time to redraw the map again

murkavenue:

CLUE 1:
“went to short dogs house,
they was watching Yo MTV
RAPS”
Yo MTV RAPS first aired:
Aug 6th 1988
CLUE 2:
Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on:
Feb 23 1993
CLUE 3:
”The Lakers beat the Super
Sonics”
Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…

Yes, VFX people, this.

mhay68:

Don’t work more than 12 hours in a single day.

Don’t come back to work less than 12 hours after you left.

There are often times when we need to work long hours in software development. More often than not, we need to work long hours for several days, possibly weeks. The 12 hour rule will keep…

(Disclaimer: I’ve had five years’ experience in a passion field myself, and they haven’t exactly always been pleasant years. Many of you may not share my experiences; that’s OK, they’re mine and not yours.)

Passion projects: they never get any less fraught when it comes down to how the sausage is actually made.

Careers in passion fields— VFX, comics, film production, whatever— never get any less complicated to manage, either. Emotions run high on all sides, there’s crying, there’s unprofessional stuff no matter how professional you want the workplace culture to be. (Your unprofessional stuff may occur in the restroom or other secluded locale of your choice, of course.) Weird speculation arises from the oddest, most offhand things. Every transitory hitch is a potential harbinger of eventual death throes, regardless of how stable the project is.

The only thing that heads off that drama is absolute transparency within the group you’re working with— which, in the case of a patronage model, includes your patrons.

laurennmcc:

Today, I asked some questions on the internets about the upcoming Womanthology book. It has raised over $100k, and gotten some comics press. I, along with some other people, have asked where that money is going. In return, I have gotten emails, tweets & texts saying among other things that I was…