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by mannicken 15y ago
Creativity is a stupid buzz-word. Here's an easy way of being creative: find two different objects, and link them together creating a third object, like this (from my room): Abstract painting of a guitar Door-shaped plush toy Plastic bottle
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by mannicken 15y ago
Well, when you're drawing from a long pose (week or longer), the model is bound to change her/his shapes slightly.. So just drawing what you see is not enough, you have to understand the 3-dimensional structure of the thing you're drawing a
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by mannicken 15y ago
It's just not seeing, but also knowing. That's why some art schools have dissection labs where art students learn how human body is structured. And when you know anatomy, you can draw from imagination which is really a lot more valuable ski
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by mannicken 15y ago
The ones that helped me the most were: Universal Principles of Design Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life -- this is not related to design that much, but it's a staple life drawing book and once you can draw a person's face well,
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by mannicken 15y ago
Our brain is capable of creating several personalities that argue with each other (see split identity disorder). Of course it can handle multi-tasking.
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by mannicken 15y ago
http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/heroin.html about 23% of users become dependent. Alcohol has 15% addiction rate, I believe. Heroin (diacetylmorphine) is merely a cheap and potent painkiller, cheaper than other popular ones like oxycodon
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by mannicken 15y ago
"It always seems to be the idiots and suggestibles that end up with the heroin addiction." Really? You mean like, W.S. Burroughs, Kurt Cobain, Patrick Kroupa, Edgar Allen Poe (although he used opium), Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, John Belush
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by mannicken 15y ago
So DNA would be 'the code', and our environment would be 'the input' and we would be the code processing the input? Cool.
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by mannicken 15y ago
It's funny how the title reads as: "[THEY WILL GIVE YOU] $149 for a Touchpad if you sign up as a developer [THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY JUST TAKE IN CASH]." When the reality is: "This Touchpad costs $149 if you go through a bunch of complicated f
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by mannicken 15y ago
"People are symbol processors" No. "Since most people aren't "haute" designers it becomes difficult to relate to and use their designs." No. It's easy to judge how realistic or beautiful a face is, but much harder to draw it. Similar concep
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by mannicken 15y ago
I study art and freelance as a designer. As you can tell, sketching is a big part of my life. Doodling, sketching, brainstorming, laying out wireframes on paper, value and abstract studies all involve touching some sort of a pen tool, be it
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by mannicken 15y ago
I'm 20. I dropped out of high school, studied for a couple of years in community college and am taking classes and workshops at an art school right now (no accredited degree). For me this provides a solid compromise between the extremes of
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by mannicken 15y ago
I was earning $80k at 18. No college degree, no high school diploma... Long resume and a portfolio. I worked in UI R&D prototyping field.
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by mannicken 15y ago
Ditto that. I've read somewhere that the ability to handle critique properly is what makes or breaks designers. Quite frankly, I crave critique because I need feedback. When I don't get feedback, I feel dead. Getting positive/negative feedb
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by mannicken 15y ago
Yeah, perhaps the cause of my depression might be being pushed into programming from a very young age. Just like people in ballet/gymnastics, I was kind of expected to write C++ code when I was 11 even though I rarely enjoyed coding/solving
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by mannicken 15y ago
Yeah, actually that is true. I've been taking community college classes for about three years or so. Dropped out of HS in 10th grade, started community college instead of 11th grade. Taking classes helped define what I like. I thought I wan
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by mannicken 15y ago
I'm hanging out with the homeless sometimes. It puts a lot of the shit in perspective.
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by mannicken 15y ago
"The Dip" does seem to exist. The worst and most painful part of the long distance race is at its end but if you get through that, you feel much better. And in the end you are better after the race than before it, in all terms.
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I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
745 points by mannicken 15y ago|325 comments
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by mannicken 15y ago
>I find this really interesting because we often see a psychopath represented as a remorseless beast void of any human emotions yet, looking from this perspective, it almost paints psychopathy as a dibilating disorder. That is true. I o
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by mannicken 15y ago
There might be some truth to Steve Jobs' view of LSD. There have been studies that link psychedelics and aesthetics: http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2011-09-29/Magic-m... I'd say LSD is like steroids for artists/designers/creati
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by mannicken 15y ago
Actually, it was easier to emigrate from the USSR for Jewish men and women than for the rest of the nation due to refugee programs that US offers for minorities suffering persecution. I think other countries offer those two. I am one of the
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by mannicken 15y ago
I never exercise. I hate exercising. I do dance several times a week, however, and like to walk around/be jittery so I hope that helps me stay in shape. I don't stay in the house much -- it makes me depressed. Essentially I'm getting a kick
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by mannicken 15y ago
What if you programmed a human to enjoy finding sandwiches? Well, now that you think of it we are all in a way programmed to enjoy certain things through classical conditioning.
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by mannicken 15y ago
Obviously. From what I know, ego is created by memories from a subjective experience. Death is nothing but destruction of memories. Some of the memories and experiences are selected and stored in global consciousness (like art/writing/desig
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by mannicken 15y ago
I'm gonna have to agree with this. I grew up in a poor town in Ukraine. Up until the age of 9 or so, I was on a steady diet of potato soup. No videogames meant my only source of entertainment was reading or drawing. New cloth? Forget about
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by mannicken 15y ago
You're missing the point here. The author was typing from a world where only a few have been, where things melt into the floor, music turns into objects, objects turns into people, and your mind is on a huge emotional rollercoaster. Imagine
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by mannicken 15y ago
Not all psychedelics are illegal. There is salvia and dxm; which are perfectly legal in many states but are more powerful than mushrooms (psilocybin). DXM is closer to ketamine, but it appears that all of them are capable of having psychede
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by mannicken 15y ago
People like a degree of anthropomorphism in, well, anything. But when designing things with personality, keep in mind that there's, what I call, a valley of creepiness which happens when you add too much realism. E.g. it's probably okay to
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by mannicken 15y ago
Well, it's a great idea but it doesn't really work in FF 4.0.1 :(

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