Funny to see this on the front page. When my son was a baby, I carried him in a sling and got my morning coffee from Christophe in the coop next door. Every day he greeted me with "It's the tired kangaroo man!"
Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
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#22Legend! Seems like he might be a bit of a savant type though. Sad to hear that he's working at a supermarket. He started getting attention about a decade ago thanks to social media and had an artbook published, but despite his cult status and having some big name clients he would charge like 30 bucks to draw them a logo.
> Sad to hear that he's working at a supermarket. I wouldn't be too hasty to call someone's job sad, unless they actually hated it. From the article: > […] Christophe relies on the steady income of his job at the Co-op serving customers. He is contracted to do 12 to 20 hours a week, […]. He said: "The reason I will never be able to fulfil my dream to be living exclusively off my art is because of the competition ther…
I worked at a food co-op for the first three years of my career. After spending the next dozen or so years in tech, I'm now reapplying to co-op grocery jobs.
Money isn't everything.
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#23yeah I tried to read the article, but somehow it's hard to see the content beyond a full screen ad inside a modal, a second modal asking me to allow notifications, an inline WhatsApp banner, a fixed ad in the footer,four display ads fencing the first paragraph and at this point I kind of gave up.
Yeah this seems like a fun article but it's buried under way too much adtech crud, and Chrome Android has no "reader view" I can find. Maybe I need a better user agent that actually respects the user.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sad to hear that he's working at a supermarket. I wouldn't be too hasty to call someone's job sad, unless they actually hated it. From the article: > […] Christophe relies on the steady income of his job at the Co-op serving customers. He is contracted to do 12 to 20 hours a week, […]. He said: "The reason I will never be able to fulfil my dream to be living exclusively off my art is because of the competition ther…
I worked at a food co-op for the first three years of my career. After spending the next dozen or so years in tech, I'm now reapplying to co-op grocery jobs. Money isn't everything.
As they say - name checks out. I have been really into the idea of cooperatives lately. It is a topic that deserves more light seeing the extreme centralization of corporate wealth. Sadly most non-legal info about co-ops out there always goes back to Mondragon. There needs to be more media about non-corporate organizations. US farming and electrification was largely driven cooperatives, for example, but one rarely hears much about it.
Re: Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'
#25yeah I tried to read the article, but somehow it's hard to see the content beyond a full screen ad inside a modal, a second modal asking me to allow notifications, an inline WhatsApp banner, a fixed ad in the footer,four display ads fencing the first paragraph and at this point I kind of gave up.
Yeah this seems like a fun article but it's buried under way too much adtech crud, and Chrome Android has no "reader view" I can find. Maybe I need a better user agent that actually respects the user.
Iceraven is an unofficial fork of Firefox for Android maintained by Mozilla, allows installation of desktop extensions (full uBlock origin): https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser
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#26A DevonLive article on HN: this must be one of the four horsemen!
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#27Logos as in corporate designs, not Greek / Christian logos .
Heavy metal logos, not corporate logos.
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#28Ah, town of my teen years, hidden under 300 pop ups and adspam
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#29yeah I tried to read the article, but somehow it's hard to see the content beyond a full screen ad inside a modal, a second modal asking me to allow notifications, an inline WhatsApp banner, a fixed ad in the footer,four display ads fencing the first paragraph and at this point I kind of gave up.
It's an ad blocker testing site that occasionally has some news
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sad to hear that he's working at a supermarket. I wouldn't be too hasty to call someone's job sad, unless they actually hated it. From the article: > […] Christophe relies on the steady income of his job at the Co-op serving customers. He is contracted to do 12 to 20 hours a week, […]. He said: "The reason I will never be able to fulfil my dream to be living exclusively off my art is because of the competition ther…
I worked at a food co-op for the first three years of my career. After spending the next dozen or so years in tech, I'm now reapplying to co-op grocery jobs. Money isn't everything.
Yeah money isn't everything after you made a bunch. What.