>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

In addition to 'teaching', an educator also needs to be a leader, a negotiator, a salesman, a disciplinarian, a politician, an administrator, a motivator, a receptionist, an advocate, a librarian, a manager, a public relations agent, a psychologist, an entertainer, an accountant, and for some students, a parent. If you are a music teacher, you get even more hats - arranger, copyist, bus scheduler, event planner, fund raiser, critic, graphic designer, contractor etc. (Running a high school band is like running a business, complete with a board, fundraiser income, expenses, employees, audits, etc.)


And yet I wonder why these super geniuses settle for teaching instead of using just some of the myriad of skills you listed and become the next big inventor, or the next great physicist, or the next big whatever. Yet instead, even with those over-qualifications (if we're to take your word for it), they choose to work so much harder for fewer rewards (again if we're to take your word).

Sounds totally legit.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I know you grew up in a region of the country that does not have high educational standards (and cruel stereotypes that reinforce these low standards), so I don't doubt that you've had more than your fair share of bad teachers.


Emphasis mine. Trolololo. Actually this is classic elitism. To you my geographical location, specifically that I grew up in the South, makes me inferior in every respect to people like you who grew up near richer Metropolitan areas. I know you're trying to goad me, but I also think you really believe some of that. It's the priggish nature of the elitist.

You can try to disassociate yourself from the Southern school system because of how people like you look down on them, but at the end of the day that system is still a product of your ideal one-size-fits-all Prussian school model no matter the location. To mock any part of it is to mock all of it.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I grew up in middle class Southern California, with teachers that were paid fairly, schools that were well funded and parents that involved themselves in the academic lives of their children. (3 of the biggest factors in student achievement). Out of the 40+ teachers I had from K-12, I can think of two that were bad.


Still, here in Los Angeles the charter schools and/or private schools tend to perform the best. Even with all the unions and heavy spending that goes on, the public schools just cannot outperform the charters/private schools. That's got to sting a bit for those in support of public schools and teacher unions.

How hard could it be? You show up and communicate information within your field of expertise. The students take it all in. Job done.

It's not that simple.

You would have a very different perspective if you ever tried teaching yourself.

If you were responsible for educating 200 - 300 students with different learning styles, different motivating factors, different attention levels, different levels of discipline, different levels of comprehension, different types of psychology, different levels of intelligence, different levels of interest, different levels of sanity, different stages of physiological development (AKA puberty), etc. you'd get it.

In addition to 'teaching', an educator also needs to be a leader, a negotiator, a salesman, a disciplinarian, a politician, an administrator, a motivator, a receptionist, an advocate, a librarian, a manager, a public relations agent, a psychologist, an entertainer, an accountant, and for some students, a parent. If you are a music teacher, you get even more hats - arranger, copyist, bus scheduler, event planner, fund raiser, critic, graphic designer, contractor etc. (Running a high school band is like running a business, complete with a board, fundraiser income, expenses, employees, audits, etc.)

The 'teaching' part is the easiest part of the job. If there weren't so many responsibilities outside of the actual 'teaching', you and chilaxe would have a point. And, I haven't even mentioned dealing with administrators and parents, which is an art in and of itself.

I know you grew up in a region of the country that does not have high educational standards (and cruel stereotypes that reinforce these low standards), so I don't doubt that you've had more than your fair share of bad teachers. If anything, I think you have first hand experience of what happens when public education is neglected and underfunded. If you get the cuts you want in education, you will be saddling future generations with the same substandard education you experienced growing up. Is that really what you want?

I grew up in middle class Southern California, with teachers that were paid fairly, schools that were well funded and parents that involved themselves in the academic lives of their children. (3 of the biggest factors in student achievement). Out of the 40+ teachers I had from K-12, I can think of two that were bad (one was a morbidly obese right wing history teacher that spent as much time praising Reagan and Capitalism as he did teaching history, the other was a self-loathing Science teacher who seemed to fear any kind of social interaction). I can think of 14 that were exceptional teachers and human beings - I'm still in touch with a few of them. The rest were competent at their jobs, if not particularly memorable.

I got good grades and received a half scholarship to a prominent west coast university (fight on). Since then I've had the luxury of being able to play music for a living (and occasionally teach or compose). Public education did me a solid.

PS: I like when you share stories from your life with me. I find it much more moving and persuasive than being called a statist idiot.

In fourteen years of software development, for companies large and small, I've never worked with a female programmer, developer, or engineer.

I've had female coworkers who were analysts, graphic designers, quality assurance, technical writers, IT jockeys, program managers, project managers, and "normal" managers of various levels.

There's definitely a male bias in the programming fields, so I'm not surprised that they're under-represented in open-source projects as well.

I'm an fine artist working mainly in oil painting and silkscreening and gave a great interest in graphic design. I've worked freelance for years designing everything from logos to packaging design.

I used to run a small web design company which was lucrative in its day but I opted out when websites started to become less design and more about programming and data-basing. I am technical minded and could have done it, I just chose not to so I could focus on the design side of things

I worked for several years in the Newspaper industry designing ads for just about every company out there from WalMart and Canadian Tire to large oil and gas companies, local mom & pop stores and even government.

