PBC3 | 30 August 2019 | “F**k you. Pay me.” neon gradients and Bernie v. speed bag
August 31, 2019
This week on PBC3, we’re…
- 🙌🏿 @ “Fuck you. Pay me.”
- 😍 @ neon gradients
- 🥊 @ Bernie v. speed bag
Creatives know the drill: You tell someone you’re a writer/artist/designer/etc and their eyes light up. They’d love to “get your opinion” or “pick your brain” or “get some help” with a project. When you quote them properly for the time, skill, education, and expertise that goes into your work, you receive some version of the following:
“It wasn’t quite what we wanted.”
“We didn’t use the work.”
“We used someone internal instead.”
The struggle is real. Creative work is undervalued – whether because it’s considered a “hobby,” “passion,” or lacking “technical skill” – and Mike Monteiro’s lecture gives advice on how to not undersell your services and get paid for your work.
Wait. Is this Insta flirting with us?
We have serious heart-eyes for the lush colour palettes on this neon-soaked Insta. Whether you’re a designer or artist looking for inspiration or just a person who needs something soothing while you scroll past eleventy-billion news stories that make you want to claw your eyeballs out, give @neonmoonlights a follow. (Or even a bit of your money – they’ve got LED works for sale!)
Flood your feed with neon goodness here.
Sanders loses to speed bag; wins hearts
Paid Campaigns Director (and all-around bright guy!) Tyler Michaels breaks down why this three-second clip of Bernie v. speed bag is campaign content that works:
“Political flaks forget that the new currency of politics is authenticity > credibility. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez looks dorky dancing, Trump says horrifically sexist and demeaning things, and Bernie Sanders lets himself get smacked in the face by a punching bag and none of it seriously damages their image. Each thing somehow matches with the authentic self that they already portray to voters.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez owns that she’s young and somewhat silly. Trump owns that he’s a human dick-head who takes what he wants over good sense and reasonable limits of human decency. Bernie owns that he’s a dorky old man. Across the board, their gaffes don’t hurt them because they fit and reinforce, rather than disrupt, the authentic identity they portray elsewhere. They may be damaging their credibility, but it doesn’t matter because they reinforce their authenticity.
A politics whose currency is authenticity isn’t better or worse than a politics of credibility. It’s just a different game, and most people (especially politicians and political insiders) haven’t even realized the rules have changed yet.”
Cheer for Bernie (or the speedbag?) here.
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