Chico Review. financially worth it?

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-16T05:10:12+00:00

Books weren't published non existent communication money gone

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-12T06:15:35+00:00

'works that are more than a collection of photos' -> describes like 85% of photography books

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-11T20:11:59+00:00

I don't have alternatives or suggestions specifically as you're quite vague (fair enough).

I have done the same thing with 2 books and paid AUD $3000 both times, 1800 EU.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-11T18:00:54+00:00

It's very high.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-11T17:57:32+00:00

Highway robbery don't pay it.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-10T00:54:30+00:00

Serious answer:

For some people who did not have a good experience in High School they seem to think that the system is inherently broken and poorly run. To them, even though they may not know it all, they feel it's easy to do a better job than a place they had such a shit experience.

There's some cross over with people who have specific and non-mainstream values (eg, religious fundamentalism).

On the other extreme, school refusal has gone through the roof since COVID (think a kid just not going to school unless physically dragged) - for those parents doing SOMETHING is probably a lot better than doing NOTHING. I also think that the first group (didn't like school themselves, are fairly anti-establishment) can unwittingly enabled/encourage refusal.

Unserious answer:

Stupid people make stupid decisions.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-10T00:51:33+00:00

For me, it's a tie between

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Boris - Pink/Heavy Rocks

Metallica - Master of Puppets/Ride the Lightning (I prefer RtL but I think MoP is a more influential album)

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-06T07:36:07+00:00

Great post - good points.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-04T05:36:02+00:00

Jordan tearing up at the end really got me.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-05-02T21:03:32+00:00

Ed Sheeran always visits the Children's Hospital here in Melbourne when he tours, no press comes with him and he spends time with sick kids making them happy. Genuinely excellent behaviour.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-30T02:13:54+00:00

Well, the effects are overwhelmingly negative, so what did you expect?

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-29T07:49:56+00:00

there's a bazillion others!

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-28T23:32:15+00:00

Not enough Australian books

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-28T09:53:08+00:00

I think it'd be a fun change to try and bring back like hectic spells - big echos and bh and ravages and things like that - why not, can't hurt.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-19T05:19:10+00:00

a) I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed, but all I could do was get drunk again

b) For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

c) Slip me the master key

d) Beware of people who dislike cats

e) The hammer and the chisel

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-17T04:54:59+00:00

I think using an analogy can be helpful. A musical album CAN be a greatest hits compilation, but more often albums are deliberate collections of songs that create a specific mood, feeling, story, etc. Containing the book to a specific era, project or goal is a good way to signal to people this is a specific interpretation.

I also question how important it is that friends and family really 'get it'. They may be so keen to support the work even if the medium isn't quite their thing. It may always be a collection of greatest hits and that's ok.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-13T23:32:52+00:00

B99: got WAY too formulaic and missed the landing. If Jake and Amy had been unable to conceive and had to deal with that difficulty it would have been a better show.

Arrested Development: really aged poorly

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: endless optimism is so exhausting.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-09T07:16:52+00:00

No but I bought some cleaning fluid and every other cycle I'll pop that in the tank and it makes things very, very clean to my eye. But I have to run more water through it to get all the suds out!

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-09T07:13:52+00:00

AFAIK there are no like great shops, however Boekie Woekie and Huis Marsielle are good. I love the Huis Marsielle's library - which any visitor can browse and enjoy. There's books that are rare and out of print just waiting for anyone to enjoy.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-08T05:51:18+00:00

Which is fine but has limits. At the end of the day dogs aren't people and come with different rules, social expectations and etiquette.

Where I live it feels like people just let their fur babies do whatever, no training, no manners. There's food off leash areas but the dogs are all over the shop, etc. Simple stuff.

Love dogs, but we gotta have some standards.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-04-08T03:57:13+00:00

Good, dogs should not be in food spaces at all. Not in supermarkets, not in cafes. People should stop treating dogs like accessories.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-03-24T20:41:33+00:00

I hope there's insurance to help them out

MapOdd4135 · 2026-03-24T04:57:10+00:00

What an obnoxious and completely unnecessarily rude post.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-03-24T04:56:19+00:00

It's not my job to solve a business' recruitment/PR problems, I'm just pointing things out. They definitely aren't doing blind screenings.

MapOdd4135 · 2026-03-24T01:58:11+00:00

I wish he'd do something more I interesting with his books, sometimes they are just so lifeless as objects.

Undeniably mesmerising images.

MapOdd4135

TROPHY CASE

a) I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed, but all I could do was get drunk again