![]() ![]() I find that doing who, what, where is like eating your vegetables. This is a great method, because it allows the location and activity to seep into the brains of the audience unnoticed, unlike dialogue, which can be like ramming information in with a hammer. Stephen Colbert is a master of object work (former Second City boy, after all). Object work, or using your hands to pretend you’re working with things, is shockingly effective. You have to quickly go up a level of abstraction, which takes a surprising amount of brain power, to say something like, “Grab that bolt of fabric, Daren, or I’ll finalize the divorce.”ĭialogue isn’t the only way to establish who, what, where either. You don’t want to say something like, “It sure is neat to be here at Hobby Lobby,” because that’s not how humans speak. Who, what, where is tougher than you’d think to establish naturally. It can be painful, but the tops of scenes need to establish who, what, where pretty quickly, or you’ll quickly be sweating out a black-hole scene from which there’s no escape. You might be surprised to learn that audiences can’t laugh when confused even in the slightest. If all three aren’t crystal clear to the audience, good luck getting a single laugh. What’s profoundly more important than being funny is taking care of our partner and making sure to build a world that makes sense.Īfter yes, and … this is by far the most common phrase you’ll hear at an improv theater: who we are, what we’re doing, where we are. We’ll talk more about it later, but the desire to be funny is almost always an impediment to improv. Usually it’s in an attempt to be funny and unexpected. You’d be surprised how often people try things like this. “You’re my dad, and I wish you were home more often.” Things would likely go pretty well from there.įor contrast, let’s look at something that doesn’t work as well. If you know what’s going on, you’ll notice that each person in this hypothetical scene is giving each other a lot to work with. The response confirms that there is, indeed, a taco in the backpack and adds the idea that the first performer is a therapist. That’s OK because it’s a conceptual yes, and. You’ll notice that the second line does not literally have a yes, and … in it. “Sometimes therapy gets intense, and I get hungry.” “Please explain to me why you have a taco in your backpack.” When someone on stage proposes something to you, you, as the cobuilder of this world, say yes to the information and add something. Yes, and … is simple in concept - but difficult in practice. This is the most fundamental concept you can find in improv, and once you know it, you’ll see it everywhere. Steal our lessons to become a more successful human. There’s a reason so many well-known people come from improv, and it has nothing to do with being funny. I’ve performed with people who ended up on SNL or who have found places on hit shows - names you likely know. I’ve gotten to do a writing lab at The Groundlings, where Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig started their careers. Personally, I was on the main stage of ComedySportz I met some alumni you might know: Dan Harmon and Jeff Davis. It’s the underground arena where the first adopters decide who’ll go on to get the spotlight and who won’t. Improv has produced more celebrities than you’d believe. In my estimation, this isn’t an accident. Improv has many forms and many expressions, most of which are pretty esoteric. “You mean like, ‘Whose Line is it Anyway?’” ![]() Improv has been paused thanks to COVID-19, so I wanted to take the time to share everything I’ve learned with you. Understanding and truly implementing core improv principles will change your life forever, even if you never set foot on stage.
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![]() Tap a target for a hint, and find enough to unlock the next area.ġ/21/22: A quirky take on tennis is now on Apple Arcade with Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis. Unfurl tent flaps, cut through bushes, slam doors, and poke some crocodiles! Rooooaaaarrrr!!!!!Ī strip of targets shows you what to look for. Search for hidden folks in hand-drawn, interactive, miniature landscapes. Hidden Folks is all hand-drawn with over 300+ obejects to find in the interactive landscapes. Stress tests reveal whether the bridge you build can withstand the daily stress of continual use from cars, trucks and, more recently, super-heavy tank trucks.ġ/28/22: The popular Where’s Waldo-style Hidden Folks has arrived on Apple Arcade (2017 App Store Game of the Year). Play 40 different levels, and build bridges over deep valleys, canals, and rivers. In Bridge Constructor+ you have to prove yourself as an accomplished master bridge builder. Start enjoying the massive and ever-expanding features that deliver endless hours of the best strategy gaming available.Ģ/4/22: The number one bridge building game on the App Store, Bridge Constructor has now arrived on Apple Arcade. Play as Tara, as she arrives at a cozy rural island to help out her grandma and the family farm.Įxplore a wholesome world of magical realms, beautiful beaches, secretive forests and the friendly town of Fairhaven.Ģ/11/22: Veteran tower defense favorite Bloons TD 6 is now available on Apple Arcade with fun co-op action with up to four players.Ĭraft your perfect defense from a combination of awesome Monkey Towers, upgrades, Heroes, and activated abilities, then pop every last invading Bloon! Wylde Flowers is a cozy life and farming sim with a witchy twist! Escape to a cute world of diverse folks, and magical spells, as you and the coven unravel a mystery! Gibbon: Beyond the Trees deals with challenging but acute environmental topics, including deforestation, poaching and climate change.