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Thu, 09 May 2013 11:43:46 +0100

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theatlantic:

The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?

What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.

Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]

It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?

IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!

Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.

My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.

So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.

Prices of prices went up.

We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.

We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.

Most of us can’t afford to:

Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding

Buy a house

Buy a new car

PLAN to have children

Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.

Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.

So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.

anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.

There’s also the fact that buying a house ties you to one spot. Jobs are so transient, you have to be able to move for a new job in case you lose your current one. the lady who does our taxes can’t understand why we don’t own a house. We’ve moved four times in the last six years. once across the states to california, then from LA to San Jose, then a short move to RC because my husband’s job moved to San Francisco. Can you imagine if we were trying to buy and sell houses in those places every time we moved? It’d be insane!

Yeah those hipsters in the picture don’t look frustrated and trapped enough.

I love how older, well-off people think that these are things we’re just choosing to do, man. Because being broke/unemployed, and having a house’s worth of debt by the age of 22 is totally the popular lifestyle thing these days. So totally nobody else’s fault but our own misguided whims.

Hahaha, yeah, people don’t own houses and cars cuz “they don’t feel like it”.

What better sign do you need of the eradication of the middle class.

I used incredibly expensive 3d scanning software to scan my own...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:49:27 +0000

I used incredibly expensive 3d scanning software to scan my own face. And then made it look like shit for an avatar for something.

I’ll use the scan data for something fun later!

30ish minute after work doodle. I am still not doing the very...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:56:11 +0100

30ish minute after work doodle.

I am still not doing the very things I chide myself for not doing regularly enough on this very blog. I’m still not posting all my little doodles and experiments, even though this is meant to be a WIP blog. I’m still not making time to work on my 2d art or practice the technicalities of drawing. While it is hard enough to find time to practice my 3d focus, If I have time to doodle, I could be doing studies!

Todays little rant at myself comes from listening to FZD design cinema at work all day. Feng Zhu is really motivating my ass lately.

Ahahaha… of my fuck, this blog is incredible. Recreating...

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:52:34 +0100

Ahahaha… of my fuck, this blog is incredible. Recreating frames from animated movies in maya in <30 mins.

Today is a 2d day! And that means lots of Ctrl-Paint! This...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:34:07 +0100

Today is a 2d day! And that means lots of Ctrl-Paint! This afternoon was a two and a half hour line art session on reference drawing. Wow, I sure do love really thick lines. (there is a reson for this and it involves shitty Wacom drivers acting up.)

milonogiannis: It’s been a year since this blog started for...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:34:36 +0100

milonogiannis:

It’s been a year since this blog started for real. Thanks for sticking around, you guys are the best.

Everyone should check out milonogiannis! One of my favorite artists for both his wonderful loose style as well as his classic cyberpunk/90’s sf tone. MILONOGIANNIS 4 LYFE -20XX

I made a very small environment for my lanterns. I wanted to...

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 17:59:24 +0100

I made a very small environment for my lanterns. I wanted to have something presentable for eurogamer, but there’s still quite alot to do before it’s a polished piece.

I didn’t want to spam updates when I started this, but here is the initial weeks work for comparison:

http://youtu.be/pPCfbgMo13c

Help me internet, You're my only hope!

Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:50:08 +0100

I posted these questions on Polycount, but the UDK forum is so niche that I want to get them to as...

My exploration into cascade, the UDK particle system. This is...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:28:57 +0100

My exploration into cascade, the UDK particle system. This is the first time I’ve put everything into a map to check it out, and I’m quite pleased!

The glossy looking spec is meant to be the lanterns light, but it’s kind of a failed effect. I’ll probably ditch it.

Music is the intro to ‘Nightdrive With You’ by ‘Anoraak’.

Gig poster I made for my friends band, the Pirate Captains. Do...

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:26:08 +0100

Gig poster I made for my friends band, the Pirate Captains. Do you like Pirate themed Ska-Punk cover music? Of course you do! Who doesn’t! Their version of mama mia is incredible

Can’t use a Boxing film for referencing without doing an...

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:19:38 +0100

Can’t use a Boxing film for referencing without doing an anatomy study. I tried to add tones to this when I was done but it really doesn’t work with the line art, and no amount of PS trickery can hide that! Welp.

Referenced from the film Ali, 2008. I’ve decided to work...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:50:59 +0100

Referenced from the film Ali, 2008. I’ve decided to work my way through all of Michael Mann’s directed films this summer. I’m a really big fan of Heat, and I love the neo-noir rain slicked streets look that alot of his films have. This decision actually came about because I sat down to watch Miami Vice with my girlfriend; expecting a camp action romp, then realising it was everything but. I only checked who directed it afterwards, and suddenly everything made sense!

rufftoon: kimiknowsthesecrets: You can all thank me later...

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:03:42 +0100

rufftoon:

kimiknowsthesecrets:

You can all thank me later <3 (MY GIFS, BY THE WAY)

TEAM AVATAR 2.0, LIVIN’ IT UP.

I cannot not reblog this: Korra meets Peanuts. I always loved those little kids dancing (does that mean Naga is Snoopy and Pabu is Woodstoock?)

Hoo-ly shit. I almost never reblog… but…

I made a small stone spritual icon for my scene that I never...

Fri, 11 May 2012 13:24:03 +0100

I made a small stone spritual icon for my scene that I never seem to work on. These little warriors protect the site from bad spirits such as procrastinatias and the deamons of otherwork!

lukeskinner: “Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean” A...

Sat, 05 May 2012 17:35:24 +0100

lukeskinner:

“Too sweet to be sour, too nice to be mean”

A little tribute to MCA.

One of the few things I will reblog.

Photo

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:46:15 +0100

I love the mood of this concept. I’m going to be taking...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:48:00 +0100

I love the mood of this concept. I’m going to be taking liberties with it, but this will be my main inspiration for a forested ruins scene. Concept by Ioan Dumitrescu.

Also pictured is a screenshot from a few weeks ago, and a paintover I did of it showing where I’m headed.

Work based on the 3d Motive tutorials by Damian Lazarski about...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:43:44 +0100

Work based on the 3d Motive tutorials by Damian Lazarski about making foliage.

I got talking with Peter ‘Bbob’ Rasmussen on steam...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:36:50 +0100

High Poly

Reference

I got talking with Peter ‘Bbob’ Rasmussen on steam and we decided to get ourselves doing more hard surface practice, we would send each other a reference pic to model from each week for a short two day max exercise. Except then we both sent each other daunting images that wook days to finish and we never tried again. :)

Still plan on doing a low poly for this and sticking it in a scene, but I’m working on something else at the moment.

The Forgotten Blog

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:24:42 +0100

There’s a well documented habit of artists, students in particular, to never want to show...