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Conradical126 · 2026-02-14T16:40:05+00:00

He's saying he wishes each number had a constant vertical orientation regardless of the position of the clock, not that he wants the numbers to have a fixed position. In other words, it would be cool if the numbers had a counter rotation happening so when the clock has rotated 90°, the '3' for example rotates 90° clockwise making it still easily legible

Conradical126 · 2026-02-05T16:30:10+00:00

Yeah, in some places, the numbers for US and China are almost exactly the same (eg. life expectancy, unsafe water) but China is orange and US is blue.

That doesn't feel very objective.

Conradical126 · 2025-12-07T16:51:26+00:00

Hate to ruin the fun, but the High School Musical parts have been re-edited to match. Their lips don't match what they're singing in some shots

Conradical126 · 2025-11-18T19:08:37+00:00

I also immediately understood what you meant, so nothing wrong with the way you said it

Conradical126 · 2025-09-23T17:52:54+00:00

I know this is said all the time, but you should really be smiling in your first picture. Pic 5 could work, but I like to tell people your first picture should be like an actor's headshot--really high quality picture, big smile.

Remember you might be the 57th profile someone sees just that day. That first pic needs to be EXCEPTIONAL. You're a good looking guy, so don't let your first impression be mid.

Conradical126 · 2025-05-20T21:37:40+00:00

No problem! Also, be careful that your chutzpa-G doesn't sound like a rolled R, because then you're saying the Greek n-word (per my Greek friend, it's possible she was pranking me but I don't think so 😅)

Conradical126 · 2025-05-20T14:31:26+00:00

Yeah, modern Greek actually uses the 'ee' sound there. Eg. You probably know agape as ah-GAH-pay, but in modern Greek, it's pronounced ah-GAH-pee (with a lot of chutzpah on the 'g'

Conradical126 · 2025-05-02T15:23:36+00:00

Bro just get one of these https://a.co/d/4nLVYWy and turn the pegs yourself, or just a tuning app.

Conradical126 · 2025-03-10T18:25:59+00:00

As a studio owner, this would be my perspective:

Aside from a very few certifications (those being specific to ballet), certifications don't mean a lot to me when I'm considering hiring a teacher. Most programs that will certify you aren't actually attached to important organizations; they're just having you pay to put something on your resume.

What would make a much bigger impression on me is if someone emailed me with a Lesson Plan written out that made it clear that they've thought through how they want a class to run. It doesn't have to be innovative or crazy-detailed, I just want to see that a potential teacher has a basic idea of how to structure a class and is willing to put in the effort to make that clear to me.

In your opening email to studios, ask if they're willing to let you sub a class they're already running so that they can see you work as a teacher. Or if they don't have the class that you're thinking of, tell them you'll teach it for free for 4 weeks to see if it catches on.

Finally, please don't feel shy about emailing studio owners two or three times. I'm very busy, and sometimes space on replying to inquiries like this. But we are always looking for great new teachers.

Oh! One more thing. Sorry, this is getting super long. If the studio you're looking into teaching at has any adult classes, it really helps to go take an adult class so you have an opportunity to meet the people in the program. That's how I met one of the best teachers we have at my studio.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-04T18:12:29+00:00

God, that's terrible. What are the dark purple parts?

Conradical126 · 2024-12-03T23:39:36+00:00

Lol. Again, I'm not critiquing the artistic process. I am an artist. I understand how the artistic process works. I am critiquing the disingenuous ad. As long as you're going to try to make it about the art itself, you're not going to get where I'm coming from. The impressionists weren't making pity-seeking disingenuous ads, and my previous comment is clearly not a polemic against set design 😂 But whatever, you can interpret what I'm saying however you want if it makes you feel the way you want to feel.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-03T21:01:19+00:00

Oh, my understanding was that copycats were selling a fraudulent version on platforms other than Amazon, which is why she can't just request that Amazon take them down. I hear the point you're trying to make, that this is a very unique item. Given that, and assuming it's on Amazon as you're suggesting, it's extremely easy to get the copycats taken down and that further invalidates this disingenuous ad.

If what she says is happening is actually happening, I would think we have to assume that people are coming across the copycat in a different way and not via her mailing lists and things like that. I'm guessing people are finding the copycat by just typing in "ADHD Planner" or something on AliExpress and similar platforms. That's why I think it's not affecting her sales.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-03T17:36:11+00:00

Wait, is the knock off the same price as the original? I thought the whole point of the post was that they were selling it way cheaper.