Ģ/18/22: Long-running iOS magical sim Wylde Flowers has made its debut on Apple Arcade.Explore varied environments, from the wild jungles of Southeast Asia to the hectic human world beyond.Stunning 2D hand painted visuals that breathe life into a rapidly vanishing world.Play through an hourlong adventure in story mode, or race to freedom through a procedurally generated jungle in liberation mode.A touching adventure of a family of gibbons trying to survive amid an encroaching human threat.Master acrobatic moves, including launching from another gibbon’s hands in mid air.Experience free-flowing dynamic movement based on brachiation, the way real gibbons swing through the trees.Becoming a ninja is at your fingertips!Ģ/25/22: Coming from the two-time Apple Design Award-winning developer Broken Rules, the free-flowing Gibbon: Beyond the Trees has landed on Apple Arcade. It features intuitive touch controls and an array of weapons and challenging levels. You have to be fast, be stealthy, be aware of your environment. You will guide him through challenging levels, around countless traps, sneaking past enemies or right over their dead bodies. He must seek the teachings of the last remaining ninja master. Kuro is a young man on his quest to become the Shadow Blade. Monument Valley 2 is landing on March 11 and Alto’s Adventure: The Spirit of the Mountain is arriving on March 25.ģ/4/22: Veteran iOS action platformer Shadow Blade has arrived on Apple Arcade. PS5 and Xbox wireless controllers are also compatible with Apple devices and select titles.Ĭoming in March: Some exciting releases are coming to Apple Arcade this month. If you haven’t signed up yet, Apple Arcade is available free for the first month, then $5/month for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, and Apple TV (and included in Apple One bundles). You can learn more about and download all the latest games by heading to the Arcade tab in the App Store, then swipe down to the very bottom and tap “See All Games.” The newest games are listed at the top. ![]() New for 3/4: Shadow Blade is this week’s new release and an Alto’s Adventure remaster + expansion as well as Monument Valley 2 are coming later in March to Apple Arcade. Follow along with our guide on the latest from Apple’s gaming service. Apple Arcade launched with close to 100 titles and the service is seeing new games added regularly with over 200 games now in the library. ![]() ![]() I created a folder called MyScreenSaver1. Click”Browse” and browse to the folder that contains the pictures you want to use for your screensaver. Your “Pictures” folder will be the default folder. When you choose “Photos” you’ll see this dialog: When Screen saver settings opens, use the down-arrow to display ad drop-down menu. Scroll down until you see “Screen saver settings”. In “Personalization” click on “Lock screen” (it’s in the menu on the left). Now with all the photos copied to the folder you created for your screensaver, right-click on an empty area of your desktop and choose “Personalize”. Once you copy all the pictures you want in your screensaver to the folder you created, move on to… Our “Copy to / Move to” tip works great for this. Then copy all of the photos you want to appear in your screensaver to that folder. Make a folder in your Pictures folder called “MyScreenSaver” or whatever tickles your fancy – as long as you know what it is. But you can choose any folder you want, so here’s what I recommend that you do first. But it won’t use the pictures in any subfolders in your Pictures folder. By default, Windows 10 will use whatever photos you have in your Pictures folder. This is a step you won’t appreciate now, but you will later. If you’d like to make a custom screensaver using your personal photos, or any photos on your computer, follow me., and I’ll show you how. And I sure didn’t realize how easy it was to do. Until yesterday I hadn’t given any thought to making screensavers on Windows 10 using pictures already on my computer. This tip was inspired by a question I was asked during a support session. Those videos are similarly paced to the "classic" Aerials from Apple, so they just look right at home in Aerial.How to Make Your Own Screensaver on Windows 10 More than 4 hours of video content, all in 4K, mastered to both look great and take as little space as possible. On top of the 20 videos that Joshua Michaels & Hal Bergman gifted to Aerial, they are also releasing new video sets from Monterey, New York and the American Southwest. New overlays are available to be displayed, including support for both Apple Music and Spotify, to see what's currently playing in the background while your screensaver is playing! More overlays! Including Apple Music and Spotify Just specify the same location on each, and you are good to go! This includes internal drives, external drives and network shares!Īnd if you have multiple users on the same computer, you can finally share the same cache. Thanks to Apple's changes to macOS Monterey, Aerial can now again let you pick where you want to store your cache folder. Support for storing your videos pretty much anywhere Want to see videos from Iceland and Patagonia? Two clicks will do it now! You can quickly change what you want to see and Aerial will react to it, updating your cache as needed. All options are directly accessible now, and more importantly, you can make multiple selections of things you want to watch. A simplified yet more powerful UIĪerial 3 refines the UI introduced previously by simplifying it. The latest videos from tvOS 15 are now available in Aerial 3.0, including videos from Patagonia, Grand Canyon, Scotland and Iceland. The core or developed countries control world wages and monopolize the production of manufactured goods.
