What's on Your Mind

[ShiftyNJ]

Since you brought it back up, I decided to check his "campaign"...the deadline is tomorrow, and he's only 53% funded. I'll admit I'm a bad enough person to feel perversely pleased with this.

Another from the "The Gargoyle Takes Comfort In The Failings Of Others" category.

I put on these events once in a while, and in order to promote them, I make posters or flyers solely for online use. (The venue can of course print them out to use as well, but they rarely do so.) And honestly, I don't have much skill here. I know other people who can whip together brilliant posters on a moment's notice, but I've sat around for days trying to come up with a new and interesting design. Not only that, but my computer art skills aren't very deep, either. I don't even know how to use PhotoShop - I mainly use free software like Paint.net and Picasa to do create what I want. Over the last few years, I've come up with some I thought were pretty good, and others I thought were just passable. But in general, when I post one, I assume people's reaction is something along the lines of "Well, here's another low-budget gargoyle poster."

Today, a comedian friend of mine posted the official poster of his next gig. It's eight comedians at a night club - fairly standard. But the poster is...something else. Somebody literally just copy-and-pasted all the comics' current Facebook profile pictures onto it - so a couple of them are doing stand-up comedy, one is on the beach, one is dancing at a wedding, etc. The gig is apparently "presented by" a realtor (which is a bit weird), so at the bottom, there's a "presented by:" followed by the realtor's business card (in toto). The poster neglects to mention the address of the venue (I've never heard of it), or the day of the week. At least three words are misspelled. And outside of the fact that one of the people in the picture clearly is performing at a comedy club, there's not even a hint on the poster that this is in fact a comedy event.

I actually don't like ripping on somebody else's work. And I feel kind of bad that I needed to in order to feel better about my own. But I guess whatever works.

Lex

That kind of stuff drives me CRAZY. Not everybody has the time, funds, eye to do fancy graphic art, but you CAN proofread, you CAN ask for permission to use a photo (or let the person choose one) and you CAN make sure basic facts are covered. I'm sure your posters are far more useful.

If I can ever afford a yacht, I'm going to name her Schadenfreude.