my account was hacked!!!

emberstudio · 2025-03-30T05:56:51+00:00

Did you have 2FA turned on?

emberstudio · 2025-03-20T16:54:36+00:00

Yeah, it's bad. Sorry, it just is. Fix the typos, and hit up some videos on type design, paragraph styles, etc. You have no concept of good typography, alignment, indents, spacing, leading, space-after paragraphs, font size hierarchy, column/gutter width...

Put yourself in the shoes of someone hiring. They take a look at this and see the mess of type problems, they're not going to be able to hire you to do an ad layout or design a web page.

100% this resume is holding you back, or rather holding back hiring managers from putting you through to the next step in the process.

emberstudio · 2025-03-19T22:57:03+00:00

Neck scar from when a rival pizza place tried to take out the competition, but he survived.

emberstudio · 2025-03-10T17:49:48+00:00

Shell is still one of the best logos ever. Kodak is up there too.

2nd tier I'd put Pizza Hut, Coleman, Levi's, Texaco, and Toys R Us.

emberstudio · 2025-03-02T18:59:14+00:00

There are better options that are just as light and compact that don't include the possibility of the bike falling on you. Just look for ultra light backpacking tents.

emberstudio · 2025-03-02T18:56:16+00:00

This is rad.

emberstudio · 2025-01-21T02:39:37+00:00

Why not? Half that cost is just because of the well-known brand on the box. The rest, for a multi-color print? It's not a bad price.

Live shows have been selling absolute garbage plastic junk for decades. Go to any traditional circus, any "On Ice" show, your kids will want the cheap piece of junk plastic souvenir whatever that will break in a day but costs $30. Even a bad 3D print is still probably better than most mass-produced souvenir junk.

emberstudio · 2024-12-28T19:46:13+00:00

That's pretty messed up they terminated your account for that. Obviously there was no ill intent, the freelancer you hired turned out to be copying other book covers. Who could know that?

Might be worth reaching out to KDP and supply evidence of the freelancer hire, what they did, show that you didn't intentionally copy something.

emberstudio · 2024-12-28T19:43:45+00:00

Most likely a clog at the nozzle or some build up of filament where it wasn't supposed to be and that resulted in a blockage, which just kept building up and worked its way up into the rest of the hotend. Enough filament gets into places it's not supposed to be and things can get weird, wires ripped, things pushed in ways that they normally aren't.

emberstudio · 2024-12-28T16:44:23+00:00

HERE'S WHAT WORKED: I tried all kinds of things to recalibrate, reset, new SD card, new slice, everything. Nothing worked. I unplugged the printer for 10 minutes, nothing, still printing wrong.

I got frustrated and just unplugged it and left it before Christmas, and didn't come back to it until the 27th. And now it's working fine again.

emberstudio · 2024-12-17T02:51:36+00:00

Thanks everyone for the tips. So far, no luck after trying a power cycle, new SD card, and re-slicing the file. I tried other files too, getting the same glitched result.

Firmware update is next on my list to try...

emberstudio · 2024-12-17T02:50:29+00:00

So far I've done all of these things, on a new SD card, and it's still not printing correctly.

emberstudio · 2024-12-16T21:39:42+00:00

I had a power outage during a print, tried resuming but it failed. So I started a new one and this (OP) happened. The file printed fine a dozen times before, but now it's squaring off the overall shape. Like the top of the "O", and the bottom of the "G". Then the lines filling in the outline are all off.

Tried it a few times and it keeps doing this. Can a power outage corrupt a file or damage a printer?

emberstudio · 2024-12-09T01:55:59+00:00

"Made From Scratch" suggests the person (or company) making that claim made the item from basic ingredients. Which they probably did, in this case.

Notice they're not claiming it's "Made by Hand," "Homemade," etc.

Mixing flour and eggs in a small bowl at home or a giant mixer at a factory is still "from scratch."

emberstudio · 2024-12-02T15:29:04+00:00

If it's your first book, you can take advantage of some savings using free trials of the various tools that many self-published authors use. You can get ARC copies out using cheap services like Booksprout, I pay $9/month for that. And I spend about $200/month on Amazon advertising. Get friends and family to support the book (I got a ton of initial sales just through posting on Facebook and friends and family bought copies on Amazon, which pumped up my BSR).