![]() Marly has chosen the software Obsidian for her implementation of the slip-box method. Recommended book: How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers by Söhnke Ahrens ( Amazon) Software for the slip-box method For reference, check an explanationof all the settings. Nearly everything can be configured using the menus and the toolbar's buttons. You may follow it by opening the files inside or delete it in case you want to start using Zettlr right away. Contentġ3:00 Marly’s implementation of the slip-box methodĢ8:47 Benefits of the slip-box method and advice for beginners Learn more about the slip-box methodįor an introduction to the slip-box method, check out this article. At first start a directory will be copied into your local Documents directory containing a tutorial. In short, you will learn and think better - and develop your ideas faster. ![]() It encourages you to create connections between the individual notes, which supports your (creative) thinking and ultimately helps you move your (research) ideas forward. It is provided free of cost, without ads and. The slip-box method, also called the Zettelkasten method, is an effective way to organize your notes. Zettel notes provides seamless private zettelkasten and markdown note taking experience with synchronization. Watch the video and learn how your own research could benefit from the slip-box method. She explains how the method works, what software to use and why it is her favorite method for note taking. Interview with Marly about the slip-box method she’s using for taking notes as a researcher. ![]() The Ship Projector lets you project a blueprint of a ship onto the. If they don't, make a bug report.Ī: First install the latest version of forge, then install the latest builds of both MovingWorld, and DV. Recipes Ship Projector 1 x Boat 1 x Lapis Lazuli 2 x Iron 1 x Glass Ship Projector. If you're 1.8+ most rotations should work due to the blockstate implementation. STEP 5: Place your screw inside the bottle and. Attach the end of each circle to the next one, and tape each circle to the center paper roll as well. STEP 4: Tape each circle around your rolled paper. Make sure to cut through the line and center circles too. Archimedes burning mirror, which supposedly set ablaze a Roman fleet attacking Syracuse in 212 BC, is depicted here in this 1642 copper-plate engraving. If you're running a version of the mod pre MC 1.8 you will need to use. Use them as templates to cut the card stock. Q: Why don't blocks just magically rotate no matter the mod?Ī: Minecraft doesn't have a built in standardized function for rotating a block that is reliably implemented by developers. If it does, great! If it doesn't, make a bug report. ![]() I recommend to install the mod Craftguide to view crafting recipes. DV will not work without it!Ī: 2048 blocks is the default max, this can be configured.Ī: It should, but I can't guarantee anything, if in doubt make a test world, check if it works. Meet Archimedes Ships mod, which will give you a great opportunity to create custom. For example, you wouldn't want buildcraft quarries working by default because that's not a good idea, but you would want engines working because that's awesome.Ī: A dependency that stores information on how to build ships as well as render them, it's important. Q: Will you make it possible for me to walk on moving ships?Ī: The chances are low, if it does happen it will not be very soon, it's a large amount of work to hook into minecraft's collision system and tell it to behave differently just for me.Ī: Yes, eventually but they will be limited, and you will need to tell the mod which ones work in the config file. The Modeler Series is designed so that you can find the tool you want to learn about instantly by looking at the name of each video clip. Each tool is broken into its own video for quick and easy reference. Judging from the video above, at least some support gesture controls on Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet, too. This tutorial contains the full scene files and was done in Lightwave 9.6. This is the sixth volume in a tool-based learning series on Lightwave 9.6s Modeler taught by Lightwave Instructor Adam Gibson. All work with LightWave 9.6 and above on Windows and Mac OS X. Prices range from $39 for Heat Shrink Plus to $199 for Cage Deformer, or you can get all five for $299. Meta Mesh is a kind of souped-up metaball modelling tool, and seems to join arbitrary geometry seamlessly, not just conventional blobby primitives.Īnd Heat Shrink Plus is a shrinkwrap tool along the lines of the toolset provided for Maya by digitalRaster’s NEX: useful for clothing or armour, or even for retopologising more complex models. I have now tried different settings but the results are really bad when trying to open them in the same old version of Lightwave 3D 9.6 as I have used successfully earlier when working with DAZ3D exported fbx files. The former looks particularly interesting for character animation, with the demo video above showing it in use to create squash-and-stretch effects, either driven by an underlying rig, or via completely free deformation.