t reveal ANYTHING about someone’s ability to write effective, clean code.
I honestly don’t give a cack about degrees. Show me what you’ve done and explain it to me as if I’m your grandmother. If I don’t understand you, you don’t know you’re subject. End of…
“No wonder we’re getting our butts kicked on the information security fronts. Real network security takes EFFORT.”
NOW you’re talking about my world, and that doesn’t even begin to gloss over the height of pissed-off that I’ve been to. I recently retired from more than 30 years in computer security, the last 13 in DoD. I earned a professional IA certification (NOT a CISSP).
I was and am SO sick and tired of encountering these highly-paid twizzler-necked dumbbells showing up with a brand new Mac, CS degree (with an IA major) and “provisional” CISSP certification who try to secure a small piece of a network or application. [Side note: "provisional" means that they passed the written exam but don't have the five tears' applicable security experience required. That happened after THE LAST 14 year old from India "earned" a CISSP certification from home.] Oh, and the NSA/DHS “Centers of Academic Excellence” pretty much all suffer from delusions of adequacy. And don’t get me started about the latest Cybergeddon “threat” bullshit du jour that set the Government’s hair on fire.
I can’t count the number of times I asked a hip/yup IA noob what a “stateless” connection was and why it’s bad, or why we don’t use tftp or UDP, and all I get is a “deer in the headlights” look in return. Then I show them the CMD window and do something trivial and I get the reputation of being a ‘god’. Their idea of locking something down: “I saw this really cool vendor at the [blah] show, and they have an app that will [you fill it in here]. They have not a fscking fragment of a clue WHY or HOW (or even IF) the app works, and don’t know enough to even frame a stupid question to the vendor rep. A $20 lunch and a $15 t-shirt gets you a half-million dollar contract. No wonder foreign powers made our networks their playground. My only consolation is that *THEIR* IA hip/yup boobs are just as inept and arrogant as ours. I have no doubt that they are.
And because there are now more CISSP than MSSE holders, and they’re pretty much willing to work for food, wages are headed south in the IT Security field as well. Let me see, why did I retire, I wonder…
I meant five years – the tears come during that learning period.
I’d love to see them acknowledge their as much apart of the system as the rest of us.