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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 11-23-2003 01:03 PM

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I disagree that that is one of the chief problems. It's one of the chief excuses, sure, but the chief problem is lesser-skilled people claiming that they can do just as good a job, and the people hiring them can't tell the difference.

Those lesser skilled people and the dumbasses hiring them are both often guilty of breaking copyright law in their act of doing things on the cheap.

When it comes to graphic design, the lesser skilled people typically have little to no formal training and they are usually working with warez apps they illegally downloaded. When I talk of formal training, I mean real art training, not just courses on computer apps. Those folks often extend their ignorance of copyright law by using copyrighted photos and art in their layouts without permission. On video and audio production it is commonplace for a TV or radio commercial to use copyrighted music without permission. The hacks just do it because they often don't know any better. The people doing the hiring turn a blind eye to software piracy and copyright infringement without any hesitation, partly because they have very little fear at all of getting caught.

But, yes, ultimately it all does indeed come down to a general cheapening of things in America. There is so much of that shit going on in the graphic design area that I am fully correct in my very negative judgment on the state of design in America. Most graphic design businesses are now in the business of doing things "barely good enough to get by" instead of doing a good quality job.

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Carl Martin
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1424
From: Oakland, CA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-24-2003 05:40 AM

i can't believe i used the "-re" spelling in my profile. i don't actually do much work on the floor, but with "only" 3 screens i have to pretend to work outside the booth as well. i'm not really planning on doing much with my degree (math).

carl

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Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1842
From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 11-25-2003 03:02 PM

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I'm probably about 30 years older than you. It gives me 30 or so years to gather experience.

Now, don't take this personally, I'm speaking about the general "older people" when I say:

Aaah, the old "I know more because I'm older" excuse. I can't even count the number of people who were much older than me when I prooved them wrong, in some cases having to tell them off to do so. And I also recall quite a few times when someone younger than ME really opened my eyes on stuff I thought I was well versed in.

I think it's the other way around. Older people not only become more senile, but they become so preoccupied with the money and the bills and the concrete, "real world" way of life where all that's important is turning a profit for someone else that their vision on certain topics become clouded by the rose-colored glasses they wear to make their lives appear successful. I believe younger people have a better sense of telling when something is not right since they have been bombarded a lot less with the falacies of the "real world" way of thinking. "Wait. What you say CAN'T be right, because we've been doing it THIS WAY for YEARS." is a perfect example of ignorance to new ideas.

But that's not what the topic is about now, is it? So back to this boolegging thing...

I just bought a copy of the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack on CD. I haven't bought a CD in a while, just been listening to the radio and my old records mostly. But what caused me to buy this one? Well, I DOWNLOADED some tracks off of some fan website (gone now) and fell in love with the score, so I went out and bought the CD instead of looking for and downloading the rest of the tracks. Why? Because I felt more comfortable dropping 2 hour's worth of pay on a 45 minute disc having sampled it. [Smile]

Now I can replace those low-quality files on my computer with new ones from the disc so I can have them in the playlist on my computer as well as the CD in my car. Isn't technology great?

Now if only I could download Reel 1 of Loony Tunes to see if I really want to take the time to watch it on my break, that would be sweet.... [eyes]

=TMP=

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Greg Mueller
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1687
From: Port Gamble, WA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 11-25-2003 05:57 PM

I once raised a couple of daughters. One day I was trying to tell one of them something I had learned from my "senile" experience. She said in generalities the same crap you just said. One sentence I'll never forget. "That learning from experience stuff is a bunch of baloney. You have to learn everything for your self."
I didn't bother to ask her if that meant books too, which are the conveyors of experience. I didn't bother to ask if that meant her teachers either, who are the conveyors of experience. In fact I never spoke much to her after that. I just figured she was going to be her own worst enemy for some time to come. And so are you.
What I did say to her was the same thing I'll say to you.
Good luck

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