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Games / Re: Antichamber

« on: February 12, 2013, 10:17:44 PM »

This game is actually like "Being actually insane simulator 2013"

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Games / Re: Antichamber

« on: February 12, 2013, 07:22:00 PM »

Link added to OP. Check out the trailer on the page.

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Games / Antichamber

« on: February 12, 2013, 07:18:03 PM »

Holy stuff. This game is loving incredible.  It's almost pointless to try and describe it. Just, go buy it. And play it. And have your mind forgeted.

Anyone else been enjoying this stuff?

Game's website: http://www.antichamber-game.com/
It's also on Steam. Get on that.

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Off Topic / Re: Who's your best Blockland friend?

« on: February 12, 2013, 07:16:10 PM »

Bunch of peeps I chat on Steam with. Oromis, Dropshock, TomTheGeek, Plad and a few others.

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Creativity / Re: ■ The Photography Megathread ■

« on: February 11, 2013, 05:15:59 PM »

The power went out at like 3am a few days ago. I had a strong urge to just get my camera and wander the completely dark streets, taking long exposure shots by moonlight.

Buuuut it was cold. And I was in a warm bed.

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Off Topic / Re: your current video card now represents your snake length

« on: February 11, 2013, 05:14:56 PM »

Aww yisss

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Creativity / Re: Sirrus is selling prints!

« on: February 11, 2013, 04:11:44 PM »

I find mat to be completely ugly since it's just paper taking up more space for nothing when there could actually be something interesting taking up that space.

I would be inclined to agree, I utterly despise the framing and matting process, it's expensive and doesn't sell prints (prints sell prints). But you have to admit that it gives a level of finish and physical sort of rigidity and utility that a simply unframed and unmatted print would lack.

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Off Topic / Re: discuss personal stories

« on: February 09, 2013, 08:45:11 PM »

You talk about smoking weed way too loving much, kid.

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Creativity / Re: Sirrus is selling prints!

« on: February 09, 2013, 05:35:36 PM »

Prints of this size sell for maybe $20 unless they were made by someone famous...

There's a -huge- difference between a mass produced $20 poster print by an unnamed, unknown photographer and a hand matted (and also matted, period) print sold directly by the artist. It's like the difference between going to wal-mart to buy a belt and buying a custom belt from a local leatherworking shop.

Think of it in different terms. The prints and the mats cost me $120 (a profit margin of $280 if I sold all the prints at $20) and that's not even factoring in the "labor" cost involved with the time spent taking/editing/printing/matting each photo. Even if I were to charge minimum wage for the total hours spent on each photo (even though it's very difficult to determine) I might say... 4 hours per photo (factor in the actual time spent taking the photo and however far I went out of my way), that's $35 with materials added in, $40 is the minimum I could charge to make a $5 profit on each print, and that's minimum wage labor. The intrinsic nature of art is that it's a unique talent that can't be achieved by simply putting in enough hours.

Also it's worth noting that a print made by someone famous that isn't mass produced is going to sell for a hell of a lot more than what I'm charging. Just because you think that's too much to pay for this doesn't mean it is.

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Creativity / Re: Sirrus is selling prints!

« on: February 08, 2013, 11:23:26 PM »

well, you're certainly more proactive then me when it comes to selling art!

then again, i don't think anyone would buy my stuff, lol.

Eh, the best art-type you can sell is definitely pottery or jewelery of some kind. People like tangible things. There's def. a market for fine art, but you can't make a living off of it alone, really, as far as my experience has been.

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Creativity / Re: Sirrus is selling prints!

« on: February 08, 2013, 11:09:55 PM »

i don't think over BL anyone is going to be able to put out 40-80 bucks, however i feel like at an art gallery or something like that you could turn a profit if not gain some recognition. I really like the Boat one, reminds me a of a painting my grandfather did.

I'm already a member at a local gallery. What I don't like about selling my stuff there is that the gallery takes a 40% cut. I could get that down to 20% if I paid more in rent (up to $40/month from $15/month) but the problem is I don't have the time to do that and I don't think I could sell enough to merit it. So I'm going to sell some of the stuff there just to remain an active member (accepted over a year ago, haven't put any new work in since...) and try to sell most of it either online or in person-to-person sale.

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Creativity / Re: Sirrus is selling prints!

« on: February 08, 2013, 09:45:02 PM »

put all the prices down too, and maybe some close-ups of each image.

Frankly, these prices are in line with the amount of work put into each of the images, along with the basic amount of money necessary to turn a worthwile profit. The mats and images aren't exactly cheap.

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Creativity / Re: Sirrus is selling prints!

« on: February 08, 2013, 09:41:52 PM »

Finished all of them. Here's 8 of them:



aww yeah.

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Creativity / Sirrus is selling prints!

« on: February 08, 2013, 04:16:43 PM »

I have 20 of them. I will ship them to you.

Here's a picture of three of them:



They're 11x14, matted on 16x20 black matboard with backing and then slipped into a clear plastic sleeve. They're ready to be framed, you could also buy mat clips from some knida craft store and hang them with just the backing and matting. Price is $40-80 depending on the print and before shipping (haven't looked at that yet.)

If there's interest I'll upload the rest of them, but atm I have to go to work. Shoot me a message if you'd like to know more!

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Games / Re: things you want to see in the next fallout game

« on: February 06, 2013, 04:41:40 PM »

The Courier gets laid twice.

Benny and the leader of that fighting club outside the Strip? "The Thorn" I think it was called?

edit: forget, haha, sorry for double post, too used to Reddit.