I now work full time as the designer for a large college in my area, where I design all sorts of marketing pieces, brochures, newsprint ads, magazines, posters, postcards, logo and concept designs as well as web content.

I like my job, I wish it paid a bit more as living costs in my area are high. I also wish I had more time for my personal creative work. I should be working for myself but I'm lousy at business.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I'd like to thank @lucky760 for all his hard work in building the shop and Chris Murphy for his excellent graphic design.

Lastly, I'd like to thank Alex over at Neatorama for joining forces with us. I've decided that communities on the Internet are like kids in high school. It's good to have some friends to keep bullies like Digg and Reddit from giving us swirlys in the toilets.

and one last thing ... to the *frontpage Siftbot - make haste.

"I haven't seen ANY flatscreens, including TFT, that show rich and accurate colors. Even with graphic designers' monitors. CRT FTW."

although You might not get the same contrast in blacks with TFT you get a crispness not possible with CRT , also majority of people viewing digital content are using TFT screens , most TFT screens also have the advantage of being 1-1 pixel mapped.

if you are doing stuff for print i still would prefer to use a TFT to work on the image due to the pixel clarity as for colours and contrast you would send out a sample/samples to the printers to make sue you are getting what you actually want back.

In short all the benofits of TFT outway CRT by far.

still love old school 70s,80s vector graphics on a CRT or oscilloscope graphics but other than that and specific artistic motivations CRT is largely redundant.

>> ^westy:

yeah I still have a CRT tv well I stole it of sum-one that moved out my house , but for a computer monitor its pretty mental , one of the guys I lived with was using one so I have him one of my TFTs lol.
for computer use a TFT is infinatly better , in many cases you would be better of scraping the crt and getting a cheep tft , purely to save on electricity , and save your eyes from strain.
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And where are the fish in the tanks? I didn't see any! Were they all hiding during the earthquake?
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small earth quakes r good fun , big ones not so much .
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I haven't seen ANY flatscreens, including TFT, that show rich and accurate colors. Even with graphic designers' monitors. CRT FTW.

It's also a really ugly shirt. And I for one don't want my kids to see that kind of horrible graphic design when they're so young and impressionable.

That lady has a bright future in graphic design and fraud. Brilliant.

I think this deserves better for graphic design appreciation purposes alone. *beg

For the google impaired/terminally lazy:

Don't fuck with graphic designers
John Cohn's chart of the existing healthcare system
The Donkeylicious simplified flowchart (the simplest, and best)

(No link to Boehner's propaganda. If you wanna see the obfuscated version, do your own google search.)

*politics

Every black person i have talked to loves chicken , in the same way that all the Indians i know love curry. I don't know any white people that don't like shepherds pie, fact is races are normally geographical and different geographical locations will have different preferred foods due to what grew in that place or what could be stored easily.

if annything this advert is saying White and black people love chicken and that KFC's food brings people together "everyone is happy with kfc" . In fact its the general theme of the adverts in the uk where a husband and wife canot think what to cook but everyone can have something they like with a kfc so it brings the family together.

there is no real way you can if this is racist from the clip alone you would have to know the makers true intentions.

a;;sp young Turks have presumed by default that spreading a stereo type is a universally bad thing. despite the fact that in order to advertise most product you pretty much have to create or perpetuate a stereo type. normaly that stereo typ will just be an amalgimatoin of the products target market. For apple they make out that only trendy graphic designers use apples , gravy companies perpetuate the house wife that cookes for the family.

my piont is if you are going to have a go at them for spreding a stereo typ then you would then have to atack most adverts making it strange to specifcly draw atentoin to this advert.

The attacker was 42-year-old Massimo Tartaglia, a graphic designer with a history of mental problems. The only controversy is that Burlusconi is your basic rich slimeball, (Billionaire, media mogul, indicted for bribery so many times it's hard to keep track, does teens, prostitutes, etc). His greatest concern here is messing up the facelift he got in '04.

saw this at HotDocs in Toronto a couple of years back. really appealed to my graphic designer fontnerd pals; personally, I felt the same way...>> ^Croccydile:
there are a few parts that made sense and you go "Oh, well thats kind of cool"
Either way, I never looked at signs the same way again.

Actualy Silkscreening is a type of printmaking. It's something I've been doing for 25 years Both artisticly on paper and commercialy on T-shirts.

As for, Textiles, no, I've never really had a chance to explore that area at all. Like interior design, it's a whole other area of the arts.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
ooooooo! Did you do textiles? I never knew what textile was in terms of art until I went up to San Fran a month or 2 ago and saw some of the most beautiful work I've ever seen.

Its just a guess because you mentioned "silkscreening"

In reply to this comment by Sagemind:
Fine Arts with a Major in Graphic Design
- Okanagan College, Kelowna BC
2 year Diploma

Fine Arts with a Major in Painting and Silkscreening
- Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver BC
4 year Diploma

Graphic and Electronic Design
- Burnaby College, Burnaby BC
8 Month Diploma and Practicum

The rest is all self taught and on the job training...