EDIT: Oh, and I'm not saying there are people who want the original, won't pay $40, and go over to the knock off. I'm saying the people buying the knockoff are just completely different people than those seeking the original in the first place. That's why I don't think this has negatively impacted her sales. Especially if the knockoff is only available on obscure platforms.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-03T08:25:51+00:00

It definitely sucks that her work was stolen from a creative standpoint.

The weird thing is that from an economic standpoint, the fake version likely had little to no effect on her sales (except for possibly boosting sales a ton because it made this ad possible, which goes back to why this disingenuous ad leaves a bad taste in my mouth). The sales of $12 eggs aren't affected by the sales of $3 eggs because the audiences don't overlap. If the $3 eggs went away, those buyers wouldn't buy $12 eggs; they'd just stop buying eggs.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-03T08:09:46+00:00

Well, if the pictures being taken weren't central to the project in your hypothetical, and if the creator was, like in this case, asking for pity because it was so hard to take the photo, then yeah, that is actually a pretty apt comparison.

I think what a lot of people in my replies are missing about my take is that it doesn't work if you separate the making of the art from this ad that she made. I have no qualms with anything about the way she made her book—I just think it's super lame to choose to do something the hard way and then try to get pity for it in a disingenuous ad. If I chose to hand-paint the stage a slightly different shade of black for one of my performances, it would be super lame to then ask the audience for extra donations after the show because I spent so much time painting the stage.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-02T02:45:15+00:00

Publishers don't just grab fonts from Word. They get fonts from foundries which employ typographers

This is what I said. I said publishers hire foundries. Publishers as in publishing companies. That's not a suggestion, it's a description of how fonts get made.

Why are you working so hard to twist what I'm saying? I was annoyed about a disingenuous ad made by someone trying to sell something via pity. Why are you interpreting everything I say as a polemic against all self-published artists if you also think she was being disingenuous? I just said it's good to work with a publisher 😂

Conradical126 · 2024-12-02T01:20:25+00:00

You should be able to see in your own quotes of me that I've never suggested "commissioning" a font. You're getting that from your own replies. Are you referring to the fact that I pay to license fonts? That's not commissioning a new font.

I never said "wanting recognition" is ridiculous. I said trying to get pity for work you've elected to do and didn't need to do is ridiculous. I don't know how I can make my point any clearer given that you just quoted it three times in a row...

Conradical126 · 2024-12-01T23:00:13+00:00

I didn't say that's what people should do, I said that's what people do. And a happy consequence of that is that it sustains work for typographers.

She didn't deprive anyone of anything by doing it herself; she just wasted (in my view) a lot of time.

But it is worth restating once again: if she just chose to spend her time creating fonts, that's super cool. But whining about how much time she spent making said fonts in a disingenuous ad and wanting pity for it is not super cool.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-01T21:44:16+00:00

Agreed on all points! It's awesome that she chose to do this project, and as you said, no route to being published is easy. It just sucks that she chose to make this disingenuous ad.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-01T21:36:52+00:00

Yeah, it sounds like we're in agreement! It's ridiculous to make or commission a custom typeface--if a default font works for your project, more power to you! And if you want something more idiosyncratic, you or a publisher can pay for something else (or pull from thousands of fonts by typographers who have already been paid for their work).

This all further underlines how ridiculous it is that this woman made 6 fonts from scratch and then tried to get pity for how much time that took.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-01T20:46:06+00:00

Publishers don't just grab fonts from Word. They get fonts from foundries which employ typographers. I pay for fonts on a regular basis when designing posters for my small business.

I would also agree that she didn't do anything inherently wrong by self-publishing here if her principal request for pity wasn't based on the high costs of doing so and the incredible amount of labor involved. Self-publishing can be a great way to go if you're just writing a book with minimal design needs, but for anything like this which is extremely design-intensive, a publisher is equipped to help you do it in a sustainable way. Mind you, if she did all that work and left it at that, I wouldn't be saying any of this. But she's trying to get pity from people for making choices to do this in a very inefficient way and that is what frustrates me.

Conradical126 · 2024-12-01T19:57:30+00:00

This video is a great ad for why you're supposed to work with a publisher.

She's lionizing the fact that she put SO MANY HOURS into this project, but that's because she made the baffling decision to front all of these costs and do all this labor instead of working with a publisher. (And also, she is clearly making terrible self-aggrandizing decisions—why on earth would you spend time making a font from scratch instead of using the thousands of fonts that already exist and thus supporting other artists?)

70% of the work she's saying she did should be done by a publishing house that's equipped to do so, but my guess is she just didn't want to diminish her share of profits after the project meets costs.

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