MIT PhD student uses MS Paint to showcase CV

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by z8000 • 16 years ago

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z8000• 16 years ago

The dog creeps me out.

This looks like interesting research: http://www.squicky.org/work/sca07gtw/

Anyone know much about motion capture? Is it something that is now doable at any sort of homebrew budget levels nowadays?

skennedy2• 16 years ago

The dog creeps you out, but the "I am actually a deadly robot sent from the year 2748 to kill you!!" you are okay with?

kevingadd• 16 years ago

It's kind of a comforting thought - if there are deadly robots being sent back from the year 2748, that means the human race survived global warming and was able to invent time travel!

MikeCapone• 16 years ago

This made the rounds on Reddit (and probably other sites). Looks like its successful at getting attention, which is more than can be said about most CV/resumé pages..

johnswamps• 16 years ago

It's cute, but it's only popular because the guy actually has some real credentials. If you tried this with a medicore resume it wouldn't work.

jrockway• 16 years ago

Well, without "real credentials", it's a webcomic. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. I completely forgot this was non-fiction until I read the HN title again.

nikgregory• 16 years ago

Agreed, it's not really anything more than a gimmick. However, if it only appears once in a few thousand applications it's going to grab attention while someone is trying to figure out what the heck it is.

abecedarius• 16 years ago

Reminds me of http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

phaedrus• 16 years ago

Thanks for the link, that's really trippy.

apsurd• 16 years ago

Wow that was wonderful! Makes me want to cultivate my inner artist.

For the curious; there are 56 pages =D

nuba• 16 years ago

Very cool, thanks for the pointer!

Extra stuff: when you click the "buy" link (in one of the last slides) it takes you to the book's page on Amazon. Now scroll down and check the Video reviews. You'll see a video of the writer interviewing her book, talk show style, with the stove in the background :)

ntownsend• 16 years ago

I found that book a little too precious.

skennedy2• 16 years ago

My favorite CV "presentation" will always be:

http://web.me.com/agueniot/Data/Flash/cven.html

Pulling out a 2004 link, but it has stayed in my Bookmark archive for years.

ohashi• 16 years ago

When someone is truly good they can really be creative in their methods.

Confusion• 16 years ago

What part of that CV shows he is 'truly good'?

kmt• 16 years ago

I'm forcing myself to try to understand what can be likable about it. The energy it creates? The consistent enthusiasm?

messel• 16 years ago

Garry Tan has a good take on it's draw. Ms paint on a cartoon website is the low-fi of today. "like owning vinyl records"

voidpointer• 16 years ago

Nice way to look out for an employer with sense of humor. This will be dismissed by all the people you wouldn't want to be working for in the first place. Unless you are really desperate, it looks like a great strategy to end up working with people that are actually nice.

chancho• 16 years ago

Yes this is a great way to weed out all those stodgy kids-movie-and-video-game animation studios.

waldrews• 16 years ago

Thought CV stood for Computer Vision; was confused.

TallGuyShort• 16 years ago

Curriculum Vitae - it's what most countries call a resume'.

ambiate• 16 years ago

As a person who has never completed a webpage, I should thank this guy for finally ending this cycle. I read every part of his page and was even checking the backlinks out of curiosity.

MSPaint has a strange way of pulling me in; then never letting me go :(

Tichy• 16 years ago

This should work very well - for getting employed by his mum?

rudin• 16 years ago

A little on a tangent but I'd like to dispute the conception of MS Paint as something that can only create poor art. Take a look at the following: http://www.drububu.com/tutorial/mspaint.html

MIT PhD student uses MS Paint to showcase CV

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