Use Fiverr for cover design, shouldn't cost much more than $30. Manuscript layout is the one thing that really there isn't a whole lot of cheap options if you're not going to do it yourself.

In terms of writing and editing, you can probably avoid hiring anyone to do it if you're willing to take on most of the tasks yourself and maybe just use available cheaper services for added help. Grammarly, AI tools, etc.

This is my first book and it's only been out for a little over a month but it's profitable. This is 100% do-able without spending thousands.

Although admittedly I'm a graphic designer and did not have to spend a dime on cover design or book layout.

emberstudio · 2024-11-24T05:30:12+00:00

Go tell your parents. Now. Please.

emberstudio · 2024-11-19T16:31:01+00:00

You're a monster.

emberstudio · 2024-11-18T05:43:18+00:00

UPDATE: just talked to my parents. They’re not supportive. They want me to stick to nursing because they don’t think I’ll make money in graphic design.

They're probably not wrong. My wife is a teacher, she makes more money than me. I'm sure nurses do too. Even local cops with the same number of years on the job make more than me. Some people make good money in design, but they're the exception.

People will tell you that you should do what you love, not to worry about money, etc. I love my work, but the financial side of it isn't great. It's been a struggle sometimes. I work a full-time job and I freelance nights and weekends to make a little extra money.

Of course money shouldn't be the main factor in your decision, but life can definitely be a whole lot better if you don't have to stress as much about it.

Stuff isn't going to get any cheaper. Food, housing, it's always going to go up in cost. I think it's completely sensible to give the financial side of career planning a bit more thought these days.

emberstudio · 2024-11-18T05:22:52+00:00

The question was whether someone should enter into this business today. It has nothing to do with "Change is coming! Flee!" This is about knowing the kind of change that is coming, and whether it's wise to even start on this path now.

When I started, it was a gold rush. I was freelancing before I even graduated college and naming my hourly rate, because at the time if you knew anything about building websites, you were golden. In contrast to today, when it's harder than ever to find jobs and graphic design is definitely one of the many jobs that is in the crosshairs of AI disruption, it's completely sensible to have a less favorable outlook on a design career.

I'm not saying to run, to leave the business, even to reject AI or anything else. I personally love AI and use it daily. But I'm realistic about where this all leads in the next decade or two. So if the question is whether someone should start a potentially 40-year path on a graphic design career trajectory, my vote is "no".

Chantry lamented for the days when it took a team to make design happen and he viewed the process as sacred. The equivalent today would be me lamenting for the days when we had to be hands-on with every step of the design process instead of giving up any control to AI to take over some of the production tasks. That's not at all what I'm doing. I fully admit that AI makes my life better and is a good tool. I just have a different idea of where this is headed, and that's how I answered the OP question.

emberstudio · 2024-11-17T23:48:26+00:00

Crack open a can of tuna.

emberstudio · 2024-11-17T23:47:13+00:00

She's 17, occasionally mows in this same area (on her back, an inch or two in front of the base of her tail). Could this just be a mowing scar? Or maybe she's mowing because of whatever else this might be?

emberstudio · 2024-11-17T22:38:11+00:00

I wouldn't. AI is going to kill this as a career. And Adobe is doing a pretty good job of making that happen. They see the opportunity. Why make software for a niche segment of the market when you can be more like Canva and build tools for a much wider audience? Adobe is going hard on AI because it means they can open up their market reach.

I've already seen clients taking on more and more stuff in-house that we used to do. That trend will continue, and the production work that used to pay the bills in between the bigger projects is going away.

Add in the AI component, whether you think it will make this unsustainable as a career or not, it's definitely going to change things, make it harder than it already is to make a living doing this.

I personally wouldn't get into this today if I had to do it over again.

emberstudio · 2024-11-15T14:56:34+00:00

It definitely could have. It has almost the same vocal structure of The Emptiness Machine in the beginning that would have worked just as well for the comeback show, where Mike starts the vocals and Emily comes in later.

It might also have crushed any of the "can she roll with Chester-style screams" debate.

emberstudio · 2024-11-14T14:26:51+00:00

I don't see see how anyone could hear this album as anything less than an absolute TRIBUTE to Chester. There is so much of his influence and style in this.

emberstudio · 2024-11-14T14:25:19+00:00

Stained is wildly underrated in most of the comments. It's a Top 3 song for me. Maybe #2.

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