īoolean Tool is also just that: a real-time interactive Boolean tool, capable of some complex cutaway effects. There isn’t a lot of information on the firm’s website, but Cage Deformer and Lattice Deformer are pretty self-explanatory, and permit interactive deformation of models through a surrounding cage or lattice. ![]() Real-time deformation, Booleans and retopology Japanese developer 3rd Powers has released five new LightWave power modelling tools: Cage Deformer, Lattice Deformer, Meta Mesh, Boolean Tool and Heat Shrink Plus. Nebula in LightWave 3D Quick tutorial on making an interstellar cloud or nebula in LightWave 3D. ![]() Gruppe der tropischen Laubhölzer bezeichnet. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me.ĭas Holz einer Kiefer ist dem einer Lärche, die Farbe ist fast identisch und ebenso harzreich.ĭas Kiefernholz ist etwas weicher als das einer Lärche und wird auch gerne als günstiger Ersatz zu Lärchenholz verwendet.įür den Fensterbau ist es die einzig relevante Laubholzart.Įichenholz ist ein sehr hartes, schweres und stabiles Holz.ĭie Eiche besitzt Inhaltsstoffe, die das Holz dauerhaft machen. ![]() I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of the infinite God! O my friend - but it is too much for my strength - I sink under the weight of the splendour of these visions! A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. ![]()
![]() It was exactly at this time of year that Yeshua rose again from the dead, victoriously. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.” For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. Paul mentions not once but twice in 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 that this is a foreshadowing of Yeshua’s resurrection: Also, the waving of the barley is required along with other animal, grain and new wine offerings listed in Leviticus 23, called the Firstfruits. This is a very good description of Yeshua’s saving work when he died and rose again during Passover. What I find interesting as well is that if you look through the Bible at every time barley is mentioned, it is in the context of victory and/or provision. ![]() For forty of those fifty carefully counted days, Yeshua was walking around, hanging out with friends, eating with them, talking with them, freaking them out from time to time. He was crucified at Passover, and raised on the morning of the third day which is when the counting starts, and ascended ten days before the Holy Spirit was poured out at the feast of Weeks. But do you realise that this is the length of time between the resurrection and the day that God poured out his Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks? So God has given the Jewish people an internal clock and a good sense of this time frame. So the instruction is to wave an omer, or a sheaf of barley before the Lord, and then count seven weeks until the wheat harvest has ripened, and the feast of Weeks arrives. Sometimes an omer is translated as sheaf, since it is about the amount of barley or grains that you would need to bundle into a sheaf. An omer is a unit of measurement and is about three and a half litres, or just over fifteen cups of dry commodities. Quite a long time really.Īnd what is an omer? You might well ask. It’s a bit like having an advent calendar, but with no chocolate… and double the time. I have an Orthodox Jewish friend and her father calls her every day at this time of year to remind her where they are up to in “the counting”. Just as any woman who has given birth knows exactly how long nine months feels, the Jewish people know exactly how long it feels from Passover until the feast of Weeks (called the feast of Shavuot in Hebrew, which means weeks, also known as Pentecost because of the 50 days) because they have to count the days off every year. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord.” (verses 15-16) You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. “You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. In Leviticus 23, the chapter in which God lays down the law on how to celebrate all the feasts, he says this: 40 days! Do you know how long that is? The Jewish people would have a good sense of how long that is, because it falls in their time of Counting the Omer for the 50 days between Passover and Pentecost. ![]() Yeshua walked the earth for 40 days after coming back to life. I am talking about the Biblical tradition of “Counting the Omer”. God, unsurprisingly, is aware of this phenomenon, and has capitalised on it to drive a powerful truth home. They say “a watched pot never boils” meaning that the more we pay attention to the time, the more conscious we are of it going slowly. Have you ever counted the days till an event you’re excited about? Time can go so slowly when you’re watching it. |
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